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Game Awards 2008 - The Results!
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24-01-2009 2:37am#1
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That is it, Left 4 Dead. Deserving of its title and awards, as are most of the others.
Kudos to Mr.E for doing a hell of a job this year, which was sure to have been time consuming! Was a very fun and well produced award system to take part in
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Wow, I though Shadow of The Colossus was a shoo in for the PS2 legacy award going by the nominations. Guess it could never match the popularity of the winners.
Dropped my monocle on seeing that Mario Kart Wii placed 2nd overall in the racing category. Too random to be be a decent racing game imho, and the handling is hardly 'rewarding', nor is it's sense of speed 'exhilarating'. Must have been the only option for Wii users so it got the votes.
I imagine some will be upset that Sack people rule the best character category - but they are just so adorable. Bless their cotton socks!
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Really good job. Not many surprises really. Left 4 Dead deservedly ran away with nearly everything it was nominated for. Also good to see MGS4 get snubbed in so many categories. Pity it didn't win the biggest disappointment since it was a very poor game from an exceptional series.
Also surprised MGS3 got the best PS2 game and shadow of the colossus got no where. Great game but I really thought SotC would run away with it. I'm guessing there was a single vote for Gradius V from me
I'm disappointed Valkyria Chronicles didn't get much recognition, especially for it's story, music and in the PS3 category, since it is an exceptional game. Still it did get beaten most of the time by Fallout 3 which although I haven't played I'm dying to despite hating Oblivion.
Bit annoyed that both the runner up and winner of the best boss battle weren't even boss battles.
Best soundtrack and sound design winner and runner up are also totally undeserving imo. GTA and Fallout 3 didn't have the best soundtracks or mixing, well of what I saw of Fallout 3. Certainly not a patch on the surround mixing of Dead Space or MGS4 and the stunning soundtrack for Valkyria Chronicles.
Don't agree with the best character either. Niko Bellic was a badly written character full of contradictions and Sackboy has only cute going for him. I guess not enough people have experienced the sheer genius of Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes.
PSP RPG of the year going to Crisis Core. There wasn't much else that was popular but that game was a stinker.
Biggest disappointment? Real women getting nominated for hottie of the year. Never let that happen again.
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MGS4 was nowhere near as bad as you lot are making out by the way. They could have sold me MGO as a full game FFS!!!!!
Left 4 Dead and CoD kick it's ass
Surprised no one nominated left 4 dead for sound design. Music was simple but excellent and the use of sound is brillaint particularly for the boss zombies.
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Fallout 3 is totally deserving of the best soundtrack award. I dunno, maybe you guys didn't have the music volume turned up loud enough or what but I found it completely enhanced the atmosphere of the game. I mean take the main title music, this by far one of the most dramatic and promising openers to a game. It just screams THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE ****ING EPIC! If it weren't in the game files as an mp3 I'd probably have never got around to starting.
Then there's a the humour element. Seriously, it deserved to win just because the game lets you can run around killing people while listening to this song:
And you've got post-apocalyptic irony at it's best as you torch a group of innocent civillians with a flame thrower while listening to:
And finally, IMO the 'soundtrack' includes voice acting and dialogue as well. You should sneak up to and listen in on a conversation between a group of Super Mutants sometime.
Anyway I thought Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 were the best games of the year and it's good to see most people agreed. Good job Mr. E. 0 -
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Best online game I have ever played.
Go play Left 4 Dead. Or Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Starcraft Swat 3, Team Fortress 2..... I gaurantee you'll change your tune.
MGS 4 was much less a sandbox of tricks than any of the other games in the series and even if it was it rewarded you with just shooting your way out of situations over doing anything clever.
As for Fallout 3, well I haven't played it only saw a mate play it for a while so can't really comment. I don't like nominating games with licensed soundtracks over games with original music. From the videos you show the atmospheric music seems really good but I really couldn't nominate it over something like this:
Or the surround mixing in Dead Space and MGS4 (although it had an average soundtrack) or the excellent use of sound and music in Left 4 Dead as aural hints at what to expect and build tension. Then again I am a bit of a Hitoshi Sakimoto whore But you also have to take into account that some of the voice acting in Fallout 3 was less than stellar.
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Fallout 3 is totally deserving of the best soundtrack award. I dunno, maybe you guys didn't have the music volume turned up loud enough or what but I found it completely enhanced the atmosphere of the game. I mean take the main title music, this by far one of the most dramatic and promising openers to a game. It just screams THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE ****ING EPIC! If it weren't in the game files as an mp3 I'd probably have never got around to starting.
Then there's a the humour element. Seriously, it deserved to win just because the game lets you can run around killing people while listening to this song:
And you've got post-apocalyptic irony at it's best as you torch a group of innocent civillians with a flame thrower while listening to:
And finally, IMO the 'soundtrack' includes voice acting and dialogue as well. You should sneak up to and listen in on a conversation between a group of Super Mutants sometime.
Anyway I thought Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 were the best games of the year and it's good to see most people agreed. Good job Mr. E.
The first two 'tracks' you listed are so repetitive it is unreal. Horrible 50s songs with terrible choruses. I am not sure you can count dialogue as soundtrack material?
Great game, even if it is a bit repetitive.
Shooting your way through MGS4 is a damn sight harder on any difficulty setting beyond solid Normal Retro.
Unreal T was okay, no real ingenuity. Team Fortress is defo more like MGO but MGO is just done with sharper visuals and more sandbox options and modes.0 -
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