Game News Fallout: New Vegas - RPG of the Year

[Jason]

Tags: Fallout: New Vegas; Obsidian Entertainment

<p>PC Gamer is declaring <strong>Fallout: New Vegas</strong> their <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/11/pc-gamer-uss-games-of-the-year-awards/3/" target="_blank">Roleplaying Game of the Year</a>.</p>
<blockquote>Obsidian&rsquo;s writing sparkles with fascinating characters and quests that pay loving homage to the franchise&rsquo;s PC roots at every opportunity. Its main quest begins as a small-scale tale of personal revenge in the Mojave, but blossoms into an opportunity to decide the outcome of a wide-open conflict that will upset the balance of power of an entire region. Nothing empowers us as players more than seeing the effects of our choices play out, and Fallout: New Vegas&rsquo; conflict can be resolved in so many ways that it gives us a feeling of freedom and control virtually unprecedented among modern games. Roleplaying games don&rsquo;t get a whole lot better than this.</blockquote>
<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/01/26/new-vegas-wins-pc-gamer-rpg-of-the-year/">BethBlog</a></p>

 

[Jaesun]

 

[Melcar]

Well, shit.

 

[racofer]

Bethesda does it again.

 

[IronicNeurotic]

They gave it mainly because of writing and C&C so I can agree.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Yup.

 

[baronjohn]

RPGs these days are made for 12 year olds, so this is entirely appropriate.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Haters gonna hate.

Yup.

 

[Konjad]

yay for New Vegas!

 

[Xor]

Bethesda does it again.

 

[racofer]

What? It's their IP now isn't it?

 

[torpid]

They chose it for the right reasons, so this is

Although they'll still rave over the nextgen crap being shovelled out, it seems that gaming journos do acknowledge a good game when they see one -- how much of that is due to Bethesda producing the game, I don't know.

Skyrim will be 10/10 GOTY 2011 regardless.

 

[oldmanpaco]

What else was in the running for 2010? And where is our Codex RPG game of the year article?

 

[IronicNeurotic]

They chose it for the right reasons, so this is

Although they'll still rave over the nextgen crap being shovelled out, it seems that gaming journos do acknowledge a good game when they see one -- how much of that is due to Bethesda producing the game, I don't know.

Skyrim will be 10/10 GOTY 2011 regardless.

2011 is Bethesda vs Bioware

Will we survive?

 

[DalekFlay]

They chose it for the right reasons, so this is

Yes indeed.

Plus they would never give it to an indie game, so what were their other options really? Arcania?

 

[racofer]

Bioware will win by a mile. DA2 and ME3 will shit all over anything released this year and will be the bestest gaemz eVAH1

 

[Eyeball]

NV is a good game. I had fun with it.

Well deserved prize, in my opinion.

If not NV, what game SHOULD have won it?

 

[Andyman Messiah]

The new Halo game.

 

[commie]

 

[Konjad]

Bioware will win by a mile. DA2 and ME3 will shit all over anything released this year and will be the bestest gaemz eVAH1

either way we lose

 

[Jaesun]

Also NV broke JE's curse. So it's all good.

 

[J_C]

They chose it for the right reasons, so this is

Although they'll still rave over the nextgen crap being shovelled out, it seems that gaming journos do acknowledge a good game when they see one -- how much of that is due to Bethesda producing the game, I don't know.

Skyrim will be 10/10 GOTY 2011 regardless.

2011 is Bethesda vs Bioware

Yep, they will fight for the 2nd place. Since the 1st one is already reserved for CD Projekt and The Witcher 2.

 

[Peter]

 

[Pegultagol]

Obsidian's entry in 2011 after NV: Dungeon Siege III

right back on track where they aspire to be...any takers whether this would prove whether NV was a momentary lapse in Obsidian's descent to undermountain?

 

[J_C]

Obsidian's entry in 2011 after NV: Dungeon Siege III

right back on track where they aspire to be...any takers whether this would prove whether NV was a momentary lapse in Obsidian's descent to undermountain?

I have faith in them, and I think they will make a good hack 'n slash-action-rpg (whatever genre it will be). But I'm just a Obsidian fanboy, so I might be wrong.

 

[Grunker]

 

[Ogg]

2011 is Bethesda vs Bioware

Yep, they will fight for the 2nd place. Since the 1st one is already reserved for ITS and AoD.

Fix'd