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IcaroRibeiro on 20 November 2023
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00Xander00 said:

There are 3 things wrong with TGA's GotY system:

1. There are always 5 nominees per category regardless of the amount of good games that should be in that category (with the exception of 4 out of the 31 categories, in which there are 6 nominees). 

2. Half of the awards are silly and pretentious. There is best community support, best innovation in Accessibility, best game for impact, best content creator of the year, best esports this and esports that (Best esports 'Athlete' lol). But they don't have best horror game of the year (despite being a really good year for horror games) or best shooter of the year, best platformer of the year, etc.

3. They rely on Metacritic because they don't play games and don't care by the way they handle things. Then they suddenly choose not to rely on Metacritic if they believe the game is not popular enough despite the awards being BEST game of the year, and not about being most popular game of the year..

1) is not a problem. Awards need a fixed number of nominations to avoid controversies about boycotting and/or favoring something. Grammy and academy awards have a fixed number of nominees every year. I believe this is the standard for any award. Changes in the nominees list rules always needs to be announced before the eligibility period as well 

3) I don't think they rely on Metacritic, more likely they are the ones who written articles for Metacritic, this is an important distinction 

I think the real problem with game awards is because it's an award given by journalists. Ideally awards should always be given by people who have professional working experience in the industry. For example, best voice acting should be given by... well voice actors. Best OST should be given by musicians. Best art direction by designers, and the list goes on 

But gaming industry is not old enough for that and people would just vote for the games in the company they work for, or simply vote for past coworkers. Grammy for instance if an award full of Lobby because producers and labels always vote for their artists.

That's said I'm REALLY curious to see how an award given by developers would look like. Many journalists and general public darlings alike would be snubbed, that's for sure