shikamaru317 said:
In case you didn't realize almost the entire jury for the VGA's is made up of prominent game critics, so meta score is definitely a consideration in who wins. The winner has also been the game with the highest metascore almost every year, with only a few exceptions such as the 91 meta Overwatch beating the 93 meta Uncharted 4 in 2016. Popularity is also taken into account by the jury however (which is why Overwatch beat Uncharted 4), where RDR2 also has the edge over GoW 4 since it is multiplat and looking like it will have the biggest launch of the year. |
So, higher meta = goty. What a short point of view. Who could predict, that a Rockstar game will hit higher score. Its not like rdr2 is not another Open world sandbox made by Rockstar which even could be shit still can got one of the highest score. Like GTA 4 did in 2008.
Nobody at current generation took and reinvented old franchise like as Santa Monica did. They created outstanding story which beating every R game so far.
Same with the one of the most deep and satysfying combat system this generation. Where games like BOTW or Witcher 3 and many others could not delivere properly.
SSM took huge risk where Companies like bethesda, ea, acti, even Rockstar would have never done.
