In case your G-Phoria watch party got too loud for you to actually hear the winners, a GoNintendo reader wrote down all the Nintendo wins and sent them in. We had our G-Phoria Scorecards all ready for the big show, but at the last minute our traditional Adam Sessler-shaped G-Phoria cake fell apart, and we cancelled the gathering out of shame. We still had to pay for the auditorium, but we think we made the right decision.Here are the winners (good luck on your betting pool!):
Best Sports Game: Wii Sports
Best RPG: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Stride's Longest Lasting Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Game Most Deserving of an Uwe Boll Movie: Red Steel
Oh, G4 and their hilarious comedy awards. Zelda's not an RPG!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-09-2007 @ 11:21AM
WedgeTalon said...
"Zelda's not an RPG!"
Careful, you'll bring out all of those "It is so too! ...technically!" weirdos.
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8-09-2007 @ 11:29AM
Irit H said...
Is zelda an RPG? It sort of is, well, it IS more RPG-like than any other adventure games, but the degree of RPGishness(lol)varfies from title to title, both Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time are more RPGish than Twilight Princess, though.
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8-09-2007 @ 11:32AM
Irit H said...
Sorry about typos in that last comment i meant to say "varies" not "varfies" and "game" instead of "games"
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8-09-2007 @ 1:09PM
Patius said...
Zelda isn't really an RPG, but it is considered one by some people.
I would call it one. Its more of a puzzle/adventure game.
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8-09-2007 @ 1:10PM
Patius said...
I meant not call it one.
It's not an RPG. Sorry about that.
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8-09-2007 @ 1:46PM
hvnlysoldr said...
It's as crazy as calling Metroid a First Person Shooter.
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8-09-2007 @ 3:37PM
Chyld989 said...
"It's as crazy as calling Metroid a First Person Shooter."
Metroid is more FPS than Zelda is RPG =P
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8-09-2007 @ 4:31PM
Fullmetal Salchemist said...
At number 6:
Was that sarcasm? Because Metroid (despite what PR people tell us) is a FPS. It's a game where you shoot things in first person.
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8-09-2007 @ 4:34PM
Mr Khan said...
Genre seems to be less-and-less relevant in the modern day
Hell, check out Smashbros.com, they call Brawl an "Action" game, when everyone and their grandma (except the "why doesn't it have a healthbar?" chauvanists) would consider that a fighting game
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8-09-2007 @ 4:45PM
Abscissa said...
Haha, "prestigious" and "G-phoria" in the same sentence! (*rolls of chair laughing, continues for half-an-hour, finally regains composure and wipes a tear from eye*) That's almost as funny as combining "respectable" with "SpikeTV Video Game Awards".
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8-09-2007 @ 4:53PM
Abscissa said...
People seem to forget there are two types of RPGs: action RPGs and menu-based RPGs. (Of course, you could also divide into SRPG vs. MMORPG or Japanese RPG vs. American RPG (The American ones are almost always Tolkien/D&D-inspired for some odd reason.))
So yea, Zelda games obviously aren't menu-based RPGs. But they *are* action RPGs (or at least they always were back in the 2D world).
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8-09-2007 @ 6:11PM
Lewis said...
Yeah metroid is a shooter in first person, and Twilight Princess is a game where you play a role. In that way every game is an RPG
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8-10-2007 @ 3:38PM
psyborg said...
Metroid Prime is a First Person Shooter, just because its not simple halo-like linear run'n'gun gameplay doesn't mean its not an FPS. Look at Stalker, Bioshock, System Shock, SWAT4, etc alot of FPSs are more than just shooting like MP.
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