I really appreciate the recaps and am glad they do it. It offers the chance for them to talk about games that people may enjoy that have no chance of winning any category they may do, and also let's them talk negatively about things without having to get into an argument of "this is worse than this" which can be fun to listen to but probably makes the tone of GotY more negative than they want. All that said, I just wish there was a way it could be condensed into two days rather than three. The categories are a fun part of their GotY model and I feel a split of two days recap, two days category awards, last day Top 10 would be a fantastic format.
What I don't get is why they bother talking about the games they thought were neither bad nor good. Spending three minutes telling us "I played this for two hours and it was okay" is not interesting. ---