Quick note about the formatting here: There are no spoilers, I'm just using the spoiler dealies to keep this thing from being insanely long, because it was really long even without seven lines of nominees. Also, a couple only have one nominee, and aside from one specific award, these are based solely on games that I have actually played, so I can almost guarantee that there will be some game you enjoyed that I did not play. And I put the nominees in alphabetical order.
Anyway, here's the nominees:
Abe Lincoln Award for Best Use of Facial Hair
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Deadly Premonition
Fable III
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Red Dead Redemption
"Don't Always Count Out the New Guy" Award for Best New Protagonist.
Gabriel Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)
Norman Jayden (Heavy Rain)
Sam Gideon (Vanquish)
Special Agent Francis York Morgan (Deadly Premonition)
War (Darksiders)
Mel Blanc Award for Best Voice Actor
David Hayter - Snake (MGS: Peace Walker)
Gary Oldman - Reznov (CoD: Black Ops)
Jeff Kramer - Agent York (Deadly Premonition)
Mark Meer - Commander Shepard (Mass Effect 2)*
Patrick Stewart - Zobek (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
Rob Wiethoff - John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)
Roger Craig Smith - Ezio (Assassin's Creed Brotherhood)
Stephen Fry - Reaver (Fable III)
*Now, I know someone is going to read that and cry, "Why him instead of Jennifer Hale?" My answer is that I only ever played the game as male Shepard, and that I like my Shepard to be Canadian, like
another space-faring legend. "You, the Master of Unlocking," Award for Best Overall Voice Acting.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
BioShock 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Deadly Premonition
Fable III
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Red Dead Redemption
Multimedia Celebrity Poker Award for Best "Celebrity" Cast.
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Gary Oldman, Ice Cube, Ed Harris, Sam Worthington)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Patrick Stewart, Robert Carlyle)
Fable III (John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, etc.)
Fallout: New Vegas (Matthew Perry, Wayne Newton, Ron Perlman, Danny Trejo, etc.)
Mass Effect 2 (Keith David, Claudia Black, Seth Green, Carria-Anne Moss, Martin Sheen, Adam Baldwin, etc.)
"Cool, Whatever You Say, Slick" Award for Best Supporting Character.
Boone (Fallout: New Vegas)
Garrus (Mass Effect 2)
Homer (which is what I named my Fable III dog)
Miller (MGS: Peace Walker)
Reznov (CoD: Black Ops)
Zach (Deadly Premonition)
Leslie Nielsen Award for Funniest Game.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Deadly Premonition
Fable III
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Red Dead Redemption
"In Soviet Russia, Award Wins You!" Award for Best Use of Russian Bad Guys. Call of Duty: Black Ops
Metal Gear Solid: Black Ops
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Vanquish
"I Just Beat that Guy and...OH CRAP A SECOND FORM!" Award for Best Bosses. 3D Dot Game Heroes
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Darksiders
God of War III
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Errol Flynn Award for Best Swashbuckler/Slash'em'up.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
God of War III
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Henry Jones Jr. Award for Best Action-Adventure Game.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Darksiders
Red Dead Redemption
Never Not Shooting Award for Best Shooter.
BioShock 2
Call of Duty Black Ops
Vanquish
Nosferatu Award for Best Survivor Horror Game.
Only one nomination. Not gonna spoil it here.
Bob Goddard Award for Best Regular-Ass RPG.
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2
Bob Goddard Award for Best Irregular-Ass RPG.
Deadly Premonition
Fable III
MGS: Peace Walker
"They'll Never Check the Cardboard Box" Award for Best Stealth Game.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
MGS: Peace Walker
Michael Bay Award for Most Ridiculous Game.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
God of War III
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Split/Second
Vanquish
Rob Zombie Award for Best Use of Gore.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Fallout: New Vegas
God of War III
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
"Hey, What's that Over in the Opposite Direction of the Main Story?" Award for Best Open World.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Deadly Premonition
Fallout: New Vegas
Red Dead Redemption
"I Have No Real Friends" Award for Best Multiplayer.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Red Dead Redemption
1.21 Gigawatts Award for Best Game From the Past that I Played (for the first time) this Year.
Grand Theft Auto: ChinaTown Wars
Killzone 2
Resistance Retribution
PixelJunk Shooter
"OO! Pretty..." Award for Best Graphics Technology (console).
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
God of War III
Heavy Rain
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
Vanquish
"OO! Pretty..." Award for Best Graphics Technology (handheld).
Only one nominee! So sad!
Campbell's Soup Award for Best Artistic Design.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
God of War III
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
"I Love Cutscenes!" Award for Best Story.
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Deadly Premonition
Fable III
Fallout: New Vegas
Heavy Rain
Mass Effect 2
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Red Dead Redemption
Beethoven Award for Best Music.
3D Dot Game Heroes
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Deadly Premonition
God of War III
Heavy Rain
Red Dead Redemption
"The Publisher Executives Love You." Award for Best Overall DLC.
Borderlands
Mass Effect 2
Red Dead Redemption
"Where's My Credit Card?" Award for Best Individual DLC.
Secret Armory of General Knoxx (Borderlands)
Undead Nightmare (Red Dead Redemption)
"If Only I had More Money..." Award for Game I Wish I Played Most (but didn't).
Battlefield Bad Company 2
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Just Cause 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Best of the Best of the Best Wii Exclusive Game
Only one nominee! Sorry that I only played one Wii game this year.
Best of the Best of the Best PSP Exclusive Game
Again, only one nominee. Sorry!
Best of the Best of the Best PS3 Exclusive Game
3D Dot Game Heroes
God of War III
Heavy Rain
Best of the Best of the Best 360 Exclusive Game
Deadly Premonition 2
Fable III
Mass Effect 2
Best of the Best of the Best Multiplatform Game
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
BioShock 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Darksiders
Fallout: New Vegas
Red Dead Redemption
Vanquish
And Game of the Year! Every game I played is up for this. All of them. not going to post any nominees. Also, disclaimer, the game that wins this doesn't necessarily need to have won for its respective Best of the Best of the Best category. Why? Because I'm crazy!
Anyway, I'm going to put up the winners for most of the awards on the 31st, and the winner for Game of the Year on the 1st of next year.
And if there's any formatting problems, please tell me. This is really long, and there could be tons of errors.
