Those two facts are contradictory and as such, makes these websites' opinions defunct.
What would the date of the release have to do with anything?
If the game is awesome and just the best it gets the reward (not saying SWOTOR deserved it or not)
Skyrim came out 11.11 and got a lot of Game of the Year awars and i think most would agree it deserved the awards regardless of the release date.
So does SWOTOR deserve this award?? who knows but the release date certainly doesnt matter at all.
Arg, you beat me to it.
I'm curious to know the answer to this from those saying a late 2011 release date disqualifies it for 2011 goty. Mind you I'm not asking whether it deserves it or not but am askingt the logic, reason and why. What should the cutoff date be then? Should we not work within a calendar year? etc etc
It's easy to destroy(be negative) but hard to build up(be positive). How about we start adding positive with our negative instead of just 'grumble grumble grumble'.
Well, you raise a good point, what is a good cut off date? Dec 31st? Or some date before then.
Trick is, how many days is acceptable. I suppose ultimately it is up to the publishing organization to set the rules hence why some will put them in 2011 and others may chose to wait until 2012.
Now personally, I think MMORPG of the year award should go to a game that has been around long enough for a typical player (not a power leveler) to get through the bulk of the content, so I might put the cut off back at the end of October maybe.
But then again, they weren't called Kyleran's MMORPG of the Year awards so I can see why the results might be different.
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I look forward to Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame giving this game both barrels for 5 minutes of hilarity.
I agree with the above poster, i think there's a market for a site that offers sarcastic, dry and depressing reviews such as Yahtzee. He even lambasts the games he loves.
I trust reviewers that constantly crap on every game rather than ones that suspiciously love every game. I personally can judge a game alot better knowing whats crap about it, rather than having someone tell me what they like.
My son turned me on to Yahtzee at Zero Punctuation. Brilliant stuff and you just know SWTOR would be an absolute cracker. It has so much that you could take the piss out of.
Yeh, i was actually watching them saturday. I'm sure he will review SWTOR soon due to the hype spam of it and what will he say? Put it this way, he crucified Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, due to them being re-hashed versions of previous games in the genre. SWTOR may force him to make a 30 minute video
I never undertsood how people consider what he does as reviews. It's funny but that's about it. I can't take what he deos seriously though and gauge any game on what he has to say, especially considering he does it to games "he likes" as well. Kinda makes it hard to separate what's supposed to be bad or good.
I guess I've yet to wrap my head around what it is he's trying to do, aside from being "witty".
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Well, you raise a good point, what is a good cut off date? Dec 31st? Or some date before then.
Trick is, how many days is acceptable. I suppose ultimately it is up to the publishing organization to set the rules hence why some will put them in 2011 and others may chose to wait until 2012.
Now personally, I think MMORPG of the year award should go to a game that has been around long enough for a typical player (not a power leveler) to get through the bulk of the content, so I might put the cut off back at the end of October maybe.
But then again, they weren't called Kyleran's MMORPG of the Year awards so I can see why the results might be different.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I never undertsood how people consider what he does as reviews. It's funny but that's about it. I can't take what he deos seriously though and gauge any game on what he has to say, especially considering he does it to games "he likes" as well. Kinda makes it hard to separate what's supposed to be bad or good.
I guess I've yet to wrap my head around what it is he's trying to do, aside from being "witty".
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson