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Torillian on 17 December 2012
JayWood2010 said:
Torillian said:
We had a similar issue with our own awards while trying to figure out nominees bit that's because I find the platform awards kind of boring if they're filled with multiplayer because then they're all the same and don't seem to serve any purpose of they're own. Makes me think there should be a single award for ps360pc kind of like many sites put handhelds all together in one award, or the platform awards should only be made of exclusives so at least they'll all be different.

They do.  It's called the game of the year award.  that is why these are genre or platform awards

And I don't agree just because they are different.  They should have to earn these awards for being a better game, not just because they are exclusive.  They should make a game better than multiplatform games if they want them to be nominated.


I think the genre awards always end up interesting, I just find the platform awards to get boring if it's just the same list three times in a row with the same winner.  Hence my conundrum for our own awards.

You misunderstand, my intent is not to force exclusives to win an award called "Best PS3 game of 2012" but instead to forego that award for "best PS3 Exclusive of 2012" since I don't like repetitive lists in awards.  They just get boring.  If PS360/PC are all going to have the same lists and winners than you should just do "Best PS360/PC game of 2012" similar to how VGAs do "Best Handheld game of 2012" and let those be the "platform specific" awards.  Atleast then you wouldn't have 3 lists of the same material.  You would instead have Best PS360/PC, Best WiiU, Best 3DS, and Best Vita awards since all those lists would be different and worth posting as separate entities.  



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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012
Torillian said:
JayWood2010 said:
Torillian said:
We had a similar issue with our own awards while trying to figure out nominees bit that's because I find the platform awards kind of boring if they're filled with multiplayer because then they're all the same and don't seem to serve any purpose of they're own. Makes me think there should be a single award for ps360pc kind of like many sites put handhelds all together in one award, or the platform awards should only be made of exclusives so at least they'll all be different.

They do.  It's called the game of the year award.  that is why these are genre or platform awards

And I don't agree just because they are different.  They should have to earn these awards for being a better game, not just because they are exclusive.  They should make a game better than multiplatform games if they want them to be nominated.


I think the genre awards always end up interesting, I just find the platform awards to get boring if it's just the same list three times in a row with the same winner.  Hence my conundrum for our own awards.

You misunderstand, my intent is not to force exclusives to win an award called "Best PS3 game of 2012" but instead to forego that award for "best PS3 Exclusive of 2012" since I don't like repetitive lists in awards.  They just get boring.  If PS360/PC are all going to have the same lists and winners than you should just do "Best PS360/PC game of 2012" similar to how VGAs do "Best Handheld game of 2012" and let those be the "platform specific" awards.  Atleast then you wouldn't have 3 lists of the same material.  You would instead have Best PS360/PC, Best WiiU, Best 3DS, and Best Vita awards since all those lists would be different and worth posting as separate entities.  

Then why not call it best PS3/X360/Wii exclusive award?




       

Torillian on 17 December 2012
JayWood2010 said:
Torillian said:
JayWood2010 said:
Torillian said:
We had a similar issue with our own awards while trying to figure out nominees bit that's because I find the platform awards kind of boring if they're filled with multiplayer because then they're all the same and don't seem to serve any purpose of they're own. Makes me think there should be a single award for ps360pc kind of like many sites put handhelds all together in one award, or the platform awards should only be made of exclusives so at least they'll all be different.

They do.  It's called the game of the year award.  that is why these are genre or platform awards

And I don't agree just because they are different.  They should have to earn these awards for being a better game, not just because they are exclusive.  They should make a game better than multiplatform games if they want them to be nominated.


I think the genre awards always end up interesting, I just find the platform awards to get boring if it's just the same list three times in a row with the same winner.  Hence my conundrum for our own awards.

You misunderstand, my intent is not to force exclusives to win an award called "Best PS3 game of 2012" but instead to forego that award for "best PS3 Exclusive of 2012" since I don't like repetitive lists in awards.  They just get boring.  If PS360/PC are all going to have the same lists and winners than you should just do "Best PS360/PC game of 2012" similar to how VGAs do "Best Handheld game of 2012" and let those be the "platform specific" awards.  Atleast then you wouldn't have 3 lists of the same material.  You would instead have Best PS360/PC, Best WiiU, Best 3DS, and Best Vita awards since all those lists would be different and worth posting as separate entities.  

Then why not call it best PS3/X360/Wii exclusive award?


Well I considered it, but I couldn't make a good list for every platform out of just exclusives and Craig wanted to do platform awards so I just let us make somewhat boring repetitive lists.  Now that I think about it though I kinda like the idea of this PS360/PC award which puts them all together if I can't figure out exclusive lists for each one.  



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Veknoid_Outcast on 17 December 2012

I guess I misunderstood the OP with my earlier post.

Just get rid of the console-specific awards altogether.

Just game of the year overall, and game of the year by genre.