God of War Ragnarok reviews in!

[DonFerrari]

gtotheunit91 said:

To me, gaming nominations for a pristine ceremony, such as TGA since it touts itself to be the video game version of the Oscars, is take into account everything a game has to offer, including the game as an artform. Best Picture nominees are supposed to encapsulate film as a form of art. Very rarely does a high budget movie ever have a Best Picture nomination. It happens more often now than it used to, but still rare. GoW: Ragnarok would be to me what The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was at the Oscars. A high budget film that took everything that made movies fun to watch, yet still be a piece of art. And it swept all 11 Oscar nominations it had that year.

If just those kinds of games get nominated though, why bother having other genre of games if those aren't just as viable to be considered for GOTY? Inside was just as simplistic in design and gameplay as Pentiment, yet it received a GOTY nomination in 2016 as it was a very powerful and moving game, but lost to Overwatch, a multiplayer only hero shooter. If the entire presentation of the game is a work of art, it should be considered for GOTY. I don't like to discredit a game if it doesn't match a very specific type of standard.

That is the reason why categories exist.

I haven't played Pentiment but will believe you on it having a great storytelling, so I would have 0 issue with it being nominated and even winning on a category for best narrative, history or similar. But would it win on best picture, soundtrack, gameplay, etc, etc?

But for GOTY it would be the equivalent of the best movie, so that would need to check all the boxes.

Perhaps this award needs more categories, although I think they already have the bases covered.