



SpikeTV "Video Game Awards" Results 85
Last night SpikeTV aired its second annual Video Game Awards. Commentary is available from the Video Game Ombudsman, who did some live blogging during the event. From his post: "Seven Awards in 50 seconds - And that's including the lame intro. and Bloodrayne's 9 second acceptance "speech" for cyber-vixen of the year. Way to stand there, BloodRayne. The categories and winners aren't even vaguely related. And these are major awards, not the largely immaterial technical awards at the Oscars. Oh well, I guess now they can squeeze in another musical number." Grimwell Online is also available for snarky analysis, as is Buttonmashing.com. For non-flash results, Voodoo Extreme has a list of the winners.
With the elocution skills of Mr. Dogg: (Score:3, Funny)
Word.
Well, it was on SpikeTV (Score:5, Funny)
That network is the only reason I've ever felt ashamed of having a penis. I can now empathize with the African American's feelings about Amos and Andy.
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Were Amos and Andy ashamed of having penises too?
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Spike isn't all bad. They show CSI re-runs back to back on weekdays from 7 til 9 pm. Other than that, yes they suck. And I've very glad this stupid award show is over with. The promo commercials--every break--and the overlay graphics went way past annoying. now I can watch my CSI in peace.
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I don't think Amos and Andy made people ashamed of being black.
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In a word... (Score:2)
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difference between VGAs and Oscars (Score:5, Insightful)
On the other hand, the chumps that make video games are usually not very well known (outside of a select few, your Carmacks, your Meiers, etc...), and we as a viewing public don't really give a shit about who they are and what they have to say, because chances are they aren't going to be able to say it interestingly anyway. Just like the technical Oscars.
On the other hand, who's the target demo for this sort of thing? Late teens and early 20's males. Let's cram as much crap as we possibly can into a couple of hours! They should just give in and not bother censoring... Anyone who'd be offended by the tripe they'll show probably isn't going to be watching anyway.
/didn't watch it this year//watched it last year, "meh"s all around.
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GOTY: Grand Theft Auto 2 (Score:1)
Caught a few minutes (Score:3, Funny)
wow.
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Who is she? I've never heard of her.
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Shades of Spinal Tap (Score:2, Funny)
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Motley Crew
Grumble. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's fake enthusiasm, style over substance, blatant product placement, EXTREME! everything bullcrap. Watch an episode of The Screen Savers on G4 if you want to know what I'm talking about. Now that the pointy-hairs have finished lobotomizing the show, the new hosts haven't figured out that reading the teleprompter VERY! ENTHUSIASTICALLY! is no substitute for knowing about or giving a damn about what they're reading. It's acutely unwatchable.
I think I understand now how the old-school punk rockers felt when their culture got subverted by the unceasing quest for corporate profits.
--riney
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Home gaming is a commodity. What used to require thousands of dollars in an arcade to display primitive graphics has now been ecclipsed by inexpensive home machines for under $150 that offer compelling immersive experiences that compete with movies for your entertainment budget.
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The new GTA has a very hip hop gangsta feel and a supporting soundtrack. NBA Ballers (a 1M+ platinum seller) has MC Supernatural and is full of underground jams.
Have you noticed the soundtrack even in Madden the last couple years has leaned more and more heavily towards "urban" music. I used to be on a team that was a Madden competitor
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This goes back to another post of mine from some other article, about conformity and acceptance. People's social habits change, their clothing, mode of speech and taste in music, in response to that they are told is cool. "You are free to do as we tell you" mentality. Read whatever insensitive cloddity and racism into that as you see fit.
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K-Os, I have to say, is frighteningly catchy, and despite my best efforts, I like his stuff. It's actually music, not just swearing and ebonics put to a drum machine. That doesn't help that the majority of hip-hop
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It's not like it matters in the long run. Game developers as a whole are more disgusted with the show than the fans are. Getting a VGA is like your college
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There is no gaming culture. People just play games.
If your inferring that Madden, GTA, and Tony Hawk are "jock" games; that is completely stupid. I play those games and I am so far from being a jock. What kind of games must I play to be in the "gaming culture"?
Unlike punk rock, there has never been a console game created that wasn't designed for profi
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The could be publishing a new zelda and Mario every year like EA does. There has been only 2 traditional mario games released since 1994 (Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine), and before you say it - yes, they release a LOT of "spin-off" mario games. But.. they could ALSO release a lot of shitty mario game every year or the exact same fun ones wit
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Look at the Tomb Raider series. They cashed in for lots of quick crappy games that were the same. Now the franchise is worthless. Nobody is waiting for the next Tom
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There is no gaming culture. People just play games.
