GOTY 2009: GET HYPE!
By lordofultima 16 Comments
Since my Game of the Year awards were so gigantic last year, there was no way I could replicate it. So I did what any good person would do, and just half-assed the ones for 2009. Still took a pretty long time to put together, but it had nothing to do with the games or awards themself. I would have liked to do a gigantic feature like last time, but you see -- nothing came out in 2009, and what did I most likely didn't play. So we have a little predicament. Anyway, on with the awards!
These games captured the heart and soul of gamers around the world, all the while I breathed disingenuously. They're good, but not good enough to make up some dumb award category just so they can win. Call these honorable mentions I suppose.
Assassin's Creed II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Torchlight
The pickin's were pretty slim for soundtrack of the year in 2009, but one downloadable title surfaced and clearly stole the show. It's a good thing this game came out this year, otherwise this category wouldn't exist either. I don't actually say who won this in the video, but it is implied.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
There is one game I spent a particularly long amount of time with this year, but the problem was that it came out in 2008. Make one of these forgiving award titles however, and the problem is solved!
Dead Space
This award celebrates a lack-luster disappointment of a game that while wasn't necessisarily bad, it could definitely be classified as "poopy."
Resident Evil 5
Awards the best Street Fight of the year, a.k.a. this year's version of game of the year. There really was no deliberation here, and all of the people reading this now probably have already made assumptions on what I've chosen for game of the year. Well, just letting you guys know, you're all right.
Street Fighter IV
Hey look, SFIV won game of the year! Get hype!
I guess 2009 wasn't THAT bad of a year, but it just wasn't the nuclear catastrophe of video games that 2008 was. I don't feel so bummed about it now that I think for a while, since I was mostly playing SFIV for the majority of the year anyway. Sorry that some games aren't on here at all, I simply didn't play them at all and have no real opinion of them (Uncharted and Borderlands come to mind). Maybe I'll check those out in the future, maybe one of them can be my 2010 game of 2009. YOU NEVER KNOW. Until next year though, this is loltima signing out.
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