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Nem on 19 December 2014
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fatslob-:O said:
Nem said:

I disagree.

Handed on a silver platter? Its the western developers that are handing them the silver platter by releasing overhyped dull unoptimised and buggy games.

There is no handing here. Bayonetta 2 is a very polished product. Dragon age, for as much as i love it, isnt in the same ballpark. Shadow of mordor also has its share. We are paying for unoptimised and buggy products and we should be revering them as GOTY's? Well, i really wont.

No western developer origin is going to make me have a biased opinion. When the game that deserves the award is western i will surely concede it as i have before. I actually agree that the japanese industry has been terrible in the last gen. But, that doesnt in any way make me unable to see what is an achievement in excellence, especially compared to the other games released this year. It isnt because the japanese industry as a whole has been a disappointment that i wont be able to spot when they do it right and deserve praise for it.

So what your basically saying is that Dragon Age: Inqusition and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor are unoptimized and buggy products ? Well that's the first I heard of that ...

How exactly is Bayonetta 2 more deserving of GotY when it's weak in many areas compared to Dragon Age: Inquistion ? If metacritic is anything to go by it's that game critics have a favourable bias towards japanese games so those are the games that are been handled a silver platter, not a whole lot of western games ...


Erm... have you even played them? They had to be patched. It wasnt as bad as AC Unity, but its not exactly silky smooth at 60fps without many bugs.

I dont recall using metacritic as an argument, so i dont know what you are talking about.

My argument here is: A polished product is definitly more deserving of an award than an unpolished one. Dragon Age is certainly a very good game despite some technical issues, but my opionion is that GOTY should celebrate the best experience presented to the customer. And given how bad the issues with bugs and unoptimisation have been this year, it definitly deserved to stand out as the example to follow.