The Game of the Year Award Winners Thread

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BrayanA on 21 January 2009

@Aldro, @Machina-AX, @Onyxmeth
Can you tell me how "The Salt Lake Tribune", "Herald Review" or "Daily Star" are gaming sites? Or electronic entertainment oriented?

By this same logic I can post "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20090102_Bare_Knuckles___A_wild_year__with_no_real_knockout.html

Do you know how many "XXX Tribune", "XXX Post" or "XXX News" are out there?

This is just not serious! Keep your search at english electronic entertainment related sites!

Do you know how many french/italian/finn/polish/russian/japan/cech/slovenian/slovak/serbian/bulgarian/romanian/turkish/greek ... (Jesus, do you know how many languages we have only in Europe?) sites and magazines are out there?

This will become a total mess if somebody don't start to filter them.

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BrayanA on 21 January 2009

Machina-AX said:
@BrayanA - At the moment there aren't too many of them, so I'll leave them in. If they start to outnumber the awards from gaming websites then I may take them out.

The problem is that a lot of newspapers/news magazines do have a dedicated section on games reviews (particularly the weekend papers), which makes filtering them out difficult. So like I say, unless too many get list I'll hold off on removing them.

No problem at all. I can post 15+ more like those.

Ahhh how I forgot? PETA award - Fable 2

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Gnizmo on 21 January 2009

2old2game - Fallout 3 http://www.2old2play.com/News/The_First_Ever_2o2p_Game_of_the_Year_Awards Technically a user poll, but it is backed by a posted article saying they were the awards for the site which should meet the criterion set out.

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Barozi on 21 January 2009

4Players - MGS4

http://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht/Allgemein/Special/14478/61768/0/4Players_Spiele_des_Jahres_2008.html

(But don't ask me why the first place gets a silver medal and the 2nd place a gold medal ^^)
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Another site voted for MGS4, but they didn't include PC games, so I don't post the link here.

Couldn't find more GOTY Awards from German websites......

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Aldro on 22 January 2009

Goonl!ne to MGS4 link on page 8 & cacho to LBP page 8 aswell

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BrayanA on 23 January 2009

Wait a minute!
This one (http://gamereactor.no/nyheter/116099/%C5rets+spill+2008/) is a users poll!!!

If you are going to count it I will post 5-6 users polls too.

"Årets spill 2008, stemt frem av Gamereactors lesere" means "This year's games in 2008, voted up by Gamereactors readers"

Same for (http://www.eurogamer.pt/articles/Escolha_dos_leitores_Top30_2008?page=3)

"Escolha dos leitores Top 30 - 2008" means "Readers Choice of Top 30 - 2008"

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Aldro on 23 January 2009

Yeah but its offical, Its no blog vote >.
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same goes for eurogamer for that matter, Thats just how THEY choose to give the awards. Its -offical- lol.

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BrayanA on 24 January 2009

@Aldro,
I still don't like the idea to include users votes. Blogs votes or post votes are same - users votes. By this logic there should be 2 VGCartz GOTY awards, but you count only editors one. Don't you?

I don't like the idea to count non games related sites and newspapers too, but admins decided other way.

I still can't see 2old2play award in the first post - Fallout 3
http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-262245.aspx

You can then also add +1 for GTA4 for Rocky Mountain News

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/22/golden-crecentes-honor-years-best-video-games/