The so-called "Video Game Awards
 

Or as I call it "the Video Game Adwards". They knew it would suck. That's whay it had strippers. Nascar beating F-Zero GX? Matrix (bug filled piece of s***) as best game based on a movie? But Madden 2004 as.....

FREAKING GAME OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is insane! Where do these crack sniffing mindslaves get the idea that the 13th (or whatever number it is) remake of Madden can out do the kind of games that were released this year? Spike TV can go to hell, the judges can go to hell, and David Spade can go to hell and rot for all eternity. I hope with all my heart that this show dosen't catch on. Please forgive me for all of that. It's just kinda bleak to see what the VG industry has been reduced to. I've ben a video game fan all my life and this makes me want to puke. *sigh* Oh well....As long as there's Nintendo, and Sega there is hope. Screw you Bill Gates and screw you Spike TV with a capital "S".

Halo 2 got most anticipated game, I'm satisfied.

Sounds retarded.

It was a joke of a travesty of a sham of a farce.

>>It was a joke of a travesty of a sham of a farce<<

It is an awards show, and those are usually farces. Even the Oscars.

I mean, who says that some almighty bunch of voters are the ones who are right?

I always take awards (any award you can think of) with a whole lot of salt!

Yeah it was terrible. I felt sick the moment it started and the first thing they do is announce game of the year. I guess that wouldn't be too bad except that the winner was MADDEN! That really peeved me. There wasn't one mention of a Nintendo game. I'm surprised GTA: Vice City wasn't mentioned once either. As a gamer I felt obligated to watch it and support the gaming community, if you could call this game releated. They should have just called it the random crap show. Best racing game...NASCAR!?! Give me a break. I think the only well deserved awards were Star Wars: KOTOR for best Fantasy, Halo 2 for most anticipated, and SC 2 for best fighting game. The rest was a joke. The only real gamers that seemed to be there were ridiculed. The two guys playing SC 2. "They aren't getting laid any time soon." Hyuk hyuk David @*$%in' Spade. I'm sorry but that show just made me sick.

[edit: I meant Soul Caliber 2 for most addictive]

i never agreed with the fact to shrek won the Oscar and Monsters Inc. didn't.....

the awards indeed sucked but as i understand Andrew WK and POD rocked.

The awards were ridiculous:

Best Animation: Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Tecmo)
Best Performance By A Human: Ray Liotta in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Rockstar)
Best Game Based on a Movie: Enter the Matrix (Atari)
Most Addictive: Soul Calibur II (Namco)
Best Action Game: True Crime: Streets of LA (Activision)
Pontiac/GTO Driving Award: Nascar Thunder 2004 (EA Sports)
Best Fantasy Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (LucasArts)
Best Sports Game: Tony Hawk's Underground (Activision)
Best Fighting Game: WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain (THQ)
Most Anticipated Game: Halo 2 (Microsoft)
Best Handheld Game: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Ubi Soft)
Best Online Game: Final Fantasy XI (Square Enix)
Best 1st Person Action: Call of Duty (Activision)
Best PC Game: Halo: Combat Evolved (Microsoft)
Game of the Year: Madden NFL 2004 (EA Sports)
Best Music: Def Jam Vendetta (EA Big)

My changes:
Most Addictive - Zelda Collectors Edition. Or Wario Ware.
Best Handheld - Wario Ware? Castlevania? Boktai? Hello?
Best Driving game - ANYTHING besides a Nascar game!!!!
Best Fantasy Game - Return of The King or Castlevania
Game of the Year - anything besides a recurring sports franchise! Geez, people are stupid. How about Castlevania? Soul Calibur 2? Otogi? Viewtiful Joe? ARRRRGH!!!
Best Fighting Game: fighting game, not wrestling game. Virtua Fighter 4? Soul Calibur 2?

Disney should have won for several reasons. First of all, that was the first year that best animated movie had a catagory, and Disney has been earning that award for the past 100 years. Second and formost, Shrek is a ripoff of every single one of those Disney movies. That's disturbing. The only reason Shrek won was it's voice actors. They had big name hollywood voice actors in the movie, and the Oscers are all about the big hollywood actors petting themselves on the back, so Shrek won. All award shows are rigged from the get go. True Star Wars and Soul Caliber 2 did deserve those awards, but that was about it.

I didn't even bother watching the VGAs after I checked the nominees

Yeah that was exactly the same way I felt. The only good part I enjoyed was the Rey vs Jericho Match. Rey jumping off the ropes and hitting jericho that was good. And having Al Snow there was cool too. I wasn't too fond on the way they showed the winner. With cheerleaders just going crazy by a screen then a bit of confetti to the winning table a bit stupid in my opinion.

I'll tell you was sucks and blows......your freakin poll.

Why is it such a bad thind that Madden 2004 was picked as game of the year??? I personal agree with them, it's an awesome game. Just because most of you probably don't play sports, you hate the idea of a sports game picked as game of the year. Most of you probably haven't played it.

"anything besides a recurring sports franchise! Geez, people are stupid."-impetus
Did you ever stop and think that maybe Madden is a good game and it doesn't matter if it's reccuring??? It's the best sports game there is. It also has some of the best sales. The game is awesome, especially for PS2, because you can play online.

hey, that's just lousy. all the "big" games get the glory but the small ones don't even get mentionned.


