He makes a bunch of various acknowledgements/awards. When it comes to https://youtu.be/fgu0RSM9DXY?t=3m24s, it's won by:

1. Starcraft: Legacy of the Void (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzJaLR0tdjo)


2. Mad Max (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFiCgsUvrw)


3. Fallout 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3nuMwmgdg4)

Considering Mad Max is there, I'm not surprised Fallout 4 got on the list.

Mack also has a https://youtu.be/fgu0RSM9DXY?t=8m11s for many of you in the awards video...

Legacy of the Void won? I like his taste.

Bit overly dramatic about corruption. It is true most big review sites are garbage, but I don't think the video game industry is as bad relative to other media as people make it out to be.

It's also just a fact that making pretty trailers and hyping a game works better than making a better game that's not as shiny. But...movies are the same way.

Game devs are always going to be divided between those willing to risk more and make less to make a better game for a smaller and more discerning/niche audience, and those who aim for safer mass appeal from creating a more typical AAA experience.

Bethesda seems to be going the latter direction(more voice acting, bigger scripted events, flashier gameplay in general), but they don't have a big enough team for it so it ended up like a weird unpolished version of a linear Bioware-lite AAA game with awful writing and dialogue thrown into Bethesda's standard world style. Which is still fun to dink around with, but it's just not GotY material.

'Doesnt matter whether the developers have come over and given me the copy, and have it personally delivered by a topless women covered by honey, they know and everyone else knows that I will uncover cash grabs and flaws in the game'...

This man has character!

Jkn, I agreed with quite a few of his points, especially the pre-order thing. I do pre-order personally but only where I can truly trust a developer (FO4 for example).

Though I also agree big time with Odd Hermit, way too passionate with his bit about corruption. And the 'we need to get it back from the corporate side' will never happen now the corporates realised that money rolls in by the truck-fleet loads from the video gaming industry.

There are some 400 GOTYs handed out,

are we really having a thread for each one that supports an OP's view?

Consensus so far is quite clear:

1. Witcher III (by a good distance)


2. Fallout 4


3. MGS V

I think many expected those three to clean up...

Nope, if it gets that way they will all be merged into one topic.

Well, the thing is it doesn't need to happen. Independent games are distributed just as easily as big AAA games are, except they don't have 50 million dollar marketing. Not to mention plenty of people do like the streamlined, costomer-researched, effortless, flashy fun.

Well, you seem to be happy to post in every one of them with some irrelevant input, like how many hours you've played, how unimportant GOTY is, or how your idea is the consensus.

You also seem to have no idea what my views are.

I do agree that it isnt necessary but its not how the market force works sadly (not that I understand how it works anyway). The triple A games publishers are more likely to earn a typical consumers cash, that is partly because of the marketing weight behind these games, and partly because shiny things attract bigger crowds.

That being said as long as these games are profitable, which they are and in a massive way, they will continue to thrive and hold a piece of the market share, and who knows what the future holds.

I've seen Mad Max on sale for $20 several times on Steam. Is it really worth a buy? I thought the movie was okay.

Its got great atmosphere and whenever the story kicks in it is good, with great characters (though tedious to listen to at times).

Its VERY repetitive though... If you dont mind doing the exact same thing for pretty much the whole game then you might like it, but it left a sour taste in my mouth after having to essentially knock down a stick one too many times.

I couldn't tell if you were talking about FO 4 or Mad Max. What with the VERY repetitive part.

Yes, yes, we get it, but for every annoying really devoted fan there's an even more annoying hater out there.

That guy is a complete tool.

We don't need this, time to close the topic.