No, none of these awards have ever really mattered for game sales. Video games are still too niche for that to be relevant, and people are going to play what they like to play, regardless of what or how many awards they do or do not win. These “game awards” ceremonies are basically just big inner-industry circle-jerk…

What are you even talking about? There’s PLENTY of “weird” music and movies that are very MUCH NOT “for everyone”. Every medium has divisive content in it. The reason that video games get so much more heated in this discussion is because 1) video games in general is still relatively niche as a broader medium, and 2)…

Not everything is in a dictionary definition, and you can definitely outdate the meaning of a word. Things change, the world evolves. Some people can’t keep up or, worse, may even resist progress. Also, if it isn’t a videogame, what is it exactly? Precisely. If it was made in a videogame engine, marketed and sold as a…

In my haste to escape the true horror that is commenting on Kinja using an Android phone, I forgot to respond to one particular part of your comment and that is the comments by Kojima in interviews. They were completely mistranslated, as well as embellished (read: fake). He actually, roughly, said that FPS games are…

All criticism is acceptable, but not all criticism is valuable or relevant.

For a game that’s not a real game I’m sure having a hell of a time playing it. On my TV. With a controller. But you do you.

Wait... I don’t dispute your points. That’s first and formost. Have you played it though? Im wondering how many people have played it whom are providing these opinions in the comment section. I have found it to be engaging in so many ways. Exactly what I have been missing in a game. It's one thing to criticize and…

What is your suggestion to remove the appearance of impropriety here: tell the Game Awards to ban the 80 independent press outlets from voting on Death Stranding? 

I agree with you.

You don’t have to like or buy into either, but that does mean that your opinions aren’t going to be valid. You can still make statements that are based on your own opinions but that are unfounded and uninformed. After all, how can something be overrated if you never took the time to experience it and effectively “rate…

Cult Classic apply here?

I will simultaneously wholeheartedly agree and fervently disagree with your first point. If you didn’t play the game or even take the time to watch streams/videos, then there is very much a limit to how much you can partake in valid discussions regarding the merits of the game itself. If you’re saying it’s overrated…

Boy, the Gamergate folks sure are quiet about this for people claiming that ethics in game coverage is of the utmost importance. They’re as silent as Tea Party folks on the national debt when the president isn’t black.

Fair points and I agree. Awards may help sales but because companies will never base projections on whether a game will win an award or not, so we can’t really say that awards these juggernaught sales drivers that some people here think they are.

Yeah numerical review scores are stupid

The thing is, it was never sold or marketed as anything but that. It was literally advertised as peak Kojima and UPS-in-the-apocalypse simulator. So the myriad of people complaining it’s not their thing, are either completely out of touch/oblivious or they didn’t buy it in the first place, haven’t played it and are…

Because scores are bad and should be abandoned.  ;)  

“It’s not a game for everyone” keeps getting repeated. Video Games are the only entertainment media where this needs to be stated. Shows just how homogeneous the industry is. Weird music? Expected. Weird movies? Loved. Weird video games? “It’s just not for everyone!”

Yeah, I can get why people wouldn’t like the game, but for me it hits a weirdly satisfying gameplay loop, and is pretty much the only thing I want to play at all right now.

They gave MGS V a 10, and it’s basically the worst entry in the MGS series.