Exactly. The gaming industry has always been divided into casual consumers and hardcore gamers. The Madden of today is the Tecmo Bowl of the 80s. 'Jock' and games targeted toward the lowest common denominator have always existed, and there's nothing inherently wrong with them (I'm totally not into sport
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As an old school punk, I'm not so sure about that. Believe it or not, punk was, at one time, just about making music. No business needed, just pick up an instrument and thrash. It wasn't even about "talent" - it was just about the need to make noise and be heard. It was pure expression of an ideal.
Videogames have, so long as there have been consoles. ALWAYS been abou
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WTF!! How much credibility can an award have when its participants don't even partake in the art being awarded. Then again, Ashlee Simpson RECIEVED a Billboard Award so I guess a little integrity is too much to ask from awards distributors.
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GOTY: GTA:SA
Best Action Game: GTA:SA
Best FPS: Halo 2
Best PC Game: HL2
Best Graphics: HL2
Best Military Game: CoD: Finest Hour
and son on and so forth
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then click on enter, and then results.
It's all done in flash or I would have just cut and pasted.
w0rd to your mother (Score:5, Insightful)
Where does rap/hip-hop have a place in video gaming? Where is that music heard? IN FOOTBALL GAMES. IN *some* DRIVING GAMES. Surprise, surprise, that's it.
You don't see the Master Chief getting jiggy with it.
You don't see the Price of Persia losin' his mind up in here.
Lara Croft may take off all her clothes when it gets hot in here, but I guarantee you if Nelly tried to party it up in her, she'd embed an ounce of lead in the wall behind Nelly's formerly living body.
Andrew WK was awesome last year. The man performed in a fucking wheelchair. That's just a part of what makes him so kickass.
Don't give me this Snoop Dogg shit, keep him in movies and music where he belongs.
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Did you mean three shots, max?
-Peter
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I realized that Spike TV didn't really care what they were talking about when they announced the best "human female" category, and Brooke Burke won. Now, the clips they showed of every other nominee had gameplay and voiceovers, while Brook was only shown as a sylized photograph on an menu screen - did she actually do anything but pose for the game? They had been hyping her as a guest for about a week though, which is why I'm guessing she won.
Yeah, that and all the rappers. Everyone is trying so hard to nail down the gaming demographic, but I still don't feel included. My guess is that they've decided that since the group of people that play games is so diverse, they'll just stick to the people they've been able to so successfully trick into buying crap in the past: MTV mooks and midrifs.
The Grimwell Online article is the best of the three by the way.
Actually the results werent that bad. (Score:4, Interesting)
A couple of surprises though, is curious and sad that Doom 3 and MGS3 didnt won a single award and is kind of cool to know that MK:deception was voted as best fighting game, halo 2 as best fps over doom 3 and hl2 (Well... if you mean by the multiplayer game I think I can agree on that) although hl2 won best pc game and best graphics (to keep balance), burnout 3 beat everyone else as a racing game (is a game about spectacular crashing cars at 200mph you have to admit is tempting). Im kind of unsure about fable but considering it wasnt competing against kotor 2 (which was delivered later in the year) its a lot better than the other nominees.
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Not suprising... (Score:1)
Penny Arcade were also there (Score:1)
Big EA Ad (Score:3, Interesting)
Sure, other games won some of the categories, but just about all of the "segments" used EA properties or talent that appears in EA games.
Katamari Damacy was way more addictive than the other games in that category, but since it wasn't by EA and didn't have any rap music in it, it didn't stand a chance. (Also, the "Best Soundtrack" category was won by a game that used all licensed tracks from the early 90's...It beat out games that had original soundtracks that were amazing...Great message to send to publishers!)
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Even if you covered all the genres, where would Katamari Damacy fit in? I don't think there's really a place for it (except for best soundtrack). If you wanted to honor it, you'd have to give it game of the year. And it has a rainbow on the cover.
lack of japanese made games (Score:2)
This really is the epitome of 'mainstream' gaming in America. I guess I finally know what it feels like to be in on something before it 'sold out'. Expect more of this.
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Shocked, shocked I tell you! (Score:4, Funny)
Rob
It's still young (Score:1)
Maybe I don't get out much but... (Score:1)
I guess I am glad I missed it (Score:1)
Just as I predicted (Score:2)
For anyone who has played both games, it shouldn't have been to hard to tell which one was better. Even if you didn't think HL2 lived up to the hype, the havok physics engine had alot more uses and was much better put to use in HL2 than in Halo 2. The gameplay and AI was much better, the design was much better. And and top of that it was alot more fun. Even all the Halo 2 fans over here dropped their jaw and were quite conten
In terms of gameplay... (Score:1)
There's a great award show already (Score:2, Informative)
I TRIED TO VOTE FOR HALF-LIFE 2 (Score:1)