BAFTA Game Awards 2009 - live feed

[ChrisF]

Didn't think this was headline worthy tbh - bit of a farce aren't they.

BBC are providing a live update feed of proceedings though for anyone interested : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933672.stm

[honeymustard]

Meh, they should just have Charlie Brooker present the whole thing.

[dvdmike]

Cod4 made me giggle, what year did that come out again bafta ?

[ChrisF]

Cod4 made me giggle, what year did that come out again bafta ?

Whichever year they get paid to say it came out in.

[Daragon]

Wait a sec, didn't CoD4 already win at least 1 bafta last year?

[Flabio]

There were no game BAFTA's last year. They shifted the dates around so that they come after the Christmas rush now rather than before it. That means games from as long ago as the end of 2007 are eligible this year. Normality resumes again next time.

Dead Space for best music? Erm, yeah, ok.

Still, one for us. Two career BAFTAs so far, not bad

[yesteryeargames]

mario galaxy best game, i have some respect restored to this event, read some of that bbc feed people saying its not a gamers game ? um ok lol

mario galaxy wins on MAR10

[Ouenben]

I love how CoD4 got a vote over CoDWaW. given how much coDWaW copy and pastes from CoD4 it sounds about right to me

[Darwock]

I suppose it's great that the BAFTAs are extending to the games industry but the whole thing feels a little forced. Perhaps because of comments like this...

"The night is great. I've been to Silicon Valey and seen all the programmers typing away..."

Still, one for us. Two career BAFTAs so far, not bad

Who is 'us'?

[Eps]

mario galaxy best game, i have some respect restored to this event, read some of that bbc feed people saying its not a gamers game ? um ok lol

I know! Apparently it's a super surprise winner that nobody expected, and that. Well, they maybe wouldn't have expected it if they didn't know that games from end '07 were included, but somehow I didn't think that was what was being implied, specially with the hand-in-hand reiteration of the surprise that GTA4 didn't sweep the board...

Still, I mean, I guess all us fake gamers need to be onboard with the Real Gamers (tm) who know that every single game that happens to be on the Wii is exactly equivalent to Imagine: Party Babyz, right? Right?

[Flabio]

Whoever was doing the BBC feed seemed to have some sort of pro-PC, pro-dark and edgy thing going on. Look at the number of 'i bet no PC games win' and 'you can keep your kiddy console games' comments they picked out of their mailbag.

[ChrisF]

Results

Gameplay: Call of Duty 4
Casual: Boom Blox
Sports: Race Driver: Grid
Story and Character: Call of Duty 4
Strategy: Civilisation Revolution
Best use of Audio: Dead Space
New Talent: Boro Toro
Multiplayer: Left 4 Dead
Best Technical Achievement: Spore
Original Score: Dead Space
Handheld: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
People's Choice: Call of Duty 4
Artistic Achievement: LittleBigPlanet
Best Action and Adventure: Fable II
Best Game: Super Mario Galaxy

[Darwock]

How does Mario win best game and not best gameplay?

[Kubrick]

How does Mario win best game and not best gameplay?

Because its a game you finish once then probably never touch again? Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people play COD4 every day.

[Ian(not Ian)]

Good call on Professor layton and Boom Blox, not so good on the best original score going to Dead Space when PC MMOs such as LotRO and AoC each have astounding original scores.
...and giving Spore a best technical acheivement in favour of LBP is woeful.
I'll shut up now.