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Title: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: MysterD on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 03:51:17 PM
For those interested, Spike TV gives their awards out for some video games.

Here you go. (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-08-2007/0004719089&EDATE=)

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Spike TV Announces 2007 'Video Game Awards' Winners

         Spike TV's new logo and tagline. (PRNewsFoto/Spike TV)

NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES
   

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    Albie Hecht, Oscar(R)-nominated producer and co-creator of the "Kids'
Choice" and "Video Game Awards," and Casey Patterson, senior vice
president, event production & talent development for Spike TV will serve as
executive producers of Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards. Greg Sills is
supervising producer, Alicia Portugal is producer and Scott Fishman is
executive in charge of production.

    Spike TV is available in 96.1 million homes and is a division of MTV
Networks. MTV Networks is a division of Viacom International Inc. (NYSE:
VIA, VIA.B).

SOURCE Spike TV
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Quemaqua on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:08:42 PM
Predictable.  Does anyone actually watch these?  Or Spike, for that matter?
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: idolminds on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:29:10 PM
BEST SOUNDTRACK
  Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)

I think if your game is all licensed music that you shouldn't win an award for it.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: MysterD on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:29:38 PM
I didn't watch it last year, no -- even knowing Oblivion won GOTY.

About Spike TV, I only watch it namely for TNA Wrestling on Thurs.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: MysterD on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:30:32 PM
Quote from: idolminds on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:29:10 PM
BEST SOUNDTRACK
  Rock Band (MTV Games/ Harmonix)

I think if your game is all licensed music that you shouldn't win an award for it.

They did give another award for Best Score....
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: scottws on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 04:57:31 PM
Can you really call the Orange Box a game?
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Cobra951 on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:01:25 PM
Nooo!  Don't bring that up.  It will start an argument again.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Quemaqua on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:17:12 PM
You can't.  The end.

Also, BioShock doesn't come close to winning best original score.  It had good music, but much of its strength was the licensed stuff, and while several of the original tracks were absolutely stunning, there wasn't nearly enough of it to make up for how much of it was just trying to be spooky or atmospheric or whatever.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: scottws on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:22:53 PM
Quote from: Cobra951 on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:01:25 PM
Nooo!  Don't bring that up.  It will start an argument again.
I must have missed it.  I don't know what you are talking about.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Cobra951 on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:31:13 PM
http://www.overwritten.net/forum/index.php?topic=2861.msg35927#msg35927

Edit:  I could have sworn this went further than that one post and my reply.  Maybe in a different topic?
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: scottws on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:44:16 PM
Quote from: Cobra951 on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 05:31:13 PM
http://www.overwritten.net/forum/index.php?topic=2861.msg35927#msg35927
Haha, the first thing that jumped out at me was a bit of unintentional foreshadowing:

Quote from: Quemaqua on Thursday, October 11, 2007, 07:25:34 PM
I think it's a load of bullshit that they're even "reviewing" a pack of games in the first place.  That infuriates me.  You don't review a fucking pack of games, especially not the way GSpot is doing it with the awards and stuff.  It's entirely nonsensical and I'll say it again: Gerstmann needs to go.

Journalism my ass.

Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Cobra951 on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 06:03:04 PM
Ha!  Yeah, I saw that too, and did a double-take.  Looks like Que got his wish.  It's all his fault!
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Quemaqua on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 06:21:45 PM
Heh.  Well, it's hard to say if that direction was really Gerstmann's fault now.  I mean, it isn't like things are going to change, and most likely he was being pushed into it by someone else.  If that's the case, I feel sort of bad for saying it in retrospect.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: MysterD on Saturday, December 08, 2007, 08:42:40 PM
Orange Box isn't a PC game. It's a compilation of games.

So, if Orange Box is to get some sort of an award, it should get  2007's Best Compilation Pack Award or some shit.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 01:42:38 PM
Gamecock interrupt Levine's acceptance of GOTY award. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDDAtVLRZw)  I don't know if this was considered funny or just disruptive (which it obviously is).  After seeing how the winner was announced, the show gets no respect from me anyway.  I'm sorry Levine even attended.  Serves him right?
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 06:03:44 PM
Who the fuck is gamecock? 

But beyond that, I can't blame Spike TV.  Look at the target demographic.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 06:12:29 PM
I disagree with cobra. Winners should always be announced via bodypaint on a naked chick.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 06:46:32 PM
And beer. And brooms.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 06:48:52 PM



 ...




 ... *sigh*
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: NatchDan on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 07:20:30 AM
The show was worth watching for the acceptances by the Harmonix guys. You know the chick who pretends to be intensely stupid on the behind the scenes video on GH2? She was smashed.
Title: Re: Spike TV's 2007 Video Game Awards
Post by: Quemaqua on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 07:56:35 AM
Somebody find a YouTube of that, haha