A skeleton for the nominees - NOT FINAL

Last edited by Nighthood on Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This was collected last night. It's by no means final, and I didn't just decide on all of this myself.

Hipster dev award - for Developer we hate now -
Notch - Bioware - Bethesda/Todd Howard - Ninja Theory - DICE

Sort of OK Dev award - For developer of the Year
-From Software - Valve Software - CD Project - Eidos Montreal - Nintendo - Croteam

Karl Marx Rampant Capitalism award - for most capitalistic publisher
EA - Activison - Microsoft - Ubisoft - Capcom - Zenimax/Bethesda - THQ

Alright Publisher Award - for publisher of the year
Steam/Valve - Nntendo - Sony - Paradox Interactive - Good Old Games - Relogic - Sega

"My Eyes are Bleeding" Award - for worst graphics
Ace of Spades - Minecraft - Dwarf Fortress - Skyrim - Dragon Age 2 - Rage - Brink

Stylish Aesthetics Award - for most stylish aesthetics/art
Dark Souls - Alice: Madness Returns - Skyward Sword - Sonic Generations - Xenoblade - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Bastion - Limbo - The Witcher 2

Grafics Cat Award - for most impressive graphical achievement
Battlefield 3 - Crysis 2 -The Witcher 2 - Uncharted 3 - Minecraft - Portal 2

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Award - for least convincing voice acting
Skyrim - Dead Island - Star Wars: The Old Republic - Saints Row 3 - Dragon Age 2 - Modern Warfare 3 - Hydrophobia - Space Marine - Magicka

Golden Voice Award - for best voice acting
Stephen Merchant (Wheatley) - Mark Hamill (Joker) - Logan Cunningham (The Stranger in Bastion) - Ellen Maclain (GlaDOS) - Nolan North (Fucking everyone) - Elias Toufexis (Adam Jensen)

Hamburger Helper Award - for worst writing
Dragon Age 2 - Battlefield 3 - Modern Warfare 3 - Skyrim - The Old Republic - Duke Nukem Forever - Hyperdimension Neptunia - Totori

Planescape Award - for best writing
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Ghost Trick - Uncharted 3 - Arkham City - Portal 2 - To the Moon - Bastion - LA Noire - Skyrim

Press X to Win the Award Award - for most awful gameplay
Need for Speed: The Run - Modern Warfare 3 - Duke Nukem Forever - Minecraft -Space Marine - Uncharted 3 - Brink -Dead Island

"Actually Kind of Fun" Award - for best gameplay
Dark Souls - Serious Sam: BFE - Little Big Planet 2 - Portal 2 - Arkham City - Skyward Sword -Xenoblade - Rayman Origins - Infamous 2 - Monster Girl Quest

Rehash Award - for least improved sequel or remake
Saint's Row 3 - Modern Warfare 3 - SSF4 - Ocarina of Time 3d - Halo CE - Assassin's Creed Revelations - Goldeneye - Dragon Age 2

Disappoint Award - for most disappointing trailer
Dead Island - MGS Revengeance - Battlefield 3 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Purity first trailer) - Uncharted 3 Subway

Hyperbole Award - for trailer of the year
Deus Ex: Human Revolution director's cut - Fall of Cybertron - Dead Island - Micheal - Meet the Medic - Portal 2

Reddit Award - for most hated fanbase
Sonic - League of Legends - Modern shooters - Skyrim - Pokemon - Minecraft - Biodrones

Teabagging Award - for worst video game related ceremony
Spike's - Our's - Reddit's - E3 2011

Blunder of the Year - for blunder of the year
Brink - Rage - Duke Nukem Forever - Homefront - Minecaft - Dragon Age 2 - Bodycount

Scrub of the Year Award - presented by THE BEST GAMERS
Jeremy - B^U - iJustine - Those two kids who did that Kinect thing for Microsoft at E3 - /b/ - Reddit

Most interesting New IP Award - for most interesting new IP
Orcs Must Die - Bastion - Bulletstorm - LA Noire - Xenoblade - Monster Girl Quest - Frozen Synapse

Eargasm Award - for best sound and music
Bastion - Portal 2 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Battlefield 3 - Skyward Sword - Kirby: Return to Dreamland - Rayman Origins - Xenoblade

