BAFTA games awards ceremony thingy tonight...

Robert1986 · 11 Mar 2009 at 00:22

-Bafta for Story and Character goes to Call of Duty 4

What a joke. GTA4 and MGS4 put COD4 to shame in story and characters.

epic fail.

Nismo · 11 Mar 2009 at 06:03

Awards ceremony in odd result shocker :eek:

Margaret · 11 Mar 2009 at 06:47

lol @ Call of Duty 4 and them rewards, utter joke.

blix · 11 Mar 2009 at 06:49

An award only has as much value as the judges that award it and in this case it is clearly worthless.

Tunney · 11 Mar 2009 at 07:18

Shamikebab said:
COD4 had a good story and strong characters.

It's main characters were Soap McTavish and Generic Cockney.

I love the game but the characters were terrible.

blix · 11 Mar 2009 at 07:26

Captain Price nevar forget.

Naffa · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:16

I thought Call of Duty 4 single player was absolutely sublime. I have to say I shed a tear on that bridge when I looked over at Captain Price.

If he was anything short of a BAFTA winning character, I don't think I would have cared.

dannyjo22 · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:32

naffa said:
I thought Call of Duty 4 single player was absolutely sublime. I have to say I shed a tear on that bridge when I looked over at Captain Price. If he was anything short of a BAFTA winning character, I don't think I would have cared.

Once I learned he was the bloke from eastenders and crappy accident claims adverts I was glad he ended up in a heap

More than a few suprises in there.

Naffa · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:35

Oh my God... I've just realised who you mean.

You've just ruined the whole game for me now.. Damn it!

Margaret · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:38

naffa said:
I thought Call of Duty 4 single player was absolutely sublime. I have to say I shed a tear on that bridge when I looked over at Captain Price. If he was anything short of a BAFTA winning character, I don't think I would have cared.

I got bored halfway through, it's rubbish.

Call of Duty 2 was much better, then again 4 was practically identical to 2 so I quite frankly figured I was merely played 2 reskinned which didn't do it for me, it felt so, so samey.

Plus let's not forget generic middle east story, yawn.

Naffa · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:41

Each to their own obviously, but I felt that Call of Duty 4 was SO much better than 2. It uses a generic game formula followed by so many, but I just think that the game did it so much better than the competition. It's like the film Taken, uses an extremely basic plot but it's unimaginably awesome and enjoyable to watch.

dannyjo22 · 11 Mar 2009 at 08:55

naffa said:
Oh my God... I've just realised who you mean. You've just ruined the whole game for me now.. Damn it!

I'm hoping they use Phil and Grant Mitchell for COD MW2

blix · 11 Mar 2009 at 09:24

naffa said:
Oh my God... I've just realised who you mean. You've just ruined the whole game for me now.. Damn it!

OMFG me too, haha. Can't believe it's him. :/

m0r94n · 11 Mar 2009 at 12:15

Nismo said:
Awards ceremony in odd result shocker

Out of the 15 awards, I think 10 of those we're odd results when you consider nominations and omissions for the various categories. Why was CoD4 (Release Date: November 2007) not in last years awards despite Crysis (Again, November 2007, A week after CoD4) being judged there? Mario Galaxy and Mass Effect are other Nov '07 releases. Just why was Crysis judged last year??? :confused:

Call of Duty 4 takes the awards for best Story & Characters, Gameplay and something else, but Fable II beats it to the best Action/Adventure game. Firstly, CoD4 isn't even in that genre but still, if its won three of the awards for things that make games great, how does it not win overall?

And Boom Blox for best Casual game. I've played better games of pong.

Shamikebab · 11 Mar 2009 at 13:27

Peggle should have won best casual easily.

Booner! · 11 Mar 2009 at 19:09

I was at the ceremony last night (am very tired today!), the crowd were also shocked with some of the awards. The infinity ward guys had plenty of fun carrying the awards round the after party.

Streeteh · 11 Mar 2009 at 19:26

I'll say about this what i said about the *competitor* greatest games of all time survey:

People are stupid.

uchuff · 11 Mar 2009 at 21:29

Last awards were late (December?) 2007, they slipped this years back to March, that could explain some older games being included.

Maybe Spore won the technical for it's integration with Youtube and swapping UGC around, that part was fairly innovative I think?

Booner! · 12 Mar 2009 at 15:58

uchuff said:
Last awards were late (December?) 2007, they slipped this years back to March, that could explain some older games being included.

Maybe Spore won the technical for it's integration with Youtube and swapping UGC around, that part was fairly innovative I think?

The idea of Spore was great, just badly implemented as a game imo.