GOTY is going to be really tough this year,

I know that quite a few of the BIG games haven't come out yet but im just saying that choosing ONE game for goty is going to be tough,RSV2,GTA IV,SPORE,Little Big Planet,MGS4,and im sure there are more that i just cant think of,Im going to put my money on spore simply because it'll release just 2-3 months before december and will have alot of chatter on the web at awarding time

What do you all think?nominate the games with reasons.

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

I'll definitely agree on spore and MGS4,i dont think we should forget Gears of war,infact i think GOW2 will get 360 as an exlclusive and then gta gets best cross platform,dunno bout the wii ps or ds,but crisis core will prob be a contender to god of war too

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

I think you nailed it.. looking forward to MGS4, but GTA IV will properly be GOTY.

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

Answer me this. How can PS3 game of the year be MGS4 but overall GOTY be GTAIV? GTAIV is on the PS3 too and no one said it's any worse, so your list is self-contradictory.

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

Wouldn't GTA 4 be the choice for the ps3 as well? Especially if it's goty?

Who cares right now?It´s not even half of the year over,many titles will be thrown into 2009 and it´s not like there is every titles that will come until the end of the year announced or at least well known...

If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.The_Frederick

Then brace yourself for a "slow" year because all signs point to GTAIV being the game to beat.

If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.The_Frederick

[QUOTE="The_Frederick"]If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.Toriko42

You are forgetting a little game from an unknown developer called "Starcraft 2" ;)

[QUOTE="Toriko42"][QUOTE="The_Frederick"]If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.XaosII

You are forgetting a little game from an unknown developer called "Starcraft 2" ;)

I think GTA IV is going to win GOTY hands down, unless Fallout 3 or MGs4 are absolute masterpieces. It's going to be hard to compete with a game that has gotten a perfect score from IGN.dru26

Agreed even though as much as i love mgs4.

If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.The_Frederick

How so?

Game of the Year: GTA IV.

I can also name the console winners...

PC: Spore

360: GTA IV

PS3: MGS4

Wii: Super Smash Bros.: Brawl

PS2: Alone in the Dark

DS: FFXII: Revenant Wings

PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Flatout Worst Game: Haze... There's just so much hype, it's inevitable it's going to suck.

TheLordRagnarok

GTAIV isn't a lock for GOTY if you ask me, just like people predicted 2 years ago with Twilight Princess. There's quite some heavyweights this year. We have SSBB, GTAIV, MGS4, NG2, Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Spore, BIA: HH, Little Big Planet, Resistance and Starcraft 2 but knowing Blizzard... I'm sure there'll be more.

Not that I'm being a PC fanboy or anything but I truly believe that from the looks of things, Spore should be Game of the Year! Why? Maybe, because Spore is revolutionary!

Don't get me wrong though, GTA IV is great too perhaps, even perfect as hinted IGN but Spore is possibly a game which would open up a new genre.

[QUOTE="The_Frederick"]If a GTA game is the best thing to come out this year, it's been a slow year.Nifty_Shark

How so?

It's so... ordinary. At least, by creative standards. What's it touted for, it's size? It's interactivity? Those are things that are very easily done with enough time and motivation. I mean, Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom were almost so, so much more by those standards.

It's so... ordinary. At least, by creative standards. What's it touted for, it's size? It's interactivity? Those are things that are very easily done with enough time and motivation. I mean, Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom were almost so, so much more by those standards.

The_Frederick

If things like that are easily done, I wonder why absolutely no one can do those kind of games half as good as R* can? Then I wonder why we don't get more games of that high a quality as well, seeing as how it's so easy.

If things like that are easily done, I wonder why absolutely no one can do those kind of games half as good as R* can? Then I wonder why we don't get more games of that high a quality as well, seeing as how it's so easy.

Iszk

Because they don't want to. It takes time and persistance, rather than any real skill or vision. A game that receives a perfect score should change the way you think about gaming as a medium, not simply be a game where you can visit brothels and carjack people.

