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Escapist Magazine Best Developer

RapscallionRapscallion Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited April 2009 in Games and Technology
BioWare or Turbine?

Let Penny Arcade fans' voices be heard.

Go vote for the developer you think deserves the title.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/375.105116

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ...? What's Turbine done lately?

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    urahonky wrote: »
    ...? What's Turbine done lately?

    Get stuck by birds?

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    urahonky wrote: »
    ...? What's Turbine done lately?

    For me, it isn't what they've done lately, but what they've done already. Bioware likes to talk about being the first to do a big story in an MMO with Old Republic, but Asheron's Call was doing that nine (coming on ten) years ago.

    LotRO is awesome, and unfortunately doesn't get the respect WoW does.

    And while DDO was a failure, the game did a lot for the genre that others should have paid attention to.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Right. I agree that they have made some good games, but honestly... Even though you say Bioware likes to talk a lot, this is a "best developer" vote. Between the two companies I think it's pretty obvious who is the winner.
    Blizzard.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Bioware has employees who post here so I vote for Bioware.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yeah, but seriously. As much as I LOVE Asheron's Call... Mass Effect was just far too awesome for me not to vote for BioWare.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ... turbine?o_O

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  • grrarggrrarg Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

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  • SonorkSonork CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    The final 2 seem pointless compared to the ones that have some how already been knocked out.

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  • stranger678stranger678 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    What's even more entertaining is that in the comments, people are assuming the Bioware vote tally and Valve vote tally are all done by Bots, The honest assumption on that board is that it's not even Close, it's all Turbine.

    It's like a weird freaky twilight zone forum.

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Should have been Valve vs. Blizzard.

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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Vavle's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

    My god.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It should've just been Valve. I really don't see how a company like Turbine that has a track record of meh, meh, bleh, and meh made it to the final round, much less that it's somehow in a dead heat with BioWare. BioWare.

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Bioware made KOTOR.

    Turbine... who the hell's even heard of Turbine before this contest?

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    BioWare has made some of the best games of the past ten years. Pretty much every game they put out is fantastic. I'd never even heard of Turbine until I looked them up a few minutes ago. It's like comparing really awesome apples to incredibly mediocre apples that even the vastly inferior oranges make fun of.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Bioware made KOTOR.

    Turbine... who the hell's even heard of Turbine before this contest?

    Clearly not you!

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  • HtownHtown Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Anyone who's played Asheron's Call or LOTRO.

    And anyone who launches LOTRO to play it gets this contest as part of the news items on the launcher page.

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    There's also a popup before you see this that has the contest as the first item. So basically Turbine is mobilizing the fanbase to vote.

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  • TeeManTeeMan BrainSpoon Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.
    Sonork wrote: »
    The final 2 seem pointless compared to the ones that have some how already been knocked out

    My personal hat-tip would go to any one of those developers, I don't even know who Turbine are

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  • SepahSepah Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Its well known at this point that if Blizzard had wanted to win this at all, a link in the WoW Launcher would have done it easily.

    That LotR thing just proves my point.

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Delta Assault wrote: »
    Bioware made KOTOR.

    Turbine... who the hell's even heard of Turbine before this contest?

    Clearly not you!

    Well, clearly. But uh... with you doing CoH and DoW 2 shoutcasts all the time, I can't imagine you're all up in their MMO crib either!

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  • SonorkSonork CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    oh .. that would do it. lol

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  • Hockey JohnstonHockey Johnston Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    So a magazine's 'best developer' contest is just empty page hit whoring and does not represent an actual award that anyone would care about?

    Nooooooooooo!

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hah. 3960 v. 3959 in Turbine's favor.


    Now that makes me feel like my vote counts!

    **3962 v. 3963. :D

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  • kaliyamakaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

    I dunno. The earlier TES games were revolutionary for the procedural generation, and Morrowind was an AMAZING game in terms of scope, setting and art direction. But then they took the Morrowind approach to Oblivion but made it the most generic and bland setting imaginable.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Antithesis wrote: »
    Hah. 3960 v. 3959 in Turbine's favor.


    Now that makes me feel like my vote counts!

    **3962 v. 3963. :D

    You're being sarcastic, right?

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  • VerrVerr Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Jeeze, first the Street Fighter movie director taped for Shadow of the Colossus, then this? Is it all some sick joke?

