Post by: msuzuki on March 24, 2004, 10:29:38 PM
Wednesday night at the GDC, the International Game Developer's Association hosted the 4th annual Game Developers Choice award ceremony. The awards serve as the ultimate in peer recognition, as it is the members of the game development community who acknowledge the very best of the past year's games.
This year's big winner was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Lucas Arts/Bioware) which received the awards for Game of the Year, Original Game Character of the Year (HK-47), and Excellence in Writing. Ubi Soft's multiplatform hit, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, also did well by winning the awards for Excellence in Game Design and Excellence in Programming.
As for games exclusive to Nintendo's consoles, Capcom's Viewtiful Joe received a Game Innovation Spotlight award as did Nintendo's WarioWare Inc.: Mega MicroGame$. Also, the once controversial decision to use cel-shaded graphics in a Zelda game seems to have paid off. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker received the award for Excellence in Visual Arts.
The full list of winning games is as follows:
Game of the Year
Original Game Character of the Year
Rookie Studio of the Year
Game Innovation Spotlight
Excellence in Audio
Excellence in Game Design
Excellence in Programming
Excellence in Visual Arts
Excellence in Writing
Post by: KDR_11k on March 25, 2004, 04:37:57 AM
Post by: Renny on March 25, 2004, 05:09:11 AM
Rookie Studio of the Year
• Infinity Ward for CALL OF DUTY
You won in my heart, Swingin' Apes. :¬|
Post by: Ian Sane on March 25, 2004, 06:25:52 AM
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 25, 2004, 06:36:04 AM
Post by: Koopa Troopa on March 25, 2004, 07:48:32 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on March 25, 2004, 09:14:08 AM
Knights of the Old Republic was the most hyped up Xbox game of the year so thus it gets more credit than it deserves. See Halo and Splinter Cell for other examples.
Post by: mouse_clicker on March 25, 2004, 11:35:32 AM
As for Prince of Persia, I finally got the chance to play through it and I loved it. It's stylish, original, intruiging, and most of all fun- I haven't enjoyed killing enemies this much (and looked so cool doing it) since Devil May Cry.
Post by: Djunknown on March 25, 2004, 04:01:24 PM
Remember how Eternal Darkness and Animal Crossing took home some hardware last year? How Retro got rookie studio of the year? Didn't here any bitching then....
I dunno about you, but while one could say Halo and Splinter Cell got a little more hype than they deserved, KOTOR didn't need it. Its just that damn good. As far as I know, it didn't get a good ad campaign like the games mentioned earlier. Remember, its the members of the game development community who acknowledge the very best of the past year's games. So they don't know a good game when they see one? *Rolls eyes*. Whatever....
At least Viewtiful Joe got some props, as well as Wario Ware. Who knew developers had masochistic tendencies?
It'd be interesting to ask Shiggy on how they're getting accolades for graphics, not gameplay. Can anyone imagine the response?
P.S I'm making a prediction that either Half-Life 2 or Doom 3 are going to get a decent share of awards (like 2 or 3) at next year's DICE and GDC. And they'll be some more bitching about "Its over-hyped, it wasn't that good," blah blah and double blah!
Post by: Ian Sane on March 25, 2004, 04:19:44 PM
Considering that at least 75% of all games made are total crap one could argue that most developers have no clue what a good game is.
I'm kidding by the way. Kind of.
Post by: KDR_11k on March 25, 2004, 07:48:49 PM
Post by: Deguello on March 26, 2004, 09:06:54 AM
Post by: Renny on March 26, 2004, 12:18:19 PM
