Gears 3 Not nominated for VGA’s Game of The Year

[greenmedic88]

Gears 3 wasn't in my top 5 for 2011 either, not that it matters.

Then again, Gears 2 along with Resistance 2, was one of my biggest disappointments of 2008 as far as hype and personal anticipation failing to meet expectation.

Sales are not the real issue for GotY and have little business being factored in as a primary criteria otherwise Call of Duty would be the undisputed Game of the Year for four years running, which is safe to say next to no one would argue.

When it comes to big sales for titles, it's not the dedicated gamers (very loosely translated as those who buy more than a few new titles every year) who should have a reasonable opinion on what should be considered as Game of the Year that decide the numbers; it's the general game buying public (only buy a few titles every year) who in most cases, doesn't even care what the Game of the Year is. For games to sell multiple millions of units, a significant percentage of those units are being sold to consumers who don't buy many games to begin with, typically skipping all but the biggest blockbuster titles. To these consumers, buying a copy of a game is hardly a vote for Game of the Year.

To say otherwise would be similar to arguing that Academy Awards should consistently be given out to the films with the highest box office grosses, which again is something next to no one would argue.

For whatever reason Gears 3 wasn't nominated for this particular GotY list, they were for critical reasons alone.

That said, nominating 2 games that weren't even released at the time of their nomination is pretty odd, even though post release, I'd have to agree with both nominations.