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Torillian on 05 December 2009
rastari said:
NSMB wii, will be in best game lists in 10 years time whereas uncharted 2 won't is what I think he is trying too say. Anyways this game is easily GOTY, Although the idiotic game media won't see this.

Which is still basing the present off of what you think will happen in the future.  So unless your talking about the GotY awards for the Ms. Chloe gaming/future prediction website it is not a legitimate way to decide an award right now.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 05 December 2009
Torillian said:
Game of the Year should be the game that's the best that year, not some silly notion of what games will be regarded as great in the future.

You've just decided that NSMBWii will be regarded as a classic, you bring no proof to the table only basing it off what you feel.


  The best game of the year is the one that people will continue to play the longest, and we know its longevity from a few facts, first how much of the expanded audience can get into the game, second replayability, and third pedigree and fourth fun.  On all four we can see that NSMB Wii will have the greater longevity as a game.  You're not going to see many from the expanded audience play Uncharted 2, but a bunch of people who are part of the expanded got into NSMB Wii, even my mom loved it, the game has tons of replayability thanks to the multiplayer, 2D Mario Platformers tend to have very long longevity.



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Torillian on 05 December 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Torillian said:
Game of the Year should be the game that's the best that year, not some silly notion of what games will be regarded as great in the future.

You've just decided that NSMBWii will be regarded as a classic, you bring no proof to the table only basing it off what you feel.


  The best game of the year is the one that people will continue to play the longest, and we know its longevity from a few facts, first how much of the expanded audience can get into the game, second replayability, and third pedigree and fourth fun.  On all four we can see that NSMB Wii will have the greater longevity as a game.  You're not going to see many from the expanded audience play Uncharted 2, but a bunch of people who are part of the expanded got into NSMB Wii, even my mom loved it, the game has tons of replayability thanks to the multiplayer, 2D Mario Platformers tend to have very long longevity.

So even if U2 is better right now, you want to base it off of how it'll be viewed later?  If you want to do a "Most likely game to be a classic" like it's a video game year book feel free.  But it isn't how GotY should be decided.



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Seece on 05 December 2009

Yeah, I hope U2 gets GOTY after this! You guys defined the word "Cherrypick" right here



 

killeryoshis on 05 December 2009

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Kantor on 05 December 2009
rastari said:
NSMB wii, will be in best game lists in 10 years time whereas uncharted 2 won't is what I think he is trying too say. Anyways this game is easily GOTY, Although the idiotic game media won't see this.

You have no way of knowing that, and if a game beats it for GoTY, that means that the media thinks the game is better, and they're not going to change their mind in ten years. It's their opinion, and it's no more important than yours.



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psrock on 05 December 2009
Kantor said:
rastari said:
NSMB wii, will be in best game lists in 10 years time whereas uncharted 2 won't is what I think he is trying too say. Anyways this game is easily GOTY, Although the idiotic game media won't see this.

 

Idiotic media of 2009 will have NSMB in the best game list 10 years from now,  I agree with your point.



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rastari on 05 December 2009
Kantor said:
rastari said:
is what I think he is trying too say.

You have no way of knowing that, and if a game beats it for GoTY, that means that the media thinks the game is better, and they're not going to change their mind in ten years. It's their opinion, and it's no more important than yours.


edited too make my post clearer and i'm more than aware that this is opinions we are dealing with and in my opinion they are idiots.



Avinash_Tyagi on 05 December 2009
CGI-Quality said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Uncharted will be forgotten and shelved in a couple of year, NSMB Wii will still be played and loved a decade from now.

NSMB Wii deserves it over Uncharted 2

Similar to Drake's Fortune......oops......not quite.

It doesn't matter what deserves it, you spout a LOT of BS.


Yeah right, first off Drake's fortune is only a few years old, and how many people still play Drakes fortune, not many, on the other hand, games like Super Mario 3, SMW, etc., are decades old, and people still play them, still buy them, so how is anything I said BS?

 

 



 

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Avinash_Tyagi on 05 December 2009
Torillian said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Torillian said:
Game of the Year should be the game that's the best that year, not some silly notion of what games will be regarded as great in the future.

You've just decided that NSMBWii will be regarded as a classic, you bring no proof to the table only basing it off what you feel.


  The best game of the year is the one that people will continue to play the longest, and we know its longevity from a few facts, first how much of the expanded audience can get into the game, second replayability, and third pedigree and fourth fun.  On all four we can see that NSMB Wii will have the greater longevity as a game.  You're not going to see many from the expanded audience play Uncharted 2, but a bunch of people who are part of the expanded got into NSMB Wii, even my mom loved it, the game has tons of replayability thanks to the multiplayer, 2D Mario Platformers tend to have very long longevity.

So even if U2 is better right now, you want to base it off of how it'll be viewed later?  If you want to do a "Most likely game to be a classic" like it's a video game year book feel free.  But it isn't how GotY should be decided.


  Actually it should be, a game shouldn't be decided just on how big a flash in the pan it is, but whether it lasts



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)