The Escapist Reader's Choice GotY 2013 Recap and Winners!
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Note: I'm using a join date of December 2013 as my guessing point since I don't have a way to confirm if they joined because of GotY or if it's just a coincidence:IceForce said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Mainline421
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Tzzimy
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Dangoesforth
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/motiff
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/Mik%20Sunrider
And this is only from the last few pages of the "Last of Us V. Papers Please" thread (page 15-18). This is also just new people who have posted so it doesn't include lurkers. I could do this all day I suppose but I think you get my point.
Yes, there are people who voted and ran. However, you can't ignore the people it brings in just because it conflicts with what you hate about the contest.
There's always a few that stick around, even if they vanish for a bit at first. You'll be reading some post or other in a couple years from someone who has thousands of posts, and you'll realize "Hey, they joined in December of 2013..."IceForce said:
At any rate, the Escapist got thousands and thousands of ad views from that competition, so that's all well and good.
My God...ryukage_sama said:
...WE'RE BEING INFILTRATED BY A HORDE OF PSYCHICS! D:
The Escapist has always had a huge number of lurkers. It was probably a long-time reader thinking "Hey, free stuff, and I think I know what'll happen..."
No interest in posting, but you better believe (s)he was checking back every damn day during the contest.
I somewhat hope that we won't go through this again.
I mean so much ... evil came out from this.
The threads for the GotY spawned in zerglings which rushed the polls and died in the same amount of time they joined in. Sure some were there and stubborn to defend their game like hydralisks they were. I'm just worried that the base will spawn in even more next/this year. Heck the threads even turned some of our better users into ultralisks who would demolish anything which would get in the way of their Game of the Year.
The game I thought deserved GotY wasn't there ... but that didn't matter, it is still GotY to me, so you know I guess personal opinion is the thing that matters here.
As for The Last of Us, I thought it was a overrated game (Just like Bioshock Infinite). Don't wish to get too much into it.
Still I did clap to Naughty Dog about their win ... then I immediately thought "So ... when are you going to do another Jak game?"
Still congratulations to them.
[sub][sub]May we never have to go through all that evil again. Otherwise the basement is going to flood with bodies.[/sub][/sub]
I mean so much ... evil came out from this.
The threads for the GotY spawned in zerglings which rushed the polls and died in the same amount of time they joined in. Sure some were there and stubborn to defend their game like hydralisks they were. I'm just worried that the base will spawn in even more next/this year. Heck the threads even turned some of our better users into ultralisks who would demolish anything which would get in the way of their Game of the Year.
The game I thought deserved GotY wasn't there ... but that didn't matter, it is still GotY to me, so you know I guess personal opinion is the thing that matters here.
As for The Last of Us, I thought it was a overrated game (Just like Bioshock Infinite). Don't wish to get too much into it.
Still I did clap to Naughty Dog about their win ... then I immediately thought "So ... when are you going to do another Jak game?"
Still congratulations to them.
[sub][sub]May we never have to go through all that evil again. Otherwise the basement is going to flood with bodies.[/sub][/sub]
You know what with the whole exclusive platform thing? I'm a PC gamer and I'm sure a lot of other PC gamers still voted TLoU, I think people are surprised because they expected console racism when really most gamers just love good games.
Actually I forget who I voted for but I remember struggling to pick out of the two. That it was such a close margin makes me thing that it was justified confusion.
But anyway I'd never hold console exclusivity against a game. If I really want to play something exclusive like TLoU I'd just borrow a friends console, as I did, to play it.
Anyway awesome result, two games I loved basically tieing. Well Played.
Actually I forget who I voted for but I remember struggling to pick out of the two. That it was such a close margin makes me thing that it was justified confusion.
But anyway I'd never hold console exclusivity against a game. If I really want to play something exclusive like TLoU I'd just borrow a friends console, as I did, to play it.
Anyway awesome result, two games I loved basically tieing. Well Played.
Having played Papers, I can understand what the whole fuzz was about, since the game truly feels like something unique (although it gave me some flashbacks to the Carmen Sandiego games). Still, TLOU remains the best thing I ever played in my life, so I'm glad it won at the very end.