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NeoGAF Games of the Year 2010 Awards

dofry

That's "Dr." dofry to you.
Heavy+Rain+origami.jpg


I'm just so giddy. Love this at no:6. Nothing will change this, nothing. So giddy. Loved it. Have to start playing again tomorrow.
 
DrForester said:

Well, for what it's worth, it's pretty high compared to mine. I've got one person who I scored a 75 with...the rest are 60 and below. =(
 

Biff

Member
SC2 at 8th makes me sadface.

Almost all is forgiven for Black Ops in 28th. Sweet justice. That's what you get for fucking over the PS3 owners, Treyarch.

Shame on Platinum too but at least they patched Bayonetta to a somewhat playable state on the PS3.
 

user_nat

THE WORDS! They'll drift away without the _!
Sorry if this has already come up, but did anyone's top 10 match the final results?
 

boingball

Member
I think the Passion Award is wrong. It should be

1. Heavy Rain
1. Mass Effect 2

Those two games are getting quite some hate and love in the comments in this thread, which indicates passion:D
 

BowieZ

Banned
I for one am eagerly looking forward to our Uncharted 3 vs. Skyward Sword overlords.

Both their predecessors won Game of the Year.
 

user_nat

THE WORDS! They'll drift away without the _!
BowieZ said:
I for one am eagerly looking forward to our Uncharted 3 vs. Skyward Sword overlords.

Both their predecessors won Game of the Year.
Mass Effect 3 also.
 

randomkid

Member
Awesome job dudes, real interesting stuff here to look at in terms of gauging GAF taste (even if turnout was weirdly low this year, especially among mods, were stump and ami the only ones to vote?)

Wonder if you could produce the number of ballots that do NOT contain Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption or Mario Galaxy. Might be a way to check the number of gamer iconoclasts, sort of a crude threshold check of Durante's amazing dissimilarity statistic. (maybe also throw in Starcraft 2 to take care of the PC folks).
 
Yeah I am more interested in next year's vote. Red Dead was the only game on my list that I thought could be game of the year. I didn't really feel as strongly about any of the games this year compared to say ME, Mirror's Edge or The Witcher when they did come out.
 

El-Suave

Member
Maybe next year instead of honorable mentions we should have a "No thank you" slot where you get to nominate a game of which you fear that it might be popular, but which you personally don't want to see nominated at all.
 

Fredescu

Member
user_nat said:
Sorry if this has already come up, but did anyone's top 10 match the final results?
Nope. Closest was gdt5016 who picked the top 3. 27 people had ME2 at #1 and RDR at #2 but only gdt5016 also picked SMG2 at #3 and none of them picked Bayonetta at #4 or GoW3 at #5.
 

Ashes

Banned
Gaf users versus Metacrtic users top twenty:

gaf

1. Mass Effect 2 1302
2. Red Dead Redemption 1174
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2 904
4. Bayonetta 697
5. God of War III 588
6. Heavy Rain 568
7. Halo: Reach 542
8. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty 441
9. Super Meat Boy 396
10. Gran Turismo 5 373
11. Donkey Kong Country Returns 371
12. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 371
13. Fallout: New Vegas 349
14. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 328
15. Alan Wake 325
16. Vanquish 325
17. Super Street Fighter IV 306
18. Final Fantasy XIII 260
19. Just Cause 2 210
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light 204


Metacritic
1 Red Dead Redemption 95 360 | PS3 2,196
2 Mass Effect 2 94 360 | PC 2,069
3 Super Mario Galaxy 2 97 Wii 1,055
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops 82 360 | PS3 | Wii | PC | DS 887
5 Halo: Reach 91 360 684
6 God of War III 92 PS3 672
7 Heavy Rain 87 PS3 554
8 Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood 90 360 | PS3 524
9 Fallout: New Vegas 84 360 | PS3 | PC 388
10 Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty 93 PC 364
11 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 87 360 | PS3 | PC 359
12 Donkey Kong Country Returns 87 Wii 239
13 FIFA Soccer 11 78 360 | PS3 | Wii | PC | DS | PSP 220
14 Gran Turismo 5 84 PS3 213
15 LIMBO 90 360 212
16 Alan Wake 83 360 195
17 Civilization V 90 PC 193
18 Rock Band 3 89 360 | PS3 | Wii | DS 190
19 Super Meat Boy 90 360 167
20 Bioshock 2 88 360 | PS3 | PC 161

I'll do the changes between the two when I get off work...
 

