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ckmlb said:
twesterm said:
leo-j said:
What game got GOTY last year?

http://www.gamechoiceawards.com/

Gears of War won the last one. What's interesting for those people that say graphics matter, the five games that were nominated were: Gears of War, Oblivion, Okami, Wii Sports, and The Legend of Zelda: Twlilight Princess. Notice that three of those games were widely criticized for bad or last generation graphics.


This is BS, no one criticized Okami for looking bad and no one counted graphics when evaluating Wii Sports. Anyway those would be my top 5 minus Wii Sports and I would have given it to Oblivion over Gears easy.


 Okami was very pretty and I never or will never say otherwise and I don't think anyone else has really said otherwise either, but graphics wise it wasn't anything impressive.  It had style which counts loads more than realistic graphics (which is what most people consider good graphics).  

As for Wii Sports, plenty of people counted graphics when evaluating Wii Sports.  One of the things a lot of people try to bash is because it has beyond simple graphics (which once again I have no problem with).

And Oblivion, it's my own opinion, but it wasn't what it was cracked up to be.  I know only a very small number of people that finished the main storyline, save for the Dark Hand and a few other quests, they large amount of sidequests weren't that impressive (though it was nice they had so many), the gameplay wasn't great, the leveling system was broken, it took user created mods to create all the little problems with the game, it wasn't really that pretty--it just used a lot of bloom (and I even found a few floating trees in Kevatch), the face modder they used wasn't great in that everyone looked the same, all the NPC's had the same exact voice (especially the orcs), and the list goes on.  The game wasn't bad, it just wasn't as great of a game as everyone made it out to be.