StarDrummer's STAR Awards 2004

Its that time of year...when everyone seems to be making little lists that try to sum up the year in a few awards. It really dson't, but its still fun nonetheless. Here's my 2004 STAR Awards.

Console of the Year
Xbox
Runner-up: GameCube

New Device
Nintendo DS
Runner-up: iPod Photo

Best Online Game*
SC:PT
Runner-up: R63:BA

Best Offline Game*
KOTOR II
Runner-up: Fable

Best Graphics
Halo 2
Runner-up: Ninja Gaiden

Best Gameplay
Halo 2
Runner-up: Burnout 3

Best Controls
Halo 2

Best Star Wars game:
KOTOR II
Runner-up: Battlefront

Best PC Game
Half Life 2
Runner-up: WOW

Best PS2 Game
GTA: San Andres
Runner-up Dog's Life, MGS3

Best Gamecube Game
Metriod Prime 2
Runner-up: None (?)

Best Console Add-on
Donkey Konga (GC)
Runner-up: Xbox Media Extender, PS2 HDD

Best Xbox Game
Halo2
Runner-up: Burnout 3, SC:PT

Game of the Year
Halo 2
Runner-up: Half Life 2

Best Developer
Bungie (for Halo 2)
Runner-up: Valve (For Half-life 2)

Best Publisher
Microsoft (For Halo 2)
Runner-up: LucasArts (For KOTOR II)

Best DLC
PGR2 Maps
Runner-up: R63 Maps

And now, the bad awards
Worst Developer
Tie: UBIsoft/Atari (For SC:PT and Driv3r)

Biggest Flop
Driv3r

Worst Add-on
Xbox Live Arcade

Worst DLC
SC:PT

(Note: Halo2 was not included in best online game or best offline game because it was winner of the GOTY award. It recived higher marks then those that did win that catagory, but, I didn't want Halo 2 to win everything, so the GOTY award now superceeds all other awards...so it comes in like 0 place in all applicable ctagories...lol)

Tomorrow: The STAR awards for all non-videogame stuff, including:
Best TV Show
Best Movie
Best new Blog
Biggest News story of the year
Best Book

...and more!

SC:PT Content Now Free

The previously Permuim DLC for Splinter Cell:PT is now free.

This is good news to all of you who never paid the 5 bucks for the maps.

For those of us who did (myself included), this is just another way UBI is ripping us off. I used to like UiSoft...they used to make good games. Now, I really don't. The release a game full of bugs, and then never ever fix it.Same with Black Arrow. They try, sure, but n the end, they do a half-ass job of "trying" as the real problem is never fixed.

This is why people love Bungie so much!

My Game List

Being its been like 5 months since I last posted this...and I now have a totally changed collection, I thought you all could use an updated list.

Heres what they are, from most played to least.
Halo2
Burnout 3
SW Battlefront
Call of Duty: FH
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow
Splinter Cell: PT
Bicycle Casino
PGR2
MechAssult 1
XIII
NASCAR 2005
ESPN NBA 2K5 (and 2K3)
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SW: The Clone Wars
SW: JO: Jedi Acadamy
RTCW
Trival Pursuit Unhinged
Counter-Strike
Rainbow Six 3
NFL fever '03 and '04
Unreal II
Unreal Championship
Whacked! (retail and demo)
Moto GP (demo)
(KOTOR)
(Xbox Music Mixer)
(Driv3r)

--This list order, now that its done, is actually only sorta correct...games before the lines I play, ones below I have but don't really.
(Not really a game)

WTF? Stats Wiped Out?

Apparently, there was no Y2K bug. No, it wanted to wait five years...and become the much cooler Y2K5 bug and instead of invading PCs... it wanted Halo 2.

Apparently, something happened to the Bungie servers and the entire stats for Rumble Pit are gone. Wiped out. I'm now a Level 0 (which isn't much bad news, since I was only a measly 10...but still)

What is bad about this is now all the Halo Godz are now ranked about the same as me...which means my ass is going to be getting wooped for a few weeks by Level 30s who appear as only Lvl 1s...that sucks.

All I want to know is...what the hell happened Bungie?