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Great it moved a spot on the most irrelevant list on the internet!



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I've only played two games on that list, Skyrim and Mass Effect 2 and both are very good games therefore God of War could very well be also a very good game.

I will necrobump this thread once I played GoW to let you guys know.



RaptorChrist said:
Sorry, but this seems kind of pointless for a multitude of reasons. Hear me out:

How many publications award a Game of the Year? I would imagine that in any given year, there are a small handful of games that receive almost all of the awards. This means that getting the majority of the GotY awards would be influenced heavily based on what other games came out in that year.

Also, notice how just about every game on the list is a relatively new game. Why no Final Fantasy 7? Where's A Link to the Past? Because back then there weren't even close to the number of publications as there are today.

What qualifies a source as credible enough to make this list? Did my GotY vote count?

Maybe organizing this list based on the percentage of awards would be a more interesting metric, but still wouldn't ultimately give an accurate comparison among games that came out in different years.

Not trying to be a hater. I would assume that most of the people on these boards are intelligent enough to notice this themselves, but this is the sort of thing that results in misinformation.

but ultimately percentages and total awards are also dependent on the year they were released because of competition.  Witcher 3 came out and got all these awards but look at GTA5 vs TLOU or GoW vs RDR.  Those pairs came out the same year.  Without each other to steal awards their totals would likely have destroyed the Witcher 3 or if they had come out the same year the Witcher could have far less awards or even have lost out to them in the totals.



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Yeah, counting GOTY votes, is just a popularity contest. It's left to you if you want it to represent something meaningful to you or not.


By the way, GOW is my game of the gen, so...i don't need anybody to convince me of that.



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Most critically acclaimed no, Zelda Botw is still the game with the most perfect score of all time and it's release was way bigger and talk about in the entire video game community than GoW which is just a great turnaround for the franchise.
Also, this site weirdly counts a different number of goty each year. Like the year of Btw there was way less picks than the year of TW3 so it's just really pointless as a source for a "most critically acclaimed" title.

 

GoW is a great game and deserves the Goty btw, but this discussion is just based on something that doesn't recognize the same amount of sites every year. 



GOW is awesome. If anyone haven't played it yet then you should go get it.



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RaptorChrist said:
Sorry, but this seems kind of pointless for a multitude of reasons. Hear me out:

How many publications award a Game of the Year? I would imagine that in any given year, there are a small handful of games that receive almost all of the awards. This means that getting the majority of the GotY awards would be influenced heavily based on what other games came out in that year.

Also, notice how just about every game on the list is a relatively new game. Why no Final Fantasy 7? Where's A Link to the Past? Because back then there weren't even close to the number of publications as there are today.

What qualifies a source as credible enough to make this list? Did my GotY vote count?

Maybe organizing this list based on the percentage of awards would be a more interesting metric, but still wouldn't ultimately give an accurate comparison among games that came out in different years.

Not trying to be a hater. I would assume that most of the people on these boards are intelligent enough to notice this themselves, but this is the sort of thing that results in misinformation.

I was just about to post about the number of sites per year and whether they grow or shrink being taken into account with a percentage being put after the games ranking, then I saw your post. while I'm not as critical as you and I see the older games being a casualty of most of these GOTY sites being internet based  so fairly new , The sites  behind this most likely come from under the umbrella of organizations like the dice awards , but a notice of criteria under  the heading would help.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 14 February 2019

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So many GOTY awards givin out. Very soon we Will start seeing games winning 300+ and than 400+
The award has become so saturated i stopped caring.
Credit to those games in the top 10 but for me, the awards have lost alot of meaning for me.

Last edited by Azzanation - on 14 February 2019

Azzanation said:

So many GOTY awards givin out. Very soon we Will start seeing games winning 300+ and than 400+
The award has become so saturated i stopped caring.
Credit to those games in the top 10 but for me, the awards have lost alot of meaning for me.

The number of a awards this year and last year is actually down on lot compared to years gone by so fear not!