Negative Gamer Awards: Nominate Now!
By John Kershaw on Friday, December 18th 2009
Update: Nominations are closed and the winners have been announced!
Nominations for this year’s NGAs are now open! For those unaware, the NGAs are our end-of-year recap of all that was truly terrible in gaming this year. Last year only the People’s Choice Award for Biggest Disappointment accepted nominations, but to mix things up a bit we’re opening nominations up for every award this year!
The awards you can nominate for this year are (last year’s winners are included after the name of the award);
- People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment (The Nintendo Wii)
- Most Over-Hyped Game (Grand Theft Auto IV)
- Most Blatant Rip-Off (Sackboy t-shirts (DLC))
- Biggest PR-Backfire (Little Big Planet / Koran)
- Brownest Game (Fallout 3)
- Biggest Broken Promise (Mirror’s Edge)
- You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (Bobby Kotick)
- Thing That Was Shit (Australian Censorship)
New awards this year;
- Most Annoying Social or Casual Game
- News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground
So, what are you waiting for? Leave a comment below with your nominations for any or all of the awards up for grabs. The short list and voting for the PCABD award will be up after Christmas.
A third new award for Worse Attempt At Journalism is on the table, but unless it gets enough nominations won’t be included in the final list of this year’s awards.
You can see all the nominations for last years awards here. If you are struggling, like I was, to remember what’s happened this year, you can always try our archives.
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My nominations;
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Negative Gamer’s sucess
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Avatars
Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno / Molest women
Brownest Game – Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise – Left 4 Dead
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Bobby Kotick, again
Thing That Was Shit – PS3′s HDMI DRM
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – FarmVille
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Videogame journalism is dead
Worse Attempt at Journalism – Will We Ever Game Against Mars? – Edge
Most Over-Hyped Game (Modern Warfare 2)
Most Blatant Rip-Off (Halo 3: ODST)
Biggest PR-Backfire (EA/ Dante’s Inferno)
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (Nintendo)
Thing That Was Shit (Spike VGAs)
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game (Farmville)
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground (No Russian in Modern Warfare 2)
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment (Bionic Commando)
* Most Over-Hyped Game (Left 4 Dead 2)
* Most Blatant Rip-Off (Dante’s Inferno Demo)
* Biggest PR-Backfire (Dante’s Inferno – E3 Lust Contest)
* Brownest Game (Dragon Age: Origins)
* Biggest Broken Promise (Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands Announcement [No continuation of new 'Prince of Persia' storyline])
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (Tie: Tits on The ‘Tak and D-Toid)
* Thing That Was Shit (Tony Hawk: RIDE)
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game (FarmVille)
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground (Modern Warfare 2, et al)
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Halo 3: ODST
Most Over-Hyped Game – Scribblenauts
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Tony Hawks Ride
Biggest Broken Promise – Ghostbusters
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Bobby Kotick (I’m sticking with Bobby K)
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Mafia Wars/Farmville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Modern Warfare 2
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Brutal Legend
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – On-the-disc DLC
Biggest PR-Backfire – Modern Warfare 2 / F.A.G.S.
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Infinity Ward
Thing That Was Shit – My 360 breaking
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Evony
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Brutal Legend
Most Over-Hyped Game – Sims 3
Most Blatant Rip-Off – On the disk dlc.
Biggest PR-Backfire – Activision, all of it.
Brownest Game – Dirt 2
Biggest Broken Promise – Modern Warfare Single Player
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – VGAs
Thing That Was Shit – Activision, all of it.
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Mafia Wars
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – No Russian
Worse Attempt at Journalism – Every single member of N4G.
With “On the disk dlc.”, I think you’ll need to name a specific game.
If i have to name a single game then SF4 costumes, but capcom also deserves some stick for RE5 versus.
