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G4 Announces Nominees for X-Play Best of 2011 Awards. Skyward Sword am cry.
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DisenLedZep
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Doesn't it fell weird for gamers to choose between these two games, and not one of them is in the game of the year category?
Fanboyism or bad journalism? GAF will be the judge (?)
Hot Coldman
Banned
Feep, you know what to do next time you're at the offices.
It involves fire, if you're having trouble figuring it out.
Hellsing321
Member
Way to steal the Northies from Giant Bomb.
R_thanatos
Member
he did ?
it's anything but tacked on ..
DAT co-op missions .. Monastery on crushing is the most trilling thing i've played online this year
GOTY
Skyrim- 360 or great specced PC
Most disappointing game of the year
Skyrim on PS3 or a PC at Required/slightly above specs.
Deserves both awards Imo
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Trails in the Sky? Nice. It's the sort the game that you wouldn't expect to show up in a mainstream list like this, but it absolutely deserves it.
Franklinator
Member
Well, obviously. But I definitely agree with your second point. I guess I just want Rayman to get all the praise/nominations it can get lol. But, yeah, Uncharted is definitely deserving of a nomination now that I thought about it some more.
I honestly don't understand all the hype about Skyward Sword. Granted, I didn't play it, but I've played many Wii games.
I see people bitching it didn't get best art or best animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL6fOoX9ilE
What? I'm sorry, but how is that even best art/animation on the Wii, much less in the entire industry?
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny is a pretty average game, and the art style in that is 10x better.
Interesting nomination list to say the least.
God damn no SS and UC3 in GOTY must be stinging many here.
lol LA Noir. First instinct was to go "WTF?!", but then saw the Nolan North categories and realised these guys like kidding around, which would explain many of the noms.
God damn no SS and UC3 in GOTY must be stinging many here.
like me 
lol LA Noir. First instinct was to go "WTF?!", but then saw the Nolan North categories and realised these guys like kidding around, which would explain many of the noms.
sixteen-bit
Member
Moneyhats?
I agree rayman should be up there too. If anything needs to be taken off that list it's Arkham City. I love the game but it's got that drab UE3 art style that's in a ton of games that use the engine. Art style is not what it does best.
All of G4's GoTY nominees received 5/5, hence the inclusion of L.A. Noire and exclusion of Zelda.
Davey Cakes
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The Legend of Zelda is one of the most acclaimed and heavily-discussed video game series of all time and has been around for 25 years. A new console Zelda game built from the ground up for the Wii comes out a whole five years after its predecessor and you don't understand the hype?
Plus the art direction is fantastic. The graphics are stuck in the realm of 480p and the hardware limitations are often apparent, but the game itself is colorful and vibrant. It also uses a cool effect where environments and objects look like paintings when viewed from a distance. It's not mindblowing but it deserves recognition of some sort.
And yeah, you have to actually play the game to experience it.
MeBecomingI
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This is awesome!
However, the rest of list is absolutely trash. I don't even know where to begin, but I'll start with two obvious, WTF omissions in no Uncharted 3 for Best Animation and Game of the Year. Seriously, X-Play? No wonder you are joke!
Tallshortman
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Not a great GOTY list... SR3 and no Uncharted 3? I think I'll go with Arkham City over Portal 2 for my GOTY. Skyrim is really amazing at first but really slows down later on, it will likely win though.
Also, I'd like to see Nolan North go up against Mark Hamill. Far and away the best voice performances of the year. The fact that Marcus Fenix is on there is a huge joke.
Also, I'd like to see Nolan North go up against Mark Hamill. Far and away the best voice performances of the year. The fact that Marcus Fenix is on there is a huge joke.
sixteen-bit
Member
Okay so the 5 was legit?
I don't work at/for G4, so I have no idea. My point is that the perfect score is the reason L.A. Noire is on the GoTY list, not R*'s influencing of the awards. If the game scored 4/5 and yet was still nominated then, yes, that would be circumspect. Having said that, I find it strange to extend the number of GoTY candidates to 7 - the category should have been limited to 5 as per its neighbours.
GrandHarrier
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Skyward Sword does have alot of painful, monotonous filler. It sullies an otherwise decent game.
LA Noire is 100% painful, monotonous filler.
Note: I'm not actually trying to defend SS. It does have some filler that does hurt the experience. I have no desire to compare SS and LA Noire. I only just despise LA Noire.
Philthy
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Skyrim is pretty much broke on every platform. Until they get resists fixed, dragon killing fixed, and dragons glitching backwards fixed, it remains shelved. While the PS3 version is much more crippled, what I listed is enough to keep it from being very fun on any platform.
totally
This....its ridiculous how these games get a free pass from most media publications...
Saints Row 3 is superior to its predecessors and brings loads new to the table.
Uncharted 3 is inferior to its predecessors and kind of flat.
chickdigger802
Banned
There is a lot to hate about LA Noire, but what are the good aspects?
Face tech is no doubt amazing. The acting (outside of interviews )and story was solid.
But the story makes a good noir movie, but is not satisfying as a game plot.
examining the evidence was novel, but always pretty cool.
Also... you can get your hat shot off (and pick it up again!), which is undeniably cool.
Shooting sections were also... pretty solid?
Face tech is no doubt amazing. The acting (outside of interviews )and story was solid.
But the story makes a good noir movie, but is not satisfying as a game plot.
examining the evidence was novel, but always pretty cool.
Also... you can get your hat shot off (and pick it up again!), which is undeniably cool.
Shooting sections were also... pretty solid?
While totally screwing up the story. Gameplay was alright,
but the endings and their pointless killing of well liked characters is very off-putting.
NullPointer
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Considering all the shooters this year its a shame not to see Crysis 2 being talked about more. I don't know of a better shooter campaign in the past year, although I do see some praise for Bulletstorm and Resistance 3, two other games I'm not seeing much GOTY fever for.
sixteen-bit
Member
I still need to play that one. I hear it's amazing.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Character customization and amount of content was far superior in SR2. SR3 is pretty much all tutorial until the last 15 missions or so. Also the story (not really a highpoint of the series though), characters and gangs are inferior to the previous Saints Rows. SR3 may have the edge in content one day when you take into account the billion DLCs they have planned.
I also didn't care for the character upgrade system they used in the game. Maybe it's just me but I loved unlocking things as a reward for doing activities and missions. And the rewards could mostly be unlocked in whatever order you chose. Maybe some people didn't like dual wielding automatic pistols with infinite ammo early on in SR2, but I sure as hell did.
SR3 does do some things better than the previous games. But taken as a whole, it's an inferior sequel.
Play SR2 instead. You can get it for a lot cheaper and there's so much more to do. Well unless you have a PC. The SR2 PC port was apparently shit.