Owensboro

Member
Awesome work! I love looking through the super-list of everyone's votes.

Edit: Hooray for Darksiders just being outside the top 25 (#26)!

List of games I MUST play:
Mass Effect 2 (Question: Should I wait for the PS3 version, or just go ahead and get it on the PC?
Halo: Reach
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Vanquish
 
I haven't even played the first Mass Effect, yet alone Mass Effect 2. I'll get down it to it someday, there's just too many other games to play. But congrats to the game for winning the award.

And well done to everyone involved, from the voters to the people who collected and organised the data. You've done good.
 

Arnie

Member
After Uncharted 2 I thought there's no way a game would have such an impact on me for a long time, and then Mass Effect 2 release mere months later. So deserved. So good. Well done Bioware.

Have to say though, and I myself am guilty of this as I hadn't played it when I cast my vote, but it's criminal how Castlevania: Lords of Shadow didn't feature on this list. Especially when God of War 3 did.
 

Chris R

Member
Users with similar selection to rhfb:
1. phaelf ( 94) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=10#489 ]
2. Myzer ( 87) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=7#301 ]
3. 19Kilo ( 86) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=16#762 ]
4. gokieks ( 80) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=16#763 ]
5. Man ( 79) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=13#642 ]

Total similarity score: 13979

Cool tool (feel I'm a better match with my #2 instead of #1 but whatever!) Also had to change stuff due to 100ppp.

Can't wait to go back and read every single last category and quote. Still only like 5 hours into ME2 so I hope it grows on me.

Also, the decade started last year, 2010-2019 aka the 2010's or 10's
 
Owensboro said:
Mass Effect 2 (Question: Should I wait for the PS3 version, or just go ahead and get it on the PC?
If your PC is good then yeah you probably should just go with that version. All the DLC will cost you like $20 which will still be less than what the ps3 version will retail for on release.
Arnie said:
Have to say though, and I myself am guilty of this as I hadn't played it when I cast my vote, but it's criminal how Castlevania: Lords of Shadow didn't feature on this list. Especially when God of War 3 did.
Because its kind of unoriginal, kind of long, kind of poorly paced. Its a pretty average game so I don't see why it should be in the top 10.
 

BowieZ

Banned
rhfb said:
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Also, the decade started last year, 2010-2019 aka the 2010's or 10's
He's right you know: decades and millennia don't line up.

Unless 2010 was the kick-off year being referred to. ;)
 

SA-X

Member
Wow great job guys. All of the data is pretty neat, it was a lot more fun to read that list and all of the data than any of the lame goty stuff the gaming press does. You asked for what we liked and didn't like, so I'll just add that it would be nice if the 'Seal of Quality' award was ranked by average points per title or something instead of total points. You know all the ones in that list that released more than 10-15 games released some crap that only a few people here enjoyed and it pushed them up higher on the list. I like pretty much everything else you guys did.

timetokill said:
High Quality Award
The Top 20 games with at least 10 appearances, ranked by Average Points per Appearance

01. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 2.82
02. Mass Effect 2 - 2.79
03. Red Dead Redemption - 2.78
On the one hand, this makes me think that if more of you bums had played Galaxy 2, it would have rightfully won first place. On the other hand, it also makes me think I should play ME2 and Red Dead. :lol
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Wouldn't have given it to Mass Effect 2, but it was in my top 5 (I think) so I'm happy it charted.

But what makes me really happy is Bayonetta charting high.

Good job GAF. Good job.

Now get Heavy Rain out of there and we can call it day.
 

Chris R

Member
BowieZ said:
He's right you know: decades and millennia don't line up.

