Game Awards 2013 [** RESULTS!! **]

Mr E

Nomination threads for the first two categories are open now.

Xbox 360/One
Wii U

360/One are combined for now, but there is a separate Game of the Year thread for each.

Since we're I'm so late this year, I'm going to blitz through the nomination phase (2 days per group). The next group will go up on Thursday evening.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=499

Mr E

Actually lets make it 2 days per group. Thursday for the next set, followed by Saturday and Monday. Should be ready to vote by the middle of next week.

Zero-Cool

The only games awards worth voting in!

calex71

Slim pickings last year for me in terms of games worth nominating, actually worst year in a long time. There were some great games just not very many of them, speaking from an xbox perspective.

Mr Freeze

Went into vote, there is barely anything worth voting for on the 360 anyways.
Most of my time was spent on Battlefield 4 and Assassins Creed 4 lately, none of which is worth nominating for anything really.

I will be able to nominate 3 in the fun/disappointment awards if there are any. :pac:

Mr E

Mr Freeze wrote: »

I will be able to nominate 3 in the fun/disappointment awards if there are any. :pac:

Yup, same groups as normal.

Next: PS3/PS4/PC
Then: Portable (3DS/Vita/Mobile)
Then: Fun and Overall.

Retr0gamer

Hottest female better be filled with fire emblem girls.

RasTa

How can the best Xbox game also be on the PS etc. Exclusive only no?

richymcdermott

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Hottest female better be filled with fire emblem girls.

only girl that mattered this year was lucina :L

I love how it seems all the categories for the Xbox 360 so far are filled out with GTA V, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light, and Tomb Raider.

Mr Freeze

Deleted User wrote: »

I love how it seems all the categories for the Xbox 360 so far are filled out with GTA V, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light, and Tomb Raider.

It was a bad year for exclusives, not a great year for gaming in general I would say, certainly not for me as a 360 player. The PS ones will probably just be The Last Of Us for everything.

Retr0gamer

Metal Gear Rising needs more love. That game didn't pretend to be anything other than pure fun. Up there with Mario 3D World for my game of the year.

tok9

It's not a massive surprise in fairness.. I don't own one but the only exclusive I can think of is Gears of War.

tok9

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Metal Gear Rising needs more love. That game didn't pretend to be anything other than pure fun. Up there with Mario 3D World for my game of the year.

Wouldn't be my GOTY but completely agree on the fun.. great game. I hope it sold well enough so platinum could actually develop from the beginning if there is a sequel.

Penn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Metal Gear Rising needs more love. That game didn't pretend to be anything other than pure fun. Up there with Mario 3D World for my game of the year.

While it was a lot of fun, it did have a lot of flaws too. Really poor camera in a lot of areas, controls could be dodgy enough, very short game and uninteresting story.

Mr Freeze

tok9 wrote: »

It's not a massive surprise in fairness.. I don't own one but the only exclusive I can think of is Gears of War.

Judgement was really poor, if it had Horde mode, It might have been worth nominating.

Radiosonde

Penncil Dick wrote: »

While it was a lot of fun, it did have a lot of flaws too. Really poor camera in a lot of areas, controls could be dodgy enough, very short game and uninteresting story.

You just described Wonderful 101 too.

Retr0gamer

Penncil Dick wrote: »

While it was a lot of fun, it did have a lot of flaws too. Really poor camera in a lot of areas, controls could be dodgy enough, very short game and uninteresting story.

Who needs a story when you can split a Metal Gear in two.

Randall Floyd

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Metal Gear Rising needs more love. That game didn't pretend to be anything other than pure fun. Up there with Mario 3D World for my game of the year.

Just finished it. Great game just a bit too short. It's the best game I've played from last year.

johnny_ultimate

I wouldn't agree it was a bad year for games at all: in fact, there were dozens of fascinating, progressive, intelligent and downright enjoyable games released. The 3DS, PS3, PC and even iOS had no shortage of great games, and I'll struggle to pick the most deserving nominees in some of those categories. The indie scene was particularly vibrant.

It was an appalling year for the 360 though. Almost as if Microsoft was content to just let it die in advance of the One. Definitely highlights were predominantly multi-platform. Was there even a single definitive exclusive worth singling out?

Retr0gamer

The only exclusive I can think of was Gears of War Judegment

Mr Freeze

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The only exclusive I can think of was Gears of War Judegment

There were a handleful of XBLA titles(hardly worth mentioning), but Gears of War Judegment was the only AAA title as far as I remember.

Oh and DARK came out on Windows and XBOX 360, PS owners are probably glad it wasn't inflicted on them, apparently its terrible.

calex71

Gears yeah, in contrast the PS3 seemed to have a few, don't really follow it as I don't own one but recall at least 3.

There seemed to have been a major drop in the actual number of releases last year on 360 not just in quality

I almost nominated Defiance sure thats how stuck I was for things to nominate, just to vary the nominations a bit but I thought better of it

Kind of ironically I forgot to nominate "remember me" while not stellar it was a decent game given the company it had last year, and showed some interesting ideas but fell down in it's execution some what.

