Game of the year for 2011 will be a tough one.

[Kantor]

jarrod said:

Kantor said:

jarrod said:

Kantor said:

leatherhat said:

Game of the year will be Mass effect 3 

 

Its not a tough call at all, the gaming KULTUR is very predictable 

Nah, GoTY 2010 everywhere is Mass Effect 2, and they won't want to repeat. Notice how SMG2 won pretty much nothing this year. The same goes for LBP2, for quite a few publications.

Uh, the most respected publication in the industry (EDGE) just gave goty to Super Mario Galaxy 2?

If EDGE is the most respected publication in gaming, then Fox is the most respected news network in the world.

lol.  Sorry this comparison is pretty much pure bullshit and indicates more than anything you have no clue what you're talking about.

You bring up pandering PR mouthpieces like X-Play, IGN or Gamespot (y'know, the site the FIRES people when publishers think their games scored too lowly), and then you have the gall to discredit EDGE's reputation?  Srsly?

Edge has a reputation for being the worst scorer in the industry, for handing out perfect scores to thoroughly undeserving (and highly overhyped) games and chucking sevens on everything else.

I'm not saying IGN and GameSpot are the pinnacles of journalistic integrity, I'm saying that they have far more readers, and thus their awards are taken more seriously.

My point, other than trying to rank a series of increasingly useless game journalists, is that sequels to GoTYs releasing soon after their predecessors tend not to win from the publications who gave the original games GoTY. If that makes any sense.