How on earth can Crysis be nominated? It won't be released until 9 days before the awards show.
How on earth can Crysis be nominated? It won't be released until 9 days before the awards show.
Because it has purdy graphics. Duh.
Best Tree Punching Simulator.
Nice to see Okami and Viva Pinata still getting some attention, both games were terribly underrated... well, more like underpromoted.
Why aren't the games based on the calendar year? Are they just doing it to be different?
It's quite weird that some games that aren't even out yet have been nominated and others that are out or at least will be before the awards haven't been. I also thought BioShock could have gotten a nomination in audio, it has phenomenal sound and music direction.
I agree, the sound is fantastic. Interesting that it didn't pick up an award for innovation eh?
gears of wars has been nominated as well.
makes the price worthless IMO....winning against GOW, what's the achievement in that ? in graphics maybe, ..., agree with Crysis being there is ridiculous.
There's a Windows port for Viva Pinata on its way isn't there?Originally Posted by Aja
urrr, no
They did screw up the audio in the PC version, though I don't know about the 360 version.
I'm meaning more the individual sound elements.
My favourite win:
ORIGINAL SCORE
FINAL FANTASY XII (PS2) - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy XII Project Team/Square Enix)
GOD OF WAR 2 (PS2) - Clint Bajakian, Jonathan Mayer, Chuck Doud (SCE Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
LAIR (PS3) - John Debney, Ryan Hamlyn, Clint Bajakian (SCE Foster City Studio & Factor 5/Sony Computer Entertainment America)
OKAMI (PS2) - Atsushi Inaba (Clover (Capcom)/Capcom)
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS (Wii) - Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)
VIVA PIÑATA (Xbox 360) - Grant Kirkhope (Rare/Microsoft Game Studio)
How were Crysis and Kane & Lynch in the running for best game when they're not even out yet? Farcical.
wii sports? i've played it for like 10 min and i'm already bored of it, how could it justify so many awards? i can understanding winning innovation but...
STRATEGY AND SIMULATION
COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIUM WARS (Xbox 360) - Development Team (Electronic Arts LA/Electronic Arts)
FORZA MOTORSPORT 2 (Xbox 360) - Development Team (Turn 10/Microsoft Game Studios)
MEDIEVAL II: TOTAL WAR KINGDOMS (PC) - Development Team (The Creative Assembly/SEGA)
TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX VEGAS (Xbox 360) - Development Team (Ubisoft Studios (Montreal)/Ubisoft Entertainment)
WII SPORTS (Wii) - Development Team (Nintendo/Nintendo)
WORLD IN CONFLICT (PC) - Development Team (Massive Entertainment/Sierra Entertainment)
how the hell is wii sports strategy or simulation?
i mean strategy? you just punch at the screen, and what exactly is it simulating? its an entirely arcade take on some sporting activities...
+ where the hell is HL2 episode 2 and PORTAL!!!
As I said one month ago in this thread, because of the graphics. At least in Crysis' case.
Strange, isn't it, that it expressively is the 360 version that is being named.
Stalker isn't even nominated for anything.
Hype machine scores again. Where the hell does this leave STALKER?
Where I'm coming from Stalker has been given praise and genuine ass-kissing years before Bioshock even started to appear onto everyone's radar. Only for some people to find out it suddenly didn't live quite up to the promise.
Not that this has to do with anything useful. Of course it's always the hype machine®. It's got to be. Since it has been proven time and time again that no one can honestly genuinely enjoy the game that is Bioshock. Heck, the brightest minds on this ball of dust have written
- forum posts
- blog entries
- essays
- scientific papers
on the topic at hand (ordered in order of significance). You can even see emo kids whining about the game on their myspaces. And if you look hard enough you will witness people putting more time into ranting than it would take them to get a character in World Of Warcraft to reach level fifty-nine and a half. Or to do someting useful. It. Jez. Can't. Be!
I'm looking forward to the upcoming PC release, that game looked and sounded pretty interesting to me. And it's from Rare.
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Hopefully it did well enough critically that they can develop it into a full fledged "walking back and forth across long distances between several load zones" simulator.
If you're okay with the kiddy aspects, you'll find a surprisingly deep game that's really more adult-oriented (lots of innuendo and subtle humour). I absolutely adored it for the first 40 hours or so, and though it did start to tire after that, I'd definitely recommend it. Also, it's stunningly beautiful and the soundtrack is first-class (think Banjo Kazooie but with a full orchestra).
Banjo-Tooie was the greatest game made on the N64.
Back on topic, this award thing is always going to be geared toward consoles, not that that's bad but if theres a PC/console release the "Awards" are always going to be given to the console version. I don't really care about crappy award ceremonies regardless, they really are all politics and the result of hype (seriously how did a game that wasn't even out yet get an award?).
Despite having quite a few flaws, STALKER was still a remarkable game. I'm not saying it should have won, but not even being mentioned is worrisome.
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