TuEFA : The (unofficial) Escapist Forum Awards

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, and I'd like to welcome you to the Hall of Fame for Celebrated Game Visionaries.

If you would like to come up to the stage and present your choices for induction into the All Time Hall Of Fame, why they should be inducted and the finest moment of their career.

And our first TuEFA Award goes to Jeff Minter in the "Best Game involving Llamas" Award for the truly bizzare series of addictive games like LLamatron, Metagalactic Llamas battle at the Edge of Time, Sheep in Space, Hovver Bovver and many many more.

I have a few more to come later, but let's open it up to the audience...

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Are those ****ing burgers?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

This reminds me of a nightmare I once had...Am I in my pants at the moment?

Anyone?

 

[stompy]

Alright... how about this?...

"I award the 'Game on most platforms' award to Tetris, for being on so many different platforms."

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I was looking for people like John Romero, Rob Hubbard, Richard Garriot etc. but meh, can't get a 1000 post out of this.

 

[MichaelH]

I nominate "Laser Dolphin" for Most Incongruous Title.

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

Is there a "Best overuse of bloom to make your game look better" category?

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Blurriest N64 game?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

'Shattering the Fourth Wall' Award goes to the voice on Dungeon Keeper 1&2.

"By playing til this far at night, you have unlocked a secret message. GO TO BED!"

 

[josh797]

how about best use of the colors brown and gray in a "realistic' next gen game? i nominate gears of war

 

[the monopoly guy]

I nominate Killer 7 to be the craziest most f***ed up game of al time
I nominate Phsyconauts for teh most overated-uderated game
I nominate the Orange Boz for the best soundtrack in a non-music game
lastly, I nominate GTA, TESIV:O, and the Orange Box for most addictive game

 

[Cousin_IT]

I nominate XIII for being the kewlest game I never bought

 

[the monopoly guy]

I nominate XIII for being the kewlest game I never bought

I second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth,seventh...*trails off into incoherent mumbling* THAT!
it gets 2 awards for that

 

[SaneIntolerant]

I nominate the Halo series for Easiest Way To Tell If A Fanboy Is Messing With Your Awards.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Surely SSBB has won that but blames Halo?

 

[end_boss]

I'm going to have to counter-nominate the following, Khell...

-Best Ship Customization - PLANET'S EDGE: POINT OF NO RETURN

-Best ADLib score (music) - QUEST FOR GLORY IV: SHADOWS OF DARKNESS

-Most Unique Alien Race (Zoq Fot Piq) - Seconded

-Most Open Sandbox Environment - PLANET'S EDGE: POINT OF NO RETURN and ULTIMA VII: THE BLACK GATE (tie)

-Best Casual Multiplayer - WORMS and SCORCHED EARTH

-Most In-depth Back Story - THE NEVERHOOD CHRONICLES

-Best Fan Mod Community - ULTIMA V: WARRIORS OF DESTINY ("LAZARUS" MOD for DUNGEON SIEGE engine)

-Best DOS Game of All Time - FALLOUT, ULTIMA VII: THE BLACK GATE, and X-COM: UFO DEFENSE

-Best Game of All Time - FALLOUT, ULTIMA VII: THE BLACK GATE, and X-COM: UFO DEFENSE

-Best Base Customization - X-COM: UFO DEFENSE (hands down; the fact that your base design actually becomes the playable map if an alien invades is AWESOME)

-Most Intense Atmosphere - ALONE IN THE DARK (PC), X-COM: UFO DEFENSE, and SYNDICATE

-Best Use of Physics, Dos Era - WORMS


And a few categories I'd like to introduce...

- Best Series of All Time - QUEST FOR GLORY, MANIAC MANSION
- Most Original Adventure Game - LOOM
- Best Casual Game of All Time - LEMMINGS, WORMS and TETRIS
- Innovators of Violence - SYNDICATE and CRUSADER: NO REMORSE
- Best Adventure Game With RPG Elements - QUEST FOR GLORY and PLANET'S EDGE: NO REMORSE