GameTrailers GAME OF THE YEAR 2011

[Barozi]

pezus said:

Barozi said:

Gametrailers can't be trusted with awards and their reviews.
They have developed from PS3 haters (yeah I know they were trolling) to PS3 fanboys.
Look at how basically every more or less popular/hyped PS3 exclusive is quite a bit above the average critic score over the last few years.

Metascore in brackets:

InFamous 2 - 9.2 (83)
Killzone 3 - 9.4 (84)
Resistance 3 - 8.8 (83)
MotorStorm: Apocalypse - 8.5 (77)
SOCOM 4 - 7.9 (67)
Yakuza 4 - 8.3 (78)
Gran Turismo 5 - 9.0 (84)
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection - 8.0 (91) Surprise !

And I'm not complaining about things like Uncharted 3 being 3 points higher than the average. Also I don't doubt that it's worthy of getting awards.

They finally realized PS3 exclusives are better than most reviewers make them out to be. Look at 360 scores too please, and compare. I don't doubt that they rate 360 exclusives higher than average (but then again, there aren't that many recent 360 exclusives to be able to compare fully).

conspiracy much ?

As for the rest I have to say the outcome of that would be totally irrelevant. Everything would support my "theory" that Gametrailers scores cannot be taken seriously.

If Xbox exclusives were rated lower than the average = biased towards PS3
If Xbox exclusives were rated just like the average = biased towards PS3
If Xbox exclusives were rated much higher than the average i.e. even higher than their PS3 games = biased towards Xbox 360
If Xbox exclusives were rated higher than the average just like PS3 games = biased scores towards popular/hyped games

Obviously a site like Gametrailers profits from hype more than any other site.