Skyrim wins 2011 VGA GOTY award and over a dozen more.

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The_Joker_Product said:

Izo said:

Doesnt work that way. GTA Chinatown Wars on DS has a 93, higher than Uncharted 3, God of War 3, Assassins Creed 2 etc but its not as good a game. God of War Chains of Olympus has a 91, the same score as Batman Arkham Asylum, higher than Dark Souls, Fallout 3 and Killzone 2, again its not as good.

They rate them compared to games on that console, itd be unfair to give a DS game a low score because it doesnt compare to PS3 games.

The Wii has terrible games, Super Mario Galaxy stands out amongst them all which is why it gets a 97, but if the same game came out on the PS3 it would not get a 97. Just like had Dead Space 2 come out on Wii first it would have got a much better score than

This doesn't make any sense when metacritic works for you its fine but if a wii or ds gets a higher score its subject to debate.  Maybe just maybe SMG got a 97 because reviewers thought it was an incredibly great game.  The wii has great games as well as Xbox360 and ps3. Let's not do this dance and admit that scores while they can show critical aclaim cannot prove which game is better. 

What makes a DS or wii game not compete with a ps3 game anyway? If there fun games what does it matter? Graphics?

It did get a good game thats why it got a 97. Wouldnt have got a 97 had it been a multiplatform PS3/Xbox game though. Wii has crappy games overall, it has a few that are great but on average they get mixed scores.

Its your opinion that Dark Souls is better, its dozens of critics opinions, thousands of gamers opinions and awards that say Skyrim is better. Its obviously the better game.

Wii and DS games dont compete with PS3 games, not only in graphics but in the multiplayer aspect, getting DLC, overall scale because the Wii or DS couldnt handle something like Red Dead Redemption, controls Wii games like Goldeneye usually have crappy controls and so on.

Is that so? 

Oddly, some of the most succesful MP games this generation are DS games. Or are you counting out Pokemon and Mario Kart out just because? DLC is now a benchmark to measure games? That's twisted, to say the least, but DS games do have DLC too, especially DQIX. 

Overall Scale? There are few games on both the PS3 and 360 that have the scale of DQIX and from what it looks like, DQX for the Wii is to surpass it. If you want to talk about open ended games like RDR or Skyrim, then bear in mind that no game has had the scale of ES:Daggerfall and no game for the PS3 or 360 will ever have and Daggerfall was made on 1996. 

Also your second phrase is a contradiction in itself. If game critics consider Wii, DS or any console game to be better than any "HD" game, then why shouldn't those games compete between themselves? That's an one-sided argument that holds no validity whatsoever and caters only to the popularity of home consoles over the rest of the field which is not a measuring stick for quality. 

It's a fact that the DS and Wii both have crappy games (just like the PS3 and 360 have, by the handfull), but both also have some of the best games of this generation, whether you like it or not.