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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 07:49:57 PM
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PC List is up for GameSpy's 2007 GOTY Awards. (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/pc/2.html)
PC Winners Recap
PC Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
PC Top 10 Games of the Year
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. The Orange Box
3. BioShock
4. Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
5. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
6. The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
7. World in Conflict
8. Crysis
9. Sam & Max: Season 1
10. The Witcher
PC Action Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
PC Adventure of the Year
Sam & Max: Season 1
PC Best Strategy Game of the Year
World in Conflict
PC Expansion of the Year
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
PC MMO Game of the Year
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
PC Multiplayer Game of the Year
The Orange Box
PC RPG Game of the Year
The Witcher
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Huh. I had no idea Lord of the Rings actually came out this year.
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A load of shit, as expected, but not quite as large a load as expected. The Witcher's win makes me happy, as does seeing GalCivII: Dark Avatar win. Sam & Max makes me happy too, even though I haven't played the new episodes yet.
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The Witcher's win for RPG Of The Year and making their Top 10 PC Games made me very happy.
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GameSpy's Special Awards are up for their 2007 GOTY Awards (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/special/29.html)
Special Awards Winners Recap
Rookie Developer Game of the Year
Realtime Worlds
Best XBLA Game
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Best PSN Game
Everyday Shooter
Best Wii Virtual Console Game
Sin & Punishment
Best Puzzle Game
Portal
Best Sports Game
skate
Best Soundtrack / Score
Mass Effect
OverUnderAchiever Award
Avatar: The Burning Earth
Robocop of the Year
Crackdown
Best Voice Acting
Mass Effect
Game that Makes Us Want to Treat Our Guitar Like The Who
Rock Band
Worst Thing Ever Done to a Videogame Girlfriend
The Darkness
Most Unique Art Style
Team Fortress 2
Best Use of a License
The Lord of the Rings Online
Worst Use of a License
Shadowrun
Best Art Direction
BioShock
Best Sound
BioShock
Best Graphics
Call of Duty 4
Best Character
GLaDOS (Portal)
Best Sidekick
The Weighted Companion Cube (Portal)
Best Developer
Infinity Ward
Best Story
BioShock
Best Innovation on the Wii
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Best Trend of 2007
Community Integration
Worst Trend of 2007
Lousy Hardware
Biggest Disappointment
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
The 6th Annual When It's Done(tm) Award
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Surprise of the Year
The Witcher
Yay for GameSpy giving The Witcher "Surprise Of The Year" (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/special/28.html)
Surprise of the Year -- The Witcher
Often delayed and built off of an old BioWare game engine, we had thought that The Witcher was a game that had missed its opportunity. When it finally appeared on store shelves late in the year, we weren't expecting much.
We were wrong.
Turns out that The Witcher is among the best single-player RPG experiences available in 2007. The world is gritty and stark, the characters are gloomy and real, and the gameplay is spot-on. As a supernatural badass you can ingest potions to amp up your abilities, but they're basically poisons -- you're killing yourself with every sip. The tension this creates plays out spectacularly, as does the terrific combat.
The Witcher's white-haired protagonist Geralt may come across as a pale-faced goth kid's fantasy if you're judging by box art alone. But we were surprised to discover he's one of the coolest characters around. Yes, he's a master of multiple cinematic fighting styles, a dab hand at magic, and can work wonders around the campfire with his alchemy. But more importantly he's always up for a game of dice, will never turn down a drinking contest, knocks people around in underground "Fight Clubs," and isn't too proud to say anything it takes to have his way with each and every able-bodied woman he meets (especially when stumbling drunk). This guy even collects risque sex cards, artistically cataloguing his romantic conquests. It's like the medieval equivalent of snapping dirty pictures with your camera phone.
It's always great to see a game come out of nowhere and really knock your socks off. Despite suffering from a couple technical issues, especially the lengthy load times, The Witcher is one of the best PC games of the year. We'll drink to that!
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Glad to see some recognition there. GSpot doesn't even have the game available as a voting option for any of its categories. Fuckers.
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Those were the prelims. I think they do now.
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Weird. How do you not have it in preliminaries then it suddenly makes it to finals? Senseless. Not that it matters in the end, I just like to see games get exposure by at least being on the list. The awards themselves are meaningless, but exposure is good.
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Weird. How do you not have it in preliminaries then it suddenly makes it to finals? Senseless. Not that it matters in the end, I just like to see games get exposure by at least being on the list. The awards themselves are meaningless, but exposure is good.
With that in mind I think there are some games that just do not deserve positive recognition e.g. NFS ProStreet. Good God how the Heck did that make it in the list??!
Anyway, shouldn't a GOTY list basically consist of the highest scoring games for that magazine/site?
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I always thought Crysis for best graphics would be a no brainer, but CoD4 took the spot.
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I always thought Crysis for best graphics would be a no brainer, but CoD4 took the spot.
They're both visually impressive, although I think CoD4 won simply because it takes a lot more resources for Crysis to look great.
In my eyes CoD4 is more artistically appealing and Crysis is more graphically appealing.
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Well f you scale your settings to medium, it will still look better than COD4.
I thought COD4 was a really good game, but it is kinda like The Transformers winning the oscars just because it was the best selling movie of the year. Just because something sells well, doesn't make the best the year had to offer.
I though Crysis, The Witcher and of course Bioshock were better candidates.
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Well f you scale your settings to medium, it will still look better than COD4.
I thought COD4 was a really good game, but it is kinda like The Transformers winning the oscars just because it was the best selling movie of the year. Just because something sells well, doesn't make the best the year had to offer.
I though Crysis, The Witcher and of course Bioshock were better candidates.
Witcher and Bioshock were great.