Game Of The Year Tracker 2020 - The Last Of Us Part II - Now Most Awarded Game of All Time!

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Runa216 said:

Nope! If so....AStro's Playroom would be GOTY everywhere. Its user score is the highest I've seen all year. 

I'm not even talking about reviews though.  I am talking about popularity.  If you look at sales or social media/google mentions, twitch streams, etc..., the games that dominated this year were Animal Crossing and Among Us.  When I think of games from 2020, these are the first two that come to mind.  These were the games that people were actually playing.  None of the others are even close.

These GOTY picks are biased because they are so heavily based on reviews.  The critics' tastes are not the same as the average gamer's tastes.

But...this thread is about reviews and review outlets. We have plenty of threads that cover popularity/sales figures.

"These GOTY picks are biased because they are so heavily based on reviews" - There is literally nothing else they should be based on. While I don't assign any more importance to the opinion of a professional game critic than I do to any other gamer with a decent amount of experience, I give more credence to their opinion than I do for the throngs of casuals that can make any given low-wattage game popular.