SWTOR wins MSNBC's Game of the Year

[Necrolepsy]

Portal 2 was the best game of 2011 by far...

[Paranoid Android]

I do not know how MSNBC or any other news/review/expert can name SWTOR game of year its only been out 2 weeks with early start. I hate when they same this game is great and maybe play it 4 hours total. I know deadlines and all that but at least give it 3-6 months maybe? See what the bugs are and if it really seperates itself from other MMO's. I playing it so far..its good but I would not make call it game of the year.

[sleekit]

If i want to quest without all the storytelling bullshit -- which sure, some people like, but me, i just space-skip over it all -- i'll roll another alt in WoW. I'm not saying SW:ToR should be of WoW quality just yet -- you can say it's boring, but you can't say it isn't good quality -- but it should at least have attempted to keep me interested.

did you ever stop to consider that if you want to "quest without all the storytelling bullshit" maybe you're not the target customer for the game ?

i mean Bioware are not really well known for their "questing without all the storytelling bullshit" games...

anyway OT: too early. in terms of possible market impact then its debatable that it could be the most game changing release of the year but ultimately that only affects market area and it is ofc unproven so no goty badge.

i'd have said Witcher 2 but they are too slow on the xbox release and so wont get the votes so my goty bet would be...Portal 2.

[JSStryker]

lol when will the huge QQ about swtor on this forum stop ?

Probably about the time people stop QQing about WOW on the WOW sections of these forums.

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Yet they wasnt GOTY , prob because they know themselves what a pile of fucking shite wow is.
Nice good to see swtor on top
Haters gonna hate.

LOL how ironic after your little rant about WOW

[SinR]

Terraria should get GOTY over Minecraft


since we're going on PERSONAL OPINIONS here

[DeliciousTears]

I wonder if George Lucas had to promise to stop molesting his old movies for this to happen.

And yes, to whomever said it earlier.. Hype train, choo choo.

[melodramocracy]

If i want to quest without all the storytelling bullshit -- which sure, some people like, but me, i just space-skip over it all -- i'll roll another alt in WoW. I'm not saying SW:ToR should be of WoW quality just yet -- you can say it's boring, but you can't say it isn't good quality -- but it should at least have attempted to keep me interested.

If you dislike questing, these games simply aren't for you. Skipping the meat and potatoes of an rpg, and then wondering why there's nothing to keep you interested, is kind of absurd. And despite what most folks think, even in WoW, the leveling experience comprises the bulk of the actual content.

[akaTheDude]

I think its a great game, and nice to see it is getting awards like this soo fast.

[sajin0084]

I think its a great game, and nice to see it is getting awards like this soo fast.

It's not an award, it's like winning a gold medal at the special olympics...

[Deleted]

It's not an award, it's like winning a gold medal at the special olympics...

What's wrong with handicapped people?

[sajin0084]

What's wrong with handicapped people?

Didn't say there is anything wrong with handicapped people, not at all. But winning a gold medal in the SO and winning one in the Olympics are 2 different things. If wow ever won the msnbc game of the year no one from the wow community would ever post it as a positive thing...

[Flaks]

I was in the beta for swtor right until release and I bought Skyrim the day after it came out. Skyrim's quality far exceeds swtor. To say that swor is a better game just hurts this "MSNBC's" credibility. Swtor needed a lot of work and in my opinion should not have been released as early as it has been.

I guess you must be from that .01% that didn't find any bugs while playing Skyrim... I personally wouldn't give MSNBC any credibility for rating video games but even then I'm hard pressed find how SWToR could POSSIBLY beat out so many of the other amazing titles that came out this year.

[Grithmir]

the first fully voiced MMO isn't innovating enough?
the first game with a group conversation system isn't innovation enough?

The dialogue wheel has been there since Mass Effect 1 (I think), what's the big deal about it being in MMO's? Companies with huge budgets can pull it off, simply because it requires alot of money to voice all the dialogue lines. And is it really something that belongs in an MMO? Remember that they'll have to re-hire all the original voice actors for every patch, something that will probably cost alot of money and time.

Group conversation is indeed something new, but is it enough to be awarded a GOTY title? We're talking about an MMO here, it's not just the leveling that counts.

Does PvP and endgame live up to those standards? People seem to treat this game as singleplayer, yet they forget that they've paid the 50 euro/$ for the game, plus the subscription.

As for me, my personal GOTY is probably Dead Space 2. It improved on the original game concept and added new original features. Didn't encounter any bugs either in my playthroughs. It was solid gameplay with nice visuals and good replayability. What more can you ask from a game?