Dhruin
December 27th, 2007, 15:50
Rather than go around all the major sites, I'll collect a bunch of Best of/Game of the Year results here.
There's a remarkable similarity in the appearance of the subsites from the major three (especially stablemates IGN and GameSpy), so let's start there. IGN (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/) groups things by platform, so the PC RPG of the Year (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/pc/9.html) goes to The Witcher as does Best Original Score (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/pc/13.html). Bioshock is PC Game of the Year and wins a handful of other categories such as Best Story. Not surprisingly, Mass Effect lands best X360 RPG of the Year (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/xbox360/7.html).
Moving on to GameSpy (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/pc/), The Witcher comes in as the 10th best overall PC game (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/pc/2.html), and grabs the genre award. On the X360, Mass Effect makes it all the way to #5 (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/xbox360/7.html) and grabs the best RPG accolades. Bioshock is #2, by the way.
At GameSpot, they've taken a different approach, with reader voting on cross-platform genre awards and and then an Editor's Choice winner (http://au.gamespot.com/best-of/genreawards/index.html?page=10). In the reader stakes, The Witcher comfortably lead Mass Effect to grab first place (51% to 37%) with three JRPGs languishing at 7% and below, although something called Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 hits back by picking up the Editor's Choice (3% of the reader's vote, for comparison).
Finally for the moment, GameTunnel's (http://www.gametunnel.com/) (indie) RPG of the Year is due any time, so I'll update when that comes in.
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=7592)
There's a remarkable similarity in the appearance of the subsites from the major three (especially stablemates IGN and GameSpy), so let's start there. IGN (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/) groups things by platform, so the PC RPG of the Year (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/pc/9.html) goes to The Witcher as does Best Original Score (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/pc/13.html). Bioshock is PC Game of the Year and wins a handful of other categories such as Best Story. Not surprisingly, Mass Effect lands best X360 RPG of the Year (http://au.bestof.ign.com/2007/xbox360/7.html).
Moving on to GameSpy (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/pc/), The Witcher comes in as the 10th best overall PC game (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/pc/2.html), and grabs the genre award. On the X360, Mass Effect makes it all the way to #5 (http://goty.gamespy.com/2007/xbox360/7.html) and grabs the best RPG accolades. Bioshock is #2, by the way.
At GameSpot, they've taken a different approach, with reader voting on cross-platform genre awards and and then an Editor's Choice winner (http://au.gamespot.com/best-of/genreawards/index.html?page=10). In the reader stakes, The Witcher comfortably lead Mass Effect to grab first place (51% to 37%) with three JRPGs languishing at 7% and below, although something called Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 hits back by picking up the Editor's Choice (3% of the reader's vote, for comparison).
Finally for the moment, GameTunnel's (http://www.gametunnel.com/) (indie) RPG of the Year is due any time, so I'll update when that comes in.
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=7592)