Maybe I'll give Nilin the nod for hottest female

@Mr Freeze I wanted to get Dark actually , but could it be found in a bricks and mortar shop?????? Heard since its poo

Mr E

Closing this batch tonight and starting the next one. Still no nominees for Best Sports Game (360/One), Best RPG (360/One) and Best Sports Game (Wii U).

If there are no nominees, there will be no vote on those categories.

calex71

Mr E wrote: »

Closing this batch tonight and starting the next one. Still no nominees for Best Sports Game (360/One), Best RPG (360/One) and Best Sports Game (Wii U).

If there are no nominees, there will be no vote on those categories.

I best pop over and nominate Diablo 3 and Defiance ...... purely out of spite so Diablo obliterates it in the vote

Retr0gamer

Microsoft kind of did the same with the first XBox, a few months before the 360 all excusive development just stopped.

Mr E

New categories now up:

PS3/PS4
PC

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=499

mewso

I assume early access, alpha/beta releases don't count. Truly terrible year for PC rpgs. Don't think I played any of them.

cherryghost

mewso wrote: »

I assume early access, alpha/beta releases don't count. Truly terrible year for PC rpgs. Don't think I played any of them.

There's been plenty, and plenty of good ones too. You just have to look :P It's not that it was a terrible year, it's that 'mainstream' devs look to other genres. The indie RPG scene however is thriving because of it. Try Rogue Legacy and Avadon 2. Both old school but extremely good RPGs

mewso

cherryghost wrote: »

There's been plenty, and plenty of good ones too. You just have to look :P It's not that it was a terrible year, it's that 'mainstream' devs look to other genres. The indie RPG scene however is thriving because of it. Try Rogue Legacy and Avadon 2. Both old school but extremely good RPGs

Yeah the spiderweb stuff has been on my list for a while. Not really into roguelikes though. I like my rpgs with quests and exploring and quicksaving

Zero-Cool

You'd think there would be more nominations with the amount of people on here

Varik

sheehy83 wrote: »

You'd think there would be more nominations with the amount of people on here

Some of the category don't have many games this year at all, and I wouldn't be nominating something because it was the only game that was eligible.

Josey Wales

sheehy83 wrote: »

You'd think there would be more nominations with the amount of people on here

For me personally the majority of games I played and finished were from my backlog. Only a handful were released in 2013. And some of those that were I found were overrated like BioShock Infinite.

Mr E

The next group is up. Time for portable gaming:

3DS
Vita
IOS
Android

johnny_ultimate

I had at least five nominations I could have put down for 3DS game of the year without hesitation, and I haven't even gotten around to playing some other key games. The console is going from strength to strength

Randall Floyd

A link between worlds on the 3DS, get the obvious one out of the way

Banjo

Randall Floyd wrote: »

A link between worlds on the 3DS, get the obvious one out of the way

Only for those who've played it Damn you Pokemon, why did you make me choose? WHY??

Mr E

The Fun category is up.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=499

Mr Freeze

I can barely vote in the Fun category too, it really was a terrible year to be a 360 gamer. (can't afford another console before ye say, get a PS/PC).

Mr E

Final Group (Overall Category) is now open.

Mr E

OK guys, time to vote.

http://bit.ly/gameawards2013

Several of the "Fun" and "Overall" categories had lots of single nominations, so some of the groups there are quite large. Should be an interesting vote.

The survey will remain open until Thursday at 6pm, and results will be made available that night.

Mr E

Bumping this for the weekday boardsies.

tok9

While it may not have made a difference, I wish I was around to vote for the Overall..

Was disappointed to see TLOU wasn't nominated for Online.. felt it was the best MP last year.

degrassinoel

wow, after doing that, last year was really crap for games

SeantheMan

I didn't notice any of the threads, will have to get through them all later today at dinner

tok9

degrassinoel wrote: »

wow, after doing that, last year was really crap for games

No it wasn't... in fact it was arguably one of the best years of the last generation.

SeantheMan

tok9 wrote: »

No it wasn't... in fact it was arguably one of the best years of the last generation.

it was ?......

I must have missed that one. Please enlighten us as some of the 'best games of the generation' that were released ?

Apart from The Last of Us...which everyone seems to love.
And don't say Bioshock Infinite, because it wasn't.

Josey Wales

SeantheMan wrote: »

it was ?......

I must have missed that one. Please enlighten us as some of the 'best games of the generation' that were released ?

Apart from The Last of Us...which everyone seems to love.
And don't say Bioshock Infinite, because it wasn't.

That is a very subjective argument. One persons 'best games of the generation' could be totally different to your own choices. That does not make the other person wrong.

Mr Freeze

Well as a 360 gamer, it was a very poor year. I struggled to nominate titles.

sarumite

I found the best games weren't to be found in what is usually referred to as "AAA" space within gaming. I really enjoyed a lot of indie games that came out either in 2013 or the tail end of 2012 that I didn't pick up until this year. Some games I didn't play (notably paper please) I do appreciate from wathcing the odd lets play. I have poured more hours into Rogue legacy last year than any other single title.

Retr0gamer

Indie games and handheld is where the best games this year were. Handheld gaming was pretty amazing in 2013.