The "it opens up after x hours" is a weak argument for any game. You can't realistically ask somebody to be bored for 20 (your number) hours of a game on the hope that it might get better after that. And I'm applying that sentiment across all games. 20 hours is an enormous time sink for any singular piece of entertainment to sit through unhappy.
I think 10 hours is more than enough time to decide if a game is for you or not and to eject from it. I'm more extreme in that regard, though, and my number is probably closer to 1 or 2 hours.
Lmao What? That's literally the same thing, popularity comes with sales.
I mean yeah, why wouldn't it be when I was replying to this.
I'm not talking about DS. I'm talking about all games. There should never be a required number of hours played nor a required % of a game completed for someone's assessment to be valid. If a person boots up a game and is bored after say ... 5 hours and never returns, they can assess the game based on how that piece of entertainment engaged them. I would consider their assessment to be just as worthwhile as somebody who made it to the very end.
They're not enforced to accept these conditions. However, that would force them to have some ethics, instead of rushing to meet deadlines.
That's a position I can identify with. For all the noise around them, I think that the TGA are for video games, at best, what the Golden Globes are for films. Nobody except the press itself takes the latter too seriously, so I should hope for the same in this case.
Totally. My point was that although the method is wrong (ie using aggregate reviews) in this instance it produced fairly sensible results. Still, I agree it's not the way to go for nominations.
I wonder if that's because this industry is more openly international, whereas DICE sticks closer to the Western, US-based canon employed by the Oscars. As an example, let's say a regular moviegoer might not see anything but Hollywood films for a whole year, with the rare exception of a foreign movie. However, that same description would be an unusual sight in gaming, where Japanese, European and global indie companies are essential to the market. If an association meant to represent the whole industry, doesn't give due credit to a considerable part of it, it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant. I think DICE might have suffered a bit of this: only two Non-American GOTYs in more than twenty editions.
It isn't getting any post launch support and just way less of what mm1 was.
