Year Of The Game Of The Year
by John on Jan.03, 2010, under Main Stuff
Given that I’ve allowed Activision (grudgingly) back into my good graces, I decided now was as good a time as any to try getting into the first of the Modern Warfare games. I also figured it was worth picking up Left 4 Dead 1 on the cheap as well, mostly for the gamerscore but also because I don’t boot into Windows mode often enough to warrant relying on the PC version.
What makes this weird, at least for me, is that both of the discs I picked up were the “Game of the Year” editions. Ordinarily this isn’t that big of a deal, as Call of Duty 4 and Left 4 Dead came out in different years. But I also happen to have the Gears of War 2 “Game of the Year” edition, which shows that its release date was in 2008. Alongside Left 4 Dead. Both games claim upwards of 30 award wins. Which leads me to the obvious and only rational conclusion.
Tales of Vesperia got shafted.
January 6th, 2010 on 3:58 pm
Well, considering that Namco Bandai shafted the 360 with the beta version of Vesperia (compare the stuff obviously added to the PS3 version hinted at in the 360 version), there’s a reason Vesperia isn’t mentioned in those discussions.
January 6th, 2010 on 5:40 pm
That, and it came out in 2008.