Far Cry 3 and Tomb Raider aren't out until next fall, but other than that, nice list.
It's not a game of the year award, it's a 'game which is the most like art' award, large difference.
No, it's not ready yet. The pre order bonus was that, when Back to Karkand releases, we get it for free, but none of us have it yet because it's still being finished. It will release in December for everyone, not just pre-orderers.
You also get a bunch new weapons, a new faction and maybe some new vehicles as well, so it's not all bad. Besides, it's free if you've preordered it.
Again, XGamer, if you'd listen, it is co-op only, there is no competitive aspect to it whatsoever.
Not in this case, in fact. Bioware have a separate team working on multiplayer, Montreal, whilst the main team, Edmonton, carry on making the SP. The single player would be exactly the same regardless of whether multiplayer is in the game or not.
Cliff Blezenski (sp.), lead designer and I think project manager at Epic Games, creator of Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Shadowrun, among others.
I disagreed with you, if it's any help :D
Nah, everything you said is correct and I completely agree, but I just felt like hitting the disagree button for irony's sake.
Hehe, System Wars ;)
The place seems more tied up over how Gears 3 scored 9.5 to Uncharted 3's 9.0 at the moment, which is rather funny, and of course GTA V being announced and everyone shouting about it being crap because IV and RDR were crap (not my opinion, but hey) BF3 is being comparitively overlooked.
System Wars is a funny place...
@Stewie2k8 - Yup. And Rockstar North are based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
You'd be surprised, only a few big games per year do global release dates (this year, only MW3, Skyrim and Skyward Sword, if my memory serves me correct and both Skyrim and Skyward Sword are coming out on Fridays, the traditional European release date, anyway). It's generally the industry norm to stick to traditional day-of-week release dates (ie. NA on Tuesday, Australia on Thursday, PAL on Friday), and it's something EA has never really not done.
I will suck, for sure. I sucked in the beta, so I'll probably suck now. I did get lots of points for being helpful, though, but I sucked bad.
Probably.
Loving the logo. Hope it's as much like Ballad of Gay Tony as possible, that's pretty much my benchmark as to what GTA games should be like now.
First week? Say, around 3 or 4 million, give or take a million. Overall? Around 8-9 million, maybe as high as 10 who knows, not as much as MW3 but a lot more than BC2.
As I posted above, instead of going from New Year 2011 to New Year 2012, instead of it being the 'best game of 2011' or whatever, they go from summer 2010 to summer 2011, hence they're doing it so early. They haven't just left out all the other games releasing this year, they'll be in next years awards, if you see what I mean. Essentially, they count the year as going from September to August, rather than January to December. Odd, but hey
Yeah, bizarrely, the Golden Joysticks are done from summer to summer - this years GotY, for example, would be the best game between August 2010 and August 2011, that's just how it works. Hence Black Ops, AC Brotherhood, Starcraft 2, Fallout New Vegas, which all released last holiday season, are in this year's awards, and UC3 and Arkham City, among others, are not.
There is definitely footage of the RPG elements around somewhere. I don't have time to link it, but watch the Gamespot E3 Stage Demo of ME3, the 15 minute one, about 2-3 minutes in they show the RPG elements, of which there is more than ME2.
Very close to what I'd put, actually. If this were 2006, then I'd put Rare instead of Nintendo, but look at where they are now...
Valve are definitely number 1, Blizzard are definitely number 2 and DICE, Nintendo, Bungie and IW can all fight it out for 3,4 and 5.
It's been in every Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind, how have you not noticed?