12 Things We Learned At The Game Awards 2016
7. Street Fighter V Is The Year's Best Fighting Game...Apparently
Perhaps somewhat anticipating the s***storm the result would produce, TGA 2016 quickly glossed over the fact that Street Fighter V won the Best Fighting Game award, announcing it in one quick sentence without any fanfare and quickly moving on.
According to gaming journalists, the main reason it ended up nominated is simply because there were so few major fighting games released in 2016, with its fellow nominees being Killer Instinct Season Three, Pokken Tournament and The King of Fighters XIV.
Despite these three games all having equivalent-or-higher Metacritic scores than SFV, the highly controversial Capcom brawler came away with the prize, even though it launched with little content, and major online issues and technical bugs.
Is this really the sort of practice that should be rewarded? Or did Capcom basically end up buying their win? You decide.