GotY (Game of the Year)?
Whose the judge? you? some group of industry insiders?
Though anybodies GotY should have more relevance than their E3 awards, seeing as GotY is about actual Games while E3 is just trailers and Prerelease footage, before any actual game exists. However in reality E3 Trailer Awards are much more important than the Released Games Awards
It''s not just the Media and Publishers though, as the recent so called Witcher 3 Graphics Downgrade fuss shows.
This blew up before the games was actually even released and was based on comparing a preview pre release version to an 2013 E3 trailer .
Now simply put, to downgrade the graphics of a game, first you need a game then the Graphics must be Downgraded.
Whatever the state of the 2013 E3 footage, what it wasn't was the Witcher 3 game. In no way, shape or form could any footage in engine, just a snippet, a tiny section of content, be considered as representing the final product, released after another two years of adding content.
I thought the uproar over Watchdogs was equally unreasonable as far as so called graphics downgrade was concerned, it was a poor 2nd rate overhyped and underdelivered and very buggy as a released game. Those were much bigger issues than some, likely, required optimization of the game, to get it running at minimum requirements. That game was never in the running for anyones GotY, it was just another genreic Ubisoft Open World, mediocre at it's very best.
Contrast that with Witcher 3, Downgrade fussed about before release, but pretty much a non subject post release.
Over Hyped?
No well and truly justified and accurately praised, acclaimed by some as the best Open world RPG they' have ever played, not a mere GotY but simply the best ever..
Underdelivered?
Again met and surpassed all realistic expectations, if anything it's overdelivered, CyberPunk 2077 has had a very high standard set for it.
Very Buggy?
Once more, No Very Unbuggy if anything, sure bugs exist, but I cant think of a single open world game released with so few bugs and mostly they are very minor niggles, Despite that CDPR have been incredibley quick to respond to issues with two patches within the first week for PC (As well as the Day 1 patch), console patches work a bit slower due to MS and Sony control, so i don't know or really care about them.
Perfect Released Game?
No, that's impossible to achieve as we all have different and often mutually excusive criteria on what makes the perfect game. The only one I can Speak for is if it's my Perfect Released Game or not, it's too soon for that when I'm still playing
My GotY
That will have to wait until I've finished playing and the years end, but based soley on the parts I've played.
No it's not a GotY contender, it's much better than that, more like Game of this Generation, a bigger criteria isn't really feasable as the power of the consoles defines what's possible for each era.
As to awards I coudn't give a Toss. Only my opinion is important, nobody else matters, that should apply to you all. You should just accept I know best.
Seriously though, make yoiur own mind up, based on your tastes, what the Publisher controlled Media (they do control because they pay for it through Advertising), is of no importance at all
