I cant believe hes leaving gamespot.

Best of luck to him wherever he decides to go to next.

[QUOTE="c_smithii"][QUOTE="froidnite"][QUOTE="Danm_999"] [QUOTE="c_smithii"]

it takes people recognition first to recognize a true game winner, and Mass Effect is that game.

Some of you never heard of "the People" being used before.

Dwayne Johnson formerly known as "The Rock", back in the day, before he took on the title as the Great one, or World Champion, he was "the People's Champ", now look he's a hollywood superstar.

Some of you folks that aren't recognizing Mass Effect for it's revolutionary greatness will someday see your folly, and realize your mistake.

Mass Effect isn't going anywhere its a great game now and itsonly going to get even better.

The People's GOTY - Mass Effect

Danm_999

So it's the People's GOTY despite COD4 and Crysis being way ahead in the Reader's Choice votes? In fact, it's not even winning Reader's Choice for the RPG genre. The Witcher is about 10, 000 votes ahead.

And what is so revolutionary about it?

It's been out****d in visuals by several games this year.

It's story is very formulaic as far as Bioware games go, it can't compete with Baldur's Gate 2 either.

It has technical issues as well.

It is in no sense the People's GOTY. Not in popularity, not in innovation, not in overall quality. Please, stop pretending your opinion needs to be forced on everyone.

lmfao @ your sig

It doesn't need GS's tainted nomination, it will forever be the 2007 GOTY of the People. 8)

How? The people have voted for The Witcher more than Mass Effect. You continue to dodge this simple fact.

he wont answer you. you know that right? Thats what normally happens when they cant provide an answer. Mass effect, game of the people, please. stop this garbage. Galaxy is the better game.

it takes people recognition first to recognize a true game winner, and Mass Effect is that game.

Some of you never heard of "the People" being used before.

Dwayne Johnson formerly known as "The Rock", back in the day, before he took on the title as the Great one, or World Champion, he was "the People's Champ", now look he's a hollywood superstar.

Some of you folks that aren't recognizing Mass Effect for it's revolutionary greatness will someday see your folly, and realize your mistake.

Mass Effect isn't going anywhere its a great game now and itsonly going to get even better.

The People's GOTY - Mass Effect

c_smithii

Your statement is very innacurate as I consider myself to be one with the people. I choose galaxy over ME. Therefore it is not the game of the people. Its the game for you. I think you need to get yourself a Wii and log in some mario playtime before you judge. Oh and yes, Mass effect is an awesome game but all im saying is, not better than galaxy. that 8.5 is just!

[QUOTE="grootelaar"]

The battle whas Call of Duty 4 vs Crysis you can see it on the game of the year nommanys

mario whas 12% and call of duty and crysis 25%

PATRIOTREBORN77

Whatever both of those games aren't anything special. SMG was unique

stop being ignorant. Iv seen your posts and they all say exactly the same thing. COD4 is very special due to the unbelievable online mode and although the single player is short, its unbelievably sweet.

However, Im not going to be stupid enough to say that mario sucks. unlike alot of people here (who for some reason havnt even played gaalxy) I know that Mario galaxy deserves GOTY since i had an amazing time playingit from beggining to end

congratulations super mario galaxy. very well deserved.

when i press tab, it leaves blank spaces as it is supposed to.What im trying to achieve is not the blank spaces but ... lines instead. anyone know how i can do this?

It gets boring after about...three weeks? The campaign is way too short (5 hours). You don't use a single vehicle in the campaign or multiplayer. And most of all it doesn't live up to the story like MP3, Bioshock, Halo 3, Mass Effect, really, it's story isn't interesting. It is a good game, but for GOTY, no. Well there are weapon customs...butthey are almost useless except for the Perks.

It really doesn't deserve GOTY in the long run.

DuDisNow

Your wrong, your honestly wrong. I'll tell you what doesnt deserve best multiplayer award or best single player award. Halo 3 doesnt. Not when you put it up against call of duty 4. I know i completed cod4 very quickly but i imagine if i went through that game on hard it will be much tougher.

Dont get me started on the multiplayer. it is way deeper and way more interesting than what halo offers. Im sorry, maybe its just im not a halo fan, but from what iv heard, alot of people perfer the multiplayer of cod 4 to halo 3. At the end of the day, the opinions of alot of peopl are greater than yours.

[QUOTE="Funkyhamster"]Okay I'm confused... so were these all just made up or did Valve really email them to people?UpInFlames

I think they're real e-mails, but they're clearly jokes on Valve's part.

i think you right. People sent in real questions and valve responded with jokes lol! i love the duck answer! lol!

Here are a few actual questions and responses Shackers have sent to and received from Valve.

1. The grenade puzzle: I did it with a blast from the gravity gun! Looked down and primary fire and the floor bounced me up. Would love to see more gravity gun bounce puzzles
2. The little forest bit was BRILLIANT, it had the perfect feel as you walk in and it got darker and quieter but looking up the HDR made the leaves against the sky look great. It would be fantastic to have an extended time in a forest, i think even combat would work in there.

Thanks for the email.

We do not allow cheaters. We are matching you against our steam subscriber list and you will be banned for cheating in the grenade puzzle.

Thank you

I keep seeing this picture above one of the spawn area exits in gravelpit. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks.

Justin

Hi Justin,

It appears to be a duck.

Matt

(As was later determined, the image is the personal spray of fellow Shacker pyide.)

Hi Gabe,

Rosewood went AFK again on the shack's TF2 server. He's been like for the last 6 hours and he just won't leave :( Is there anything you can do? He's a nice guy and all, but we've gotta make room for some people. Thanks in advance.

After some discussion about possible solutions to this problem, we decided that the easiest one was to just permaban Rosewood's steam account. Glad to hear you're enjoying TF2.

-Robin.

Steve - Can you ban his Shack account too please? Thanks

Hi Gabe!

One [of] the commentators in episode 2 sounded really bored. I believe his name was Stevie or Steven, can't quite recall. Tell him to sound more excited. He makes games, he should be off the wall to talk about what he worked on. He sounded like Ben Stein was having more fun than he was.

Thanks for your email.

Based solely on your feedback we have decided to fire the offending party, Steve Kalning. Instead of sending him to HR and wasting their time, I have cc'd him on this email and this will act as his official notice. Clean out your desk Steve.

Thanks Lionhart for helping us make Valve a better place.

Pat, after careful study, I realize steve bond could have also been the culprit. So since we can't really be sure, and really no sense wasting any more time on this.

Mr Bond? Please clean out your desk as well.

How about just giving him a hug instead? I heard that cheers up many people. Buy him a drink, even better! It will make the work environment more exciting for him if he gets unexpected surprises from fellow coworkers.

That is the kind of weak thinking we don't need aroud here Lionhart. Hugs never got a 96 on the metacritic score.