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Cerebralbore101 said: The problem I have with an early access game being nominated is that early access is a great way to shield a game from criticism. Because it's still in early access the bad parts are overlooked, or forgiven. There's no review scores for early access games, since it'd be unfair for a publication to do a review for a game that is still being worked on. This has an effect of driving the discussion of a game towards only the positive things about the game. Meanwhile traditional releases are put under the microscope warts and all from the get go. |
I don't really think that's true ... ? Maybe fanboys but that's the same with every game
top anything and game of the year are always based on a mixture of pretentious critic pandering and how popular something is
people only want to call it out now because it's convenient when a game they want to win or be added to a list doesn't or isn't, the reality is GOTY or best games of the year have almost always been irrelevant. It's more like an interesting viewpoint than a legitimate definitive list. And there's nothing wrong with disagreeing with them, I really like it for instance when people make their own lists because it's always fun to see their reasoning. Awards lists are similar : They're interesting to see, and sometimes I have an issue with them, but I rarely say that a game should never be on the list because of any reason, let alone one that's kind of irrelevant.
But honestly, PUBG would have been nominated whether or no it was early access. No one is excusing it's flaws, it's not like Geoff Keighley went to metacritic and saw PUBG had no scores and then went "Oh, I guess I can add it in now!" Especially when every games outlet has already argued over whether or not it should be added, it's not exactly like PUBG's problems are dirty secrets, they're pretty well known.
I don't want to be too argumentative but that's just my perspective. Greg Miller seems to have implied that a lot of big gaming outlets were already having a conversation about the authenticity of PUBG and if it should be nominated, so I think this is an industry wide discussion.
