http://8th-circuit.com/?q=node/447
So, there was 8C's selections. It's kind of different from numerous others, while others match up quite nicely.
However, which games do you think deserve the prize for the categories mentioned?
And some highlights:
Handheld GotY: TWEWY
Wii: Brawl
PC: Left 4 Dead
PS3: MGS4
360: GoW2 and Fable 2
Overall: Left 4 Dead
I don't agree with some like the Best Sports/Sim or Indie Release, but that's just me. I wrote up the Strategy game award, so I'm ok with it.
Comments in general though? What do you think deserves those slots? Etc.
Edit: Even inactive I'm more active than you guys =\
Brawl for Wii game of the year? Meh. I think Mario Kart Wii would have deserved it more.
No surprise Brawl won Wii GOTY, but...I really think NMH should have won.
I don't know if this would have gone in any specific catagory, but I gotta say Mother 3 translation should have gotten something.
Then again, it really wasn't a release, and the game itself is old, so... IDK, but still.
bobsgame should be goty
I don't know why everybody picks Brawl for GotY, it wasn't even that different from Melee, it just had a few more characters and poopty online. Honestly, if I knew it would have sucked so bad I would have just saved that $50 and stuck to Melee.
Brawl shouldn't of won GOTY, honestly.
AS much as I play Brawl and Love it........ It's Major hype disappointments and horrid online
is enough to hinder it to an embarrassing last place.
I agree, MK Wii should of took it's place.
Why didn't far cry 2 win anything? :(
Not even Best graphics?
Wtf.
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on January 13, 2009, 08:14:59 PM
No surprise Brawl won Wii GOTY, but...I really think NMH should have won.
I nominated NMH for practically everything it got second in D: I agree.
Quote from: Shujinco on January 13, 2009, 08:19:07 PM
I don't know if this would have gone in any specific catagory, but I gotta say Mother 3 translation should have gotten something.
Then again, it really wasn't a release, and the game itself is old, so... IDK, but still.
It really didn't count.
Quote from: Phaze on January 13, 2009, 09:31:25 PM
I don't know why everybody picks Brawl for GotY, it wasn't even that different from Melee, it just had a few more characters and s***ty online. Honestly, if I knew it would have sucked so bad I would have just saved that $50 and stuck to Melee.
Waaaaaay different games. Still, Wii had titles like MKWii, NMH, Boom Blox, de Blob, etc.
Quote from: Triforceman22 on January 13, 2009, 10:44:07 PM
Why didn't far cry 2 win anything? :(
Not even Best graphics?
Wtf.
Did we even do best graphics? Meh, Far Cry 2.
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on January 13, 2009, 08:14:59 PM
No surprise Brawl won Wii GOTY, but...I really think NMH should have won.
This.
It's one of the best Wii games I've played.
I can't wait for NMH2 to come out.
MORE FUCKWIN GAMES FOR THE WII.
l4d doesn't deserve to win anything but Buggiest Game of the Year. Online Co-op is nearly unplayable.
lol TWEWY.
Brawl was amazing, deal with it,
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 12:03:51 AM
l4d doesn't deserve to win anything but Buggiest Game of the Year. Online Co-op is nearly unplayable.
No I believe that Fable 2 would take that title.
Quote from: Link3588 on January 14, 2009, 07:07:44 AM
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 12:03:51 AM
l4d doesn't deserve to win anything but Buggiest Game of the Year. Online Co-op is nearly unplayable.
No I believe that Fable 2 would take that title.
Left 4 Dead:
-Hunter is more useful running in and clawing than actually pouncing (what he's supposed to do)
-Smoker works about 50% of then time when he should. Useless in 90% of situations.
-Boomer is ineffective if killed while barfing.
-You can knock down doors that you shouldn't be able to by meleeing them.
-You can melee forever by meleeing, swapping weapons, then meleeing again.
-If you melee a chain gun and jump on it, you go flying, usually to your death.
-On every campaign, there are at least 3 ways to skip significant parts of a level.
-If the survivors sit in a corner and melee, they're invincible to everything but a tank.
-Tank is useless against competent survivors.
-You can spawn up to 9 hunters at once, controlled by the AI, that lay dormant until the human players reach them (at which point they all pounce at once, giving a win to the infected) (You're not supposed to be able to spawn AI special infected at all)
-If you throw something at someone while in the elevator, they fall through the floor to their death.
