So what would happen if a large gaming website allowed it’s millions of viewers from all corners of the world to vote on what should have been voted Game of the Year?
Well you end up with a list very similar to what the journalists themselves chose, but with the big name titles doing that little bit better.
Eurogamer released their top 50 a little while back and in the end they gave their Game of the Year title to LittleBigPlanet, they then allowed the users to vote and the user top 10 looks as follows.
10. Dead Space
9. Burnout Paradise (I love this game)
8. Braid
7. Left 4 Dead
6. Fable II
5. LittleBigPlanet
4. MGS4
3. Gears of War 2
2. GTA IV
and the highly intelligent users of the world have chosen
1. Fallout 3
as their top title. I think the reason Fallout 3 is so popular is summed up perfectly by a user named Hamflank who says
“You can punch people’s heads offâ€
Can a game ever get any better than that?
On a sad note they did put Prince of Persia down at number 44 which is really disappointing. Click through to see all the good and bad choices made.
Source: Eurogamer
Last Updated: January 5, 2009
janrik
January 5, 2009 at 15:43
A fairly decent list.
I think the real winners for 2008 was:
GAMERS!
murderface
January 5, 2009 at 15:46
Falllout FTW!
bokka1
January 5, 2009 at 15:58
Fallout is hands down my GOTY.
It is the most addictive game that I have played in ages.
Goose ZA
January 5, 2009 at 16:03
Prince of Persia was a b-e-a-utiful game. Innovative graphics etc and quite fun to play but it’s not GOTY material in my opionion. It’s essentially the same stage over and over and over and over and over and over and over again…. A shame really because they really did wonders with the graphics and sound etc….
gazza
January 5, 2009 at 22:25
!up is also running a reader-voting type thing at the moment aswell, it’s a lot more in depth though http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3172003
2Three
January 5, 2009 at 22:27
Well that girl is cute.
I still haven’t tried Fallout 3… next on my list I guess. Hope I like it, I’m not usually into the big open world games, but Fallout 3 certainly seems appealing.
Karl
January 5, 2009 at 22:30
Hmmm… MGS 4 deserves that #1 spot more so than Fallout 3 IMO.
Banana hammock
January 6, 2009 at 00:14
Not surprising that LBP won and did well with the readers, the game is awesome.
But i’m starting Fallout3 soon so we’ll see.