Gamespot Best and Worst 2006
Dreamfall gets 5 nominations : Best voice acting, Best Story, Best orginal Music, Best new character for Zoe, Best game no one played.
Sam and Max gets 1 for (if i'm not wrong) Funniest Game. Haven't seen the genre awards for adventure.;( |
Where is it?
i couldnt find it! |
They won't post the finalist on the web until 18 of Dec., but you can watch it live. See the main page? There is a box to the left of "Latest New" and above "Latest and Greatest".Keep clicking the small narrows at the bottom right of the box until you see "And the finalist are... Best and Worst 2006..Gamespt live"
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http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/fea...4/day4f_9.html Best Adventure 2005: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/featur...p?day=4&page=5 Maybe 2006' list is comming this week. |
*taking in mind the grades given to Scratches and Barrow Hill* - yeah, Dreamfall is da best adventure, dear casual gamers..
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It was also nominated for Best Xbox game of the year. |
Is it on the list for "worst gameplay"?
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:) Thanks, Lucien21, didn't notice that.
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I'm sure Dreamfall will pick up a few wins.
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When Gamespot sent out their latest newsletter, where they talked about these awards coming up, they wrote this one part on the Introductory page about how they had trouble scrounging up enough nominations for "Best Adventure". So, out of curiousity, I did a search for adventure games in 2006, on their site. On the first page alone, there were something like 25 results. Hard to believe that translates into barely scrounging up a list, by their standards.
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Gamespot? I thought we all agreed (and by all agreed I mean completely ignored everyone who thought differently) that Gamespot were clueless in regards to Adventure games and as such would no longer be mentioned in this forum. Ever.
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By their standards I think only a few were given even decent grades, and I think Dreamfall's 8.0 or whatever decent score it had, would be the top. For Gamespot this year wasn't big for adventures, mainly because they don't seem to grade small games very well.
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Gamespot has a history of high scores for the classics, but they have been crapping on newer ones for the most part. Orient Express was the last one I saw and it was a 5.8 I think.
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Dark Messiah got a 6.8 I think, that was unfair. They said the combat was shallow...
Oblivion has 2 attack forms. Dark Messiah has 5 attack forms. I think it deserved a 9.0, that game is so much fun. And this so called obvious plot twist you see coming from the tutorial? I don't see that at all. grr. :) |
I think they had trouble finding adventure games that have the "quality". Take a look at Gamespy's picks for gamers to vote for PC Adventure Game of the Year 2006, then search them on Gamespot. What will you see? Despite "Dreamfall" (8.1), "Sam & Max Culture Shock" (7.7), the others in Gamespy's list didn't have good score: 5.8 for "Paradise", 6.8 for "Evidence: The Last Ritual", 5.2 for "Keepsake". So how could those game be nominated for "best Adventure Game of the year"? Only 3 adventure games have an above-7 score in 2006 [Dreamfall, Sam & Max, Ankh(7.3)].
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wow, 5.8 is quite generous for Paradise.
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I never focused on melee for Dark Messiah so I do not know them all. I just remember attack and powerattack. I also thought the plottwist was fairly obvious. :D Still, part from the annoying AI where "friends" kept attacking you instead of the monsters, I found the game enjoyable as a linear firstperson shooter but not so much of an rpg. |
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ankh had a few awful bugs, mostly during the dual character bits... and i agree gs was a bit hard on keepsake
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That doesnt count!! Its the same attack from different angles. DM had totally different attack stances. :P |
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Yeah, but remember that Gamespot rates games before they are patched. They rate them right out of the box. Dark Messiah was pretty buggy for a lot of gamers until those 2 patches were released (and a third seems to be required for a lot of folks still). Although I bought the game when it was first released, Gamespot's review and a quick trip to the Ubi Soft tech support forums lead me to wait a few weeks before playing it. I agree with your 8.0 rating for the patched game ;) Cheers, Stain |
I seems like they've removed the adventure games from the voting.
http://www.gamespot.com/special_feat...x.html?page=11 |
Well So far
Dreamfall won best voice acting and Sam n Max won Funniest Game. |
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw no Genre awards for Adventure games!! But well, I'm happy for Sam & Max.
You guys can now vote for the Reader's Choice Awards. |
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As adventure games is not Gamespot's forte, perhaps it's only fair that they won't make judgments on which were the year's best. *Of course, I highly doubt anybody except the reviewer played most of this year's adventures, so that's a moot argument in practice. |
Then again, has there really been anything worth calling "best adventure game of the year", or just "least mediocre"?
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I think Scratches, Great Cow Race or Secrets of Da Vinci deserve better adjective than "mediocre".
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^ I agree with you but Gamespot's adjective for Scratches is 'BAD'. I am a big Gamespot fan but they totally deserve the pan for that review. Scratches was one of the best games I played all year regardless of genre.
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Back on subject: I can't believe that Dreamfall didn't win best story and best new character! I can kinda' understand Neverwinter Nights 2 for best story but Delta Squad from Gears of War for best new character(s) has to be a joke! I have the game and those meatheads just bark war cries throughout the game. No meaningful dialog, no emotional connection, just guys that shoot along with you and get killed a lot. Sad.
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I can't believe Dreamfall was nominated for best story or best character, although I have to be honest and say I've played very view games made this year. It's a poor reflection of games in general. I'm surprised about the voice acting award, since I liked Oblivion's so much more, but Oblivion didn't have quality dialogue, neither did Dreamfall... I really only expect one game with a good story each year, and I haven't played Neverwinter Nights 2 yet.
I've only played BS4 and Dreamfall this year, and they were both terrible, and in many similar ways. I couldn't bring myself to finish BS4, and that's probably because it was longer. I'd settle for a shortlist of five Adventures with Graphics from 2005, controls that atleast work, cameras that work, and atleast two good puzzles per hour of gameplay. If they set up an Adventure genre award, they'd also need to set up a suicide watch for the committee. |
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They look like linebackers for the Chicago Bears and grunt commands. Where is the characters in that. |
Hmm, I think Sam and max deserved best adventure game more than Dreamfall.
Edit:Oops I thought this said Gamespy http://goty.gamespy.com/2006/pc/index24.html |
I agree with Gamespy's Awards so far. :)
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