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Community Choice! Game of the Year Semi-Final Round 2: L.A. Noire Versus Dark Souls

Posted on Friday, December 16 @ 17:59:58 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

You guys know how this goes! GameRevolution will be publishing our Game of the Year picks soon and your nominations in each category will be called out in each of those post.

But enough about us! We want to let the world know what the GameRevolution community thinks! That's why we're going to tournament style our way down to one game to rule them all. Your nominations for Game of the Year will enter and only one will leave... maybe a little bruised, a little beaten, but all the better for it. Let's get to it with the second round!

Dark Souls

From GameRevolution's Review:

Why do we so readily submit ourselves to the torturous wretches this industry dreams up? Why do we take on impossibilities as if they were surmountable challenges? There's a healthy balance to games like From Software's Dark Souls. You risk your time, your energy, your sanity all for that sweet, brief taste of victory.

L.A. Noire

From UghRochester's Member Review:

This is by far one best games I’ve ever seen from Rockstar. Rockstar’s new approach maybe a little bold, but man you got to love it. Again, their MotionScan is incredibly well done. Being able to actually interrogate people was so realistic. Luckily, Rockstar gave L.A. Noire an amazing cast. This game deserve its A-.

GO TO THIS FORUM THREAD TO CAST YOUR VOTE!

Related Games: Dark Souls, L.A. Noire

Tags: Community, Game of the Year

Comments

usaglory
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Dec 16th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Dan, I started following these showdowns a bit late. I want to know if this contest was open only to console games, and if so why? Were games like Ocarina 3D, Super Mario Land 3D or Mario Kart 7 not good enough to be contenders?

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 16th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
The community game of the year showdown is based solely on nominations from the community (which were held in the forums). Super Mario 3D Land is actually in the running for GameRevolution's staff Game of the Year award.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 16th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
I had originally planned on doing quick showdowns for individual categories as well, but instead community nominations will get "honorable mentions" in the GameRev GotY categories.

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J03
Joined: Aug 2011

Posted: Dec 17th, 2011 at 4:34 am
Because those game have already been played. Ocarina, 1998. SML3D, was basically SM64, 1996. and Mario Kart 7 was well... the other eight did that. You can't be game of the year if its been done before. They deserve nods for being fun to play but, as for being game of the year... simply no. They are not contenders.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Dec 18th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Super Mario 3D Land is NOT like Super Mario 64 at all.

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friggest
Joined: Mar 2008

Posted: Dec 17th, 2011 at 5:19 am
So...I'm creating hundreds if not thousands of Gmail accounts in order to create accounts on GR, just to skew the results of the voting. Am I kidding?

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warmaster670
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Dec 17th, 2011 at 7:33 am
If you arn't, jokes kinda on you.

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