Spike TV Awards Winners, Trailer Premieres

[Elysium]

Spike TV has listed the winners (http://www.spiketv.com/#/events/vga2006/) of the 2006 Video Game Awards.

Gears of War and Oblivion dominated the winnings, with Oblivion winning best game overall as well as best RPG, pushing out Gears of War.

They are also featuring some trailers (http://www.spiketv.com/events/vga2006/simulcast.html) of some upcoming games - the Burning Crusade intro cinematic and new footage of Bioshock and GRAW2. The trailers can also be found over at Gametrailers.com

[Abednigo]

Didn't they have this already?

[benig]

Oblivion was hardly game of the month when it came out, let alone game of the year.

[drakkarim]

spike tv awards are about as meaningful as mtv music awards. but i suppose its better then watching straight out commercials.

[Borthcollective]

Someone else not enamored with Oblivion, Woot!

[laggerific]

disgusting...if Oblivion is the best we can hope for from future RPGs I should just give up hope of ever playing anything as rich as Fallout or Planescape again.

Ironically, the next fallout anyone will play will most likely be Fallout 3: Oblivion...which disturbed me when I first heard it, and freaks me out still.

[Elysium]

There is no way IMO that Oblivion deserved GOTY, or even best RPG. The whole system of levelling absolutely killed the game for me. Yea you can argue that mods fixed this, but the very fact you need a mod to make a game playable is ridiculous.

I really wanted to like this game - I even bought the collector's edition - but sadly, the hours I poured into it were very unrewarding.

[Skampy]

I don't even own a PS2 now and I know that FFXtotehZ or zelda should have been RPG of the year and possibly even game of the year. GOW was great and does deserve to win awards I do agree with Spike now, but oblivion WTF!?

[laggerific]

There is no way IMO that Oblivion deserved GOTY, or even best RPG. The whole system of levelling absolutely killed the game for me. Yea you can argue that mods fixed this, but the very fact you need a mod to make a game playable is ridiculous.

I really wanted to like this game - I even bought the collector's edition - but sadly, the hours I poured into it were very unrewarding.


That was bad enough, but for me where Bethesda always drops the ball is in character interaction, which is why games like fallout and planescape (and NWN2 and similar) have always appealed to me...and their "influence" mini-game is a friggin' joke.

But seriously...half the fun is roaming around looking for dungeons with unique treasure...having them so generic is almost as bad as if they had them randomly created.

[zombiekiller13]

why is the Family Guy game nominated in several categories? the game is horrible.

oh, wait. it's the Spike TV video game awards.

carry on.

[Roc Ingersol]

Yeah... seriously every other damn category included: Godfather, Scarface, Sopranos, and/or the Family Guy Game
... are any of those even decent games?

The awards shown were largely jokes. (Vida Guerra for best female performance? Maybe best female art assets, but her performance was HS drama at best. way to reinforce some of gaming's worst stereotypes and mediocre production values around.)

This entire damn show was some of the most painful and embarassing TV in years. I set the tivo so I could get a better copy of the tBC trailer (gogo TivoToGo) - I got sucked in by the geek-appropriate casting (Sam Jackson? The D? Hiro?) and I just couldn't turn away from the train wreck.

The Industry needs to make its own award show, badly.
Do it right, do it reasonable and distribute the shit on the web.

[Poewan]

Wow, im suprised to see that so many people share my views on Oblivion!

[laggerific]

Wow, im suprised to see that so many people share my views on Oblivion!

I would like to think that people are sobering up about the game by now...it reminds me of when episode 1 came out...it put me to sleep, and was terrible to boot.

Yet for some reason I was the only one willing to just upfront say it was a terrible movie...I'll say it again, it was terrible!

I did the same thing with Oblivion in its time and people were vicious in their defense. I could understand the Fallout folks being so vicious to defend that game, because it has something to defend, but Oblivion was so generic it was terrible.

[Fartacus]

Wow, im suprised to see that so many people share my views on Oblivion!

But it's the Most Addictive Game Fueled by Mountain Dew...

[Klade]

I am actually rather shocked there is so much oblivion hate here. It wasn't that long ago that these forums were covered with oblivion fans. I never played the 360 version, but I heard it sucked. Personally I thought the PC version was great.