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment- The PS3
* Most Over-Hyped Game- Modern Warfare 2
* Most Blatant Rip-Off- Modern Warfare 2 Limited Addition
* Biggest PR-Backfire- Dante’s Inferno in general
* Brownest Game- 50 Cent Blood in the Sand
* Biggest Broken Promise- Starcraft 2
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award- Evony
* Thing That Was Shit- Germany
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game- Farmville
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground- Germany
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Brutal Legend
Most Over-Hyped Game: Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off: Avatar Marketplace
Biggest PR-Backfire: Dante’s Inferno
Brownest Game: Red Faction: Guerilla
Biggest Broken Promise: Left 4 Dead support
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: Infinity Ward, PC division
Thing That Was Shit: On-the-disc DLC
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Farmville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: “No Russian”
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Brutal Legend↲
Most Over-Hyped Game: Modern Warfare 2↲
Blatant Rip-Off: Avatars↲
Biggest PR Backfire: Modern Warfare 2′s FAGS campaig↲
Brownest Game: DiRT 2 ↲
Biggest Broken Promise: Bioshock 2 being released this year↲
You’re Doing It Wrong: Activision pricing MW2 higher because of the inevitable mass of sales↲
Thing That Was Shit: Most of Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference↲
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Farmville↲
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: Modern Warfare 2′s No Russian controversy↲
Worst Attempt At Journalism: Off the top of my head, the Why [Insert Game] is not Game of the Year articles on Sarcastic Gamer…
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – DJ Hero
Biggest PR-Backfire – Activision & dedicated servers
Biggest Broken Promise – Scribblenauts
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Kotaku
Thing That Was Shit – PSP go
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Farmville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – No Russian.
Worse Attempt at Journalism – Kotaku: Pornstar writing about dating
Biggest disappointment: The Australian OFLC
Most Over-Hyped Game: Halo: ODST
Most Blatant Rip-Off: RE5 Multiplayer DLC
Biggest PR-Backfire: Nintendo Heart-Beat Sensor
Brownest Game: Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise: Scribblenauts
You’re Doing It Wrong: Bobby Kotick
Thing that was shit: Left 4 Dead 2 being banned
Most annoying social or casual game: Uni-students getting drunk and bragging to you about it (it’s a social meta game)
News or discussion topic driven into the ground: No Russian
Worst attempt at Journalism: The ‘Tak as a whole
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – PSPgo
Most Over-Hyped Game Halo3:ODST
Most Blatant Rip-Off Xbox Live Gold
Biggest PR-Backfire PSPgo as an “aspirational product”
Brownest Game Wolfenstein
Biggest Broken Promise The Conduit
You’re Doing it Wrong, Kotaku
Thing That Was Shit Destructoid
New awards this year;
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game AMrio and Sonic at the Olympics
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground That Kotaku is sensationalist shit…even though it is.
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Dante’s Inferno
Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno / Molest women
Brownest Game – Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise – TF2 Xbox 360 updates (still waiting)
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Bobby Kotick, again
Thing That Was Shit – Tony Hawk’s RIDE
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Natal
Worse Attempt at Journalism – The Guardian: These videogames are not art. They are extreme pornography
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Sabotuer
Most Over-Hyped Game – Halo 3: ODST
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Dante’s Inferno
Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno / Molest women
Brownest Game – Red Faction: Guerilla
Biggest Broken Promise – L4D2 Boycott Group. I was hoping they wouldn’t play!
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Bobby Kotick
Thing That Was Shit – The Wii.
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Modern Warfare 2
Worse Attempt at Journalism – Jim Sterling comparing the MW2 glitch to AIDS
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Modern Warfare 2
Most Over-Hyped Game – Scribblenauts
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Evony
Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno molestation scandal
Brownest Game – Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise – Left 4 Dead post-release support
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Activision/Bobby Kotick
Thing That Was Shit – Tony Hawk Ride
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Farmville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground –
The PSPgo and how awful it is
Worse Attempt at Journalism – Kotaku on the Scribblenauts/Sambo controversy (i didn’t like the word being in the game but they reported it in an incredibly mawkish and provocative way)
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Scribblenauts
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Evony
Biggest PR-Backfire – Modern Warfare 2 Dedicated Servers
Biggest Broken Promise – Scribblenauts
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Bobby Kotick
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – FarmVille/Mafia Wars/Fishville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Modern Warfare 2
Worse Attempt at Journalism – The Guardian doing a Daily Mail
Shittiest game: Borderlands
My nominations;
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – No Starcraft 2 release
Most Over-Hyped Game – Assassin’s Creed 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Science Papa
Biggest PR-Backfire – David Jaffe not talking about games for a year
Brownest Game – Resident Evil 5
Biggest Broken Promise – Bionic Commando
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Singstar Queen
Thing That Was Shit – Avatar
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – New super Mario Bros Wii
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Digital Distribution is the future
Worse Attempt at Journalism – The Tak’s Tis for Hits
Worst use of The Vin Diesel – The Wheelman
Worst use of a sexual innuendo – Backyard Baseball 2010 / Water Sports Wii
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Wii
* Most Over-Hyped Game – SF4
* Most Blatant Rip-Off – Imagine * series.
* Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno thing.
* Brownest Game – RE5
* Biggest Broken Promise – Brütal Legend
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Australian government
* Thing That Was Shit – Wii Motion Plus
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Farmville
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – MW2 ‘controvercy’
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands OR the DSi?
* Most Over-Hyped Game Modern Warfare 2
* Most Blatant Rip-Off Avatar Pets
* Biggest PR-Backfire Dante’s Inferno “molest a booth babe” competition
* Brownest Game ?
* Biggest Broken Promise ?
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award Assassin’s Creed II (making the content DLC instead of putting in the disc)
* Thing That Was Shit DSi LL
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Sorority Life
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Racism in Scribblenauts (ugh)
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Wii
* Most Over-Hyped Game – Scribblenauts
* Most Blatant Rip-Off – Avatar crap
* Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno
* Brownest Game – RE5
* Biggest Broken Promise – Scribblenauts
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – Australian government
* Thing That Was Shit – Wii Motion Plus
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Mafia Wars
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Modern Warfare 2 in all it’s forms
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – DJ Hero
* Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
* Most Blatant Rip-Off – Xbox Avatars
* Biggest PR-Backfire – F.A.G.S Campaign
* Brownest Game – Left 4 Dead 2
* Biggest Broken Promise – Assassins Creed 2
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – PSP Go
* Thing That Was Shit – PSP Go
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Wii Fit
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Left 4 Dead 2 “Boycotters”
* Worse Attempt At Journalism – The Daily Mail.
Most everything I was considering has already been said, but since my Xbox broke for the third time this year I’ll throw in:
*People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Xbox 360 failure rate
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Halo ODST
Most Over-Hyped Game: MW2
Most Blatant Rip-Off: i duno
Biggest PR-Backfire: FAG campaign
Brownest Game: i duno lol
Biggest Broken Promise: santa wasnt real
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: Sony’s disco stick motion control
Thing That Was Shit: what i left in my toilet
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Solitare
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: Ebony ads
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: No StarCraft 2 BETA
Most Over-Hyped Game: Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off: Avatar pets
Biggest PR-Backfire: Dante’s Inferno E3 Protests
Brownest Game: Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise: Bioshock 2 Release Date
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: Sony, PSP Go/announcing psp 4000
Thing That Was Shit: No Beyond Good & Evil 2 news, aside from that one trailer.
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Sorority Life
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: Modern Warfare 2.
•People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Announcement of Green Day Rock Band
•Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
•Most Blatant Rip-Off – On disc DLC
•Biggest PR-Backfire – PSP Go’s “discs are rubbish” ethos
•Brownest Game – COD: World at War
•Biggest Broken Promise – Scribblenauts
•You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – PSP Go
•Thing That Was Shit – DSi LL announcement / release
•Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Wii Sports (My friend bought an impulse buy Wii before Christmas to play New Super Mario Bros. Wii, explaining that it came with “Wii Sports, Wii Sports Something Else and that new Mario” – and Nintendo wonder why they have such a dire attach rate?)
