Lets say I own two blankets. One is pretty warm, and doesn't have any large holes or anything that that makes it a bad choice. The other is much warmer, larger, and is in my favorite color. If I was cold and for some reason could only wrap myself up in one of my two blankets, which do you think I would pick? If I am going to get wrapped up in one then I am going with the one that I view as being of higher quality. I would pick the second one. I enjoy its warmth giving experience more, and find it more aesthetically pleasing. Point is, MoH has a foot in the grave already. It might take it a while to finally collapse and fall in, but it isn't likely it is going to be doing much more during that time.
For most people it seems that GOTY is a competition between ME2 and RDR. Personally, my vote goes to RDR. Why? Because it is the first and only Rockstar game I ever liked enough to finish. In fact, I played through it twice. John Marston was just a great character that you grew to love. He was a nice guy who was trying to put his past behind him and was being screwed over by both sides of the law. Despite all that, he never abandoned his morals. You spent the entire game with him as he fought tooth and nail to redeem himself and earn a little bit of happiness. The fact that the game actually managed to evoke an actual emotional response from me is something I have to applaud it for. It is something that no other game did. And on top of that, it had a lot of fun stuff to do, had great graphics, and the sound design was top notch. Oh, and all the glitches you came across were so weird and confusing they somehow made the game better. Luckily, they weren't all that common. Also, Nigel West Dickens.
Point is, you owe it to yourself to play that game. Seriously. Give Rockstar a chance on this one. It would kind of be like if in 2007 you gave your opinion on the best game of the year and then said you didn't play Bioshock, or what your best film of the year for 2008 was without watching The Dark Knight. Sure, that might not change what your pick would have been anyway, but it was still one of the more important and impactful releases of the year.
The moment the rod and the sword collide the universe ends. No one wins, but we all lose. That being said, I voted for Big. When that moment comes and all of eternity is wiped from existence, I want to die knowing that I did the right thing.
I hope it does well enough for it to come integrated into future consoles. I don't want it to fail, but I also don't want it to completely dominate the market to the extent that developers start dumping all of their resources into making games for it. I really don't think we have to worry about that, though.
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