[Arryn]

Originally posted by LordArioch:
I can't judge KOTOR

Having finished 3 games of KotOR, I can say without bias that KotOR is deserving of the Game of the Year award it's been getting from various magazines. Knights is a more polished game (translated: prettier, well-documented, and with very few bugs) and in a genre with much broader appeal than TBS games like Dom. Call of Duty, a FPS, has been a runner-up for the title, and is also pretty, well-documented, and nearly bug-free. But one must consider that each of these games has a huge organization with a huge budget behind it. That KotOR or CoD is rating higher does not, in any way, detract from the kudos that Dom 2 and IW are also deserving, for having put out a truly remarkable, sophisticated strategy game with very deep and rich gameplay.

One just has to consider that even if Dom was as fancy as Knights or Call or any of the other popular games, and bug-free, and had a huge (expensive) manual, and anything else that people may feel is lacking, then Dom would still not be popular simply because it's in a niche genre.

Consider that I own Knights (~1 week to finish a game), Call of Duty (~3 days to finish), Deus Ex 2 (~14 hours by savegame timestamps to finish), and quite a few other titles. The game I've been playing for over a month now is Dom ...