Looks like Microsoft failed to deliver their monthly check.
| Legend11 said: Did anyone really expect Gamespot not to give it to SMG? I would have been shocked if another game got it simply because I expect Gamespot to play things safe after what happened earlier this year. Expect no surprises or shockers from them for at least the next year. |
| naznatips said: I hate the idea of anyone giving it to CoD4. Bioshock I can tolerate, although it's given more credit for originality than it really deserves (As anyone who owns both it and System Shock 2 can tell you). CoD4 though plays EXACTLY like CoD2, but with better online multiplayer, and a really short campaign. I think they had a lot of opportunities to evolve the CoD franchise with CoD4 and didn't take any of them... My #1 choice for GOTY if it's not SMG is Orange Box without contest. Again, I don't mind Bioshock getting it either. |
I don't know naznatips, it really is just a preference thing. If I go by your post history, then you seem to like a fleshed-out singleplayer game over a fleshed-out multiplayer game, so of course you are going to prefer Biochock over CoD4.
Non of the CoD games were a very good source of a single-player game for me. They excel at multiplayer, and that is what most fans seem to have come to expect out of them.
Just so you know, for my goty, I would have to give a tie to SMG and CoD4. I liked Bioshock and the Orange Box, but the other two were more fun for me.
I do have to ask though, when you say that CoD4 plays exactly like CoD2, do you mean in terms of controls or in gameplay experiences?
Edit: Correction, my goty is a tie between the pc CoD4 and SMG.
Edit 2: And please explain your answer, thanks.
Good job, Nintendo! Finally getting the glory back. :D
I'm still not convinced it is the best game of the year, I have gotten into many other games more.
| a.l.e.x59 said: Super Mario Galaxy! All 10 nominees are amazing games. I'm surprised how many Xbox 360 games made it to the finals, which was 6. 2 PC games, 1 Playstation 2 game, and of course, 1 Wii game, also made it, but sadly, there were no Playstation 3 games. |
It were only 2 Xbox 360 exclusivs, the rest was multiplatform.
whatever said:
Wow, wasn't sure you could sink to a new fanboy low, yet here it is. It was the best game this year and it wasn't on the 360, get over it. |
I wasn't bashing SMG...
| SlorgNet said: Games of the year, my foot. Here's the problem: the top ten list contains... a shooter. A shooter. A shooter. A shooter. A racing game. An action game. A shooter. A shooter. A Cold-War-themed war strategy game. Oh, wait, there's also a music game and a platformer. Sure, some of these are great games. But we're talking two games with possible mass appeal (music game and platformer). The rest are niche games for a niche market -- the shooter demographic -- mostly very young guys looking to get their crosshairs on. Nothing wrong with that, shooters can be great fun, but that's not the only kind of gaming experience out there. |
I don't think you can fault a game for it's genre. Yeah, there are a lot of shooters there, but a good deal of diversity within those shooters (half life-portal, bioshock and CoD4 are all very different experiences), and truth be told there really were a lot of great shooters. This is a result of the marketplace - shooters are hot right now, as at one time were platformers and fighting games. That means that shooters will get disproportionate amounts of resources devoted to them, and have a bigger attraction to talented artists, and thus it should be no surprise that you get a number of very well made shooters.
Legend11 said:
I wasn't bashing SMG... |
You were, however, suggesting that Gamespot gave it GOTY to enhance their credibility as a non-biased source, not because it was the best game this year.
At least they didn't pick Kane and Lynch. 
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