Spike Announces VGX Nominees

[Kingjackl]

With the glaring exception of the premature Mario nomination, these aren't particularly bad. People give the Spike awards a well deserved flogging for the pandering presentation, but the actual award distributions are pretty solid.

I'm a bit curious about how the voting works; since Troy Baker has two nominations for Best Voice Actor, are votes for him counted separately for Bioshock and The Last of Us, or are they added together? Because if Steven Ogg or Willem Dafoe get more votes than him for one of his two roles, but the combined total of votes for him in Bioshock and The Last of Us is higher than either of them, who deserves the award? It doesn't help that all three/four of them are equally deserving of the award IMO.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Game of the Year:

BioShock Infinite

Studio of the Year:

Irrational Games

Best Indie Game:

The Stanley Parable


Best Soundtrack:

BioShock Infinite

Best DLC:

Mass Effect Citadel. Definitely redeemed ME3 in my eyes (Blood Dragon coming in a very close second).

Most Anticipated Game:

The Witcher 3 by far.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Apart from being game of the year The Last of Us should definately win best soundtrack. That score was absolutely magnificent.

GTA5 will likely rake in all the awards though seeing as it was the most finacially succesful.

 

[babinro]

Tomb Raider as a GOTY candidate?
Was this year really that slow?

It's a good title and well worth the money but I have hard time seeing it as a contender for the absolute best. I'm just having fun though, it's completely pointless to nitpick these things especially when I don't plan to watch this show and have no real investment in it.

I won't think any more or less of a game I've played if it wins a GOTY award.

 

[l3o2828]

Super Mario 3D World - Wha? Seriously? Not any other game you could think of?

Why do you say that?

To put this in perspective, i think DMC deserves that spot better than a yet to be released title.
And DMC wasn't even that great.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

-No Shin Megami Tensei IV
-No Fire Emblem Awakening
-No Pokemon X&Y
-No Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies

1/10 would not watch.

Fire Emblem and Pokemon X/Y are contenders for the Best RPG award, does that count?

I can't comment on the quality of SMT IV, being Australian (Why can't it be out yet!? *Shakes fist*), however I do know that the audience for SMT in general is pretty niche at the best of times, so expecting it to be nominated from a fairly board field of contenders is asking a little too much, surely?

Was mostly joking, SMT IV is easily the best game I have played all year, so I thought it would rate a mention, but it would seem not.

As for Australia not having the game yet, yeah, get used to non-Asia/North America territories getting the finger when it comes to Atlus games. Nintendo is supposed to be publishing SMT IV in Europe and Australia, but who knows when.

As a long suffering Atlus fan, I am used to it, however its only really the handheld games that are an issue. Everything else I can import. At least I have Devil Survivor Overclocked (Now that it is fixed) and Soul Hackers to keep me amused until IV comes out.

I'm Irish and I bought an American 3DS so I won't get shafted on those games, since they are some of the best around, sucks that it takes so long to localize them, did you know Devil Survivor 2 only just came out in Europe?

I thought about doing that, but I couldn't justify the cost for the few games that I would get early. Also, I didn't know that DS2 had been released, I've got it on order now on Ebay, thanks for the tip!

 

[QuiB25]

I have to say, man, these nominations aren't half bad, even if GTA5 will win GOTY.

Gives me hope for an award show that DOESN'T suck (looking at you Grammys).