Game News AIAS hands out 2004 awards

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: BioWare; Neverwinter Nights

<a href=http://www.gamespot.com>GameSpot</a> <a href=http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/01/news_6117727.html>reports</a> that <a href=http://www.interactive.org/>The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences</a> has finally handed out the awards, proving beyond the reasonable doubt that they should not be taken seriously. They get VD's "Full of Shit" stamp of approval.
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Anyway, the results:
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Half-Life 2 got Game of the Year, PC Game of the Year, Innovative PC Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievements in Art, Animation, Gameplay Engineering, Visual Engineering, and First Person Action Game of the Year.
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RPG of the Year is ... Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (BioWare/BioWare)!!! The runner up is Bloodlines.
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Looks like <a href=http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6282&start=0>Saint was right</a>
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Thanks, <b>BonsaiBuick</b>
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[Volourn]

HAHAHA! HAHAHA! HAHAHA!

That is why Troika seems to be struggl;iing tos ruvive, and Bioware is riding high.

Troika's full fledge game cna't even beat out BIO's 4-6 hour module to a 2 year+ game.

HAHAHA! HAHAHA!

P.S. I'd have vote for BL as I haven't even played the mod yet nor will I any time soon.

 

[Surlent]

Ahh, VD's "Full of Shit" stamp of approval, hallmark of quality shit quaranteed.

How can these ppl call themselves Academy of Science ???

btw Vol, that's your first avatar ??

 

[Volourn]

Nah, some retarded moderator is being funny again and forced it on me. I simply haven't bothered to remove it yet. Let them have some for now.

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

AIAS awards are funny.

 

[xemous]

How can HL2 win visiual and animation 'engineering'. Doom3 should have won those, I smell some fanboys and/or payouts.

 

[Sol Invictus]

HL2 had practical and dynamic use of physics, for starters. Doom 3 had spiders with babies for heads. And a flashlight.

 

[Seven]

HL2 had practical and dynamic use of physics, for starters. Doom 3 had spiders with babies for heads. And a flashlight.

That still doesn't explain why doom (a better looking game) missed out on animation and art. Also it ran a lot smoother than HL.

 

[Sol Invictus]

It didn't run smoother than HL. Not on an ATI card. Doom is totally gimped on ATI.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Saint was right

Yeah, it doesn't hurt when you check out the board of directors of the AIAS. Two from Atari, which publish NWN, and Doctor Ray from BioWare.

 

[Seven]

Are you suggesting that these awards aren't impartial? For shame, for shame. :wink:

 

[Volourn]

Either way, it's hilarious!

 

[Fez]

Nice bit of digging Saint. :D

 

[dojoteef]

Doom 3 should have won some of those. It has a much more advanced rendering engine than HL2. It is the only game with a unified lighting system; not even Unreal Engine 3 is going to have that. The collision detection as well is superb. It is per pixel, which once again, can't be said for the competitors. Then there is the fact, that it uses inverse kinematics to ensure the animations are smooth no matter what surface a character is walking on. The list goes on; anyway Doom 3 shouldn't have be discarded so quickly.

Also, HL2 licensed their physics engine; if anyone should get credit for it, it's Havok. They did put it to good use with the gravity gun, but that's under gameplay. Oh, well...

 

[Fez]

Like a lot of these award shows, politics comes into it.

 

[Lasakon]

Doom 3 should have won most of the technical awards, but you have to admit Half-Life 2's art style is a lot more appealing.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I hate these awards. THey're like the Oscars, all political.

 

[Loof]

It didn't run smoother than HL. Not on an ATI card. Doom is totally gimped on ATI.

If I'm not misinformed that isn't realy the games fault, ATI has bad preformance on al OpenGL games, don't know if its a driver issue or a hardware issue though...

 

[xemous]

It didn't run smoother than HL. Not on an ATI card. Doom is totally gimped on ATI.

ran smooth on my r300.

 

[DemonKing]

Yeah, it doesn't hurt when you check out the board of directors of the AIAS. Two from Atari, which publish NWN, and Doctor Ray from BioWare.

LOL - no wonder Troika are going down - not only is Timmy not on the AIAS board of directors (while someone from Stormfront is - WTF?), but there's not even anyone from Activision there to pimp Bloodlines.

Still, at least Rome:TW won best strategy title. :D

 

[voodoo1man]

Oh noes, Vampires: Bloodline didn't get teh gold!!!

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Just something funny Taluntain pointed out to me from this link:

• Dan Whiteside - Designer
  
  Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker wins RPG of the Year!
  
  I'm allergic to M&M's, so I'll take Allsorts, but not the Blue and Black man-shaped ones. If you could just pick those out for me Jay and then bring the bowl to my office? Thanks.
  Well, first off I would like to thank God and the Academy...
  I needed a pick me up, so I'm in a happy place right now. I'm sure large numbers of the forumites and RPGCodex will quickly bring me down to earth. Ah well, I shall enjoy it while it lasts.

Oh noes, Vampires: Bloodline didn't get teh gold!!!

Well, when your choices are a full blown game versus a module for a three year old game that only takes 4-6 hours to play, and you pick the module, something's fucked. No matter whether you liked or didn't like Bloodlines, it's rather silly to pit a full blown game versus a module for a very out of date game and then give the award for RPG of the Year to the module.

 

[Volourn]

Biasness aside, if they didn't like BL; they didn't like BL. Really, it's not that a big deal. Well, it isn't anywhere but the Codex that is.

 

[voodoo1man]

Oh noes, Vampires: Bloodline didn't get teh gold!!!

Well, when your choices are a full blown game versus a module for a three year old game that only takes 4-6 hours to play, and you pick the module, something's fucked. No matter whether you liked or didn't like Bloodlines, it's rather silly to pit a full blown game versus a module for a very out of date game and then give the award for RPG of the Year to the module.

I was merely pointing out that in the original press release the game was listed as "Vampires: Bloodline." It was pretty obvious they weren't going to give it the award when they didn't even know the game's name!

 

[Spazmo]

Actually, they got the NWN module wrong as well. It's actually NWN: Kongmaker and it's a module where you play a young ape rising through the ranks of the Skull Island Monkey Knife Fight leagues before finally reaching the coveted mantle of King Kong.