I totally agree with the above statement and have a couple things to add. In my opinion the Spike TV VGA's are no more than a cheap video game award show with a serious sterotype about games and the people that play them. It's Hollywoods wish-wash think they know what the Hell a good video game is, put some movie star in to introduce so people think its cool. I mean come on most of these people didnt even play (what they think are great) games until the PS2 or X-Box were invented. Oh yeah, who the hell are the judges on these games? Twilight Princess....wtf! The ground breaking technology in portal uhh thats the Source engine at work, been here since 2004. I think that the VGA's are making a great industry look bad. They dont even look into worthy games. One more rant BioShock is a cool game but it was too easy and to short with no multiplayer. Cant touch Crysis or COD4. The Spike TV VGA's is showing it's MTV heritage, by becoming pop culture crap. Thanks MTV you're ruining another great thing again! Cancel the VGA's or let somebody who knows what the hell is going on in the gaming world run it. G4 for instance.

"Rock Band beat out Guitar Hero III for the Best Rhythm Game, and it also grabbed the Best Soundtrack Award. Tough to argue with those choices."

Umm, I have no problem with Rock Band -- EXCEPT its soundtrack. Its terrible in comparison to Guitar Hero 3 (or 2 for that matter).

Then again, since MTV is under the same ownership as Spike TV, I am not at all shocked that the MTV-branded inferior-soundtracked "Rock Band" would get a win here.

Lame.

i don't find it surprising halo 3 did not win many award it the most hyped up game out there. 'if there was a award for hype then halo franchise would win hand down. otherwise halo will always be a over rated product that microsoft will bank on to save there ship from sinking. i'll agree that cod4 should have been nominated for game of the year and i believe i should have taken home that honor. for all you halo fan for first month or 2 that all you seen online was poeple playing halo 3 and now everyone playing cod4 admiting halo 3 was a bad purchase. never played rock band but guitar hero 3 does rock. I realy enjoyed there soundtrack.

All I know is the way the winners were presented was cool. Body painting should be standard award presenting material.

Well for one thing Halo3 was to much like halo2. To give them the top award. And to short. BioShock was so much more then halo3 in game play and graphics.

Crysis didnt win because its a mediocre game with amazing graphics.

Watch the portal commentary and it will give you a glimpse into why it won the award. Saved films feature in Halo3 isn't new or breakthrough, it is done well though.

To me COD4 isn't really a full game, Bioshock deserves the game of the year award more than it. It is probably the most polished shooter to date, but while intense I feel the single player was much too short. On the other hand Bioshock has a good storyline, rpg elements, and shooter elements as well as a compelling singleplayer mode. All around I think Bioshock was the better game, but shooter? Definitely COD4.

I would have chosen either COD4 or TF2 as the best multiplayer game over Halo3. Both are extremely addicting, with TF2 being outrageously fun because of the atmosphere thanks to the Valve team, and COD4 with great action, graphics, and customizable classes.

I'm embarrassed that awards show even exists. I wouldn't even waste my time watching it, so I can only imagine how bad it would be to sit through it. It's like the Academy Awards with D-list celebrities who have little to no association with games. I don't know how they manage to snag Samuel L. Jackson. He either loves games, gets paid a lot, or just really comes through with the favors. Game award shows will continue to have no credibility for as long as they try to make it hip and cater to the teen demographic. An award show is pretty much the only place for game makers to get the limelight when instead we get reality show rejects.

So far the best award show I've ever seen was G-Phoria 2007 because a) it featured the X-Play hosts breezing through all of the categories with no audience and b) they made fun of the award shows of years past. They definitely made the right choice making G-Phoria 2007 low-key and handing it over to X-Play. Still, a lot needs to be done for video game award shows to have any kind of integrity.

No COD4 nomination for best game?!?! That's crazy. IMO it was by far the best game this year. And the multiplayer is even better than the single player. Halo 3 was fun, but the multiplayer isn't that great (probably because its console only). As for the best studio award, blatant self promotion, but I'd expect nothing less from MTV.

I agree with many of their choices... imo better than most of the MTV and VH1 "Top 100 whatever of all time" lists - which are usually horrible.

Portal really wasn't new tech... but rather a fairly significant expansion in the concept of a first person game. Lots of FPS's have had puzzle aspects - but Portal revolutionizes that idea and proves that fps puzzles can BE the game, not just be a part of a game.

I expect we'll see portal apsects in the next HL release, and that could result in HL being even more amazing than it already is.

Nerf Warlocks!

I liked the world premier aspect of the video game awards. Showing the next "Big" titles that are up and coming. Except for Little Big GAY Planet. But you really have to give it to the cameramen for airming the camera right on the hot chicks camel toe presenting the winner of the category. All Hail body painting!!

Hands down COD4 should have been game of the year. It may be short on regular. try it on Veteran and that will give you double to triple or even quadruple the time it took to pass it on regular. So overall even if it was short, its much longer if you try it on veteran. And i'm quite sad that crysis didn't make that list either. And as for Halo3, well its a great game, and its multiplayer/Co-op abilities are quite fun and take the game a step further then what COD4 offers. All in all i think the VGA's should die, and a voting system should be implemented. Kind of like dialing a number that'd be cool, that way its not just random BS.. Ehh at least in general from a gamers perspective we all know what games deserve what.

In response to the first comment by Casey: Are you kidding? G4 is more childish than MTV could ever hope to be.

As far as everything else, meh. A lot of video games are over-rated and were simply nominated because they got a lot of hype. I do agree with the soundtrack to Rock Band being better than Guitar Hero 3. There are only a few songs from GH3 that I'd like to see in Rock Band but a lot of songs in Rock Band I'd like to see in GH3.

I was too busy staring at the painted beauties, to realize who actually won any awards!

Ok, I think everyone is getting sick of these awards shows for the nepotism. How's this for a suggestion, lets set up an online voting on "tomsgames" and let us pick the winners for the catagories, and allow write-ins. If the write-ins starts beating the losing nominated game it replaces it on the ballot.

Awards shows... where people who don't have a clue, listen to buzz and write up a ballot.

Oh and since I need to put in my 2cents... TF2 should have swept, and where is the WII in all this for inovation! Another example of Valve employees actually being aliens and taking over the world! Kudos.