Castle Crashers won in three catagories: Game of the Year, Best Original Game, and Best Co-op Mode. Bionic Commando Rearmed, on the other hand, won nothing. You fail me yet again, Starscream.
An astounding 185,000+ people went through the trouble of downloading an application from Xbox LIVE to vote for their favorite games for the second annual XBLA Awards. Impressive, to say the least.
I'm not embarrassed to admit it's nice to see a game like A Kingdom for Keflings take a victory, even if it is just the Best Family Game award. After a long day of obliterating Majinis in Resident Evil 5, it's the perfect title to bring you back into a more relaxed state of mind.
Check after the break for the full list of winners.
Game of the Year:
Castle Crashers
Best Versus Mode:
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Best Single Player Game:
Portal: Still Alive
Best Remake:
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Best Original Game:
Castle Crashers
Best Innovation:
Braid
Best Graphics:
Super Street Fight II Turbo HD Remix
Best Family Game:
A Kingdom for Keflings
Best Co-op Mode:
Castle Crashers
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4:40 PM on 03.23.2009
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Terrible results.
Daaang, we need more categories.
I love CC but I'm surprised that game was still supported after being so broken. Luckily I actually bought it after the fixes, so I had no problems.
I hate people.
The problem is you need to re-authenticate it when you get back. It can only be active on one machine (which means you need internet access on the one you want to play it on). When you de-activate the other copy, it will revert to a demo. I think this is right, sorry if I've made any mistakes on how it works.
Makes a lot of sense though, I just found it funny how I can't play a game that i've paid money for when I tried it on a different machine. (Naivitie really showing through now, as that's probably the way around not having one person download a game and give it to everyone they know >.<) Still, its not like the old days when you could chuck out a cartridge and take it round a friends house... gah I miss that..
I can easily sort this by buying a bigger cable that I can actually keep plugged in all the time. Thanks much!
BC:R is EASILY the best remake of a game. How can SSF II even compare?
Castle Crashers is a great game, but it was broken for so long that I lost interest before it was fixed.
And let's not forget that BC:R was actually priced appropriately.
after plugging the LAN cable in, but when I took it out the game was still a demo for some unknown reason to me.
The solution? Redownload it on your other Xbox. Go into the game marketplace and find the full game link; it should have a checkmark next to it.
PSN handles it much better. I think it's at least 3(?) full game licenses on any PS3.
BIAS
Have you been living under a rock? CC online was unplayable, and randomly some people's characters would be deleted.
If you got it after the patch that took months to come out; grats! Otherwise, it sucked.
It's well known that not everybody that got the game was affected, so it stands to reason that there is a large percentage of people that will have an almost unconditional love for the game. I know that one of my knights got deleted, but I just leveled him back up, because that was easily the most fun I've had in an XBLA game ever, so I wasn't bothered by getting back to level 60.
I concur that Megaman 9 needs some love, I think that Braid was the most overrated game of '08, and BC didn't appeal to me after a few minutes of hands on time.
Also, Puzzle Quest should have won something. Maybe next year a category for each genre?