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2006 Edge Awards
As Famitsu is to Japan, Edge is to the U.S. and Britain. The much-respected games magazine has released their surprisingly short list of awards, for the 'best of' 2006. The winners are: "Best Game - Final Fantasy XII. Best Innovation - Nintendo Wii. Best Visual Design - Okami. Best Audio Design - Dragon Quest: The Journey Of The Cursed Kin. Best Developer - Nintendo. Best Publisher - Take Two. Best Online Experience - Test Drive Unlimited. Best Hardware - Nintendo DS."
Holy shit, I like these guys' picks! It's nice to see Okami get some more recognition, that game deserves a lot more accolades than it has. The only thing is that I would have given Game of the Year to Twilight Princess (which is currently in the running for "best game of all time" on my list), but FF12 is a damn fine game too. I think Zelda was bound to be highly scrutinized, even more than FF12, since it A) had an entire console launch riding on it, B) is a lot easier to compare to the rest of it's series than FF games are to each other, C) was specifically created to go up against the "best game of all time" (Ocarina of Time, on pretty much all major game ranking sites), while there are no particular "expectations" for FF12, other than "to be good." Either way, both games deserve emmense accolades.
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"and around 20 years (of modern games) for the PC."
Ehh... anything much beyond 10 will require some goofy application to slow down your CPU. And even then, it seems you're far more likely to find used console games from that period than used PC games, unless you want to go the warez route.