Destiny Takes GOTY, Confuses Audience, at This Year's BAFTAs

[Covarr]

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.

P.S. Thanks

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

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.

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 list

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Best Story went to Left Behind?

But... But... Talos Principle!!

 

[zumbledum]

Drugs at the BAFTAS! DRUGS AT THE BAFTAS!


That really is a load of monkey trumpets, though. I find myself somewhat peeved that other outstandingly good games were robbed of the chance. HashtagTheBastards.

I think thats very unfair, i have taken damn near every mind altering substance known to man and none of them account for this shit, Money my friend, Money. That could be the cause , but dont lay this shit at drugs doors!

 

[RedDeadFred]

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.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Drugs at the BAFTAS! DRUGS AT THE BAFTAS!


That really is a load of monkey trumpets, though. I find myself somewhat peeved that other outstandingly good games were robbed of the chance. HashtagTheBastards.

I think thats very unfair, i have taken damn near every mind altering substance known to man and none of them account for this shit, Money my friend, Money. That could be the cause , but dont lay this shit at drugs doors!

I would like to lol many times to this, but that would seem a little pointless. So here's a sentence explaining that.

 

[PsiChaos]

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.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Lets say that the experience I got as a fan of games of the same type as Infinite (Metro, Half Life, RTCW and TNO), my love for games Infinite tried to emulate a bit and failed (Serious Same, Painkiller) the things I saw on E3s and the INCREDIBLE potential at display there, the interest I have in American Exceptionalism ans certain themes and Science Fiction...
Infinite annoyed me on all these fronts. And then it gets GOTY awards... and Metro which I had SKY HIGH expectations for (it managed to actually EXCEED them)... did not.

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 archives )

 

[camazotz]

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.

 

[truckspond]

Stuff like this is why nobody takes the BAFTAs seriously anymore.

 

[Strazdas]

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"

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

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?

 

[Zhukov]

Huh.

I can't say I agree with that judgement.

Therefore it must have come about as the result of corruption. There is no other explanation!.

Seriously though, I'm at a loss.

 

[Kerethos]

So... that's some confusing winners. I guess? I didn't even know Farcry 4 had original music.

But Ashley Johnson won something - which I think is good. She's kind of a young voice on the scene and I'd like her to get more jobs, as voice actors for games are becoming a fairly narrow group.

As in "Oh, this is X doing this character. S/he is great - now I know this will be well acted" is getting more and more apparent as you play. Not saying that's bad, as they're all skilled actors (the recognizable ones), but it's nice to see a few more less familiar voices get hired for large roles.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

Destiny is a really great game in many respects, but woefully incomplete in others. I don't know if there's ever been a game where the people playing it are constantly complaining about things it doesn't have, but then come back the next day to do it all over again.

The story is nonexistent - but the lore is incredible.

The raids are the coolest thing ever - but the other missions are incredibly bland.

The locations are beautiful - but you can't do anything in them but shoot things.

The Exotics are cool - but every other gun is bland, lifeless, and looks the same.

Honestly, if a game like Battlefield 4 can reinvent itself to fix inherent flaws, Destiny surely can simply start using all the features that're already in the game, and become GOTY potential. But right now, it's a whole lot of meh.

 

[LaochEire]

Well deserved. I'm having an absolute blast on Destiny. Congratulations to Bungie.

I thought Far Cry 4 and Alien Isolation were rubbish. Opinions, eh?

 

[Rellik San]

The BAFTAs have always been fairly embarrassing when it comes to Games.
Lest we forget, they gave a Lifetime Acheivement award to Peter Fucking Molyneux.

The guy worked on Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper (the good one) and Fables. The guy is a public face, one of the historical faces of games design (together with Wright and Miyamoto), and proponent of gamesjams. He sure seem a lot better candidate for a lifetime award thanDavid Braben (creator of Kinectimals) and Rockstar Games...

David Braben: Who also created the concept of open world games, procedural creation and pioneered the entire space sim genre. David Braben who worked on the cheap and affordable educational tool known as the Raspberry Pi, which many use as an emulation machine to relive games of the past and help make the barrier to entry for future coders (But why would the vidja garm industry need those... Ubisoft doesn't seem to. AMIRITE?). Lest we also forget Frontier Development also worked on the zenith of a game that was RCT3 which still has an active modding community and player base to this day.

You take jobs like Kinectimals and Disney Land Kinect Adventure to pay the bills so you can make RCT3 and Elite: Dangerous.

Whatever you think of his past works, what he has done for the Video Games industry is truly remarkable. That is why he was awarded a fellowship.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

Destiny deserved GOTY as much as Dragon Age Inquisition. In other words not at all.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

Destiny deserved GOTY as much as Dragon Age Inquisition. In other words not at all.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I thought drugs were frowned upon in the Englishlands.

Our entire empire was built upon the rich being off their face on opium, and the poor being wasted on gin. We are nothing without our drugs.

That said the videogames part of the BAFTA's is fucking awful.