MISAOS CATEGORIES 2018 (NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN)

Best Cliche Games? Or name it something else. Basically games with cliche tropes or plots like save the character or hero who wants to protect everyone for no reason, and the one that's voted would be the one that was done well compared to others. Some games that use these aspects actually implement it very well and I think that should be counted for.

I think the GOTY should stay because it marks that you have to choose ONE game that defined the year for people. It's a difficult choice to make because you have to exclude everything else. I found it interesting that video game websites actually had a hard choice mulling over if BOTW or Mario Odyssey should win their pick for 2017. Regardless of the climate or voting system I think it's fine to make a statement of what is the top of the list. We have to effectively choose one game for featured, we decided that 5 stars is the absolute best a game can achieve, you can rank anything by views/buzzscore/views/downloads in the game list, and we have a stats posted by the admin every month ranking every single aspect of the site. I think it's just within our nature to rank things, it's fun to do. If you don't win too bad, it's not that big of a deal. It might even be a good ego check if you took the miasaos too seriously enough in the first place.

We already have other categories there for games that excelled in specific things. So I don't think it's a one thing for another. Categories like "Best RPG" or "Best Gameplay" are just going to substitute it anyway.

^ Somebody needs to pick up that torch.

author=Cap_H
I like them.
I'm not sure if a random voter is able to tell apart "Eye candy" and Best Visual design.

these are great kentona. +2

Yeah, one should be like, "Eye Candy", a clear distinction of most prettiest game.

But another should be like "cinematography" or like, one of those bullshit, art categories, that you think you understand, when you hear it, but you don't?

Like pretentious art award? most pretentious?

I dunno, just something, that's clearly an award for "best art style" but sounds funny when you say it.

like, best persona 5, wannabe or something.

Most Persona award?

I unno

@Kentona: I approve. I think keeping the list small yet having some quaint categories like "first game" is good for general promotion.

Best Visual Design Vs . Eye Candy = awarding 1 game with 2 awards for the general audience here.

I like the flavour overall of the new categories though.

I will point out that in the past, the less Misaos we've had, the more likely (and closer) a sweep was to occur. With 13 Misaos one year, one game (Vacant Sky) got 11 of them. That's pure crazy and we're likely setting ourselves up for a repeat of that with less categories.

Frankly, I think more is more and we should add some more.

I'd say to make some more fun ones. We've got most of the 'serious' stuff covered, so we should expand a little more. Like, seriously, we are just asking for a bitch-fest over someone sweeping just because they marketed their game off-site much better than a game that was only added here.

Here's a few ideas:

Most Likely To Give You a Brainwave
(The game that inspires you the most to mak gam)

Punniest Game Alive
(THE PUNS. THEY BUUUUURN)

Best non-RM Game
(We need more alternative engine love up in here)

Best Alpaca Game of the Year
(The site's running an Alpaca contest so why not personalise?)


As to the visual awards, maybe a change in the descriptors?

Best Visual Design
An excellent example of art direction and cohesive vision. This means map design, use of graphical components to tell the story, atmosphere, lighting, overlays and the like.

"Eye Candy" Award
Raddest Custom Graphics & Artwork. The actual graphics themselves make the game look pretty, not how they're used or presented.

Is it possible to implement 1 game = 1 nomination?
This forces people who voted 1 game for game of the year to choose other things in different categories.