AIAS Award Winners Announced 36
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has selected their 2004 award winners from the bounty of excellent titles released last year. From the site: "These peer-based awards are dedicated to recognizing the outstanding products, talented individuals and development teams that have contributed to the advancement of the $30 billion worldwide entertainment software industry."
Awards... (Score:1)
Guess the Oscars [oscars.com] are not too soon then.
Interesting that a certain Half-Life 2 has won 9 of the 39 AIAS awards (for those not reading TFA). I played it but I got tired when my save states there were not working too well.
Re:Awards... (Score:2)
Don't underscore it. Half-Life 2 wasn't eligible for all 39 awards. A good deal of those 39 were genre or console specific.
Re:Awards... (Score:1)
Personally, Half-life 2, while quite fun, has a limited amount of playability until the good multiplayer mods start coming out. A good single player campaign is nice and all, but once that's done, you need something else, especially with the price of games.
I just overused The Great Comma. Oh well.
well... (Score:1, Troll)
Re:well... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:well... (Score:2, Interesting)
...and HL2 has good graphics (though with buggy shadows), I think.
I haven't played many of the games on the list though, so I don't know how stellar it compares...but I do think GTA: San Andreas comes awfully close at the very least, and I hear that Halo 2 has little or no "lag" from a trusted source (my brother) though I haven't touched that one.
Re:well... (Score:3, Interesting)
Plus the amazing art direction as well - Valve well deserved the award for that.
And I still really like the plot and the manner in which it was presented - what other games have the player (perhaps) freeing the world from alien domination but only show fleeting glimpses of the aliens in question?
Re:well... (Score:2)
To clarify (Score:1)
I was just lamenting that it was more of the same.
Re:WoW? (Score:2, Interesting)
The content alone makes WoW the clear choice. Add the music, the sound, the immersion, the events (xmas in your favorite city?), and the amount of people to play with, and yea, its clear why WoW won.
Re:WoW? (Score:2)
Surely you jest!
You can:
1. Help power level everyone's alternate characters that they don't want to slog through the grind.
2. Make a new alien archetype! Um I guess that's kind of in the roll up a new character thing.
3. Ummm... I know! Give away bojillions of influence to low level newbies!
4. Ummmm... run all those low level task force missions you never got around to?
5. Ummmmm... collect all those badges you never got around to?
6. Ummmmmmm.... Sit around a b
Re:WoW? (Score:2)
Personally I'm glad for a game with no bullshit camping, no bullshit crafting, no bitching about who gets the loot, and no stupid Blizzard "lets kill bnetd" management.
Re:WoW? (Score:1, Informative)
OK, there were, but only for a select group of idiots that wouldn't move their characters two days after the launch when Blizzard doubled the number of servers.
Basically, the only people having issues were warned in the first week that they were overloading the servers and that they should strongly consider playing on other servers instead of taking their level 10 character to level 60.
They didn't, and caused all sort of server issues as the servers were vastly overloa
List of Nominees? (Score:2)
Re:List of Nominees? (Score:2)
God...damn.... (Score:1)
Is that the one where you get all pissed off and decide to apply makeup to world leaders?
Why is it that nobody on the planet can spell the word "rogue"?
-Pinkoir
Re:God...damn.... (Score:1)
. . . it has me seeing red.
Seriously, it's only a matter of time before some dumbass starts a Rogue-only guild that's something along the lines of "The Rouge Army". Then they'll have to play the spin game and say they meant it as a reference to The Red Army.
Re:God...damn.... (Score:2)
It amuses me, anyway.
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Khmer Rouge?
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On top of that, it's JUDI Dench, not "Judy", and she's a Dame...you know...one of those official title thingys.
Rouge Agent could be an interesting game though....
Scene: Backstage at the Miss Universe Pageant.
*Goldeneye sneaks into Miss France's room and chloroforms her.*
Miss France, after coming to and seeing herself in the mirror:
(Shriek of horror.)
Security Guard 1: "Chief, another model has come down with whore-like facial patt
"Outstanding Character Performance" (Score:3, Interesting)
Games should be awarded as games, not for pretending to be films. See the Bafta games awards (www.bafta.com) for a more competent attempt at the idea.
Re:"Outstanding Character Performance" (Score:1)
Re:"Outstanding Character Performance" (Score:2)
Games should be awarded as games, not for pretending to be films. See the Bafta games awards (www.bafta.com) for a more competent attempt at the idea.
Yeah, because it's not as if the British Academy of Film and Television see any parallels between games and films...
You think the category of "Art Direction" was invented for video games?
I think the fact is film and video games have more in common than you seem to recognize. Surely you realize that the "outstanding ch
Sould Calibur II?! (Score:2)
Re:Sould Calibur II?! (Score:1)
See, they give these awards out on a yearly basis...
How is anyone... (Score:2)
bad (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:bad (Score:2)
The fact that the game pretty much sold as a budget-title and word of mouth alone is pretty impressive.
Re:bad (Score:1)
Story and character developmet Awadrd goes to... (Score:2)
Let's see, the story is as minimalistic as possible to even claim having one, and there is ZERO character development (beyond stats).
Must be a lot of people out there who kiss up to Molyneaux, or they were on a lot of drugs when they voted on that category. I just praise the gods it didn't win RPG of the year.
OK (Score:2)
If "most hype" truly determined winners, we'd see a lot more of Doom 3, Driv3r, and Fable.