Guevara said:
The "action" game genre will never win the game of the year award. Unless you play a lot of GoW/Ninja Gaiden clones, it's really hard to see how one entry is better than another. Or even if a game is good at all. To a casual player or review site the games consist of hitting the X and Y buttons ten-thousand times in a row as fast as possible.
I played a little Bayonetta and it came across as nothing special and had an annoying story. I'm sure fans of the genre will be able to see what made it great, I and most reviewers cannot. See also: Fighting Games.
The GotY award will always go to a more approachable genre and right now that tends to be "easy" First or Third person shooters.
I fully appreciate that, I wasn't complaining it wasn't getting GotY awards, I was complaining that people were complaining that it did get one.
I expected SC2 to win everything, and RDR be the runner up for most, similar to UC2 and Batman: AA last year.
Bayonetta isn't my GotY either.
GoW3 is pretty damn mediocre though. A best graphics category maybe, but I can't see it winning a single GotY. GoW2 HD and GoW GoS both came out this year, and both outclass GoW3.
Guevara said:
RDR's main story line takes about 12-15 hours. By comparison no sane person has ever beaten GTA4 without cheats and mods.
GTA4 really isn't very difficult. Nor is it all that long.