Spike Video Game Awards (2011)

It's a joke of an awards show that rewards popular games with high sales rather than for merit.

No gow3 nominated for goy or witcher 2, battlefield 3 was acknowledged for a second when it was mentioned as a nominee. and drake won best graphics.

Anyway here are the top catagories and their winners just for your edification..

Game of the year Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim. (i think the game blows..) but it beat out Batman: Arkham City, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Portal 2 and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Best PC game: Portal 2, which isn't a bad game. it won it over BF3 and the witcher 2.

Best shooter: Obviously codmw3, over bf3, gow3.

Bst RPG: Skyrim, over Dark Souls and Deus Ex? wow.

Best Figter: Mortal Kombat over MVC3. They were both good.

Best graphics: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception! Over Batman: Arkham City, L.A. Noire and RAGE. That's great. (not)

w/e. i only watch the awards for the reveals anyway.

game on.

I'm glad I don't live in your crazy upside down world where Skyrim sucks and Batman, LA Noire (lmao) or Rage have better graphics than Uncharted 3. 😎

Oh dear god please tell me that most of the OP was a troll....

GoW3 nominated for GotY? No. Not with every other game that had come out. Great game, I love it, but much better comes have come out.

A small grip but GoW is God of War, GEARS is the short hand for Gears of War. 😎

Sounds about right for the most part. Gears of War 3 isn't game of the year material, so I don't mind it not being nominated.

Skyrim and Arkham City both deserved GotY, so as long as one of them won, I'm cool with that.

I think BF3 should have beaten Portal 2, but I haven't actually played P2 so I can't judge.

The biggest stickler for me is MW3 over BF3. Hell no. BF3 is a better game than MW3 in every way imaginable beyond just personal preference.

Originally posted by srankmissingnin
I'm glad I don't live in your crazy upside down world where Skyrim sucks and Batman, LA Noire (lmao) or Rage have better graphics than Uncharted 3. 😎

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what, am i supose to like it? well i don't. the hell? the game's a glitch pool, battles are hardly impressive, the story's meh and the graphics suck. my opinion.

and i'm more of a a pc player and if you wanna compare batman a.c. or la norie with it's new facial tech with the way it looks on pc compared to the way it looks like on cosole, in this case, a console exclusive, then you'd think the same way as well. you must've never heard of physx.

Originally posted by General G
Oh dear god please tell me that most of the OP was a troll....

GoW3 nominated for GotY? No. Not with every other game that had come out. Great game, I love it, but much better comes have come out.

why not? at least a nomination. it was the best gears.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican

The biggest stickler for me is MW3 over BF3. Hell no. BF3 is a better game than MW3 in every way imaginable beyond just personal preference.

i'm there with you big time on that one. it won because it was the most popular of the 2. gay.

lol. Told ya.

Fist, no one takes award shows seriously to begin with. Everyone could find gripes if we actually thought it represented a fully objective scoring system.

Anyway, popularity isn't the only things those games had going for them. And GoW3 also sold a lot more than some of those that were nominated or won, so your popular-only theory is a bit off anyway. Every reviewer I've seen, for example, acknowledges Skrim's bugs. I personally think it shouldn't have won because of them, but to say that it's not in the conversation is ridiculous.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Sounds about right for the most part. Gears of War 3 isn't game of the year material, so I don't mind it not being nominated.

Skyrim and Arkham City both deserved GotY, so as long as one of them won, I'm cool with that.

I think BF3 should have beaten Portal 2, but I haven't actually played P2 so I can't judge.

The biggest stickler for me is MW3 over BF3. Hell no. BF3 is a better game than MW3 in every way imaginable beyond just personal preference.

This.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Sounds about right for the most part. Gears of War 3 isn't game of the year material, so I don't mind it not being nominated.

Skyrim and Arkham City both deserved GotY, so as long as one of them won, I'm cool with that.

I think BF3 should have beaten Portal 2, but I haven't actually played P2 so I can't judge.

The biggest stickler for me is MW3 over BF3. Hell no. BF3 is a better game than MW3 in every way imaginable beyond just personal preference.

Why isn't Gears GotY material?

Originally posted by Zack Fair
Why isn't Gears GotY material?

Even MW3, for how much of a MW2.5 it is, has at the least a completely new overhauled perk/class system and twice as many guns to balance, but even then it's not GotY material either.

I still believe that a sequel being just a rehash of its predecessor is not a bad thing, but on the other hand it's not something worth praising either. While Gears 3 is one of my favorite games of the year to play, whereas I have never been a fan of any of Bestheda's rpg's, the sheer amount of content and manhours put into Skyrim and Arkham City make them worth the GotY title. Gears 3's content is... lacking.

