Game of the Year 2005 Winners

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  Oh and absolutely nothing for Psychonauts is really sad. :( : midgetherder
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    That's because it was only in Overall Game of the Year, which it obviously didn't have a chance at winnin... : Chris Remo
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      You guys are all wrong, Psychonauts should have been GOTY. : joesnizzle
      • Damn mis-reply, but the comment still works here I suppose : joesnizzle
• I agree with everything you said here. BF2 > RE4? No way in the world. Maybe if the winner was decid... : Zips
• I totally agree Midge. : dkrulz
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  Please tell me you're joking right? A slightly revamped interface and decent graphics (BF2, FEAR, and Ps... : wytefang
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    No actually, I'm not kidding. Is a great game marred by shitty execution. RE4 was pure awesome on all l... : midgetherder
    • Too bad the gameplay in RE4 is trite as well, then, eh? : wytefang
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    RE4 was a much better game than BF2 (and WAY better then FEAR for that matter) : Serpico74
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      Wow, talk about uninformed and clueless...LOL : wytefang
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        calling someone clueless and typing LOL is not a convincing argument : armybob
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          No, I googled "Wytefang". It came back with a list of pages describing the smartest person on the interne... : Serpico74
          • Thank you. :) I bow to your amazing sense of sarcasm and handy ability to search the net. :) : wytefang
  • More accurately-modeled vehicles and players are great, but Resident Evil 4 had art-direction in spades. : sgtsanity
  • "Slightly revamped interface"? Clearly you haven't played RE4 or any of its predecessors. : Chris Remo
• Having played both, I couldn't agree more. RE4 was by far a greater gaming experience. : yAak
• I agree with you 100% : GodFather
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  I think it's a matter of RE4 having not been played by too many people on this site. : yourGarbageMan
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    Exactly. Which is why it's a popularity contest. : jake
    • for that reason i abstained from voting in categories where i hadn't played most of the games : derean
    • All community voting is a popularity contest. If you want something other than that, you have to have e... : hawke

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  I've been thinking about picking it up. Do people still play? I thought the demo was a lot of fun. : midgetherder
  • I played the heck out of it with the demo. Then I bought it (relatively close to release) and never onc... : hawke

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• Fear and Call of Duty is/was like funny for some hours. Then nothing.... BF2 is an awesome game. It go... : cosmicc

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  It is quite well done. Best civ out of the box since Civ 1. : Visceral Monkey
  • I wish it had those indeoVideo advisors. "the people need luxuries! uh huh huh!" : pebui
  • civ 2 was much better than civ 1 : spdon
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  i find civ4 suffers from what most other civs suffered after civ1, lack of end game content/fun i alwa... : derean
  • i've never made it to the end, played a game of civ 3 for over 8 hours and still didn't finish it... =/ : Pneum0

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• CS? fine, you idoit, that can't even play quake : zacstone

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  http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24145969&page=0 : Overbyte
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    if half of those games come out then it would be an amazing year for pc gaming, following what prob is on... : spdon
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      all the games will come out, the problem is that they will be impossible to find because retailers aren't... : derean
      • theres a lot of big titles on there, im sure the adventure games i mentioned will be widely available. : spdon
  • Lotsa good looking games on that page.:} : brutal
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  SPORE!!! IT WILL WIN! : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I don't care about what game will win, but Spore seems like it will totally rock. : FuryVII
  • Perhaps the only PC game I'll get. Assuming it doesn't come out for the 360. : jake
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  IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A COMPETITION Why must we segment ourselves into "team PC" "team xbox" "team n... : armybob
  • Haha, I've always loved Tycho's face in the second panel. : Chris Remo
• There's also whispers of DNF. : Vic Viper
• You people have been saying this since 2000. Get over it, don't limit yourself to one platform for gaming... : Serpico74
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  I thought the PC had a pretty good year with Civilization 4, X3 (yeah it needs more patching), Quake4, FE... : Vorlonesque
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    Civ 4 alone made this year pretty good for PC games. : walker270
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      i love the civ series but have to disagree. Civ 4 is essentialy more of the same. : spdon
      • Civ 4 brought some much needed improvements but honestly more of the same is pretty much what every game ... : Chod