Unless 2010 was the kick-off year being referred to. ;)
The wording didn't make it seem like that was the case. If it is, mea culpa.
 

FStop7

Banned
chandoog said:

Wrex.

I could have flipped a coin between ME2 and RDR and been happy with either as GOTY. They each had their positives and negatives. I felt like RDR told a much better story, though. And in the end that's why it was my personal choice as GOTY.CX
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
El-Suave said:
Maybe next year instead of honorable mentions we should have a "No thank you" slot where you get to nominate a game of which you fear that it might be popular, but which you personally don't want to see nominated at all.
Why so we can have more trolling?
 

Semblance

shhh Graham I'm still compiling this Radiant map
Results are not too surprising, but wild to me all the same. Alan Wake sneaking right past Vanquish is so very, very wrong.

At least Bayo cracked top five.
And at least Lords of Shadow was MIA from the top 25, holla.
 
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Deleted member 30609

Unconfirmed Member
much respect for Bayonetta's position on the list, GAF.

Very interested to see the top 4 remains the same even when only taking into account top place votes.

and it almost goes without saying, which is why I'm only now editing this in, but much respect to timetokill and cheese for putting this all together.
 

Mar

Member
BumRush said:
One of the best OPs I have ever seen...well done sir.

I have to wonder though. Are those things in the corners of the graphic meant to be fireworks or rectums?
 

Fredescu

Member
Rez said:
Very interested to see the top 4 remains the same even when only taking into account top place votes.
The passion award in the third post does that. It does remain the same for what it's worth.

Mar said:
I have to wonder though. Are those things in the corners of the graphic meant to be fireworks or rectums?
They're seagulls forlornly carrying a lost loved one, representing that while some games soar to the sky, others yet were sent to die.
 

BumRush

Member
Mar said:
I have to wonder though. Are those things in the corners of the graphic meant to be fireworks or rectums?

Haha yeah the picture isn't the greatest but the summary of games is amazing.
 
A big thank you to timetokill, Cheesemeister and Durante!



$$PopcornMegaphone
Users with similar selection to PopcornMegaphone:
1. Redbeard ( 102) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=5#223 ]
2. Feindflug ( 97) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=10#499 ]
3. pakkit ( 88) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=24#1175 ]
4. MrSerrels ( 87) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=17#805 ]
5. Pride ( 86) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=21#1030 ]
6. Datwheezy ( 86) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=13#610 ]
7. Lakitu ( 86) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=12#551 ]
8. Zeouterlimits ( 85) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=19#934 ]
9. A00man ( 85) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=12#600 ]
10. Iksenpets ( 84) [ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416386&page=26#1285 ]

Total similarity score: 28334



I gotta say, my #1 in similarity is surprising considering half my picks were 360 exclusives. :lol
 

LosDaddie

Banned
Durante said:
There's the Ruby installer. It's very simple to use, but I just ran the script for you anyway:
Lowest total similarity I've seen so far, congrats ;)

Can you run the script for me? I'm on a work computer, so I don't think I should do that on this comptuer.

I'm really curious if anyone on GAF was similar to my GotY picks. I think it will be really low.
 
LosDaddie said:
Can you run the script for me? I'm on a work computer, so I don't think I should do that on this comptuer.

I'm really curious if anyone on GAF was similar to my GotY picks. I think it will be really low.
Check the OP, and download the similarity sheet (it's near the top of the post, don't worry). Then you can just Ctrl+F your name.

BowieZ said:
Unless 2010 was the kick-off year being referred to. ;)
I actually did mean 2010, but I could see how the wording would confuse that issue :p
 
Amir0x said:
Surprised Picross 3D is so high. I love me some Picross but heard middling things about Picross 3D. Maybe I should try it out
You really should.

Alts said:
Converted the excel spreadsheet to something more programmer friendly if people want to play with the data.

http://evilrobotstuff.com/gaf_goty2010_votes.json
While people are playing with the data, could someone put it into SPSS?

SA-X said:
On the one hand, this makes me think that if more of you bums had played Galaxy 2, it would have rightfully won first place.
Sorry! I'll get around to it eventually...
 
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