Spike VGA Nominees

[Nov 18, 2009, 2:22 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Spike TV announces the nominees for their 7th annual Video Game Awards, which will be broadcast live on Saturday, December 12 at 8:00 pm EST. The Video Game Awards 2009 Website has all the nominations broken down by category, and here are their game of the year candidates, only 40% of which were released within the last 24 hours:

    • Assassin's Creed 2 (Ubisoft / Ubisoft Montreal)
    • Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos Interactive - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment / Rocksteady Studios)
    • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Publishing / Infinity Ward)
    • Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve)
    • UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves (Sony Computer Entertainment / Naughty Dog)

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Re: Spike VGA Nominees

Nov 19, 2009, 01:26

Jerykk

Is there really any doubt as to what game will win this award? Let's see, which game has already sold 5 million copies..?

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Nov 18, 2009, 22:37

Icewind

No Dragon Age? Seriously lacking in credibility. That's the first thing I said when I saw the nominees. They include two games released this week (AC2 and L4D2) but no DA:O? What is possibly the best PC RPG since Baldur's Gate? Spike's awards were never very friendly to RPGs anyway. Those meatheads probably thought Modern Warfare was an RPG since it had (R)ocket (P)ropelled (G)renades in it.

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Nov 18, 2009, 18:51

PropheT

AC2 was terrible, and Batman wasn't much better... and how can L4D2 even be considered? It hasn't been out for 48 hours yet. Assassin's Creed 2 came out the same time as L4D2...are you sure you know what you're talking about, or just playing a game of What's In My Butt Today? Batman is also a pretty highly regarded game everywhere that I've read about it, even here where nobody likes anything.

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Nov 18, 2009, 18:46

Gdiguy

The problem is that they want to have it before the year is over, so they're stuck either not including games released 2 months before the year is over (which would look bad in a month from now during the award broadcast if it really is the best game), or including games that look like they will probably be good but aren't really possible to judge yet And while I'm still looking forward to playing Dragon Age (boo for not having time anymore), an RPG is never going to beat action games in an award like this (from a gaming mag, maybe; from Spike TV? nope)

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Re: Spike VGA Nominees

Nov 18, 2009, 18:12

MTechnik

Batman: Arkham Asylum was quite good. I don't know if the PC port was bad but for PS3 it was quite fun. I don't believe I'm alone in this belief, as several members on BluesNews have agreed that it was a good game. The PC version was great. They upped the textures, and also added a bunch of Physx stuff. It was worth disabling one GTX260 for the extra effects.

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Nov 18, 2009, 15:42

Riker

No Dragon Age? Seriously lacking in credibility.

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Nov 18, 2009, 15:36

Kevlar

Awards? This looks like a rank order of the games with the biggest marketing budgets for 2009.

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Nov 18, 2009, 15:12

MrBone

Left 4 Dead 2...that shit blows everything out of the water. MW 2 blew it with the butchered release.

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Nov 18, 2009, 15:10

Wallshadows

The Spike VGAs are terrible.

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Nov 18, 2009, 13:59

Overon

These awards have no credibility when they include games that were released within the past 24 hours.

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Nov 18, 2009, 13:52

Wowbagger_TIP

It's obviously going to be either MW2 or Uncharted 2. Who cares though really? This is a pretty meaningless award.

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Nov 18, 2009, 13:43

Verno

PC port had some issues that were patched up but overall it was fine. The list itself is a bit of a joke considering the inclusion of two games that were just released, one of which requires some considerable multiplayer time to properly review.




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Re: Spike VGA Nominees

Nov 18, 2009, 13:36

kanniballl

This list is clearly skewed. No Borderlands, but Batman and AC2? AC2 was terrible, and Batman wasn't much better... and how can L4D2 even be considered? It hasn't been out for 48 hours yet.

Batman: Arkham Asylum was quite good. I don't know if the PC port was bad but for PS3 it was quite fun.

I don't believe I'm alone in this belief, as several members on BluesNews have agreed that it was a good game.

It was also ranked/reviewed favorably well, though that obviously doesn't mean much in today's world of purchased-reviews.




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Re: Spike VGA Nominees

Nov 18, 2009, 13:36

Kxmode

I'm at a loss as to why Torchlight and Dragon Age isn't on the list.

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Nov 18, 2009, 13:34

|RaptoR|

This list is clearly skewed. No Borderlands, but Batman and AC2? AC2 was terrible, and Batman wasn't much better... and how can L4D2 even be considered? It hasn't been out for 48 hours yet. Wow.

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Nov 18, 2009, 13:31

Kxmode

I wonder how much those publishers had to pay.

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