How am I bitter? More people would call NSMB the GOTY but this isn't a popularity contest amongst the whole gaming population. Its simply a'core' gamer contest and throw away games with good graphics and shooting tend to win the day. Games which have little staying power shouldn't win GOTY awards, but the gaming press is pretty terrible and has always been terrible at these kinds of things.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! You 2... just made my freaking day. You guys are the scheisse!!!! Congratz, full of win

You sound angry.

he sounds angry to you ?

hmm.. maybe people who are angry just assume other people are just as angry .. interesting

Not really. But hey when you're angry all you can generally manage is a stupid one line reply. When you're angry writing a snarky sentence and pressing the enter button is about all you can manage. 

I'd agree on strategy and downloadable game.  As for story, I think it's down to how the story was delivered vs the story itself.  Uncharted 2 is straight from the Raiders school of Saturday morning B movies, however I do think (of all the games I played in 2009) that it conveyed its story and characters better than any other title.  Like Raiders it portrayed a B movie to A movie standards.  The voice acting was superb, it had a genuinely nice feel for narrative and flow, from it's great start through to a satisfying end (not the boss fight, the actual end which is the final cutscene).

That's why it gets so much kudos on story I believe - not the story itself, but how well it is told.  AC2 for example, as an more open world title, simply doesn't tell it's story as well strictly speaking.  It's okay, but fairly standard and by game design you can break it up in silly ways, the standard curse of open titles - I'm trying to avenge my family here, my next mission is to track down one of those responsible, but I'll just break off and find a few feathers and beat up a cheating husband first.

AC2 is in some ways a treasure trove for its wonderful conspiracy theory driven elements coupled with a traditional story of revenge, but it executes its gameplay a lot better than the story, whereas Uncharted 2 does both very well and I'd argue uses better narrative decives with more conviction and confidence than AC2.

AHAHAHAHAH!!! This is Hilarious!!!!!

I'm laughing at some of the comments:

"This is absolute B.S. I didn't -- can't -- play Uncharted 2 for the simple reason I (and SOOO many others) don't have a crappy PS3," Ummm so that means a PS3 exclusive simply cannot be GOTY???

"MW2 won Best Shooter. L4D2 won Best Multiplayer... So... MW2 won for its single player experience? LAWL" Ahhhh hahaha Obviously didn't realise Uncharted won best ACTION game, and best visuals, and best sound, and best story. Yeah totally doesn't deserve GOTY.

Funny thing though best story award for PS3 went to InFamous, but best story overall goes to Uncharted 2 O_o

WilliamWatts said: guiduc said: WilliamWatts said: NSMB Wii was the best game of the year! I appreciate so much the title but nowadays, reviewers don't consider this as a great games. It needs incredible graphics, story, and not pure platform like Mario Bros Wii. But it won Best Platformer and Best Family Game. It should have also won Best Multiplayer instead of .... wtf L4D2 Incredible graphics? Incredible story? Well the first is supersceded already for Uncharted 2 so you can't take the points they gave the game for 'most incredible graphics' back as there are more incredible graphics somewhere else and as always stories are over-rated. Most video games have poo stories and the ones that do usually don't give you more incentive than to finish the game once. Gameplay is what brings people back and I bet NSMB will age far better than this apparant game of the year winner. NSMB Wii = best game, best platformer, best multiplayer, and best family game.

You should have said "Most video games that I have played have bad stories, and  ones that don't give you the incentive to finish the game more than once".

Its really sad that you would attack Uncharted 2 simply because it won game of the year.

It is surprise?
I don't think it could have been other game....
the thing that makes me happy is that nsmbwii won best platformer over R&C