Alot of "GAMERS" are complaining that The Walking Dead won GOTY

edited December 2012 in The Walking Dead
Alot of forums like Neogaf, and N4G are whining and complaining how the walking dead won goty, saying, quote "it's not even a game", and silly comments like a downloable shouldn't be considered on the same level as a big budget game like halo 4.

A bunch of nonsense, and a bunch of "BAH, Walking Dead shouldn't have won goty" from ALOT of people who've never even touched the game.

Quite sad really. :(
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  • edited December 2012
    Yeah this happens every year with every GOTY winner.

    Last year the VGA's had "sold out" multiple times and were swimming in the money whatever major game studios threw at them to pay for their wins that year. This year they're uhm... how rich is Telltale?

    You'll even see this all the way down to youtube top tens, people will get absolutely vitriolic just because they don't agree with the list the person posts.
  • edited December 2012
    It was that type of mentality that made adventure games get put on the back burner. Just because it's not some AAA game made by some well known studio, many gamers believe it's not worth the money. Telltale has proven just how emotional and engrossing a mere game can be and with sequences of decision making that alter friendships for most of the game and action and a little bit of puzzle solving, it really becomes something other companies haven't done on a massive scale. This game was really a game changer for Telltale and their name is finally being put up in the spotlight right along those AAA titles.
  • edited December 2012
    i think there are a growing group of gamers that no longer give as sh*t about graphics and massive explosions in games, and would rather play something interesting and something with depth, sure there is room for AAA games but they aren't worth the money spent making them and buying them.

    In recent years games have gotten to big for their own good, forcing them to have a business plan that is designed to suck every penny they can get out of the people that buy their games and forgetting that people play games for entertainment, and that there are people like me who play games as their main source of entertainment and don't want to have to spend £35-40 on a game that will give them the same level of entertainment as a game that cost £15-20 especially because it means i can buy 2 games for the same price.

    even Gabe Newell is saying games are to expensive, and he has proved that with steam sales that actually significantly increase the money companies make.

    i would guess that it is mainly the younger gamers that think that better graphics equal a better game and it is them who are complaining that downloadable games Shouldn't get a GOTY award
  • edited December 2012
    They have a point about it hardly being a game but they are wrong TWD was better thn any thing else I played this year.
    Apart from a few games but they weren't even nominated :(
  • edited December 2012
    I like "WD the game" But I agree that it's not even a game.

    Easiest game in video game history
  • edited December 2012
    Let them whine all they want, their ignorance speaks for itself.
  • edited December 2012
    LOL haters gonna hate.

    This reminds of when Crash won best film over Brokeback Mountain at the Academy Awards, LOL!
  • edited December 2012
    Uhm, then what IS GOTY? Fucking "Call of Duty: Same-As-Every-Other-CoD-Game OPS 1869"?
  • edited December 2012
    Eh, Xbox lovers wanted Halo to win. PS3 lovers wanted journey to win. Some people complained that this is more of an interactive movie than a game. I just feel like it rightly deserved GOTY.
  • edited December 2012
    Uhm, then what IS GOTY? Fucking "Call of Duty: Same-As-Every-Other-CoD-Game OPS 1869"?

    Game of The Year (?).

    OT: So you're telling me people (speaking in general) preffer expensive games with super-duper HD graphics & poor/unexistable story rather then a relatively cheap game with decent graphics?

    k.
  • edited December 2012
    ..It won goty? Link, maybe?
  • edited December 2012
    I was actually very happy The Walking Dead won GOTY. I'm a fan of Halo and all that, but I belive The Walking Dead was too good not to win.
  • edited December 2012
    Those sour buttholes are sore losers, case closed.
  • edited December 2012
    I think players also had a chance to shout at something simple to huge budget companies which was:
    "-Add a pure essence into your games."
  • edited December 2012
    ..It won goty? Link, maybe?

    Heh, this guy really wants a link? Yeah, here's a link, it's called Google. Learn to use it yourself.
  • edited December 2012
    I think TWD totally deserved it. Here was a seemingly small game, a point and click no loss, that came out of nowhere and made many players cry.
    I didn't see that coming when I was playing Episode 1. I thought it was a pretty interesting game at that point. I certainly had no idea what I was in for. :)
  • edited December 2012
    Mhm! I don't know how much tradition GOTYE had, but how many point' klicks were winners?
  • edited December 2012
    People bitch and moan all the time
  • edited December 2012
    Ignore them.

    I've been a gamer since '96 as a small kid. I've seen the videogames take a wrong direction in the mid/late 2000s when people only started caring about graphics and piece of crap like Crysis was considered a gift from heaven.

    I had lost all faith in videogames. I haven't played videogames in years. The latest was Mafia II (2 years ago) and before that, I can't recall. TWD gave me hope that real videogames are still not dead.

    This game's got it all. The story, the music, the characters... it's an emotional rollercoaster and in the end 9 out of 10 players break... what other game can say the same?

