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Nominations For AIAS Gaming Awards Announced
yakobusan writes "The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) just announced the finalists for the 7th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, to be given out on March 4th in Las Vegas - there's a full list of nominees over on the AIAS site." It's noted that "Electronic Arts led the finalist count with 29, followed closely by Ubisoft and Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) with 23 and 21 finalists respectively" - highlights include Metal Arms: Glitch in the System's nomination for "Best Console Action / Adventure", and Snoop Dogg's appearance in the "Best Character Performance - Male" finalists for True Crime: Streets of LA.
Yes, and that's my professional opinion. The AIAS are a bunch of wankers.
They wouldn't know gameplay or innovation if it beat them to death with a surgical 2x4.
From glancing at the list of games (and the "members" of this organisation), it seems like they've invented these "awards" (and look how god-damned many of them there are) merely to pat themselves on the back and put a "GAME OF TEH YEAR" sticker on the box, re-issue the game in a "GOLD" edition and get additional press coverage of their products.
And I'm also pissed that none of the people that actually worked on the damn games get recognised. The only people nominated are all voice actors - hired goons that probably did all their work in a couple of afternoons - and probably never even stooped to the lows of having to set foot in the studio where the real talent worked to make the game. Programmers, artists and animators get to work 80+ hour weeks for two years - and somebody who did less than a tenth of a percent of the work in an afternoon gets a fucking award on stage.
Oh, and it's not really "winning" when there's only one nomination in a category. Yes, thank you Microsoft in category 15 - you're all winners, you're just so fucking special.
Those "awards" are wrong on so many levels.