Topic: GameSpy's 2007 Game Of The Year Awards

[MysterD]

PC List is up for GameSpy's 2007 GOTY Awards.

PC Winners Recap

PC Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

PC Top 10 Games of the Year
1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. The Orange Box
3. BioShock
4. Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
5. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
6. The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
7. World in Conflict
8. Crysis
9. Sam & Max: Season 1
10. The Witcher

PC Action Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

PC Adventure of the Year
Sam & Max: Season 1

PC Best Strategy Game of the Year
World in Conflict

PC Expansion of the Year
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar

PC MMO Game of the Year
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

PC Multiplayer Game of the Year
The Orange Box

PC RPG Game of the Year
The Witcher

[sirean_syan]

Huh. I had no idea Lord of the Rings actually came out this year.

[Quemaqua]

A load of shit, as expected, but not quite as large a load as expected.  The Witcher's win makes me happy, as does seeing GalCivII: Dark Avatar win.  Sam & Max makes me happy too, even though I haven't played the new episodes yet.

[MysterD]

The Witcher's win for RPG Of The Year and making their Top 10 PC Games made me very happy.

[MysterD]

GameSpy's Special Awards are up for their 2007 GOTY Awards

Special Awards Winners Recap

Rookie Developer Game of the Year
Realtime Worlds

Best XBLA Game
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

Best PSN Game
Everyday Shooter

Best Wii Virtual Console Game
Sin & Punishment

Best Puzzle Game
Portal

Best Sports Game
skate

Best Soundtrack / Score
Mass Effect

OverUnderAchiever Award
Avatar: The Burning Earth

Robocop of the Year
Crackdown

Best Voice Acting
Mass Effect

Game that Makes Us Want to Treat Our Guitar Like The Who
Rock Band

Worst Thing Ever Done to a Videogame Girlfriend
The Darkness

Most Unique Art Style
Team Fortress 2

Best Use of a License
The Lord of the Rings Online

Worst Use of a License
Shadowrun

Best Art Direction
BioShock

Best Sound
BioShock

Best Graphics
Call of Duty 4

Best Character
GLaDOS (Portal)

Best Sidekick
The Weighted Companion Cube (Portal)

Best Developer
Infinity Ward

Best Story
BioShock

Best Innovation on the Wii
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Best Trend of 2007
Community Integration

Worst Trend of 2007
Lousy Hardware

Biggest Disappointment
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

The 6th Annual When It's Done(tm) Award
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Surprise of the Year
The Witcher

Yay for GameSpy giving The Witcher "Surprise Of The Year"

Surprise of the Year -- The Witcher

Often delayed and built off of an old BioWare game engine, we had thought that The Witcher was a game that had missed its opportunity. When it finally appeared on store shelves late in the year, we weren't expecting much.

We were wrong.

Turns out that The Witcher is among the best single-player RPG experiences available in 2007. The world is gritty and stark, the characters are gloomy and real, and the gameplay is spot-on. As a supernatural badass you can ingest potions to amp up your abilities, but they're basically poisons -- you're killing yourself with every sip. The tension this creates plays out spectacularly, as does the terrific combat.

The Witcher's white-haired protagonist Geralt may come across as a pale-faced goth kid's fantasy if you're judging by box art alone. But we were surprised to discover he's one of the coolest characters around. Yes, he's a master of multiple cinematic fighting styles, a dab hand at magic, and can work wonders around the campfire with his alchemy. But more importantly he's always up for a game of dice, will never turn down a drinking contest, knocks people around in underground "Fight Clubs," and isn't too proud to say anything it takes to have his way with each and every able-bodied woman he meets (especially when stumbling drunk). This guy even collects risque sex cards, artistically cataloguing his romantic conquests. It's like the medieval equivalent of snapping dirty pictures with your camera phone.

It's always great to see a game come out of nowhere and really knock your socks off. Despite suffering from a couple technical issues, especially the lengthy load times, The Witcher is one of the best PC games of the year. We'll drink to that!

[Quemaqua]

Glad to see some recognition there.  GSpot doesn't even have the game available as a voting option for any of its categories.  Fuckers.

[Pugnate]

Those were the prelims. I think they do now.

[Quemaqua]

Weird.  How do you not have it in preliminaries then it suddenly makes it to finals?  Senseless.  Not that it matters in the end, I just like to see games get exposure by at least being on the list.  The awards themselves are meaningless, but exposure is good.

[Xessive]

Weird.  How do you not have it in preliminaries then it suddenly makes it to finals?  Senseless.  Not that it matters in the end, I just like to see games get exposure by at least being on the list.  The awards themselves are meaningless, but exposure is good.

With that in mind I think there are some games that just do not deserve positive recognition e.g. NFS ProStreet. Good God how the Heck did that make it in the list??!

Anyway, shouldn't a GOTY list basically consist of the highest scoring games for that magazine/site?

[PyroMenace]

I always thought Crysis for best graphics would be a no brainer, but CoD4 took the spot.

[Xessive]

I always thought Crysis for best graphics would be a no brainer, but CoD4 took the spot.

They're both visually impressive, although I think CoD4 won simply because it takes a lot more resources for Crysis to look great.

In my eyes CoD4 is more artistically appealing and Crysis is more graphically appealing.

[Pugnate]

Well f you scale your settings to medium, it will still look better than COD4.

I thought COD4 was a really good game, but it is kinda like The Transformers winning the oscars just because it was the best selling movie of the year. Just because something sells well, doesn't make the best the year had to offer.

I though Crysis, The Witcher and of course Bioshock were better candidates.

[MysterD]

Well f you scale your settings to medium, it will still look better than COD4.

I thought COD4 was a really good game, but it is kinda like The Transformers winning the oscars just because it was the best selling movie of the year. Just because something sells well, doesn't make the best the year had to offer.

I though Crysis, The Witcher and of course Bioshock were better candidates.

Witcher and Bioshock were great.