After playing through the last wave of great games that have come out (Which has been quite large in quantity) I have come to the conclusion that there is no way there can be a Game of the Year. In fact, I think it is beyond stupidity that we even feel the need to categorize just ONE game into it. How does one justify game of the year when there are so many great entries to take the trophy? Answer: You can't.



In all honesty, just because a game has a more devoted following (which in turn would get it more votes) doesn't make it the best candidate for gamers to declare champion over all other efforts. There are many games which do not get the attention they deserve through great creativity and with a huge amount of work that has gone into them which don't have the same limitless funds to mass produce huge advertising campaigns and build up the hype that more profitable gaming companies do. So Gears of War 2 and Fallout 3 are great, does that make them right to be game of the year (if awarded) just because more people whom play it say it is? Oblivion was voted game of the year for 2006. The same year that games such as Saints Row, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Dreamfall, Dead Rising, Gears of War, Warhammer 40,000 and Mark Echo's Getting Up were released which I enjoyed playing more than Oblivion because I couldn't play for more than 30 minutes without getting bored.



I never did get the concept of voting. I know it is to try and get everybody to have their say in what should be where and how things should be, but regardless of how the outcome of the vote turns out, many people are not going to get their way or have their vote come through. Its like saying that that China is better than the United States because it has more people in it that can have a say. Fuck Democracy (Even though China is a Communist run country), there should be an appointed leader of gaming who decides what the best game is and state why with good explanation. And the reason I come to this ludicrous assumption is because it is quite obvious that we gamers are not qualified to do so and if this is left in our hands any longer, the entire system of gaming will come crashing down with all the idiocy we bring with our dim train of thought.

We have shamed ourselves in the past by appointing many games before other more original and superior games. I have seen readers and players polls in the past and it ends up being a complete and utter get retching disappointment because of how stupid we make ourselves look with the end result.

Example: IGN Top 10 Games of all Time (Readers Choice)

# 010 // Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

# 009 // Metal Gear Solid

# 008 // Final Fantasy III (US)

# 007 // GoldenEye 007

# 006 // Soul Calibur

# 005 // The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

# 004 // Super Metroid

# 003 // Resident Evil 4

# 002 // Chrono Trigger

# 001 // The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time



Doesn't it seem a little weird that two of the top 10 games of all time are two adaptions or sequels of the games that are in the top 10 already, obviously voted in by the same fans of each. Don't get me wrong I think that the games presented in this list are amazing games that deserve praise but...best game of all time, Zelda? I believe the game is a very well crafted piece of art and I spend much time playing through it (The whole 16 hours it took me to finish it), but better than every other game ever created? No way. Its importance is in no way close to the first games ever made, nor the revolutionary games which set milestones for gaming which Ocarina of Time was not a part of.

Again, the concept of having just ONE game of the year (yet alone best game of all time) when there are so many out there with potential, is idiotic. Its the same as if we had ONE everything. People just like reading polls to see if their opinion is the same as what has been presented to them through the gathering of everybody else' opinions



I move to create a new type of judging and reviewing, which leaves out the fan boys and hardcore headcases from getting their many clans and cloned friends to vote the exact sheepish way that they do. I move to create a incorruptible system in gaming which all games are created equal until proven a travesty to the gaming world. I move to bring back point and click games like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis! I move to make gamers see that it shouldn't matter what everybody else thinks and think for themselves...But most of all, I move to fap to the tune of life!

Do you feel me?

...No?

Well, can you please. It makes me happy in the pants. As did Will Smith before he went into Scientology.



P.S- If GTA4 gets voted as game of the year or included in the top 10 games of all time anywhere, anytime by anybody...I will be very pissed off.

P.P.S- If you read this far down into my old blog entries, you deserve a prize...and here it is: