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."

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[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.