The Moosies: Nominations.
by mooseymcman
As promised, here are the nominations for my year end awards. As with last year, there may or may not be a couple awards with only one nomination, but unlike last year, I don't really care enough to hide the one nomination. It's like revealing the winner early. Oh, and the nominees are listed in alphabetical order, so as to not show any bias to any nominees. And, of course, you can see what gam...
As promised, here are the nominations for my year end awards. As with last year, there may or may not be a couple awards with only one nomination, but unlike last year, I don't really care enough to hide the one nomination. It's like revealing the winner early. Oh, and the nominees are listed in alphabetical order, so as to not show any bias to any nominees.
And, of course, you can see what games win the general awards on December 31st, and the winner of Game of the Year on the first of the next year.
Abe Lincoln Award for Best Facial Hair.
Assassin's Creed Revelations - Ezio's Rugged Old Man Assassin Beard and others.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Jensen's Stealthy Future Cyborg Beard.
LittleBigPlanet 2 - Larry Da Vinci's Crazy Newspaper Beard.
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - President Mike Haggar's (play the game, you know what I mean) Majestic Mayoral Mustache.
Mortal Kombat - Kano's Rugged Australian Mercenary Beard and Old Shang Tsung's Stereotypical Old Asian Man Beard/Mustache.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Various Nordic/Viking Beards.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Sully's Adventurer Mustache and Nathan Drake's Adventurous Stubble Beard.
George Washington Award for Best Returning Protagonist.
Bruce "I'm the Goddamned Batman" Wayne - Batman: Arkham City
Ezio "I'm too old for this s***" Auditore Da Firenze - Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Kazuma "Dragon of Dojima" Kiryu - Yakuza 4
Sackboy - LittleBigPlanet 2
Nathan "Nolan North" Drake - Uncharted 3
"Who's this guy?" Award for Best New Protagonist.
Adam "Robot Arms" Jensen - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Cole "Facial Animation" Phelps - LA Noire
Garcia "F***ing" Hotspur - Shadows of the Damned
Shun "Crazy Legs" Akiyama - Yakuza 4
Taiga "The Tiger" Saejima - Yakuza 4
"Leonard 'Bones' McCoy" Award for Best Supporting character.
Clive "No one loves me" Handforth - LittleBigPlanet 2
Finbarr "Rusty" Galloway - LA Noire
Frank "Francis" Pritchard - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
John "John Goodman" Goodman - Rage
Johnson - Shadows of the Damned
Victor "Goddamn" "Well I'll be go to Hell" "Sully" Sullivan - Uncharted 3
Nolan North Award for Best Non-Nolan North Voice Actor of the Year.
Aaron Staton - Cole Phelps - LA Noire
Greg Ellis - Johnson - Shadows of the Damned
John Goodman - Himself (not really, but he might as well be) - Rage
Kevin Conroy - Batman - Batman: Arkham City
Mark Hamill - The Joker - Batman: Arkham City
Richard McGonagle - Sully - Uncharted 3
Stephen Fry - Narrator - LittleBigPlanet 2
"I'm looking for some sailers" Award for Best Overall Voice Acting.
Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space 2
LA Noire
Shadows of the Damned
Uncharted 3
Yakuza 4
Mel Brooks Award for Funniest Game.
LittleBigPlanet 2
Mortal Kombat
Shadows of the Damned
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3
Yakuza 4
Mr. Spacely Award for Best Bosses.
Batman: Arkham City
inFAMOUS 2
LittleBigPlanet 2
Shadows of the Damned
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Yakuza 4
Michael Bay Award for Most Ridiculous Game.
Batman: Arkham City
LittleBigPlanet 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Mortal Kombat
Shadows of the Damned
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3
Machete Award for Best Use of Gore.
Dead Space 2
LA Noire
Mortal Kombat
Shadows of the Damned
Rage
"I need a cloth map to figure out where to go." Award for Best Open World.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Batman: Arkham City
inFAMOUS 2
LA Noire
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
"Split-Screen will never die!" Award for Best Multiplayer.