-Hunter only hits 50% of the pounces he should.
-All weapons can shoot through walls, still do the same damage as if they were shot through straight air.
-Being hit by any environment item by a tank incapacitates you (while not a glitch, it's a flawed game mechanic)
-Hunters can pounce through doors.
-if you fall into a death zone as an unspawned infected, you die.
-some spawn points for infected can be avoided.
-there are "jesus rooms" in the game where no zombies appear for the survivors.
-you can throw infinite bombs.
-if you're healing while the map ends, you heal instantly.
-if you throw a projectile into the safe room at the end of a level, but don't carry it in, it doesn't carry through to the next level.
-you can spam voice commands over and over.
-the infected can block areas with objects so that the survivors have no chance of winning.
-one can swap teams, kill themselves, then swap back so that their team gets an easy win.
-it's impossible to boot anyone if they have a friend with them.
-matchmaking looks for the first dedicated server, and if it's full, it says so, then makes you try again instead of simply looking for an empty server.
There's more, but I have to get ready for school. -_-
No More Heroes = best Wii game. Fun story, fun gameplay, and everything the GAMER wants in a game. No dumbing down, no pulling back, it took its idea and went full throtle.
Brawl was overhyped, almost exactly the same as Melee (except a million times more broken somehow), and the single worst online I've ever seen. (It makes the DREAMCAST's online look good).
I still say brawl is very good if you just play versus with friends. They shouldn't have added anything else unless they intended to put some effort into it though. Why is the online so horrible?
Quote from: mackormoses on January 13, 2009, 11:24:58 PM
Quote from: Shujinco on January 13, 2009, 08:19:07 PM
I don't know if this would have gone in any specific catagory, but I gotta say Mother 3 translation should have gotten something.
Then again, it really wasn't a release, and the game itself is old, so... IDK, but still.
It really didn't count.
Didn't think it would. :(
Quote from: Ridley on January 14, 2009, 10:00:07 AM
I still say brawl is very good if you just play versus with friends. They shouldn't have added anything else unless they intended to put some effort into it though. Why is the online so horrible?
The online isn't even that bad. There's some lag on the With Anyone Matches and possibly the With Friends matches. But that's nothing that you can't fix. I used to have TONS of lag, but I used HTA's guide to fix it. ^_^
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 01:26:40 PM
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
MKWii isn't really game of the year. Sure the bikes were neat, but they didn't add much to gameplay.
Trick system made the game broken (not as broken as Snaking, but at least that took skill...)
Online was also rather shallow. I'm sorry anything short of text chat is auto-fail in my book.
The thing about NMH is that it was an enjoyable experience all the way through, from start to finish. I'd rather have a short, yet completely satisfying game than a longer game with annoying parts. Another example of this is God of War 2. Sure it was short, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable game.
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 02:08:00 PM
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 01:26:40 PM
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
MKWii isn't really game of the year. Sure the bikes were neat, but they didn't add much to gameplay.
Trick system made the game broken (not as broken as Snaking, but at least that took skill...)
Online was also rather shallow. I'm sorry anything short of text chat is auto-fail in my book.
The thing about NMH is that it was an enjoyable experience all the way through, from start to finish. I'd rather have a short, yet completely satisfying game than a longer game with annoying parts. Another example of this is God of War 2. Sure it was short, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable game.
Okami is completely enjoyable throughout and that's Really long.
NMH could have had some sort of plot twist to make it longer. NMh had much room for improvement.
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 02:08:00 PM
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 01:26:40 PM
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
MKWii isn't really game of the year. Sure the bikes were neat, but they didn't add much to gameplay.
Trick system made the game broken (not as broken as Snaking, but at least that took skill...)
Online was also rather shallow. I'm sorry anything short of text chat is auto-fail in my book.
The thing about NMH is that it was an enjoyable experience all the way through, from start to finish. I'd rather have a short, yet completely satisfying game than a longer game with annoying parts. Another example of this is God of War 2. Sure it was short, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable game.
can't wait for GoW3
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 02:11:38 PM
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 02:08:00 PM
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 01:26:40 PM
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
MKWii isn't really game of the year. Sure the bikes were neat, but they didn't add much to gameplay.
Trick system made the game broken (not as broken as Snaking, but at least that took skill...)
Online was also rather shallow. I'm sorry anything short of text chat is auto-fail in my book.
