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Results of the Boards.ie Game Awards 2007

tman · 2008-01-28 16:38:56

Winners of the 2007 Boards.ie Video Game awards. Platform awards Playstation 2 - Ōkami Xbox 360 - Bioshock Playstation 3 - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Nintendo Wii - Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo DS - Zelda: Phantom Hourglass PC - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PSP - Final Fantasy Tactics Genre Awards FPS - Call of Duty 4:…

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Winners of the 2007 Boards.ie Video Game awards.

Platform awards
Playstation 2 - Ōkami
Xbox 360 - Bioshock
Playstation 3 - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Nintendo Wii - Super Mario Galaxy
Nintendo DS - Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
PC - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
PSP - Final Fantasy Tactics

Genre Awards
FPS - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Sports - Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Online - Team Fortress 2
Action/Adventure - Super Mario Galaxy
Racing - Project Gotham Racing 4
RPG - Mass Effect
Sim - This category was dropped due to lack of nominations...
Strategy - Company of Heroes: Opposing fronts

Miscellaneous awards
Story - Bioshock
Character - GlaDOS (Portal)
Hottie of the year - Jade Raymond (Producer of Assassin's Creed)
Soundtrack - Portal
Villian - GlaDOS (Portal)
Biggest Disappointment - The Playstation 3

GAME OF THE YEAR
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Sorry about taking so long this year folks, but we got there in the end:)
You can see a full list of the past winners here

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#2 28-01-2008 5:58pm
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gwan the cod \o/

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#3 28-01-2008 6:00pm
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Happy enough with those winners!

Although how the hell did Pro Evo 2008 with the 'Sports Genre' with that horrific online play? Must have been slim-pickings there! :eek:

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#4 28-01-2008 6:41pm
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basquille wrote: »

Happy enough with those winners!

Although how the hell did Pro Evo 2008 with the 'Sports Genre' with that horrific online play? Must have been slim-pickings there! :eek:

Because it's still a fantastic game.

Anyone with real life friends can still enjoy some fantastic multiplayer.

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#5 28-01-2008 6:51pm
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WellyJ wrote: »

Anyone with real life friends can still enjoy some fantastic multiplayer.

They didn't mention that in the promotional material..

** grumble **

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#6 28-01-2008 7:03pm
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Good for COD4, great game.

I'm happy so long as Portal didn't get the best FPS :rolleyes:

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#7 28-01-2008 7:54pm
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As much as I love CoD 4 mario galaxy kicks it's ass.

And how the hell did Portal get best soundtrack with only only 1 bloody song!

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#8 28-01-2008 8:09pm
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Retr0gamer wrote: »

And how the hell did Portal get best soundtrack with only only 1 bloody song!

That one was a major disappointment for me too. Even if "still alive" is a fantastic song, the novelty factor of it wears off after listening to it a few times outside of the game.
Metroid Prime, Bioshock and Mario Galaxy were all miles ahead with their incredibly immersive or just downright fantastic (Mario Galaxy) soundtracks.

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#9 28-01-2008 8:32pm
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Hmm despite having a wonderful online mode, I don't think CoD deserves Goty over Portal or Mario Galaxy.

Other than that, can't really argue with anything.

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#10 28-01-2008 8:33pm
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Biggest Disappointment - The Playstation 3

bahaha

Captain price should have won the the best character tbh.

Network with your people: https://www.builtinireland.ie/

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#11 28-01-2008 8:52pm
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How did Jade win the best character? She's not even a character! Or is she...

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#12 28-01-2008 9:09pm
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Not too sure about CoD 4 being GoTY but just how many horny nerds voted in Jade "i swear i'm not a cheap marketing ploy" Raymond as character of the year?

Bloody hell lads, i know she has b00bs and all, but lets stop getting crazy here.

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#13 28-01-2008 9:40pm
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interesting year.

Just for a bit of feedback, how did people feel about how they were done this year? Also did the favourite/underdog tags help/annoy/didnt matter to your voting? I thought they might have got some people to stop and think before voting on if the game was their favourite or not in that catagory.

I'm happy so long as Portal didn't get the best FPS

God people cant seem to let that argument die, its one of two of the little annoying things that kept popping up.

The other being the amount of complaints on the lack of nominations in the PS3 catagory.

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#14 28-01-2008 9:46pm
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thelordofcheese wrote: »

Not too sure about CoD 4 being GoTY but just how many horny nerds voted in Jade "i swear i'm not a cheap marketing ploy" Raymond as character of the year?

Bloody hell lads, i know she has b00bs and all, but lets stop getting crazy here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055210923
21 apparently:p
The award should really have been called hottie of the year, as it has always been purely for the hornier gamers among us.
For every complaint that Jade Raymond was included, there would have been 4 people complaining that she wasn't included...

