Edge proclaims Halo 3 most innovative game of 2007, 2008

May I laugh at this?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF020-Skub.gif This is you guys.

Usually Edge has a respectable opinion....but then they spew stupid garbage like this and it ruins their credible opinion. Honestly I was shocked when they awarded Halo 3 a perfect 10 (they rarely give them out).

I call bullshit.

Who here actually reads EDGE? Online maybe, sure, but what about the magazine?

I have read their magazine for several years now, and I've had my disagreements with them here and there, but saying that that you've thrown out your respect for EDGE because of this one decision tells me you must not read their articles, but maintained a quaint picture of respected writing, like the New Yorker or Scientific American without ever reading their articles, and find it simple enough to throw that out should something like this come along.

Yes, you may disagree with them, but EDGE is still easily one of the top game critics in print (and online), and things like this come and go. Their magazine is a great read. Most of the ads are help-wanted ads for game devs, kept in the back for the most part. Their articles are well written, provocative reads (although sometimes a bit overdone), and the design of their articles is great too. A lot of things on the internet are either too short, hard to find (although granted only Barnes and Noble carries EDGE in the states), or are one-time shots at great witting, but aren't a part of blogs that update regularly or anything predictable.

I wonder if EDGE has been informed that map making has been going on since the days of doom. And, if you want to bring consoles into it, timesplitters.

The forge is nothing new. It is nothing "exciting", it's just a map maker. The theater system? Well ever hear of the "prt screen" button on a PC or "fraps?" Or even Team Fortress 2's unique take on when you died it would show a freeze frame of who killed you.


None of these elements are new or innovative. That is the key word here, INNOVATIVE. No one (except prey one could say, but not to the same extent) has done something like Portal. Not only was it a fresh take on an actual good, humorous game but no matter how you look at it the portal gun with INNOVATIVE and new.

Now of course the main argument has been that no one is going to use the portal gun in a game. Well of course unless a game is built around the same premise they won't use it, that is common sense. However that doesn't mean it isn't innovative.


And which ever way you look at it the features in halo 3 have been around for years and years. map making, screenshots/video playing and multiplayer match-making. Considering that it is up against a blockbuster year for video games it is amazing that out of all the choices IT got nominated...for a 2008 award.... when it was released in 2007. Why not just nominate fucking doom or something if you aren't going to keep it in the same year?


I'll just stop by saying any view of EDGE has been shattered by me, they really don't even try to hide the fact that they are either getting paid fat stacks of cash or are just oblivious fanboys to halo as a series.

I never got into Halo 3 (too much like the first two) and Portal is an addictive and fun game. But how in the hell can anyone not agree that Bioshock was the most innovative game in this time span??!!?

You are mixing the awards Edge gives in the magazine versus the awards for a seperate festival.

The winner of last year Edge award at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival was Okami.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/14/okami-wins-edge-award-at-edinburgh-festival/

Well Halo 3 obviously inveted replays, screenshots, matchmaking, and user created content.

Wait, that's a load of shit.

Oh, well.

Puzzle solving has been in gaming since it first began. Puzzle solving has also been in FPS games too. All Portal did was turn puzzle solving in FPS games into physic based puzzles (done as well) but add a portal gun to the mix (has this been done?).

Yes Portal is unique compared to what we usually play but what Portal mostly did has been done before.

What Halo 3 did (theather, forge, best matchmaking ever) has never been done before and all of it is in one fantastic package.

I'm betting there was some bias factor involved. If you catch my drift. Cah-CHING!~

Cop out, cop out...

I would not call the gameplay the most innovative but I can understand thier decision if the award is based on the features offered by the game.

More games need to rip off theater, forge type level editing, and the matchmaking/community features. I know that it takes a lot of extra work but, especially maintaining the matchmaking/community, but games that include it would be better.

also why is any game eligible twice for the same award in different years? lazy

HA!

Oh wait they are serious? Wow that’s just sad.

(Is innovative…if you never played Halo 2)

obviously no one from Edge had to sit thru the common 5 minutes of Halo 3 matchmaking for a 2 minute game.

Jeez... i love EDGE, but what were they smoking when they came up with this idea?

Refinement != innovation.

No game, sans Duke Nukem Forever, deserves to win the same damn award two years in a row.