The thing about NMH is that it was an enjoyable experience all the way through, from start to finish. I'd rather have a short, yet completely satisfying game than a longer game with annoying parts. Another example of this is God of War 2. Sure it was short, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable game.
Okami is completely enjoyable throughout and that's Really long.
NMH could have had some sort of plot twist to make it longer. NMh had much room for improvement.
Okami was released on the PS2 in 2006 though X_X;;
I never said it wasn't possible to be long and completely enjoyable. Just few games can pull that off.
It had room for improvement, but all games do. Also, many of the problems stem from the fact that Suda51 isn't Nintendo or SEGA, meaning they dont have the cash flow to spend a long time on a game and make everything great.
Finally...did you not see the final "real" ending of NMH? There was so a plot twist! XD
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 02:19:07 PM
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 02:11:38 PM
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 02:08:00 PM
Quote from: Lichig0 on January 14, 2009, 01:26:40 PM
You people keep saying NMH for GotY, don't get me wrong, it was a good game, but it was WAY too short.
MKWii for GotY, No. I personally think it was the worst MK so far(Well, maybe the GBA one was worse, I don't know)
And Brawl doesn't deserve GotY either, like everyone said, it had too much hype and the online sucked. And tripping was the dumbest thing on earth!
MKWii isn't really game of the year. Sure the bikes were neat, but they didn't add much to gameplay.
Trick system made the game broken (not as broken as Snaking, but at least that took skill...)
Online was also rather shallow. I'm sorry anything short of text chat is auto-fail in my book.
The thing about NMH is that it was an enjoyable experience all the way through, from start to finish. I'd rather have a short, yet completely satisfying game than a longer game with annoying parts. Another example of this is God of War 2. Sure it was short, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable game.
Okami is completely enjoyable throughout and that's Really long.
NMH could have had some sort of plot twist to make it longer. NMh had much room for improvement.
Okami was released on the PS2 in 2006 though X_X;;
I never said it wasn't possible to be long and completely enjoyable. Just few games can pull that off.
It had room for improvement, but all games do. Also, many of the problems stem from the fact that Suda51 isn't Nintendo or SEGA, meaning they dont have the cash flow to spend a long time on a game and make everything great.
Finally...did you not see the final "real" ending of NMH? There was so a plot twist! XD
Yes I did, and the plot twist didn't make the game longer...
Here is Cheat Code Central's
http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/2008codyawards/
It's a lot different than that one. Best game of the year was Little Big Planet
http://schlaghund.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/no-more-heroes-is-not-punk/
best NMH plot analysis i've ever read.
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 04:38:49 PM
http://schlaghund.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/no-more-heroes-is-not-punk/
best NMH plot analysis i've ever read.
That was brilliant.
Although I think he went a little deep into some bosses (particularly the first boss), the rest was quite good.
What I think the author fails to remember though is that videogames are just like movies, music, books, etc. They're all escapes for pleasure. Nothing is really considered "art", just what one enjoys and what one doesn't. In that regard I think he's putting games too far below other forms of media.
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 04:59:20 PM
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 04:38:49 PM
http://schlaghund.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/no-more-heroes-is-not-punk/
best NMH plot analysis i've ever read.
That was brilliant.
Although I think he went a little deep into some bosses (particularly the first boss), the rest was quite good.
What I think the author fails to remember though is that videogames are just like movies, music, books, etc. They're all escapes for pleasure. Nothing is really considered "art", just what one enjoys and what one doesn't. In that regard I think he's putting games too far below other forms of media.
it goes majorly with this game though, and it just fits so perfectly.
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 05:09:40 PM
Quote from: Nayrman on January 14, 2009, 04:59:20 PM
Quote from: Jono2 on January 14, 2009, 04:38:49 PM
http://schlaghund.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/no-more-heroes-is-not-punk/
best NMH plot analysis i've ever read.
That was brilliant.
Although I think he went a little deep into some bosses (particularly the first boss), the rest was quite good.
What I think the author fails to remember though is that videogames are just like movies, music, books, etc. They're all escapes for pleasure. Nothing is really considered "art", just what one enjoys and what one doesn't. In that regard I think he's putting games too far below other forms of media.
it goes majorly with this game though, and it just fits so perfectly.
I have to agree with that.
I think more than anything this game was just a big "F U!" to Nintendo (and subsequently all 3rd party developers not named SEGA and Capcom) for making more than 90% of the games kiddy/old people shovelware crap.
Brawl for life.