Because they don't want to. It takes time and persistance, rather than any real skill or vision. A game that receives a pefect score should change the way you think about gaming as a medium, not simply be a game where you can visit brothels and carjack people.

The_Frederick

Plenty of games spend as much time in development with skilled people, and do not end up half as good a value overall as the average GTA game. GTA4 cannot possibly be boiled down to just carjacking and brothels, those are just two things out of many. I don't much give a hoot about a game changing the way I view the hobby or whatever, it's just disposable entertainment, afterall, for my free time. I just want to be entertained, and everything I've seen from this game says it will do that, and will give me more than sixty bucks worth of it. It's fine GTA doesn't appeal to you, honestly, but you really shouldn't feel some sort of compulsion to jump to conclusions about it and put it down on these message boards. Just avoid GTA discussion, it'll die down.

If you want to present dissenting opinions on the game, at least wait until you can present some tangible ones based on some sort of solid hands on time, or even resonable second hand opinions of other people who did. Right now though, you're just making assumptions, and oversimplfying, and it's hard to make a discussion on the quality of the game out of those things.

[QUOTE="The_Frederick"]

Because they don't want to. It takes time and persistance, rather than any real skill or vision. A game that receives a pefect score should change the way you think about gaming as a medium, not simply be a game where you can visit brothels and carjack people.

Iszk

Plenty of games spend as much time in development with skilled people, and do not end up half as good a value overall as the average GTA game. GTA4 cannot possibly be boiled down to just carjacking and brothels, those are just two things out of many. I don't much give a hoot about a game changing the way I view the hobby or whatever, it's just disposable entertainment, afterall, for my free time. I just want to be entertained, and everything I've seen from this game says it will do that, and will give me more than sixty bucks worth of it. It's fine GTA doesn't appeal to you, honestly, but you really shouldn't feel some sort of compulsion to jump to conclusions about it and put it down on these message boards. Just avoid GTA discussion, it'll die down.

If you want to present dissenting opinions on the game, at least wait until you can present some tangible ones based on some sort of solid hands on time, or even resonable second hand opinions of other people who did. Right now though, you're just making assumptions, and oversimplfying, and it's hard to make a discussion on the quality of the game out of those things.

Be that as it may, I can quite confidentely say that GTA4 does NOT have the graphics of Crysis nor the story of Bioshock. Those games are the benchmarks, and by telling us that it DOES have those things, reviews are either lying or deluded.

Be that as it may, I can quite confidentely say that GTA4 does NOT have the graphics of Crysis nor the story of Bioshock. Those games are the benchmarks, and by telling us that it DOES have those things, reviews are either lying or deluded.

The_Frederick

I like for a game to be reviewed on it's own merits. As for Crysis, that is the benchmark for high powered gaming PCs, not consoles. Of course no game will match it on a console, thats a whole other level. Nor have I played Bioshock, so I can't say for sure GTA4 doesn't have a better story than it, because believe it or not, I bet not everyone liked Bioshocks narrative. Docking the games score, then telling me they did it because it wasn't as good a story as Bioshock, would have me thinking they were imposing their subjective opinions about an aspect of an entirely different game, from an entirely different genre, onto GTA4 in a way that would turn me off from taking them and any opinion they have very seriously.

[QUOTE="The_Frederick"]

Be that as it may, I can quite confidentely say that GTA4 does NOT have the graphics of Crysis nor the story of Bioshock. Those games are the benchmarks, and by telling us that it DOES have those things, reviews are either lying or deluded.

Iszk

I like for a game to be reviewed on it's own merits. As for Crysis, that is the benchmark for high powered gaming PCs, not consoles. Of course no game will match it on a console, thats a whole other level. Nor have I played Bioshock, so I can't say for sure GTA4 doesn't have a better story than it, because believe it or not, I bet not everyone liked Bioshocks narrative. Docking the games score, then telling me they did it because it wasn't as good as Bioshock, would have me thinking they were imposing their subjective opinions about an entirely different game, from an entirely different genre, onto GTA4 in a way that would turn me off from taking them and any opinion they have very seriously.