I was looking to a thread on neogaf about demographic "pandering" and i started to think about this.
Most people here probably are familiar with the expression "Oscar baits". For those who don't know,here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_bait
Basically,you know when you're watching a movie where you have well known older actors portraying people with a suffering,complex life in some historical settings like WW2 and you think "damn this movie is obviously trying to get an oscar"?
This are what people call oscar baits.
Being an Oscar bait doesn't mean the movie is good.The movie can be good and in this cases it probably will win the oscar or at least be nominated but also can be a bad movie. In the end,it doesn't matter 'cause the movie was not design to be good or bad,it was design to be attractive for an specific set of people...the critics.We all know that critic,specially the hardcore ones have a different taste than the mainstream audience.So,in order to win an oscar,you need to make your movie attractive to them.
Well with that said,i made this thread to talk about games that you guys felt that where GOTY baits.Basically games that were not design to be good or bad or to be attractive for the demographic who usually buys this kinds of games.Instead,it was design to be attractive to the critics cause,again,they have a different taste then us most of the time.
IMO Dragon age inquisition would be a GOTY bait.Again, i'm not saying that it is a bad game(neither that is a good one) but it feels like Bioware was trying to "pandering" for the kotaku/tumblr/anita sarkasian crowd instead of focus on the target demographic of the genre (WRPG= 15 - 30 american male demographic).That could be one of the reasons why the game didn't sell that well(besides high competition on holiday season and DA 2 bad taste).
Just to be clear this is not a criticism.I'm just thought that maybe someone else here also has this feeling that,sometimes,games are made not to be sold but to send a message/win an award/fulfill an agenda.Please stay civil...
