IGN's GOTY Revealed! - Congratulations Fallout 3!

rucky - 335 days 21 hours ago

Hmmmm i'm kinda wondering if IGN's just playing it safe now for the fanboys...

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Bubble Buddy - 335 days 20 hours ago

Rucky: You might have a point there. Can believe 08 by so fast.

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Silellak - 335 days 20 hours ago

Well, one big thing to consider:

Reviews are done by one or two people at most, GOTY is chosen by the entire staff. There are likely people on staff who do not believe GTA 4 or MGS4 are a worth a perfect 10, while Fallout 3 is.

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blind-reaper - 335 days 20 hours ago

Well It is a better choice than GTAIV...

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Homicide - 335 days 20 hours ago

yes....Yes.....YES!!!! Congrats Fallout 3. Finally some justice is served.

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BulletToothtony - 335 days 19 hours ago

Yes fallout3 was entertaining but it wasn't near as enjoyable as mgs4... Everything in mgs4 was incredible.. best experience in a video game i've ever had..

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DA_SHREDDER - 335 days 19 hours ago

Fallout 3 is my personal goty, Cod5 is second, and motorstorm 2 is my third.

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callahan09 - 335 days 18 hours ago

They're DEFINITELY playing it safe for the fanboys.

Same reason they gave Resistance 2 and Gears of War 2 the exact same score.

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Elven6 - 335 days 18 hours ago

Fallout 3 was good but for a RPG it wasn't very deep and in many cases (such as the subways) suffered from ME Syndrome. I preferred Fable II over Fallout 3.

In the grand scheme of things I would have thought GTA IV, MGS4, COD: WAW, etc would be better contenders then Fallout 3, even the biggest Fallout fan can't deny the issues that plague the game.

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TheExecutive - 335 days 17 hours ago

I spent more time in fallout than any game this year. Its an awesome RPG and deserves a GOTY award. Of course there was always MGS, Fable 2, and LBP to consider. However, my runner up is MGS. The cutscene in act 3 was the OMG of the year. The game was brilliant for what it did, absolutely brilliant. Fallout 3 had the depth the fun and the atmosphere to pull it off though. In any case Fallout 3 was an excellent game.

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theEnemy - 335 days 16 hours ago

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red5ive - 335 days 15 hours ago

On IGN's "Best Of" List, XBox's game of the year was Fallout 3... PS3's game of the year was MGS4 that beat out Fallout 3 on the list... How does Fallout 3 beat MGS4 in Overall then? This doesn't make sense! IGN has got to elaborate.

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Jenzo - 335 days 13 hours ago

I thought MGS4 was competing for the Oscars...

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Alvadr - 335 days 11 hours ago

Fallout 3 is a fantastic game, but I dont think it should have really got GOTY. Its got a really short main quest like, I was so disappointed when I finnished it. Also the lvl cap is way to easily reached. I also would have liked to have seen more towns like megaton, rather than just settlements with people living in abandond houses.

However Im still playing the game for all the sidequests and trophies.

GTAIV is my GOTY.

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Jamegohanssj5 - 335 days 9 hours ago

Has any one noticed the game of the year tends to get crappier and crappier?

Halo: Combat Evolved(Against GTA III? Yeah right)
Battlefield 1942(Against Vice City? Yeah Right)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic(WTF?)
Half-Life 2(It seems as if they were smoking a pipe)
God of War(Honestly, what else came out in 2005?)
Okami(Don't make me laugh)
Super Mario Galaxy(What in the blue hell?)
Fallout 3(Against PS3 and 360 exclusives? I think not)

I believe this is the biggest piece of crap ever. IGN knows that it was either between MGS4 or GTA IV, but they were b!tching about it. Fallout 3 was one of the most half done games last year and it only got the score it did because it was by Bethesda. The graphics were crappy, the game play was crappy, the story was garbage. I would have rather had Wii Music receive game of the year than this garbage. I demand a recount because MGS4 or GTA IV should have won. Metal Gear Solid 4 was my game of the year just so you know. IGN kiss my ass.

TGSI

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smokeandapancake - 335 days 9 hours ago

I think people are "playing it safe" when they pick the normal MGS4 or GTA4. Fallout 3 lets me do what I want, when I want, and always kept me coming back for more (100+ hours). The main quest may be short, but if you play just that you're missing out on a lot.

Both the other "10s" I had to force myself to finish

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DaTruth - 335 days 7 hours ago

You're the first person I ever heard of who had to force them self to finish MGS4!
"Oh just reached SHADOW MOSES, meh (yawns),Well since I bought the game, might as well finish it". or how bout this; "Rail gun war with Gekkos, Raiden and Vamp fight, (yahns) how boring".
At what point in the game did you decide you didn't want to play it more?

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Diugu - 335 days 6 hours ago

I dont get it... Fallout didnt even win the PS3 GOTY yet they give it the overall. It just doesnt make any sense.

Anyways... I prefer MGS4 since it is my favorite game however Fallout 3 is also pretty good so congrats to it.

I am glad they didnt give it to GTAIV.

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shovelbum - 335 days 4 hours ago

Excellent choice IMO. It is the only game that I would play hours on end and then dream about playing it some more (literally). The game made me want to explore every corner of it and I dreaded finishing it. Now I am on my third character and still enjoy it as much as I did when I first experienced it. MGS4, Gears 2, R2, L4D, Dead Space, LBP among others were great fun but Fallout (tho far from perfect) won me over within minutes of pressing the start button.

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apena89 - 335 days 1 hour ago

sad to see people disagreeing to your personal GOTY choices.

But yes Motorstorm 2 was a very overlooked and underrated game, i think it's just that many people just aren't racing fans in general. But that game rocked! Might go and play it now, thanks. =]

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Silellak - 335 days 20 hours ago

I highly doubt it. How many hits do you really think IGN would lose if they chose an exclusive game? Maybe a couple of hundred annoyed fanboys at most?

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Pebz - 335 days 20 hours ago

The best way to get most hits would actually be to pick an exclusive.

This thread would then have been 1200 degrees and 500 comments, with fanboys from the "winning side" celebrating the utter destruction of the opposition (because remember that for a game to get goty, it has to be at least a thousand times better than all other games combined), and the losing side calling bias and payoffs.

A display of human brilliance like that never fails to generate silly amounts of hits.

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Jenzo - 335 days 9 hours ago

They should have picked Gears of War 2.

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Bob Dole - 335 days 3 hours ago

Bob Dole wonders why so many disagrees...

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Forbidden_Darkness - 335 days 20 hours ago

Thats a good question.

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panasonic23 - 335 days 20 hours ago

did resistance 2 when goty anywhere i not trying started a flame war but did resistance 2 win any awards.

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DavidMacDougall - 335 days 20 hours ago

No but MGS4 did and so did LBP

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IrishAssassin52 - 335 days 20 hours ago

I guess the better games are being left out...

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Bubbles - 335 days 20 hours ago

hey Panasonic did Panasonic win any tech awards dis year? Im not tryna be funny or nothin i just wanna kno how dey did against Samsung and Sony in tv's

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AclayPS3 - 335 days 20 hours ago

@panasonic23,

No, Resistance 2 didn't win any GOTY awards from anywhere.... but LittleBigPlanet sure did ;)

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Silellak - 335 days 20 hours ago

Nope, I don't think so. Closest it has come per Wikipedia is XBox 360 game of the year, which is not the same.

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red5ive - 335 days 15 hours ago

Bubbles for bubbles!!!

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DaTruth - 335 days 7 hours ago

"Has PS3 sold more consoles than either the 360 or the wii this gen"?
If we're going year for year than the answer is yes. PS3 sold more consoles in its first and second year than 360 did in its first and second year.

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Silellak - 335 days 20 hours ago

I can't speak for Resistance 2 or MGS4, but I enjoyed Fallout 3 a lot more than SSBB.

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EastCoastSB - 335 days 17 hours ago

That score was a review by one person, GOTY is chosen by the entire staff.

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samura - 335 days 20 hours ago

You are right.

EDIT: posted this here by MISTAKE.

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RebornSpy - 335 days 19 hours ago

then you either rushed through it or barely got anywhere at all. Therefore you have no right to judge it. I'm not saying that I would make the same choice, but you can't say their opinion is wrong if you haven't given all games in question an equal shot. How long did you spend on MGS4? I bet a lot longer than 4 hours.

My personal GotY is actually a tie between MGS4, Fallout 3, and GTA4.

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Bob Dole - 335 days 3 hours ago

MGS4's ending: EPIC.
Fallout 3's: WEAK SON!

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General Chase - 335 days ago

Well, Bob, if you want to compare certain aspects of the game, why not bring up that fact that acts III and IV of MGS4 were complete and utter crap. Lets see, lets walk around following this guy for a half an hour, then talk for and hour then have a craptacular boss battle. Then, while we are at it, lets go back to Shadow Moses and have no explanation as to why there are gekos and the tripod robots everywhere.
MGS4 boss battles were WEAK!!!

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Bob Dole - 334 days 22 hours ago

They were better than the "shoot the behemoth with a fatman" boss battles. Where's Frank Harrigan when you need him??? OH yeah he's dead cause he was the last boss in Fallout 2...

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General Chase - 334 days 13 hours ago

Good point, but I never used the fat man...takes the fun and the fairness outta the fights, but, yeah, the fatman is WAY too powerful...of course it shoots mini-nukes, so i suppose it makes sense. But I wont argue that MGS4 wasn't great, because it was superb, but once I got past Act 2 on my next play through, it just got boring unfortunately. It just doesn't have the replay value Fallout 3 has in my opinion.

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samura - 335 days 20 hours ago

I liked fallout, but we are talking the GOTY here.

Sorry but MGS4 was more than entertaining, it was inspiring.

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MGOelite - 335 days 21 hours ago

jesus if you was any further up your own ass you would be able to count the sweetcorn in your sh!t

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PirateThom - 335 days 20 hours ago

Meh, I'll get the DLC for PS3 when it's released a few months later.

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thereapersson - 335 days 19 hours ago

And I'll be getting it for the PC, which is the version that I have. Coincidentally, that's the most superior version out of all 3 versions of the game.

Oh, and STFU, Tiburon.

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tatotiburon - 335 days 19 hours ago

love to see droids tears

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Veneno - 335 days 18 hours ago

to give xbox 360 owners a false sense of security. WHY THE FVCK DIDN'T IT WIN BEST PS3 GAME OVER MGS4? Because IGN knows that 360 owners are self-delusional hopeless gamers. They are falling for IGN's dupe hook line and sinker. The evidence is right there in plain sight, that MGS 4 is IGN's game of the year, but 360 owners are so easily played like an instrument.

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likedamaster - 335 days 18 hours ago

""And I'll be getting it for the PC, which is the version that I have. Coincidentally, that's the most superior version out of all 3 versions of the game.""

Besides a higher res, you mean the version with the most crashes? Not really the most superior version. I have it I'm almost done getting all the PC achievements so I know, just look at my cheevos.

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thereapersson - 335 days 17 hours ago

Actually, it is the most superior version. Yes, it crashes often, but it also has the best graphics resolution, controls and it even has mod support that the console versions don't.

Also, you know what else you can do on the PC without DLC? Increase your level cap for extended play.

Anyway, none of this shocks me as much as the fact that Fallout 3 has one of the worst single-player endings of a modern video game -- not to mention the fact that the main quest is incredibly short and relatively linear in its objectives; that's a polarity in itself considering FO:3 prides itself in its open-world, go anywhere gameplay.

Anyone who disagrees with me obviously is either a) a narrow-minded moron who is easily placated, b) a fanboy who can't handle the truth, or c) hasn't beaten the game. If c) is the case, please do yourself a favor and draw out the game as LONG as you can. You'll enjoy yourself a lot more that way.

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Jason 360 - 335 days 15 hours ago

http://www.kleenex.com carefull, there arn't to many boxes left after all the crying you guys have done since NPD.

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likedamaster - 335 days 18 hours ago

Great game, most of all... fun! Thought I was the only one of a few that really enjoyed F2.

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SteveBallmer SonyRep - 335 days 20 hours ago

IGN picked a multiplatform game so little girls like you still look at their site to check if buffy the vampire slayer is getting another season. Keep your hopes up that letter you wrote will get read

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floppyfeet - 335 days 19 hours ago

)*( http://www.tradebit.com/fil...

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thereapersson - 335 days 17 hours ago

Actually, FloppyFeet, if you had any clue about what he was talking about at all, you would agree with him.

Fallout 3 was fun, but it sure had a lot of discrepancies between the previous games and itself. Bethesda is known to do this with a lot of games they produce, but because they cram a lot of stuff into a big, open world, most gamers forgive them because they're easily distracted.

I play and enjoy the titles they make, but that doesn't mean I like them as a company.

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floppyfeet - 335 days 19 hours ago

But i guess its what happens when you buy consoles based on how much irrelevent crap they can do

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DeathroW22 - 335 days 19 hours ago

I own a ps3 but i owned the 360 version (sold it, just couldn't get into it).

I don't get why owning a PS3 would stop me from buying it on the 360, though if i do buy it again, i'll be getting the PC version.

XBL: Death roW247
PSN: DeathroW22

Anyway, MGS4 is obviously my GoTY - infact my GoGY too (Game of the Generation)

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PirateThom - 335 days 19 hours ago

Or, you know, the PC version.

Seriously, if you're so concerned about playing the superior versions of games, get a PC and shut up about it.

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DeathroW22 - 335 days 19 hours ago

"(SORRY BUT FABLE 2 HAD A 5 HOURS STORY MODE)"

I'm on my 40th hour of playing now iirc.

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Firstkn1ghT - 335 days 18 hours ago

5 hours? You have just got this month's "el stupido award"

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Patchstation 3 - 335 days 18 hours ago

Didn't you get the memo? fallout 3 suck on the PS3. The only way you can enjoy it is on the PC/360.

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chinatown - 335 days 6 hours ago

Sorry this is the link to the source:

http://gotypicks.blogspot.c...

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