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#15 28-01-2008 11:21pm
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tman wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055210923
21 apparently:p
The award should really have been called hottie of the year, as it has always been purely for the hornier gamers among us.
For every complaint that Jade Raymond was included, there would have been 4 people complaining that she wasn't included...

Jade Raymond FTW!!!! tbh

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#16 28-01-2008 11:40pm
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tman wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055210923
21 apparently:p
The award should really have been called hottie of the year, as it has always been purely for the hornier gamers among us.
For every complaint that Jade Raymond was included, there would have been 4 people complaining that she wasn't included...

Edgeworth was robbed, ROBBED I TELLS YOU!

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#17 28-01-2008 11:44pm
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tman wrote: »

Biggest Disappointment - The Playstation 3

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#18 28-01-2008 11:47pm
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thelordofcheese wrote:

just how many horny nerds voted in Jade "i swear i'm not a cheap marketing ploy" Raymond as character of the year?

Cos good lookin girls couldn't possibly make decent video game producers.

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#19 29-01-2008 12:01am
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ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Cos good lookin girls couldn't possibly make decent video game producers.

Having played Assasins Creed i guess not....

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#20 29-01-2008 12:19am
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thelordofcheese wrote: »

Having played Assasins Creed i guess not....

Fair enough. Just find it a shame that she produces one game you dont like and therefore is only there for her looks. Not that I'm a flag-waving feminist or anything but I imagine its opinions like yours that discourage female presence in the video game industry.

Either succeed or be condemned to "only-here-for-eye candy" category forever.

Slightly more on topic though - I've just landed home from a years travelling and have so much catching up to do on the gaming front. This thread has helped that considerably now that I know my targets. Sometimes the commercial "top 10" lists are filled with hype. Better to see the public vote.

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#21 29-01-2008 12:28am
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CoD4 ftw!

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#22 29-01-2008 1:21am
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I think if COD4 had been released a month earlier it would have won the online game award .....it feels like it has really taken off in the last few weeks and tf2 has died down .

As for how the awards were run , it all seemed to go smoothly enough and I can't see of any other way that would be better .

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#23 29-01-2008 9:58am
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Yaaaa Gwan Teh Tf2!!!

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#24 29-01-2008 10:01am
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cod4 thoroughly deserves goty for its fresh take on FPS gaming and the innovation it brings to the genre, not to mention the fantastic AI, superb, original storyline and excellent voice acting.

[/sarcasm]

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#25 29-01-2008 11:52am
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huh??!!i never know the existance of this voting!!or is it ever open to vote??

edit:
lord...i just find out we have game awards forum...better do some ads over here next time...

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#26 29-01-2008 12:15pm
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BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Just for a bit of feedback, how did people feel about how they were done this year? Also did the favourite/underdog tags help/annoy/didnt matter to your voting? I thought they might have got some people to stop and think before voting on if the game was their favourite or not in that catagory.

I thought it went pretty well. The tags were a nice touch. I wouldn't of said that they'd influence my choices at all, but it's good to have a guide as to how the nominations went.

All in all, it went pretty well. Huzzah for those who organised and for those who voted!

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#27 29-01-2008 12:21pm
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mcgovern wrote: »

CoD4 ftw!

ftw = for the win...but it already won!?

It'd be interesting to see how many people that voted for ps3 for disappointment of the year own a ps3? Im not saying that there isn't people who bought it and were disappointed but it would be interesting.

Pro Evo winning the sports genre is a disgrace! I was the biggest pro fanboy there is and a game that lags on a console shouldn'd be released! They wouldn't of got away with it 5 years ago, they just have such a strong fanbase that they'll get away with it. Offline still lags on the ps3 when there is alot of people up one end of the pitch. Just not good enough... should have been up there for disappointment of the year

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#28 29-01-2008 12:22pm
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0ubliette wrote: »

cod4 thoroughly deserves goty for its fresh take on FPS gaming and the innovation it brings to the genre, not to mention the fantastic AI, superb, original storyline and excellent voice acting.

[/sarcasm]

Captain Pryce would have been more believable if he was a 2D piece of cardboard running around the levels.

Did really enjoy CoD4 but for me Portal and Galaxy are so much more deserving.

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#29 29-01-2008 12:33pm
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Always going to be hard for a game that comes on only one platform to beat one that comes on all. Maybe even up twice as much people own COD compared to galaxy (no fact here , just guessing seeing as you could own COD on a ps3 ,pc or 360 ) so it was playing catchup from the start.

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#30 29-01-2008 2:15pm
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COD4 and PGR4 = w00t!!!

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#31 29-01-2008 5:35pm
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I'm so proud to be the Moderator of the Forum for the "Boards.ie Game Of The Year 2007"!

And I didn't even vote myself as I wasn't aware of such awards?!?! I'll be keeping an eye on the Game Awards forum from now on!

CoD4 FTW!!!

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