Why don't Japanese games seem to ever win goty awards. Dark souls didn't even win its year
They win them from the Japanese media.
The Western media doesn't care about Japanese games, because they're too misogynistic and "videogamey". Plus the fact that 99% of Japanese games released in the last decade are absolute garbage.
>>316471989
Why the fuck do you care about GotY shit anyway? It means nothing.
>>316472171
99% of western games are garbage as well. We're looking at the cream of the crop
>mfw Ni no Kuni lost to GTA 5 and even lost to Gone Home.
>>316472767
Ni no kuni wasn't that good. Dark souls losing to skyrim hurt
>>316472171
Also japanese companies don't pay for western vidya awards
If you think that various western VGAs are anything but marketing, you're wrong
>>316471989
Because they're mostly shit games desperately trying to catch up to current trends or pandering to waifu fags.
Plus, rehashes out the ass.
Dark Souls wasn't even accepted by most western reviewers until mid 2012 because they were too fucking stupid to know what makes a game good. It was only after more and more people were praising it that they began to catch on and rate it / amend their score.
>>316473071
IGN were hilarious because of this
>Have a 24 hour livestream a couple of days before Dark Souls released in the west. Saying it was clearly better than Skyrim was ever going to be.
>give it a 9/10
>Skyrim releases
>Is a complete piece of shit at launch as usual of Bethesda
>9.5/10 GOTY
>>316473590
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5gLg4BozY
>"Welcome to Gaming Journalism
>Ten out of ten
>(Ten out of ten)
>Would shill again
>We're laughing it up at Gaming Journalism
>Game of the year
>(Game of the year)
>When the cheque will clear"
They when Waifu of the Year awards every year though.
>>316474563
No they don't. Journalists always claim the girls are creepy and underaged. Unlike the progressive women of western games
>>316475019
That's because, unlike waifufags, game journalists live in the real world. They have jobs and friends and interact with people on a daily basis. They realise that the portrayal of women in Japanese games is gross.
>>316475279
Japanese portrayal of women is ideal and perfect
>>316475279
>game journalists live in the real world
People who can't tell the difference between reality and fiction are not living in the real world and need urgent medical help.
>>316475279
but they're all from SoCal and dye their hair pink
Japanese games are made to appeal to specific audience.
Western games try and appeal to Almost evrione especially normies.
Most western revuevers are Normies.
>>316472767
Ni No Kuni was not a good game
>>316471989
Because xenophobia.
Bayonetta 2 was the undisputed GOTY of 2014 and the filthy western Gaijin gave it to Cisquisition to make themselves feel better.
>>316471989
GOTY awards are presented by the western industry.
Is like asking why foreign films don't usually win the Oscars and they compete in their own fucking category.
Which is why Skyrim won over Dark Souls despite people knowing that Skyrim was garbage.
Goty awards is nothing more than the western industry sucking each others cocks.
>>316471989
Why would Dark Souls win? It's absolutely mediocre or worse in every aspect except "muh grimdark atmosphere." Surely the GOTY shouldn't depend on atmosphere alone?
