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In 2015, Fallout 4, MGS, The Witcher 3 and Bloodbourne split the GotY awards, so game critics think there were a couple others that year. Had The Witcher 3 com

by iEchoic 10y ago

In 2015, Fallout 4, MGS, The Witcher 3 and Bloodbourne split the GotY awards, so game critics think there were a couple others that year. Had The Witcher 3 come out in 2016, it would have certainly been behind Overwatch. Had it come out in 2014, it would have certainly been behind Dark Souls II. In 2017, it would be behind Breath of the Wild, and it's only March. There are equal or better games every year.

ekianjo 10y ago
Fallout is certainly nothing like w3 quality and mgs 5 was flawed in many ways and unfinished. Next?
- iEchoic 10y ago
  > Fallout is certainly nothing like w3 quality and mgs 5 was flawed in many ways and unfinished. Next? Well, a lot of game critics disagree with that. Many of them gave GotY to MGS or Fallout instead, and MGS has a higher metacritic score than W3. I'm not going to debate beyond that because it'll devolve into complete subjectivity, but it's pretty clear W3 isn't a once-a-generation game.
  - douche 10y ago
    GOTY awards and game ratings in general are such a corrupted payola system that they can't even be taken with a grain of salt. And even mediocre games in established IPs will be lauded to high heaven, out of all proportion to their quality or enjoyment value.
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jsnell 10y ago
Luckily, there are people who aggregate this kind of stuff. I don't think the data supports your claims at all. Witcher 3 won an extremely high proportion of the awards in its year. Almost double what the three other 2015 games you list got combined if you look at awards from critics, and even more lopsided if you looked at fan awards. https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.html https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.htm... (And really, a suggestion of Dark Souls II as some kind of awards powerhouse is totally detached from any reality).
- iEchoic 10y ago
  > I don't think the data supports your claims at all. I'm going off of Wikipedia's GotY list, which includes only more notable publications. That lists adds in a ton of small gaming blogs and regional user's choice awards, which I don't think gives you better data. In Wikipedia's list, TW3 is winning, but a little less drastically. I think you're attacking a claim I'm not making, and we're not even disagreeing, though. I didn't claim TW3 was worse than other contenders in 2015, I said it's one of a few solid games that come out every year. Everything you're saying and everything I'm saying supports that. Edit: GotY is a decent signal, but discussions about which videogames are better are always going to be highly subjective. The Walking Dead won in 2012 and most people don't consider TWD to be on the same level as a lot of the other GotY games.

by iEchoic 10y ago

ekianjo 10y ago

Fallout is certainly nothing like w3 quality and mgs 5 was flawed in many ways and unfinished. Next?

iEchoic 10y ago
> Fallout is certainly nothing like w3 quality and mgs 5 was flawed in many ways and unfinished. Next? Well, a lot of game critics disagree with that. Many of them gave GotY to MGS or Fallout instead, and MGS has a higher metacritic score than W3. I'm not going to debate beyond that because it'll devolve into complete subjectivity, but it's pretty clear W3 isn't a once-a-generation game.
- douche 10y ago
  GOTY awards and game ratings in general are such a corrupted payola system that they can't even be taken with a grain of salt. And even mediocre games in established IPs will be lauded to high heaven, out of all proportion to their quality or enjoyment value.

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jsnell 10y ago

Luckily, there are people who aggregate this kind of stuff. I don't think the data supports your claims at all. Witcher 3 won an extremely high proportion of the awards in its year. Almost double what the three other 2015 games you list got combined if you look at awards from critics, and even more lopsided if you looked at fan awards. https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.html https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.htm... (And really, a suggestion of Dark Souls II as some kind of awards powerhouse is totally detached from any reality).

iEchoic 10y ago
> I don't think the data supports your claims at all. I'm going off of Wikipedia's GotY list, which includes only more notable publications. That lists adds in a ton of small gaming blogs and regional user's choice awards, which I don't think gives you better data. In Wikipedia's list, TW3 is winning, but a little less drastically. I think you're attacking a claim I'm not making, and we're not even disagreeing, though. I didn't claim TW3 was worse than other contenders in 2015, I said it's one of a few solid games that come out every year. Everything you're saying and everything I'm saying supports that. Edit: GotY is a decent signal, but discussions about which videogames are better are always going to be highly subjective. The Walking Dead won in 2012 and most people don't consider TWD to be on the same level as a lot of the other GotY games.