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

[DonFerrari]

JWeinCom said:

Chazore said:

I almost want to ask people "have you ever tried death?. You can't say much about it unless you've tried it, because I know how batshit crazy that sounds, but that's what "you can't say shit unless you've touched it with two thumbs" sounds to me, as if using those things called eyes and ears aren't something you can use already to determine is something is good or not, let alone the tongue or nose for smelling and tasting.

I can't believe in all my years that I had to actually mention something so glaringly basic, on a site like this.

Imagine ignoring all of history, because it's easy to access and view for everyone to see, but because you didn't take part in a specific era of history, you don't get to judge the rest of history, like for real, that sounds completely fucking asinine and stupid.

Well, it sounds asinine and stupid, because it's a strawman argument, and that's what they're designed to be.

If you want to have people respect your opinion on something, you should do the best kind of research possible. In this case, playing the game is undoubtedly the best form of research you can do.

Our research ability is sometimes limited. For instance, I cannot fully investigate death, because the price of that investigation would be losing my life, and that's not a price I'm willing to pay. The price of researching TLOU2 would be spending 60 bucks, or whatever it is, and devoting however many hours it would take, which is a far more reasonable fee.

Which is not to say that you have to absolutely play it to have any opinion. I watched videos and read reviews of TLOU and decided based on that it wasn't the kind of game I'd enjoy, and that I wouldn't want to spend 60 dollars on it (which also applies to the sequel). I worked with what I had to make the most informed decision I could because obviously I can't buy and play everything, so I got to draw the line somewhere.

But the validity of my conclusions are going to be limited by the amount of research I did. Saying that it deserves or does not deserve to be GOTY is something I'm not going to say without having actually played the game. If I did, people would be perfectly justified in not taking my opinion very seriously.

I have the same instance for Halo, Zelda and most FPS. From what I saw from them and type of game I don't think I'll enjoy it enough to appreciate how good they are. So I limit myself to say I don't think they are that great and that I don't like what I see, but totally respect that are dozen million players that absolutely love those games and think they are the best ever created. So if comparing to a game I love I would also think the game I love is better from a subjective standpoint, but if being objective them I would need to go for technical analysis and decide case by case. Like I would compare Halo 5 to TLOU2 and no doubt TLOU2 comes ahead technically, HZD and Zelda I would say technically HZD comes ahead but when considering gameplay elements that are considered better on Zelda it could be a tie or even go to Zelda without myself felling bad for it, now Syphon Filter that I loved versus MGS that I couldn't stand at the time (and won't ever play the original again) it is set that MGS is a much better game.