    TWD deserved all the awards it got - and more.
  • edited December 2012
    Never played the game, bashes it for not having explosions and state of the art graphics.

    Kids :rolleyes:
  • edited December 2012
    I hate people who refer to themselves as "gamers."
  • edited December 2012
    i think there are a growing group of gamers that no longer give as sh*t about graphics and massive explosions in games, and would rather play something interesting and something with depth, sure there is room for AAA games but they aren't worth the money spent making them and buying them.

    I've always believed that. When Ocarina of Time (Legend of Zelda) came out, I loved it. But then there was Majora's Mask, and that blew me away.
  • edited December 2012
    Yeah it's the hardcore branch of gamers. The "Halo." and "Call of Duty" types.

    They hate on anything they think is casual, especially the Wii. This game reminds me of Silent Hill Shattered Memories that came out on the Wii a few years ago, the gameplay mechanics and story is eerily similar.
  • edited December 2012
    DreadMagus wrote: »

    Thank you. And moyermason, Please lay off. Why did you reply again?
  • edited December 2012
    When TWD won, the comments on the show/livestreeam were all like " WTF that game sucks", " this year's winners suked", " RIP VGA". What a bunch of whiny pricks.
  • edited December 2012
    I liked the game, and I'm surprised it won, given the bug-filled mess the releases were. It is a great game, but execution, I think, is as important as the ideas behind it.
  • edited December 2012
    Call of duty black ops 2 should have won, great multiplayer.
  • edited December 2012
    It won GOTY?! I... I didn't even know...
    WOOOOOOOOOOO-
    Sorry. Yay.
  • edited December 2012
    It's not GOTY in my book. It's a game people should buy/play for sure and could turn out to be important in the development of true interactive fiction, but it pretended to be something it isn't (adaptive) and has shallow gameplay and a weak second half.
  • edited December 2012
    Let them be butt hurt. They are worstening themselves by being ignorant.
  • edited December 2012
    These people have unrealistic expectations as to what can be done with a game. Sure in an ideal world it would be great if every branching decision in a game effectively generated a whole new universe of play, but that's just not feasible.
  • edited December 2012
    kadayi wrote: »
    These people have unrealistic expectations as to what can be done with a game. Sure in an ideal world it would be great if every branching decision in a game effectively generated a whole new universe of play, but that's just not feasible.

    Heavy Rain Choices do matters thats why there are 8 different endings.
  • edited December 2012
    Heavy Rain Choices do matters thats why there are 8 different endings.

    But TT isn't the developers of Heavy Rain. They aren't even close to their size.
  • edited December 2012
    DanJ555 wrote: »
    But TT isn't the developers of Heavy Rain. They aren't even close to their size.

    still choices matter here
  • edited December 2012
    My question is what did these complainers want to win?

    All of the other nominees are great games and I would not have been disappointed if any of them won, but they were all "been there, done that."

    For game INNOVATION, Walking Dead takes it. A game that wraps you up in the emotional (and physical) welfare of characters, makes you second guess what you should have done (more than just shooting or committing an action before the bad guy has "got ya"), something that really gets you to ponder the ramifications of your choices even if the divergence of the storyline is an illusion...

    Maybe I'm a bit biased. I like story in my gaming and WD is ALL story. I also like to see Goliath get beaten by David in the gaming industry. This game winning GOTY satisfied both for me.
  • edited December 2012
    Heavy Rain Choices do matters thats why there are 8 different endings.

    Actually there's 9.

    I got the "we're not making it for PC so enjoy this middle finger! hahaha!" ending.
  • edited December 2012
    But most importantly. The majority of the gamers finds TWD to be worthy of the GOTY award, despite it being a point and click game. Which in my eyes is a genre that's not that popular any more.

    Several months ago I looked at the gameplay of this game and thought it looked bad. Now I'd say this is the best game I've ever played. TWD taught me and hopefully everyone that characters and story, if done good, can completely turn a simple game in terms of interactivity to something so very very special.
  • edited December 2012
    When people bitch about what wins GOTY its because there game didn't win
  • edited December 2012
    Well, I won't complain about TWD getting a GOTY award but I also can't deny its flaws - most of the choices don't really matter, in the end it's all about branching dialogues, characters exchanged (Doug/Carley) and some cut-scenes altered. The overall gist is always the same and as people already said - Heavy Rain does the evolving plot thingy a lot better.

    The puzzles are non-existent and what stays at the end is the terribly good story. Just for coming up with a serious and adult plot this game deserves the GOTY. Gaming is full of childish stories (warrior/whatever against evil/nazis/whatever) it's understandable that it's still not taken as serious as movies or books. TWD goes beyond the stupidness and shallowness of ordinary games - that's why I think it's important it got the GOTY award.

    I really hope that the next season improves on really making your decisions matter and not just letting us feel that they do. Or maybe some harder puzzles, just something which makes this more like a real game.
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