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Golden Joystick Awards 2010 Announced.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:44 pm
by Kaito-kun
Well then, start to start ranting and raving about how the public are no-nothing idiots again. It's the Golden Joystick winners! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I should point out that I've not even read through them yet; I've just copied from an article and about to paste it into post so I'm being pessimistic.

Without further ado, here are the winners!

* Action/Adventure Game of the Year
Assassin’s Creed II
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/41566/Golden-Joystick-winners-crowned?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mcvuk%2FoXMK+%28MCV%3A+games+industry+news%29#after_ad
* Download Game of the Year
Plants Vs Zombies

* Fighting Game of the Year
Super Street Fighter IV

* Music Game of the Year
Guitar Hero 5

* Online Game of the Year
League Of Legends


* Portable Game of the Year
Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver


* Puzzle Game of the Year
World Of Goo


* RPG of the Year
Mass Effect 2


* FPS of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


* Racing Game of the Year
Forza 3


* Shooter of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2


* Soundtrack of the Year
Final Fantasy XIII


* Sports Game of the Year
FIFA10


* Strategy Game of the Year

Plants Vs Zombies


* UK Developer of the Year
Jagex


* One to Watch
COD: Black Ops


* Ultimate Game of the Year
Mass Effect 2

*Reads through them all* All right, I'll agree with Street Fighter, World of Goo and Pokémon but the rest fit in with my original pessimism. How could FFXIII have the best soundtrack? It has Leona Lewis in it for Christ's sake and do they really need two separate shooter and FPS categories? At the risk of upsetting Killer French Bread there aren't too many scrolling shooters these days.

Darn that public!

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:05 pm
by Killer French Bread
I haven't played any of those games.
Kaito-kun wrote: At the risk of upsetting Killer French Bread, there aren't too many scrolling shooters these days.
Why would that upset me? I'd love a few more. At least there are some good ones coming out still, though I'm not holding out much hope of Muchi Muchi Pork winning any awards next year.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:40 pm
by INeedFruit
Gah I do love the Joystick awards, purely because they dont have Vernon Kaye anywhere involved *shudder*

Some good & bads:


* Fighting Game of the Year
Super Street Fighter IV
This had to be a given, is anyone going to fight Blazblue's corner...?

* Portable Game of the Year
Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver

I'm a huge Pokémon fan but i'm not too sure if this was deserved...

* RPG of the Year
Mass Effect 2

interesting... not a JRPG? i'm not a huge fan of JRPG's but Dragonquest could of taken that, but i think thats a fair choice.


* FPS of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Bleh


* Racing Game of the Year
Forza 3
Of course! Forza is just to good.

* Shooter of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
lies.

* Soundtrack of the Year
Final Fantasy XIII
even more lies!!

* Ultimate Game of the Year
Mass Effect 2
Am I mistaken that Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out this year?

that's my two-cents, agree or disagree I think that the industry need these kinds of awards. I think it brings the industry closer to the recognition that games are indeed an art form.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:12 pm
by Tru
The FF13 soundtrack is pretty good, I like it. Wouldn't call it the best of the year though.

Glad Mass Effect 2 did well, although I still need to play it :( It was released on my birthday, and I still didn't get it haha.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:35 pm
by Gavvie
Hmm...good to see BioWare getting some recognition, but Modern Warfare 2 winning two awards. Really?

Sure, it's good, but not THAT good. And what did Jagex do to deserve a win?