Game News Mass Effect 2 is BAFTA Worthy

[Jason]

Tags: BioWare; Mass Effect 2

<p>The <a href="http://www.bafta.org/press/game-british-academy-video-games-awards-winners-in-2011,140,SNS.html" target="_blank">British Academy of Film and Television Arts</a> has recognized the superiority of <strong>Mass Effect 2</strong> to all other games in the past year.</p>
<blockquote>MASS EFFECT 2 triumphed in the Best Game category. Lauded by the jury as a &ldquo;combined achievement of technology, art, design [and] audio&hellip; a beautiful complete gaming experience&rdquo;.</blockquote>
<p>If you're wondering how relevant the judgements of BAFTA are, please note that Fallout: New Vegas was nominated in the <a href="http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/video-games-awards-nominees-in-2010,1656,BA.html#jump11" target="_blank">Strategy category</a>.</p>
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[Micromegas]

Why are the Academy for Film and Television giving awards to games in the first place?

Literary critics don't give out awards to films. Why are these people trying to judge a medium they aren't familiar with?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

<p>If you're wondering how relevant the judgements of BAFTA are, please note that Fallout: New Vegas was nominated in the <a href="http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/video-games-awards-nominees-in-2010,1656,BA.html#jump11" target="_blank">Strategy category</a>.

Maybe a subtle nod toward the origins of RPGs being wargames?

 

[Xor]

Because games are trying really hard to be like movies.

 

[mondblut]

Mass Effect 2 is NAMBLA Worthy

Fixed for truth.

 

[Arcanoix]

BAFTA are a bunch of retards.

Seriously.

 

[waywardOne]

just the british pretending to be relevant on the world stage. move along.

 

[l3loodAngel]

British Academy of Film and Television Arts has recognized the superiority of Mass Effect 2 to all other games in the past year.
MASS EFFECT 2 triumphed in the Best Game category. Lauded by the jury as a “combined achievement of technology, art, design [and] audio… a beautiful complete gaming experience”.
If you're wondering how relevant the judgements of BAFTA are, please note that Fallout: New Vegas was nominated in the Strategy category.

Other strategy nominees include Plants vs Zombies XBLA. If you are wondering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCOEvqNDyrA. These people are seriously fucking retarded and have no idea what are they talking about.
And don't try to insult NAMBLA with Ass Effect 2...

 

[racofer]

Suck it down, bitches!

 

[Black]

It was BARF worthy for me.

 

[Azrael the cat]

As much as I prefer British culture to American in most ways (though I'd say the norm of british comedians/comedies > US comedians/comedies that I grew up with has since been reversed), there's an embarassing tendency among British institutions to try desperately desperately hard to show that they're 'hip with the youth thing, because we, like, understand that new fad MySpace and the internet and stuff'.

Case in point: that tv show Skins.

But even in their better shows (and I freaken love both old and new versions of Doctor Who, especially the stuff written by Moffat, both as a guest writer and since he took over the reigns last season, so this hurts) they do it - Dr Who is filled with it. I don't know where it comes from, but the Americans seem to have a lot of youngish 20-35 writers doing that kind of stuff, whereas the Brits have a bunch of middle-aged 45+ writers trying to show how hip and youthful they are.

BAFTAs covering games is just one more case in point. I'm an oldie myself, but I suspect the kids would look at that and think 'why are those guys who know film/TV really well, and games really badly, giving awards to games - aren't they just damaging their credibility?'

One of the best British miniseries I've seen in recent years was Moffat's modern-setting 'Hyde' (as in, Jekyll and Hyde, although it isn't really a version of the original - links to it in a partial of way, eventually), which does the exact opposite. It's middle-aged Moffat doing a mini-series about a middle-aged guy who spends most of the series emasculating/killing/torturing all these ultra-pretty, ultra-hip young guys, with the 'young hip sexy' Michelle Ryan being reduced to a school-girl crush on him, to which he is completely oblivious as he chases his middle-aged alpha female ex-wife. It's like one long middle-finger extended to 'the youth' Fucking awesome mini-series, I heartily recommend it any Codexer who is feeling old and past it.

 

[turn_based_fanboy]

Mass Effect 2 is worth only one movie award:

Golden Raspberry Award

 

[Gay-Lussac]

British institutions

Case in point: that tv show Skins.

 

[Deleted Member 10432]

BAFTA is half a dozen luvvies congratulating one another at nauseating length. There is nothing of value at the BAFTAs anyway, unless you enjoy watching the criminally smug telling each other who wonderful they are. In which case, you are probably Stephen Fry and should fuck off.

and I freaken love... new versions of Doctor Who

Your opinion is worthless, then.

 

[MetalCraze]

Why are the Academy for Film and Television giving awards to games in the first place?

It doesn't give any awards to games.