SchollA from Console ControllUs pronounced control-us writes:
Spike VGA 10 just passed and year after year Us gamers love to see the top games get honored, especially for ‘Game of the Year’. But if you noticed; what’s glaringly missing from this particular category are sports titles which had me thinking…”Does a sport title ever have a chance to win ‘Game of the Year?” Hmmmm….
Every year, The Game Awards come around, give out awards for achievements in the industry, reveal new games and drop exciting trailers and parade around celebrities. Unfortunately, all of these aspects of The Game Awards are necessary for its survival. They can’t just be any one of those things, but they also can’t be everything to everyone.
SchollA from Console ControllUs - where the console controls us writes:
As the anticipation and rumblings of the existence and development of Uncharted 4 get bigger and bigger — I myself can’t wait to see how the new Uncharted runs on the PS4 with all that alleged power and more importantly Naughty Dog’s brain behind it I have a hunch on when we’ll actually see this game for the first time.
Although not confirmed these 3 clues might give us some insight.
@Regis yeah it's pretty much inevitable it's only a question of when it will get announced.
SchollA from Console ControllUs pronounced control-us writes:
Spike VGA 10, the Networks 10th anniversary is around the corner and this year for the first time that I could remember there’s no standout title and essentially no clear cut nominees. Is this indicative of a ‘down’ year? Let’s dig in shall we!
No stand out title? Journey? The Walking Dead? A game doesn't need to be triple-A and have a super long campaign to be considered good. What's wrong with some of you people. Most of the people complaining are mad because downloadable titles are beating out some of the bigger games like Halo 4. Last time I checked, Journey and The Walking Dead were both critically appraised more than Halo 4 was.
Walking Dead, Journey and Mass Effect were all standout titles this year. I don't know what the author of this article is smoking.
Well, A LOT of stuff got delayed. So we had a slower holiday than most years, but this is gonna be the BEST SPRING EVER.
Fight Night Champion was probably the best sports game ever created, but it didn't get a lot of recognition.
Won't happen unless it's completely revolutionary and life-like. Even then I still don't really see it happening. Fighting games, Racing games, and Sports games are the least likely genres to win.
Interesting article but I must agree that no sports game will ever be a game of the year contender. Developers can only push sports games so far when they have a general formula to work with. Sure updating player rosters and changing certain gameplay mechanics are great, but in the end that game will still feel like the same game that came out a year ago.
I'll also add that there are far more interesting genres to tackle and thus at the end of the day both consumers and the industry as a whole will always give those awards to the the AAA and/or Indie game developers instead.
Yes. Call of Duty has won it a few times.
No, there just is not enough variety within sports games.