StarCraft 2 wins PC GOTY on IGN!

And it completely deserved it. Read it and weep ME2 fanboys. Looking forward to reading the ragers comments. :P

http://bestof.ign.com/2010/pc/pc-game-of-the-year.html

Although I admit the game was great and the story was amazing, I hardly played any matches online and it's replay value for me was low. I liked Mass Effect 2 a bit more because of the replay value I found in wanting to make paragon and renegade characters.Lord_DoDo56

This exactly. It should've gone to ME2, even though it was a port.

Of course, only most posters on GS would think otherwise. SC 2 can't possibly get a single PC GOTY award.DanielDust

Why should it win a GOTY?

Well atleast IGN had a brain for once :D thats not every day.

They gave almost every award out to ME2... I mean it's their to give, but... "Most Innovative Game-play" "Best Visuals" Really now, this is damnright embarrassing. GeneralShowzer

Where can i see the awards list :D?

Lol nevermind im blind :D

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Of course, only most posters on GS would think otherwise. SC 2 can't possibly get a single PC GOTY award.Sheppard212

Why should it win a GOTY?

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]They gave almost every award out to ME2... I mean it's their to give, but... "Most Innovative Game-play" "Best Visuals" Really now, this is damnright embarrassing. KalDurenik

Where can i see the awards list :D?

Its a great game, congrats (:
Definatly between SC2 and ME2 imo for GOTY for pc

Both are outstanding games, but I honestly feel ME2 should have been awarded that title.

It's not like it had a lot of competition. The only game this year which is on its level of quality is New Vegas.

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[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Of course, only most posters on GS would think otherwise. SC 2 can't possibly get a single PC GOTY award.DanielDust

Why should it win a GOTY?

Congratulations on assuming a flawed position. Originality is irrelavent, but how you present a product is what matters. Personally, I can't say I was impressed with the campaign, but the gameplay was solid. Per usual, your views differ wildly from mine. My apparent confusion stems from how this game trumped another, but if we argue that, the cows will both come home AND be sent to the slaughter house before an acceptable agreement is reached.

I merely asked you for YOUR opinion on why SCII is superior. Who knows? I could actually AGREE with you and raise the game up on my list a few notches. Ball's in your court.

IGN gave Mass Effect 2 the best story, best visuals and most innovative game awards. Hehe, IGN is still IGN.

[QUOTE="Lord_DoDo56"]Although I admit the game was great and the story was amazing, I hardly played any matches online and it's replay value for me was low. I liked Mass Effect 2 a bit more because of the replay value I found in wanting to make paragon and renegade characters.Sheppard212

This exactly. It should've gone to ME2, even though it was a port.

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[QUOTE="Lord_DoDo56"]Although I admit the game was great and the story was amazing, I hardly played any matches online and it's replay value for me was low. I liked Mass Effect 2 a bit more because of the replay value I found in wanting to make paragon and renegade characters.FelipeInside

This exactly. It should've gone to ME2, even though it was a port.

Not unless you're playing the illegal version ;)

That's the only way i can explain why someone would say SCII has no replay value.

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="Sheppard212"]

This exactly. It should've gone to ME2, even though it was a port.

GeneralShowzer

Not unless you're playing the illegal version ;)

That's the only way i can explain why someone would say SCII has no replay value.

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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] The online IS the replay value when it comes to StarCraft... It's like saying Call of Duty has no replay value....FelipeInside

Not unless you're playing the illegal version ;)

That's the only way i can explain why someone would say SCII has no replay value.

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]

Not unless you're playing the illegal version ;)

That's the only way i can explain why someone would say SCII has no replay value.

GeneralShowzer

Yeah I've heard, but I would probably loose more games than I win.... if it comes to online, I would rather play WoW or CoD where I am actually decent-to-good at....

While SC2 was a great game, but I wouldn't have given it GOTY. My personal GOTY is STALKER Call of Pripyat. $40 for a game that is full of awesome. Only big blockebuster games Win GOTY on review sites though....

While SC2 was a great game, but I wouldn't have given it GOTY. My personal GOTY is STALKER Call of Pripyat. $40 for a game that is full of awesome. Only big blockebuster games Win GOTY on review sites though....

SF_KiLLaMaN

Great, the Genre deserves this. Hell, the platform deserves an exclusive to win.

[QUOTE="SerOlmy"]Well Blizzard has it in their marketing contract that they have to get welfare awards form at least 10% of online publication or Bobby Kotich will "receive the first born of of all associated editors and an assortment of various artisan breads". Starcraft 2, deserves very few awards IMO. Certainly not innovation, nor graphics, nor story, nor gameplay, maybe in polish, and arguably competitive multiplayer. Certainly not GotY in my opinion.biggest_loser

ME2 i think is his favorite game of the year.

