Wow some of the people here sound like they just lost beauty pageant or something. Controversy like this happens often (see bcs this year) but to get so angry over a game winning an award that it has some merit to is just wrong. I mean its one thing if they gave the award to a VC game or something like Carnival Games. That would have been something to b*&ch and whine about. Granted maybe this comes from someone that has played the series since they've come out but I don't see how MK or SSBB would be games of the years because the updates to me are not that much better than AC except for the fact that you could take it online (and thats been done before on the DS for MK){and yes I own all three series' previous versions). The best Mario Kart for me still is the N64 one, especially with the controls, the worst one being the GC one, while SSB can be debated. World of Goo was something that came out and was something fresh not merely trying to build on brand recognition.
I for one am not angry at WoG getting GotY in fact if it means that more developers will go out and try to create interesting games for me to play on wiiware I'm glad that it did. The only thing left will be for Ninty to allow seamless play from the SD card so all our memory storage concerns will be alleviated as I know that I'm down to like 100blocks left and there is still countless things for me to get.
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life." - author unknown
