Spike Video Game Awards 2009 - Tonight @ 8 ET

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*update*

This happens at 8pm ET / 5pm PT tonight. You can watch on TV, or on Spike's website, and you get to pick your camera angle. Kinda cool.

http://www.spike.com/event/vga2009/page/live-camera

[linkspast]

I voted... Its nice not having to register for something I dont care too much about..

Also looking at the wii`s game of the year.. . Makes me sad.

[Thalzon]

Spike has never had any credibility as an authority of videogames.

Regardless, I gave a few votes. I feel like such a tool.

[Bahamut]

Some of those categories...best DLC, really?

[A Random Tiger]

It's SpikeTV, so I wouldn't surprised if Halo 3 and MW2 won every award, even the categories they're not in.

[Gollgagh]

i am offended that they dont have my favorite games up for best game!!!!

[Scufo]

I went through like 8 categories before stopping because the only nominee I have played is l4d2.

[big giant circles]

It's SpikeTV, so I wouldn't surprised if Halo 3 and MW2 won every award, even the categories they're not in.

Well then vote

[The Derrit]

this would be a great thing if the same games weren't nominated for EVERY CATEGORY

at least 5 of the categories had 3 games from the "game of the year" category and then one other wildcard to appease people, and there are multiple categories that have the same 6 games scattered through them over and over. there is no variety to choose from.

at least they're letting people vote though

[Arcana]

Thing that annoyed me the most is that at least three of the games that were nominated came out two days ago and about a day before the awards were announced.

Left 4 Dead 2

Super Mario Bros. Wii

Assassins' Creed 2

You'd think there would be a cutoff point.

[Devyn]

This is kinda stupid. Most of the games I see here are just ultraviolent blood-and-gore games. But fuck it, I'm voting for whatever games I know.

Edit: Quit voting after third category. It's like these lists were made by 12-year-old X-Box fanboys.

[Sporknight]

This is kinda stupid. Most of the games I see here are just ultraviolent blood-and-gore games. But fuck it, I'm voting for whatever games I know.

Edit: Quit voting after third category. It's like these lists were made by 12-year-old X-Box fanboys.

Or by Spike TV? What do you expect?

Voted, regardless. Plugged L4D2 as much as possible, of course - not that it'll do much good against Call of Doody.

[Devyn]

That's cool if you want to vote, I just couldn't vote anymore because all they put on there were bloody games with guns. If that's your cup of tea, fine, but I think that they forgot 20 other genres of games.

[Ramaniscence]

Thing that annoyed me the most is that at least three of the games that were nominated came out two days ago and about a day before the awards were announced.

Left 4 Dead 2

Super Mario Bros. Wii

Assassins' Creed 2

You'd think there would be a cutoff point.

^ This. How can Left 4 Dead 2 already be the GAME OF THE YEAR, anyway?

[atmuh]

oh boy

[Vivi22]

Edit: Quit voting after third category. It's like these lists were made by 12-year-old X-Box fanboys.

I'd agree with this statement for the most part, though Dragon's Souls got nominated for best RPG. It may be deserving of it, but I really didn't see it coming considering this is an awards show where 3 of the 4 nominees for best soundtrack are music games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc.

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FYI this is happening at 8:00pm EST tonight. You can watch it on Spike, or on their site, which is kinda cool.

http://www.spike.com/event/vga2009/page/live-camera

[EdgeCrusher]

I like how you guys are butthurt over this. Its spikeTV, since when have they mattered?

[big giant circles]

I like how you guys are butthurt over this. Its spikeTV, since when have they mattered?

Foreal. This is not SERIOUS BUSINESS. It's a show about some good games that came out this year, that's all. People find all kinds of crazy ways to take stuff so personally.

[The Damned]

So, is it still terribly cringe-inducing like all the previous years?

You know, like hearing your really old, out-of-date relatives talking about GameBoys and Ataris and that Maria Brothers game they played back in the 90s?

[zircon]

For people complaining about how the awards are primarily centered around the big Xbox games... who do you think the largest demographic for games is? Not us. We're niche gamers.

Also, supposedly some of my music was used for this, but I dunno where. Post if you hear it!

[Soul Splint]

Handheld Game of the Year = Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars?

Ummmmmmm.....No

But, as previously mentioned, this is Spike. I mainly watch for the World Premieres.

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For people complaining about how the awards are primarily centered around the big Xbox games... who do you think the largest demographic for games is? Not us. We're niche gamers.

Also, supposedly some of my music was used for this, but I dunno where. Post if you hear it!

I can't say I heard it, but I wasn't paying attention either. That's awesome man, where did you hear your stuff was in here?

But, as previously mentioned, this is Spike. I mainly watch for the World Premieres.

That's the spirit.

[The Coop]

Did Thunder Force IV win anything?

[Thalzon]

Did Thunder Force IV win anything?

It won in the "Best Game Only The Coop Cares About" category.