Oh sis, you must have missed the Pokemonsters coming to drag in my iconic video game rate thread. I find it humorous to drag Pokemon, and it is perfectly acceptable to do so, as publications and readers have payed it dust and have essentially done the same. It is amusing to see the squirming though, I must admit.
And yet you still ended up making a whole thread just for Pokemon.
Kinda sounds like you let the Little Pokemonsters get under your skin
A damn mess at this thread. If you seriously think Pokemon isn't a respected video game franchise in the industry then your ignorance is LIVID and REAL. Its ****ing iconic, its a cultural force that spawns generations of generations. So what if it doesn't with any trophies. It'll be loved for so much more years and praised for so many more, more then The Last Of Us or any other GOTY Game will be.
Metacritic is horrible anyway. There's game studios who admitted to making games solely on how well they'd do on metacritic. That sounds good on paper, but it makes for horrible game practice in reality. Awards and Metacritic don't make a game good or bad. I play a game if I like it, not if it;s considered good.
As a great example: I bought Bioshock: Infinite thinking it'd be great considering what I heard of it. I played it for 2 hours only. It looks great, but the gameplay is basically non-existant.
GOTY is mostly a commercial award nowadays anyway. Pokémon is a great game in my opinion, but it doesn't need nor deserve a GOTY award.