Did you play it? Backlash on this was epic.apana said:What about God of War 3? That was very hyped coming into 2010.
How many stars did you get?HK-47 said:It used that same old boring gravity and spherical worlds gimmick. Its pretty much just a complete rehash with minimal effort put in.
DevelopmentArrested said:Did you play it? Backlash on this was epic.
apana said:What about God of War 3? That was very hyped coming into 2010.
JaxJag said:Jesus, are websites really giving Bayonetta game of the year? This isn't some sort of weird practical joke?
Fimbulvetr said:Yeah. I can't believe some people have taste!
JaxJag said:Jesus, are websites really giving Bayonetta game of the year? This isn't some sort of weird practical joke?
viciouskillersquirrel said:My GOTY picks never get nominated
For instance, last year, my pick was Castlevania Order of Eclessia.
JustAnotherOtaku said:I know! It was 2009's GOTY! ;P
I'm alright with Bayonetta being game of the year twice in a row.JustAnotherOtaku said:I know! It was 2009's GOTY! ;P
Dance In My Blood said:I'm alright with Bayonetta being game of the year twice in a row.
DR2K said:It can be both. ^_^
viciouskillersquirrel said:These media picks are always about which titles the people working at these outlets think "push gaming forward" in the direction they like or have the biggest impact, not which game was actually the best. Also, the genres and platforms nominated are heavily biased by platform (I.e. Mostly HD consoles - handhelds, Wii and PC hardly get a look in)
Yeah, but SMG2 is basically SMB3 in 3, so it wins.BowieZ said:Put me down for Donkey Kong Country Returns.
It's basically New Super Mario World without the Mario. And it's fucking glorious.
BowieZ said:Put me down for Donkey Kong Country Returns.
It's basically New Super Mario World without the Mario. And it's fucking glorious.
Cheesemeister said:The voting thread should be posted around Christmas. I'll be handling automated parsing of everyone's votes, and timetokill will MC.
Gomu Gomu said:Oh boy, this year's GAF GOTY thread is going to be interesting. So many good games from so many different developers. I honestly can't predict which game will win this year. Not like previous years, where the winner was pretty obvious.
ZealousD said:GAF is going to pick Galaxy 2. I have absolutely no doubts about that.
I haven't played SMG2, so I'm only guessing here, but I think that maybe the reason it wasn't nominated in spite of such high ratings is the same reason movies like The Incredibles, The Matrix and The Hangover never get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars - genre snobbery.Skiptastic said:The Oscars get caught up in stuff like this many times. It's not always technical superiority, but rather emotional attachment.
I thought of that in the Bonus Round episode where Shane was wondering how Galaxy 2, which had 97% Metacritic, wasn't a GOTY nominee at the VGAs. A game can be universally appreciated, but it's the ones that have the deepest emotional grab for the most amount of people that will more than likely win awards like that. This happens with the movies almost all the time.
That's why I'm guessing that RDR wins this category going away. I think it's different enough and had enough of an emotional grab that it will win people over.
viciouskillersquirrel said:I haven't played SMG2, so I'm only guessing here, but I think that maybe the reason it wasn't nominated in spite of such high ratings is the same reason movies like The Incredibles, The Matrix and The Hangover never get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars - genre snobbery.
The Academy Awards were set up partly as a way of promoting and rewarding film makers who did work that could make film be taken seriously as an art form. It seems stupid to think that film isn't an art form today, but back when it was just a fledgeling industry, the opinion among serious cultural afficionados was that film was a throwaway form of entertainment - cheap, lurid, flashy thrills for the ignorant masses. They compared film to music and theatre and saw in it a cheap imitation of art, mass-produced and divorced from the artist.
That led the Academy to nominate only the films they felt promoted the medium as a serious art form and be suspicious of spectacle and novelty. The year Citizen Kane released (one of the first films to really experiment with camera/editing techniques - it was like the Matrix of its day), they gave it to a movie nobody remembers these days - How Green was my Valley. Citizen Kane was the better, more influential movie. It just didn't fit with the Academy's vision for the future of film.
The result is that the movies that get nominated for Best Picture are nearly always tragedies, redemption stories, romances, biopics, historical dramas, coming of age stories and war films - Oscar bait, in other words. Comedies, sci-fi and animated films need not apply.
Likewise, the gaming media has a self-important idea of what they want gaming to be. They want it to be taken seriously. They look at something like Mario - a cutesy platformer featuring a moustachioed Italian plumber having adventures in a whimsical magic kingdom and dismiss it immediately because at no point does Mario vow revenge upon the enemies that took his wife, nor is Peach use her sexuality in order to (I dunno) triumph over her enemies, nor does Bowser have a chequered and complicated past marked by tragedy. It's just not gritty. It's just not "mature". In an age wherein the gaming press is obsessed with proving to the world that games are not just for kids, it doesn't fit into the prevailing paradigm.
Not as many as Bioshock, which I think supports VKS' argument. Click the 2007 link in the OP to have a look. It's also funny that every nominee for the Spike VGAs was a sequel, so we can hardly say that SMG2 wasn't there because SMG1 also exists.NIN90 said:Didn't SMG1 win a shit ton of GOTY awards?