Oblivion Takes Top Honor At Spike VGAs

Last night was the taping for the 2006 Spike TV Videogame awards, and Bethesda Softworks' Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took best game. Gamespot reports on the rest of the pack, which saw the Critic's Choice going to Twilight Princess, and Epic's Gears of War pulling down several top honors. For a blow-by-blow, Joystiq's event liveblogging post might interest you. It sounds ... pretty awful. From that article: "9:25: 50 Cent intros the 'Best Human Female in a Video Game' in a sort of slurred 'here's my drink' English. We'll have what he's having. It's unsure if he even knows what he's talking about."

Comments

who cares?

[crossmr]

Another "me too" awards show. Following the crowd. We all know oblivion was a shiny turd and if people are still patting it on the back it shows they've learned nothing.

thank you

[Nasarius]

It's disappointing how many people have given Oblivion absurdly overblown praise. What does it say about the current standards for greatness when such a flawed game averages 93% on GameRankings? The UI, the hand-holding quest system, the idiotic conversations and behavior caused by "Radiant AI", the lack of any kind of meaningful choices...and on and on, not even including the bugs. TES was so promising; I played Daggerfall for years. And this is the direction you decided to take the series? A mediocre game system with tons of *stuff* thrown in? Sigh. Maybe someone else will make the series that TES could have been.

Re:thank you

[crossmr]

That is what gamers want now I guess, and reviewers. I recently read a review on gamespot on Vice City Stories. One of the reviewers complaints was the lack of hand holding the game did. He was concerned that it wasn't popping up arrows showing you where to turn and mapping out the best routes to take for missions, etc. I guess as a developer in that environment you give them exactly what they want.

Meaningless Awards

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember folks, this is the same advert--I mean awards show that gave awards to Resident Evil 4 (PS2) for game of the year without mentioning the superior Gamecube version and King Kong the video game before it was even out on store shelves. Oh and who can forget the award going to the 'Most Addictive Game Fueled by Mountain Dew' /rolleyes

I wonder...

[Vo0k]

Did somebody pay somebody else to have this terrible game given the award or are simply all the others even worse than Oblivion?

Before you mark this as flamebait:
If you compare Oblivion with its precedesor, Morrowind, which was good but not ultimately great, Oblivion has -everything- worse than Morrowind, with exception of graphics. Worse gameplay, more shallow plotline, smaller quest tree, lower quest variablity, fewer guilds, worse stability, fewer skills, spells, cities, NPCs, and above all no point in advancing the character, because the enemies are chosen depending on your level and growing harder faster than you gain advantages from high levels, meaning you are punished for progress, the longer you play the harder it gets.