We're moments away from the televised broadcast of the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards, live from Los Angeles, California.
Now despite the fact that I am on the 2008 VGA Advisory Council this year, helping to pick both nominees and award winners, I'm not able to attend in person. That honor goes to our very own Chad Concelmo, who just a few moments ago text messaged me "ZOMG FAMOUS PEOPLE!" after seeing what I can only assume to be be actual "famous people."
And since you can't be there either, here's what we at Destructoid propose -- we all watch it together! The show is airing live on Spike TV (check your local listings) at 9 PM EST. If you don't have cable or are too lazy to turn on your television, you can also check the broadcast from four different angles online.
Hit the jump for our full live blog, along with a list of nominees (and my own personal choices as a VGA Advisory Council member -- yes, I expect to get flamed for some of them).
Fun things are fun!
[Update: Long-time Dtoider and swell guy Electro Lemon will be streaming the broadcast live, and has set up a chat stream via Ustream.tv. We'll all be in there watching the show ... come join us!]
[Update 2: The show is over, as is the live chat, which quickly turned into close to 200 people just yelling at each other. Thanks for watching along with us. We'll be posting all of the world premiere trailers over the next day, so be sure to check back.
Winners (in bold) after the jump.]
Game of the Year
Grand Theft Auto IV (Nick's pick)
LittleBigPlanet
Fallout 3
Metal Gear Solid 4
Gears of War 2
Studio of the Year
Media Molecule
Rockstar North
Harmonix
Bethesda Game Studios (Nick's pick)
Best Shooter
Far Cry 2
Resistance 2
Gears of War 2 (Nick's pick)
Left 4 Dead
Best RPG
Fable II
Fallout 3 (Nick's pick)
Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
The World Ends With You
Best Fighting Game
SoulCalibur IV (Nick's pick)
Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
Best Individual Sports Game
Shaun White Snowboarding (Nick's pick)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
Wii Fit
Skate It
Best Handheld Game
God of War: Chains of Olympus (Nick's pick)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Patapon
Castlevania Order of Eccelsia
Best Graphics
Gears of War 2 (Nick's pick)
Fallout 3
LittleBigPlanet
Metal Gear Solid 4
Best Game Based on a Movie or a TV Show
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
Quantum of Solace (Nick's pick)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Naruto: The Broken Bond
Best Music Game
Rock Band 2 (MTV Games/ Harmonix) (Nick's pick)
Guitar Hero World Tour (RedOctane/ Activision Publishing/ Neversoft Entertainment)
Wii Music (Nintendo/ Nintendo)
SingStar (Sony Computer Entertainment/ SCE Studios London)
Best Driving Game
Burnout Paradise (Nick's pick)
Pure
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Mario Kart Wii
Best Action Adventure Game
Grand Theft Auto IV (Nick's pick)
Dead Space
Mirror’s Edge
Metal Gear Solid 4
Best Team Sports Game
NHL 09 (Nick's pick)
Madden NFL 09
NBA 2K9
FIFA Soccer 09
Best Soundtrack
LittleBigPlanet
Grand Theft Auto IV
Rock Band 2 (Nick's pick)
Guitar Hero World Tour
Best Xbox 360 Game
Fable II
Gears of War 2
Grand Theft Auto IV (Nick's pick)
Fallout 3
Best Wii Game
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Boom Blox (Nick's pick)
Wii Fit
No More Heroes
Best PS3 Game
Metal Gear Solid 4
Resistance 2
LittleBigPlanet (Nick's pick)
Grant Theft Auto IV
Best PC Game
Spore
Crysis Warhead
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Left 4 Dead (Nick's pick)
Best Original Score
Fallout 3
Spore
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Nick's pick)
LittleBigPlanet
Best Multiplayer Game
Gears of War 2 (Nick's pick)
Left 4 Dead
Resistance 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Best Performance by a Human Male
Michael Hollick as Niko Bellic in GTA IV
David Hayter as Old Snake in MGS 4
Stephen Fry as The Narrator in LBP
Jason Zumwalt as Roman Bellic in GTA IV (Nick's pick)
Best Performance by a Human Female
Nathalie Cox as Juno Eclipse in The Force Unleashed
Debi Mae West as Meryl Silverburgh: MGS 4
Paula Tiso as Silvia Christel in No More Heroes (Nick's pick)
Keeley Hawes Lara Croft in Tomb Raider Underworld
Best Independent Game Fueled by Mountain Dew (Chosen by viewers)
World of Goo
PixelJunk Eden
Braid
AudioSurf
Contest:
7:41 PM on 12.14.2008
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HIGH FIVE!
No.
Way to go buddy, you screwed it up.
It's madness, I tell you!
If GTA4 was a better game it would have won for 360 right? You know what, forget it. Award shows are stupid anyway.
Show was horrible. I usually like Jack Black, but he was annoying the hell out of me.
Even the GoW3 footage was too short to redeem the show. Looked good though.
And why the redundant categories for best game for each platform and then Game of the Year? It gives you a weird situation where Gears 2 beats GTA IV for Best Xbox 360 Game, but loses to GTA IV for game of the year. I know WHY it happens (because other system's exclusives take votes away from Gears in the GoTY voting), but it still makes the whole thing look like a farce. Which it is.
Um...but Jack Black hasn't produced good music in the last 5 years. The D has clearly taken a permanent backseat to his acting career (which is understandable, if disappointing) and the soundtrack to the movie was a let-down.
Also, is it safe to assume NHL09 got best team sports game?
RAGE!
GRAND THEFT AUTO 4 IS NOT A BETTER ACTION ADVENTURE GAME THAN METAL GEAR SOLID 4!
Sorry, I'm just a little peeved by the whole affair, and my dick is so hard for Kojima.
And yes GTA4 is much better than MGS4...much much better...you're comparing a game to a movie you realize.
I just don't consider Grand Theft Auto an "action-adventure" game. That's all.
I've come to the realisation that they are all as worthless as eachother (Since Juno won a fucking Oscar). They are supposed to be a sybol of recognition but everyone treats them almost like a fact, as if to say "Well opinions are subjective, but if you make a shiney object to go with that opinion, it becomes something more."
You can barely say Spike awards are worth less than any other award. There is no presitige. It's all just dressed up opinion. Some are dressed more classy than others. All it takes is to get some statues made, a venue booked and agents, the more money you have the more prestige you can buy.
"You're nothing with an award if you can't be something without one" - (Paraphrased) John Candy, Cool Runnings haha! Can't argue with that.
wtf?
Awesome.