My alltime Favorite: EXTREME G (N64) That speed, the design, the music... *drools*

Sports games are very specific in their audience tho, Ben, that's the point. Pople who don't like sports games aren't gonna be hhappy that one was picked game of the year, nor will they want to play it at all.

:roll: For perves.

Yea I watched this thinking it would be great but it really did suck. The main reason was there wasn't enough video games, but mostly crappy performances of wrestling and porn stars. I voted it sucked, cause it kinda did.

The awards did suck. Sure the chicks were awesome, but they were on for basically the whole damn show. And basically every game that won came out about a month ago.

I respect Madden 2004 winning. I've never played it, but I've heard great things. Sure, I wouldn't pick it as game of the year even if I had played it, but it still doesn't bother me. And I'm also confused as to why Madden 2004 got GOTY but not best sports game? Oh well.. :roll:

I was a bit disappointed that Jak II and/or Ratchet & Clank 2 didn't win anything though, but then again, it's just a stupid awards show.

I used to like David Spade, but not that much after this show. I don't hate him, but I just hated the way he was acting. I mean, I'll still turn on Tommy Boy and have a laugh. :)

There's nothing wrong with sports or sports games - I play them myself. But they are mostly (as Madden is) franchises which just keep getting updated. There are several great games which deserve being honored, and although the Madden series is good (almost as good as Sega Sports), it really does not deserve the Honor.

ya but they should not give sport game a game of the year.

Spike TV took all that I have believed in, and warped it into yet another crap filled, celebrity glamour "whoever paid us the most money wins" BS fest! Honestly, I'm a huge Halo fan, and I own an XBox, and can't wait for Halo 2, but even I know that Half Life 2 should have won most anticipated game. What was even worse was how they never announced any runners up. And don't get me started on the annoying people screaming for every single thing that was said, or game announced....

*Pulls hair out of head, slowly sinks into state of mental insanity "Someone sue SpikeTV for me" *

I still belive that GTA Vice City should have been game of the year.

Vice City came out in 2002.. :roll:

But came out for PC in 2003.

The fact that Enter the Matrix won an award makes me sick. That game was awful.

I'm glad to see Knights of the Old Republic won an award - it truly deserves it.

:roll: because...............I dont see why a sports game cant have it. Your'e an idiot.......

GWARGH!!!!!!!!

no CLASSIC game award?!? they degraded legends like Pac-man,Donkey-Kong,Pong and Space Invaders
to damn promo spots and a phone poll

it seems that every game that requires a bit of THINKING didn't win anything

Kingdom Hearts,Viewtiful Joe,Mario Sunshine, NBA F&*#ING street vol 2 Didn't win anything?!!?!?

and the matrix game winning a award..it was fixed!!! the only reason it won is because they had P.O.D to play a song from the craptacular Reloaded movie

.....Im gonna go and play REAL games

*walks away Grumbling Angrily*

The whole thing was fixed. The title to win game of the year should be a game that has done something revolutionary, or reinvented a genere, or pushed the limits of gaming in every way. Madden just isn't that. I'm sure it's a good game to those to play it. But it is the same game every year with a freash coat of paint each time. It may be fun, but it dosen't do anything worth of game of the year. Now, I may not be an PS2 or X-Box fan, but it would have made sense for GTA to win (even if it is a year old), but not Madden. Now Wind Waker, that's game of the year worthy. Hell, I'm stunned to death that the pop worshiping idiots didn't give anything to Britney's Dance Beat. At least they have a little sanity. :roll:


Madden won because the core audience for that show was 18-36 year old men who tuned in to see strippers, and most men that age like football, so Madden won. Death to Spike TV.

yeah, that sounds about right.

Every game is like that. Some people hate RPG's and if one won, they'd be pissed. Some people hate FPS's, ect. Everyone has their own tastes and opinions, and you can't satisfy everyone at an awards show.

I play sports AND sports games probably more than most other games. Now at least. But NO sports game...EVER...deserves to be game of the year.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I happen to think Enter the Matrix was a great game. There was definitely a lot to like. Sure it's got a license which blows it out of proportion, but it's still a fun game (the most important thing) with a lot of cool stuff behind it (physics, motion capture, action choreography), despite what peopl may think of the license, movie, program bugs (which are few), etc. The only real flaw in the game (at least the PS2 version) is the long load times. With the possible exception of ROTK, which just now came out, I don't think there was a better game based on a movie this year.

the only thing im mad about is that metal gear solid didnt win anything :x

MGS did not come out in 2003. :wink: (And Substance does not count as a new game.)

What's this? No Zelda game? No F-Zero GC or AC?

They must die!

I agree... when did Wind Waker come out?

* This has been edited to save face.

Wasn't Wind Waker released in Spring 2003?

either that or Christmas 2003 - don't remember which...

* This has also been edited to save face. :)

I believe it was March 2003

::throws things everywhere:: Non-sense. NON-SENSE. :flaming:

And this is why there should be no Spike TV, nor Lifetime, nor Oxygen. We do not need the man's/woman's channels, because for the majority, they are full of crap. The reruns of Design Women are nice, though. :P

Yeah Ben thats the thing you are dragged into the whole thing that you enjoy football and like the game Madden. But you got to look at it as a game not as how it appeals to football fans. As Mikey said sports games are fun for people that enjoy that sport and don't belong in a best game of the year category. Maybe have it's own category like Best Sports Game but then that would be a long awards having a Best Fantasy Best Shooter game but would be good.