LittleBigPlanet 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Mortal Kombat
Rage
Uncharted 3
"Great Scott, this is heavy!" Award for Best Game from the Past I Played this Year (for the first time).
Alpha Protocol
Braid
Burnout Paradise
Cthulhu Saves the World
Enslaved
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Pacman Championship Edition DX
Red Faction Guerilla
Wipeout HD
Yakuza 3
Zettai Hero Project: Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
Dick Cheney Award for Best Game that Refuses to Die.
Borderlands
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Deadly Premonition
Dead Rising
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
"My, this Television is Highly Defined" Award for Best Graphics Technology
Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space 2
inFAMOUS 2
LA Noire (mainly the facial animation)
LittleBigPlanet 2
Mortal Kombat
Rage
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Uncharted 3
"What the Hell am I doing judging art?" Award for Best Artistic Design.
Batman: Arkham City
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
LittleBigPlanet 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Shadows of the Damned
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
"The Dream will never die!" Award for Best Game that Should Exist, but Doesn't (Yet).
A new F-Zero game.
Half Life 2: Episode 3 and/or Half Life 3
Shenmue III
Two Human
Bill Shakespeare Award for Best Story.
Batman: Arkham City
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
LA Noire
Mortal Kombat
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3
Yakuza 4
John Williams Award for Best Music.
Batman: Arkham City
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
LA Noire
Rage
Shadows of the Damned
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3
"The NDX is rolling into the station!" Award for Best Downloadable Game.
Beyond Good and Evil HD
PixelJunk Shooter 2
"The TRAIN needs some renovations" Award for Best Overall DLC.
LA Noire
"NOTHING STOPS THE NDX" Award for Best Individual DLC.
Nicholson Electroplating Case - LA Noire
The Naked City Case - LA Noire
"If only I had more money..." Award for Game I Wish I Played Most (but didn't).
Bastion
Cargo: The Quest for Gravity
Dark Souls
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (This would win best title if I had an award for that.)
Gears of War 3
Resistance 3
Saints Row The Third
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
WWE All Stars
Megaman Award for Best Box Art.
Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Cardboard sleeve bonus.)
LA Noire
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Mortal Kombat
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyirm (Neat inside art.)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3 (Has sick art inside the case.)
"MOST MODERN PUBLISHERS ARE TERRIBLE" Award for Best Instruction Manual.
LA Noire
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Rage
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Sick map bonus.)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
"I'm about to destroy the world, but let's have a fighting tournament because I'm a DBZ villain" Award for Best Fighting Game.
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Mortal Kombat
"Always Be Jumping" Award for Best Platformer.
LittleBigPlanet 2
"They'll never check under the cardboard box." Award for Best Stealth Game.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
George Romero Award for Best Survivor Horror-ish Game.
Dead Space 2
Shadows of the Damned
Bob Goddard Award for Best RPG.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Yakuza 4
"Never Not Shooting" Award for Best Shooter.
Rage
Best of the Best of the Best PS3 Exclusive Game.
inFAMOUS 2
LittleBigPlanet 2
Uncharted 3
Yakuza 4
Best of the Best of the Best Wii Exclusive Game.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Best of the Best of the Best Multi-platform Game.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
LA Noire
Mortal Kombat
Rage
Shadows of the Damned
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Moosies Game of the Year 2011.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Batman: Arkham City
Dead Space 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
inFAMOUS 2
LA Noire
LittleBigPlanet 2
Mortal Kombat
Rage
Shadows of the Damned
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Uncharted 3
Yakuza 4
So, those are the nominees. They should be in alphabetical order, but I may have made a mistake. I also noticed that I hadn't put the multi-platform award in the award descriptions the other day. I'll go and ret-con that soon. Please comment and speculate on the winners! Don't forget to come back on the 31st. I'll try and put it up early, because I will probably be out at night. By which I mean I realize a lot of other people will be out at night.