•News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Modern Warfare 2
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Most Over-Hyped Game – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Dragon Age DLC
Biggest PR-Backfire – Eidos fixing review scores for Tomb Raider
Brownest Game – Killzone 2
Biggest Broken Promise – Left 4 Dead boycott leaders
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – PSP Go pricing
Thing That Was Shit – Recession
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – Farmville
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Infinity Ward’s epic fail
@Connoro: I meant fixing scores for Arkham Asylum.
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People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – L4D SDK support
Most Over-Hyped Game – Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Everything not on a Steam sale
Biggest PR-Backfire – F.A.G.S.
Brownest Game – Red Faction
Biggest Broken Promise – L4D
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – IW
Thing That Was Shit – BF:Heroes payer only weapons
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – FarmVille
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – No Russian
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Scribblenauts
* Most Over-Hyped Game: Modern Warfare 2
* Most Blatant Rip-Off: Modern Warfare 2 on PC
* Biggest PR-Backfire: Dantes Inferno PR
* Brownest Game: Red Faction Guerilla
* Biggest Broken Promise: Duke Nukem Forever
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: PSP Go
* Thing That Was Shit: Tony Hawks Ride
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Spin the Bottle (Xbox 360)
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: Jim Sterling
* People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Scribblenauts
* Most Over-Hyped Game: Halo 3: ODST
* Most Blatant Rip-Off: Tony Hawk: RIDE
* Biggest PR-Backfire: Dante’s Inferno
* Brownest Game: Resident Evil 5
* Biggest Broken Promise: Duke Nukem Forever
* You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: Wii Vitality Monitor announcement
* Thing That Was Shit: Music Games in general
* Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: Anything on Facebook (If specifics needed: Farmville)
* News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: Boycotting sequels because WAAAAAH
Allods Online Beta
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment – L4Ds new maps n campaigns
Most Over-Hyped Game – CoD Modern Warfare 2
Most Blatant Rip-Off – Dragon Age DLC
Biggest PR-Backfire – Dante’s Inferno
Brownest Game – Red Faction
Biggest Broken Promise – Wrath of the Lich King
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award – PsP Go
Thing That Was Shit – BF:Heroes payer only weapons
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game – The Sims 3
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground – Ppl who complained about Valve not supporting L4D1 because they were going to release L4D2 already
Allods Online Beta
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment: Borderlands
Most Over-Hyped Game: Torchlight
Most Blatant Rip-Off: Risen
Biggest PR-Backfire: Dragon Age
Brownest Game: CoD Modern Warfare 2
Biggest Broken Promise: The Sims 3
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award: Wii Monitor
Thing That Was Shit: The Sims 3
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game: The Sims 3
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground: “What’s wrong with computer game – industry? Why it’s so lame in our days?”
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People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment (Avatar)
Most Over-Hyped Game (Dragon Age: Origins)
Most Blatant Rip-Off (Borderlands Zombie Island DLC)
Biggest PR-Backfire (Dantes Inferno)
Brownest Game (Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2)
Biggest Broken Promise (Sims 3)
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (g4tv)
Thing That Was Shit (Avatar)
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game (Farmville)
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground (People complaining about the CoDMW2 PC Support)
Allods Online Beta
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment (Avatar)
Most Over-Hyped Game (Dragon Age: Origins)
Most Blatant Rip-Off (Risen)
Biggest PR-Backfire (Dantes Inferno)
Brownest Game (Resident Evil 5)
Biggest Broken Promise (L4D)
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (PSP Go)
Thing That Was Shit (Avatar)
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game (The Sims 3)
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground (Modern Warfare 2.)
Why are people still voting tis pure online madness.
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Allods Online Beta
People’s Choice Award For Biggest Disappointment (Call of duty MW2)
Most Over-Hyped Game (The Sims 3)
Most Blatant Rip-Off (Avatar)
Biggest PR-Backfire (Dante’s Inferno)
Brownest Game (Left 4 dead 2)
Biggest Broken Promise (Wow: Wrath of lich king)
You’re Doing it Wrong, Special Mention Award (PSP Go :P)
Thing That Was Shit (Cod MW2)
Most Annoying Social or Casual Game (The Sims 3)
News or Discussion Topic Driven Furthest Into The Ground (Inifity wards fail on MW2)