Destiny Takes GOTY, Confuses Audience, at This Year's BAFTAs
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ive definitely got a problem with it winning Best Game, and i say that as someone who still plays it. its fun, but mostly just with friends. Borderlands is much the same way. a game with bare bones story that isnt particularly fun and exciting unless youre playing with a group of friends should not be getting GOTY awards. whenever i play Destiny alone, i just feel like im grinding.
also, to everyone who has a problem with the other winners and nominees, please remember that 2014 was the first year after the release of the new consoles. this always results in lackluster and disappointing titles that have been a bit rushed out of the gate. this year will have some real contenders like The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Batman: Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Halo 5: Guardians, Below, Inside, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Quantum Break, Star Wars: Battlefront, Rainbow Six: Siege, The Division, No Man's Sky, Mortal Kombat X, the next Zelda title, etc. and Ori and the Blind Forest recently came out, which has gotten great reviews.
point is, they didnt have a whole lot to work with this year. the only travesties i see are Destiny's victory and Transister (like Bastion a few years ago) not being nominated for Best Music.
also, to everyone who has a problem with the other winners and nominees, please remember that 2014 was the first year after the release of the new consoles. this always results in lackluster and disappointing titles that have been a bit rushed out of the gate. this year will have some real contenders like The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Batman: Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Halo 5: Guardians, Below, Inside, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Quantum Break, Star Wars: Battlefront, Rainbow Six: Siege, The Division, No Man's Sky, Mortal Kombat X, the next Zelda title, etc. and Ori and the Blind Forest recently came out, which has gotten great reviews.
point is, they didnt have a whole lot to work with this year. the only travesties i see are Destiny's victory and Transister (like Bastion a few years ago) not being nominated for Best Music.
One better question is: what a hell is a persistent game? Because, if all it takes is to have a user account that persists among play instances, then COD is also a persistent game. I would say MMOs are more of persistent games, since they exist outside anyone's playthroughs.Vigormortis said:
If they only invented the words to award someone in the genre, I would guess what LoL did is money. Lots of money. Not that the other ones were not successful, just that they didn't make as much money... Or (and that would also explain the LoU DLC and Destiny awards), the judges are a handful of people with a pretty narrow view of the industry, so they awarded LoL because that is what they knew.
This could be true, but given how much games like World of Tanks and Dota 2 rake in, I'm dubious that that was the sole factor. Hell, the amount of money Dota 2 made during TI4 alone is staggering.hermes200 said:
I feel the 'narrow view' hypothesis is more likely.
Lemme think. In 2014, Nintendo published Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Bayonetta 2, Super Smash Bros., and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Ubisoft had Far Cry 4, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Trials Fusion, and Child of Light. Various indie devs made Threes, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Shovel Knight, Freedom Planet, and Five Nights at Freddy's. Hell, even Activision themselves had Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare[footnote]Yeah I know it's just another CoD, nothing special at all. But it has more actual gameplay and less senseless grinding than Destiny, and if I had to play just one of the two, I'd pick CoD every time.[/footnote]. All of these games are better than Destiny, and not a one of them got a single award.
But even aside from their ridiculous choice of winner, it's hard to take BAFTA's awards seriously. Not when Minecraft and LoL are present. I think it's safe to just ignore these awards altogether if this is how they're gonna be.
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But even aside from their ridiculous choice of winner, it's hard to take BAFTA's awards seriously. Not when Minecraft and LoL are present. I think it's safe to just ignore these awards altogether if this is how they're gonna be.
P.S. Thanks
I was thinking about making a list of games that should have won instead but you are missing Wolfenstein and Dragon Age Inquisition but besides that good listCovarr said:
There's a lot wrong with Desinty, but I think this video shows off what is perhaps my biggest complain:
I know the game was over-hyped and was therefore pretty much destined to be disappointing, but the devs did blatantly lie about the game to the point where I was sure Peter Molyneux was secretly running the dev team.
I know the game was over-hyped and was therefore pretty much destined to be disappointing, but the devs did blatantly lie about the game to the point where I was sure Peter Molyneux was secretly running the dev team.
I would like to lol many times to this, but that would seem a little pointless. So here's a sentence explaining that.zumbledum said:
I haven't played Destiny to fairly judge it, but I've heard plenty bad things about it, at least enough where it convinced me not to buy it. I would have assumed it shouldn't have won GOTY when other games like Bayonetta 2 or Far Cry 4 had a far more favorable reception. Guess Bungie/Activision throws some pretty hype parties in the UK.
I am uncertain of which Metro is the one you speak; Metro 2033 is fantastic! On ranger mode, it has to be my favourite FPS survival experience so far. But Infinite left me meloncholy, and thinking. Which is more than i can say for Metro. (Pointless opinion for the archivesCharcharo said:
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Bah, there are only two camps on Destiny out there: people who love it and play it, and those who ***** about it online.
Destiny is a great game imo although I'm not a fan of the Crucible stuff. The number of people who can say "I played and love this game for the first 100 hours then it turned to shit" says more about Destiny's problem with keeping the endgame going through grind....me, I'm very casual, don't have enough time to play a game to death and learn to hate it, so this award makes sense to me.
Destiny is a great game imo although I'm not a fan of the Crucible stuff. The number of people who can say "I played and love this game for the first 100 hours then it turned to shit" says more about Destiny's problem with keeping the endgame going through grind....me, I'm very casual, don't have enough time to play a game to death and learn to hate it, so this award makes sense to me.
so DLC got two awards and a re-release of a port got another. Its quite obviuos these people had no idea what they were doing.
Then again, this is BAFTA, the group of people that know nothing about games, are supposed to rate movies and TV, but still try to get "on the hip thing"
Then again, this is BAFTA, the group of people that know nothing about games, are supposed to rate movies and TV, but still try to get "on the hip thing"
You know for a second there it looked like the game of the year award might go to a game that's actually good.
What were they smoking?
What were they smoking?