The Game Awards Thread (2020)

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shikamaru317 said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

If the point is to award what public likes, why not use sales instead? 

I doubt even 10% of people who bought any of those games bothered to vote, in reality most of them must not be even aware of gaming award shows, so how can a intenet poll be a true representation of what public likes ?

Of course, be prepared to see Call of Duty winning on yearly basis because that's what general public likes

If that was the case, CoD would have won people’s choice this year, but it didn’t, Tsushima won. Just because CoD games sell well doesn’t mean that most of the gaming population thinks CoD is Game of the Year.

I find myself in the middle here. I do think we can't base it off sales, as the hordes of youths playing mind numbing games would skew it. I find critics just as problematic in the other direction when they tend to favor "artistic" games as opposed to ones that really made an impact on the market.

It's like all those small movie festivals, hardly any of those winners make a splash or are noticed by the people yet they win their little awards. What I'd like is the middle ground. Have it based on a gamer poll (not critic), but they have to be at least in their mid 20's to vote and have to have played multiple systems/platforms over their life so far.