As many of you likely know, tonight was the night of the Spike Video Game Awards hosted by none other than Samuel L. Jackson. As with every year the VGAs bring great recognition to many games across the industry, but one award always lies near and dear to our hearts (for obvious reason), Best Independent Game. This year we saw Journey from thatgamecompany edge out Dust: An Elysian Tail by Humble Hearts, Fez by Polytron, and Mark of the Ninja by Klei Entertainment. In addition to this great award Journey also took home Best PS3 Game, Best Original Score, and received nominations for Best Downloadable Game, Best Graphics, Best Song in a Game and Game of the Year.
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I mean I loved Journey and it deserves all the praise it gets for it's artistic flare but it's still more fun to mindlessly shoot aliens than it is to walk across a desert.
Perhaps for you. I'm bored out of my mind with that type of game. I haven't been buying many shooters unless they offer something unique and interesting (Far Cry 3, for example, as I can play it in a variety of ways, including using stealth, in a gorgeous open world setting with lots of exploration). I ignore most of the rest of them. Unique games like Journey are actually the ones I look forward to most. The only game I was looking forward to more was The Last Guardian.
Walking Dead wins a GotY award
2012 is truly the shittiest year in gaming history.
Nevermind. I hit up youtube to find it. Looks pretty cool, but I see why Journey beat it.
... or should Mark of the Ninja, which wasn't good enough to be nominated for GotY, somehow have beat Journey in a lesser category? (Though that didn't stop The Walking Dead, I suppose...)
Edit: "Interactive flash games." So, in other words, you have a limited, pathetic taste in games. Can't speak on The Walking Dead, as I haven't played it, but Journey is ABSOLUTELY deserving of the nomination, if not the win.
I imagine you haven't played any of the games you're complaining about. Which is no surprise.
was I the only one surprised that jenova chen didn't go and get the award?
Has to be dust, amazing achievement.
oh yes thats right you barely have a cateogry for PC games were you just nominate multiplatforms and no PC exclusives.
Or just wait for a discount
Instead I'll join the countless others in congratulating thatgamecompany for such an outstanding achievement. It really was a great experience and a refreshingly different take on co-op online play.
It's true that many people have congratulated Crap'game'company, but there are many others who are absolutely outraged by the praise they've got.
'Nobody cares', lol. You're nobody.
You're saying things like "Crap'game'compan y" and calling me a nobody? Sadly wrong on both counts.
I have no idea why you're so angry, and again, I don't really care. It's disappointing though, as you seem relatively articulate, yet decide to resort to immature comments and personal attacks.
I can only assume that the "many others" you mention are, in fact, a moderately miffed minority, as I don't see the evidence to the contrary.
Journey, as an experience, is wasted on the irrational, angry types, who need guns to have fun.
Your picture looks like he had too many sweets and is about to barf (sick-burp?!), now you mention it :P
I'm not saying that it's a bad game (although the demo didn't excite me), just that I think that it is always predictable that a game that appears in some way to be 'organic, ethnic etc' will get high praise. I'd rather play Aladdin on the Megadrive for that!
If I wanted to praise an arty game, I'd reserve it for Heavy Rain or Jet Set Radio HD.
I think that some people overcompensate for the time that they spend with bloodlust games by using a game like Journey as some kind of sanitiser.
Personally, I regard a game like Uncharted 2 as being amongst the best of the generation for incorporating puzzles, clever gunplay and AI, fantaastic visuals, a variety of locations, set pieces, story and characterisation. I know it's not this year but surely there must be something like that to choose from.
For what it matters, Limbo did impress me. The slight gradations in light, the puzzles and movement, the slow motion ending.
Maybe you wouldn't like the full game. I loved it and consider it my game of the year but then I didn't like Flower for the reasons you allude to. I found it a bit self consciously artsy but I'm sure some people genuinely liked it, it just wasn't for me. That whole, 'you're just pretending to like this thing to try and look smarter than me' is one of the oldest and worst criticisms in art.
I didn't like flow, though...
Journey was not my cup of tea from what I played in the demo. It just seems like the WALL-ee of videogames- and I didn't like that.
And what is ginunuva going on about? Who says that, if 'The game design, sound, and visuals all have to be so well done that they create an impact on the viewer' that was not done better in Uncharted 2, for example?
It's opinion. It's all about how much your personality allows yourself to be seduced by what you are seeing.