What are the requirements for "Game of the Year"?

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Because honestly, I see ab out 4-5 titles every year that end up releasing a "Game of the Year edition" at some future point. Rather than simply calling it like "Complete Edition"(if it includes all the DLC) or something along those lines.

I dunno why this trend bothers me, but it just seems to me you can't have a half a dozen games be "game of the year."

Thoughts on this subject?
 
It's marketing department lingo for "shitty boring game that we dumped thousands into promotion of".

Seriously, it's been years since anything labeled "GOTY" actually meant it. Basically any AAA title can get one these days.
 
"Get your companies cock sucked as much as you can."

"Put as much money as you can into marketing and hype campaigns.".
 
Some people are butthurt about Fallout 3 being GOTY. All it really means is that a few sources declared it, "Game of the Year". Sources being numerous and widely available, a lot of games can market this title. GOTY really just means "All or most of the DLCs".

I would generally consider GOTY status to mean a large number of people and reviewers favoured the game.
 
Checklist for Game of the Year:

[ ] Is it a AAA title?


That's it.


korindabar said:
Some people are butthurt about Fallout 3 being GOTY. All it really means is that a few sources declared it, "Game of the Year". Sources being numerous and widely available, a lot of games can market this title. GOTY really just means "All or most of the DLCs".

I would generally consider GOTY status to mean a large number of people and reviewers favoured the game.
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You're the first one to bring up Fallout 3, boyo.
 
korindabar said:
Some people are butthurt about Fallout 3 being GOTY. All it really means is that a few sources declared it, "Game of the Year". Sources being numerous and widely available, a lot of games can market this title. GOTY really just means "All or most of the DLCs".

I would generally consider GOTY status to mean a large number of people and reviewers favoured the game.
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Honestly it wasn't even FO3 that caused me to consider posting this thread. It was Borderlands.

Borderlands was a good game, but there was so many other better games released that year and yet Gearbox felt they could release a GOTY edition. Hell even if you simply go by POPULARITY/Review Scores there were plenty of other titles that beat it.

At least when film companies call something "The best film of the year" they can't actually refer to it as "Best Picture" and they have to put a * at the end of the quote and give (in small print) the source of who called it the best film. They don't pass it off as an ACTUAL award given out.

Go open up google shops and type in "GOTY Edition" and look how many come up.
 
Well, from all Borderlands games, it's the game of the year. :smug:
 
New Vegas will get a GOTY, right?

I know many people aren't really fans of GOTYs, but I actually like them. Easy way to get all the DLCs for those who can't shop online.
 
The issue is that there isn't a standing, big, popular awards thing to actually hand out awards, so it goes to Gamespot, Gamefaqs, IGN, Kotaku, The Escapist, etc, all can have different Game of the Years. Which is dumb. And it's even dumber when it comes to fan voting.

The logical explanation for GOTY editions is that their intention is not to snag gamers like Atomkilla who can't get the DLC's or who wait to get 'em cheap, they're more likely to snag people who haven't played it before "Hmmm, I heard bad things about Fallout 3 but here it's the Game of the Year. Oh, and it's got five DLC's? Fuck it, seems worth it."
 
The standard is that someone, somewhere and it doesn't matter who, declares your game to be game of the year. Of course each year thousands of people do this, which leads to a whole bunch of games being called "Game of the Year".

Most people don't pay attention to who declared the game game of the year, so it makes a good marketing tool to slap game of the year on the games label, no matter the source, as it makes your game sound good and important to the general public.
 
korindabar said:
Some people are butthurt about Fallout 3 being GOTY. All it really means is that a few sources declared it, "Game of the Year".
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Not some. The majority. Which is kind of ridiculous but it just is what it is.

What you want to call your Platinum/Gold/GotY/Complete edition is not skin of my back. Who cares?
 
Conditions on becoming GOTY:

1) Visual polish
2) Slick-looking interface (whether it is a pain to use is actually irrelevant)
3) Premise and starting area promise 1000% more than is actually delivered - so that the game passes the initial critical probe
4) Being made by a bigwig well-known company
 
Borderlands made you question goty editions? Borderlands is great. It definately deserves the goty title a lot more than most games that use it.
 
WelcomeToNewReno said:
Borderlands made you question goty editions? Borderlands is great. It definately deserves the goty title a lot more than most games that use it.
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No question that Borderlands was a pretty good game.

Here is some of the other titles that came out in 2009 however (some of which are using the "GOTY" edition box)

Batman Arkham Asylum (fantastic game, imo far better than Borderlands)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Not a fan of the CoD series but MW2 was reviewed FAR higher than Borderlands and so far topped most publications "game of the year" I've yet to see any that gave it to Borderlands)

Left 4 Dead 2

Dragon Age: Origins

Uncharted 2

LittleBigPlanet

Street Fighter 4

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Now I checked about 10 different major gaming sites (IGN/Gamespot/Kotaku/Joystiq/ect ect) and not ONE of them even had Borderlands up for "Runner up" or "Honorable mention" in their list of games. The most common winner of "GOTY" was Uncharted 2 with a close runner up of Modern Warfare 2.

Honestly I know it is a minor thing and in the end it matters literally zero. But I do wish that companies wouldn't package games under the false premise of "GOTY" and instead go with Platinum, Gold, Complete, ect.
 
Well, I'll call Borderlands 2009's goty. I have as much authority on the matter as any internet "journalist." :lol:
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Checklist for Game of the Year:

[ ] Is it a AAA title?
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AAA means:

1) abdominal aortic aneurysm?
2) anti-aircraft artillery?
3) authentication, authorization and accounting?
4) american ambulance association?
5) american anticommunist alliance?
6) association of autonomous astronauts?

Because most games don't hold a justification for GOTY. And I always thought that a special edition like a GOTY came with something more than "all DLCs togheter".
Oh, these are "Collector's Edition", right.

Well, let's milk until is dry and then do it again.
 
when you say AAA or "Block buster" it at least makes sure that you will get better reviews then most indie games even if those games are better.

With a few exceptions here and there of course.
 
Borderlands was named xbox 360 game of the year by RPGLand.com, so that is pretty much enough for them to call it "Game of the Year" without technically being false.
 
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