2012 Spike Video game Awards

Here are the winners :

Game of the Year: The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)
Studio of the Year: Telltale Games
Best XBOX 360 Game: Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343 Industries)
Best PS3 Game: Journey (Sony Computer Entertainment/thatgamecompany)
Best Wii / Wii-U Game: New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo)
Best PC Game: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2K Games/Firaxis Games)
Best Handheld / Mobile Game: Sound Shapes (Sony Computer Entertainment/Queasy Games)
Best Shooter: Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox Software)
Best Action Adventure Game: Dishonored (Bethesda Softworks/Arkane Studios)
Best RPG: Mass Effect 3 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
Best Multi-Player Game: Borderlands 2 (2K Games/Gearbox Software)
Best Individual Sports Game: SSX (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)
Best Team Sports Game: NBA 2K13 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)
Best Driving Game: Need for Speed Most Wanted (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
Best Fighting Game: Persona 4 Arena (Atlus/ARC System Works/Atlus)
Best Adapted Video Game: The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)
Best Independent Game: Journey (thatgamecompany)
Best Graphics: Halo 4 (Microsoft Studios/343 Industries)
Best Song in a Game: “Cities” by Beck (Sound Shapes)
Best Original Score: Journey (Sony Computer Entertainment/thatgamecompany)
Best Performance by a Human Male: Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2)
Best Performance by a Human Female: Melissa Hutchison as Clementine (The Walking Dead: The Game)
Best Downloadable Game: The Walking Dead: The Game (Telltale Games)
Best Social Game: You Don’t Know Jack (Jellyvision Games)
Best DLC: Dawnguard – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Game Studios)
Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games)

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Load of bullshit these awards were.

Felt most of them were good except for Best Song (imo I Was Born For This)

CoD won no awards hahahahahaha

And leaving new game releases off their nominations.

my issue is the spike vga's but even this surprised me And that's The Walking De winning the goty award. really? Over Assassins creed 3, Journey, Dishonored and Mass Effect 3? Halo 4 wasnt even nominated. Far Cry wasn't either. And this hammy point and click wom it. I played it and i remember uninstalling it due to boredom. and i gave it a chance. i had it for a good week, and i watch the show religiously but this has got to be the worst pick for goty ever. even for spike's vga it a new low.

and Halo 4 best graphics? I could name a half dozen recently released games on pc right now that'd blow halo 4's graphics away. i could name a bunch that came out last year alone...

Except The Walking Dead was exceptionally good.

And is better then the show.

EDIT: My pick for GOTY personally would have been Journey, but I think TWD is still a respectable choice.

Some of those I'd agree with. Mass Effect 3 is a beautifully crafted game, even if the ending (that I'm quickly approaching) is supposed to be terrible.

Walking Dead has been a real dark horse this year, but everyone that plays it speaks so very highly of it that I'm going to buy it and see for myself.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Except The Walking Dead was exceptionally good.

And is better then the show.

EDIT: My pick for GOTY personally would have been Journey, but I think TWD is still a respectable choice.

But not exceptionally better than the other nommines. imo, walking dead only has it's story, that's it. but the other nomines had that and more. better gameplay, a higher replay value, way better controls, better graphics and more.

i was surprised to see that they were nominated in the first place.

and xcom over diablo 3 ftw?

'sigh' i dunno.

Diablo 3 was a mess, though.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Load of bullshit these awards were.

Considering that the recipients are decided by popular vote, that is no surprise.

That said, some of the awards were a hit, some were a miss.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Diablo 3 was a mess, though.

And also dumbed down for newer people.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Except The Walking Dead was exceptionally good.

And is better then the show.

EDIT: My pick for GOTY personally would have been Journey, but I think TWD is still a respectable choice.

QFT.

Walking Dead the game was great. I'm fairly pleased with that as GOTY. I do agree with whoever said earlier about the best song not being too great. Just listened to it now. Severely disappointed. Listened to their suggestion, much better than whatever it was that won.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
But not exceptionally better than the other nommines. imo, walking dead only has it's story, that's it. but the other nomines had that and more. better gameplay, a higher replay value, way better controls, better graphics and more.

i was surprised to see that they were nominated in the first place.

and xcom over diablo 3 ftw?

'sigh' i dunno.

Why on earth would Diablo 3 win any awards?

X-Com wouldn't have been my choice for PC game (I don't think it's a secret what I think should have gotten that 😛) but it's a solid choice.

As per the usual, my give a damn button is nonexistent on this topic, with the exception of some glee at CoD not winning anything for once.

I've seen that Walking Dead game doesn't seem all that special to me.

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Felt most of them were good except for Best Song (imo I Was Born For This)

CoD won no awards hahahahahaha

My favorite one from Journey was Apotheosis.

I mostly agree with the list. However, while I do think TWD was a great game; I don't think it is worthy of being GotY.

And Telltale Games as studio of the year is laughable.

Originally posted by ares834
I mostly agree with the list. However, while I do think TWD was a great game; I don't think it is worthy of being GotY.

And Telltale Games as studio of the year is laughable.

Why? BTTF, Jurassic Park and Walking Dead were all solid games from what I heard.

Was their another studio that was that consistent? I'm genuinly asking, as I don't know.

Not sure where you heard JP was a good game as it was one of the worst games I ever had the displeasure of playing.

Back to the Future was pretty awful as well.

TWD is the first time I have ever found a Telltale game to be enjoyable.

Originally posted by ares834
Not sure where you heard JP was a good game as it was one of the worst games I ever had the displeasure of playing.

Back to the Future was pretty awful as well.

TWD is the first time I have ever found a Telltale game to be enjoyable.

I heard they were both good, but obviously I have to play em.

What studio would you have picked?