{"id":516,"date":"2006-12-14T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/14\/game-of-the-year-voting\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T19:49:39","slug":"game-of-the-year-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/14\/game-of-the-year-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of the Year voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before long, we’ll be inundated with the end of year wrap-ups, and I’ll post my 2006 strategy retrospective in a couple of weeks. If I had a podcast, I’d try to do a roundtable thing, but in lieu of that, feel free to email me<\/a> comments or opinions.<\/p>\n

Of course, some people take the opinions of their readers seriously and solicit their responses to polls. But even in a large poll with a dozen choices for each question, annoying things start to pop up.<\/p>\n

1UP’s poll<\/a>, for example decides that beat-music games, life sims and flight simulations have so much in common that they can be put in the same category. “Which is better? Elite Beat Agents<\/em>, Nintendogs<\/em> or Microsoft Flight Simulator<\/em>?” Sure, we do this all the time when we choose an ultimate winner, but this is a genre vote. It just becomes a huge catchall category – which shows how far the flight sim has fallen.<\/p>\n

And what about those times when a multi-platform game is noticeably better on one than another? If you think that FIFA 2007<\/em> was great on the PC but forgettable on a console, you still have to vote for the full package. And how come Armadillo Run<\/em> doesn’t make the puzzle list?<\/p>\n

The biggest curiosity is in Gamespy’s categories. The learned editors there decided to break strategy games into RTS and non-RTS categories. Fine. Except Rise of Legends<\/em> is in the non-RTS category<\/a>. By their definition, it’s a “hybrid” I guess because of the campaign game. But let’s not be crazy. This isn’t like the Total War<\/em> games, where the campaign is inherently turn-based with serious city and army building; in the Rise of Legends<\/em> campaign the story is just moving from one RTS encounter to another. They might as well toss in Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War<\/em> because its campaign has an adventure\/shooter part. And the only chance for a flight sim to win is in the Overall PC Game of the Year category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before long, we’ll be inundated with the end of year wrap-ups, and I’ll post my 2006 strategy retrospective in a couple of weeks. If I had a podcast, I’d try to do a roundtable thing, but in lieu of that, feel free to email me comments or opinions. Of course, some people take the opinions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}