AIAS Award Winners

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• I didn't noticed that muchs physics compared to Painkiller or Max Payne 2. : larcho
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  Everyone said the same thing about Half-Life 1. There was nothing revolutionary about that either, compar... : SpiderMonkey
  • ^^the post to end all posts. : bozer
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    I beg to differ on that point. HL1 brought two major major improvements to FPS that blew me away at the t... : three-d
    • But that's my point - Sin/etc was doing storytelling, plenty of other games were doing great sound = scar... : SpiderMonkey
• I <3 U : dopefish
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  HL2 had arguably the WORST ending for any video game ever created : phinn
  • You obviously haven't played Halo 2 then have you!? :) : Sifer

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• Surely that refers to the visual engineering of the game world rather than the technical means. Doom et a... : johnsto
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  Half-Life 2 is the only game where my girlfriend hasn't bitched about the graphics being crap. Instead sh : SpiderMonkey
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    wow, youre girlfriend sounds like a qualifed expert! : ansuble
    • She is compared to Spike Spiegel. *ouch* : [7]kami
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      Yeah, thats like thinking a riced up honda is faster than a ferrari bacause of the lightning bolts painte... : Spike Spiegel
      • Oh man, I guess the guy who replied got nuked for personal attacks. Anyway, for some reason I care about... : SpiderMonkey
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    HL2 is one of the few (only?) of the games being judged that actually portrays the real world with a few ... : rorshack
    • If you want to take it in that direction, then I would argue Half-Life 2 is a very mature visual technolo... : SpiderMonkey
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  Looks old compared to what?!? Sounds like someone's bitter because their PC doesn't have the balls to pl... : Bobthecow81
  • You hit the spot :( I can run Doom3 at 1600*1200, Ultra quality with 72 fps but the advanced graphics in... : Spike Spiegel
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  I gotta disagree with you there. Source may not have all of the bells and whistles that other engines hav... : Serpico74
  • Since I can't be a Valve fanboy with every single post in this thread: what you point out makes it deserv... : SpiderMonkey
• There's more to visuals than.. well.. what Doom 3 did : MrLonghair
• I agree. While it did look nice the graphics still looked dated or something. FarCry or Doom3 should've... : timmie
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  You monkeys are arguing technical aspects of the source engine vs. other engines when the award for "visu... : ezanga
  • No, that's art design, for which there is a separate award. : SpiderMonkey
• I for one could care less how dated the graphics are as long as the gameplay is excellent and it keeps me... : wilbo26
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  "Visual Engineering"? Your fucking joking right? Thats a title? What ENGINEERING was involved here? B... : phinn
  • Now who's being silly? WoW looks good because the art style not because of any particular engine achievem... : Fred Garvin
• i agree, it's an art design winner hands down. but technical achievement i would say not. : ermac

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  I think 80% or something though here at the Shacknews award that it was the game of the year ... so I don... : larcho
  • can = can't : larcho
  • I agree with Bigimp, Half life 2 wasn't anywhere near as good as all you guys were saying it was. I thoug... : kurumba
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  Valve wanted a game that would captivate reviewers and the AIAS judges, and they made it. The PO'd gamer... : the archvile
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    The AIAS awards voting process is from industry members with peers such as programmers, designers and art... : Zoid
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      What in WoW was innovative or brought the mmo industry forward in game design? I can't think of a single ... : !gnoleb
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        Instance design Seamless world (no zoning) Reduced downtime Quest system that never leaves you grindin... : Zoid
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          Anarchy Online had instanced zones years ago. Seemless world was done by Asheron's Call in 1998. Reduc... : gnoleb
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            excellent execution is just as deserving of an award... look at all the people who like it. it's a good... : PUPSTAHS
            • Exactly. Execution is everything in the games industry. Everybody has ideas. : SpiderMonkey
            • But it still isn't innovation, which was my point. : gnoleb
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  And yet, what game was better this year? WoW maybe? FarCry (no), Doom 3 (no). In terms of "omg that blows... : bozer
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    And I must be one of the few that liked the ending. Very unexpected and involving. : larcho
    • I liked it too. Apparently people had grand delusions that the game would either (a) last forever, or (b)... : FlatlineDixay
    • You're not the only one. I liked the ending and especially the Citadel sightseeing-tour. But HL3 of cours... : mulu
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  It was the most immersed I've ever been with a video game in my life. I think Halo 2 doesn't even come c... : !gnoleb
  • Halo 2 had me going "Wow! that's fucking cool!". With HL2 it was more like "Wow! That's technically impre... : lapskaus
• Valve was all like "pwnd". : snuff
• I was forcing myself to play it last night again, just so I can say i've beat it. I can't believe people... : Pneum0

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• i'm hoping next year there's a costuming award! : ermac
• I was thinking the same thing. They probably assumed if they gave an award to each of these games they ... : Arjun Thakur
• It would have been pretty strange to have put "hi we're EA look at the music we bought" up against "hi I'... : SpiderMonkey
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  Yes, we do need soundtrack and original soundtrack to be seperate. There is a world of difference between... : Fred Garvin
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    I would think the AIAS wouldn't judge licensed music or give it much weight. When I was reading the list ... : Alec Matias
    • You would think that, but it's not the case. All awards are political and the AIAS is no exception. : Fred Garvin

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• I have no problem with this... : ihya
• it's not for critics!! seriously though, i don't think that's a surprise. it's a very solid game, to me... : ermac

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• Couldn't agree more. So sad. : wilbo26
• Totally, but I gotta say, I was in WoW beta since February and it's probably the best computer game I've ... : phinn
• With your logic you would have shit your pants if you saw any of those games 5yrs ago. : 00kewk00

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• omg that came out sounding gay : cyb0rgninja
• I'm sure it had to be in the running for best sound track. : WaterSign

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• it damn well better. : bagelcc

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  because its not made in North America? : derean
  • That's also why I was so surprised that Katamari Damacy got two awards. : rorshack
  • I didn't know that was a stipulation of the awards...is it? : bagelcc

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  Why not, it was an excellent game... : Tripps
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    Of course I might note that I played it on the Xbox, but still a damn fine game nonetheless... : Tripps
    • It's good on PC too. Imagine that! : johnsto
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  what would be your pick, then? : mystifier
  • My peronsal opinion is PC action GOTY should be HL2, Visual Engineering should be Doom3. : Cygnus X-1

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  katamari damacy won an award 8( : pyide
  • make that 2 awards : pyide
  • And it really really deserves it, actually. That game is original and fun. : bigimp
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  There were probably lots of "original" ideas. Problem is, almost all of them sucked. : spl
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    or were carried out by developers who didn't understand good gameplay or QA. : the archvile
    • That too... Bottom line is, good games win awards. Good ideas don't mean anything if that don't turn i... : spl
  • ...which require talent to implement properly, which requires lotsa money + time, which publishers have, ... : johnsto
• Great games are great games. The end. : johnny rotten

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  I cared more about the Halo NPC's because they were useful. The HL2 "Help" was nothing more than cannon f... : Pettytheft
  • They were kinda annoying too. "Reload, Dr Freeman." "Let's go, Dr Freeman". "Sorry." Nothing made my d... : thaperfectdrug

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• wow yeah I gotta agree, I've read shack for awhile but never had an account, till now. I saw all that HL2... : SYN5280

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• Metroid Prime 2 :( : K1Bond007
• afaik ninja gaiden was a 2003 game in the states, but 2004 in europe? i wondered this too. ninja gaiden ... : grimiv

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• Yeah i think doom 3 was more fun too.. Fun to scare the shit out of your girlfriend with when shes watchi... : kurumba