Castle Crashers is XBLA game of the year News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Castle Crashers has been crowned game of the year by Xbox Live Arcade users, Microsoft announced overnight, after 185,000 people cast their votes in a recent service poll.
The Behemoth's tasty hackandslash also collected Best Original Game and Best Co-op Mode gongs (assuming there are gongs, and also assuming Microsoft doesn't keep 40 per cent of said gongs).
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was the other major beneficiary of your support, no doubt after Capcom's shameless promotion on its blog (good work). HD Remix picked up Best Versus Mode, Best Remake and Best Graphics awards.
All of which means that one of our favourites, the lovely Braid, was limited to Best Innovation, whatever that means. Check out the full list below, and just a quick thing: no Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2? Seriously?
- Game of the Year: Castle Crashers
- Best Versus Mode: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- Best Single-Player Game: Portal: Still Alive
- Best Remake: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- Best Original Game: Castle Crashers
- Best Innovation: Braid
- Best Graphics: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
- Best Family Game: A Kingdom for Keflings
- Best Co-op Mode: Castle Crashers
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Tough call, but overall I agree with those results. I disagree with menage, although Braid was one of the best games I've ever played - once it was done, it was done. Castle Crashers remains excellent multiplayer hilarity to this day.
For me, XBLA was the platform of choice last year by a mile.
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metalangel
24/03/09 @ 09:11
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Braid wins "most pretentious load of twaddle" forever. "Game that really should have used avatars" goes to Funtown Mahjong, which also won the "worst tutorial" gong. "Terrible yet compelling" goes to The Collector, while "biggest variety of grunty jump noises" goes to Miner Dig Deep.
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metalangel
24/03/09 @ 09:30
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@DFawkes: I "got" the time stuff all right, and very clever some of it was too. But honestly, when you see all the hidden deeper meanings and symbolism that's been crammed in for its own sake, your stomach churns. That the press fawned over Blow and gave him a new soapbox every other day to talk about how great he/his game was didn't help matters. As for Mahjong, you need only look at the rendition of Koi Koi in 42 All Time Classics to see how to teach people to play a very complex, foreign game.
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kinky_mong
24/03/09 @ 10:10
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REZ HD PISSED ON SFIIHD.
I concur. Absolutely fantastic update. I fired it up again recently to play Level 5 on my new HD TV and speakers and it was mindblowing. |
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Hurleybird
24/03/09 @ 10:32
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I'm frankly amazed that GeoWars didn't feature. For me:
Game of the Year: Braid Best Versus Mode: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Best Single-Player Game: Portal: Still Alive Best Remake: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Best Original Game: Braid Best Innovation: Braid Best Graphics: Braid Best Family Game: Geometry Wars 2 (my kids love it - simple and addictive) Best Co-op Mode: Geometry Wars 2 |
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optimusprym8
24/03/09 @ 10:51
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Best Co-op Mode!? WTF I *still* can't get a 4 player co-op game to work with three other people off my friends list, same with Catan.
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MisterCraig
24/03/09 @ 14:22
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Braid was my pick almost every time. Bionic Commando was an absolute beast though.
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