Props to Naughty Dog. The Last of Us is a wonderful game, but my Game of The Year is Beyond Two Souls. It's the true masterpiece of 2013.

@Elche58 I guess you better accept open-world games or find another hobby altogether as it's quickly becoming an industry standard. With the proper time, and care an open-world game can be just as engaging, emotional, and fun as any linear games with "15 juicy well designed missions." We're to a point technologically that there's no excuse for us to not be able to have our cake and eat it too. As with all things it will get better in time, and with that said the concept of open-world is still very new to some developers, but with the power of next-gen and the engines that they have at their disposal than there's no telling just how vast out universes will become. Like it or not friend it's a fact.