The 2006 Game Developer's Choice Award Nominees 35
While most websites and organizations have already handed out their 2006 awards, arguably the most respected awards have yet to be decided. Early next month, the Game Developer's Choice Awards will be distributed in a ceremony at GDC. Today, the nominees for last year's best of the best have been announced. The best game category is another shootout between Gears of War, Twilight Princess, and Oblivion, with Clover Studios' Okami joining the other three in the fight for the ultimate award. Each of these games did very well otherwise; Oblivion netted four nominees, Okami and Gears three each, and Zelda following up with a respectable two.
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Searches around for numerous discussion boards filled with Xbox 360 owners talking about Gears of War.
Sees almost nothing but bitching and complaints about:
* Network disconnects
* Lag, lag, lag
* No one playing ranked matches
* People desperately waiting for a patch
* People angrily complaining about the patch
* Fundamentally broken online gameplay
Although you do have to hand it Epic, they did go head to head with a mediocre shooter with guys in shiny metal armor against the vast library of other
OblivionZelda (Score:1)
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I could deal with the repetitive voice acting and other minor flaws, but what really ruined Oblivion for me was the horrible fighting system. The list of magic spells was a joke, playing as a mage gets pretty boring. Playing as a warrior al
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But that's asking too much.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to be the hero of cyrodil.
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Probably already out there... (Score:2)
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Personally speaking, I thought The Legend of Zelda had an attention to detail and was very entertaining in its long single player campaign.
At the same time a product, typically in entertainment, can be less than the sum of their parts
FEAR was a beautiful game, with an interesting story, but seemed stale from the moment I started playing it.
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Gears of War? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Not bad... (Score:2)
Oblivion? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Are you kidding? Oblivion was one of the best games of the year! I bought it for the PC, played it about 40-50 hours. I beat the mage and fighter guilds and the main storyline.
After getting a 360, I decided to buy it for that, too, and play all the guilds. I played about 60 hours this time, and beat all the guilds and main storyline. I also bought the KotN expansion, and have another few hours fun from that.
Any game that I spend over 100 hours on is beyond good, its amazing. I usually get bored with a gam
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Huh? (Score:4, Interesting)
oops.. I read that as 2600 game developer awards (Score:4, Interesting)
I get so nostalgic about programming. It was just so much fun in the early 80s. I work in IC design now, and the programming is primarily Perl, Python, and proprietary scripting languages, but I really miss BASIC, Pascal, and Assembly on those early machines.
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Okami. (Score:2)
It makes a lot more sense once you start playing, its a lot of fun and really stunning to look at and has a different feel from almost any game. The fact you do things by drawing them is neat different. The story is good enough to keep things moving and the translations where excellent, adding some humor among other things.
FF XII? (Score:4, Insightful)
Personally I'd give it to Oblivion, but all four of those games (haven't played Okami) deserve high praise.
Really, it's been a great year for gaming! I mean, besides those games, I'm busy with Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for DS and Guild Wars: Nightfall for PC. Most years have far fewer deserving candidates for "best game" than 2006. 2005 had what? Shadow of the Collossus and Guild Wars/WoW?
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Medieval II (Score:1)
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Writing - Oblivion??? (Score:2)
Ridiculous.