Most anticipated, as dumb a category as it is, is about games that we know are coming out next year. WATCH_DOGS is 2-3 years away at least and for yet unknown next gen consoles.Foolproof said:
Spike Announces 2012 Video Game Award Nominees
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The depression of knowing that I'm still the target audience of these games...
Anyway, here's my winners. "But they're not even nominated," you might say in some instances. If that's the case, then I'll put the Under Protest Winner in parentheses. However, the REAL winners are thus:
Game of the Year: Mass Effect 3
Studio of the Year: Telltale Games (even if they did hose Strong Bad in the licensing agreement)
Best Xbox 360 Game: Halo 4, ONLY BECAUSE IT IS XBOX EXCLUSIVE.
Best PS3 Game: Journey, again because of exclusivity.
Best Wii/Wii-U Game: Xenoblade Chronicles or Last Story. We fought to get those, damn it!
Best PC Game: Diablo 3. Once again, exclusivity helps.
(Yeah, my picks for best individual console's winner are exlcusive. Maybe there needs to be a Best Multiplatform Game so we can stop nominating Assassin's Creed 3 so many goddamn times.)
Best Shooter: Mass Effect 3. (Of the nominees, Borderlands 2.)
Best Action/Adventure: Banjo-Tooie (Or of the nominees, Sleeping Dogs/True Crime: Hong Kong)
Best RPG: Mass Effect 3.
Best Multiplayer Game: Borderlands 2.
Best Individual Sports Game: SSX, if only because I still love SSX Tricky that damn much.
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K13, if only because fuck EA.
Best Racing Game: F1 2012
Best Song In A Game: "Swamped" by Laguna Coil from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines ("Cities" by Beck from Sound Shapes)
Best Original Score: Mass Effect 3 (Max Payne 3)
Best Graphics: Journey, solely for uniqueness.
Best Independent Game: Fez
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat. (Persona 4 Arena)
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Luigi gets a fox tail to fly, your argument is invalid.)
Best Performance by a Female: Melissa Hutchinson as Clementine in The Walking Dead
Best Performance by a Male: Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2
Best Adapted Game: The Walking Dead
Best DLC: Close, but Perpetual Testing Initiative from Portal 2 (runner up is Dawnguard)
Best Downloadable Game: Fez
Best Social Game: SimCity Social
Most Anticipated Game: South Park: The Stick of Truth
Character of the Year: Can't vote right now, but Commander Shepard.
Excuse me, I now know who voiced Handsome Jack and can deck him properly.
Anyway, here's my winners. "But they're not even nominated," you might say in some instances. If that's the case, then I'll put the Under Protest Winner in parentheses. However, the REAL winners are thus:
Game of the Year: Mass Effect 3
Studio of the Year: Telltale Games (even if they did hose Strong Bad in the licensing agreement)
Best Xbox 360 Game: Halo 4, ONLY BECAUSE IT IS XBOX EXCLUSIVE.
Best PS3 Game: Journey, again because of exclusivity.
Best Wii/Wii-U Game: Xenoblade Chronicles or Last Story. We fought to get those, damn it!
Best PC Game: Diablo 3. Once again, exclusivity helps.
(Yeah, my picks for best individual console's winner are exlcusive. Maybe there needs to be a Best Multiplatform Game so we can stop nominating Assassin's Creed 3 so many goddamn times.)
Best Shooter: Mass Effect 3. (Of the nominees, Borderlands 2.)
Best Action/Adventure: Banjo-Tooie (Or of the nominees, Sleeping Dogs/True Crime: Hong Kong)
Best RPG: Mass Effect 3.
Best Multiplayer Game: Borderlands 2.
Best Individual Sports Game: SSX, if only because I still love SSX Tricky that damn much.
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K13, if only because fuck EA.
Best Racing Game: F1 2012
Best Song In A Game: "Swamped" by Laguna Coil from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines ("Cities" by Beck from Sound Shapes)
Best Original Score: Mass Effect 3 (Max Payne 3)
Best Graphics: Journey, solely for uniqueness.
Best Independent Game: Fez
Best Fighting Game: Mortal Kombat. (Persona 4 Arena)
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Luigi gets a fox tail to fly, your argument is invalid.)
Best Performance by a Female: Melissa Hutchinson as Clementine in The Walking Dead
Best Performance by a Male: Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2
Best Adapted Game: The Walking Dead
Best DLC: Close, but Perpetual Testing Initiative from Portal 2 (runner up is Dawnguard)
Best Downloadable Game: Fez
Best Social Game: SimCity Social
Most Anticipated Game: South Park: The Stick of Truth
Character of the Year: Can't vote right now, but Commander Shepard.
Excuse me, I now know who voiced Handsome Jack and can deck him properly.
I was just happy it wasn't nominated for GOTY. I really expected i tto be. with how the Spike VGA's normally go.neonsword13-ops said:
I'm really glad Journey is nominated for so many awards. For me, having played all the GOTY nominees except the walking dead, its the best choice.
Not only does it deserve it, but it would also be a great statement to the entire industry and beyond, that a game made by (relatively) so few people, with such a different tone to it (all the others revolve around some sort of aggression or violence) could be considered the best game of the year. I don't know about the AAA label, but its as good an experience as there ever was in our young medium.
Not only does it deserve it, but it would also be a great statement to the entire industry and beyond, that a game made by (relatively) so few people, with such a different tone to it (all the others revolve around some sort of aggression or violence) could be considered the best game of the year. I don't know about the AAA label, but its as good an experience as there ever was in our young medium.
i would say the spike vgas are more akin to the teen choice awards than the oscars. maybe the emmys if you want to be generous.DrunkOnEstus said:
Small side note, I think they should give a special award to former FBI Director William S. Sessions. What in video games is he known for? Only this:
If you played an arcade game in the 90's, you know this image well.
If you played an arcade game in the 90's, you know this image well.
Once again, a complete joke, so I'm not too surprised. My GOTY still goes to Spec Ops: The Line.
... What!? Seriously!? That would be like saying RAGE was the best RPG of 2011. Guess you don't play too many shooters.The Great JT said:
The fact that Spec Ops: The Line was nominated for nothing, proves that Spike have so appreciation for art.
I'm basing my opinion on reviewers and games journos who's opinions generally line up with mine, i.e. using reviews how their supposed to be used.SpiderJerusalem said:
you know what they say about COD you played one of them you played them allneonsword13-ops said:
I see what you mean, but you don't need as much appreciation for art to understand Journey, as you do with Spec Ops: The Line.Foolproof said: