Quest to Nowhere

With E3 just wrapping up its hard to not be excited for all the games set to come out this year, especially in the fall. When you actually look at them all though you’ll likely begin to realize that this fall may in fact be the best one for videogames ever. In terms of quality games that is. Here is just a partial list of what is going to be released this fall, between the end of August and the start of 2010:
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With Amazon and Toys R Us muscling in on GameStop’s almost monopoly of buying back videogames, and selling used copies, the discussion of used games has popped up in a lot of the podcasts I listen to again. Now I’m not going to say that it’s not fair that video game developers/publishers don’t get a cut from these sales, because it is fair. Which is to say this is not a industry vs. retailer issue, but rather a secondary market/right of first sale issue for consumers.

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Figured since I did these last year I should do them again this year, although this year I’ve decided to not make it completely about videogames since the site isn’t completely about videogames anymore. Also I had a hard time coming up with nominees for all the categories I came up with last year. Also I decided to be lazy and not do any write ups for the awards like I did last year, so anyway on with the awards.

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For about 2 decades the brick and mortar video game stores like GameStop/Electronic Boutique, and even Funcoland, (in the beginning,) have always been great places for gamers. In that they allowed you to pre-order the games you wanted, and they let you trade in your used games to money which you could then use to buy more games. As a kid growing up that was great, since you generally don’t have any sort of steady income, so being able to trade in a few games was always helpful when you wanted a new one, but this practice has always been a sore spot for the game publishers and developers.

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Although I haven’t completely finished Mass Effect, I feel that any more of the game wouldn’t likely alter my opinion of it or alter my thoughts on the awards in anyway. I did play and finish Uncharted, so I am considering it in some categories where I hadn’t before. So below, after the cut, will be all the categories as well as the winners, plus a little write up on why I chose it as the winner over the other game nominees.

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Nintendo has long ruled the hand held games market, as everyone knows, but Sony has somehow managed to carve a little niche for themselves with the PSP even though the DS is selling like they are almost giving it away. If anything this shows that the DS doesn’t provide everything people want in a hand held gaming console.

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Video games created from movie, and TV licenses have long been apart of the industry. Even though somehow 99% of them tend to be complete and utter crap. The few games that don’t, are certainly the single needle in the haystacks of the state of Kansas. But why? Why is it that so often game companies license these properties, and yet somehow are unable to produce either a good or successful game from them?

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