Aias awards on G4

Did anybody watch this crap?

First of all the presenters were airhead celeberties that knew nothing about games,Tommy Tallarico included.
(I admit the girl in the red dress with her tits hanging out was awsome).

When Tekken 4 won fighting game of the year I almost turned off the Tv.

Madden wins sports game of the year proving you can release the same game over and over every year and still win!

Game of the year went to Battlefield 1942. No offense to any of its fans but I hate EA.They deserve nothing.

The only positives were Yu Suzuki winning the lifetime achivement
and Animal Crossing wining most innovative.

One more thing. Why the hell dose Splinter Cell win Console game of the year and is not nominated for game of the year?

P.S. These award were decided by industry peers who freely admit that they don't play other people's games. Go Figure.

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Originally posted by Skullkid
Did anybody watch this crap?

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Nope, don't have G4.

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First of all the presenters were airhead celeberties that knew nothing about games,Tommy Tallarico included.
(I admit the girl in the red dress with her tits hanging out was awsome).

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Can't say a woman with her tits hanging out makes up for having idiots host it in order to appeal to the greater population.

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When Tekken 4 won fighting game of the year I almost turned off the Tv.

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You should be ashamed for saying "Almost".

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Madden wins sports game of the year proving you can release the same game over and over every year and still win!

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I hope other companies don't decide to follow suit.

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Game of the year went to Battlefield 1942. No offense to any of its fans but I hate EA.They deserve nothing.

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Can't say I know anything about, but it is by EA so I'm going to have to say no way it can be best. But then again I may be incorrect.


Well Bell is ringing, think about what I said, and if you have to pay for G4, stop watching?

I love Tekken.

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Originally posted by Korly
I love Tekken.

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... Well I dislike Tekken, I just hope you like other games than Tekken as well. Your opinion as distastefull as it may seem in my eyes.

Yeah man I can't believe how shitty that awards show was, I mean, they didn't pick the games I like! What a bunch of idiots, they should know by now to go by my standards of quality and stop having their own opinions about games :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Doug Branches
Yeah man I can't believe how shitty that awards show was, I mean, they didn't pick the games I like! What a bunch of idiots, they should know by now to go by my standards of quality and stop having their own opinions about games :rolleyes:

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Did you read my last comment?

If you knew the awards were being decided by criteria you didn't like in the first place, what did you expect?

One more point I want to make is that if Games like Madden and Tekken win year after year we will never see any innovation.You should have seen the games they nominated
for most innovative. Grand theft auto vice city innovative?
The main reason im complaining is that these awards are considerd the industry standard. This is what developers like.Which means will bee seeing alot more similar games in the future.

It seems like they based the awards based on game sales. That's the only way I can see Tekken winning over VF4.

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Originally posted by skullkid
Game of the year went to Battlefield 1942. No offense to any of its fans but I hate EA.They deserve nothing.

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It's a terrific game (although I wouldn't call it GOTY). Your petty little biases don't count for jack shit when considering how good a game is.

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It seems like they based the awards based on game sales. That's the only way I can see Tekken winning over VF4.

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Wouldn't Vice City have won Game of the Year if they were basing it strictly on sales/hype?

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Originally posted by Doug Branches
Wouldn't Vice City have won Game of the Year if they were basing it strictly on sales/hype?

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Well, a reason it may not have won is because of the negative messages, in which the media repeatedly points out. I'm sure the news would have had lots of fun with Video games being the root of all evil if what they constantly bashed was Game of the Year. At least that's a reason I see it, then again maybe they didn't base it on sales/hype at all *Shrug*.

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Can't say I know anything about, but it is by EA so I'm going to have to say no way it can be best. But then again I may be incorrect.

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Incorrect. :p

Battlefield 1942 kicks ass, and certainly deserves the award. I'd say that EA has nothing to do with it.

BF1942 is really fun. Don't hate if you haven't played it. :bang:

I never said I hated it, I just said I wouldn't be able to say whether or not it's worthy.

That's not what you said at all. You said:

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it is by EA so I'm going to have to say no way it can be best

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Originally posted by skullkid
Madden wins sports game of the year proving you can release the same game over and over every year and still win!

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yeah, and it got excellent ratings from just about every publication in the industry, too, and sold about 2 million copies on PS2 alone.

what, IYO, should have won the sports award?

IMO the biggest problem with the AIAS awards (not the broadcast, cos i didn't see it) is that animal crossing won RPG of the year with FFX in the category.

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Originally posted by skullkid
First of all the presenters were airhead celeberties that knew nothing about games,Tommy Tallarico included.

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Tommy Tallarico does know what he is talking about...even though he has bad taste at times, he has a respectable knowledge of gaming...

I loved the other presenter's reaction to the chick in the red dress.

*looks at her for a second* "Damn!" *looks her over again and starts clapping*

The Tommy Tallarico thing was a joke.

Never played Battlefield 1942 so I can't say if it's GotY or not.

Final Fantasy 10 shouldn't have been nominated because it didn't come out in 2002(let's not get started on this again)

Animal Crossing is fun and innovative it deserves the praise it gets.

Why have a Sports award if you are going to give it to the same (and boy do I mean same) game every year.

I will not go off on why I hate EA cause that could take all day.

The chick in the red dresss is still hot and yes that guy with her was funny.

FFX explanation- maybe their voting period extends from the end of one year to the end of another.

I find AIAS to be pretty accurate.

Madden issue - If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

As for the Splinter Cell - console thing. Obviously it wasn't in the runnings for overall since other stuff beat it out that was on the PC.

I wish I got G4...

Oh and Battlefeild is an awesome game. I don't think the developers should be punished for putting out good product because their publisher is EA, that's not right. Atleast, not to me.

Tommy Tallarico does seem to act like a jackass, but I like Electric playground for entertainment value so I can see where you're coming from. ;)

I'm not sure about the AIAS. Most of the voters are media and general mainstream people... their votes are pretty tarnished by hype since they're not true gamers in the sense anyhow.

I find the Game Developer Choice Awards to be more credible... it's more like the Oscars... an official industry body to give out industry awards.

Madden is usually wildly different from year to year.

In the same way that a Street Fighter fan can see all the differences from one game to another, so can a Madden fan.

Obviously, someone with such strong, uneducated biases like you wouldn't care to try to notice.

Oh shit I did say that >.> Damnit, well I'm wrong. I'll admit it, though I've always had a small bias against EA, and I still probably wouldn't call it game of the year, that doesn't mean it can't be. Sorry for my arrogance, please forgive me :(.

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Originally posted by ferricide
IMO the biggest problem with the AIAS awards (not the broadcast, cos i didn't see it) is that animal crossing won RPG of the year with FFX in the category.

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Animal Crossing beat FFX? Suddenly I like this show.

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Originally posted by negitoro
I'm not sure about the AIAS. Most of the voters are media and general mainstream people... their votes are pretty tarnished by hype since they're not true gamers in the sense anyhow.

I find the Game Developer Choice Awards to be more credible... it's more like the Oscars... an official industry body to give out industry awards.

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I believe the Academy has artists and scientist who deal with 3D modelling and animation (motion, physics), judge the graphical appeal of games.

I think...

GDC is probably the most accurate. But Battlefeild is a good game so I couldn't care less.

While, yes, AIAS probably has some semblance of technical writers to judge the games, yeah, it's always better when people from the industry first hand are the ones who determine the outcome.

And I agree, BF1942 is an awesome games... it was a finalist for GOTY at the GDCA too... Metriod Prime took that it there though.