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This year is a joke.
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| Michael Lubker |
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where are titles like Terraria, Dungeons of Dredmor, Cobalt, Universe Sandbox, Miner Wars, Eternal Silence, and Hawken?
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| John Mawhorter |
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How did Spelunky win when the game has been out for like 4 years? It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but is it eligible because of an XBLA release or some weird techinicality?
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| Wesley Baker |
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Theoretical game Fez wins every award ever for eighteenth year in a row. "Finally we have arrived" the IGF state, before adding, "[arrival TBD]"
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| Alexandre stroukoff |
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They're is so much hate for Fez & Phil Fish, Winning the IGF is great sure, but it's not winning that make you finish you're game, it's just a prize after all.
And each year it's like this : either the IGF is some sort of gran prize for big games (More like Oscars if you want) Or, it's given to little games needing some free marketing, but in the end all I can smell is a bunch of jealous people (Sorry for my english ;) ) |
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| Eric McQuiggan |
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Hey Indie Devs in this thread, trying to tear down FEZ and the IGF won't help make your games better.
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| Joe Wreschnig |
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I don't hate Fez. I think it's going to be a great game, and I'm going to buy it and probably play the crap out of it.
It's not jealously - the only horse I have in this race is wanting good games to play, which requires many developers to succeed, which in turn requires broad developer recognition. What other media industry awards can give the same work an award, 4-5 years apart? Since when can Oscars be given for films you can only see in the director's basement? Can one win a Pulitzer for an unpublished work? I'm not criticizing Fez, which probably will deserve plenty of awards... when it's out. |
| Dan Rosenthal |
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Apparently Phil figured out the words to say: "I just won the grand prize at IGF tonight. Suck my dick. Choke on it." followed by "I think it was a shameful, corrupt joke until I won it and made it legit. You're welcome."Yeah, somehow I don't think that Seamus would have been proud.
*Source: http://i.imgur.com/yTHS5.jpg |
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| Mike Griffin |
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Yes, well, emotions, attitude and conjecture aside -- FEZ is an excellent game.
It wouldn't be the first great game from an inflammatory and controversial game designer, nor was the game developed by one human being. |
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| Bob Stevens |
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Am I understanding correctly that an unreleased game won an award?
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| Pres N |
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Wow, sure is a bunch of whining in here about Fez. The game won the Visual Art award the year it was announced. It was never a finalist again until this year, where it took the grand prize just a month or two before its expected release. To hear you guys talk, it's won tons of awards every year, instead of disappearing for years because Fish wasn't happy with it.
Yeah, Fez won this year before it was released. Minecraft won last year while in perpetual beta, Monaco won the year before that prior to release, as did Blueberry Garden the year before that, Crayon Physics Deluxe in 08, Aquaria in 07... see the pattern? |
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| zed zeek |
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In defense of Fez, at least its not as bad as 'spore'
gamecriticawards Best of Show 2005: Spore (for PC and Mac) Best Original Game 2006: Spore (for PC) 2005: Spore (for PC) Best PC Game 2008: Spore 2007: Crysis 2006: Spore 2005: Spore Solution is easy, only judge released material do films/music etc awards judge upcoming films/albums? So why should videogames be treated differently But then again, Perhaps hitchcock can finally win a best directors academy award |
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| Duong Nguyen |
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Weren't there rules to the entries like can't enter 2x and your game has to be released? Oh i guess those go out the window when you got the "inside" connections.. Hahah. Only reason I'm even commenting is the whole Fez fiasco.. What a black eye for every indie to even be associated with that, this might go viral.
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| E McNeill |
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There are so many misconceptions here... this is absolutely ridiculous.
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| James Margaris |
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Seems like people are waking up to the fact that these awards highly suspect (to put it mildly). For the most part it's the same narrow slice of people awarding each other and scratching each other's backs. The fact that you have the same people winning for the same games (that have never been released!) years apart is just ridiculous.
And that's before you look at the the list of super judges and the incredible lack of diversity represented there. It's 70% guys with scarves and ironic hats. The whole affair appears intensely cliquish, where games that conform to a narrow sensibility and whose creators are friends with the judges, blog with them, hang out with them at events and websites and such take home the awards. I see a lot of high quality indie games but I see the same dozen or so names everywhere - handing out awards at IGF, winning awards at IGF, starring in movies and Gamespot videos, speaking at GDC, deciding who gets to speak at GDC...it really does appear that there are a small number of indie gatekeeper illuminati. And that's before you get into the dirt-digging stuff where judges don't even bother playing the games of unhyped entrants. |
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| David Phan |
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Why did this piece get taken off or de-listed from the news threads on the main page? I had to search for it to find it. I understand the IGF is part of Gamasutra's network of properties, but it looks suspect when something not in your favor gets de-listed like this imo.
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