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  Thankfully the numbers don't lie. Only one gaming site picked RE4 for GOTY and that was the heavily cons... : wytefang
  • Quit a subscription based on one GOTY? Come on. Also, numbers don't lie, but Shacknews is heavily a PC... : dmiller
  • What? Even if you don't believe that RE4 is GOTY, then what is? Shadow of the Colussus? God of War? Ce... : Kryn
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    This post leaves me absolutely speechless. 1) IGN is going to award the GOTY to RE4 as well. Watch. 2) It... : Bob422
    • Actually, you're wrong, not every publication by a long shot picked RE4 for GOTY by any means. It went l... : wytefang
  • Numbers always lie, actually. Do some research into polling methodology. :D : sgtsanity
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    RE4 was just blah in a lot of ways I'm shocked anyone feels like this. Ebu with his control scheme gri : armybob
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      As much as I loved it...I'm surprised people feel differently...I mean I thought Halo and OpFP weren't as... : Vorlonesque
      • I meant I'm NOT surprised. : Vorlonesque
  • You are spectacularly wrong. : Serpico74
  • The numbers don't lie? Can you point to a better-reviewed game this year overall? : Chris Remo
• I totally agree - this is a gaming site but it's also an "ex" id fanboy / pc fps site with a lot of histo... : abrasion

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  BF2 brought several new things to the gameplay that, when utilized, really make the experience unique. : Halen
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    Nice examples, thanks for convincing me! : Matt Burris
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      I liked how they made infantry combat more useful compared to BF42 that game it was a sin to be out of a ... : pebui
      • Yea I wish they would have added leaning also. : deeveee
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      Ok, well, if you don't know then I guess you haven't played it, and then shouldn't be making calls like "... : Halen
      • yes, the point system is by far pretty fair, I love flying the halicopters with a good gunner(s). In D... : pebui
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  I don't think a GOTY needs to be necessarily about "bringing something new to the table". BF2 did provide... : stuka
  • fuck, even with horrible lag (i.e.:spikes of 1000+ ms), having it run pathetically at 800x600, and dealin... : mrfunky3000

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  Not every game is about story (hell, the stories in most games aren't anything great anyway)...FEAR was m... : Vorlonesque
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    I understand what you are saying, and the combat in FEAR was all right to start off with, but it just did... : headbone
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      A mindless shooter with some of the best AI in any FPS. Yeah, whatever. : vigilante
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        AI isn't everything. Like he said, the combat got pretty repetitive pretty quickly (imo, since you only ... : timmie
        • I didn't think it was long enough for it to get repetitive. : mrfunky3000
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  What FPS was better this year? : Vantage
  • Personally, I thought that Quake4 was a better game. FEAR got boring after a short time, but Q4 was soli... : timmie
  • Call of Duty 2's single-player game was intense, and easily my favorite FPS this year. : shabadoosa
  • COD2 and Quake 4, both better than FEAR (imo) : Serpico74
• Slo Mo was a lot more interesting, along with the excellent mele combat, that it made the fighting very u... : SpaecKow
• Yeah we need 56 monsters and 19 guns to make an FPS great, also a story with 17 twists! Never mind the... : EvilDolemite
• Not to stir the ants but I don't recall too many FPS where I immediately wanted to play through it again ... : mrwolf710
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  IAWTP! I thought F.E.A.R. was overrated (IMHO) and waaay too repetitive! I mean, I was fucking sick of th : warcrow
  • You could easily say the same thing of Halo though...and its a really beloved game. : Vorlonesque
  • I don't understand what you mean by this. I didn't pay attention the first time through, but on my secon : dionex
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  fear was my game of the year : pgharavi
  • iawtp. I had more fun with fear than I have with any other video game in a long time. Granted, I have yet... : dionex

