There are basically two ways in thinking.

Do you think that the game is fair? Try to ask the Xenoblade Chronicles fan.

Every year, The Game Awards get more and more popular. For many category winners, the gaming community throws accusations of an anti-anime bias or favor towards publishers with the most money. The community may wonder why games such as Sifu can fall into categories like Best Fighting Game. No matter who happens when the game tries to win each category, there is seldom a universal consensus on who picks a winner. Even a category as Best Community Support draws angry fans.

A game has to be viewed with the ease of people. Except for these issues, the awards show exist across all. In 2019, the Bohemian Rhapsody was vetted for winning the Oscar for Best Picture. In 2017, Adele felt that Beyonce deserves the Grammy for his record of the year. I could look at this article all where it stands: “The games won’t ever come in the hands of the public, no matter how much time it takes to answer these questions. Despite the fact that these awards are free of controversies, it would be foolish to assume that a committee can decide the best work of a year with the ability to accomplish it properly. In reality, the notion of objective best work isn’t fair, no matter how you slice it, even in the highest public circles.

The mistake popped up when we had school.

I am not fond of a man saying something like a game or a movie is obscenely the best. When we first studied school, we learnt to be taught about the language. We’re told that Shakespeare, Poe and Orwell are historically important authors who have written some of the greatest works of all time. This isn’t necessarily wrong, but it starts many people wrong when it comes to media criticism.

There are, for one, the people who decided that Shakespeare should be taught in school until the end of time. Many people spend their lives studying the arts and deciding these works were more important than others. This is obviously not a random decision. When scholars tell me that work is subject to learning, time is inherently subjective. They also aren’t objective, absolute qualities. It’s the first result for “The Titanic is better than Milton” on Google.

This becomes more complicated when we talk about video games. Books and movies are linear, but even Super Mario Bros. is drastically different depending on the player’s skill level. If 10 critics saw the Franco Zeffirellis version of Romeo and Juliet and discussed that with 10 critics who saw the Baz Luhrmanns version, imagine a person like that. Both are technically the same source, but differ with substantial differences. Video games are captivating because they are tailored to our personal experiences, so they are harder to compare the video games by their objective qualities. In fact, the way we choose games from is often unbiased.

There’s no accounting for taste. Seriously.

Let’s do a little thinking experiment. Don’t take account of existing libraries or price, think of the games you’d give to your closest friends. Now think of a game you would like to give to a young boy who plays mobile games. Finally think about the game you’d give to an older family member who has never played a video game. Notice how well your answers were received from Elden Ring.

If they were all Elden Rings, hi Hidetaka Miyazaki! Thanks for reading Destructoid.

Real life, we recommend to people games according to their personal tastes. While it was tempting to use review aggregates to judge a work objective quality, i would say this could introduce a wide range of issues. Is Toy Story 2 a better movie than Everything at Once? Is Final Fantasy XIII better than Godhand? Scores and awards give a general idea of a work quality, but they aren’t definitive by any means. Therefore, we should take the whole process into account and decide which games will resonate with us.

Whether you are reading reviews or comments in text boxes, a new diversity of critics helps you get a voice that matches yours. As much as I said for A link between the two worlds, I noticed what I’ve been promoting on our 6,5 score, so its critical that those opinions get vocal. The industry would resuscite if we collectively concluded that games like Breath of the Wild are non-disputable 10/10s, without exceptions. I checked Tony Hawks Pro Skater because of the glowing reviews of people who dislike sports games. Today I have Superman by Goldfinger on my phone.

It’s not possible to win games like Game of the Year without someone disagreeing, and that’s perfect. It’s freeing to realize that scores and awards are tormented at the end of the day. By getting past the difficult hurdle, we have to focus on our passion in a respect of those we love most not disdain for people we disagree with.

Your opinion is correct, man.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not working here for review nihilism. We can agree that Elden Ring is generally better than Bad Rats. I understand why that it’s scary when your favorite game gets unearned. Of course we want to share the positive experience with others; but few feelings are more valid than seeing the love of a person receiving a significant or highly-paid prize for a streaming service.

It’s nearly impossible to tell which games it’s going to be boring once they arrive. Who knew that a game that sold so poorly that the planet was built on would become a huge cult classic? Donkey Kong Country was, perhaps, the game of the decade of the past decade. As a general reference point, I think awards are more helpful than subjective quality. If someone looks up the year 2022 and sees all the winners and candidates across multiple sources, they’ll have a good idea of what games they’ll see. Is it all inclusive? No matter what, not I know. But it does come to a consensus – the best we can hope for.

In short, they all had an ongoing conversation about what games should and shouldn’t deserve recognition in history. While these old scholars sat around wondering whether you should read The Catcher in the Rye at school, we have the same discussion within the weird confines of the Internet. Any way that you try to make the most of everything possible, if you can a good deal, you will never agree on the best of the year, without compromising on the quality of our lives. Yet yet we are sometimes reunited with those who share our tastes and learn about other fun games we have missed. Thats the best thing we can hope for.

Don’t fool people with my favorite Mario game. That’s right, that was a rooster which allowed me to pick the best Zelda title. I don’t apologize for the bamboozlement.