If Breath of the Wild Isn't GOTY, I Don't Know What Is /s

[Mr_No]

spemanig said:

Mr_No said:
A higher Metacritic score over another game doesn't mean immediate GOTY. Look at Uncharted last year with Overwatch. The former had a higher score than the latter, yet it didn't win GOTY. There's also many other games this year who might have a higher chance of getting it. Claiming journalists aren't real journalists just because they give the award to other game that's not Breath of the Wild is no better than calling them "fake news".

It's not the Metacritic people are looking at – it's what it represents. It's scores that high because most people gave it a perfect score, which means most publications will give the award to it, unless there are other perfect scores that same year.

As for the VGA's, Overwatch was a bigger success story than Uncharted 4. It was obviously going to win game of the year. Zelda has been in a quality slump for what can be argued has been over a decade. Zelda IS that very same success story. Overwatch changed the game for online shooters on consoles. Zelda changes the game for open world games, which is arguably a bigger deal. Uncharted 4 didn't change anything, it was just a really good game that hardcore fans appreciated. Unless Red Read 2, Super Mario Odyssey, or something else does something bigger than that, nothing will come close this year to Zelda, even if it's very good. It almost has an unfair advantage because it's also attached to the Switch launch.

Well, it might have been the bigger success story and a game changer, but here is a representation of many of the publications that might believe otherwise. The Game Awards is not a full representation of the entire industry, as only a handful of publications are the ones who make up their awards commitee.