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HomokHarcos on 25 December 2015
StuOhQ said:

GOTY awards go to multiplats for the same reason that mainstream titles generally win the Oscar. Awards are only partially about the quality of the work. They are also indicative of each publication's audience. Gaming publications are a business.

How many people will keep reading if the GOTY each 365 is a game they haven't played (and can't because it's exclusive to a console they don't own)?

"Dragon Age: Inquisition" is a perfect example. It was one of the best games that most of the gaming world had access to - and a bestseller. Those two qualifications weigh just as heavily into GOTY lists as quality.

You also have to consider that many GOTY awards are given out by publications that follow one platform alone. Those games on many platforms are obviously going to get more overall awards.

 

Taking that into account it's even more impressive that The Last of Us usually won GOTY over Grand Theft Auto V



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JRPGfan on 25 December 2015

Game of the year => game you must own, because everyone else is playing it.
Its about game appeal (hype & public preceptions), not how high a critic reviews a certain game.



DannyDesario on 25 December 2015

GOTY has more appeal, but when it isn't the highest rated game it usually wasn't the best game that year.



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Platina on 26 December 2015

Definitely interesting to see these list comparisons



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DolPhanTendo on 26 December 2015

And people say there isn't a bias against Nintendo in the gaming industry. So here we are since 2003,that's twelve years, Nintendo hasn't won one GOTY Award Hmmmmmmm🤔🤔🤔



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StuOhQ on 26 December 2015

Nintendo has won plenty of GOTY awards. They simply haven't won a majority any of those years. The reasons for that have been stated above in various ways.



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A_C_E on 26 December 2015
StuOhQ said:

GOTY awards go to multiplats for the same reason that mainstream titles generally win the Oscar. Awards are only partially about the quality of the work. They are also indicative of each publication's audience. Gaming publications are a business.

How many people will keep reading if the GOTY each 365 is a game they haven't played (and can't because it's exclusive to a console they don't own)?

"Dragon Age: Inquisition" is a perfect example. It was one of the best games that most of the gaming world had access to - and a bestseller. Those two qualifications weigh just as heavily into GOTY lists as quality.

You also have to consider that many GOTY awards are given out by publications that follow one platform alone. Those games on many platforms are obviously going to get more overall awards.

3 titles were full exclusive, 4 titles were console exclusive (available on PC), and 6 were multi-platform. Multi-plats may have the biggest share of GOTY's but with 3 full exclusives and 4 console exclusives, multi-plats are outnumbered 7-6. More than half this list is either console exclusive or full exclusive so I think it may have to do with the influence of the game on the industry as well as how likable the game is. 



A_C_E on 26 December 2015
pokoko said:
It's not strange at all.

Many people, when they're talking about "Game of the Year," they search their memory and generally ask themselves, "which game did I enjoy the most this past year?" The answer to that is sometimes different than, "which game was I the most impressed with from a technical, objective standpoint?"

Let's say you played Skyrim for a review. You put 50 hours into it while on the job. You loved it but, for a review, you deducted points for graphics, glitches, fetch quests, and things of that nature. However, you were having a blast with it and ended up putting 200 more hours into it and the deductions you made in the review actually bothered you very little.

You liked Batman a lot, as well, and you gave it a higher score because it was more technically impressive and more polished, though obviously it had a lot less content and was more linear.

But the one you kept going back to and playing? The one that pulled you in and reminded you why you loved gaming? Skyrim. Between the two, from a personal standpoint, it was a more enjoyable game.

So, when you think back over the year in gaming, which gets your GOTY vote?

I don't know about anyone else but I'd vote for the game that gave me the most entertainment, review scores be damned. I know the intent here is to point out the discrepancy as a flaw with GOTY voting but, in my opinion, it's really just another reason why review scores get way too much emphasis.

I second this.





DolPhanTendo on 26 December 2015
StuOhQ said:
Nintendo has won plenty of GOTY awards. They simply haven't won a majority any of those years. The reasons for that have been stated above in various ways.

 


Yeah so I guess Witcher III, Dragon Age: Inquistion, Elder Scrolls IV and V, Resident 4, Fallout 3, and Uncharted 2 were not a sequel?



pastro243 on 26 December 2015
DolPhanTendo said:
And people say there isn't a bias against Nintendo in the gaming industry. So here we are since 2003,that's twelve years, Nintendo hasn't won one GOTY Award Hmmmmmmm🤔🤔🤔

 

The same media has given the scores that made those games the best rated of their year

Ot. I tend to "rely" more on GotY awards since they consider all releases in the year when making the final choice. Metacritic score rankings are not as consistent and the difference in 0,1 points could mean things like more or less reviews for a game (like in multiplats versions that are not reviewed at all) or differences in creteria between reviewers in a same VG site. 

 

Anyway, both show different types of information so I dont think one is objectively a better indicator of quality.



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