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Aldro on 21 December 2012
ZaneWane said:
Aldro said:
ZaneWane said:
game with highest review score should get game of the year not other way round

While I agree with this somewhat, the reviews are by one single man and the awards are for the whole editorial staff. Therefore it is rather hard unless the score given is like cummulated by each staff member which would mean everyone has to play one game and share thoughts to review it. Bit difficult really and the closest thing to that which we got is called Metacritic or Gamerankings. By looking there, the winner actually was up there in the top so it does make some sense :)

ign gave halo 9.8 and journey 9.0

IGN Gave Metal gear solid 4 a 10 and Uncharted 3 a 10. Yet none were GOTY :)

Uncharted 2 and Journey were given below 10 yet both were GOTY there :)



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kljesta64 on 21 December 2012

yea simplicity is magic



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KHlover on 21 December 2012

Can´t complain about any of the choices^^



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Euphoria14 on 21 December 2012
ZaneWane said:
game with highest review score should get game of the year not other way round


You are aware that IgN review score = opinion of the reviewer while the award goes by the opinions of not just the reviewer by also the rest of the staff.



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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 21 December 2012

Journey. Congrats!!



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GameOver22 on 21 December 2012

Interesting....I've yet to play most of these games. Based off reviews, I kind of expected Borderlands 2 or Far Cry 3 to win....just because they received good reviews and were multi-platform, meaning more of the reviewers would play them.



kljesta64 on 21 December 2012

oh i just realized ign needs more clicks :*=)



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okr on 21 December 2012

A look at IGN's nominees for best adventure game 2012:
The Walking Dead (winner), Botanicula, Dear Esther, Lone Survivor, Thirty Flights of Loving

And here's an incomplete list of adventure games releaed in 2012 in NA and completely ignored by IGN:
- The Testament of Sherlock Holmes => not reviewed by IGN
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav => not reviewed by IGN
- Yesterday => not reviewed by IGN
- Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Chaos on Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Primordia => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles => not even listed on IGN
- Lost Chronicles of Zerzura => not even listed on IGN

Satinav, Yesterday, Deponia 1+2, Unwritten Tales and Zerzura are among the best adventure games I played in recent years.

I'm not saying that any of the games I listed are better than Walking Dead (which I haven't played) or that they should have replaced some of those IGN nominees, but these games didn't even get a chance to be reviewed, noticed or nominated by IGN.

Adventure games are only noticed in NA these days if they are interactive movies made by Quantic Dream or Telltale or visual novels made by Chunsoft.

Classic point&click? No chance in most of NA's gaming media, at least until Tim Schafer/Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle/Full Throttle/Grim Fandango/Monkey Island), Charles Cecil (Broken Sword) and Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight) release their kick-started adventure games in 2013.



KHlover on 21 December 2012
okr said:

A look at IGN's nominees for best adventure game 2012:
The Walking Dead (winner), Botanicula, Dear Esther, Lone Survivor, Thirty Flights of Loving

And here's an incomplete list of adventure games releaed in 2012 in NA and completely ignored by IGN:
- The Testament of Sherlock Holmes => not reviewed by IGN
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav => not reviewed by IGN
- Yesterday => not reviewed by IGN
- Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Chaos on Deponia => not reviewed by IGN
- Primordia => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales => not reviewed by IGN
- The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles => not even listed on IGN
- Lost Chronicles of Zerzura => not even listed on IGN

Satinav, Yesterday, Deponia 1+2, Unwritten Tales and Zerzura are among the best adventure games I played in recent years.

I'm not saying that any of the games I listed are better than Walking Dead (which I haven't played) or that they should have replaced some of those IGN nominees, but these games didn't even get a chance to be reviewed, noticed or nominated by IGN.

Adventure games are only noticed in NA these days if they are interactive movies made by Quantic Dream or Telltale or visual novels made by Chunsoft.

Classic point&click? No chance in most of NA's gaming media, at least until Tim Schafer/Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle/Full Throttle/Grim Fandango/Monkey Island), Charles Cecil (Broken Sword) and Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight) release their kick-started adventure games in 2013.


Any chance that you are from Germany? Many of the games you listed are big hits in Germany, but completely unnoticed outside of it. Maybe that´s why IGN didn´t rate them?



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the_dengle on 21 December 2012

Pretty legit. Good job IGN.