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Saiyar on 27 July 2007
twesterm said:
Saiyar said:
twesterm said:
Saiyar said:
twesterm said:
Not meaning to sound like a whiny fandboy of another console, book look at the nominees. That was another one of those contests where they have to nominate themselves and I'm guessing that Nintendo, like they've done in other similar contests, didn't bother applying.

The award is for EU developers only. I think Rare was the only EU based studio that Nintendo had.


No offense to Europe, but winning a European developers award is like winning the special olympics. There are some good ones out there, but when you're on a list with Red Steel, well, do I really have to go on?


It also had Crackdown (many peoples game of the year so far), Motorstorm, Crush, GRAW 2 and Viva Pinata. It also had Lego Star Wars, while not my type of game it is pretty well recived.

I think if you were to take the NA developers and look at the last year you would also find a similar lack of depth. You would really only have Gears of War and Resistance battling it out for game of the year. Sup Com, Company of Heroes. Can't really think of anything else.

The only area with real depth is the Japanese market as they seem to be releasing quality titles across the 5 main platforms.


I think you missed my point about Red Steel. It is in fact a terribly game. It was a decent effort, but it was just a bad game. Any place that puts that game up for a serious best of catagory is pretty much a joke.

Also, why would Gears and Resistance ever duke it out for game of the year?

1) Even if you liked R:FoM you can't honestly believe that game is worthy of Game of the Year. It just wasn't that good.
2) They were released in different years you freakin' simp.

And you have have to be kidding me if you honestly believe that the Japanese don't release bad games. There have been plenty of stinkers from there.

Lastly, I never said that NA didn't have studios that didn't release that great of games. What I was implying was that EU doesn't have many studios at all that release good games. Besides the huge uber studios like Ubisfot and EA, there just isn't much quality there.

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And some recent NA games with depth: Brothers in Arms series, Gears of War, Mass Effect, God of War, Heavenly Sword, WoW, Starcraft II, Metroid Prime, GTAIV, Halo 3, Little Big Planet, Guitar Hero, Civilization,  Tabula Rasa, Oblivion, The Darkness, Overlord, DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Boogie.  That's just a small list off the top of my head.  No, no good games come from NA at all.


1. The awards were covering the time from July 06 to June 07. Thats why I said in the PAST year. This covers Gears and Resistance. You really should learn to read before you call other people simpletons.

2. How many of those games you listed comes from that time period?

3. I didn't say japan has no bad games. They have pleny. But in the PAST year there have been far more quality titles from Japan than from EU and NA combine. Mostly due to Wii/DS.