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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.