The Hylia's Games of 2009

[hisak]

Here are the rules for voting for The Hylia's Games of 2009:

• All votes must be PM'd to me. You can post your ballots in here as well if you like, but they will not count unless you PM them to me.
• All games must have been released (or announced, when applicable) in North America in 2009. Votes for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers will not be accepted until January 1.
• Ports and remakes are ineligible for awards.
• A game receiving votes in more than one genre will have all of its votes tallied in the genre in which it received the most votes. However, they will not be counted if the game is blatantly put into the wrong genre, or if you vote for the same game in more than one genre. This means you must vote for 10 different games in the first 10 categories (if you choose to vote in all 10).
• Voting in all categories is appreciated but not necessary.
• First round of voting ends at 11:59:59 PM CST (GMT-6) on January 23.
• The second round of voting, if necessary, will deal with tiebreakers and last a week.
• The results will be posted on February 2. If there are no ties, they will be posted on January 24.

Here are the categories (new categories are in bold):

Best Action Game
Best Adventure Game
Best Fighting Game
Best Shooter
Best Strategy Game
Best RPG
Best Puzzle Game
Best Racing Game
Best Sports Game
Best Music Game

Best Audio
Best Story
Best Graphics
Best Artistic Design
Most Innovative

Best WiiWare, DSiWare, Xbox Live, or PlayStation Network Game
Best PC Game
Best Multiplatform Title
Best PSP Game
Best Nintendo DS Game
Best Xbox 360 Game
Best PlayStation 3 Game
Best Wii Game

Favorite Announcement
Biggest Disappointment
Most Anticipated Future Release

Game of the Year

[JordAnime]

Votes for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers will not be accepted until January 1.

The game comes out December 26th, and is already available at some retailers who are breaking the street date.

[Ezlo's Apprentice]

• Ports and remakes are ineligible for awards.

Guessing that rules out the Metroid Prime Trilogy Collection, huh?

[hisak]

The game comes out December 26th, and is already available at some retailers who are breaking the street date.

I'm waiting until the people who are going to play it have had the chance, but if early reviews are to be trusted, it won't be winning any awards.

Guessing that rules out the Metroid Prime Trilogy Collection, huh?

Yep. You may have the chance to vote for each game individually in a few months, however.

[JordAnime]

I'm waiting until the people who are going to play it have had the chance, but if early reviews are to be trusted, it won't be winning any awards.

Biggest Disappointment probably

[chibimoon]

Do we have to specify which console we're referring to when voting for games, for those released on multiplatforms? Or it doesn't really matter?

[hisak]

No, it doesn't matter. The Best PS3/360 Game categories should be exclusives (or exclusive + a PC port), but otherwise it doesn't matter.

[hisak]

Since I haven't gotten very many (well, any) ballots yet, I figure it's not too late to make a last minute addition. You can see it in the original post.

[hisak]

Here's my ballot.

Best Action Game
New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Best Adventure Game
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Best Fighting Game
Street Fighter IV

Best Shooter
Dead Space: Extraction

Best Strategy Game
Little King’s Story

Best RPG
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

Best Puzzle Game
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Best Racing Game
Excitebots: Trick Racing

Best Sports Game
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10

Best Music Game
The Beatles: Rock Band

Best Audio
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Best Story
Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

Best Graphics
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Artistic Design
Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Most Innovative
Scribblenauts

Best WiiWare, DSiWare, Xbox Live, or PlayStation Network Game
LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias

Best PC Game
The Sims 3

Best Multiplatform Title
Batman: Arkham Asylum

Best PSP Game
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Best Nintendo DS Game
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Best Xbox 360 Game
Left 4 Dead 2

Best PlayStation 3 Game
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Best Wii Game
New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Favorite Announcement
Metroid: Other M

Biggest Disappointment
Sin and Punishment 2 delayed until 2010

Most Anticipated
Super Mario Galaxy 2

Game of the Year
New Super Mario Bros. Wii

[chibimoon]

I haven't forgotten about this, still thinking about my nominations while I finish off various games.

[hisak]

There's 16 days left in voting for those of you who have yet to send me your ballots.

[hisak]

FOUR DAYS LEFT.

Get your ballots in.

[Bidet to you sir]

The best audio and best story ones etc all go to the same game for me, is that ok?

Also, I wonder whether the wii itself will be the biggest dissapointment.....

[hisak]

The best audio and best story ones etc all go to the same game for me, is that ok?

Yep.

Also, I wonder whether the wii itself will be the biggest dissapointment.....

Biggest disappointment has to be something that happened this year. "Lack of interesting Wii games" is fine, but the Wii itself isn't.

[hisak]

There's a little over 12 hours left in voting. If you're going to submit a ballot, you should probably do it now.

[Bidet to you sir]

list all votes plz thnx.

[hisak]

Voting is now closed. The tiebreaker thread will be posted later today.