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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://majornelson.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title>Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx</link><description>Geoff Keighley just sent me an email announcing the winners of this years Game Critics awards. Here, through the magic of cut and paste, is the email: ************************************ From: Geoff Keighley Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:08 AM Subject</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275592</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275592</guid><dc:creator>Mikerules868</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, COD4 beat Halo 3...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275592" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275591</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275591</guid><dc:creator>Unseen 5hadow</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;finally Bioshock gets the due its deserved!! I was sooo frustrated when Mario kept winning them, not that it makes the game any better or worse if it wins GOY awards, but i like to see good games get the respect they deserve. Way to go Bioshock, now lets jest hope it doesnt get watered down with yearly sequels. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275591" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#276085</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:45:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:276085</guid><dc:creator>AJKI11A</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;XBOX 360 most game of the yar awards by platform Dam right hell yeah.... Lear your place PS3 and Wii &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-____________XBOX 360 FTW!!______________-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=276085" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#276047</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:31:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:276047</guid><dc:creator>Renegade123</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I think CoD4 and The Orange Box was so much better than BioShock. Also, CoD4 and Orange Box have MP, which add a lot to the replay value.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=276047" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275992</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:38:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275992</guid><dc:creator>james</dc:creator><description>i seriously did not think bioshock was that great, i returned it to block buster after playing it for 4 hours. i couldnt get into it.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275992" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275930</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:53:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275930</guid><dc:creator>MACPH1ST0</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;eiVaL, you pretty much lost any credibility at all with your opinion about BioShock when you subsequently stated after it that &amp;quot;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if...&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;And just so you know, spamming the site with your comments only makes you look even more like a tool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275930" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275732</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:25:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275732</guid><dc:creator>Wiizpig</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Super Mario Galaxy should be #1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275732" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275722</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:18:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275722</guid><dc:creator>Ivan_PSP</dc:creator><description>Bioshock is great the best game ever...&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275722" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275718</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:56:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275718</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275718" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275717</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:56:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275717</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275717" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275716</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:56:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275716</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275716" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275715</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:56:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275715</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275715" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275714</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:55:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275714</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275714" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275713</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:55:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275713</guid><dc:creator>eiVaL</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i really dont understand why Bioshock got so much publicity, nothing was great about that game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the whole early 1900's theme has been played to death&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the plasmas/telepaphty was in earlier games, a game on PS2 was all about telekenisis i think it was called psyops or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they tried to be scary an use the Condemned style audio where the people sound like their all around yuo, but it only got frustrating near the end of the game.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the storyline was horribly told, tell me yuo actually could pay attention to half the things the guy in yuor earpiece is saying when 99% of the time hes talking while someones attacking you or something loud is going on around yuo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only thing i knew was what was said at that moment, i still dont know the whole story, an i damn sure wasnt gonna play it again even to get the 50 points for all Diaries an whatever else i needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if a sequal ever comes out there better be nothing else for me to rent if it wants my money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;COD4 pwned it in terms of fun and action, an Mass Effect was great too, cant wait for the next in both those series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Halo3 would be the greatest game ever if it had a Campaign lobby like Gears. but they foolishly left that out, if they could add one via an xbl update id buy it...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275713" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275706</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:53:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275706</guid><dc:creator>James</dc:creator><description>Straight up bioshock does not deserve to be first, it deserves top 10 for sure but the minor(and fairly quickly major) annoyances such as having to watch those awful little cartoon animations and repetitively playing pipe dreams(which was like half the game btw . . . ) and having a dozen next to useless abilities that didn&amp;#39;t really balance each other out at all dropped it from 1 for me

Orange box i&amp;#39;ll agree with for portal alone, it was short but the time spent on it was more than sufficient to get more laughs than most forms of entertainment

I&amp;#39;m also curious as to how guitar hero 3 never made it on to this list, until it came out most people barely knew what guitar hero was and now its everywhere, mention rock band to people and they don&amp;#39;t know either
activisions been promoting it making it hotter than an olson twin threesome &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275706" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Game Critics: Game of the Year Winners Announced</title><link>http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/31/game-critics-game-of-the-year-winners-announced.aspx#275702</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:15:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">055c7c12-9f8e-4800-85f1-aebaf66ea7d8:275702</guid><dc:creator>HeavenlyYeti</dc:creator><description>??????

Maybe I should buy Bioshock? LOL.
Halo 3 is not the best right NOW, but the true magic is gonna start to show in the coming months. The sheer longevity of it is gonna keep it alive for years, just like Halo 2.
I feel like COD 4 is gonna start dieing down sometime in the next month. It&amp;#39;ll still be played, but not as popularly.
Gears 2 will be announced on February 22, and there&amp;#39;ll be lots of hype for that, by the way. LOL&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://majornelson.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=275702" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>