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The so-called new work of the year is actually a supplement to the best of the year.

After all, there is only one best game of the year, and hundreds or thousands of games are released every year. Although not everyone desires this honor, there are always dozens of games that want to compete every year, which means there are more wolves than meat. .

Needless to say, it is extremely difficult to win this award, which only comes once a year. Even getting a chance to be nominated is extremely difficult.

Just like there is no one award at a film festival, naturally, there cannot be only one award in the gaming industry. After several years of GDC's annual award selection, a brand new game award covering the world has been launched. , was born. This brand new game award is called vga, whose full name is video-game-awards.

In fact, in Jester's original world, the selection of two authoritative awards recognized around the world was the VGA, which was led by the game media, and the other was the GDC.

The rules for these two awards are quite different.

GDC pays more attention to the innovation of games, and the artistry is more important.

VGA, on the other hand, pays more attention to whether this game is really the most fun.

Of course, the awards are determined by people. Sometimes, if the selected games follow the rules, there may be some discrepancies.

In fact, you can tell from the name that GDC means Global Game Developers Conference, and the initiator of VGA is a game media. For example, VGA selected a rugby game as the best game of the year, and GDC represents the pride of game developers. With dignity, it is impossible for them to select a new year-style game with no innovation or shock at all as the best of the year.

For example, in 2004, VGA was able to award the best title of the year to an extremely violent game like "GTA San Andreas" without any pressure, because players liked it. But GDC won't. They gave the best game of the year to Valve's "Half-Life 2".

It's like a game full of artistic flavor and the producer's personal imagination.

Such a game is an honor to impress the developer judges of GDC. As the same producers, they can easily understand the mentality of the producer of such a game, and can more easily understand why he would develop such a game, such as Say, GDC can give "Wanda and the Colossus" or "Journey" the best of the year, but VGA will never be able to do so.

It's simple, because VGA represents the favorite of the media and players. rather than a producer's favorite.

In fact, there are really not many games that can impress the judges of GDC and VGA at the same time. There are many excellent games. In the minds of many players, it is difficult for such a game to win the best game of the year with almost no pressure at the same time. Winning the favor of these two major gaming industry Oscars at the same time.

For example, the game "The Elder Scrolls 4: Annihilation" is excellent enough. It can be said that to a certain extent, it has served as a guiding light for how sandbox RPG games should be made. It won the VGA's Best of the Year award, and for a game like this, it shouldn't be difficult to win the GDC's Best of the Year award, right? But in fact, GDC's best game of the year was given to "Gears of War". This is a great game that pioneered the TPS generation.

This is also well deserved.

Many people say that "Fallout 3" is finally qualified.

In fact, the innovation of "Fallout 3" did completely conquer the GDC judges. However, the VGA judges cast a negative vote for this game. It’s not that Fallout 3 isn’t great. In fact, this game is so good that it couldn’t be better. There is only one reason why vga did not choose him, and that is, this was not the most popular game that year by the media and players.

The game that was most favored by the media and players that year was "GTA4".

Many people may say that even "The Elder Scrolls 4: Annihilation", "Fallout 3", and "GTA 4" cannot do this, so which games can do it?

Is it "gta5"?

Of course not, "GTA5" has not won the best of the two awards at the same time.

There are a total of three games that have won these two awards at the same time. The first one is Naughty Dog’s masterpiece "Uncharted 2: Across the Sea", and the second one is recognized by Rockstar Games as their best game. "Red Dead Redemption" is a game that is much more fun than the "GTA" series. It is the master of R-star's current game production.

And the last one is "The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim", which takes the sandbox arpg game to the extreme.

Of course, with the release of "The Witcher 3", this honor of "The Elder Scrolls 5" may give way to the latecomers.

As for many people may be curious why "gta5" did not win the best of the year in these two awards at the same time, is "gta5" not good enough, not innovative enough, and not inspiring enough for developers?

neither.

There are two reasons for this. One is that game developers have a disgust for extremely violent games such as GTA. This was the case when Rockstar first started this series. The industry has always criticized it. It has never stopped. Even R-star had the idea of ​​​​giving up on this series completely. In fact, if you take a closer look at GDC's annual games, you will know that they have never selected the GTA series as the best of the year.

The second reason is that whether it is GTA4 or GTA5, there were competitors that could threaten or be as good as them.

In the year of GTA4, there was Fallout 3.

And in the year of "GTA5", there was "The Last of Us".

This can only be said to be a coincidence, just like the competition for the best of the year in 2015, which was much more tragic than the previous years. Fortunately, "Uncharted 4" was postponed to 2016, otherwise, it would be sandwiched between "The Witcher" 3", "Fallout 4", "Metal Gear 5", "Halo 5" and other games, it is really unclear who will win.

Of course, if it were a year like 2014 with few heavyweight games, gdc might not be able to refuse to award gta the best general of the year.

After all, the best game of the year given by GDC in 2014 was "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" and the best game of the year given by VGA was "Dragon Age: Inquisition". These two games are far from the real meaning in any aspect. It is a top-notch masterpiece with extensive industry influence, which is far away.

It can be said unceremoniously that any game such as "The Witcher 3", "Fallout 4", and "Metal Gear Solid 5" can win two awards for the best game of the year in 2014. There is no pressure at all. (To be continued...)