2011 Spike VGA winners recap

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  WTF. Skyrim was kinda fun but is so buggy and nothing about it felt new or original; maybe because I pla... : satsun
  • http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=27173191#item_27173191 A lot of Shackers seem to disagree. : XAVdeMATOS
  • Haha someone takes the VGA's seriously. : Porkasaurus
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    That it can still win Best Game despite its inherently buggy nature means the elements that make it great... : Jobos
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      Actually awarding a buggy release like Skyrim is pretty much bullshit. I'm sure they will have plenty of... : cetra00
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        Actually, rewarding polish over all else is what is basically killing our industry. : DeBurgo
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          Other than Valve, who makes games that have polish everywhere? : daVinci1980
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            CD Projekt RED : jujubeads
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              Didn't they have to patch in basic stuff like a tutorial level and bosses that weren't broken / terrible?... : GrandHarrier
              • Maybe, but CD Projekt is in Poland, so everything they make have polish everywhere. : paladinsama
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            uhh like most/all console games. Blizzard tons and tons of indie devs. : DeBurgo
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              Don't most console games have day-0 patches, now? I guess I could maybe see Blizzard, but not if you incl : daVinci1980
              • It is not very common for consoles still but it is unfortunately on the rise. It is very much still a few... : cetra00
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                no 0-day patches are not that common. also I believe some of them occur due to cert-process shenanigans. ... : DeBurgo
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                  Did... Did you play portal 2? : daVinci1980
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                    Do you play games? Valve time is a thing. It's an actual thing. : daVinci1980
                    • yes I did. Source engine has been a pretty buggy engine, though admittedly portal 2 was probably one of t... : DeBurgo
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                also guess what wow is: a fucking huge mmo with tons of shit in it. sounds like another game we're talkin... : DeBurgo
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                  True, but the bugs I'm referring to are the "hey, this update is all about this new raid... aaaaaaand it'... : daVinci1980
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                    You're full of it. I can't remember the last time that happened. That's the exception, not the norm. They... : zombie man
                    • Clearly you never played through all of WoW classic, TBC, and somewhat in Wrath. : Chod
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          I like how you drew that conclusion even though nobody said so. I really can't believe I'm sitting her... : cetra00
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            there are definitely different levels of bugginess and some kinds are more acceptable than others. Obv... : DeBurgo
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              I'm gonna repost this every time you allude to it being just a few bugs: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wi... : daVinci1980
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                it's just a few bugs. : DeBurgo
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                  Now in convenient image format: http://chattypics.com/files/BugsSkyrimTheElderScrollsWiki_a8x53308jd.png : daVinci1980
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                    i wasn't saying the game wasn't buggy or that it was just a few bugs (it's just a few bugs) just that mos : DeBurgo
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                      Did you actually read the list of bugs (here's a link! http://chattypics.com/files/BugsSkyrimTheElderScro... : daVinci1980
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                        Whoops I missed the divider for moderate-to-minor bugs (so there are ~the same number of moderate as ther... : daVinci1980
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                          no offense but you're being kinda obtuse. the bugs that break quest lines are really not that common. tha... : DeBurgo
                          • I agree. Pretty sure most of that list is bullshit. The game is very clean. I think I encountered two bug... : zombie man
      • Where the hell do you guys come from? : Zips
      • Flaws in a game are the nature of its creation. Look at Star Wars for example. According to George Lucas ... : alllivestaken
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    fuck this "it can't be goty it's too buggy!" sentiment if more buggy games are like skyrim then maybe ... : DeBurgo
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      So more games with poorly thought out (and easily exploitable) game mechanics, boring and derivative comb : daVinci1980
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        it's also probably the most massive game world out there with a quest structure that is pretty much appro... : DeBurgo
