Portal is the Game of the Year at GDC

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Portal just won Game of the Year, Best Game Design, and the 2007 Innovation Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco tonight! I am so happy!

Or as Gabe Newell said at the podium:

msleeper · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:43 am Post subject:

Grudge · Buenoman? Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 369

Nothing for Ep2 or tf2 though. :/

Ah well, that's pretty sweet.

taco · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:02 am Post subject:

Grats to Portal!

On another note, I still don't understand how BioShock gets so much recognition for it's story (it won for best writing) - the twist in the middle of the game felt like something from a choose-you-own-adventure book and the ending was so bad that I felt sick for 2 weeks.

Hober · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:09 am Post subject:

I think it's the fact that it left such an impact on you that is a part of why it is so praised.

msleeper · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:14 am Post subject:

I unfortunately have still yet to play it.

youme · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:46 am Post subject:

woop portal Very Happy its aabout time it got some game of the century awards too..
Episode 2 is good, but not really award worthy, It suffers from being the middle in the trio - no real begining - no real ending - just more of the same (But that doesn't stop it being really quite awesome along the way)
TF2 is great fun, I'm thoroughly enjoying mapping for it now and testing those maps aswell as playing other customs and the new badlands map. I don't think its worthy of any major awards, maybe a few. All three beat most other games out this year though.

about bioshock: I thought the tech demos looked fantastic and I really wanted to get it, all the reviews were fantastic and there was lots of hype. I downloaded the demo and was sickened. If the actual game is anything like the demo it gets a big fat 0/10 from me.

Grudge · Buenoman? Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 369

youme · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

dang you read me like a book!

Ralen · Superior Participant Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 70

youme

taco · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

I usually pronounce orange with only 1 syllable.

rellikpd · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:

bizob · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject:

Yay for Portal. It's nice to see innovation and good old fashioned "fun" game design rewarded.

I gotta agree with youme about Ep2 suffering from middle-child syndrome, but I will say it moved the storyline along and I am looking forward to Ep3 so in that regard it was successful. Yes TF2 is a lot of fun to play but theres nothing innovative or even new to the game. It's basically the same mod (and maps) as the original, just on the source engine.

I only played the demo of BioShock. I thought it looked great but the game play really did nothing for me.

msleeper · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: