http://ve3d.ign.com/poll/237/2008-Game-of-the-Year

Saw this on another site figured I would post it here since it contained some MMORPG's as well.

So far looks like AoC is in second with 1017 votes.

LotRO: MoM isn't there?

I've only heard good things about it...I wonder why it wasn't included.

Originally posted by Capn23

LotRO: MoM isn't there?

 

I've only heard good things about it...I wonder why it wasn't included.

No idea so far I have heard good things about it as well.

GTA 4 by miles.

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

Originally posted by metalhead980

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

lol yeah sure, the single player was ok, kinda slow and boring, and ther mutiplayer was terrible.

Originally posted by achellis

Originally posted by metalhead980

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

 

lol yeah sure, the single player was ok, kinda slow and boring, and ther mutiplayer was terrible.

Question did you feel the multiplayer part of Fallout 3 was terrible due to the fact there is NO multiplayer with the game?

Anyway at first I also felt Fallout 3 to be the best of 2008, but now after spending some time to me it's clear that the award for best game definitly goes to GTA 4. And that is pure my own personal opinion.

Originally posted by metalhead980

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

I own a PS3, so Bethesda sure as heck ain't getting my vote this year!

Originally posted by TeflonEddie

Originally posted by metalhead980

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

 

I own a PS3, so Bethesda sure as heck ain't getting my vote this year!

Don't blame Bethesda that the PS3 isn't as powerful as the other systems and takes twice as long to code for.

Originally posted by TeflonEddie

Originally posted by metalhead980

Fallout 3... easily the best game this year.

 

I own a PS3, so Bethesda sure as heck ain't getting my vote this year!

Well..... if you vote you only should vote for what you have played/experianced, I see no use what so ever to vote for something you didn't play, so basicly you could have shared who you would vote for regarless if it's pc/console or what ever game it might be

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid 

Don't blame Bethsda that the PS3 isn't as powerful as the other systems and takes twice as long to code for.

Yarr, 'cos Bethesda making a dirty back-room deal with Microshaft to screw the PS3 players out of forthcoming downloadable content and game-altering changes is most definately a coding issue.

They just couldn't get that "IF Dirty Microsoft Offer Bribe THEN Tell 'em to bugger off" code right.

Originally posted by TeflonEddie

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid 

Don't blame Bethsda that the PS3 isn't as powerful as the other systems and takes twice as long to code for.

 

Yarr, 'cos Bethesda making a dirty back-room deal with Microshaft to screw the PS3 players out of forthcoming downloadable content and game-altering changes is most definately a coding issue.

They just couldn't get that "IF Dirty Microsoft Offer Bribe THEN Tell 'em to bugger off" code right.

 

Everyones making a deal with Microsoft for exclusive downloadable content because Microsoft are paying developers extra for it and sony is not. Developers arn't fanbois.......

Fact;

- The PS3 is harder to code for, costs more money to develop for and takes ALOT longer.
- The PS3 doesn't have the graphical power to look better then the 360 and the only reason Sony games can look soo good on their console is because they have a better first party who doesn't use Unreal Engine 3.

So what do you expect? The PS3 has the smallest install base and isn't worth putting the extra time in to developing for because they don't make the money back through sales. The 360 is much cheaper and sells far many more units than the PS3 because people are buying it and not the PS3.

So blame Sony for lying about the power of their console and blame Sony for not creating a console that is easy to develop for and blame Sony for having a $400 console thats far more expensive than anything else out there.

Umm, not Metal Gear Solid 4????

This poll is a freaking joke!

Voted for Left 4 Dead, all it needs is some custom maps and it would blow AoC and Fallout 3 out of the water.... though the vertibird mod for fallout 3 is pretty awesome...

Just as long as some game that doesn't deserve it doesn't get it.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

Everyones making a deal with Microsoft for exclusive downloadable content because Microsoft are paying developers extra for it and sony is not. Developers arn't fanbois.......

Fact;

- The PS3 is harder to code for, costs more money to develop for and takes ALOT longer.
- The PS3 doesn't have the graphical power to look better then the 360 and the only reason Sony games can look soo good on their console is because they have a better first party who doesn't use Unreal Engine 3.

So what do you expect? The PS3 has the smallest install base and isn't worth putting the extra time in to developing for because they don't make the money back through sales. The 360 is much cheaper and sells far many more units than the PS3 because people are buying it and not the PS3.

So blame Sony for lying about the power of their console and blame Sony for not creating a console that is easy to develop for and blame Sony for having a $400 console thats far more expensive than anything else out there.

If this is the case, then Fallout 3 should have been a Microsoft exclusive. That would have annoyed me, (because I own a PS3 and hence, wouldn't be able to play it) but I'd have accepted it.

By releasing the game on the PS3 then announcing that they were going to add DLCs to convert it from the release version (an open-world with a restrictive level cap and linear terminating main quest) into an open-world with a non-restrictive level cap and open-ended main quest.

Except of course, for PS3 users who don't get DLCs.

One should also mention that the game contains significant game-affecting bugs (presumably on all formats). These are the reasons that I'm not voting Bethesda for GoTY. The game just doesn't deserve it.

And I'm very pleased that you're happy with your Xbox. I'm very happy with my PS3 too; if you want to have a console bashing war, I'm afraid you'll need to look elsewhere as I frankly couldn't give a monkeys what other people think about a console that I'm happy with.

Originally posted by TeflonEddie

One should also mention that the game contains significant game-affecting bugs (presumably on all formats). These are the reasons that I'm not voting Bethesda for GoTY. The game just doesn't deserve it.

I saw PS3 users complaining on the Bethesda forums... I can't comment on that as I don't have a PS3.

I saw PC users complaining but I never had any issue they listed.  Fallout 3 for *me*  is one of the best RPG's I've played in years.

So for me on the PC the game contained NO significant game affecting bug.  /shrug

I can see your point and it was a point made by many on the Bethesda forums about the PS3.  They felt more or less they had a product that wasn't of the quality of the XB or PC versions.  If that is the case I'd be upset as well.

(I'm not really console person .. but I can relate to the idea in general).

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Originally posted by Antarious

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Originally posted by TeflonEddie

One should also mention that the game contains significant game-affecting bugs (presumably on all formats). These are the reasons that I'm not voting Bethesda for GoTY. The game just doesn't deserve it.

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I saw PS3 users complaining on the Bethesda forums... I can't comment on that as I don't have a PS3.
I saw PC users complaining but I never had any issue they listed.  Fallout 3 for *me*  is one of the best RPG's I've played in years.
So for me on the PC the game contained NO significant game affecting bug.  /shrug
I can see your point and it was a point made by many on the Bethesda forums about the PS3.  They felt more or less they had a product that wasn't of the quality of the XB or PC versions.  If that is the case I'd be upset as well.
(I'm not really console person .. but I can relate to the idea in general).

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I believe most of the problems affects the story, as your able to skip significant pieces of the story such as going directly to Rivet City to find info about your dad as opposed to actually going to Three Dog first.

Originally posted by Midnitte

I believe most of the problems affects the story, as your able to skip significant pieces of the story such as going directly to Rivet City to find info about your dad as opposed to actually going to Three Dog first.

This was part of it, yep.. you could actually skip 3 stages in the main quest by just wandering into Vault 112 and finding Dad without ever meeting Doctor Li, Three Dog or Moriarty.

The second dodgy part was the physics engine; NPCs can randomly fall to their deaths from high ledges; sometimes when you shoot a target they fly off as though tossed from an extremely powerful catapult, and some of the bits and bobs designed to show off the engine (the domino bit in the grocery shop) were unreliable and often didn't work.

Some of the dialogue and quest design was a pile of plop too.

Oh! I almost forgot the power-armour-wearing paladin NPC who would randomly steal things from the "secure" containers in your house.

So yeah, opinions differ as opinions are wont to do; but F3 was a disappointment for me.

Originally posted by TeflonEddie

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

Everyones making a deal with Microsoft for exclusive downloadable content because Microsoft are paying developers extra for it and sony is not. Developers arn't fanbois.......

Fact;

- The PS3 is harder to code for, costs more money to develop for and takes ALOT longer.
- The PS3 doesn't have the graphical power to look better then the 360 and the only reason Sony games can look soo good on their console is because they have a better first party who doesn't use Unreal Engine 3.

So what do you expect? The PS3 has the smallest install base and isn't worth putting the extra time in to developing for because they don't make the money back through sales. The 360 is much cheaper and sells far many more units than the PS3 because people are buying it and not the PS3.

So blame Sony for lying about the power of their console and blame Sony for not creating a console that is easy to develop for and blame Sony for having a $400 console thats far more expensive than anything else out there.

If this is the case, then Fallout 3 should have been a Microsoft exclusive. That would have annoyed me, (because I own a PS3 and hence, wouldn't be able to play it) but I'd have accepted it.

By releasing the game on the PS3 then announcing that they were going to add DLCs to convert it from the release version (an open-world with a restrictive level cap and linear terminating main quest) into an open-world with a non-restrictive level cap and open-ended main quest.

Except of course, for PS3 users who don't get DLCs.

One should also mention that the game contains significant game-affecting bugs (presumably on all formats). These are the reasons that I'm not voting Bethesda for GoTY. The game just doesn't deserve it.

And I'm very pleased that you're happy with your Xbox. I'm very happy with my PS3 too; if you want to have a console bashing war, I'm afraid you'll need to look elsewhere as I frankly couldn't give a monkeys what other people think about a console that I'm happy with.

Well I don't own a 360 as I only play PC and there were ALOT of things I didn't like about the game and it isn't my GOTY but what I'm syaing is the PS3 is the lackluster version because of the PS3. That said I don't see why they shipped a game with such a poor combat system and porly animated characters that crashed all the time on my PC.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid 

Well I don't own a 360 as I only play PC and there were ALOT of things I didn't like about the game and it isn't my GOTY but what I'm syaing is the PS3 is the lackluster version because of the PS3. That said I don't see why they shipped a game with such a poor combat system and porly animated characters that crashed all the time on my PC.

Well, as you'll see from my post above; many of the things I found unsatisfactory were issues with the game itself, not the platform. I can say that safely as I've seen complaints about the exact same topics from people playing on the PC and Xbox too.

and blame xbox 360 for making a console that gives red lights after every 4 months .i have changed my 5th xbox 360 and its giving me the same stupid red lights .so this tme i fixed it myself and sold it to another buyer for $100 .now i am feeling pretty happy that my headache with microsoft is over. i am now focussing on mmorpg on pc rather than xbox 360.

Hmm, tough call.  i had a lot of fun with GTA IV and Fallout 3, but neither of them was "revolutionary".  Left 4 Dead is still on my list of "really need to play", so I can't make a call there.

As far as I'm concerned though, there shouldn't be a single MMO even on that list.  I mean, come on.  You can be up for " Game of The Year" just for churning out some generic crap?

I dont see how AOC made that list considering how much of a failure it was, but Fallout 3 I voted for

Left 4 dead is pretty much the only good game on that list, in my opinion. Fallout was cool, for the graphics, but I didn't really like the content. Not happy with MMO's this year.

Nearly 10k votes, nearly legit for a Gallup poll.

I think Lotro: MoM should be on there too. Having a blast in Crysis Wars too which just went on free trial and imo should be on the list as well.