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[www.interactive.org]
[www.gamechoiceawards.com]
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With that said Demon's Souls is my personal game of the year.
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all i know is Batman AA and Uncharted 2 better rake in a boatload of awards. everything else not on the list with either of these 2 games is up for grabs imho.
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D. E. M. O. N. S.
S.O.U.L.S.
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i have to call it the Sleeper Hit of 2009.
i never thought that it would catch on like it has here.
good year for gaming i tells ya.
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While the game-play was awesome (as you said, even just getting around was fun), the graphics did need quite a bit of work. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do in the sequel.
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At least the Academy Awards has a deadline for submitting nominees, but this is just retarded.
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Giving the staff at Kotaku a vote further reinforces my belief that so will be the case.
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But I agree, the games haven't been out long enough to get any feedback. Yet, I am sure some games will still win. Like MW2, for example.
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I'm guessing since games are usually finished well before their release date, they've been played to hell and back between media outlets. If Spike are allowing votes, then they are allowing people to vote purely on hype and speculation.
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But I can also see publishers and marketing pushing for these awards to be held as fast as possible while their titles' popularity may be at their peaks. Which is very sad if that is the case because it reveals the extent of these awards just being a PR event instead of actually promoting outstanding creations in the industry.
#speakup
11/18/09
And what you said about publishers pushing their games while they're popular couldn't be any farther from the truth about marketing in the gaming world. It's about money and now that devs see how much they can make off of console-based games alone, they'll definitely keep pushing.
But, award shows like any MTV award show (which MTV owns Spike TV) always tend to cater to what's more popular and usually vote based towards the majority. Which very much is unfair and unjust. It's like watching a movie and knowing the good guy wins. Very predictable.
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GOTY: Batman: Arkham Asylumor Uncharted 2 (Although MW2 will somehow win.)
Studio of the Year: Naughty Dog
Best Shooter: MW2
Best RPG: Demon's Souls (But Dragon Age: Origins will probably win)
Fighting: Street Fighter IV
Sports: Fight Night Round 4 (Although there are more UFC lovers out there =/)
Handheld: Chinatown Wars
Graphics: Uncharted 2 (But KZ2 or MW2 will probably win =/)
Best Game based on a...: Ghostbusters (Although Wolverine was more fun for me... Ghostbusters was the better experience)
Music: NaN
Driving: Forza 3 (Are the other 3 even real contenders? :D)
Action Adventure: Arkahm Asylum...I mean really, it's the same acronym as the category... but I'm really digging Assassin's Creed 2. Didn't finish it yet so it can't by my GOTY for Action Adventure
Team Sports: FIFA 10
Soundtrack: DJ Hero
360: Forza 3
Wii: New Super Mario Bros Wii
PS3: Uncharted 2
PC: Dragon Age
Score: NaN
Multiplayer: MW2
Human Male: NaN
Human Female: Megan Fox... just for some controversy
Cast: NaN
Voice: Nolan North
DLG: Shadow Complex
DLC: WHAT? NO VALKYRIA or BURNOUT? THIS IS MADNESS oh well... Broken Steel
Most Anticipated: Mass Effect 2 or GoWIII. No Idea on this one.
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#speakup
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But I do find it weird Uncharted didn't make it on the "Best Cast" list. I mean, maybe I'm misunderstanding the category as it relates to games, but I thought the entire cast of Uncharted 2 did a phenomenal job.
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Uncharted 2
Studio of the Year:
Rocksteady
Best Shooter:
Killzone 2
Best RPG:
Demons Souls
Best Fighting Game:
Street Fighter 4
Best Individual Sports Game:
Fight Night Round 4
Best handheld:
GTA-China Town Wars
Best Graphics:
Uncharted 2
Best Game based on Movie/TV:
Ghostbusters
Best Music Game:
The Beatles Rockband
Best Driving Game:
Forza
Best Action Adventure Game:
Uncharted 2
Best Team Sports Game:
Madden
Best Soundtrack:
Brutal Legend fuck yeah!
Best XBOX Game:
Forza
Best Wii Game:
NSMB Wii
Best PS3 Game:
Uncharted 2
Best PC Game:
L4D2
Best Original Score:
Uncharted 2
Best Multiplayer Game:
COD
Best Male Performance:
Samuel L Jackson
Best Female Performance:
Kristen Bell
Best Cast:
Brutal legend
Best Voice:
Nolan North-Mark Hamil is unfair cause he's been doing it for years. I'm going for the underdogs here.
Best DL:
Shadow Complex
Best Independent Game:
Flower
Most Anticipated:
God of War 3
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GOTY: Uncharted 2
Studio of the year: Naughty Dog
Best indie game: Flower
Best Xbox 360 game: Arkham Asylum
Best PS3 game: Uncharted 2
Best Wii game: Madworld
Best PC game: Dragon Age
Best Handheld game: Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Best Shooter: Killzone 2
Best Fighting game: Blazblue
Best Action-adventure: Uncharted 2
Best RPG: Demon's Souls
Best Multiplayer: L4D2
Best individual sports game: Fight Night Round 4
Best team sports game: FIFA 10
Best driving game: Forza 3
Best music game: Beatles Rock Band
Best soundtrack: Brutal Legend
Best original score: Uncharted 2
Best graphics: Uncharted 2
Best game based on a movie/TV show: Chronicles of Riddick
Best performance by a human female: Eliza Dushku (WET)
Best performance by a human male: Bill Murray (Ghostbusters)
Best cast: Brutal Legend
Best voice: Nolan North- Nathan Drake
Best downloadable game: Plants vs. Zombies
Best DLC: GTAIV: The Lost and the Damned
Most anticipated game: God of War 3
I still don't understand how ODST got nominated for best multiplayer. Is Firefight, as the only new mode, enough to justify it earning an award?
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#speakup
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(I don't recall seeing the real Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, I only heard his voice)
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Even I, who doesn't own U2, or even a PS3, can vouch that it was a very great gaming experience.
MW2 has the Shooter category on lock, however. I may love me some Halo, but far too many people view ODST as nothing but an add-on to a two year old game. MW2 is the new hot chick on the block.
Killzone 2 has fizzled, and by all accounts, did nothing to parlay a surprise win. It's a solid shooter, but whatever it brings to the table was brought years ago by the likes of CoD or Halo. L4D2 also is on the outside looking in, being questioned by the gaming community at large about its legitimacy of being a full sequel.
The RPG category is a DA: O and Demon's Souls battleground. Borderlands sates a shooter's hunger moreso than an RPG enthusiast's, and I can't really imagine the plumbing duo to pull out the carpet from underneath those juggernaut games.
Original Score should definitely go to ODST, however, and I think it will. It may be my bias speaking, but Marty O'Donnell is a genius when it comes to making riveting scores that accentuate the gameplay. His score absolutely makes the entire atmosphere of ODST. By itself.
This one shouldn't even be close.
The other categories don't really interest me that much, or I don't have an opinion. Do we really need a "Best Graphics" award?
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Sounds to me like the kind of category corporate sponsors would insist upon. I get the idea of carrying a brand across media, it just has nothing to do with making a game good.