Cast your (very late) vote for the 2011 VU Awards

Comments:

1. faits says:

   12-30-2011 11:59 PM

   abstaining due to gross lack of resident evil 5

2. crimsonpug says:

   12-31-2011 12:09 AM

   Ugh. Not happy with any of these nominees. Especially the choices for Game of the Year - I mean Crysis 2? No ZELDA???? And multi-platform games in Console specific awards?
   
   Oh well, still - great job getting it all together. Made it kinda difficult choosing some winners in there, but I did my duty.

3. faits says:

   12-31-2011 12:15 AM

   ugh man

4. Maverick says:

   12-31-2011 12:21 AM

   I totally missed your Zelda nom, don't know how. I fixed it for future generations to learn from my errors!

5. mclazyj says:

   12-31-2011 12:26 AM

   I was happy with the nominations, with the exception that Saints Row The Third is not in all of them. It would have made filling this out so much easier.

6. Maverick says:

   12-31-2011 01:24 AM

   welp!

7. Marlin says:

   12-31-2011 02:12 AM

   I honestly don't remember if I asked this last year and forgot what your answer was or if I forgot to ask last year, but is there just not a way to allow people to skip certain fields or add in a choice for 'no opinion'? Because I mean I get it, some people like Wii games still for whatever insane reason, but what the fuck do I care about them and more importantly, when I HAVE to pick one of them I'm just going to pick one randomly because I don't care and that's going to skew the results, and I'm sure the results matter to the insane people who like Nintendo games and haven't been locked in a dungeon yet. I would like to put it out there that if you HAD taken my nomination for Wii game of the year seriously and included it, I wouldn't even have anything to complain about. I mean I might have been the only one to vote for "LMAO you're kidding. You are kidding, right?" but MAYBE NOT.
   
   Seriously though I think it would be beneficial for everyone if there were an option to skip a category or 'vote' for 'no vote'. There were actually a few categories where I really had no opinion whatsoever.
   
   Other than that, I enjoyed my time voting for Portal 2 in every category it was nominated in and Bastion in everything else.

8. fuzzay says:

   12-31-2011 03:07 AM

   Well, I voted Skyward Sword. I don't expect it to "win", but that's quite alright, it was my favorite game of the past year and I enjoyed it very much so. But man, Skyrim is eating my time right now. Had it been released earlier maybe I would be maybe singing a different tune.

9. faits says:

   12-31-2011 03:47 AM

   I only played one new video game all year

10. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 05:07 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    I only played one new video game all year

    Man that's terrible.
    
    I played at least FOUR.

11. faits says:

    12-31-2011 05:11 AM

    sorry not all of us have fat stacks of cash to throw around

12. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 05:31 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    sorry not all of us have fat stacks of cash to throw around

    Every single one of those four was a gift, except for Bastion, which I waited to buy until it was five dollars on Steam, just like someone else I know

13. faits says:

    12-31-2011 05:46 AM

    sorry not all of us have rich friends to buy us brand new games all day long

14. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 05:46 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    sorry not all of us have rich friends to buy us brand new games all day long

    Be nicer to Lae, that definitely helps.

15. faits says:

    12-31-2011 06:12 AM

    I'm plenty nice to lae, but he only gives me old games like gow3

16. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 06:37 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    I'm plenty nice to lae, but he only gives me old games like gow3

    Maybe he's afraid if he gives you a game you don't like you'll put it in your creek, and what happens if it's a gift through Steam? You can't throw a digital game into a creek, maybe he's afraid you'll throw your entire computer in there, and then how will you get online?
    
    I think maybe he's doing you and all of us a favor in being selective, now that I think about it.
    
    Thank you, Lae, for making sure faits doesn't throw his computer in the creek.

17. Maverick says:

    12-31-2011 06:38 AM

    Originally Posted by Marlin

    I honestly don't remember if I asked this last year and forgot what your answer was or if I forgot to ask last year, but is there just not a way to allow people to skip certain fields or add in a choice for 'no opinion'? Because I mean I get it, some people like Wii games still for whatever insane reason, but what the fuck do I care about them and more importantly, when I HAVE to pick one of them I'm just going to pick one randomly because I don't care and that's going to skew the results, and I'm sure the results matter to the insane people who like Nintendo games and haven't been locked in a dungeon yet. I would like to put it out there that if you HAD taken my nomination for Wii game of the year seriously and included it, I wouldn't even have anything to complain about. I mean I might have been the only one to vote for "LMAO you're kidding. You are kidding, right?" but MAYBE NOT.

    The first time we did this, there were a couple categories where NO votes were cast. And I'd really hate for it to be the "2011 Mav picks a bunch of games he likes" awards. Though that does have a nice ring to it.
    
    I guess I just figure, everyone here likes games and plays them, so they could at least make an educated stab at it. Think of yourselves as members of The Academy.

18. faits says:

    12-31-2011 07:18 AM

    members of the academy get free copies of everything though

19. Maverick says:

    12-31-2011 07:30 AM

    Well you're not actually members of The Academy. Just pretend.

20. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 08:17 AM

    Originally Posted by Maverick

    The first time we did this, there were a couple categories where NO votes were cast. And I'd really hate for it to be the "2011 Mav picks a bunch of games he likes" awards. Though that does have a nice ring to it.
    
    I guess I just figure, everyone here likes games and plays them, so they could at least make an educated stab at it. Think of yourselves as members of The Academy.

    Well, conversely, you could have accepted everyone's nominations for every category. I'd have felt a lot better about voting for Portal 2 as Wii game of the year than I did about voting for Skyward Sword simply because it was the only Wii game I'd even heard of.
    
    Besides, think of the press the VU could draw by declaring Portal 2 Wii game of the year. Gotta make a name for yourself somehow.

21. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 08:17 AM

    Originally Posted by Maverick

    The first time we did this, there were a couple categories where NO votes were cast. And I'd really hate for it to be the "2011 Mav picks a bunch of games he likes" awards. Though that does have a nice ring to it.
    
    I guess I just figure, everyone here likes games and plays them, so they could at least make an educated stab at it. Think of yourselves as members of The Academy.

    Well, conversely, you could have accepted everyone's nominations for every category. I'd have felt a lot better about voting for Portal 2 as Wii game of the year than I did about voting for Skyward Sword simply because it was the only Wii game I'd even heard of.
    
    Besides, think of the press the VU could draw by declaring Portal 2 Wii game of the year. Gotta make a name for yourself somehow.

22. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 08:18 AM

    Originally Posted by Marlin

    Well, conversely, you could have accepted everyone's nominations for every category. I'd have felt a lot better about voting for Portal 2 as Wii game of the year than I did about voting for Skyward Sword simply because it was the only Wii game I'd even heard of.
    
    Besides, think of the press the VU could draw by declaring Portal 2 Wii game of the year. Gotta make a name for yourself somehow.

    Is it too late to add another category and nominate this for best double post of the year?

23. faits says:

    12-31-2011 08:43 AM

    well conversely, you could just delete one of them
    
    just think of the press marlin would draw by deleting his own doublepost

24. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 08:46 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    well conversely, you could just delete one of them
    
    just think of the press marlin would draw by deleting his own doublepost

    It wouldn't get me any press stop saying crazy things

25. faits says:

    12-31-2011 08:48 AM

    it might get you some pressed hams

26. Marlin says:

    12-31-2011 09:20 AM

    Originally Posted by faits

    it might get you some pressed hams

    If you give me some pressed hams I will delete my doublepost.

27. Dan says:

    12-31-2011 12:52 PM

    I thought we were going to vote for the 2009 VU game of the year awards?
    
    Anyway I voted for Skyrim a lot.

28. Maverick says:

    12-31-2011 02:46 PM

    If I accepted everyone's nominations then you'd have Resident Evil 5 in the running for best Wii game of 2011 and well

29. faits says:

    12-31-2011 02:50 PM

    I don't think I nominated it for that sheesh

30. faits says:

    12-31-2011 02:50 PM

    I would vote for it though