selnor said:
Michael-5 said:
Well Awards are designed to be given to the best game (or movie, or music, whatever), not the most popular one. Everyones opinion is subjective, so awards should be based on the quality of the game.
I agree with you, websites should give GOTY awards to games which deserve it, but our definition of what makes a game GOTY worthy is different.
Your arguing that sales alone reflect public opinion, if more people buy it, more people like it. However I don't think that's enough to give a game GOTY, or any recognition.
GOTY should be given to games with the most quality built into them. Yes tons of people like CoD, but how rewarding is the online experience really? How often can you repeat the same task over and over? Just because it sells, doesn't mean it's the best.
GOTY should be given to the best game. If Skyrim offers people the most quality compared to any other game (using it as an example because of the duration of the campaign), then it should win. Games are more then just something we do to pass the time, often times they are experiences that inspire people, or have them think of things in a new light. Story is very important, and unfortunatly, how people percieve the story is based off individual opinions. Sometimes a game with a 10 hour story is far more memorable then a game someone spent 100 hours online with and deserves to be GOTY.
Think about it, if you asked every person who owns every nominee, I think GOTY should go to the game those people argue was the most enjoyable experience, or offers the most content worth playing. If those people own all the games, then clearly they enjoy a variety of game types, not just the single FPS genre, and they should be able to give the least biased opinion on which game offers the most bang for the buck.
I don't think GOTY should ever be based off a scalar quantity. Whether it's the number of sales, or cost of development, there are more to games then just numbers.
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But everything your saying is subjective to the opinion of the player. Skyrim to one person might not the most quality. Which leads to my original point sales show what in popular opinion is the most value or quality fo an individual. More people find quality in COD. While I disagree with their choice of purchase, I cant deny I'm disagreed with also, by the people who choose to wait inline for COD and spend their money on that instead of Skyrim or Battlefield 3.
See my point is what is more quality and value to me and you ( Skyrim, Halo Anniversary etc ) is not the same quality or value to their opinion or taste.
So quality and value is all respective of the person.
Hence my original statement salses shold be a factor for what the public deemas GOTY, and what thegeneral public value where their money should go.
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No, Skyrim is a quality game, any self respecting gamer will see that, however not everyone is going to like the game, that's opinion, that's completly different.
Sales do not reflect which game is best, just because it sells the most doesn't mean it was enjoyed the most. If they made a 5th Indianna Jones film, but the quality was shit, yet it still sold out, that doesn't mean it's the best movie of the year, it's just the one advertized the most, or has the biggest pedigree (based on older movies), or just a film people who typically don't watch movies watch (as is the case will CoD and regular gamers).
Look at the metacritic of Modern Warfare 3. The user vote is like 3/10, if 7 million people own the game (per console) and the score is that low, is that the best game of the year? Just because more people heard about it, or played it, doesn't mean that their personal taste of the game is high. Yes there are some who wait days infront of a store to be first in line to get the game, but that's the case for nearly all AAA games.
Game awards should literally award the best game produced during the year. Sales do not affect the quality of the game all all. After all, the whole purpose of the game show is to reflect which game impact gamers the most, not which games impacted the most gamers.
GOTY is a measure of quality, not quantity. These are two hugely different aspects.
