vivster said:
Then you should also never expect a niche game that does not appeal to main stream sensibilities be nominated for GOTY. It's called "Game of the Year" and not "Just a Game from this Year". It needs to have some kind of impact and Divinity didn't have any. It can't have any impact if only a tiny fraction of people have even heard of it, so why should it be nominated for an award when nobody actually cared? What I'm saying is that quality is by all means only a secondary attribute with any award. Be it the Oscars, Pulitzer or even Nobel. What counts first is impact and popularity. Then, if it's a tie between things it comes down to quality. That's how awards work and how they should work. That's why there are extra awards for specific niches to recognize lesser known entities. |
Not sure what kind of impact you're talking about...for example, what's the impact of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on industry and public? Exclusive game that will sell less than Divinity, yet it's on the list due to bias toward consoles on this site.
Divinity stands currently at over 1.1M sold, it's considered by many as one of the best classic CRPGs ever made...going by your reasoning Fallout 1/2, Planescape Torment or Gothic wouldn't be nominated in their respective years if it was up to this site.
Honestly, I don't think Divinity missing from that list has anything to do with it being in niche sub-genre, but more with general lack of knowledge about PC games on this site - if it's not on consoles, it's ignored, unless it's something that is too big to be ignored, like PUBG.
Last edited by HoloDust - on 03 January 2018
