Rant Vol.1

I have realized that I haven't let out the beast within and had my rant about the Video Game Awards from yesterday. First of all I can see that whoever decides the winners, is extremely influenced by fanboyism. It was all good until I read that Modern Warfare beat Battlefield. Now really looking at in terms of quality of the games taking out the factor of previous fanboyism, Battlefield 3 is the superior game whereas Modern Warfare 3 would more suit the DLC award since really that's all it feels like is DLC for Modern Warfare 2. Then there's Best Indie Game. I know I'm going to end up in a huge shit storm for this (pardon my vulgar language) but Minecraft isn't deserving for that award, especially when put up against a game like Bastion. Yes Minecraft is popular, yes Minecraft is fun to play, yes Minecraft is somewhat original but in my eyes Bastion is more original, more fun, less repetitive and definitely more deserving of the award. Bastion had a brilliant art design behind it, with it's beauty being up there with Trine 2 and Skyrim. It also had a very innovative way to tell the story, Minecraft doesn't even have a story. Glad to see Bastion at least got best downloadable game. My last part of the rant is about the best graphics award. What does that even mean? Are we talking about the beauty of the game, the innovatory of the graphics used, or just best improvement from it's previous game? None of the nominees deserved it, and if any out of them should've won, it should have been L.A. Noire as it brought the technology of motion capture faces into video games. C'mon you know the graphics were good when you could easily pick out that it was the guy out of heroes, or it was Walter (John Noble). But seriously there were some other games more deserving of at least being nominated for Best Graphics. Trine 2, Bastion and Skyrim are just a few examples of this year that were deserving of it. End of rant.