Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) This year's gaming nominations!

Post your gaming nominations for this year. You may nominate any game for any category.
Example:
- Nominate Half Life 2 for FPS of the year.
- Nominate Need For Speed Underground 2 for the sorriest piece of software of the year.
(Note: all above nominations are only examples).

I nominate Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for Strategy Game of the Year for it's originality, tactics over mass-production, great combat, realistic depiction of war and minimalist budget.
I nominate FarCry for Action Game of the Year for it being the first project of a fresh-new company (basically a bunch of German people kicked the asses of all major american studios), for coding the engine from scratch (AI, special effects and physics), for successfully blending stealth action and exploration.

After spending 2 hours playing the demo, I 2nd the nominaterythingy for Dawn of War.

i nominate Evil Genius for the coolest soundtrack of the year. jazz, swing, smooth .... WOW! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Truu, janggut. Althought I liked FarCry's soundtrack, Evil Genius music stands from the crowd. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Sacred--best D2 replacement game
Thief (the latest one)--Most Unplayable on a Notebook
Blade and Sword--Most Promising Blend of Genres that Could Have Been Better
Progress Quest--Still the Most Addictive Game of All Time

I nominate Beyond Divinity for being the best game made by Larian this year.

W00t. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I nominate Evil Genius for the weirdest concept. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I nominate VTM: Bloodlines for the most accurate view of LA <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

err... no! for giving the best opportunities to roleplay... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I nominate Beyond Divinity for being MY favorite game of the year...
(hope i will avoid all polemics there...)

I nominate Sacred (SP campaign) for the most boring RPG (well i agree action/RPG) of the year (sorry for those who liked it... really no offenses intented...)

I nominate Kult: The Heretic Kingdom for the most promising (promises not so well held) action/RPG of the year... yep i was half deceived by this game even if it is not so bad...

Useful gaming program of the year:
Xfire

Basically like ICQ with built-in game broswers and you can chat to someone if he's playing a game or even if you both are playing different games. He will first have a small note, in game, notifying him of the conversation so he could either press the shortcut to answer or ignore it.

Coolest screenshot of the year: Dawn of War

You need 21+'' monitor to see all those animations in Dawn of War <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

I nominate Rome: Total War as the best strategy game of the Year and as the most exciting game of the year.

Agreed of Sacred being the most boring game of the year.

Perimeter - innovative idea of the year.

Evil Genius - music and remember those funny background animations (I'd love to have them as my screensaver together with music). expecially - Jumping monkeys (background for options) and scubageared dancers (background for save/load).


Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow - best sequel of the year.

Evil Genius in general reminded me of No one lives forever. Same kind of music etc, it looked bout the same etc <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I nominate Vampire - Bloodlines for "Buggy Game of the Year".
- Evil Genius for "Braindead AI of the year".
- Doom 3 for "Futile hypefest of the year".
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for "Best use of license".
- Sims 2 for "Oh no, not again!" award.
- Vampire - Bloodlines for "Best RPG of the Year".


If I recall correctly, NOLF was inspired by "The man from U.N.C.L.E.", as well as most 60's spy-media.
Evil Genius, on the other hand, was more focusing of beeing a light-hearted parody of James Bond. Maximillian is typically Goldfinger.

You can give another award to Bloodlines: The only RPG of the year <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (ok, Sacred is the second one)

Sacred
KotOR 2
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
World of Warcraft
Everquest 2
City of Heroes
Champions of Norrath
Fable
Xmen Legends
Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance 2
The Bard's tale
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
Beyond Divinity
Sudeki

Ohh yeah DATD, you could also include all mobile phone and table games. Let us stick to PC genre only, ok?

Yeah, I haven't included Kult, because I haven't heard much about it rather than release date.
I didn't include BD, because it is not known, not heard game here in Estonia. I hope I will get one from Finland one day.

So, with these two games out it is still Sacred and Vampires <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Sacred
KotOR 2 - You mean Sith Lords? Not released yet.
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
World of Warcraft - MMORPG
Everquest 2 - MMORPG
City of Heroes - MMORPG
Champions of Norrath - PS2
Fable XBOX - or you mean Wik and the Fable of Souls for PC? It is arcade.
Xmen Legends PS2
Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance 2 - XBOX
The Bard's tale - XBOX, PC version in 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age no PC release
Beyond Divinity
Sudeki XBOX

Why? It's This Year's Gaming Nominations, not This Year's PC Gaming Nominations. If not for FarCry, I'd nominate Psi-Ops for Action Game of the Year, for example.

KotOR 2 - Released on Xbox
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
World of Warcraft - Still an RPG, MMO or non MMO.
Everquest 2 - RPG
City of Heroes - RPG
Champions of Norrath - PS2
Fable - XBOX
X-men Legends - Xbox/PS2/Gamecube
Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance 2 - XBOX/PS2
The Bard's tale - XBOX,PS2
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age - I don't know anything about this game.
Beyond Divinity - Aren't you on a BD forum :P?
Sudeki - XBOX

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I thought we are in PC gamers community here, maybe I am mistaken. You forgot to include RPG of the year for Palm <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" />

I really think that RPG and MMORPG should be separated and being MMO makes RPG quite different. Ohh and please DATD don't go back to that old discussion on what is a RPG, and is MMORPG a RPG or is Warcraft3 a strategy-RPG <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" />

Mmm, am I? I thought I am now in Chat(Anything) section of Larian Studions forum <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" />

That's your answer to whether we are in an PC gaming community or not. Since we're in Chat(Anything) (and I carefully chose the location of this topic), I thought we could post ANY exceptional game, on any platforms. Hell, post Palm RPG of the Year if you wish <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.
I didn't not mean to insult you, Egin. Maybe you did take my posts personally but I have no wish to flame anyone, least it being you.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> (<--- Peace)

Oh, and about Warcraft 3, it's not RPG, it's not RTS, it's a piece of... misshaped Kafka Kebab.

Aah maybe you right. Me being PC only player, ignoring the very existence of any other platforms.



I know, I know DATD. And it is effect of written inet language, you should always carefully plan smilies or your text may start looking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> or <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" /> or <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> - never liked these smilies anyway <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Finally, If our discussion didn't get into russian slang then there is no harm in it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />


Ha, good categorization to everything misshaped. MMORPG could be a twoheaded flying chicken then.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> - peace,.. as it always was. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/xmassmiley.gif" alt="" />