Best-of-year stuff - Printable Version

Best-of-year stuff - Printable Version

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Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 22nd December 2003

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/warshaw/

http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/bestof2003/index.html

http://www.gamespy.com/goty2003/

Hmm, anyone want to do a TC 'best of 2003' thing?

Best-of-year stuff - Great Rumbler - 22nd December 2003

Sounds like a good idea.

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 22nd December 2003

We need to decide how to organize it then... there should obviously be sections for GBA and GC, but what about the others? One for each platform, or none for others, or a general 'other'? And categories... which genres...

Best Game, Action, Platformer, Adventure/"Adventure", FPS, Strategy, Sports, Racing, etc...

Best-of-year stuff - Dark Jaguar - 22nd December 2003

Penny Arcade does a great job of this. Basically, they just give their opinions and claim them to be absolutely correct, as parody of big name game sites which do, well let's face it, the EXACT SAME THING but with more fanfare.

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 22nd December 2003

Indeed.

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Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 22nd December 2003

And last year's...

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And uh... I don't think they finished it.

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 24th December 2003

Wow, I'm really surprised with Gamespot's GOTY awards this year, as I agree with them much more than I do with IGN this time around. They gave Wind Waker the best action-adventure award, VF4 Evolution the best fighting game award (Sorry SC2 fans, but nothing can touch VF4), and Panzer Orta the best shooter award. Very nice, Gamespot. Now if only they had given F-Zero GX the best racing game award...

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 24th December 2003

I moved the stuff to the dumpster.

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 24th December 2003

Thanks for not moving my response to that post of yours that you left...

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 24th December 2003

What?

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 24th December 2003

Yeah, I didn't think that you were really paying attention to my posts.

Quote:Gamespot often has quality awards... I certainly don't always agree with them but I can generally see why they'd choose the games they do. It doesn't always seem that way with IGN...

Like in '98 they said Grim Fandango was GOTY. Now of course I'd give it to Starcraft, but GF is a brilliant game and certainly better than most everyone else's choice, which was Half-Life...

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 24th December 2003

I couldn't split that post.

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 24th December 2003

So you made me do your work for you... great.

Best-of-year stuff - Sacred Jellybean - 24th December 2003

Here we go again...

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

Don't worry, that's what the dumpster's for! I won't ruin any threads here with ABF's provocations!

Best-of-year stuff - alien space marine - 25th December 2003

Rockin Roll racing got an award as best remake for the GBA.

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

But it was just a straight port...

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 25th December 2003

Of a very good game.

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

Definitely not the best GBA port this year. Not even close.

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 25th December 2003

So what is?

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

Do you even have to ask? Mario 3, of course. Don't tell me you think that Rock & Roll Racing can compare to Mario 3...

But as for actual remakes and not just ports, then Sword of Mana definitely takes the crown.

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 25th December 2003

Hmm, Mario 3, yes, I'd agree there...

And remakes are quite different than ports, for sure. Anyway, did SoM have any strong competition in that category?

Oh yeah, and SoM is a great game, and very fun, and has all that additional stuff, but in some ways I prefer the original... chalk it up to nostalgia, but there is one legitimate point -- SoM holds your hand and makes it very hard to get lost or confused about where you need to go (except in the airship, which was pretty confusing), while FFA made it a lot less clear and was much more mazelike.

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

Sure there were other remakes... like uh... Double Dragon Advance and um... sivindinsda...

Best-of-year stuff - A Black Falcon - 25th December 2003

Double Dragon Advance doesn't quite compare... ;)

Best-of-year stuff - OB1 - 25th December 2003

No, especially since it wasn't a very good remake.