[Spigot]

The PC version of Oblivion is quite good, esp. once you mod the hell out of it to turn it into the game it should have been instead of the carbon copy of the 360 version.

I missed the awards (oh noes!) but I wonder if anyone actually watched them this year. I remember getting Kef to ask Geoff Koeghly of Spike's Gamehead show if they could make the awards actually relevant and not a mockery of the industry and gamers in general. At least the games that won this year seem to be a little more in line with reality than the previous winners in years gone by.

[Exodus]

yeah... let's be honest, spike tv isn't an award show for the truley hardcore. It's for the casual gamer mainstream. It's out dated, and the only people who actually go and bother voting are not core hardcore gamers, it's people who sit around watching tv all day who sometimes play video games, I mean come on, actually have a game awards show on tv is great for the introduction of games being recognized as an art etc. but it's hardly staying current. It's like buying a maxim magazine and expecting their review of <game name here> to be as up to par as gamespot/in-house evav review/gamefaqs review, if you were expecting that, you're sadly mistaken. The BC/Bioshock 2 trailers however are cool ;D

[Swiper]

OK. I'm going to have to disagree with most of the posters here. I love Oblivion.

Maybe it's because I'm fairly new to RPGs. I started with Fable (and thought it rocked). I then followed that up with KOTOR (and thought it rocked even harder).

Oblivion has consumed over 200 hours of my play time. Hell, I'm still playing it. I love the fact that I can play while my daughter watches, and she can have almost as much fun as I. In my mind, Oblivion is interactive story telling at its best.

Fallout, on the other hand, meh. I tried it years ago on the PC, and it turned me off RPGs for years.

[Nate Graves]

It's uh...Spike TV, kids.

Seriously. This is like hearing the games of the years as announced by Teen Vogue.

Who cares?

[Spigot]

It's uh...Spike TV, kids.

Seriously. This is like hearing the games of the years as announced by Teen Vogue.

Who cares?
The problem is that they're about the only real videogame award show on TV at the moment. There used to be Gphoria, but I don't think that's around anymore (and it's not like it was much better).

While we can understand that the Spike awards aren't really aimed at the hardcore audience, it would be nice if there was an award show that had merit and was aimed at people like us...

[Sandman]

I actually thought that the Spike TV awards were closer to their targeted audience this year. It wasn't a total trainwreck like any of the previous shows. They should ask Samuel L. Jackson to host every year I think. Some of their skits actually worked this time and some of their winners made since as opposed to handing it to the guy that shows up. There were many more misses than hits this year (Sarah Silverman comes to mind) but at least it wasn't completly offensive to most of the hardcore. Did anyone else see that Afro Samurai trailer.....damn that shit looks hot....and Sam Jackson as the main character makes it even hotter.

[Roc Ingersol]

The real problem with Spike's awards, are that the Industry is supporting it. Heavily.
Hell, through the advertising, it looks to me like they're pretty much financing it.

And since there aren't any other awards out there that get anywhere near the support, that pretty much makes it the official awards show.

And as an official awards show - it's an embarrassment.

[laggerific]

OK. I'm going to have to disagree with most of the posters here. I love Oblivion.

Maybe it's because I'm fairly new to RPGs. I started with Fable (and thought it rocked). I then followed that up with KOTOR (and thought it rocked even harder).

Oblivion has consumed over 200 hours of my play time. Hell, I'm still playing it. I love the fact that I can play while my daughter watches, and she can have almost as much fun as I. In my mind, Oblivion is interactive story telling at its best.

Fallout, on the other hand, meh. I tried it years ago on the PC, and it turned me off RPGs for years.

I guess it really depends on what you are looking for in an RPG...KOTOR is one of the better...but for me, I want a game that feels like my character is actually a part of that world...Oblivion didn't so much. Fallout 2 was my first fallout, and it was phenomenal in that respect...but that isn't Bethesda's forte.

The way they used the SPECIAL system was fantastic! The stats of your character really affected how you interacted with the world. Oblivion just felt like a glorified single player MMORPG with generic characters and such.

[Schnoogs]

Yet for some reason I was the only one willing to just upfront say it was a terrible movie...I'll say it again, it was terrible!

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[Shifteh]

Oblivion won best game? Wow, that's... sad.

I agree with the Teen Vogue comment, hah.