Mass Effect 2 Nabs Golden Joystick Ultimate Game of the Year Award

[xam883]

mass effect 2 GOTY yeah sounds about right
final fantasy got best soundtrack but brutal legend kicked more ass but it was an international vote (i think)
plants vs zombies hell starcraft 2 should have got best strategy game hands down

 

[Comma-Kazie]

No surprise there! It's easily one of the best games to come out in at least the past five years.

 

[archvile93]

Well Mass Effect 2 is a good choice for game of the year, but I don't know about Guitar Hero 5 over Rock Band 3. Or COD: Black Ops over...anything. Especially When games like Brink and Bulletstorm and Portal 3 are on the horizon.

Well personally I'm pretty hyped for Black Ops and those other games you mention are much farther away so...wait, Portal 3? They already announced Portal 3?

 

[DSK-]

Good god Supreme Commander 2 was a nomination for RTS's? what is the world coming to!

 

[The Last Nomad]

Ive never played a mass effect game so I don't have any personal opinion on whether it should have won or not but I was glad to see ACII winning the action/adventure catagory (Although I reckon Red Dead could/should have beaten it).

The Catagory that annoyed me most was Download games. I see GTA:Chinatown Wars and LittleBigPlanet are there. 2 PSP games, by that logic any PSP game coould be in that catagory (Exept for the few that are unavailable on the PSN). So why wern't there more full PSP title in that catagory over small DLC packs and minigames? And more importantly... why wasn't Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker not there, or in Portable Games? It should have won both catagories let alone even being nominated. But of course it would be near impossible to get more votes than a Pokemon game.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Soundtrack + GotY are wrong....


Better choices could be made...

 

[DTWolfwood]

im dumbfounded by

Strategy Game Of The Year - Plants Vs Zombies

Nominees: Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Anno 1404, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising, Napoleon: Total War, Plants vs Zombies, Supreme Commander 2, The Sims 3, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising and Worms iPhone.

Not that Starcraft2 didn't win, but that SC2 WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED?!?! like WTF?!
the sims 3?!?!

My head is gonna exploded

 

[DTWolfwood]

Spoiler: snip

Ugh..

Plants vs. Zombies didn't deserve anything at all, let alone beating SC2 for Strategy. (I don't know which is worse- SC2 not being nominated, or SC2 being nominated then losing to PvZ)

Black Ops should've been beaten by Portal 2, (which wasn't even nominated- either it's not planned for release there or these people are sad, ignorant, or stupid) Galaxy, Zelda, or pretty much anything else on that list.

Jagex....do they even do anything other than Runescape? (The game is boring, takes 0 skill or strategy, and the people that play it are mostly illiterate assholes that rip on low level players even though they deserve more respect than the level cappers.)

Overall, it's easy to tell how the steriotypical uncultured masses run the show. The nominees are dissapointing and lacking, and the large majority of the people that voted are most likely flash gamers that have never played more than 1 nominee, if that, from each category. ME2 and AC2 are the least dissapointing of the lot.

It was voted for by the public, and considering how often they normally fuck up I think this went pretty well. and SC2 wasn't eligible for this year

wtf kind of a GOTY award only count games of the first half of the year >.<

Ah wells than its sure to take the 2011 award...just a year late.

 

[chaos order]

y so much hate for jagex? i like runescape and they are making a new mmo

 

[brunothepig]

My choices would have been...
Action/Adventure Game Of The Year Assassins Creed 2, though Arkham Asylum would be a close second.
Download Game Of The Year COD: WaW Zombies
Fighting Game Of The Year UFC 2009 (Only one of the nominees I've played though)
Music Game Of The Year Guitar Hero Metallica
One To Watch Crysis 2 (not least of all cause that game is looking damn pretty lol)
Online Game Of The Year Haven't played any of them
Portable Game Of The Year Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver
Puzzle Game Of The Year Haven't played any of them
RPG Of The Year Fallout 3 (but I haven't played the Bioware games)
Racing Game Of The Year Haven't played any of them
Shooter Of The Year Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Soundtrack Of The Year Brutal Legend (haven't played it, but I know the soundtrack is epic)
Sports Game Of The Year Haven't played any of them
Strategy Game Of The Year Age Of Empires III
UK Developer Of The Year Rockstar North
Ultimate Game of the Year Arkham Asylum

Overall it was pretty good for a vote thing. PvZ is a retarded choice, but what are you gonna do?

 

[Crunchy English]

Ok, first. SC2 fans need to calm down. You'll get nominated next year. Might not win, but definitely nominated.

That dealt with,let's not be so negative guys. Zynga didn't win anything. Metro 2033 got nominated.

 

[soren7550]

The only one I don't agree with is Music Game Of The Year. How did a game that desecrates the memories of great artists and had little involvement with the artist featured win over one that honors its artists and worked in collaboration with the remaining band mates and the deceased's surviving family members throughout the entire project?