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GAF Games of the Year Awards 2008
- Thread starter AniHawk
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I think it's pretty much U2 for the lead. It seems to be the fanboy's bread and butter this year(Comes out at the back half too, so less time for the hype to die down). It's going to be top 3 at the very least if not 1. K2 may come in on the back half. While Scribblenauts is definitely the dark horse. Either way there is going be allot of year of the PS3 meme flying around like normal.AniHawk said:
slaughterking
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I disagree. While it's true that there are tons of games to be considered in a game of the generation vote, I think most people already have a hard time creating a meaningful and organized top 10. I can't imagine anyone being able to create a definite top 20 or 25.AniHawk said:
MvmntInGrn
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If Uncharted 2 wins everyone will just cry fanboys, whether true or not.BeeDog said:
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UC2 has a good chance of being high on the list, because it has has a good chance of being a high quality game at the end of the year.
I'd be surprised if KZ2 makes the top five, though, honestly.
It's not going to be an easy year to predict. MW2 will be up there, I guess.
Here's hoping Brutal Legend earns a good position.
I'd be surprised if KZ2 makes the top five, though, honestly.
It's not going to be an easy year to predict. MW2 will be up there, I guess.
Here's hoping Brutal Legend earns a good position.
mario ate my burger
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Last generation would be too easy
1. GTA 3
2. San Andreas
3. Vice City
That's about it
1. GTA 3
2. San Andreas
3. Vice City
That's about it
mario ate my burger said:
I would hope people wouldn't do this, because San Andreas is clearly better than the other two and stands the test of time far better as well. Same would go for other games that don't hold up to their sequels. The idea would be to be voting for your favorites now, not what they were back then.
Personally, I'd change my 2004 choice from KOTOR II to Half-Life 2, and move Pikmin 2 to second place and KOTOR II down quite a bit.
slaughterking
Member
Well, I don't know. I think a top 10 would be just fine, but if you want to separate it from the GotY thread 15 is the next best thing, I guess.AniHawk said:
Do you have a particular critique of the system you've used in the past? I think it's pretty good. I'm not sure it would work so well if you had 25 choices and gave 25 points to number one though. That would kinda negate your later choices as they would score so low.AniHawk said:
mario ate my burger
Banned
AniHawk said:
Ok, you're right. I put GTA 3 first for what it did for the 3D sandbox genre. My judgement was clouded when SA is clearly the better game. Therefore, I will change my top 3.
1. San Andreas
2. GTA 3
3. Vice City
In terms of counting...to make the job easier...surely it should be possible for someone (maybe me if I have time) to make a scraper that could go through the thread and look for a certain specified formatting, and to count the votes. It wouldn't be perfect, because people have different ways of naming different games, but you'd at least get stuff like:
metal gear solid 4: xxx
mgs4: yyy
mgs: zzz
which could then be reasonably easily added together...at least vs counting individual posts!
metal gear solid 4: xxx
mgs4: yyy
mgs: zzz
which could then be reasonably easily added together...at least vs counting individual posts!
Fredescu said:
Yeah, that's a good point too. One of the reoccurring criticisms is that the top choice doesn't mean a whole lot. Some people think it should be worth more than the runner-up. That's why I let people have gaps between their next choices if they feel their runner-up wasn't really all that close to their favorite game.
The other thing is that some people want to vote for games for specific genres, rather than the genres being decided where a game falls into someone's top ten list.
Normally I don't respond to these, but I guess I'll bite.BeeDog said:
I don't recall questioning the quality of it. GOTY awards are allot more about hype the game receives than quality of the game. It's not to sound harsh, but do you really think GeoWII deserved it's 5 or 6 spot with a broken online mode? If you take a look at the most hyped games from the beginning of the year to this, there is allot of overlap. It does have merit since they are linked to quality developers. But it also meant they manage to build up a fanbase prior to release and allot more exposure so the game is more known(you still get that 1 or 2 a year which do manage to build up it's train of hype after the game came out). In the end, It still comes back to hype.
I can always go further with how the bulk of the games will fall on the big 3 consoles, while the other 3 systems take a hit. Be interesting to see where Igames fall into line with this one.
But I'll finish it with this, Fanboy doesn't have to include a negative connotation. It means you're a fan of it. We have a small amount of Dragon Quest ones here. They really love the game and I'd considered them to be big fans of it. How can anyone considered that a bad thing when everyone here is one of some game or another. But once it goes into a meme like nature of hyping the game up. Nor do they blindly hype a game up based on the system it's coming out on.
About the only one that has manage to build up a big hype train without really feeling like a nuisance has been Scribblenauts. The avatars are actually a clever use, It was a game with no media prior to E3, it is attempting to do something really different, and so forth. It's also been in one thread for the most part.:lol
brandonh83
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billy.sea said:
If fuckin... Beatles Rockband beats Resident Evil 5 or something... I just wouldn't know what to do except cry moar.
pizzaguysrevenge said:I definitely think that Half-Life belongs in the N64/PS1 generation.
Just look at the graphics.
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Browse http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/medal-of-honor/screenshots a bit and then see if you still think that. I'd consider Half-Life firmly in PS2 generation (And HL2 in with 360/PS3).
iconoclast
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A game of the generation vote would be pretty interesting. My only problem with it is I'd probably sit there for a couple hours trying to figure out my entire list...
Expect to see Steel Battalion near the top!
Expect to see Steel Battalion near the top!
mclem said:
HL2, along with other 2004 PC games, came out for the Xbox though.
Dreamcast games that were also PSX games would also count (Rayman 2, Marvel vs. Capcom, etc), you'd just have to be voting for that particular version (I played Rayman 2 on the N64 and only the N64, so I wouldn't vote for it). Technically, this would make Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 game too.