Because that had innovation, graphics, and game-play right?

At least SC II didn't dumb down it's predecessor to appeal to the COD audience. I would take SC II Epic so bad it's good storyline, over ME2, which was almost non existant.

All you did in that game was wonder aimlessly, fixing the family dramas of your teammates which didn't have any connection with the main storyline. And the ending twist and boss was really bad.

I don't know if SC2's story was bad. I mean, compared to what? A movie? I haven't played through the whole thing yet but so far it seems to be at that standard game level of storytelling. Its not terrible, just serviceable I think. At least the characters are fun. I'm not particularly critical of the story because it seems so secondary to the game play and never interrupts how complete those mechanics are. biggest_loser

I say it's well deserved. Besides the P.O.S. story, Starcraft II has great multiplayer and phenomenal mission variety. After this release, I hope to see more mission variety for other RTS games beyond the oft repeated bog standard thinly veiled "multiplayer" match against horrendous AI with bad cutscenese attached. It's a great game (although, my personal Game of the Year would probably be Amnesia).

I think it has to do with the whole package and the improvement, and how polished it is in every single aspect (SP, MP, CutScenes, Voice Acting, Graphics, Story etc...)

Not many games can polish themselves like Blizzard titles do.....FelipeInside

I would argue that. And also the fact that polish is no excuse for doing absolutely nothing new or interesting. SC2 was SC1 with a graphic overhaul and race balance improvements. Not worth the 10 year wait by a long shot IMO, certainly not for GotY.

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"]I don't know if SC2's story was bad. I mean, compared to what? A movie? I haven't played through the whole thing yet but so far it seems to be at that standard game level of storytelling. Its not terrible, just serviceable I think. At least the characters are fun. I'm not particularly critical of the story because it seems so secondary to the game play and never interrupts how complete those mechanics are. GeneralShowzer

People say that the cinematics are so impressive. Ok, the high end ones are good, but the ones that are done in-engine are complete garbage IMO. At least other games the do in-engine cutsceens actually have the graphical detail to make them look better than an 80's cartoon.

Congrats to Blizzard for making an awesome game.

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I would argue that. And also the fact that polish is no excuse for doing absolutely nothing new or interesting. SC2 was SC1 with a graphic overhaul and race balance improvements. Not worth the 10 year wait by a long shot IMO, certainly not for GotY.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="biggest_loser"]I don't know if SC2's story was bad. I mean, compared to what? A movie? I haven't played through the whole thing yet but so far it seems to be at that standard game level of storytelling. Its not terrible, just serviceable I think. At least the characters are fun. I'm not particularly critical of the story because it seems so secondary to the game play and never interrupts how complete those mechanics are. SerOlmy

People say that the cinematics are so impressive. Ok, the high end ones are good, but the ones that are done in-engine are complete garbage IMO. At least other games the do in-engine cutsceens actually have the graphical detail to make them look better than an 80's cartoon.

RTS isn't my thing, and I was rooting for ME2 but I understand that SC2 is a terrific game so I'm not complaining. I just hope ME2 gets overall GotY. At least it won 360 GotY :)

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I would argue that. And also the fact that polish is no excuse for doing absolutely nothing new or interesting. SC2 was SC1 with a graphic overhaul and race balance improvements. Not worth the 10 year wait by a long shot IMO, certainly not for GotY.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="biggest_loser"]I don't know if SC2's story was bad. I mean, compared to what? A movie? I haven't played through the whole thing yet but so far it seems to be at that standard game level of storytelling. Its not terrible, just serviceable I think. At least the characters are fun. I'm not particularly critical of the story because it seems so secondary to the game play and never interrupts how complete those mechanics are. SerOlmy

People say that the cinematics are so impressive. Ok, the high end ones are good, but the ones that are done in-engine are complete garbage IMO. At least other games the do in-engine cutsceens actually have the graphical detail to make them look better than an 80's cartoon.

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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] It's very cheesy but in a good way. And the cinematics are really amazing.biggest_loser

People say that the cinematics are so impressive. Ok, the high end ones are good, but the ones that are done in-engine are complete garbage IMO. At least other games the do in-engine cutsceens actually have the graphical detail to make them look better than an 80's cartoon.

Never heard of it.flipin_jackass

Never heard of it.flipin_jackass

Why is everyone on this forum rooting for the non PC game here ?GeneralShowzer

You should really try it, it's a great game.... has a character that looks like the one you have on your profile pic....FelipeInside

Ha-ha! I Get it! See he has an SC2 avatar! But he says, get-this! He hasn't heard of it! Who-who, look out Bob Hope and BL! biggest_loser

Why is everyone on this forum rooting for the non PC game here ?GeneralShowzer

Just because it isn't exclusive doesn't mean that it can't be a great game.