[QUOTE="N3xus9"]
PC will never again get GoTY on Gamespot. Not unless Consoles totally tank in the next few years,
Not because a game doesnt deserve it but because Gamespot is console centric, most of its reviewers are console only players and Gamespot in general holds PC games to higher standards than console games.
(waits to see the acknowledged better version of RDR released on PC ... yet score lower than the console version)
gillri
if the PC exclusives deswerve GOTY then they would get it, if Gamespot is biased then so is every major site on the net
I think you cant take the fact that console games have been GOTY more often than not for a long time ( but why if great game are being made, thats most importajnt right?) and so brandish them all consolists, and all GOTY awards 'a conspiracy'
I get it.......it makes it easier and simpler for you to understand by simplying it to this extent........along with the higher standards (non)argument,
Is supporting a system that important that you have to brandish sites and publications certain things cause you didnt agree with what they say? the words 'grow up' spring to mind here
Like why RDR and GOW3 have won most of the best graphical awards across most websites last year, you will say 'oh the major sites are just ignoring PC now!!'
the argument in your posts can be described in one word 'pathetic'......plain and simple and you are not doing the image of PC gamers (me being one of many) any favours acting like that
Unfortunately contrary to your suppositions I am not solely a PC game player. If you took the time to look at my profile before beginning your little diatribe, then you would see that I am a gameplayer that plays all platforms.
In regards to whether Gamespot (since I didnt mention other gaming review sites - I wont mention them now, especially seeing as the OP was referring to Gamespot I believe) holds games to a higher standard than console, is incontrovertible (so not a non-argument at all). "Kevin-V" i.e. Kevin VanOrd gamespot reviewer, has stated that (and I quote) "If console game standards were compared to PC standards then PC would win 90% of the time" previously in this very forum.
I have no intention of claiming "conspiracy or bias"! I was merely acknowledging that on this site alone, most of the reviewers are console centric (in fact there are only two reviewers amongst all the reviewers on Gamespot that do PC reviews) and as such, the likelyhood of PC games receiving GoTY year is extremely unlikely when voting is based on how many people have played a game on a particular system multiplied by those who thought it was the best of the year. The PC (or any system for that matter) may have the best game, but if only two people out of 20 have played that game and the other 18 have not, then those 2 peoples ability to sway voting their way is pretty average to say the least.
As evidence I present not only Kevin-V's aforementioned statement but the reviews of games that are noticably better on PC that scored higher on Console or the same when reviewed when compared to PC such as GTA4, ME1/ME2, Resident Evil 5, BF2 etc etc etc. And not only that, Starcraft 2 is the readers choice for 2010 Gamespot GoTY by quite a margin, yet the reviewers choice is something else.
Perhaps you are the one who needs to "grow up" and not jump to conclusions. Lets face it, jumping to conclusions is pretty pathetic ... and maybe it is that type of behaviour that is not doing the image of the PC gamer any favours (if you are truly one)
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