The Game Awards Thread (2020)

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

Jpcc86 said:

Alternatively, they really should take away that 10% voting power the audience has in the future. Giving audiences any voting power is a joke in my eyes.

Why would they do that? If it's just the critics voting, it's like the many other awards out there, so what is the point then? The audience needs real power to decide what wins awards. If it's just critics then it's even worse than the government, at least with the government we get to vote to elect our politicians who will then be voting for us, but game critics aren't voted in by the general population, they don't represent us. Critics like what they like, which is often very different from what general audiences like. It's the same way with movie critics, they have proven time and again that they don't represent what the general audience likes with their review scores and award shows. 

There is a category that is purely voice of gamers, and this one can be affected by public opinion as well since if two games are very close among critics the public opinion would give a ledge.

sales2099 said:

DonFerrari said:

I'se seem more hubris from people hating TLOU2 than bragging about it in this thread.

Well it’s a divisive game. It split its own community in half with the treatment of Ellie and Joel. And then you have people who didn’t like the left wing aspects in general. That’s on Druckman imo. 

Is the actual goty thread different at least? I didn’t go there but I assume it’s more positive in its dedicated area.

The community got split because well, some people really over react.