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AIAS Award Winners Announced
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has selected their 2004 award winners from the bounty of excellent titles released last year. From the site: "These peer-based awards are dedicated to recognizing the outstanding products, talented individuals and development teams that have contributed to the advancement of the $30 billion worldwide entertainment software industry."
I think "overhyped" is not the only thing that got HL2 up there ; In the end, in its genre, they delivered a great game, ifnot a great sandbox for some new mods.
Because there were no server issues.
OK, there were, but only for a select group of idiots that wouldn't move their characters two days after the launch when Blizzard doubled the number of servers.
Basically, the only people having issues were warned in the first week that they were overloading the servers and that they should strongly consider playing on other servers instead of taking their level 10 character to level 60.
They didn't, and caused all sort of server issues as the servers were vastly overloaded from what they were tested for.
I've never not been able to play and have run into no problems since I've started a week after WoW launched. The server issues are vastly overreported.