Runoff vote 2008, Game of the Year

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BonfiresDown said:

I looked back at some GoTY awards at the time and LittleBigPlanet was pretty big at the time it seems. #2 on the Neogaf list and #4 on the aggregate of all awards. Seems like opinions have shifted pretty hard on it. Of course, it had a sequel which might have been better, but I rarely hear people talk about that game either.

Persona 4 on the other hand has certainly become a lot more popular, although I’m not sure how big the difference is between vanilla and Golden.

Some games age well and other games age poorly.  LittleBigPlanet has aged poorly, especially since NSMB Wii released the following year and was a better 2D platformer.  The consensus on this thread also seems to be that GTA IV didn't deserve a 98 on Metacritic.  On the other hand Persona 4 was a PS2 game, so I don't think most critics wanted to spotlight a game from Generation 6 in 2008.  They underrated it.  I also think a lot of Wii games were underrated at the time for non-HD graphics, and possibly some critics were just pissed at Nintendo at the time for releasing a weaker system.

But here we are 15 years later, and the graphics don't matter so much at this point.  Instead people tend to focus more on the gameplay and other elements of the game that can withstand the test of time.  Persona 4 has aged really well, and LittleBigPlanet hasn't.