MASS EFFECT 2 CONFIRMED BY BIOWARE TO BE SHOWN AT E3 2009!!!

[shio]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

shio said:

mrstickball said:
Metacritic:

Mass Effect - 91 (89 for PC)
The Witcher - 81 (86 for enhanced edition)
Kings Bounty - 80

Awards wise, I tend to think that Mass Effect winning IGN's Best RPG of the Year, Best Score, Best Story; New York Times Best Game of the Year; SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GameTrailers and X-Play's Best RPG of 2007 trumps The Witchers PC awards.

Mass Effect won far more categories outside of just it's console's awards. ME won RPG of the year on 5 sites. The Witcher did not. So don't call the Witcher better from ANY critical standpoint, when it is not. The Witcher did get more awards, but the majority of them were from PC gaming magazines, and not general magazines that pitted the Witcher against more titles (unlike ME, which won against every other game in 2007). Even King's Bounty won tons of PC awards, despite it having an average MC rating of 80 (great game, BTW).

Huh?! Since when are IGN, SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GT, New York Times (for videogames) and X-Play reputable sources?! The thing is, The Witcher won far more awards in Europe than ME did, but the US sources are much more visible obviously.

 

Here is a list of all the accolades Mass Effect has earned. For PC, Xbox, best writing, best character, best art direction, GOTY 07, RPG of the year and more in the non-gaming aspect of the world as well.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/previewsawards/

 

The Witcher still probably won more awards than both Mass Effect X360 and PC versions combined. Anyway, awards are still popularity contests, which is why japanese games always win in japan, why console games always win in NA and UK, why PC games always win in the rest of Europe and Continental Asia, etc... games are awarded by amount of votes, but if the people who vote for Best RPG haven't even played, say, The Witcher or other RPGs how are they reputable?

The fact that games like The Witcher and Mass Effect won best Writing Awards, yet Mask of the Betrayer (which has probably the best writing of the last decade) got snubbed because not as many people in the industry even played it.

I think the voting systems must be changed because this is not films or music we're talking about. Game reviewers don't play the vast majority of games since it takes ages to review them, while films/music discs take like 2 hours.