Video-game awards

[XxSephirothxX]

Personally, I think Halo 2 is overrated by its massive fanbase (they think it's the best thing ever, obviously) and underrated by others. But that's beside the point, really. I watched GPhoria last year, and wasn't especially impressed by it, though it was far, far better than the SpikeTV awards. The only awards show of any kind I've had much respect for is the Oscars, and, even then, I'll never agree with everything that wins. It's not a situation that will work out for everyone involved, so I just don't bother caring about it.

[Sephex]

becauase like the oscars and stuff the greatness of anything should be determined by the educated few not the masses. critics know what is best compared to folk who buy the games. look at how many movie tie ins get to no1 in the charts but are total crap.

voting and popular numbers are not a way to judge anything.

Actually, video game critics suck, and have a previous history of being paid off for a positive opinion of a game.

*cough*GAMEINFORMER*cough* Mortal Kombat Deception was an improvement over MK: DA but a 9.5? Right.

Anyway, I don't really trust a lot of game critics because most of them have their own agenda. I hate to pick on Game Informer again, but they do this all the time. I remember they gave a Mario Party title a 2.0 just because they are sick of it. I don't really like Mario Party titles myself, but I thought it was VERY unprofessional of them to rate the game on a personal level like that. I understand that you have to be personal to an extent, but giving a game a bad score because you personally thought the series should stop is very immature.

[Lord Chainsaw]

Both Halo 2 and Katamari Damacy came out last year.

Well let's all assume for argument's sake then that since we're talking about an award's show this year, "the best games I've played this year" would constitute as whatever range of games would be covered at this year's show meaning Sept 2004 - Sept 2005 seeing how 2005 isn't over yet.


Really, it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about. There's not a gamer in the world that doesn't remember the month of November 2004.

[Cloud No.9]

what happened then?

[Shoeberto]

Half-life 2, for one.

I don't think anything else really matters.

[Lord Chainsaw]

The fact that the biggest games of the year for each of the consoles was released in November is why it's important. Technically though San Andreas was released at the end of October, but you can easily substitute Metal Gear Solid 3 for it as the big PS2 November release.

PC received Half Life 2
Xbox received Halo 2 (11/9/2004)
PS2 received Snake Eater
GCN received Metroid Prime 2

There you go.