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  • psyck0psyck0 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I wonder if Blizzard would have been knocked out if they hadn't merged with *shudder*Activision.

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  • zilozilo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    "Best developer", lols. This kind of tripe never fails to amuse me. Software companies as sports teams!

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I have Cliffy B's rookie card.

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  • Metal Gear Solid 2 DemoMetal Gear Solid 2 Demo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Pretty sure Escapist are just a shill gaming front that will go to any lengths to increase their hit count

    They struck gold with Zero Punc. but since that's slowly dieing off in terms of popularity, and because every other series on their site is absolute shit, they're looking for something to draw in the hits. This Best Developer thing was another strike gold, because it had the whole gaming community falling over itself to get their pet developers to the top, with little to no debate as to who were actual good developers (Turbine beat Valve, yeah no.)

    So what you got to ask yourself is, what do they do when this is done?

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Aw, lucky.

    I've got a John Romero.

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  • AntithesisAntithesis Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo wrote: »
    Pretty sure Escapist are just a shill gaming front that will go to any lengths to increase their hit count

    They struck gold with Zero Punc. but since that's slowly dieing off in terms of popularity, and because every other series on their site is absolute shit, they're looking for something to draw in the hits. This Best Developer thing was another strike gold, because it had the whole gaming community falling over itself to get their pet developers to the top, with little to no debate as to who were actual good developers (Turbine beat Valve, yeah no.)

    So what you got to ask yourself is, what do they do when this is done?

    You, sir, have just hit a nail on its head. Really, they'll do anything and I'll just sort of chuckle (I kind of expected the current situation when they first announced this whole March Mayhem thing), look away awkwardly as if I've just seen someone I vaguely know do something embarassing, and go to watch amusing videos two times a week. Not that I don't like some of what they have going.
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    Antithesis wrote: »
    Hah. 3960 v. 3959 in Turbine's favor.


    Now that makes me feel like my vote counts!

    **3962 v. 3963. :D

    You're being sarcastic, right?

    Did I come on too strongly with it? Eh.

    Though I find it funny that those are/were/were supposedly the actual numbers.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    kaliyama wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

    I dunno. The earlier TES games were revolutionary for the procedural generation, and Morrowind was an AMAZING game in terms of scope, setting and art direction. But then they took the Morrowind approach to Oblivion but made it the most generic and bland setting imaginable.

    I'm more amazed that they beat Valve

    That is so completely and utterly backwards that I can't comprehend it

    And I really liked Lord of the Rings Online!

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    You know, I remember when Escapist was considered a gaming website with actual credibility, like all intellectual and shit about game design and such. I think Jerry Holkins even wrote an article for them once

    What happened?

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  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    kaliyama wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

    I dunno. The earlier TES games were revolutionary for the procedural generation, and Morrowind was an AMAZING game in terms of scope, setting and art direction. But then they took the Morrowind approach to Oblivion but made it the most generic and bland setting imaginable.

    I'm more amazed that they beat Valve

    That is so completely and utterly backwards that I can't comprehend it

    And I really liked Lord of the Rings Online!

    See the first page, Turbine dropped a PR bomb on the vote.

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  • IriahIriah Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Escapist Magazine Pretend They Are Relevant

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Iriah wrote: »
    Escapist Magazine Pretend They Are Relevant

    Every once and a while I go through and watch all their zero punctuation videos. I believe there he described awards as something websites give out while both developers and players ignore them.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Zek wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    kaliyama wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    grrarg wrote: »
    I was going to post a snarky comment that they should have just given Bioware a bye for the first round instead of pairing them versus Turbine.

    ...then I actually followed the link and saw that Turbine made it to the final round somehow. o_O

    Beating Sega, Naughty Dog, Bethesda, Valve and Nintendo. I'm not all over Nintendo's or Valve's dicks, but that result is fucking impossible.

    I dunno. The earlier TES games were revolutionary for the procedural generation, and Morrowind was an AMAZING game in terms of scope, setting and art direction. But then they took the Morrowind approach to Oblivion but made it the most generic and bland setting imaginable.

    I'm more amazed that they beat Valve

    That is so completely and utterly backwards that I can't comprehend it

    And I really liked Lord of the Rings Online!

    See the first page, Turbine dropped a PR bomb on the vote.

    That makes even less sense because Lord of the Rings Online has like, two hundred players

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    But really, there is no way the votes are that close without some ridiculous bot shenanigans

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