This pretty much sums it up:


(And there's Part 2 as well)

And yeah, I hope AO wins against it - It's a lot more deserving since Oddworld is a hell of a lot more innovative and original than Metal Gear, in terms of art style.

Would you be angry on me if I voted for MGS series which I love? I know I can't vote for both.
(Asking because of curiousity...)

Why would any of us be angry for you voting for something you like? Do what you want, it's your choice.

Absolutely. And if none of us ever speak to you again, you can rest assured it's for some completely separate, albeit nondescript, reason.

Not only will I hate you but I'll chop of the ear of one of your beloved pets and sew it onto my forehead. Find you and force you caress it with your tongue. Then I'll leave.

Yes you can. You can vote for multiple games, up to a limit of (I think it was) 80 games.

That's true, but both MGS and Oddworld are in the same "Action Genre" (which is so unbelievably stupid) and I simply get no option for voting for Oddworld after I did it with MGS :/ Maybe 80, but only one from each category... Another stupid thing is that Crash Bandicoot is there also. What's so similar in terms of art style, game genre, gameplay, anything for them to put on the same shelf? Geez.

Dude, follow your heart. Vote for the game you feel you have to vote for.

As long as it's Oddworld right?

...and Yar's Revenge

i hope ao gets in, i voted for it ages ago

voted AO hope it wins :)

Out of curiosity, when is the voting finishing?

No idea, so I guess you can still vote.

from today until April 27

Just got an email from them:

I voted twice-with my e-mail and with my mothers'

Got an email from them, just like everybody else I guess

Awhh, Oddworld did NOT win :(

Of course MGS was the winner in our catagory.

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibition...nninggames.pdf

Well thats why these contests always annoy me. They aren't about the most artistic games/items or the most deserving. It's just a popularity contest.

It's not to say that MGS didn't deserve to win. I haven't played it so I cant judge, but I really do think its just a popularity contest x_x buh. But maybe that's what they were after anyway.

I had a feeling it wouldn't win. Oh well.

At least Fallout won, that was my second vote. I agree with Nexy on this, it's just whatever game you know you vote for...would have been nice to see the stats though, to see how close it was.

Its shameful Oddworld didn't get in. People just voted for their favorite game, they didn't put any thought into their vote. Its ART OF VIDEOGAMES. Oddworld has amazing background and depth to it.

At least Okami and Earthworm Jim made it in.

But thats exactly the thing. Oddworld would have been a perfect representation of ART in games.... Dunno about MGS... Ive been backseater a few times for people who played it, and it seemed like a very exciting games with a good story. But when it gome to art, Oddworld just takes the cake. That's why i think these voting contests just dont cut it very well :(


Anyway I also voted Starcraft and Command and Conquer. THough I think C&C should have won as that was the game that set out the basics for what the next few RTS games would be like... Like CnC and Dune was the mother and father of RTS.

>_< Well Obviously Im just rambling.

Unfortunately, MGS is a perfect represenation of art in games, just like Oddworld, it's a shame they fell the the same vote category... MGS sure is more popular than Oddworld :/

I don't know if I can agree with that, but I do think the "one game per group" setup was pretty unfair. If it was just a "here's the list of videogames from this era, vote for your favourite five", the results could have been very different.

I can't really say MGS deserves the art spot, even being a MGS fanatic from 1996, but MGS2 takes that role completely well. The thing about Metal Gear is that, although the artistic direction from them is quite different from Oddworld, one being 90% inspired on reality and other 100% fiction, both games pass their themes, messages and resolutions to make a better world or Oddworld. And since art can be defined by passing themes, politic directions, resolutions to the world, etc., I think both are great contenders. AND, if you know both series, you know that the purpose for both games isn't that far fetched as many of you think.

Now, the voting system? Not really good, as said above, it's more like a popularity contest.

Foxdie...?

Nanomachines.

Don't count MGS4 and you'll be a happy man. The series now is just going downhill...the last really good one was MGS2.

If it was a popularity contest then CoD would have won every category it was in. Halo 3 would have beaten Bioshock, etc. The only thing I found strange is Halo 2 being there but not Halo 1.

ITT:"People have different opinions than mine, the system must be broken"

Bioshock is also a very popular game, you know.

Also Halo 3 has received a lot of hate and criticism from people, despite its huge sales.