Also, it really bugs me that Epic made content that was already on the disk into DLC, for no reason. Even though they ended up giving most of it away for free, that's still deplorable.

mmm

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Content wise it's just not very impressive. It's got like, a 5 hour campaign that has mediocre writing in it, graphics that are only somewhat better than its predecessor, and a multiplayer suite that is essentially just a rehash of Gears 2, with a couple new gametypes and marginally tweaked guns. It's kind of like what Halo 3 was to Halo 2.

Even MW3, for how much of a MW2.5 it is, has at the least a completely new overhauled perk/class system and twice as many guns to balance, but even then it's not GotY material either.

I still believe that a sequel being just a rehash of its predecessor is not a bad thing, but on the other hand it's not something worth praising either. While Gears 3 is one of my favorite games of the year to play, whereas I have never been a fan of any of Bestheda's rpg's, the sheer amount of content and manhours put into Skyrim and Arkham City make them worth the GotY title. Gears 3's content is... lacking.

Also, it really bugs me that Epic made content that was already on the disk into DLC, for no reason. Even though they ended up giving most of it away for free, that's still deplorable.

I found the graphics of GEARS are really uneven. Adam Fenix for instance looks like he walked out of a late last gen PS2 or X-Box game. Still, GEARS 3 is the best Duke Nukem game this generation. 😎

Honestly, Uncharted's graphics don't impress me all that much. Yes, the environments are amazing, but their character models are terrible. The graphics in those games are half excellent, half crap. Sorry, but that's not good enough to be winning awards with, to me.

I do not think Skyrim should have gotten game of the year, not at all. Not surprised that it did, but I think there were way better games out this year (ones that weren't complete rehashes of every single RPG to come out previously). Batman probably deserved it more, I think.

And yeah, Rage should have won in the graphics department. Not only were the graphics amazing, but they had a very nice visual style, as well.

These awards shows are always crap, but unfortunately a lot of people take them seriously. Combine it with how a lot of gamers are scared to try new things (I've brought this up before), and we just wind up with this recursive loop going on.

And really, why is anyone surprised that Witcher didn't win anything? It wasn't a big seller and was PC-only.

Also not surprised at MW3 winning, though BF3 definitely deserved it more.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
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what, am i supose to like it? well i don't. the hell? the game's a glitch pool, battles are hardly impressive, the story's meh and the graphics suck. my opinion.

and i'm more of a a pc player and if you wanna compare batman a.c. or la norie with it's new facial tech with the way it looks on pc compared to the way it looks like on cosole, in this case, a console exclusive, then you'd think the same way as well. you must've never heard of physx.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
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what, am i supose to like it? well i don't. the hell? the game's a glitch pool, battles are hardly impressive, the story's meh and the graphics suck. my opinion.

and i'm more of a a pc player and if you wanna compare batman a.c. or la norie with it's new facial tech with the way it looks on pc compared to the way it looks like on cosole, in this case, a console exclusive, then you'd think the same way as well. you must've never heard of physx.

I personally would never have given Skyrim GOTY for some of the reason you mentioned. It's buggy and the graphics suck, but that said I think the story is decent and I think the game play is fun and addictive.

Did pieces of paper blowing around really enhance your play through of Arkham City? I didn't play AC on the pc but I've seen the side by side video comparisons and it isn't enough of an improvement over the console version to say it looks better than Uncharted 3. Also I much prefer the stylized realism of the Uncharted 3 facial animations and lip synching to LA Noir's creepy wooden mo-cap work. LA Noir might deserve some sort of award for the tech they used for mo capture, but a graphics award? Aside from the facial animations it has the same sub par GTA / Assassins Creed level graphics. I have a decently powerful rig, I played The Witcher 2 and Deus Ex on my PC at max settings and they of course looked beautiful... but nothing beats Uncharted on a 70 inch tv... except for Uncharted on 80 inch tv but I don't have that. 😎

Originally posted by Peach
Honestly, Uncharted's graphics don't impress me all that much. Yes, the environments are amazing, but their character models are terrible. The graphics in those games are half excellent, half crap. Sorry, but that's not good enough to be winning awards with, to me.

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The character models and animations are the best part of the game. 😕

Originally posted by srankmissingnin

The character models and animations are the best part of the game. 😕

Tell them to learn to actually make hair look like hair.

Portal 2 won Best Multiplayer facepalm

It's awesome and all but for it to be able to beat Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, and Gears of War 3 in that department is bullcrap. I respect it winning Best PC Game, Best Performance by a Human Male (Stephen Merchent as Wheatley), and Best Performance by a Human Female (Ellen Mclane as GLaDOS) but Best Multiplayer? Wrong.

Originally posted by Peach
Tell them to learn to actually make hair look like hair.

I think thats pretty damn good actually. O_o

(But then I don't exactly play many modern games.)

Originally posted by Nephthys
I think thats pretty damn good actually. O_o

(But then I don't exactly play many modern games.)

The guys are okay (though the grey-haired guy's hair looks like it's carved, not terribly natural), but I've never seen a female character who has hair that actually looks like hair, as opposed to just random clumps and ribbons with terrible clipping, in those games.