You really lean hard on that whole Metacritic thing despite it being very unreliable. It got lots of praise because it was a self-insert Harry Potter game of at least decent quality. I can’t say a lot of other games listed were deserving because I didn’t play them (and thus didn’t vote in a number of categories), but…

WoW came back in a big way as well

Yes. Yes at all. Because it doesn’t actually matter.

Sure it would. But claiming that this, and this alone would be enough to sink a supposedly deserving game of a GOTY award across two different award shows is conspiracy theory territory. If that were true, GTA wouldn’t have ever been nominated for awards, and I don’t see many people rushing to ban HPL.

About as important a distinction, though. XD

You can like things that are considered bad by most. That’s totally fine, and it being considered the worst 3D Zelda does not diminish that, but your feelings also don't change reality.

And yet I'm not the one saying that conspiracy theories are the only reason it didn't get nominated. Say what you want, but neither VGA or Golden Joystick had it, and a result's a result. Deal with it.

And literally none of that matters, as I said. The game wasn’t nominated because the game has no staying power. The controversy is literally the only interesting thing about it, like most HP stuff nowadays.

...buddy. Fire Emblem debuted on the original Famicom, not the Super Famicom.

Meanwhile, several nominated games are still being talked about nearly six months later. The sales numbers are reflective of HP’s existing fanbase and how the game lets you put yourself in the school/universe. The game could be made with the least effort possible and those factors would still push massive sales.

It’s also a Metacritic score, which has been established to be heavily-influenced at best and meaningless at worst. Plenty of games have been reamed by MC’s critics yet been runaway successes, as well as the reverse. Just to use a related example to this year, Skyward Sword was way up there on Metacritic in its…

Why does it feel like Epic is pointing this out for the court of public opinion rather than the actual courtroom? I feel like this has nothing to do with the merits of the lawsuit itself.

I wasn’t comparing the actual quality, but their status as clear hodgepodges of other successful ideas in their specific genres all glued together as well as the discrepancy between what was claimed about the impact they’d have and the actual impact of said product.

Ah, my mistake. For some reason I got Legacy and the mobile game mixed up in my head.

I’m guessing you didn’t play any other Bethesda game at launch, huh?

Not ENTIRELY political, as the critical praise went dry incredibly quickly when the game failed to deliver on any of its lauded potential. And that’s what a lot of the critical praise amounted to: excitement for the “potential” that Legacy had and never lived up to. I feel like praise only matters if it’s, you know,…

True enough, but it’s the sheer disparity that makes Starfield noteworthy. This is Duke Nukem Forever levels of grandiose claims about what’s essentially a copy and paste job of yours and others’ systems and ideas patched together with duct tape. There have been plenty of overhyped games that turn out to be bad, sure,…

The better items are meant to help you catch up. But as it was, you could literally be in last place by a matter of milliseconds and then use a Star, Lightning Bolt, Bullet Bill, etc to surge to a massive lead from the back of the (very tight) pack. That’s what bagging is, deliberately being in last place by the…

You already got it. It’s called “I put down the game 7 years ago”. If you jump back infor an update, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself for having no self-control.

an time-filled comback.