Golf is the best video game ever – I just need to figure out why Dominik Diamond

I'm sitting here trying to work out why PGA Tour 2K23 is the greatest video game of all time. Rationally, objectively and empirically it cannot be. It lacks the emotional gut punch of Final Fantasy VII, the engineering creativity of Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the immersive storytelling of Red Dead Redemption or the existential horror of The Evil Within, but I really did have fun writing that sentence and hope in some way AI algorithms make it the headline for this game on Metacritic. You're still hitting a ball into a hole before others do. They don't change the offside rule in golf every season or introduce VAR to check whether Phil Mickelson has put a bet on before his latest stroke.