Highest on Metacritic vs. Game with most GOTY awards

[Alkibiádēs]

pokoko said:

Alkibiádēs said:

So you basically did the following:

- Called people in this thread butthurt

- Called people insecure for having an opinion about a game that's different than the mainstream one.

- We're talking about GOTY selections, not review scores.

- I'm not talking about Nintendo specifically, they're not the only company that makes games for all ages you know.

- You try to attack the person instead of the arguments.

So you're denying that the list of GOTY picks in the OP are all serious edgy mature games? Because the list shows a very obvious bias that I fail to see how anyone can argue against. Not once did a child friendly game win in that list (except Star Wars in 2003). Keep living in denial I suppose.

The game industry is heading into an awful direction if it only follows the direction of a single group. Can you imagine the likes of Disney and Studio Ghibli not getting any praise in the movie industry? Why are (some) gamers so ashamed of anything that isn't edgy?

"Called people insecure for having an opinion about a game that's different than the mainstream one."  I've done another of the sort.  

"You try to attack the person instead of the arguments."  Your "arguments" are nothing but excuses.  Games you don't like are "overrated", while games you do like are treated unfairly if they don't win the most GOTY awards.  This phantom bias you preach about is nothing more than you trying to address your own insecurity because your favorites didn't win as many awards.  

Do you know why those games didn't win?  Because the people voting liked other games more.  Just. Deal. With. It.  Unstrap your ego from from video-games and realize how amazingly silly you look.

But, no, you're not going to do that, are you?  You're just going to keep babbling about, "oh, Skyrim is edgy and mature, THAT'S why they voted for it, not because they liked it!"  Goddamn.  Read over what you're saying.  No one cares about your inferiority complex.  Everyone else is out there playing the games they want to play.  

As far as the Ghibli/Disney thing goes, you aren't even making sense anymore.  When is the last time they won an Academy Award for Best Picture?  And yet, no one pitches a fit and whines about how that means "omg bias".  If someone does pout about it, they aren't taken seriously, because those works get plenty of respect, just as with well-made "kid friendly" games.  Your persecution complex is meaningless.

My favorite games rarely win the most GOTY awards and I'm completely fine with that.  

Are you serious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature

Yes, when a list over a period of more than 12 years includes only mature games than we can speak of selection bias. You're not even making any sense as I love games with a dark and mature setting. That doesn't mean that I think only those games should be eligable for GOTY nominations. Zelda and Metroid are by far my two favorite Nintendo franchises. Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask, the "dark" Zelda games, are my two favorite ones in the franchise. I love the sight of a falling civilisation and dead rotting bodies on planet Aether in Metroid Prime 2. My favorite Wii game is Xenoblade Chronicles, a game that is too complex for children to get into. Stop trying to pretend to even remotely know what goes on in my head or what games I like.

Tell me how a game with as many bugs, glitches and performance issues as Skyrim won even one GOTY award? Please do tell me. When's the last time you played a platformer with a framerate that dipped to zero and still won GOTY awards?