gamrReview Overall Game of the Year Awards - Results!

[Torillian]

VXIII said:

Torillian said:

Nsanity said:
Theres a lot on that list i dont agree with...

Feel free to name specifics, whole point of a thread it to discuss things and I don't mind debating about or explaining the choices that were made.

Have you ever thought of changing the whole formula ?

I don't see a point in having "best FPS" for every console , it creates conflicts

IMO GameTrailers does it best by having best of every genre,  best game for every console , and overall goty, in addition to other stuff like best story/graphics ... etc

Yes, Craig and I have talked about it and next year we plan to have just overall awards and then an award for the best game on each platform, only issue is we'll have to work out how we decide on nominees, the best situation would be similar to gamespot (iirc) where there are nominees announced ahead of time (about 5 for each award) and then readers can vote based on those nominees and the staff will decide their own winner amongst those nominees.  This way we have a much simpler system but we can still give recognition to the smaller guys who might not be able to win a category but should get a mention and we can do more specific awards like best boss battles or other added categories we didn't want to mess with before like Best story.  

 

Other problem we'll have to figure out is how to work with the overall goty award which will essentially still be the same format as previous years.  How do you pick out 5 nominees for best overall when you haven't decided the one best game on each platform yet?