gamrReview Overall Game of the Year Awards - Results!

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Killiana1a said:
No open world/sandbox/emergent game play category...I could further disagree with the results as Bulletstorm getting best FPS of the year was a good laugh, yet I will not.

I agree Skyrim is a game of the year contender, yet to not have a category for Batman: Arkham City to win is thoroughly disappointing and intriguing. Disappointing in that I thought it was a well done, latest iteration of Arkham Asylum. Intriguing in that not having a best open world/sandbox/emergent game play game is quite old school.

Overall, I can't quibble with the winners. All great games.

we toyed around with the idea of an open world category but found we couldn't really populate it enough to our liking.  If there aren't atleast three games that are reasonable contendors for an award any given year I'd rather take the award out than give a game an award just for being one of the few games in the genre to actually release.  

It's like the fact that even though I love SRPGs there weren't enough of them to populate a reasonable category this year so we fold them into Strategy as a whole.