MTV Movie Awards Adds Game Category 38
The next MTV Music Awards show will feature a Best Video Game Based on a Movie award, reports Gamasutra.com. Titles up for the award this year include "Spider-Man 2 (Activision) and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Vivendi Universal Games), and also titles such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EA), Van Helsing (Vivendi Universal Games), and The Incredibles (THQ)".
WHOOPS! ZONK DID IT AGAIN!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
(I know this is offtopic, but this is the only way to be heard.)
Once again, our esteemed Zonk posts a story, and then yanks it.
What the FUCK is wrong with you, Zonk? Either post a story, or don't (preferably the latter), but DON'T post it and then yank it.
Why is this so damned difficult for you to understand???
People, I'd appreciate it if you would take a little time out from posting on the topic to post below your feelings on this matter. And Zonk, If you'd like to post as well, I'm sure we would all appreciate an explanation.
Re:WHOOPS! ZONK DID IT AGAIN!!! (Score:1, Insightful)
Well, it is too late for that. I was never really too sold
retroactive editing is not editing (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:WHOOPS! ZONK DID IT AGAIN!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
remember it's NEWS FOR NERDS, not CONJECTURE FOR HALFWITS. Rumors aren't news, they're RUMORS.
I swear I come to /. anymore just to see ridiculous shit. It's to the point where I expect to see "Xbox2 project manager burps, does this mean it'll have a hard drive?"
So what happens when... (Score:1)
Re:So what happens when... (Score:1)
Nothing happens - cause that basically covers 95% of the movie-based games.
The only reason you see "low-quality" games getting into the finalists is because there isn't much competition in this field - you only see games based around well-known franchises, and with nothing coming from individual works. (The only exception is Blair Witch, which was popular enough anyway.)
Other awards to consider (Score:3, Insightful)
Or even: "Best Machinima Movie"?
Or better still: "Most original game not based on a movie, toy, book, etc."?
Re:Other awards to consider (Score:2)
Because it's the MTV Movie Awards, not the other way around. I do agree with you though, and think they should have "Best Movie based on a Video Game" instead of the other way around.
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Is there any real value? (Score:1)
IMHO, Spi
Re:Is there any real value? (Score:2)
It is a nice way to gain "assets" (marketing money, the stars of the movies, brand association, legitimacy, and so on) out of the movie industry, and help the award spectacle in general.
Maybe I'm cynikal, but c'mon. A musuc channel, on its music award show selecting best video games, and the games they aw
And the award for... (Score:3, Funny)
Brought To You By... (Score:2, Insightful)
While the sole criteria for the MTV Movie Awards is entertainment & marketing hype (most certainly not content), I honestly think this award is something NOBODY cares about. Does anyone remember the train wreck that was the SpikeTV Video Game Awards? With categories like: Most addictive game fueled by Dew" presented by Virgin Mobile and Moutain Dew.
Yeah, nobody cared about that show either...
I don't think it's a revelation to point out that this "award" is simply an advertisemen
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I'm not sure who votes on the awards at the GDC, but if it is the developers themselves, I'm sure it is an equally great honor.
The thing is, it's not the GDC Award Show that is going to get ANY air-time whatsoever. Unfortunately, if we want to see a game
Great, games no one cares about. (Score:2)
* Spider-Man 2 (Activision)
* Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Vivendi Universal Games)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EA)
* Van Helsing (Vivendi Universal Games)
* Incredibles (THQ)
Now, Spider-Man 2 was apparently OK because the core gameplay (not related to the movie stuff) was acceptable. It wasn't super awesome, though. Riddick was good (it was done by a house focused on gaming, and whose deadlines were not tethered to a release date), and then the
Re:Great, games no one cares about. (Score:2)
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Re:Great, games no one cares about. (Score:2)
One out now that is in danger of slipping through the cracks is Psychonauts, check it out.
Re:Great, games no one cares about. (Score:1)
Amusingly enough, I also own Beyond Good and Evil and both Startropics games. I wish more gamers were like me. Then maybe we wouldn't see so many lame games like Project Snowblind or Wrestlemania 21.
Re:Great, games no one cares about. (Score:2)
Re:Why??? (Score:2)
ET (Score:3, Funny)
Stopped Watching (Score:1)
Re:Stopped Watching (Score:1)
Coule be worse... (Score:2)
Ahhhhhhh (Score:1)
"Skulls are cool" - Butthead
Nuff said.