Interactive Achievement Awards Nominees Announced

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1. GoTY: none of the above. Starcraft 2

   innovation: Limbo I guess

   Action Game: BC2 (by far!)

   Adventure Game: Enslaved (surprisingly good)

   Casual: Angry Birds

   RPG: Cataclysm. How could it be beaten??

   SN Game: Who cares!?

   1. I need to play Enslaved some more. I had just got to the part were the staff could be used as a gun.

2. How sad is it that I either didn't like or didn't play most of the games listed.

   I didn't like Black OPs at all. Pretty sure I never even finished the SP.

   Bad Company 2 was my Favorite game out of all listed.

   Angry Birds deserves to win something even though I got bored with it very quickly and can't even bring myself to install it again even being free.

   1. Sounds like you missed out on a lot of good stuff in 2010 or it just didn't work for you personally.

      1. @Ray

         Games are so relative in many instances. There are many on this site who love God of War 3 and Heavy Rain. I couldn't endure either of them. My copy of GoW3 kept bugging out so much I gave up on it. Truth be told though I was considering ditching it before the bugs killed it for me. The gameplay just wasn't keeping me interested. Heavy Rain just wasn't for me. I didn't care for all of the quicktime motions. If it would have been more of an action crime story….I would have liked it more I'm sure. The interface and UI are very important to me.

      2. Sure, but the list is pretty diverse. If someone didn't like those two games then what about AC: Brotherhood or Red Dead or Halo: Reach. There are only a few games on the list that I really like personally, but it's easy to see that it's a high-quality group.

      3. @Ray

         Sure. I bought Halo Reach but never really got in to it. Iceman was nice enough to carry me to the Legendary Achievement for beating the SP. The AC games haven't appealed to me honestly. I bought the first one and didn't care for it then tried the 2nd. I decided that they make those games for people other than me. I'm not calling them bad, but their quality or appeal just didn't bring me in.

         Right now I'm playing RDR slowly. In fact it has been a week since I have picked it up. It begins a bit too slow. I personally need a game to get me interested in it within the first half hour. I don't get that much time during the week to play games between work/home/gym/etc.

      4. See, that's why you need to get more into handheld gaming. You can easily play games and run on a treadmill.

      5. Hmmm….I don't know about that one Ray lol. I don't run slow haha.

      6. I have faith in your coordination.

      7. #Ray

         Thanks lol. My normal routine is to pick about 6-10 songs and listen to them. Once I'm done with those songs I know I've ran long enough. I just can't watch TV like some people do. I actually use that time to think.

         However I'm quite sure I will break a leg or at least mildly f myself up if I were to use a 3DS during a workout lol.

      8. I think you could hack it with a 2D game.

      9. I'm positive you're copy of GHoW3 was fine and it's your PS3 that's bugging out.

      10. Double that.

      11. I would agree. My PS3 hardly gets used but I haven't noticed it having playback issues on anything else. GT5 ran great whenever it wasn't loading a menu between races lol.

          I honestly found Vanquisher to be more fun than GofW3. meh.

      12. Angry Birds HD – liked but got old

          Call of Duty: Black Ops – didn't like

          God of War III – loved but probably won't play again

          Mass Effect 2 – never played, burned out a on the first one

          Red Dead Redemption – too buggy and no fun

          Dance Central – fun with people but single player only kills that

          Heavy Rain – liked just never finished

          LIMBO – loved it just got stuck

          Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – my GOTY

          Halo: Reach – MEH, better than ODST just seemed stale

          Alan Wake – never played

          Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – never played, got bored with 2nd one

          ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West – need to finish

          Bejeweled 3 – like it but wasn't nearly the step 1 to 2 was

          Kinect Sports – fun with people who don't care about accuracy or glitches

          Pac-Man Championship Edition DX – never heard of it

          Plants vs. Zombies – never played

          Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies – never heard of it

          Fable III – never played, 2 was bad enough to not warrant a 3

          Fallout: New Vegas – just never got into it the same as F3

          World of Warcraft: Cataclysm – Never played

          Cityville – never played

          Family Feud – never played

          FrontierVille – played but lame

          Nightclub City – never played

          Ravenwood Fair – never played

3. I fell like Heavy Rain was Pigeonholed into the "Adventure" category, since it really doesn't have a category that it fits nicely in. But if you've got to force it in, it doesn't belong and shouldn't win.

   Anyway, if I had my Druthers:

   Game of the Year – Mass Effect 2

   Outstanding Innovation in Gaming – Red Dead Redemption

   Action Game of the Year – God of War III

   Adventure Game of the Year – Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

   Casual Game of the Year (frankly, I've only played Kinect Sports so my opinion on this catagory is useless)

   Role-Playing/Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year – Mass Effect 2

   Social Networking Game of the Year – barf

   1. Why wouldn't you classify it as an adventure game? If you look back to the roots of the genre, it certainly fits in that category.

      1. Meh, it felt more RPG to me, but even that's a stretch.

      2. Not enough stat play or upgrading to call it an RPG in my book. Heavy Rain is easily comparable to old-school PC adventure games.

      3. I'd call it a mystery game.

4. how do they come up with nominees? the list of games feels pretty limited in each category.

   1. As per the press release:

      "More than 100 titles were played and evaluated by members of the Academy’s Peer Panels. These panels, one for each award category, are comprised of the game industry’s most experienced and talented men and women who are experts in their chosen fields."

      1. I can't believe SC2 wasn't a nominee. That was a great game.

      2. That is pretty shocking. Activision/Blizzard is a member, so I don't know how that could have not been nominated.

      3. I guess. The lists still feel limited and i'd have to agree with Smartguy, i don't see how SC2 doesn't make it on this list after all the rave reviews it got.

      4. So, I other words, the industry has their "top" men on it.

         Who are these men?

         "TOP" men.

         (move to shot of a crate full of these games being loaded in a warehouse full of endless crates of games with a score composed by John Williams)

      5. an Indy Jones reference, nice!

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