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SPIKES's VGA Award Nominations Revealed
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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:25:51
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Obviously, Spike VGAs is always garbage. Again, Super Mario Galaxy 2 didn't get a nomination for overall GOTY instead giving it to...ahem...Black Ops, God of War 3, and Halo Reach! They don't even consider GT5 or Starcraft 2. Oh and look, Dragon Quest IX is left out of the "best handheld game" category! GASP And where's Bayonetta in the "Best Action/Adventure Game" category?! Uneasy Red Dead Redemption? SMG2? These aren't action/adventure games! Obviously, Spike doesn't know what the hell they're talking about!

Anyway, here's the full list:

Fans can vote for the most anticipated game award on the Spike Video Game Award web site. Here's the complete list of nominations:

Game of the Year

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision/Treyarch)
  • God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Studios Santa Monica)
  • Halo: Reach (Microsoft/Bungie Studios)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)

Studio of the Year

  • BioWare
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • Bungie Studios
  • Rockstar San Diego

Best Xbox 360 Game

  • Alan Wake (Microsoft/Remedy)
  • Fable III (Microsoft/Lionhead Studios)
  • Halo: Reach (Microsoft/Bungie Studios)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)

Best PS3 Game

  • God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Studios Santa Monica)
  • Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream)
  • ModNation Racers (Sony Computer Entertainment/United Front Games)
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)

Best Wii Game

  • Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo/Retro Studios)
  • Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo/Good-Feel)
  • Metroid: Other M (Nintendo/Team Ninja/Nintendo)
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Best PC Game

  • Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
  • Sid Meier's Civilization V (2K Games/Firaxis)
  • StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment)

Best Handheld Game

  • God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready At Dawn Studios)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Konami / Kojima Productions)
  • Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (Nintendo/ Level-5)
  • Super Scribblenauts (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment / 5th Cell)

Best Shooter

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts/DICE)
  • BioShock 2 (2K Games/2K Marin)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision/Treyarch)
  • Halo: Reach (Microsoft/Bungie Studios)

Best Action Adventure Game

  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)
  • God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Studios Santa Monica)
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Best RPG

  • Fable III (Microsoft/Lionhead Studios)
  • Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks/Obsidian Entertainment)
  • Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix/Square Enix)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts/BioWare)

Best Multiplayer Game

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts/DICE)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision/Treyarch)
  • Halo: Reach (Microsoft/Bungie Studios)
  • StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard Entertainment)

Best Individual Sports Game

  • EA Sports MMA (Electronic Arts/EA Tiburon)
  • Shaun White Skateboarding (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (Electronic Arts/EA Tiburon)
  • UFC Undisputed 2010 (THQ/Yuke's Media Creations)

Best Team Sports Game

  • FIFA Soccer 11 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)
  • Madden NFL 11 (Electronic Arts/EA Tiburon)
  • NBA 2K11 (2K Sports/Visual Concepts)
  • MLB '10: The Show (Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Studios San Diego)

Best Driving Game

  • Blur (Activision/Bizarre Creations)
  • ModNation Racers (Sony Computer Entertainment/United Front Games)
  • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games)
  • Split/Second (Disney Interactive Entertainment/Black Rock Studio)


Best Music Game

  • Dance Central (MTV Games/Harmonix)
  • DJ Hero 2 (Activision Publishing/FreeStyleGames)
  • Def Jam Rapstar (Konami/Autumn Games / 4mm Games)
  • Rock Band 3 (MTV Games/Harmonix)


Best Graphics

  • God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment/SCE Studios Santa Monica)
  • Heavy Rain (Sony Computer Entertainment/Quantic Dream)
  • Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo/Good-Feel)
  • Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)


Best Adapted Video Game

  • LEGO: Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner Bros. Interactive/Traveller's Tales)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Chengdu)
  • Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (Activision/Beenox)
  • Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (LucasArts/LucasArts)
  • Transformers: War for Cybertron (Activision/High Moon Studios)



Best Downloadable Game

  • Costume Quest (THQ/Double Fine Productions)
  • Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Square Enix/Crystal Dynamics)
  • Monday Night Combat (Uber Entertainment/Uber Entertainment)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal/ Ubisoft Chengdu)


Best DLC

  • BioShock 2: Minerva's Den (2K Games/BioWare)
  • Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (2K Games/Gearbox Software)
  • Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker (Electronic Arts/BioWare)
  • Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmare (Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego)


Best Independent Game

  • Joe Danger (Hello Games)
  • Limbo (PlayDead)
  • Super Meat Boy (Team Meat)
  • The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (The Odd Gentleman)


Most Anticipated Game

  • Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment/Rocksteady Studios)
  • BioShock: Infinite (2K Games/Irrational Games)
  • Gears of War 3 (Microsoft/Epic Games)
  • Portal 2 (Valve/Valve)

I left out the voices and smaller categories.

I know we don't take Spike seriously, but just thought I post it so we can...um...discuss! Nyaa

Edited: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:32:09

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:31:47
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LOL

I started typing stuff, but what's the point?

LOL

Edited: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:32:20

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:34:14
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And there's no "best fighting game" category. Super SFIV...Sad

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:34:50
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LOL

I started typing stuff, but what's the point?

LOL

It's alright, just posting emoticons says it all! Nyaa

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:40:00
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Damn. It's so freakin' hard for me to pick one over the other in the categories with both Halo Reach and Mass Effect 2 in them. The category for best studio is also tough. At least I can easily answer my most anticipated game for next, definitely Gears of War 3.

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:03:50
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What, no SMG2 for GOTY?

I mean come on, not even nominated?

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Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:43:25
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No SMG2, way to become irrelevant.

Ask, there is no platformer only category, in that case SMG2 is an action/adventure game. Action/adventure is a monster umbrella category that fits many games.

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:11:22
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Okay so despite it not being released DKC is nominated for best Wii game because it will be.... on the other hand also not yet released is Gran Turismo 5 but will be and it's not nominated for Racing or any other category.

Oh and no DQ9 for best handheld? Sure... way to to Spike.

I could spend the rest of my evening ridiculing this list but I do eventually want to go to bed in the next 6 hours.

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:20:42
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I could spend the rest of my evening ridiculing this list but I do eventually want to go to bed in the next 6 hours.

That's why I went with a " LOL "

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:50:16

I'm surprised PES11 isn't nominated.

Actually, no I'm not. But this year it's meant to be damn good.

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:34:13
robio said:

Okay so despite it not being released DKC is nominated for best Wii game because it will be.... .

Yeah it's just some stupid shit.

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Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:18:40

yay another spike award show that everyone will compline that it was rigged the next day

and man what sad list of games, no dq9 for rpg, man they call it" microsoft bought of us off to give them a advantage video game awards"

Edited: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:22:59
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