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Are the VGX awards slanted to microsoft.

Yes. 46 25.27%
 
Yes, and intentionally 83 45.60%
 
Yes, but just by coincidence 16 8.79%
 
No 37 20.33%
 
Total:182
Turkish on 27 November 2013

The real question is why polygon has 3 representatives while the others all have 1 or 2.



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jlmurph2 on 27 November 2013

Why do you expect Killzone to be in the nominees? The series has never been on the level of COD, Battlefield, Borderlands, Halo, or FarCry.



outlawauron on 27 November 2013

Yeah, I don't think anyone actually takes the VGAs seriously, or at least I hope no one does.



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ethomaz on 27 November 2013

Firstly... Kilzone didn't deservers be in the list... mediocres games needs to be out.

Now about the weight I believe one vote per magazine/site is the best... no exceptuons.

You can have plataform exclusives magazines/sites since you the same amount from the other side.



Aldro on 27 November 2013
SocialistSlayer said:

So i was looking at the VGX website (better know as VGA) and I was looking at who's on their voting panel. It turns out they have 3 guys from Polygon on the advisory panel, and even 1 from the Official Xbox Magazine. Only 2 other cites even have 2 representatives, no other cite besides polygon has 3. Even the biggest gaming cite, IGN, only has 1 representative. Not only that. Theres a rep from Xbox Magazine. no other console has a dedicated cite being present. Not PlayStation Magazine, nor Nintendo.

It just seems odd to me that they would only have a rep from xbox, and not for the other consoles, and on top of that have the most reps (3) coming from polygon, while every other cite besides Kataku, and penny arcade? (with 2 reps each) has only one representative.

Also i hate how they nominate games before some of them even come out, and then also leave out games that havent come out yet (namely GT6 this year, Far Cry last year). And really, Call of Duty and Battlefield are nominated for best shooter, but Killzone isnt? really.

So is this just a coincidence, an gross oversight, or perhaps intentional? Does this make VGX bias?

 

http://www.spike.com/vgx/advisory-council

It's just the way the council is. I don't think its a hoax or anything but The Last of Us for instance, is in a far lesser position to win than say GTAV due to what you mentioned and it sucks.



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Carl on 27 November 2013

Toss up between GTA and The Last of Us. If GTA wins I really dont think its fair to call bias, simply because GTA is damn great.



                            

GamechaserBE on 27 November 2013

You know that the last years the SPIKE VGA were held at the Sony pictures studios right?



Weedlab on 27 November 2013

Polygon? Well ... I view he VGX with even more disgust now.



 

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SocialistSlayer on 27 November 2013
ethomaz said:
Firstly... Kilzone didn't deservers be in the list... mediocres games needs to be out.

Now about the weight I believe one vote per magazine/site is the best... no exceptuons.

You can have plataform exclusives magazines/sites since you the same amount from the other side.


but its not, and its way better than COD and Battlefield. I think Metro should win though.

Killzone is highly underated, has the best graphics on console, great gameplay, stronger story than both Battlefield, and CoD. Great multiplayer. A long campaign at 10-12 hours, especially when compared to the 5-7 hours campaigns of Battlefield and Cod. 

Killzone is really over harshly critiqued. while other FPS great graded primarly as a multiplayer game, KZ gets graded as a primarly single player game, even though its not. Even though its campaign is longer and stronger than 80% of all other FPS.



 

jlmurph2 on 27 November 2013
SocialistSlayer said:
ethomaz said:
Firstly... Kilzone didn't deservers be in the list... mediocres games needs to be out.

Now about the weight I believe one vote per magazine/site is the best... no exceptuons.

You can have plataform exclusives magazines/sites since you the same amount from the other side.


but its not, and its way better than COD and Battlefield. I think Metro should win though.

Killzone is highly underated, has the best graphics on console, great gameplay, stronger story than both Battlefield, and CoD. Great multiplayer. A long campaign at 10-12 hours, especially when compared to the 5-7 hours campaigns of Battlefield and Cod. 

Killzone is really over harshly critiqued. while other FPS great graded primarly as a multiplayer game, KZ gets graded as a primarly single player game, even though its not. Even though its campaign is longer and stronger than 80% of all other FPS.


Yeah I'm pretty sure that people who play video games for a living know how to rate games. You don't need to have a long campaign to be critiqued as a campaign shooter. Halo 4 was able to be graded on single and multi-player with an 8 hour campaign. Killzone's story and gameplay just isn't bringing anything mindblowing to the genre, that's why its being rated lower. Not because its bad, its just not as great as you think it is.