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          I think anyone could look past a little bugginess. That's not really what we're talking about, right? ... : daVinci1980
          • you are in the minority because the game is amazing, it isn't for you obviously, it just means you are a ... : gmd
          • and of course an open world game with near infinite variations on quests is going to have more bugs than ... : gmd
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            I've never seen you hate on a game like this, you're usually so positive. It's weirding me out. : MaxPete82
            • I actually am having a reasonably fun time with it--I just don't get the huge boner that some folks have ... : daVinci1980
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      Developers and publishers need to be held to a higher standard. Remember, not everyone who has a console ... : midnightgreen20
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        it really is not a slippery slope. There are enough developers/publishers that still like to polish their : DeBurgo
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          I think there is a way to be creative AND have a high quality game all at the same time, without any bugs... : midnightgreen20
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            No, there really isn't, actually. You cannot have big bold leaps in game development in a timely fashion : DeBurgo
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              woah unfinished sentence there, the second sentence in the second paragraph should read: "Sometimes when ... : DeBurgo
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                But the ultimate thing you have to consider is that the consumer is spending $60 on said product. With th... : midnightgreen20
                • And in film, absolutely everything is intentional. Producers spend months of pre-production getting thing... : midnightgreen20
      • Not everyone has Internet? This is your greatest worry about perception of games? A lack of patches? ... : Moonbase Commander
      • Everyone playing Skyrim on PC has internet, that much is for sure. : Vincent Grayson
      • Holding yourself to a higher standard doesn't start at limiting the amount of patches you release. : Lucy Labia
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    I think that is exactly it, Oblivion wasn't really a main stream game. Skyrim got a lot of hype and got p... : XwingVmanX
    • What? Oblivion brought RPGs into the mainstream, it was huge with the casual crowd, especially on the 360... : pyide
  • Skyrim 0wns. Deal with it. : dpgagnon
  • Skyrim is hands down the best game I've ever played. Giving it GOTY isn't a question at all in my mind. : Vincent Grayson
  • People love sandbox games no matter how buggy they are. Games like these are so massive that it would be... : herradura99
  • Nothing else comes close in terms of the amount of time I've put into a game this year. Yeah it's buggy t... : OutlawSundown
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  I am shocked BF3 didn't win anything. I would say hands down best shooter, and probably best multiplayer... : Guava D
  • meh... who the fuck cares, its Spike TV. : Shadowdane
  • And best graphics. Graphics could also go to Witcher 2. But it's Spike, so whatever. : the Scrivener
  • Yeah, BF3 is amazing, but "spike tv" is meaningless anyway. : niceguynick
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  Interesting, no mention of BF3? I preferred it's multiplayer over the Portal 2 coop... OPINIONS! : SigENeaT
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    I can see MW3 getting best shooter, but how the hell Portal 2 beat BF3 for best multiplayer in general wt... : peat
    • Makes sense to me. BF3 is good, great even, but Portal 2's multiplayer is fresh, new and incredibly engro... : ChromeBallz
• 2012 Spike Video Game Awards already? : ArtilleryMarker
• I agree with the entire list except for these two, but i don't know the nominees. Best Shooter: Call of ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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  What DLC did portal 2 have that was better than Uncle Tully's Funhouse for Monday Night Combat? : Haxim
  • co-op dlc, it was awesome. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
• Skyrim! Woo! Congrats, Bethesda :) : Jobos
• Best Nolan North voice performance (should've been a real award, but sadly isn't): Portal 2. One wor : the archvile
• While its difficult to take the entire thing seriously, two facts: - that the awards were basically clea... : Masem
• So is it 2011 or 2012? From here in the chatty, it looks like you don't know what time it is. : Agrona
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  Portal. 2 won best performance for a human male and female. What a disgrace : turbotim3
  • Agreed, neither of the characters were human! : Memphis-Ahn
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  Surely if Skyrim is GOTY it gets to win lots of other categories by default. Best Action Adventure, Best... : Alexrose
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    Skyrim isn't an action adventure, it's an RPG and it won that category. Skyrim is amazing overall (!) ... : ChromeBallz
    • How can Skyrim be game of the year, but not be the best game on ANY platform, while Portal 2 is released ... : Alexrose
• Skyrim came out very close to the voting. No big surprise. : nisolider