Nominations For AIAS Gaming Awards Announced 20
yakobusan writes "The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) just announced the finalists for the 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, to be given out on March 4th in Las Vegas - there's a full list of nominees over on the AIAS site." It's noted that "Electronic Arts led the finalist count with 29, followed closely by Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) with 23 and 21 finalists respectively" - highlights include Metal Arms: Glitch in the System's nomination for "Best Console Action / Adventure", and Snoop Dogg's appearance in the "Best Character Performance - Male" finalists for True Crime: Streets of LA.
Bunch of wankers. (Score:5, Interesting)
They wouldn't know gameplay or innovation if it beat them to death with a surgical 2x4.
From glancing at the list of games (and the "members" of this organisation), it seems like they've invented these "awards" (and look how god-damned many of them there are) merely to pat themselves on the back and put a "GAME OF TEH YEAR" sticker on the box, re-issue the game in a "GOLD" edition and get additional press coverage of their products.
And I'm also pissed that none of the people that actually worked on the damn games get recognised. The only people nominated are all voice actors - hired goons that probably did all their work in a couple of afternoons - and probably never even stooped to the lows of having to set foot in the studio where the real talent worked to make the game. Programmers, artists and animators get to work 80+ hour weeks for two years - and somebody who did less than a tenth of a percent of the work in an afternoon gets a fucking award on stage.
Oh, and it's not really "winning" when there's only one nomination in a category. Yes, thank you Microsoft in category 15 - you're all winners, you're just so fucking special.
Those "awards" are wrong on so many levels.
Re:Bunch of wankers. (Score:4, Insightful)
Wanked nominations (Score:5, Insightful)
Precisely one for one category, Family.
Oh, what are they *thinking* with these original score awards?! Call of Duty I can stomach, if just for the title screen theme. Beyond Good and Evil? Forgettable music entirely. GRABBED BY THE GHOULIES? I don't think so. Where in Christ's name is Xenosaga, eh!? *sigh* they just don't GET it.
There's an online downloadable category- Pogo has two (Poppit, Word Whomp), PopCap takes one (Zuma!) and Real's Hamsterball. Please let Popcap win.
Rikku from FFX-2 got a nod for Best Female Performance? I thought she'd be a shoo-in for best ta-^H^H^Hanimation, given the audience voting on these things...
Please, someone tell me these are BS awards.
Ugh.... (Score:1)
Re:Is it only me... (Score:1)
> compliant browser.
Maybe you are expected to use something non-standard-compliant... *COUGH*MS*INTERNET*EXPLODER*COUGH*
It's All Pretty Depressing (Score:4, Insightful)
KotOR was a brilliant game (GotY IMO) but there was no innovation in it. It was just a retread of BG with a good/evil system (which has been around for ages. I remember it in Fallout 2). It was all about production values and plot and gameplay, and did those things well.
With the possible exception of PoP, only Zelda was at all innovative (BTW despite PoP, Ubisoft look to be going bust).
To top it all, the page doesn't work in Opera, which is despicable.
A sound plan... (Score:4, Insightful)
The nominees are just the games with the largest marketing budgets, irrespective of quality.
This is just a cynical PR exercise used to milk some cash from publishers willing to stump up to have their games nominated.
(Site doesn't seem to work properly either.)
Am I the only one... (Score:1)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:1)
Best Male Performance: Michael Ironsides (Score:2)
Michael Ironsides, however, did a tremendous job in Splinter Cell as the main character. In the on-disk bonus, he even did an extensive interview as 'Sam Fischer' and also did a lot of behind the scenes fooling around that was caught on tape. Regardless, that was the one instance in all of the games I played where a real-life professional actor actually made the game better in
I call BS (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Microsoft wins by default (Score:2)
From the about infomation page : Interactive Achievement Award recipients are determined by a vote of qualified Academy members.
In otherwords games are chosen and voted for based on the amount of money the judges were bribed with. Now from the Board of Directors information page:
Gordon Bellamy, Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (the guy running this whole thing)
He has playe