Best Games 2004: The Poll

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

feel free to vote.

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Closing on thread starter's request.

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

So I guess this stays open

[theavonlady 2]

How come OFP isn't in the list.

Another Albert Schweizer polling failure!

[kegetys 2]

The only games I really liked were Richard Burns Rally, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Gish. Only RBR is on the list so it got my vote...

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

How come OFP isn't in the list.

Another Albert Schweizer polling failure!

Shut up and vote!  

Quote[/b] ]The only games I really liked were Richard Burns Rally, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Gish. Only RBR is on the list so it got my vote...

You had the chance yesterday to say that Vampire should be in the list.. you cant complain now!

[hardrock 1]

The only games I bought last year were LOMAC, Civ3 Deluxe Edition and American Conquest, and none of them was released in 2004

No vote from me.

[shadow 6]

hmmm not much to choose from. On the other hand not many great games was released last year either.

Riddick has character, the voices are unmatched and the story is full of mysteries and excitement.

On the other hand Far Cry has real guns, more freedom and not so much sci-fi in it.

The one-trick pony is on the list (HL2) but Doom3 is not? You deserve some bitch-slapping for that, Albert

Atleast Doom3 has atmosphere.

Far Cry it is then.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Shadow.. you all had time enough during the last 3 days to say which games deserve to be in that list. I deleted Doom3 by request from a forum member!  

[Postduifje 0]

I'll go with farcry. Most of the other games I've never played so my choice is based on very limited observations, but so be it.

[-33ker 0]

The only games I really liked were Richard Burns Rally, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Gish. Only RBR is on the list so it got my vote...

Wasn't Vampire much older than 2004?

I voted Half Life 2 Because I didn't play the others...

[iNeo 0]

Is it normal to not have played a single one of those games?

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Is it normal to not have played a single one of those games?  

well it wasnt a good year but on the other hand it wasnt soooo bad either.. would at least been worth to try the demo of one or the other!

[Gadger 0]

Well Rome get's my vote. New patch next week should also be fixing all those little niggles, and the mod community is second only to OFP's.

[maximilien 0]

Game industry awards .... All is hype :

(**) is the winner...

source :

"http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/01/news_6117727.html"

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"Half-Life 2 named Game of the Year at D.I.C.E. awards

Halo 2 guns down four awards; San Andreas, Katamari, Fable, among a pack picking up two awards each; World of Warcraft named best MMO title.

LAS VEGAS--The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) handed out awards during the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards tonight in Las Vegas. About four hundred attendees watched as Valve founder Gabe Newell accepted nine awards, including First Person Action Game of the Year, the Innovation in Computer Gaming award, and ultimately, Game of the Year.

The only category Half-Life 2 was nominated in but failed to win was in the Outstanding Achievement in Game Design category, which went to Katamari Damacy.

While Halo 2 was the night's second biggest winner, nabbing four awards, it could only muster awards in categories Half-Life 2 was not nominated for.

Trip Hawkins accepted his Hall of Fame award midway through the ceremony. Hawkins thanked the Academy and attendees saying, "it was a dream of mine to turn games into an art form."

The festivities this year were a far cry from the raucous, noisy, smoke-filled, and open-bar-graced event of last year. One of the few spikes in energy this year was the passionate acceptance speech which followed the naming of ESPN NFL 2K5 as Sports Simulation game of the Year. "I think we did all we could do to fight a big contender," the Sega rep accepting the award said as attendees cheered.

Possibly the one other highlight of the night was the ten minutes Spider-Man creator and comic books legend Stan Lee spent on stage. Arriving at the microphone--and addressing the audience with his signature greeting: "hello culture lovers"--Lee settled down and played the straight man. He announced a number of awards, deftly navigating the many disparate names of game titles, developers, and publishers. At 82, Lee's act was polished, refined--he reeled the audience in easliy with a quick-witted repetoire of wisecracks and one-liners.

The awards ceremony spanned about three hours in total. Category winners are noted with asterisks below.

