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#1 mackey12345
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Do you think Crysis should have gotten the award? I mean, in my opinion, Crysis was the best looking game I have seen in years, when in comparison to MGS4, its hard to think that MGS4 would have won, they both have superb animation, intense firefights, but the Cryengine 2 does have a couple other tricks up its sleeve that should have punted it up the ladder, what about your opinions.
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#2 190586385885857957282413308806
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I think the most technically impressive game should have won. So yes Crysis should have been the winner
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#3 foxhound_fox
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I don't understand how Crysis did not win the award, it trounces MGS4 in terms of technical achievement. The category isn't exactly a subjective one like art styIe.
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#4 67gt500
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This award is a real sore-spot for some people... btw, would those of you who have Crysis/Warhead say that Warhead is worse, better than, or pretty much the same graphically-speaking as the first Crysis?
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This award is a real sore-spot for some people... btw, would those of you who have Crysis/Warhead say that Warhead is worse, better than, or pretty much the same graphically-speaking as the first Crysis?67gt500
It's better than the original Crysis because it's more refined. Crytek has optimized the engine to a degree that more people can experience better graphics with lesser hardware. It is a sore spot. The PC community on Gamespot constantly feels like the red headed step child of this gaming site because reviews are often weeks late, If they are a multi platform release the only nod the PC version gets is the mandatory "This game looks better on PC" blurb and then a game that looks better than another loses out to it in a category that is in no way subjective. At this point I believe that if Gamespot had a "Most Expensive Game to Buy in the Store catagory" and listed The collector's Editions of GTA IV, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 Metal Gear Solid 4 would have one
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#6 mackey12345
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I really hate talking like this, but I am really beginning to doubt Gamespots judgement, this issue doesn't at all keep me awake at night, but its very hard to believe that they would compare Crysis to Metal Gear, both games are great, but on the technical side, Crysis wins by a landslide, almost to the point of which its way to unfair, however this is just one person's opinion, doesn't make much of a difference.

**BTW**

Crysis Warhead Engine Optimizations aren't the best, they run very well on lesser hardware, but its difficult for the more powerful cards on gamer or enthusiats levels, (I have a GTX 260, couldn't achieve anything over 10 frames, but it might be my processor... I will upgrade during the summer.).

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#7 rb2610
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I think the whole Game of the Year thing reeked of MGS fanboyism, especially in the voting, I don't see how a game only released on PS3, which is still an inferior console to others in terms of sales (and therefore amount of owners) has more votes than every other game including multiplatform releases. I think there must have been a lot of obsessive fans who don't even own PS3's or the game voting for MGS there is no other way it could get that many votes compared to others unless half the people who don't own a PS3 forgot to vote and every single person with the game voted, and then voted again with an alt-account or something :?
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#8 argianas
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I think, from their point of view, MGS4 was more impressive given the limitations of consoles. With PC games you can scale the game upwards to make it look better on hardware that won't even be sold for another year or two. With consoles, you're limited to their specifications, so getting more out of the graphics takes more work and are more impressive because of the difficulties.

That said, I'd probably still have to give the nod to Crysis.

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#9 190586385885857957282413308806
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I think, from their point of view, MGS4 was more impressive given the limitations of consoles. With PC games you can scale the game upwards to make it look better on hardware that won't even be sold for another year or two. With consoles, you're limited to their specifications, so getting more out of the graphics takes more work and are more impressive because of the difficulties.argianas
If that were the case I don't see why they would even nominate a PC game since they knew they were going to go on a technicality and give it to a console game.
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#10 Greatgone12
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I think, from their point of view, MGS4 was more impressive given the limitations of consoles. With PC games you can scale the game upwards to make it look better on hardware that won't even be sold for another year or two. With consoles, you're limited to their specifications, so getting more out of the graphics takes more work and are more impressive because of the difficulties.

That said, I'd probably still have to give the nod to Crysis.

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But the award isn't "Most Technically Impressive Game in Relation to the Hardware That It's Running On." This whole "awards" thing is more or less a marketer's dreamland, anyway. Well, that and fuel for heated forum discussions.