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Conina on 18 December 2014
DolPhanTendo said:

Bayonetta 2 should of won game of the year period. Dragon Age Metacritic 89, Bayonetta 2 Metacritic 91.  How does B2 not get game of the year? 

So the game with the highest metascore should automatically win all GOTY-awards, even if the difference is in the single digits and the platforms can't be compared to 100%? With that logic...

Hearthstone (iOS) should have won game of the year, period. Bayonetta 2 Metacritic 91, Hearthstone Metacritic 93. 


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The Fury on 18 December 2014

Conina said:

So the game with the highest metascore should automatically win all GOTY-awards, even if the difference is in the single digits and the platforms can't be compared to 100%? With that logic...

Metacritic is weird anyway, the critics for DA:I are odd. out of 34 reviews, 30 gave it 80 or up. 4 gave it 69 or below. Not a single review gave it in the 70. That's just odd. Those 4 low scoring ones are out of place. Bayonetta did however have far more reviews overall, yet that is even being dragged down by reviews oddly lower than the rest.



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pokoko on 18 December 2014

This has been a highly entertaining thread.

The conspiracy theories have been especially awesome. It didn't win because it's a Nintendo game! It didn't win because it's Japanese! EA paid everyone off!

Glorious.

I think my favorite part, however, was when the OP went on a rant about games with mature content immediately after championing a game filled with sexuality and violence. You can't beat that.

On, a serious note, people going ballistic over what game other people like or don't like is nothing short of embarrassing. It's silly, childish, and petty. Nintendo fandom is already reeling after those shameful meltdowns over a simple Pokemon review, now comes pouting about another very good game winning some GOTY awards?

Time to put down the internet for awhile and step away.



gergroy on 18 December 2014

Well, i have never played bayonetta and probably never will because it is not the type of game i enjoy. However, i have played dragon age and out of sll the games i have played this year, it is the most deserving of game of the year. I dont see how dragon age winning is upsetting, it is an amazing game!



Ninsect on 18 December 2014

So much pent up rage. Incredible.

Have you even played Dragon Age? An RPG game is held up to much higher standards than a hack and slash and the scores cannot be compared directly. Why didn't Smash win with 92? Why mention Bayonetta only?



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DerNebel on 18 December 2014
pokoko said:
This has been a highly entertaining thread.

The conspiracy theories have been especially awesome. It didn't win because it's a Nintendo game! It didn't win because it's Japanese! EA paid everyone off!

Glorious.

I think my favorite part, however, was when the OP went on a rant about games with mature content immediately after championing a game filled with sexuality and violence. You can't beat that.

On, a serious note, people going ballistic over what game other people like or don't like is nothing short of embarrassing. It's silly, childish, and petty. Nintendo fandom is already reeling after those shameful meltdowns over a simple Pokemon review, now comes pouting about another very good game winning some GOTY awards?

Time to put down the internet for awhile and step away.

Let's just call it what it is, Nintendo fans had the biggest fall from grace going into generation 8.



rakugakist on 18 December 2014

The funniest thing to me is how you champion Nintendo for making games that your kids can play, and how people are forgetting that video games are for kids, not people in their 20's, and then bitch that Bayonetta 2 didn't win one GOTY award. Bayonetta is an M rated game not designed for kids!

And I don't see why you argue that this has anything to do with the media not wanting Nintendo to make consoles anymore. There is absolutely no correlation.



outlawauron on 18 December 2014
vivster said:
KyleeStrutt said:
vivster said:
Didn't SM3DW and ALBW receive a lot of GOTYs in 2013?

While I don't think DAI is a GOTY basing your argument on Metacritic is not a good start.

I believed ALBW won the GOTY at Gamespot (those glorious meltdowns).

SM3D mostly won gotys at Nintendo only sites (gonintendo, nintendolife, etc) as they didn't have much of a choice.

That obsession with DAI is weird though. It's an absolutely solid game but it has issues and it's missing something special.

It's a Bioware game. Everyone pretends that the hollow characters and meh story are actually entertaining. If Mass Effect 2 can somehow win GOTY awards, anything from Bioware can.



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radha on 18 December 2014
DolPhanTendo said:

This has been probably been beaten to death but the Game of the Year voting this year just shows the true HATE the gaming "media" has for Nintendo. Take out Mario Kart and Smash winning their respected catagories, out of little competition it had in those catagories, Nintendo was slapped in the face. Giving Developer of the Year of the year to Nintendo was also a way of saying "hey you guys make great product just stop making consoles".

Bayonetta 2 should of won game of the year period. Dragon Age Metacritic 89, Bayonetta 2 Metacritic 91.  How does B2 not get game of the year? Well I will tell you. It was a third party exclusive on Nintendo plain and simple. If this game was released on XB1 or PS4 hands down game of the year.

Most gaming journalists, for whatever their hard-on is with Nintendo, wants them to fail and just make games. The game awards was just another way of doing that. I never understood the gaming community its the only community where they want an ICONIC company to fail. I see it all the time here in forums and out in "professional articles". Here is the thing though, video games were made for and supposed to be for kids,not adults who have social issues.

I will finish with this note. I'm Glad NINTENDO doesn't bow to gamers who are in their 20's, im glad they make games my children can enjoy without blowing someone's head off, and I'm glad I get to see my kids grow up on Mario just like I did.

You want to reward nintendo for their rehashes? also Bayo is not for everyone is very niche, not becuase of being a hash/slash but becuase of its asurbdiness.



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Euphoria14 on 18 December 2014

More like Mobile bias. Hearthstone had a 93 Metacritic, so your claim is bogus.

That or maybe, you know, Dragon Age is a better game than Bayonetta.



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