Nintendo Wii Fanboy

1. This is, of course, newsworthy

A nintendo game making it into the Spike VGAs? Next the 360 will outsell something in Japan

oh, wait...

These are the end times, truly

Posted at 4:11PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Mr Khan

2. Surprising that Halo 3, a game which had its own Halo 3 Mountain Dew Game Fuel, is nominated for Most Addictive Game Fueled by Dew.

Posted at 4:45PM on Nov 10th 2007 by JC Fletcher

3. I hate Microsoft. I really do. Nobody gives the Wii any credit.

The major problems I have, besides the ones already listed, are the Breakthrough Technology nominations, as well as the Best Original Score.

Halo 3?! Breakthrough Technology?! HOW!?

And I believe that Super Mario Galaxy's score is probably the best I've heard in recent years, next to Twilight Princess.

Posted at 4:53PM on Nov 10th 2007 by ChrisCanberg

4. Hahaha! You're my new hero, Candace! So snarky yet so true.

Posted at 5:11PM on Nov 10th 2007 by samfish

5. The blatant sponsor whoring and 360 bias doesn't bother me nearly as much as nominating games that aren't even out yet. That's like nominating a movie for an Oscar based entirely on its trailer.

Posted at 5:36PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Joop

6. Halo 3? Oh dear god...honestly where is Galaxy in the Game of the Year??

Oh wait now I know why, if you go the website you can see who does the nominations. About a third of the people are from GameSpot.

Posted at 6:11PM on Nov 10th 2007 by tiamat1990

7. OMG a woman on teh innernetz!!! pix plz!
jk
http://xkcd.com/322/

Posted at 6:14PM on Nov 10th 2007 by thethirdmoose

8. Is Rock Band even out yet? I love how they assume some games are gonna be good.

Posted at 6:47PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Jimiisama

9. "And I believe that Super Mario Galaxy's score is probably the best I've heard in recent years, next to Twilight Princess."

I don't think twilight princess technically had a musical score. It was all music remixed from ocarina.

Posted at 6:50PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Charcoal

10. I bet if you watch the VGAs that you will see many commercials from Microsoft. I will even go as far that all the game related TV spots during the show will be an XBOX title or a multi platform title.

Besides Spike TV sucks balls.

Posted at 7:01PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Jeremy

11. I do believe it did have a soundtrack, and not most of it was remixed from Ocarina of Time. I've got the soundtrack, and aside from a couple of throwbacks to the Gorons, it seemed new.

Yes, this list does seem a little biased. But, that's not to say that these aren't good games either.

Posted at 7:58PM on Nov 10th 2007 by sepaar

12. Right on the money, Candance.

No blood/guns, no Game of the Year Nomination for Super Mario Galaxy.

Also, I'll place my bets right now that Galaxy won't even win the Action category, because Assasins Creed has blood.

In addition, CoD4 easily beats out Halo 3. I assume that it is just there because of the popularity.

Posted at 9:37PM on Nov 10th 2007 by DonWii

13. i love how a bunch of 1st person shooters get best game of the year and best music score, but a game like mario galaxy that actually does something new besides the same old same old (with possibly a single new weapon or something) gets didly jack. I dont know about other people, but when i saw the video review for galaxy from IGN and heard the orchestrated music it really touched me. hearing music ive grown up with since the first mario bros when i was 5 years old beats out any stupid generic shooter's crud "soundtrack".

Posted at 11:03PM on Nov 10th 2007 by Orion

14. @13
Have you even heard Bioshock's Soundtrack? It's really good. I would understand your concern if it had been Halo 3 or something there, but as such I see no problem.

Posted at 12:24AM on Nov 11th 2007 by Laughing_Hands

15. Oh, I thought you were talking about the "Best Soundtrack", but I see that there is also a "Best Original Score" category. And it does have Halo 3 in it... wtf?

Posted at 12:27AM on Nov 11th 2007 by Laughing_Hands

16. What a farce.

Posted at 12:50AM on Nov 11th 2007 by directive0