TGR Awards 2008: Game of the Year Awards Posted by TGR Staff,
Best PC Game
Winner: Fallout 3
Runner-up: Left 4 Dead
Once again, PC gaming in 2008 seemed to focus on dark and dismal gaming affairs. Post-apocalyptic wastelands and zombies? Crime sprees and horror? Gamers ate them up, and for good reason. Plenty of the darker games were the cream of the crop last year, perhaps none so surprisingly as Fallout 3. Before its release, many claimed Fallout 3 would flop, or just be "Oblivion with guns." While it is, largely, Oblivion with guns, the game was also an engaging experience that blew even the hardcore fans at NMA away. Left 4 Dead’s incredible co-op and versus experiences made zombie fans all over squeal in glee, but it was the overall experience of Fallout 3, combined with the recently released editor, that made it the Best PC Game of 2008.
Braid.... wow... ok... a 4 hr 2D game with a convoluted Story. is Better then Gears 2, MGS4, GTA4, Left for dead, Call of duty, Fable, Fallout... i think you are going WAY to much of the originality of the gameplay and its artsy graphics. look ill be the first to say i love originality, i love when people try something new. and i REALLY hope Jonathan Blow finds a ton of continued success with this and other projects. but GotY?! i think if this was made 1 or 2 consols ago, i would agree. but i just think there needs to be more depth for a GotY candidate.
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Braid.... wow... ok... a 4 hr 2D game with a convoluted Story. is Better then Gears 2, MGS4, GTA4, Left for dead, Call of duty, Fable, Fallout... i think you are going WAY to much of the originality of the gameplay and its artsy graphics. look ill be the first to say i love originality, i love when people try something new. and i REALLY hope Jonathan Blow finds a ton of continued success with this and other projects. but GotY?! i think if this was made 1 or 2 consols ago, i would agree. but i just think there needs to be more depth for a GotY candidate.