The thing probably is that I remember it being something special especially gameplay wise, but probably because I was out of touched with gaming. I think around the same time Mass Effect came out and the Xbox 360 was for me an impressive console.
Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
For which year? After the few Assassins Creed games, they were similar in gameplay, so not really worthy of GOTY for most. Not every good or popular game can win an award. The best chance of winning could have II, III or IV. I’ve looked at best rated games of the year for those games on Metacritic (I could not find a way to sort lists on OpenCritic).
Assassins Creed 2 (2009) - 90:
- Uncharted 2 - 96
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare - 94
- GTA China Town - 93
Assassins Creed Brotherhood (2010): 89
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 98
- Mass Effect 2 - 96
- Red Dead Redemption - 95
Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag (2013): 88
- Last of Us - 95
- BioShock Infinite - 94
- Super Mario 3D World - 93
The Assassins Creed games are fun, but not a juggernaut in gameplay or otherwise. They were never these massive perfected games, standing out as the pillar of gaming. If you have competition like Uncharted 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Last of Us, and come with the same formula again, then you can’t expect to win awards for being the best game of the year.
stat_rosa@lemy.nl 1 week ago
villainy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
AC2 and Brotherhood are both great games but yeah. That is some truly stiff competition in 2009 and 2010. Great games vs. incredible games.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 week ago
OpenCritic only goes back to 2016, so metacritic would be all you have here.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah looking at these lists, it didn’t win because some real juggernaut games released in the same year and it just couldn’t compete.
Though there have been a couple years over the last 20 where I feel it some of the games could have won
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Maybe if you look at the games in isolation, maybe then? The problem for many (especially for testers) was the fatigue of massive Assassins Creed games with so many meaningless stuff added around an actual good game. And later things like microtransactions ruined the fun for lot of people too. And the later games even didn’t do anything particularly original or was very perfected games to stick out.
So therefore many testers didn’t “champion” the Assassins Creed games anymore. It had its fans, especially longtime players in the series. But those are not who decide if a game gets an award or what rating it has. So even if players like the games, that is disconnected from the testers of various outlets.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would submit that AC Brotherhood would be a contender, as it was kinda of the peak of the original formula before it all started to blend together and degrade, and the multiplayer mode was truly original, fun, and hasn’t been replicated since.