Man, I can't wait at all. I'm super-excited. It helps that their actual GOTY episode is probably going to come out the day or day after I record my own with Nerf'd. Unlike Skyrim vs. Saints Row, which was less philosophical and more drag-down and roughhouse, Minerva's Den vs. Shadow Broker was a legitimate treat. I loooooved MD v. SB. And I haven't played MD, but Shadow Broker was a near-essential part of my very Liara-focused Mass Effect experience, so it's hard for me to imagine liking Minerva's Den more. But, again, the argument was so good, all the same.
But, I'm missing something. Why is everybody suddenly convinced that Jeff hates The Walking Dead? I haven't gotten that vibe at all. From everything I've heard, he just hadn't played it as of a couple weeks ago. To be fair, that usually does mean it won't get GOTY support from him, and he likes a couple of the nominees quite a bit, but I've gotten no vibe that Jeff is definitively against The Walking Dead.
I agree that the '09 deliberations were probably the strongest. Though I think the better game lost out (Uncharted 2's back 9 chapters are pretty weak, IMO) it was still a fantastic conversation that didn't involve nearly as much constructed rhetoric. I really liked MGS4 vs. GTAIV as well, though, and the Russian Roulette style from last year's show was so good we're stealing it for Nerf'd.
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