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the_dengle on 02 February 2015
OttoniBastos said:
the_dengle said:

Gaming is a bit different. The critics have pretty much the same taste as the audience. Basically because most video game critics are just regular people who play a lot of games, rather than experts on game design who can really analyze what they're playing.

Adding to that, each publication assigns one person out of dozens to review a game, usually someone who actually wants to play the game and generally has a default positive opinion of it before even starting. Whereas major publications typically seem to have only a few film critics, who see every film released in the year whether they want to or not. You get a lot more instances of film critics reviewing a film that is obviously not made with them in mind as an audience than you get of game critics doing that. This is natural, since it takes much longer that the normal 2-3 hour movie length to play most games, but it's still a problem.

Imo most of the time,critics just give a score based on what they believe people will think about the game.

Aye, I covered that bit.



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MoHasanie on 02 February 2015

I can't think of any AAA game that fits your description of GOTY bait.



    

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RustyShakleford on 02 February 2015

AAA games are made to sell as much copies as possible, not to please a few reviewers. "Oscar-bait" movies are usually made with a smaller budget, so they dont care as much about their sales. The closest thing we have to oscar bait movies, are maybe a few indie games. However, even those games are made for more than just being a GOT contender on some gaming website.



Twilord on 02 February 2015

The comment at start about being Anita bait... Bioware was inclined to gender equality while before Anita made a fuss, and I doubt many designers are too concerned with her antics on a conscious level as she seems somewhat unpleasable. (Not justifying attacks on her obviously. In fact I do think someone needs to do the job she is trying to, but I don't think she is the right person for it and, given my belief that we should have a more sexual, more gender-fluid world I will admit I do have some political animosity to some of her antics.)



Alby_da_Wolf on 02 February 2015
LudicrousSpeed said:
LOL. No offense, I know this is not a conspiracy that you created but um... no. It doesn't really fly in the gaming world. The risks are far greater.


Well, his description and definitions and your point fit quite well to some cases. The first that springs to my mind is...

 

 

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PieToast on 02 February 2015

Sort of. But games, unlike movies, have a bigger distinction between the good and the bad. They might introduce the gimmick or the extra-extra Polishness GOTYs have to please the critics, gamers or whatever to the gameplay or story that can make, break or just improve the game ever so slightly yet it's not like GOTYS the past few years followed a pattern and all they shared was good gameplay and story.




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badgenome on 02 February 2015

Bioware games have felt like that for a long time, well before Tumblr existed or anyone had ever heard of Anita Sarkeesian. I think they are more influenced by the weird people who hang out in the Bioware forums and obsess sexually over the various characters, and they don't want posters bitching about how they couldn't get off because black lesbian genderfluid transdwarves are their thing and there weren't any.



Roronaa_chan on 02 February 2015

Anything with a focus on MP is GOTY-bait



ArchangelMadzz on 02 February 2015

The only game I can even sort of think of that may fall into this is Journey.



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arcaneguyver on 02 February 2015

When gaming gets its equivalent of an Oscar, we might start seeing attempts at video game Oscar-bait. Until then, naw, we just have selective pandering to different types of audiences.