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Head over to OXCGN and see their staff's choice for Game Of The Year Awards for 2009. While it is a primarily a Xbox 360 site, they do cover all platforms in these awards, as they are from the games the team has played and enjoyed throughout the year.
The ones they have picked that they had the most fun with, or experienced the best gameplay in their opinion from all the games THEY have had in 2009.
Slip over and check the listing out, and there's access to the Readers GOTY Poll as well, so you can have your say in that one as well.
2009 has basically come and gone and this year saw OXCGN.com go places which we never thought we would go in such a short time as a Community Xbox Website. We’ve ranked as low as 60k on the global Alexa ranking system, though we have leveled off at 120k, and pulled off a Google Page Rank of 3/10, both of which are huge tasks for any indie game site, especially one that is just over 2 years old.
2009 saw OXCGN attend E3 ‘09 in L.A., various THQ, Ubisoft, Rockstar, Microsoft and other events all around Sydney and getting to play and see a plethora of new games from the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PSP, Wii and of course the iPhone.
Over the past week fellow writers have discussed possibilities for OXCGN Game Of The Year and as well as announcing our final choices for GOTY and Runner Up, a few of the staff have given their personal Top 10 list of GOTY contenders. We have also offered readers a chance to vote on their own personal favourite here.
OXCGN’s GOTY was chosen based on where staff placed certain titles as their Number #1 choice and Runner Up as their 2nd and included all gaming platforms.
So without further ado let us take a look at OXCGN’s Overall Game Of The Year for 2009 as well as look at staff members’ Top 10 GOTY lists for 2009.
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If they're a website that deals with all platforms, why're they called an "Xbox Community Network"?
I doubt you'd see any mention of a PS3 site writing or giving a 360 game any awards, yet when a 360 site's staff choice also mentions a PS3 game (as well as Wii, PC, Nintendo DS, iPhone- although no one makes a fuss about them - funny about that eh!)
Again, the staff and contributors that write for the site have almost all the platforms. Their GOTY for THEM is based on THEIR choice of what game THEY had the most FUN with.
Not which one might be techinically better, has better graphics, etc etc.
It's based on their choice of game they find more "fun".
I would have had Forza 3 up there, and many did choose Uncharted 2, and some chose a PC game . .but it seems that it's a crime, or worse, a sin to even mention PS3 and 360 in the same sentence, let alone have them on the same site.
We review PS3, PC and other platforms games because we are gamers . . . first and foremost. Readers that come also have more than one platform, and many Sony fans come along because they know they will NOT see any bias or derogative reviews on other platforms, simply because they aren't 360.
We should be able to express our choices without having to worry what others might say .. which is what a site's GOTY award is about. It's NOT an industry award. Which is something completely different.
FUnny thing is, that we have a Readers Poll, and Uncharted 2 is leading that poll, yet we have ppl complaining in there thatthegame shouldn't be on a 360 site (yet it's leading the poll by a small matgin - funny that).
And we have our staff's GOTY and it's NOT a PS3 game, and we cop abuse for having it at number 1, and for having a PS3 game on the site.
When will so-called gamers (which they obviously are NOT) grow up . . probably never. It's a shame, as it is really ruining what was once a great industry.
BTW, what are all the article pictures from?
Are you red? I'll assume not, since then you wouldn't be Human. Are there nine of you? Of course not.
Why is it that whenever someone contests something you see that as people starting an argument?
It's a discussion. I'm trying to understand your point because it makes no sense to me. That's all. Don't be so defensive about a non-issue.
I still maintain that Batman: Arkham Asylum deserves that crown.
Now i haven't had the privalidge of playing Uncharted 2, however i've seen gameplay and know all about it, so I know that in ways it does deserve GOTY. However is it just me or is it INSANELY overhyped? However it's not as overhyped as Modern Warfare 2 so i'll give it that.
Now my GOTY goes to Batman: Arkham Asylum, just for being the best superhero game ever and really making me feel like I was playing as THE Batman. Runner up for me would be Left 4 Dead 2.
even though im not a huge PS3 fan, i dont blame those who pulled for UC2 as being GOTY, going by me just seeing vids of it and everything ppl are saying, it deserves to win. Batman would be up there for me, as well as L4D2.
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