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Torillian on 06 December 2012
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sundin13 said:
Torillian said:

Isn't Dishonored with it's 6-8 hours of gameplay


...wut. Ive been playing this game a lot lately (been playing a no kill run and a kill a lot of stuff run side by side) and in each of these playthroughs, I am likely at about 8 hours each and I'm barely into the game. according to How Long to Beat, it usually takes about 13 hours to beat

Theres a big difference between that and the two hours it takes to beat Journey. I am in the boat that a two hour game doesn't deserve to win GOTY. It can be a good game but there a better games that have more of a lasting effect. Thats why short films are nominated in a separate category than full movies. It just doesn't make sense to give a 5minute movie an award when it is competing with a 2hour movie. This in no way undermines the quality of the game but I just cant see it as the best the video game world has to offer.

Crud, knew I shoulda looked it up, that was just a stab in the dark based on how long the game had been taking me so far.  Luckily it's not the main point of my argument so meh.  

@Jay as well,

sure you got a lot of hours of fun out of those games, but others got more fun out of other games.  Why doesn't Disgaea win every goty since it gives people 100's of hours of shit to do?  It's because length hasn't been an issue before now.  God of War got nominated before and noone bats an eye, but if 7-8 hours is ok for 60 bucks why isn't 2 hours ok for 15?  Again, length of the game should not be the bulk of your consideration because that would be a different award like "best value of 2012" instead of best game.  If the reviewers loved Journey more than it should win, simple as that.

@Jay alone,

Journey wouldn't have that high of a meta if it were higher priced, but then again ME3 would be a lower meta if it weren't appropriately priced as well so what's it matter.  If what people pay for a game is the main consideration for goty then why are we even arguing about what should win?  Let's just take the game the most people paid the most for this year: World of Warcraft, and it shall be the winner until something else comes out with a similar pricing scheme.

It's not "best retail" or "best 60 dollar game", it's just best game.  And I'd be willing to bet you're wrong about it not showing up on other sites' goty nomination list.  I'd put down a month of avatar control assuming you can figure out terms that seem reasonable.  



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