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  "Beef-hat". *snicker* : fortyseven
  • might as well be that. suprised that Ninja Gaiden:Black got so many votes : creep
• figures, most of the people who didnt vote RE4 for GOTY probably haven't played it because it truly is th... : derean
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  I demand a recount. RE4 damnit! : Bob422
  • BF2 was a good game, until most of us played it enough to see the suck staring right back at us. heck, BF... : pyide
• Forza losing to Burnout is a travesty. : Blackdawgg
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  problem is that a lot of us (including me) have never played res4 so it might be amazing but everyone her... : spdon
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    Pick up a Gamecube for $99 or a PS2 and play it. Please. : Bob422
    • It's a quality title, but lacks the charm of the original. And I personally think the story and characte... : Pneum0
    • im not spending that much on one game :/ : spdon
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  Yeah...it didn't even win any PC awards and it's GOY. : cookblaze
  • It lost against fear for pc award! : fluffy64
• Winning with 18% isnt exactly a resounding victory. I'll admit voting for it though. BF2 is really a grea... : Lightzout
• Seriously. It's a great game, even with all its issues, but there's no way it deserves a spot above RE4. : lord warlock
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  I just drove home from work thinking... "Wow now BF2 GOTY edition will have a sticker saying this site g... : ghost in my shell
  • Hahahaha. Oh the irony, that'd be really painful to see. : d0gbert
  • it will even say "User Voted GOTY" or something like that to mention that players "like you" voted for it... : Nation
  • On the box it's going to say: "Wow... BF2 GOTY edition!" -ghost in my shell : MeenMunky
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  I wonder if everyone who voted for it likes sticking needles in their eyes. I played CS:S for a few ho... : Beady
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    lol CS:S != BF2 Thats like comparing an anorexic supermodel to an 800lbs gorilla. Apples and orange... : dewdman
    • id much rather get fucked by a supermodle than a gorilla. CSS is one of the worst versions of cs ever any... : spdon
    • I was comparing the UI and general polishedness of the game. BF2's UI is like a 800lb gorilla that is ... : Beady
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  When it works right and there is no air rape, BF2 hands down GOTY. Unfortunately this is not always the c... : shred.
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    but why must it be enjpyed under "certain conditions" : creep
    • I only enjoy CS:S wearing an eye-patch and with a parrot on my shoulder. Is that weird? : -Panther-
• I completely agree. Awesome list until GOTY, RE4 is easily the best game to come out this year, hell its ... : theWhite
• I don't know understand how it lost everything else, but somehow got GOTY? Fucking rigged :P : K1Bond007
• F.E.A.R. would've won if it was an option for overall winner. : ApacheVE
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  all of you people who voted for bf2 should reevaluate. seriously, let's look at this game: * rushed la... : mallrice
  • IA : abrasion
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    It should have been between HL2 or RE4. With F.E.A.R. in close second. End of list. : Vic Viper
    • HL2 came out last year though. : midgetherder
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      HL2 didn't come out this year (it was last year)...but I get what you're saying. Actually I really tho... : Vorlonesque
      • I have yet to play Civ4. I've never played a Civ game. : Vic Viper

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  Entertainment sales in general are down, it's not just games - music, DVDs, even books. Plus we're moving... : node
  • Hrmm...I wonder what is up. Can we attribute it solely to the 5 million people hooked on WoW not buying a... : gnoleb
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  What is really sad is that the uber-short and king of gaming letdowns, Fable placed second in its categor... : vaginsh
  • Once the game taught me to fart and burp in town to ellicit reactions that meant nothing, I turned it off... : gnoleb
  • It was funny to see Moleuyneaouix making up new crap about the pc version. : Popedispencer
  • Some of us still really enjoyed it :( : abrasion
  • I picked up the Lost Chapters for 20 bucks and had a lot of fun with it. It's too bad people let hype ru... : shabadoosa

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• Rock on brother! : jonin
• YEAH, glad someone is doin more enjoying than complaining! : dkrulz

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• A bit too early for it? What is there, like five games out? : SpaecKow
• Because there was a shortage of votes. : GodFather

