EDGE Game of The Year Awards 2018
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Because some people can look at a game objectively even if they didn't like it and realize maybe it belongs there? It's like certain people from Giant Bomb agreeing that while a certain game might not have done much for them they can see why it should be ranked a certain spot.
It sounds to me like certain people really should look at the game more objectively then :)
Because they didn't think it was one of the ten best games of the year.
God of War was number 3 on their PS list behind Tetris and Astro Boy though?
Because when they included all the releases from other platforms God of War didn't make it into their overall Top 10. What's so stupid about that?
Well is this list based on their enjoyment? So this makes their list useless, it's like I didn't enjoy this game so it's a bad game!
Nothing criticism
Good lists, but I'm not a fan of giving PSVR the top 'technology' of the year. It's not new tech; it's been out for a while now. Just because some amazing games have released on it doesn't make it suddenly 'new'. It's like awarding the PS4 best tech because I can play God of War on it.
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is probably the best thing Microsoft has done in a long while (including Game Pass), and it deserves all the kudos it can get.
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is probably the best thing Microsoft has done in a long while (including Game Pass), and it deserves all the kudos it can get.
Everyone not giving it a ten, calls it goty or even gotg is apparently not a good boi.
Because for some reason Edge decides their top 10 list is based on review scores I guess. They got to include all the games that got a 9/10. Can't say a lot of other places follow the logic that whatever game got a higher review score is what goes on the list. It's why lower scored games beat out higher rated ones quite frequently.
Holy cow.
Like how can you be like this.
How.
FYI they do like it- at least the person who reviewed it did. It got an 8!
What? How can your opinion influence another one's top ten? How do you come to the conclusion it deserves to be in their top ten? Which reasoning is behind that?
You sound like a child that's upset that the world doesn't conform to their whims
Yeah, that print only magazine with barely any web presence and their clickbait!
Lol so you literally don't understand that reception for how good game mechanics are is subjective?
Like you literally don't understand the most basic concept of reviewing a piece of entertainment media?
Pretty much exactly this.
So now you're saying that lower scoring games should get game of the year (even though inconstancy in scores was something you are complaining about in the review thread?)
What even is thread lol. It's amazing how some people can't get over the fact that some people weren't completely blown away by a game that takes mechanics from multiple other games! And it's not even like it got a bad score lol.
Apparently lol. It's just so ridiculous, you don't see me literally calling people wrong left and right for not including my GOTY on their list XD
Damn Edge baiting me into clicking on them in my local supermarket magazine rack.
Their top ten of the year is the nearly identical to mine, reordered, with Artifact swapped in and RDR2 and Hollow Knight swapped out.
Their "Living Game" category is a bit of a joke per usual. They have really good PC coverage in the magazine, but the staff's hobby games are fuddy dudy grindfests or tween shooters ever since SFIV died off. I see the same issue with their "Long Game" feature in the back of the mag each month. Totally wasted opportunity and way too console-centric.
Also baffled by the Epic choice. They killed UT and reintroducted GFWL-style third-party exclusivity back into the PC space this year. But their battle royale game that's a 1:1 copy of PUBG with funny dances is making a lot of money soooo... go Epic, I guess?
Their "Living Game" category is a bit of a joke per usual. They have really good PC coverage in the magazine, but the staff's hobby games are fuddy dudy grindfests or tween shooters ever since SFIV died off. I see the same issue with their "Long Game" feature in the back of the mag each month. Totally wasted opportunity and way too console-centric.
Also baffled by the Epic choice. They killed UT and reintroducted GFWL-style third-party exclusivity back into the PC space this year. But their battle royale game that's a 1:1 copy of PUBG with funny dances is making a lot of money soooo... go Epic, I guess?
"Editor, here's the final draft of our 2018 GOTY Article!"
"Great! Just one problem, God of War isn't on there when clearly it should be!"
"But we gave it a lower score than any of the games on this list and have determined that we personally don't feel it belongs there."
"Ridiculous! Put it there, it needs to be there!"
"But why?"
"You're fired!"
To be fair that's what most of the gossip rags are, so "clickbait in magazine form" does exist lol
Did you read the advertisements? You have to support them so please say yes.
That guy i replied to said the game wasn't on their enjoyed games of the year so that's why it can't be on the top 10 list.
That's how.
Hey look a dishonest post!
I didn't say it wasn't a game they enjoyed! I said it wasn't in their top 10 most enjoyed!
If in 2019 they give the award to Crackdown, this forum will just implode with all references to it, forever 😂 (it will of course not happen but I'd like to see watch it here just before the big bang moment)
Considering a game like RDR2 has a 97 and was rated higher than any other game this year yet is not #1 in the majority of places right now speaks to exactly what I'm saying. A review is one person's opinion. A site might put RDR2 at #8 if other people from there didn't enjoy it as much as the person who gave it the 10/10. So according to you if a game gets a better score than another game from one person than that means it's factually better? That shouldn't be how things are decided. If that's how they want to run their outlet though more power to them.
I'm not some big Fortnite fan or anything but.. have you actually played it?!
Why are we using Metacritic, a review aggregate site, to determine how individual publications should behave? You argue that people are giving God of War GOTY despite them reviewing it lower than RDR2 yet have given no examples of anyone doing just that; the truth of the matter is that a lot of review outlets gave both games a 10/10 and simply chose which one they preferred.
Similarly GOTY awards aren't a "factual" thing at all, they're literally just the opinions of that review outlet or person.
I want you to quote exactly where I said the bold part please!
Because I've been pointing out that reviews is one person's opinion. And therefore if they scored one game lower than another, that game will be lower on their list for GOTY. It's not exactly rocket science.
The only people I've seen trying to push opinions as fact and as objective has been you and other posters complaining about GOW not being on there, at which point I turned it around to demonstrate how ridiculous it sounds.
There is nothing weird about that aspect. This forum usually loves to point out how "it's just an individual's opinion, you can't shit on the whole outlet for one person's opinion."
So why can't the corollary of that, the outlet's consensus pick at the end of the year, be used in a discussion?
I get it, you want to shit on the guy because he made a poor post and egging on one poster is what constitutes for the lulz on here, but don't be stupid yourself.
Plenty of outlet's have ignored 10/10s they've given out at the end of the year. Gamespot and Bayonetta 2 come to mind or Giant Bomb, which is very popular on here, had (back when they used to do reviews) Brad give out lots of 5 Star reviews of games that never even entered the conversation of being the best in that year.
Bro, why do you care so much, why is your entire recent post history about GoW/GotY lol.
Ooooh he doesn't know how to...but thinks his favorites are the only ones lol
Im gonna break this down as best as i can. Majority of people from EDGE publication who played God of War 2018 thought it was not as good as the other 10 games they played. Therefore God of war 2018 is not in their EDGE game of the year list .
Hollow Knight came out in 2017 why is it in this list taking GOW or Celeste's rightful spot!!?? My whole year is RUINED.
For real though why is Hollow Knight a 2018 game? Edge isn't some console-only magazine.
For real though why is Hollow Knight a 2018 game? Edge isn't some console-only magazine.