Weeaboo Award - for visual novel of the year
Katawa Shoujo - Monster Girl Quest - Rance Quest - Ateleir Totori - Violated Heroine - Fate/Extra - 999 9 hours 9 persons 9 doors - Catherine

Activision Award - for crimes against gaming
EA - Activision - Bioware - THQ - Sony hack disaster - Ubisoft - Microsoft - /rgaming - /v/ - Capcom

Most hated Game of the Year -
Dragon age 2 - League of Legends - Modern Warfare 3 - Skyrim - Duke Nukem Forever - Minecraft - Brink

Least hated Game of the Year -
Skyward Sword - Serious Sam: BFE - Witcher 2 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Dark Souls - Sonic Generations - Kirby: Return to dreamland - Sending gaben emails 1 word at a time

Sort of OK Developer of the Year -
-From Software - Valve Software - CD Project - Eidos Montreal - Nintendo - Croteam

You're missing Rocksteady here. A list without them in ok developer of the year doesn't make sense.

My eyes are bleeding from these Graphics -
Ace of Spades - Minecraft - Dwarf Fortress - Skyrim - Dragon Age 2 - Rage - Brink

No, you. Voxel-based games in "bleeding eyes grafix", seriously? How does that make sense? Also, Dwarf Fortress has NO graphics whatsoever, it's barely a game. You can't say it's ugly when it doesn't even try to look like anything.

Stylish Aesthetics -
Dark Souls - Alice: Madness Returns - Skyward Sword - Sonic Generations - Xenoblade - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Bastion - Limbo - The Witcher 2

Just throwing this out there, maybe add Batman: Arkham City? Just saying. Very Stylish.
I agree with everything up there, only game I haven't played in Limbo but then again I know it's excellent and have seen ton of gameplay of it.

The Grafics award for most Impressive Graphical Achievement -
Battlefield 3 - Crysis 2 -The Witcher 2 - Uncharted 3 - Minecraft - Portal 2

Aww sheet, wow. WOW. Alright let's get this one out of the way, minecraft has NO place ANYWHERE near this category, none. It's not the vgas. The games running for this category and running for the most Impressive Graphical Achievement.
Battlefield 3 is NOT by any means the most impressive graphical achievement of the year, but hey, it's a good nominee.
Crysis 2 with dx 11 + textures patch is ok, I'm ok with it. Same with BF3 really, Ok nominee.
Portal 2, what the flying fuck. Not even NEAR this list when Witcher 2 is in it too.
Uncharted 3, ...? What? I mean the game is gorgeous don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but NO MENTION of shogun 2 and uncharted somehow makes it into this list? You dropped the ball.

Missing: Shogun 2

STALKER award for least convincing Voice Acting -
Skyrim - Dead Island - Star Wars: The Old Republic - Saints Row 3 - Dragon Age 2 - Modern Warfare 3 - Hydrophobia - Space Marine - Magicka

Way too many games, and most of them don't make sense. Have you played skyrim, sr3, mw3, space marine, magicka? I know I did. I know none of them can't win the least convincing VA of the year.

Skyrim has a shitty VA, but it does its job.
SR3 does its job too, it's nowhere near a "shit VA"
Space Marine? I mean, what? They are largely on par with other video games.
Magicka? I don't even know man, what. There is no VA in this game, except for the few npcs that speaks in the silly language invented for the game. Reread the name of the category and rethink about if it has its place here.

Men of War: Assault Squad on the other hand... Fucking BRILLIANT game, but one of the worst VA ever.
Once again I agree with everything else.

Eargasm award for Sound/Music -
Bastion - Portal 2 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Battlefield 3 - Skyward Sword - Kirby: Return to Dreamland - Rayman Origins - Xenoblade

I agree with everything except obviously Battlefield 3, what the fuck.
You are missing:
Shogun 2, acclaimed by most for his very good OST.
Sonic Generations, I mean god damn nigga.

There, I posted on the forums as asked. I mean I didn't put much of thought into what I just wrote, but I feel like it's objective. Every single game in your list, even the one I cried/hated on are excellent and I admit that. I just think that some of them shouldn't be nominated in a few specific categories.

Gogopex wrote:

mad as fuck

The Eargasm award is for both OST and Sound Effects, BF3's sound effects are godly.

If we change it to just OST, BF3 should go.

Sanic Generations should not be able to be a nominee since its soundtrack was pretty much all remixes of older tunes, nothing original about it.