1UP Nominated Stranger

[oddguy]

Stranger is nominated for best shooter in the third annual 1UP awards.

linkage:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4229650&EDATE=

[Wolfchaser]

They totally deserve it. I hope they win. Hmm... they have a pretty good chance of winning.

[oddguy]

It is nice that Stranger was nomintaed, but the competition is pretty tough.

SHOOTING:
-- Battlefield 2 (PC) (EA)
-- Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (PS2, Xbox, PC) (Ubisoft)
-- Call of Duty 2 (PC, 360) (Activision)
-- Doom 3 (Xbox) (Activision)
-- F.E.A.R. (PC) (Vivendi)
-- Far Cry: Instincts (Xbox) (Ubisoft)
-- Half-Life 2 (Xbox) (EA/Valve)
-- Oddworld Stranger's Wrath (Xbox) (EA)
-- Perfect Dark Zero (360) (Microsoft)
-- Quake 4 (PC, 360) (Activision)
-- Resident Evil 4 (PS2, GC) (Capcom)
-- Serious Sam II (PC) (2K Games)
-- SWAT 4 (PC) (Vivendi)

-oddguy

[Havoc]

Oddworld is never gonna win from Battlefield 2. And if not thay there is still Call of Dute 2 and even Half life 2. Every single one of them were very very big hyped. Stranger was not. I guess it's the honour being nominated, but I don't think there is even a remote chance they will win.

[Xavier]

Noticed that too, I voted for Oddworld.
I reported it on OddBlog.


it isn't even listed in the game of the year category

[Havoc]

Yea I voted Oddworld as well, just out of respect :P.

[SeaRex]

Yikes! It's got some pretty stiff competition, especially from the Half-Life 2 port and Call of Duty 2.

If I were to make a list, though, it would definitely be in the top three or four. Unfortunately, I just don't think that enough people have even heard of SW for it to win anything.

Sad.

[Shrink]

The main problem with the list, is that it is a list of shooters.

[Xavier]

yep Sherry McKenna won't be happy about it
the game should be listed in adventure too

[Leto]

Wow, Stranger Vs Every other popular game of this year. Except SWAT 4. SWAT 4 was pooples.

Stranger wasn't exactly a shooter, which was the only reason Sherry let the game come to light, yes?

In the game of the year section: There was Guitar Hero, there was Guild Wars, but there was no Stranger? Feh!

[metroixer]

If somehow sw wins....Then we will expect to see this board more busy again. Or at leadt people would want to know more of the game and end up here....Hey we can dream. >_>

[Leto]

Well, if they were global awards, then yes. But some minor 1UP awards might not bring a flock of new members.

[Wolfchaser]

Well, even if they don't win they were still nominated for the... what are the 1UP awards anyway?

[metroixer]

Awards the 1UP website gives away every year I take it.

[used:)]

Ha! nothing but army games Stranger is against which truly shows a lot about video game culture these days. [/stated the obvious]

[Kimon]

Dare r only teh 4.

-- Battlefield 2 (PC) (EA)
-- Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (PS2, Xbox, PC) (Ubisoft)
-- Call of Duty 2 (PC, 360) (Activision)
-- SWAT 4 (PC) (Vivendi)

-- Doom 3 (Xbox) (Activision)
-- F.E.A.R. (PC) (Vivendi)
-- Far Cry: Instincts (Xbox) (Ubisoft)
-- Half-Life 2 (Xbox) (EA/Valve)
-- Oddworld Stranger's Wrath (Xbox) (EA)
-- Perfect Dark Zero (360) (Microsoft)
-- Quake 4 (PC, 360) (Activision)
-- Resident Evil 4 (PS2, GC) (Capcom)
-- Serious Sam II (PC) (2K Games)

[Leto]

LOLLY LOPS.

[Salamander]

hopefully SW wins, but it looks grim, super munch. What was that?

[Leto]

What was what, au?

[used:)]

I belive he is referring to your uise of Lolly words, the lolly words are used in association with the age old online phrase: "LOL." Over the years of forum fuin and addiction, we've developed little words like this to add to the fun of online language.

[Leto]

Damn you, old spice, you ruined something pun-ful. I could have been a Maori for a moment, but no.

Somehow I think that SW has already lost, not to crush anyones hopes or anything. I mean, HL2 and Doom 3 and many others, those were far more popular.

[Xavier]

lets put it this way...
Yay stranger was nominated!

lets vote for him even if we know he won't win

[Havoc]

Word up Xavier!

[oddguy]

lets put it this way...
Yay stranger was nominated!

lets vote for him even if we know he won't win

Wow...just like voting for Nader.

[Cullen Heath]

Hey I got this in an email! ( an Oddworld google alert)
Well anyways, I voted for Stranger's Wrath.


Hey, Xavier. When you were saying that Sherry wouldnt be happy about Stranger's Wrath being with shooting games, did you mean because:
" She doesnt like them, doesnt understand them,ect" "They reward the player for being a villain. You get rewarded for killing, shooting, for being the bad guy"

I dont know why but I felt like putting down some of Sherry's quotes. Well anyways that how she felt about them(not sure if those are her current feelings). And is that what you meant when you said that?

[Dipstikk]

"...You get rewarded for killing, shooting, for being the bad guy"

I admire the non-violent approach, and if you can achieve goals as great as the three heroes of Oddworld by not laying a finger on or planting a bullet in the head of your enemy, then more power to ya.

But let's face facts: a game based on Ghandi's methods would be reeeeeally boring.

You kinda have to kill your enemies in situations that Abe, Munch, or Stranger faced. It doesn't work if you don't take action. You can't just walk up to a Slig and politely ask him to stop shooting your buddy. No, you possess his snot-green ass and blow him up, or toss him in a meat grinder; teach him and the other guards that you mean business! YEAH!

A certain level of violence in a video game that's not rated E-10 is kind of a given, and why Sherry can't see or understand that is beyond me.

[Nate]

Well obviously she can see that otherwise OWI would not have made any of the games they have.

[Xavier]

also Sherry sees Stranger more as an adventure game then a shooter I believe.
at least there is a way to be nearly non lethal in stranger, wich is great

[Cullen Heath]

Yeah, thats what I meant. She just wouldnt be happy about it being in the shooting section.

I think Stranger's Wrath is adventure as well. So it probably should have been listed under that.