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AIAS nominations up. Gears of War leads with 10 nominations
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GeneralIroh
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Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
Game Title Developer Publisher
Gears of War Epic Games Microsoft Game Studios
Final Fantasy XII Square Enix Square Enix
Call of Duty 3 Treyarch Activision
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft
Viva Piñata Rare Microsoft Game Studios
Call of Duty 3, Rainbow Six:Vegas do not belong in the art direction category. I dont know how the hell they didn't nominate Okami or Zelda:TP for those 2 spots. WTF are they thinking?
Game Title Developer Publisher
Gears of War Epic Games Microsoft Game Studios
Final Fantasy XII Square Enix Square Enix
Call of Duty 3 Treyarch Activision
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft
Viva Piñata Rare Microsoft Game Studios
Call of Duty 3, Rainbow Six:Vegas do not belong in the art direction category. I dont know how the hell they didn't nominate Okami or Zelda:TP for those 2 spots. WTF are they thinking?
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
these things are fucking joke
GeneralIroh
Member
sp0rsk said:
Meh! I think Halo is more overrated than GOW.
krypt0nian
Banned
GeneralIroh said:
I don't think either is overrated. There is no such thing as overrated. They are rated as they are rated.
Overrated is a message board word that means nothing in real life.
You know what's funny? It seems any game that's hyped, turns out to live up to the hype and a great game, then goes on to sell millions automatically becomes OVER-rated.
It never fails. Halo, GTA, GOW, etc are all great games and not overrated in my book. They usually get exactly what they deserve.
What happened to a game just being rated? Is there such a thing? If GOW would have stopped selling at 1 million, could it have just been called rated?
I don't get it.
It never fails. Halo, GTA, GOW, etc are all great games and not overrated in my book. They usually get exactly what they deserve.
What happened to a game just being rated? Is there such a thing? If GOW would have stopped selling at 1 million, could it have just been called rated?
I don't get it.
sublime085
Member
I don't understand Lego Star Wars getting the Animation nod. I mean they're animating lego people! There are like 3 points of articulation. That doesn't seem very hard to animate. Or are they simply rewarding the amount of expressive-ness they achieved with the simple movements?
I would say Resistance was too late for the awards, but it launched soon after Gears and even before Zelda.
I have no idea why they didn't pick it.
But remember, there's always a snub. Remember when everyone was expecting Metroid Prime to face off against Splinter Cell and they didnt' even nominate Ubisoft's game?
One bright spot: You know what's missing from the overall category?
You guessed it. A PC shooter. They pick one of these games just about every year.
I have no idea why they didn't pick it.
But remember, there's always a snub. Remember when everyone was expecting Metroid Prime to face off against Splinter Cell and they didnt' even nominate Ubisoft's game?
One bright spot: You know what's missing from the overall category?
You guessed it. A PC shooter. They pick one of these games just about every year.
Angelcurio
Member
No Okami mention in that category. Those nominations just failed.
DCharlie
Banned
why not? outside of Okami not being nominated which is an obvious thorn in peoples cornflakes, both games look fantastic
... animation in Gears isn't good or something?
what? Gears isn't innovative and FFKOTORII is ?!? Okami !?! come now.
Zelda has better animation than Gears? I know there are opinions and everything, but seriously ... are you sure about this?
just because gears of war has no anime characters and nerds can make hentai fanart out of it doesn't mean its overrated
Gears of War is Terminator kind of awesome. It's perfectly suited to the Xbox: kickass graphics, amazing sound, corny dialogue, online play and the cole train. It's that marquee game that every console gamer knows about, and it's just about the first of this new gen.
Gears of War is Terminator kind of awesome. It's perfectly suited to the Xbox: kickass graphics, amazing sound, corny dialogue, online play and the cole train. It's that marquee game that every console gamer knows about, and it's just about the first of this new gen.
AltogetherAndrews
Member
Resistance is getting pooped on left and right
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
I recently beat Gears of War over the weekend with a friend....and yes I'll give it GOTY. It's freakin' fantastic.
Grimm Fandango
Member
So how much is the buy-in this year? I think it was $10,000 last year.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
So, does AIAS stand for Asshole Idiots Against Sanity?
Gears having the best gameplay "innovation?" Gimme a break.
Don't get me wrong. Gears is a great game. I really love playing it. But I also love driving a Ferrari. While a Ferrari might have a few features that most cars don't have, like having a shift plate on the steering wheel, it still uses the same feature that have been used to drive cars since the turn of the twentith century.
Gears uses the same gameplay mechanics that have been around for. Very fun gameplay, but nothing new.
And what's with nominating VF4? That game came out a few years ago.
Gears having the best gameplay "innovation?" Gimme a break.
Don't get me wrong. Gears is a great game. I really love playing it. But I also love driving a Ferrari. While a Ferrari might have a few features that most cars don't have, like having a shift plate on the steering wheel, it still uses the same feature that have been used to drive cars since the turn of the twentith century.
Gears uses the same gameplay mechanics that have been around for. Very fun gameplay, but nothing new.
And what's with nominating VF4? That game came out a few years ago.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
sp0rsk said:
Wait...what?
sp0rsk said:
and GoW doesn't? you're joking right? Why exactly do you think this?
Imo This is THE next-gen defining title out of all next-gen titles at the moment. It deserves all the love it gets. After playing through gears of war, I decided to start making the leap to Next gen, and not until then had I planned to.
Shogmaster
Member
Fixed2BeBroken said:
sp0rks doesn't play videogames anymore. He just plays hate'n for fun.
HocusPocus
Member
Hopefully Gears and Oblivion win most of the awards. 
HylianScribe
Member
How the **** does a game with game breaking game design choices and generally broken gameplay end up being nominated for so many awards? Including one for gameplay design!
Oblivion was enjoyable, and one of the more enjoyable experiences I've had on the 360, but ****, it was a broken game as far as design goes. If it wasn't so overhyped by the press and forum lunatics (like gow, but at least gow has solid game design backing it), it wouldn't have gotten those scores.
That list has a lot of pretty bad games on it and missing a few really good ones. The hell is wrong with this industry...
Oblivion was enjoyable, and one of the more enjoyable experiences I've had on the 360, but ****, it was a broken game as far as design goes. If it wasn't so overhyped by the press and forum lunatics (like gow, but at least gow has solid game design backing it), it wouldn't have gotten those scores.
That list has a lot of pretty bad games on it and missing a few really good ones. The hell is wrong with this industry...
goldenpp72
Member
I dont think capcom games can be nominated for these can they ? I remember something about re4 and a reason for it.
Eteric Rice
Member
The Zelda hate around here is so damned funny. People bitch because the gameplay is pretty much the same. Ironically, if they changed the gameplay at all, people would bitch about how it "isn't Zelda."
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