Fallout 3 Crowned Game of the Year (Golden Joystick Awards)

mithril - 26 days 10 hours ago

To qualify for an award games had to be released between May 2008 and May 2009.

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Xiphos - 26 days 10 hours ago

If May 08 - May 09 is the window, I pretty much agree with this pick. Maybe LBP instead. Loved Fallout 3, though.

"Activision Blizzard, who are responsible for Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, were named publisher of the year."

That's the real joke.

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Mr Bun - 26 days 10 hours ago

What "year" is this?...Typically anything awarded"....of the year" refers to CALENDER year

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monkey602 - 26 days 10 hours ago

If it's May08 to May09 why are we only finding out now?

A bit ret@rded dont you think?

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Persistantthug - 26 days 9 hours ago

Thanks.

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skv007 - 26 days 9 hours ago

@1.4
lmfao totally agreed.
Isn't it a few months too late -.-

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mastiffchild - 26 days 8 hours ago

It all confuses me. Why bother when the window is so long ago? And could you really find anyone anywhere that thinks Acti are the best publisher in the world?

Wouldn't MGS4, LBP nd Gears2 all fit that window as well, mind? FO3 really winds me up,tbh, not that it's a poor game as it clearly isn't but it's a long way from being perfect and a long way from being game of ANY year.

As a massive fan of the first two fallout games I was REALLY up for seeing what Bethesda had managed with the new one-esp since Oblivion waas such a good(if amazingly buggy) game. SAdly, though, such high expectations of seeing a fave franchise return in brand new shooter/RPG hybrid form were always doomed to disappoint along the way. And s it did. Not only is it more buggy than Oblivion you can also find a LOT of that game recycled within the wastelands(from actors to scenery)and that can be very offputting and not immersive at all. There's then the FPshooting hich is terrible even with a decent, unbroken weapon-even Vats(great idea) fails a bit in my eyes for not matching it's numbers and feeling arbitrary in execution.

I could go on but you would say I was nit picking, and rightly so, but a GOTY should stand up to a little of that shouldn't it? The story arc, level cap and samey questing are all other upsets for me and others--not game breaking but the kind of issues I don't want in a GOTY contender let alone winner! As I say it's sill a good game-just not a world beayer with many other games around that did what they set out to do a LOT more accurately than FO3 and Bethesda managed and that isn't even talking about the shoddy DLC!

It kind of became the easy way out for polls and awards to decorate multipats like COD and this one but I just don't see them as fair winners myself. Bethesda, inparticulr, get a very soft ride over their awful QA and buggy games and DLC and they really shouldn't when no other dev makes the kind of errors they do time and time again. It's testament to how good they are otherwise that this gets forgotten so much but it really shouldn't. None of the other games I would have put up come anywhere near the number of tech issues that FO3 did and still does.

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Hellsvacancy - 26 days 1 hour ago

Ill hav 2 admit its my goty aswell, i mean i havnt spent over 100 hours on any other game this year infact i havnt spent 100 hours on ANY game this gen other then Fallout 3

Each 2 there own i guess - im all 4 ultraviolence

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Jack Klugman - 26 days 1 hour ago

He is so busy with the crying routine AGAIN that he missed that little fact 1.1

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mikeslemonade - 26 days 1 hour ago

Fallout 3 is an overated game. I rather play GTA4. Plus Mass Effect is better than Fallout 3. You can't argue Fallout 3 is better. Mass Effect is better in almost every major catagory of a game.

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dchalfont - 26 days 1 hour ago

i've played GTAIV, Mass Effect and Fallout 3, GTAIV was by far the worst game i've played this gen, mass effect was good, and fallout 3 was better, it got near universal acclaim for good reason

Definitely my GOTY

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ThanatosDMC - 26 days ago

They'll say Fallout 3: GOTY edition since it was just released... but then again i've been playing it for hours on end everytime i turn my PS3 on. Bad adventuring/killing/looting addiction of mine. I have 8000+ caps and i accidentally didnt blow up Megaton and then overwrote my auto save file when i fast traveled.

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MazzingerZ - 25 days 20 hours ago

MGS4 = 2008 GOTY

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Perjoss - 25 days 14 hours ago

yeah wtf!
i started filling in the golden joystick form a while back but when i had GTA4 as a possible game of the year I stopped right there, what the hell are these guys smoking?? GTA4 was released in 2008.

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Ceekay - 25 days 12 hours ago

@mikeslemonade

Mass Effect is good, but it feels outdated compared to Fallout 3. In ME you can't even kill npcs. Come on, that's so last gen.

The detail in F3 on the other hand is incredible, there's more to discover and it has more lasting appeal.

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dchalfont - 26 days 1 hour ago

But those games can be nominated next time, it's not like it's not like it's may-nov and the rest get ignored

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foldedintoboats - 25 days 18 hours ago

It's funny how many people just comment without reading the news. The Golden Joysticks is an awards ceremony that happens every October to award games released May-May - nominations and voting take place in between which is why there's a big wait between the dates.

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kraze07 - 25 days 20 hours ago

I'm not saying it's a bad game by asking this, but what's really complex about it?

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Gothdom - 25 days 15 hours ago

the game is fun, but the bugs and glitches makes it far from being a GOTY

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