Game Developer's Choice Nominees Announced 37
The International Game Developers Association has announced the nominees for the 2005 Developer's Choice Awards. The list includes some pleasantly surprising decisions, such as the inclusion of the quirky Katamari Damacy in the running for Best Game of the Year.
This has to be a joke (Score:5, Insightful)
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude for writing? I've seen more engaging plots in first-graders' short stories.
Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within and World of Warcraft for character design? Sure, maybe if they're talking about visual design only.
My dislike for a lot of the games listed aside, the ones above are just grossly out of place.
hmm (Score:4, Insightful)
The list includes some pleasantly surprising decisions, such as the inclusion of the quirky Katamari Damacy in the running for Best Game of the Year.
We keep beating this drum - I think Katamari Damacy looks like a cool game, but believe it or not, most of my friends think that as well. While my friends are nerds (engineers, mostly), they aren't slashdot fans and such. I should ask my far younger brothers and sisters...
What I'm trying to say is that Katamari Damacy is pretty mainstream now, and although it looks like a victory for the 'little guy', I think that victory came a long time ago.
Meh, good call for the awards people anyways, just chippin' in my two cents.
Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:4, Insightful)
I have no idea what I would have nominated... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, seriously. There are thousands of games released in a given year, and at least half of every category's nominations are just repeating the same tune.
I'm not going to whine about what I think they should have nominated, that'd be pointless. But I will point out that maybe, just maybe, there should be more variation in where they're looking for their nominations.
Re:This has to be a joke (Score:3, Insightful)
"The Character Design award recognizes the overall excellence of (non-licensed) character design in a game - including, but not limited to, originality, character arc, emotional depth, etc. "
I haven't played Doom 3 (As sibling post mentioned), but do any of the characters really have personalities? WoW comes off as pretty cheesy at times, but many of the hundreds of speaking NPCs have stories behind them, different modes of speech, etc. I don't think WoW deserves the award (Can you really beat Alyx in HL2?), but the nomination seems appropriate to me.
As for the new Larry... I've boycotted that, because Al Lowe wasn't involved.
Re:I can't take this list seriously... (Score:3, Insightful)
How is the camo system annoying? You mention it but then fail to explain what bothered you about it.
If you're in the Cure menu frequently, you're doing something wrong - this is a stealth game, not a first-person shooter. You don't want to be getting shot at constantly, much less removing bullets every area.
As mentioned by someone else, food does not cure you - it restores stamina.
You're entitled to your opinion on the game, but it sounds fairly ill-informed. Did you get to the boss fight with The End? Did you beat the game and see the conclusion of the story (which won best story of 2004 from Gamespot incidentally, with the Boss winning best new character)?
Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:3, Insightful)
How LSL:MCL made the writing list is beyond me. Especially when you consider that the original creator [allowe.com] is pretty much disappointed with Sierra's blasphemous creation. The writing was horrid from what i've heard, which is a major departure from the series since it's always had top notch writing and humour.
WoW being on the visual list is impressive considering that it has the least cutting-edge graphics out of everything on that list.
I think you nailed most of the winners dead on.