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Game Awards 2014 - Results
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15-01-2015 12:26am#1
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Having just started Shadow of Mordor today, it seems nowhere near game of the year quality, but we'll see how that develops
Overall a varied bunch of results, with plenty of good games recognised (and some not so good ones). Transistor was certainly a little gem, Last of Us: Left Behind I think I preferred to the core game, and Bayonetta 2, while inevitably absent in several categories it should have dominated had anyone played it, deserves the hell out of 'best game design'. Would have liked to see Titanfall get something though, certainly the 'online game of the year' 0 -
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Glad to see sunset over drive in there. While it certainly wasn't anything dynamically new it was far more finished and polished than many other AAA we saw last year. It never felt old or boring even when getting all the collectibles, and as I mentioned before the delivery from the female lead voice voice actor was genuinely very good and funny.
Delighted not to see Destiny anywhere
GTA V getting best music should have won the what were they thinking award :pac:
Shadow of Mordor I enjoyed the more I played it but I still couldn't shake the feeling of having played before in terms of gamplay , still the Orcs were very good
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South Park winning so much seems a bit wrong to me, especially when it's up against much stronger games like Dark souls 2. It's not a great RPG and the humour rarely rises above 'hey remember this from that episode hur hur!'.
Lesson: More of you need to play Dark Souls 2
Velocity 2X getting a nod. I know people love it. I tried to like it but it's just so dull and the art is awful. Guess I'll never understand that game.
Lesson: more people should play TxK. Thought that would be a shoe in there.
GTA gets a nod for best music for a soundtrack that is just a mix tape, a really crappy mix tape at that. Shame on you all for this one when there were much better soundtracks composed by people with talent rather than picked by talking to music publishers and taking what's offered.
Lesson: More people need to listen to the SMT 4 and (especially) the transistor soundtracks.
WTF goes to Ubisoft who made some good games and a few dodgy ones but not to Gamergate that managed to set back people's preceptions of gamers 2 decades.
Lesson: None here. The best thing to do about Gamergate is pretend it never happened. Well done everyone.
Overall best game of the year goes to Batman Combat the game...I mean Shadow of Mordor. In a year when Bayonetta 2 happened I really don't think so. I suppose out of all the big games it's not the worst (but it's also not the far, far better Wolfenstein). It's not like many people played Bayonetta 2... Even WiiU owners going by the sales.
Also game of the generation not going to Dark Souls is just plain wrong :P
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Josey Wales wrote: »Also how did GTA Online win best online game over Destiny? My experience of GTA Online was that it was fairly broken. Plus they never did bring heists to the game, or did they with the PS4/XBox1 release? Destiny is such a social game, hell there is no truly single player campaign in there.
It was broken, didn't work but importantly it was actually fun which is what matters.
Also it wasn't half as fun as Titanfall which is the most fun I've had with an online game in years.
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »I think Destiny didn't win best online game because it's a piece of **** :pac:
Seriously though, while I very much disliked the game, even the music was IMO a touch uninspired.
I reckon Destiny is doing relatively well because of the 'new' factor. An MMO on consoles, a FPS-MMO on consoles. For PC gamers this is a dying genre and there have been so many. But console gamers are trying something relatively new with Destiny. Much the same with Halo. When Halo came to Xbox, console gamers went mental about it. For PC gamers though it was more of..."So? We have had sci-fi FPS games on PCs for years and decent multiplayer too, what's the big deal?"
I would have liked to see Titanfall get some awards though. Really enjoyed that game and jump back in every now and then. 0 -
I would have liked to see Titanfall get some awards though. Really enjoyed that game and jump back in every now and then.
Agree with this... really surprised it didnt get something... its always my "fallback" game when I get tired of endlessly repetitive patrols / missions / dailys / raids on Destiny.0 -
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Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »Erm, Id imagine that the artists who originally composed and recorded all those songs might claim to have talent. The soundtrack fits the game perfectly, and the in house composed music that plays during heists etc has a very cinematic feel to it. go back and play the into mission for example with the botched bank robbery again and listen, it builds the tension nicely and would fit in perfectly in a similar genre movie.
A lot of them I wouldn't call talented...
Also just listen to the Transistor soundtrack! It invalidates any debate :P
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Regards the music in GTA I had the radio locked on the pop station, it's bad when I'd rather listen to Rihanna and Pet Shop Boys than stuff on the other channels
That said there was much better stuff added to the next gen versions I believe?0 -
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Alien Isolation was the only triple A game that stepped out of the usually triple A comfort zone and should be commended for it. The supposedly earth shattering and genre defining Destiny was just a mix of Phantasy Star Online or Borderlands with added dull.
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I notice that a lot of people who don't agree with Mordor getting GOTY have only played a few hours. Have you gotten onto the second section and unlocked the powers to control captains? If not, then you may want to give it another chance if you have the time. The game really opens up and comes into it's own, and is a lot of hilarious fun.
But it's the fact that it hides away the really fun power until the later game that would not make it my game of the year. I did really enjoy it and will most likely replay it a good few times in the future, though.
Agreed. Shadow of Mordor was a weird game for me in that the first couple of hours revolved around me getting bitch slapped around by the orcs. Once you start to level up and get better abilities tho the entire game changes 0 -
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