Game of the Year Awards

Game of the Year

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar North)

** Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

Katamari Damacy (Namco/Namco Limited)

World of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal Games/Blizzard)

Console Game of the Year

Burnout 3 (Electronic Arts/Criterion)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar North)

**Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

Katamari Damacy (Namco/Namco Limited)

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

Computer Game of the Year

City of Heroes (NCsoft/Cryptic Studios)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

World of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal Games/Blizzard)

Sid Meier's Pirates! (Atari/Firaxis Games)

Innovation Awards

Innovation in Computer Gaming

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

City of Heroes (NCsoft/Cryptic Studios)

Rome: Total War (Activision/Creative Assembly)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts/Maxis)

Innovation in Console Gaming

Fable (Microsoft/Big Blue Box)

Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

Donkey Konga (Nintendo/Namco)

EyeToy: AntiGrav (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Harmonix)

**Katamari Damacy (Namco Hometek Inc./Namco Limited)

Craft Awards

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo/Retro Studios)

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)

Sly Cooper 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Sucker Punch)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)

Sly Cooper 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Sucker Punch)

Jak 3 (Sony/Naughty Dog)

Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Outstanding Character Performance--Male

**Robert Guillaume, Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

The Bard's Tale (InXile Entertainment/Inxile Entertainment)

Metal Gear Solid 3 (Konami/KCEJ)

Demon Stone (Atari/Stormfront Studios)

The Chronicles of Riddick (Vivendi Universal Games/Starbreeze)

Outstanding Character Performance--Female

Demon Stone (Atari/Stormfront Studios)

**Judi Dench, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Electronic Arts/EA/LA)

Zoo Tycoon 2 (Microsoft/Blue Fang Games)

Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack

Need For Speed Underground 2 (Electronic Arts/EA Canada)

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Activision/Neversoft)

Donkey Konga (Nintendo/Namco)

**Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games/Rockstar North)

Outstanding Achievement in Original Musical Composition

Rome: Total War (Activision/Creative Assembly)

NBA Ballers (Midway/Midway Chicago)

Katamari Damacy (Namco/Namco Limited)

Killzone (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Guerilla)

**Fable (Microsoft/Big Blue Box)

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design

Rome: Total War (Activision/Creative Assembly)

**Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

Sly Cooper 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Sucker Punch)

Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering

Donkey Konga (Nintendo/Namco)

Spider-Man 2 (Activision/Treyarch)

EyeToy: AntiGrav (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Harmonix)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Fable (Microsoft/Big Blue Box)

Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay

**Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

Rome: Total War (Activision/Creative Assembly)

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Atari/Epic Games)

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (THQ/Relic)

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

Metroid Prime: Echoes (Nintendo/Retro Studios)

Demon Stone (Atari/Stormfront Studios)

Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

Fable (Microsoft/Big Blue Box)

City of Heroes (NCsoft/Cryptic Studios)

**Katamari Damacy (Namco Hometek Inc./Namco Limited)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games/Rockstar North)

Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games/Rockstar North)

Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Demon Stone (Atari/Stormfront Studios)

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Midway/Midway)

**Fable (Microsoft/Big Blue Box)

Genre Awards

Console

Platform Action/Adventure Game of the Year

**Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)

Rachet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Insomniac Games)

Jak 3 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Naughty Dog)

Action/Adventure Game of the Year

**Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar Games/Rockstar North)

Pikmin 2 (Nintendo/Nintendo)

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Midway/Midway)

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Shanghai, Paris, Annecy Studios)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Konami/KCEJ)

Action Sports Game of the Year

NFL Street 2 (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts Tiburon)

**Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (Activision/Neversoft)

NBA Ballers (Midway/Midway Chicago)

Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo/Camelot)

First-Person Action Game of the Year

**Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts LA)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo/Tetro Studios)

The Chronicles of Riddick (Vivendi Universal Games/Starbreeze)

Children's Title of the Year

Shrek 2 (Activision/Luxoflux)

Backyard Baseball 2005 (Atari/Humongous Entertainment)

Mario Party 6 (Nintendo/Hudson Soft)

Pokemon Colosseum (Nintendo/Genius Sonority)

**Sly Cooper 2 (Sony Computer Entertainment America/Sucker Punch)

Fighting Game of the Year

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts, Canada)

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (Atari/Dimps Corporation)

**Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway/Midway Chicago)

Racing Game of the Year

**Burnout 3 (Electronic Arts/Criterion)

Rallisport Challenge 2 (Microsoft/Digital Illusions)

Role-Playing Game of the Year

X-Men Legends (Activision/Raven Software)

The Bard's Tale (InXile Entertainment/InXile Entertainment)

**Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo/Intelligent Systems)

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Nintendo/Square Enix)

Tales of Symphonia (Namco Hometek Inc./Namco Limited)

Sports Simulation Game of the Year

Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts/Tiburon)

ESPN NHL 2K5 (Sega/Kush Games)

**ESPN NFL 2K5 (Sega/Visual Concepts)

Winning Eleven 7 (Konami/Konami)

Wireless & Handheld

Wireless Game of the Year

Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen (Nintendo/Creatures, Inc/GAMEFREAK)

**Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo)

Handheld Game of the Year

**Metroid: Zero Mission (Nintendo)

Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo)

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Square Enix)

Computer

Action/Adventure Game of the Year

Myst IV Revelation (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Montreal)

Full Spectrum Warrior (THQ/Pandemic Studios)

The Suffering (Midway/Surreal Software)

**Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Ubisoft/Ubisoft Shanghai, Paris, Annecy Studios)

Children's Game of the Year

**Backyard Skateboarding (Atari/Humongous Entertainment)

Downloadable Game of the Year

Mahjong Garden to Go (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts-Pogo)

**The Incredibles: Escape from Nomanisan Island (Disney Online)

Shroomz--Quest for Puppy (Game Trust, Inc./the Planet)

Diner Dash (PlayFirst/gameLab)

Family Game of the Year

Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban (Electronic Arts/AMAZE/Know Wonder)

Scrabble Online (Atari/Boston Animation)

Zoo Tycoon 2 (Microsoft/Blue Fang Games)

First-Person Action Game of the Year

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts, LA)

Doom 3 (Activision/id Software)

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (NovaLogic/NovaLogic, Inc.)

**Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games/Valve)

Unreal Tournament 2004 (Atari/Epic Games)

Role-Playing Game of the Year

**Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (BioWare/BioWare)

Vampires: Bloodline (Activision/Troika)

Simulation Game of the Year

**The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts/Maxis)

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (Atari/Frontier Developments)

Pacific Fighters (Ubisoft/1C)

Sports Game of the Year

**Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts, Redwood Shores)

Strategy Game of the Year

The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth (Electronic Arts, LA)

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (THQ/Relic)

**Rome: Total War (Activision/Creative Assembly)

Online

Massive Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year

**World of Warcraft (Vivendi Universal Games/Blizzard)

City of Heroes (NCsoft/Cryptic Studios)

Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (Sony Online/LucasArts)

Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia (Square Enix, Inc./Square Enix Co. Ltd.)"

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

This list sais as much about quality as the Oscar! Nothing!

[Showtek 0]

Pro Evolution Soccer 4

[llauma 0]

This list sais as much about quality as the Oscar! Nothing!  

I agree.. It feels more like a opportunity for the big boys to give each other some awards. Far Cry wasn't even nominated and still it propably beats Doom3 and HL2. But I guess crytek needs to wait for their next release to be invited to the party. No damn rookies plz especially if they compete with the most hyped games

[Blake 0]

All roads lead to Rome

[bmgarcangel 0]

i'm back, after months i'm stoppin in to see you all at your work again...

Ok guys, i'd have to say Halflife 2, if you don't know why i say this, i suggest you get it..overall the game is by the far the best game i've ever played, its just...amazing...

oh Yeah, you forgot MEN OF VALOR...which was also an excellent game...not to mention Tony Hawk Underground 2 and Need for speed Underground 2 which is probably the game i play the absolute most, and i don't play games alot...

ttyl

brendo

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

This list sais as much about quality as the Oscar! Nothing!  

I agree.. It feels more like a opportunity for the big boys to give each other some awards. Far Cry wasn't even nominated and still it propably beats Doom3 and HL2. But I guess crytek needs to wait for their next release to be invited to the party. No damn rookies plz especially if they compete with the most hyped games

let me guess, you went for RBR!

[shadow 6]

Ok guys, i'd have to say Halflife 2, if you don't know why i say this, i suggest you get it..

I have the game and I still don't understand.  

Quote[/b] ]overall the game is by the far the best game i've ever played, its just...amazing...

I guess some are easier to please than others  

I started playing it for a second time a week ago. I played untill I met up with Alyx in that lab. Looked at her cute face for a couple of seconds, then quit the game out of boredom

[Acecombat 0]

You Pervert

Playing HL2 just to look at Alyx , and then you say the game isnt good enough

[billybob2002 0]

Quote[/b] ]First-Person Action Game of the Year

**Halo 2 (Microsoft/Bungie)

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Electronic Arts/Electronic Arts LA)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo/Tetro Studios)

The Chronicles of Riddick (Vivendi Universal Games/Starbreeze)

Heads would of been rolling if GoldenEye won. Men of Valor was hell of a lot better than that sub-par game. Anyway, Riddick got my vote...

[GoOB 0]

It was between Pirates! and Rome:Total War for me.

R:TW came out on top in the end, if the original Pirates! was in the poll, my vote had been different though!

EDIT: Oh, and Half-Life2 was fun. For a while, I'd love to see the engine put to more proper use though!