re: Gaming Board Awards Improvement Discussion: Award Nominations! (Draft page 8)

I can understand splitting up platform GOTY but all those sub categories for each platform may be a bit much. I feel like the meat of these awards are the poster awards

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Lacrosse on a Sunday.

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Seconded

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That's a bit much, IMO. You don't want too many sub-categories and thin it out too much.

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I said may need. The split from MMO is absolutely necessary though. I know you don't want to dilute your own awards so that they lose meaning, but you also have make sure that a variety of games get represented.

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should let the master race do their own.

ps3-4 and Xbox360-One

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while this would make my life easier if I only had to do the Xbox related awards, there are 2 problems with splitting them up into their own threads.

a) you would need 4 total threads. Xbox. PS. PC. and General Gaming Board Awards (for the poster related awards) And I have a feeling Uncle Fred, the BEST ADMIN EVER, would not want 4 new stickied threads floating on this board. Plus we all know people start bitching if there thread gets bumped off of page, "I can't find my NCAA2008 2 Star MAC Teams Only Dynasty Thread" type bullshite.

b) well quite honestly.....it just wouldn't be as dramatic and epic if PS couldn't argue with xbox, xbox argue with ps, and pc argue with both.

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There needs to be platform specific awards (Best PS3, Best PC, Best 3DS, etc.) and an award for every major genre across all platforms (best Action/Adventure, FPS, Strategy, Puzzle, etc). Of course, Game of the Year is the big one.

After those basics, things like best original soundtrack, best character, best indie, best new IP, Overrated/underrated, are categories that should be considered.

Looking back at last year, every console should have its own award. RPG/MMO definitely needs to be separated and RPG may need to be divided between JRPG and WRPG. I'd love to help out any way I can with nominations or whatever else.

I really liked the user awards though. I would keep as many of those as possible

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i agree pretty much on all of this.
each platform will have it's own categories this year, but there will be a Game of the Year for all platforms to vote upon. (for the drama)

Best soundtrack, character, indie, new ip, over/underrated are good additions that will be added to all platform voting sections.

you'll have to help me with the RPG/MMO/JRPG/WRPG categories as I don't play those often and don't know what some of those acronyms are.

I was thinking about this the other day. I am excite.

i've always struggled with the nominations or no nominations decision.

i'd like to have nominations. it would make the end voting easier to count. but i'm not sure we could get people to participate in both. so, i've always just let it be a free for all, let everyone vote for whatever they wanted, and only listed the top 3-5 in the actual thread. Of course I always kept a total of everything in a spreadsheet on my own.


So, this is what I'm thinking of a basic breakdown of how this years would look, let me know if what you were thinking was different:

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General Awards GB Poster Awards Nominations:
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- The NostraGamus Award: Most Informative GB Poster
- The 40 Year Old Virgin Award: Gamer Who Plays the Most
- The 'Croacka/Anti' Award: The Greatest GB Antagonist
- The Rookie\Virgin of The Year?: Newb with the most impact
- Most Likely to Get ButtHurt?
- Most Improved Poster?
- MIA Award: Where the frick have you been?
- Gaming Board Thread of the Year
- Most DisLiked Gaming Board Poster
- Gaming Board Poster of the Year


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Xbox Gameplay GB Awards Nominations:
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- Best Singe Player Campaign
- Best Multiplayer
- Best RPG
- Best MMO
- Best JRPG
- Best WRPG
- Best Non-Traditional/Indie Title
- Best Sports Game
- HomeFront Award:
- Unexpected Surprise Title of the Year Award
- GOTY

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PS GB Awards Nominations:
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- Best Singe Player Campaign
- Best Multiplayer
- Best RPG
- Best MMO
- Best JRPG
- Best WRPG
- Best Non-Traditional/Indie Title
- Best Sports Game
- HomeFront Award:
- Unexpected Surprise Title of the Year Award
- GOTY

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PC GB Awards Nominations:
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- Best Singe Player Campaign
- Best Multiplayer
- Best RPG
- Best MMO
- Best JRPG
- Best WRPG
- Best Non-Traditional/Indie Title
- Best Sports Game
- HomeFront Award:
- Unexpected Surprise Title of the Year Award
- GOTY

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HandHeld/Phone/Tablet GB Awards Nominations:
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- Best Singe Player Campaign
- Best Multiplayer
- Best RPG
- Best MMO
- Best JRPG
- Best WRPG
- Best Non-Traditional/Indie Title
- Best Sports Game
- HomeFront Award:
- Unexpected Surprise Title of the Year Award
- GOTY


* Completely doing away with clan related section.
** Hoping people don't vote outside the platform they own. I mean we will call them out if they do and disregard their votes for that platform

thanks. still needs a few tweaks.


for example. PC folks don't really play sports games all that much, not really necessary. And i think most of the awards for Handheld/Phone/Tablet could be left out.

I think it would be cool to throw in some retro gaming categories. Just once though, or vote on best games from older gen consoles.