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• .... right : graceofdragons
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  hell even Q4 should have beaten it. : Pneum0
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    Hey, I liked Quake 4 a lot -- in all honesty, a lot more than F.E.A.R. Fear was just...blah. I don't kn... : jadkins555
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      My sentiments exactly. I think the world collectively lost their objective sanity or ability to actually ... : dewdman
      • Couldn't have said it better myself : Serpico74
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        I'm glad Shawow of the Colossus didn't win anything. I played that game with some friends over Thanksgivi... : Sturm08
        • I hate to sound like a jerk, but you were missing something then. : Chris Remo
  • Not in my opinion. : Halen
• F.E.A.R. was fucking amazing. IS amazing. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Umm.. what? I voted for FEAR as PC game and Psychonauts as GOTY (even though I figured it didn't have the... : ovrlrd
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  I'm noticing a trend with you and BF2 ROXORS OMG posts. : brewsterdog
  • EA pays me $36, 000 US a year to post positive and supporting comments regarding BF2. : Sgt_Boomstick

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• Don't forget "Punish-tards"... : Malum

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  Better F.E.A.R. than BF2. I still preferred Psychonauts though. : noahwb
  • I can't wait to play that, i've gotta settle for the ps2 version now that my xbox puked out. I hope it's... : Pneum0
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  FEAR was fantastic. It wasn't perfect but it was an amazing job by Monolith. : gl2 drivers
  • Decent.. sure. But GotY? : Pneum0
  • Hardly, I think Monolith is the only reason it's there. : fuji-juice
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  F.E.A.R. was great. I missed the voting. It would have at least one more vote than it already does if I'd... : jrock
  • Yup, pretty much agree. Great action and story, just a shame there wasn't much to give it competition. Ci... : node
• Seriously. BIG meh : Serpico74
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  The real crime is Betafield 2 as overall GOTY. You know EA will tout that shit, too. : Dechter
  • EA does not and will not give a shit about the shack. Unless they rename it $hacknews- 'It gets you profi... : Sgt_Boomstick
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  i thougth fear was one of the better games I've played in years : deadfish
  • Agreed. At the very least, relatively speaking, it absolutely deserves action GOTY in my opinion. I can't... : speon
• I actually really liked FEAR...the AI in it managed to make it work really well...made combat really fun ... : Vorlonesque
• FEAR was the best fps I played that came out this year. However if it was released last year it would hav... : nutcrackr

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  18% is not popular vote. : MeenMunky
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_vote http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=popular%20vote jus... : -Panther-
  • It's a plurality, not a majority. Popular votes only require a plurality, or else we'd have been fucked i... : sgtsanity
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  Thats because all the whiners are on here trolling, where as the supporters are playing it as we speak. ... : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Yep. I just got done shooting people in the face with the rpg in special forces. good times. : deeveee

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• Laugh-Out-FUCKING-Loud : Sgt_Boomstick

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• yeah that was pretty odd. : -Panther-
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  Yes, looks awkward. If FEAR > BF2 on PC, why wouldn't it be on the overall GOTY? : zehh
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    Because the GOTY vote was splintered over a bunch of categories. The people who voted for BF2 for best a... : Anti_dentite
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      I think you are right, which is why BF2 shouldn't be eligable. Its like playoffs, win your category to mo... : lowayne
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        Ok, so BF2 wasn't the best action game, but if there had been a category for "best multiplayer game" and ... : pharoah mike
        • This man is right. You can all go back to your seats now. : Sgt_Boomstick

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• nein. : dmiller

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• you're missing out by not playing civ 4. it's a fantastic game : Mr.SEX
• And that, my friends, is why MMORPGs suck...they take away time that could be better spent on other great... : wytefang
• I haven't gotten Civ 4 yet because I lost huge chunks of my life to the original Civ when I had it for my... : 13tongimp

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• forza was the better game but burnout was more enjoyable : creep
• I voted burnout.... kuz I had more fun playing it : godm0de

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• And yet RE4 is still the closest runner up for Game of the Year, only a few percentage points lower. That... : Conan

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• perhaps they're doing the "he who wins GOTY cannot win other big categories" : Schnapple