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slowmo said:
think-man said:
How did far cry beat halo for best shooter? Haven't played neither just though halo would beat far cry....Congrats on journey winning GOTY its a great little game.


Because they were more concerned about "balancing" awards than actually issuing them correctly.  My bet is they did it to appease PC fans.  Just like they gave Journey GOTY to please PS3 fans and Halo 4 best graphics for the 360 fans.  

Well I think journey does deserve GOTY weather it was a ps3 exclusive or not, Can't comment on Halo 4's graphics without playing it.



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think-man said:
How did far cry beat halo for best shooter? Haven't played neither just though halo would beat far cry....Congrats on journey winning GOTY its a great little game.

it won shooter of the year against far cry 3 in the 360 category. it seems like ign wasn't really sure what they should do haha



crissindahouse said:
think-man said:
How did far cry beat halo for best shooter? Haven't played neither just though halo would beat far cry....Congrats on journey winning GOTY its a great little game.

it won shooter of the year against far cry 3 in the 360 category. it seems like ign wasn't really sure what they should do haha

Guess the ps3/PC users that played far cry 3 helped bump it up the pecking order.



think-man said:
crissindahouse said:
think-man said:
How did far cry beat halo for best shooter? Haven't played neither just though halo would beat far cry....Congrats on journey winning GOTY its a great little game.

it won shooter of the year against far cry 3 in the 360 category. it seems like ign wasn't really sure what they should do haha

Guess the ps3/PC users that played far cry 3 helped bump it up the pecking order.

yeah and in the endi it's just personal taste, i think borderlands, halo and far cry wouldn't be undeserved winners.

for me i would understand people who think like:

halo 4 if you are a multiplayer fan

borderlands 2 if you are a co-op fan and like cell-shading

far cry 3 if you prefer singleplayer

for me, halo has the best full package with awesome multiplayer and very good co-op (campaign and spartan-ops) and singleplayer which puts it above the other shooters but if people prefer singleplayer much above multiplayer why not far cry 3 right? (i didn't play far cry 3 yet so i can't really argue about the singleplayer compared to halo but that's what reviewers liked)



Gz to Journey! most beautiful game ive played. An enchanting experience!



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think-man said:
How did far cry beat halo for best shooter? Haven't played neither just though halo would beat far cry....Congrats on journey winning GOTY its a great little game.

Far Cry 3 is actually in the top 5 GOTY's this year by critics. It's fighting Journey and Borderlands 2 for the 2nd spot (They all have 11 awards) whereas Halo is in a distant number 8 spot.

It's also 1 award ahead of Halo 4 on best shooter of 2012 AND currently tied for Best Graphics with it even xD. Still many more to come but yeah, its a close one.

 

See the list here =>

http://gotypicks.blogspot.se/



The lack of borderlands 2 is extremely disgusting. That game is the definition of a shooter