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| Maou
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|  "Re(6):Video Game Awards on tonight"
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Argh, embarrassing for the games industry...funny thing is that among the non-gaming community at large, most of the best-known games have got to be Japanese. Yeah, you've got GTA and Mortal Kombat in the public consciousness, but icons like Mario, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter, "Resident Evil"/Biohazard, Pokemon are pretty much recognizable by most people. It's not like a smattering of Japanese gamings winning (as they should have) would have weirded people out, I'd think...
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| Ammadeau 566th Post
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| "Re(2):Video Game Awards on tonight" , posted Thu 4 Dec 20:28
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And this is why you don't let the general public vote for award shows. You get weird results like the awful Enter the matrix winning due to the movie tie in. I hope next year they drop the public input except for one or two awards, and go for a more serious attempt...
But then again it's Spike TV so I wasn't expecting much...
Since the catagory was for best movie related game, it was either that or Two Towers. Both games were terrible (imo) so I don't see how it mattered.
DOAX won for best animation (I dare anyone to deny this, say what you want about the gameplay, the mocap and modeling is perfect)
THUG won for best sports (it's the only 'sports' game I played, so hell yeah),
True Crime won for... best action I think. Debatable, but the action is both good and varied there.
Madden got GOTY, but considering its sales I think that's justified.
The portable game choice was a crock, but I think overall the choices were pretty good.
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| Undead Fred 1162th Post
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| "Re(4):Video Game Awards on tonight" , posted Fri 5 Dec 12:30
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Personally I think the show was just fixed. Who's going to contest the votes in what's obviously a joke award show.... although it's not meant to be a joke like the Comedy Central "Commies". I think the awards were generally given to games developed by companies who advertise on Spike TV. That's the only way I can explain Splinter Cell beating FFTactics and Advance Wars 2. Smackdown won best fighting game because the network airs Smackdown.... and they just gave Soul Calibur 2 the most addictive game award so they wouldn't be totally shafted. It goes beyond just mainstream games winning... because every message board post I've seen about this award show has had the similar "what the hell" kind of attitude to it.
For anyone interested, here's the url to let Spike know what you think of the show http://www.spiketv.com/home/comments /
Yeah, this show is a crock. I'm glad I didn't watch it... it would have been just another thing to frustrate me ("Why are these people so stupid??" and it would be stuck in my mind all day). And I didn't know David Spade was considered "deadpan." I could complain all day about which games won and how many good ones were left out, but I will say this- WRESTLING GAMES ARE NOT "FIGHTING GAMES."
As for the comment about us being niche gamers here, I consider myself a gamer, not only a niche gamer (bleh... I've never liked that term "gamer" anyway... it sounds stupid). If they have a award show for GAMES that's anywhere close to serious... well, serious in terms of the choices... then they HAVE to take actual gamers into account. Otherwise you'll have NASCAR games winning race game awards and wrestling games winning fighting game awards (nice how Soul Calibur 2 isn't a fighting game). The opinion of people that only play sports games and have tried Grand Theft Auto in short bursts and complain when there's any story in a game shouldn't even be taken into account. I'm not sure if the "public opinion" part is to blame, though. Maybe they had a terrible selection of games to choose online (if their results were actually taken from an online poll and not simply bought off), so even actual gamers couldn't choose anything good. Kind of like the courtroom scene in Family Guy- "Which of these best describes the defendant: sexual deviant, or magic picture that, when you stare at it long enough, you see things?"
THAT'S DANNY. His hometown is New Orleans.
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| CrazyMike 765th Post
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| "Re(5):Video Game Awards on tonight" , posted Fri 5 Dec 14:12:
I didn't watch the show and I think the results are stupid too, but what is up with the hate for American games? I mean i've posted here about Atari before and it was a revolutionary product yet people have called it crap and worshipped the Famicom as if it was the true God of gaming who should pay no tribute to its ancestors. Is there an inate biased against American games?
I think the Japanese make better console games generally, but when it comes to the PC market, they generally have not gotten past cheesy hentai titles while in the US there exists a great amount of strategy games, war games, simulation, FPS, even flight simulators; and generally such genres are not as deep or as well-crafted in Japan. The best example is Final Fantasy Tactics/Advance, it is a fun game and all, but the strategy element of it is pretty elementary compared to more hardcore strategy PC game in America where you have to monitor everything down to every detail. A good example would be Rise of Nations, Hearts of Iron, etc.
Another plus of American gaming is that it stands away from the cut throat mentality of corporate gaming in Japan and manages to let the average joe have his day when it comes to PC game modding. Where else can a couple of guys create a little mod called Counter-Strike and watch it become the most played online game of all time? (Although Gooseman is Vietmanese-Canadian) I also know, having worked on the Day of Defeat mod for Half-Life, that it is one thing to play a game, but even more thrilling to see your work actually in it.
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| thebigword
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| "Re(1):KOTOR" , posted Sun 7 Dec 14:21
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Latest exception I played was knights of the old republic.
Sorry to go offtopic, but I was wondering something...
When you played the game, did you go to the dark side?
I know I did, being evil is the most fun thing you could get in a game.
I wish more games were like this little gem (the first good Star Wars game), being able to side with the good or the evil is excellent (on a sidenote, I was expecting something like this when I was playing Shenmue, but damn Ryo, he's always the good boy)
I luv this game! I'm playing through the game first on the light side, then I'll go dark. I just had my jedi training and left to choose what world to go to. It is one of the best RPGs out there, and a Star wars game at that!
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| thebigword
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| "Re(7):KOTOR" , posted Mon 8 Dec 06:15
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oh well, that's too bad. But, you know how other Xbox exclusives are, they don't stay that way for long. If anything there'll be a port to pc
MS owns the rights to the game so they'll only port it when they feel they've leeched all the value from it otherwise, like Halo.
Xbox still has 6 exclusive games I like (not on any other consoles including pc) that and gets the best of the ports so it earns its keep for me.
I'm just saying a few of it's most popular games, like Splinter Cell (which could only be touted as exclusive for a few months), KOTOR(the same), and of course Halo, all came to the pc. I doubt Bioware would turn it's back on the pc community, the ones that helped their games become so popular in the first place. It could easily be ported to the pc, just about anygame from Xbox could; it's just a lower end pc inside, with a low end Geforce graphics card. If Microsoft knows what's best, they'll port it. The game would more than likely benefit coming to pc.
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