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Forums - Nintendo - IGN's Wii Game of the Year award goes to....a wiiware title.

Esa-Petteri on 19 December 2008
axumblade said:
Esa-Petteri said:
Yeah, world of goo is a good game. Much better than other titles released on wii for 2008. It is weird that people feel insulted that a game without mario won a goty award for nintendo console.

Doesn't World of Goo have one of the highest scores for a "wii game." I personally really want the game....badly. But I'll have to wait till after christmas.

Yes it does. That is why I find this weird, there must be some really snobcore-nintendo fans on this site.



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z101 on 19 December 2008

Hm, I liked de Blob netter.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 19 December 2008
Grampy said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:

I have this on PC. It's a good little puzzle game... but GOTY? Jeez, 2008 wasn't THAT bad for Wii was it?

Nope, it wasn't bad at all. You may have noticed game sales 11.2, MK Wii. What's too bad is that all the gaming sites are showing their petty side and thinking that making the GOY competition a way to strike back at this devil's spawn with weird controls and games that only sell to those 40,000,000 kiddies and grannies, will somehow stop this slide into irrelevance.

The attitude is like those naïve people that run around crying “we’re destroying the planet. The planet is doomed.” 

“No,” I reassure them, “the planet will survive. The planet will just do fine…….. you’ll all be dead of course; human’s will be extinct, but the planet will be fine.”

 

 

 

Yeah... you're little rants stopped being cute a long time ago.



Grampy on 19 December 2008

Don't write them for you.



salaminizer on 19 December 2008

Braid will not win the X360 award because Live got its own section on IGN

anyway, in these days I just go to IGN to complain about their awful DS reviews :P



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frybread on 19 December 2008
Grampy said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:

I have this on PC. It's a good little puzzle game... but GOTY? Jeez, 2008 wasn't THAT bad for Wii was it?

Nope, it wasn't bad at all. You may have noticed game sales 11.2, MK Wii. What's too bad is that all the gaming sites are showing their petty side and thinking that making the GOY competition a way to strike back at this devil's spawn with weird controls and games that only sell to those 40,000,000 kiddies and grannies, will somehow stop this slide into irrelevance.

The attitude is like those naïve people that run around crying “we’re destroying the planet. The planet is doomed.” 

“No,” I reassure them, “the planet will survive. The planet will just do fine…….. you’ll all be dead of course; human’s will be extinct, but the planet will be fine.”

 

 

 

I agree.  Remember how the gaming sites *hated* Mario Kart Wii's Wheel and wrote it off as trash plastic?  Now look how many people online are using and apparently loving it.

I'd have picked MK Wii as it got the most play time from me this year.  SSBB, while predictable, would not have been a bad choice.  It's the best fighting game this gen.

Wii Fit would have been the brave choice - much like the car magazines that decided to honor Prius as "car of the year" earlier this decade because it represented the future, so does Wii Fit.  Coming into this generation, what were the major complaints about video games?  1) Violence.  2) Laziness.  Wii Fit tackled both of those issues.

Anyway, I'm not upset with "World of Goo" as GOTY, I'm upset with the reason IGN picked it, as if it were a wake up call to Nintendo or something.  If they picked it honestly on its own merits, I'd be fine.

 



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Comrade Tovya on 19 December 2008

My WiiWare game of the year for 2008 was the same as the game of the year of 1990...

Super Mario Bros. 3

I still have my old NES console, but it sure is nice to play this game on a console where you don't have to put the cartridge in partially and force it down, nicking the edge of it on the plastic of the console to make sure the cartridge is recognized by the system... Yeah, the infamous problem that drove all of us nuts. You know you remember!



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colonelstubbs on 19 December 2008

Strange result...poor brawl!



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numonex on 19 December 2008

Super Smash Brothers Brawl was ripped off. I demand a recount.



Alpheus on 19 December 2008

SSBB,while it introduced new elements to the series,failed to justify the most important of them a) online and b)adventure mode.Thus,it only got boring fast.

I was pretty sure it'd either be World of Goo,or Mario Kart Wii.