** Game Awards 2009 - Results and Discussion **

tman wrote: »

Maya Fey for hottest character of the decade was a little worrying tbh...

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Wiki says she's 17. Won't even have to do time :P

I think tman must of meant lolicon. 17 years old... come on, you know in anime anyone whos 17 is drawn like a 12 year old :pac:

There's also that image floating about of you dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl

In all seriousness though, Demon Souls doesn't even get 1 mention. Damn shame, damn damn shame. My personal best game of the year and in my top 5 for games of the decade.

calex71 wrote: »

Lmao get rock band 2 my friend , then do that playing endless setlist 2 for the bladder of steal achievement on expert (no pausing or hitting guide button or failing , 84 songs in 1 sitting) pampers optional but recommended

I tried for it recently but gave up on the bladder cheevo after 2 hours and paused for comfort, came back and played over the space of a day, but sure didn't i forget about a song called visions, 2 songs from the end :mad: could only make it 10 seconds in before failing out. Agree this should count as the boss battles of all boss battles, theres no luck involved just skill , which i lack it seems

Yeah, have RB2, but some of the songs seemed the way of Guitar Hero (noise and screams making a crap song for the sake of giving it some difficulty), whereas you enjoy the songs on RB1 ...and although I like achievements, I'm not such a whore as to want to do 83 songs without at least a piss break for one :P :P We'd need at least 2 bottles of vodka and a bottle of Southern Comfort to do that !!
You were probably doing it on expert, we did the RB1 one on HARD as we couldnt face doing Run to the Hills on expert after 8 hours :P ...planning ye see

perhaps "Nominations" threads should be changed to "Suggestions" and a handful of mods should be able to decide themselves what games should be voted on.

I'm not being sarcastic; some people here plays games here far more than I have time for and although I would consider 1 of the 3 games a year I play to be amazing, I know that people that play more games are able to make better judgement calls than I.

I like that idea, might get more people knowlegeable about some less well-marketed titles. I'd have never played demon's souls without reading about it here, so if it won an award maybe even more people would give it a shot. I'm sure there'll be something similar next year as well, ao throwing some games in that aren't widely nomnated would be a good idea, just for variety's sake.

Also scarecrow was great as an experience only a game could deliver, with the coughing that makes you wonder what's going on, then that long corridor. Freaked me out I'll admit. But as a boss battle, pure and simple, it was a bit meh. Based on the build up nothing comes close, but if we're going on just the part where you fight scarecrow directly, not a chance it's the best boss battle of any decade. Maybe next year some clarity about what we should take into consideration for each category would improve the result. Or at least justify it.

Fair play to everyone who worked on it though, it was the damn public who messed up!

The problem is people play the games which get the most market exposure
Dumb Modern Shooter 5
Generic Interactive Film 2
Iteration updated roster Soccer 2011
Sandbox Criminal, Sh1thole City
The Best Part was when the Car exploded Racer

Are these games the best of the year? Sometimes they are but often not. They are the best sellers though and people can only vote based on what they have played.

Look at Demon Souls, how can people here vote in any great numbers for it when it didn't even get a PAL release. How can its lack of awards come as a disappointment or surprise to anyone?

My biggest gripe is to see titles like Uncharted 2 win awards, bar its production qualities it is the complete opposite direction I wish games were going. It's a 10 hour throw away game.

If you want committee awards go to almost any videogame website. The boardsie ones should be based on popular opinion...even if they are wrong

Crucifix wrote: »

If you want committee awards go to almost any videogame website. The boardsie ones should be based on popular opinion...even if they are wrong

yeah but popular opinion released Barabbas...

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Where did this bad name I'm getting come from?

.Pshhh


I think a Mod's choice awards thing would be nice IN ADDITION to the main awards. Would give all the Fifa and COD players the opportunity (if they so please) to broaden their horizons.

I thought Bioshock was as deserving Storywise as SH2 tbh (but you RUINED that for me).

I think Demons Souls got less interesting the more I played it.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You see if we do that we'll get accused of favouritism and 'fight the powah!' posts. Public vote usually isn't right but it is the fairest.

Another good point. I mean what right have the mods or selected users to say that that they are experts in gaming. Mods are just regular users trusted by the admins not to abuse powers to make sure the forums are run smoothly.

Holy **** I better re-enter a more PC version of what I actually said:

perhaps "Nominations" threads should be changed to "Suggestions" and a handful of mods (or boards elected people who are recognised by the boards communitee as knowledgeable in the area of video/ electronic gaming) should be able to decide themselves what games should be voted on (after being trusted to analyze the nominations/ suggestions thread and keeping in mind that popular opinion does indeed count when creating shortlists of games that will be voted on, whereupon the winner chosen will be done so by the popular vote of boards.ie members).

I'm not being sarcastic; some people here plays games here far more than I have time for and although I would consider 1 of the 3 games a year I play to be amazing, I know that people that play more games are able to make better judgement calls than I.

I think the most important word here was "perhaps" which implies it was only a suggestion that was not yet completely formed/ intended to be set in stone.

Point in case someone mentioned earlier that Rock Band's endless set-list should have been counted as a Boss Battle. This thought never crossed my mind but the moment I heard about it I completely agreed.

Agh.