Readers Choice Awards: 2016 Game of the Year Nominations (tabletop)

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Starting the nomination thread for 2016 tabletop games...

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mirth

What are the guidelines for nominations? Next War: India-Pakistan is technically a 2015 release, but it only started shipping on 12/14.
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bayonetbrant

it's 2015.  It's like The Revenant - got released in '15, it's a '15er for awards purposes...
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

mirth

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 14, 2016, 05:46:01 PM
it's 2015.  It's like The Revenant - got released in '15, it's a '15er for awards purposes...

Yeah, but the Academy hands out awards in February...
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Nefaro

Kinda puts a damper on things when they're released so late in '15 that almost nobody has played them until '16.

bayonetbrant

Quote from: mirth on January 17, 2016, 06:08:25 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 14, 2016, 05:46:01 PM
it's 2015.  It's like The Revenant - got released in '15, it's a '15er for awards purposes...

Yeah, but the Academy hands out awards in February...

So do we.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

LongBlade

Quote from: mirth on January 14, 2016, 04:24:36 PM
What are the guidelines for nominations? Next War: India-Pakistan is technically a 2015 release, but it only started shipping on 12/14.

Yeah, Brant's correct. This happened to one of the Combat Mision titles several years ago. They had the misfortune to release it on something like December 28th. It may have picked up the Kwanzaa voters but missed the Hanukkah/Christmas crowd. As a result, despite being a fantastic game, it simply failed to move the needle because it arrived too late for it to build a successful base.

That's probably the biggest problem with a reader-driven poll: not enough people may get behind a game. But that's also its strength - a game that builds a huge following may blow through "professional" writers' opinions and get a huge response where the "pros" may have panned it.

Game publishers/devs know this. It's a risk they take.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

mirth

You'd think devs would pay more attention to the Grogheads Readers Choice Awards voting when releasing their games.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Arctic Blast


mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Arctic Blast


bayonetbrant

My son is going to nominate LNLP's "Hollow Cell" for whatever category it ends up in :)
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

airboy

RPG = Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

Card Game/Tabletop = Munchkin Marvel

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart