2008 Video Game of My Year
Last year I declared Crackdown my game of the year. This year, I'm naming Call of Duty 4 as my most enjoyed game of 2008.
I spent so many hours with that game that it would be hard to figure how many hours I put into it the single player and online modes. Sadly, the game does that for me. I believe I was 6-8 days range in the online alone. It was an almost nightly ritual for months on end and I was obsessed with the gameplay.
The Video Game Awards gave Grand Theft Auto 4 the game of the year. Call of Duty officially came out in late 2007, about the same time this year that Call of Duty: World at War released. I don't think it's fair to keep games out of awards based on their release date but by tracking users playing it (because every game system supports that now), but it's standard practice where industries award themselves.
Gamers, of course, didn't get to vote. Like always. It's a shame. The Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii all support that type of user feedback. We vote for things, enter contests and create content to share on consoles on almost a regular occurrence now. Why not let the people vote?
Game companies should do it right though. Nintendo should serve up a Game of the Year channel on the Wii so you can drop your Mii on any game that you've played in your library, not just the 5 nominees that Nintendo chooses. Microsoft should replace one of those stupid advertising tiles on their dashboard with the same thing. And Sony should put up some voting booths in that barren wasteland of Home.
Hellz yea. I would have to agree with you on this one. It is just company oriented poll decided. Like what game sold the most, the average on-line time spent in game, thing such as this. I believe if nothing else, hold it like a tournament where gamers could log into a poll of 1 v 1 games and eventually the final 2 games will compete! FIGHT! Ahhhh so nerdy... so very nerdy...
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GameFAQs.com already has character battles where they pick so many video game characters for people to vote on. 150,000 people voted in the last round of Battle 7 this winter. So the framework is already there since GameFAQs is owned by CNET.
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I thought Call 4 came out in 2007.
ReplyDeleteIt did. But this is about what I liked playing all of 2007.
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