Why dont you guys give out a Bloodshoot Joe award to games that you just cant stop playing? Sure you can give it a good review, make it game of the year, even write a shoot club about it but that doesnt mean that you are mindlessley addicted to it. Some games you like and some you really but damn it, this is quartertothree.com you need to set aside the games that have that extra espcial quality that means theres a meeting at 6am tomorrow, its 2:45am and your calling for a rematch. Besides everyone else has some sort of editors choice award or somthing. Even if yours isnt the most prestgious its clearly the coolest looking and I certinaly want it on my game's box!


I can see it now.... but that maybe because its 3:50am or the questionable hamburger i ate for dinner. Still what a vision!
ShiningOne

I second the motion. Sort of along the lines of "Game of the Decade," perhaps. Game of the Year just doesn't seem prestigious enough. Plus, things that can disqualify a game from GOTY status don't necessarily have to disqualify it from the Bloodshot Joe award. It could have horrifically detracting features, but if you can't put it down, then it's a contender.

Yeah but if what if some nut finds Daikatana and Conquest Earth so damn awful they just can't stop playing and reveling in their sheer awfulness? Then the award suddenly has a warped meaning! :)

I think in the original intent of the award, it would be something that Tom and Mark give out. Perhaps they could try to agree. Or, perhaps that idea sucks. They could take a vote on the site, set up a little poll, but I have a feeling that there would simply be three hundred games with two votes each...

My idea had been that they would both agree, but hell its thier sight and when i came up with it it was late and i was begining to hear parts of songs i hadnt downloaded yet.

That would be great, but could they do that? I mean, the chances of them both being addicted to the same game at the same time is pretty slim, knowing them, right?

So, thoughts on this: Could it be a weekly or monthly award? Based on my experiences, I seem to go in weekly phases, so I would think perhaps every week the Bloodshot Joe Award would go to one game that has Tom and/or Mark completely engrossed. Maybe Mark could give it out one week, and Tom the next, and so on...?

As for Mark and I agreeing, that would be the least of our problems. We have remarkably similar taste, which really cuts down on the dramatic tension you should get when you have two guys working on a site. Our only recent differences, AFAICT, are over Undying, which I didn't like and he did, and B&W, which I'm slightly more forgiving towards.

I suppose the main problem is that doing a regular award is kind of like doing ratings.

We've purposely steered clear of ratings because we feel the point of the site is that a short blurb, presumably well-written, can say a whole lot more about a game than a sloppy 3,000 word review and a number.

It's similar with things like awards. We hope from the blurbs we write that you can tell which games we really like. Also, the problem with a periodic award is that you can't control when there's going to be a flood or dearth of excellent games.

For instance, in terms of what's competing for my time right now, I would be hard pressed deciding whether Starships Unlimited, Kohan, or Europa Universalis is better.

-Tom

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For instance, in terms of what's competing for my time right now, I would be hard pressed deciding whether Starships Unlimited, Kohan, or Europa Universalis is better.

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Well i thoguht that if they agreed that it was q23 good it would be deserving of the bloodshot joe. You cann't give out a bloodshot joe on a regular basis because then some games that would not otherwise get it would and some that would have wont.

Since there presumably wouldnt be any standards other than adictivness i wouldn't consider it a rating.

I just feel that when a game makes you its bi'och it deserves an extra nod.
ShiningOne

If we ever did do a Bloodshot Joe award I think it would just be to see if we could get a game company to stick it in an ad. That would be cool. :)

I could see doing one every now and then. Some games deserve one, like Flying Heroes. I'm sure a FH ad with Bloodshot Joe in the corner would result in at least 5 more sales.

All I know is, I think it would be cool. It wouldn't necessarily require any extra review or anything, just a section on the homepage letting us know what you guys have given the award to. And it wouldn't have to be regularly. It could be like Shoot Club is now -- just whenever you guys get around to it, or find a deserving game.

Maybe it could inspire a new sales pitch. Rather than the GOTY edition, we could have the Bloodshot Joe edition. New box, and a Bloodshot Joe figurine included with the game...

"New box, and a Bloodshot Joe figurine included with the game... "

Now there is a game that i would buy!!

"If we ever did do a Bloodshot Joe award I think it would just be to see if we could get a game company to stick it in an ad."

And dont publsihers pay to put stuff like that in thier magazine adds? A little extra dollars to keep q23 goin'.

I tihnk somone as cool as Joe should have a better job than sendin' me back to the news section.
ShiningOne

Somehow I don't see an award being called "Bloodshot Joe" inspiring game companies to splash it all over their packaging. Especially since some bible-belt politician would end up associating "Bloodshot" with "Blood-splattered," at some point. Before you know it people are picketing Tom's apartment, Lisa won't come over because she's getting random calls telling her that Tom endorses killing children, and Trevor gets his ass kicked while trying to pick up one of the female picketers while on his way in for Shoot Club.

Hmm. Sounds like bad mojo to me. ;-)

I dunno. Seems like a big jump to me. He's really not incredibly bloodshot. Not so much to make the jump to blood-splattered, I don't think.

If I were a publisher, I'd be very proud if my game received the Bloodshot Joe award. It'd be on my game boxes in no time.