discussion Game of the year

[User_111574]

I'm afraid there won't be much to choose from. The level of projects leaves much to be desired.

 

[Loliholic]

Best ongoing game category too.

The problem with this category would be the mandatory split into best onhold and best abandoned. It only makes sense with completed games.

 

[Cruddy]

I think it's too generic and broad as a category.
This is why i have mentioned "New Best Promise", it's related to the current year.
There is a ton of "game on going" out there...!

Best ongoing would be based on how good the updates released in current year are. I think in order to be qualified as ongoing the game should be around at least since earlier last year ago or so. Yeah there's a lot of games ongoing but there's a lot that come and go or are just straight irrelevant too.

 

[uncbuck]

If you really wanted to do this -- you would need a way to enter the games in categories , Best Animation, writing, ease of play models and so on, might be best to have the devs or proxies do the actual entering so it would behove the devs to actually work on their
animations, writing and so on.

 

[Raziell]

Automatically invalid since there's no SSP listed.

I have no clue what SSP stands for.

 

[Omegalord]

I have no clue what SSP stands for.

Most likely the game Such a Sharp Pain.

 

[User_111306]

Yep, I hate anything RPGmaker or HTML or using Koikatsu. Also, anything with cartoony graphics. Then there are tags, etc that some people love and other people hate.

I don't mind HTML, but the only RPGM I really like is Claire's Quest, that is one of my faves.

 

[Raziell]

Most likely the game Such a Sharp Pain.

I can't seem to find that game. Any suggestions?

 

[MattShizzle]

I can't seem to find that game. Any suggestions?

It's in the section you don't have access to yet.

 

[HandholdDegen]

I think any award would first need to be primarily divided by core genre, so VN, RPG, Management, etc. Then from there you can sub-divide them by kinks.
I don't think it is a good idea to compare most Ren'py games to most Unity or Unreal games, even though you can technically make non-VN sandboxes in Ren'Py and VNs in Unreal and Unity

 

[LilianN]

The problem here is the development cycle of these games. Nothing seems to ever be truly completed and projects drag on for years all the way to obscurity. The game might have been great at the start of it's development but by the time it's finished, nobody remembers it. This wouldn't work.

 

[Leashun]

Uhhh.. Game awards for lewd games it's a difficult thing to do, too many options and people with different tastes

 

[Hyo]

Not that bad of an idea, the real questions would be: Is it open or closed voted? On one hand, people could nominate and vote, but, then it could become simply a contest of popularity, and on the other, you'd need a group of people with both expertise and commitment, to try the games and cast votes with arguments to the other members that voted.

It's funny to thing of an 'adult game expert' to actually play a game and dissect it, as if it were a movie.

 

[Leashun]

Not that bad of an idea, the real questions would be: Is it open or closed voted? On one hand, people could nominate and vote, but, then it could become simply a contest of popularity, and on the other, you'd need a group of people with both expertise and commitment, to try the games and cast votes with arguments to the other members that voted.

It's funny to thing of an 'adult game expert' to actually play a game and dissect it, as if it were a movie.

In my opinion, games with an actual deep good story would definitely deserve to be nominated, but people would rather vote for meme games tbh

 

[MasterBlaster1922]

I repeat my self. to sum up.
2 Main categories. "Best Completed" and "Best Promise".
This last, must take in consideration only the published games of the last year. The lists should be of max 5 for each.
All registered members vote for each game, expressing their opinion on some technical aspects, like "render quality", "script" ecc..
the average of the votes generate the ranking.

It's most simple than complicated. Someone is putting too many problem in my opinion.
Just divide into two macro categories: "Completed" and "New best promise",
then, could be awarded respectively: "Best Story", "Best Graphic", "Best Male MC" and "Best Femal MC", "Best Animation", "Best Soundtrack & BCSound", and finally "Best Gameplay".
A list of games for each macro is created by the administrators,
Site members vote with a rating from 1 to 5 for every game, for every sub categories;
The average of the vote establishes the winners of the sub categories;
At the end the overall average score of each game draws up the final ranking in the two macro categories, for "Best Game of the Year" and "Best Promise of the Year".
It's easier said than done.

Why do people always tend to complicate things?

 

[TH1987]

I think the same, it should be organized by categories, at least for graphics and maybe even for engine.

I think that would be a great idea

 

[notabadone]

If they did it like the oscars, and the game has to have been 'completed' in 2024 for example, it might make some developers finish their games to get more exposure.

 

[Dely5064]

"best default asset ai slop shovelware"

Ok this gave me a chuckle but from what i've seen recently more and more game go in the AI direction and its kinda ehh-

 

[phoenix133]

would love to know what people would give it to as an all time instead of game of the year?

 

[DameJudyMench]

It's most simple than complicated. Someone is putting too many problem in my opinion.
Just divide into two macro categories: "Completed" and "New best promise",
then, could be awarded respectively: "Best Story", "Best Graphic", "Best Male MC" and "Best Femal MC", "Best Animation", "Best Soundtrack & BCSound", and finally "Best Gameplay".
A list of games for each macro is created by the administrators,
Site members vote with a rating from 1 to 5 for every game, for every sub categories;
The average of the vote establishes the winners of the sub categories;
At the end the overall average score of each game draws up the final ranking in the two macro categories, for "Best Game of the Year" and "Best Promise of the Year".
It's easier said than done.

I really like this idea. But a lot of games will probably recieve 5 stars. May need to do a final voting round ranking the top 5 games to find a true winner instead of just the vote averages

Plus if you have that for a month then there's gonna be a great list of games in each category that will see a bump while people try "the best"