Paul_cz: I bought and enjoyed Crysis 2, but Witcher 2 destroys it on every level. Cannot understand how it could have lost against Crysis 2.
EA and their advertising budget :)
Plus RPG is a much smaller audience than first person shooters and any public medium is not going to alienate said audience by favouring better game of a different genre :)
Let's face it, everyone will be wasting plenty of HTML code for the Modern Warfare 3 no matter how bad it may be because it will still sell more copies than you can imagine and advertising plus audience equals money.
indelible: I don't agree that Best Art Design should have gone to The Witcher 2.
Honestly I think CDPR did a very good job of representing classical environments in The Witcher 2 to such an extent that I was amazed how pretty everything looked. But there is a difference between The Witcher 2 and Crysis 2 that shouldn't be overlooked: variety. The variety of environments in The Witcher 2 is limited and - I'm afraid - generic (in as much as they're all representative of environments we can relate to in real life), where as in Crysis 2 that are some pretty distinct and unique environments being played out on the screen. So I think that award went to the better of the two in that regard.
The Witcher 2 should have won Best Game however. Crysis 2 isn't a game; it's an engine demonstration.
You must be either well travelled or have amazing imagination if you think that the Witcher 2 settings are generic, of course there is also another option here... so let's try it out :)
If you honestly think that the Witcher 2 settings are generic I would like to hear your option about Dragon Age 1/2 settings because if they were to fit into your scale they would be below bottom line.
