| DirtyP2002 said: It actually tells you how useless these awards are. I am not a big fan of metacritic either, but you might guess that they are connected somehow. How can the best game ever reviewed (EVER!) come in 2nd / 3rd in the same year? Where is Forza Motorsports 3 in 2009? Dragon Age Origins, MW2 - really? It is almost as pointless as E3 awards - E3 2009: The last Guardian won awards and it was just a trailer with no gameplay and the game is already pushed to 2014. |
Well MW2 was like THE game to make people start to go on a hate rampage :P. It did recieve a 94 meta and was well recieved at first. Hell I enjoyed it sadly xD
Origins was a pretty good game on the PC (Like >90 meta even).
So yeah, Meta and the awards are connected in such a way that the critics rate the games and get them up in meta. Then obviously they pick their favourite games as GOTY which will reflect in the score MOST of the time.
GTA IV is indeed special. Getting 98 and still not 1st spot :P. I cant for the life of me understand that. 2008 and 2011 were both insane years though. I suppose a lot of personal taste matters too obviously, hence why Forza 3 for instance isnt there. Not too many driving fans in the media. Or the genre as a whole needs more innovation? I dont know! xD
