| BTFeather55 said: When either MGS 4 or GTA 4 wins Game of the Year and the other one comes in as the runner-up with Fallout 3 in third place and Gears II in fourth, am I allowed to post a thread entitled "GTA 4 or MGS 4 wins Game of the Year -- Bitter Tears Flow Profusely from Nintendo Fans that Wanted Wii Music or Wii Fit to Win Even though They Never Played either of Those Games for More than 50 minutes."? |
You may demonstrate your shallow predictable nature and that of GOTY awards in general in any manner you wish. You prediction is certainly safe enough. I’m certain no one seriously questions that MGS or GTA or something very similar WILL win GOTY. Whether or not someone agrees that they SHOULD win largely depends on what you think a Game-of-the-Year should be.
If it’s a straight up popularity contest among the fairly lopsided and narrow demographic group of predominately adolescent to young adult males who vote for, and actually give a rat’s ass about such awards then MGS or GTA should indeed win. In this group a game is mostly evaluated in terms of rounds of ammo expended, gallons of blood spilled and with the most gratuitous cleavage to ice the cake.
If it was on the basis of total sales….. no that would never do, not even if you add the PS3 and the Xbox 360 together,
If like traditional artistic awards, such as the Pulitzer prize, there is a requirement for originality then I’d suspect we’d all agree that any serially numbered game is not qualified.
If following the model of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, we go by what game had the greatest impact on the industry and changed it in some major way; then it would be very hard to defend any choice other than Wii Fit.
But fortunately it is just a beauty contest with a strictly popularity vote, so GTA/MGS will win, the sun will rise again, the earth will stay in its orbit and your dick will not fall off. And you may post as much of an outrageous mocking victory tirade as you wish and I promise to cry bitter tears for ten minutes. And then I will return the Kleenex to you in time for next month’s sales figures.
