A_C_E on 26 December 2015
| pokoko said: It's not strange at all. Many people, when they're talking about "Game of the Year," they search their memory and generally ask themselves, "which game did I enjoy the most this past year?" The answer to that is sometimes different than, "which game was I the most impressed with from a technical, objective standpoint?" Let's say you played Skyrim for a review. You put 50 hours into it while on the job. You loved it but, for a review, you deducted points for graphics, glitches, fetch quests, and things of that nature. However, you were having a blast with it and ended up putting 200 more hours into it and the deductions you made in the review actually bothered you very little. You liked Batman a lot, as well, and you gave it a higher score because it was more technically impressive and more polished, though obviously it had a lot less content and was more linear. But the one you kept going back to and playing? The one that pulled you in and reminded you why you loved gaming? Skyrim. Between the two, from a personal standpoint, it was a more enjoyable game. So, when you think back over the year in gaming, which gets your GOTY vote? I don't know about anyone else but I'd vote for the game that gave me the most entertainment, review scores be damned. I know the intent here is to point out the discrepancy as a flaw with GOTY voting but, in my opinion, it's really just another reason why review scores get way too much emphasis. |
I second this.
