UNCHARTED 2 wins GOTY at the SPIKE VGA 2009 - nabs 2 more VGA awards and 2 Inside Gaming Awards

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We went to two award events last weekend—the SPIKE Video Game Awards 2009 and Machinima.com Inside Gaming Awards – and walked away with an armful of awards including a very awesome Game of the Year Award from the SPIKE VGA 2009!

By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Friday December 18 2009

Last week was a busy week for the Dogs as we had two awards shows to attend, but it definitely had its rewards!

Without a doubt, the most prominent video game awards show currently is the SPIKE Video Game Awards – partly because it’s the only show to be televised live and it’s been gaining in exposure year after year. Therefore it meant a lot for us to be nominated for a leading eight awards when the nominees and categories were announced in late November. December 12 couldn’t get here fast enough.

On Saturday night, Amy, Bruce, Christophe and Evan all headed over to L.A. Live to attend the SPIKE VGA 2009 while a bunch of Dogs went to the PlayStation.Blog community event and viewing party to mingle with fans and watch the show. I know that we all had our fingers crossed that we would walk away with some awards to cap off a crazy year which included finishing UNCHARTED 2, getting awesome review scores and stellar sales. You can read Evan’s behind the scenes look at attending the VGA 2009 on the PlayStation.Blog to get an idea of what it’s like to go to these events – it’s not always stress-free, especially when you’re a nominee!

Just in case you haven’t heard by now, UNCHARTED 2 won Game of the Year, Best PS3 Game and Best Graphics – more awards than any other game at the show and only the second time in Naughty Dog history we’ve won any industry awards. We’re especially grateful for all this recognition, not just because we put in a lot of hard work over the past two years, but because there really was a slate of stellar, quality games that came out in 2009 and every one of the nominees easily could have won an award.

Just a day earlier, Jacob and I, headed over to the Red Bull headquarters in Santa Monica to attend the inaugural 2009 Inside Gaming Awards, held by Machinima.com. The Red Bull offices are pretty amazing and they did a great job to accommodate the private industry event Machinima wanted to put together for their awards show. After some mingling with the other folks who were invited, we were all taken to the screening room in the office to find out who won.

The winners were announced through a compilation of videos hosted by Dead Pixel. We were stoked to find out that UNCHARTED 2 won two awards – Best Game Cinematography and Best Sound Design. Congrats are in order to our friends at Infinity Ward who won a bunch of awards for Modern Warfare 2, including the Inside Gaming award for Game of the Year.

To echo what Evan said at the closing of his blog post, I know we’re all extremely proud to have been involved with such an amazing project and that we appreciate every single one of our fans.

Thanks to all of you out there who have supported us!

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Posted by: RE-PENT on 12-27-2009

GOTY!!!!! but when is the DLC coming just want to get a hold of the new maps cant wait. I have some suggestions and complaints though. Suggestion-1)Like the story mode being able to pick weapons can we do that in Custom games to play games such as Snipers only or FAL starting weapon.2)being able to place weapons where you want on maps knid of like Gears Of War.3)Ability to increase player health for custom games or even lower them like Halo3.4)More reasonable boosters!!! everyone who plays Uncharted 2 that is good and smart will only use FleetFoot or Down the iron or even rapid hands. So why make things like walk softly,monkey man,break cover faster. these arent even used alot or at all. why not make things like Ability to hold 2 primary weapons or secondary weapons,faster running,or faster taking cover ability,how about ability to REVERSE stealth kills or punches.
Complaints-1)Cheaters!!!!
2)Glitching in maps like Village,The Fort,Plaza,Train Wreck theseare the only ones i know about so ND if you want to know where there at add me PSN is RE-PENT.
3)Grenade explosions if your(ND) is going to keep them this strong at least make a time appear on them that counts down to zero or make a radius meter on them telling you how far you are from them.4)better matchmaking system i have a 14.50 Win ratio its to easy my team plays nothing but noobs make it so you play people around your money ranking or something else. Even the Ranked play list has problems im a 50 in that and i play lvl 1 ranked people what up with that. the game is Sick i quit great games because of this game but these few things will make this GOTY even bigger. ADD ME RE-PENT

Posted by: GABE1234567890 on 12-19-2009

Let me ask you a few things, what is the hurry in leveling up anyways? So you can buy the medals of honor? So you can what, earn more money? Once you reach level 60 what are you gonna do, stop playing? Or are you gonna be like that one guy I saw in the leaderboards, I forget his name (look him up, he’s number 1 in money earned all time) whos been at level 60 for like the last 40 million dollars (thats a lot of games). A persons rank reflects absolutely nothing on a persons skill level, just means they have way more time to play games than everyone else.

Posted by: CaptainGillette on 12-23-2009

Gah. I hope they never touch the cash cap! If they make it easier for me to level up than it was for the people who did it before me, they’ll be stealing my sense of accomplishment in getting there!

Posted by: H2K-AznOutLawZ on 12-18-2009

Congratulations naughty dog you guys are amazing! Keeping the online so rich. We enjoy what you have done to improve the online gameplay and updating season skins. You guys deserved the game of the YEAR! and UC3 will take it again but we all know, all competitors are keeping there eyes on ND. Congratulations! Keep up the hard work.

Posted by: zombietrooper576 on 12-18-2009

hey I know this ain’t related to GOTY but I just got the pump taunt and i’m not level 53 so it maybe something you should check out.

P.s I know you guys would get GOTY but why don’t you mention your awards from XPLAY.

Posted by: GREEK_620 on 12-18-2009

@ Naughty Dog.

Just out of curiosity, I noticed every Nathan Drake skin on the multiplayer gets wet when exposed to water. But why not the other skins? Chloe, Elena, Cameraman Jeff, and some villains clothes get wet on the Single Player but not on the multiplayer.....

Posted by: DRCD1 on 12-21-2009

I’m gussing that that happens due to possible glitches because if you have chloe skin in the end of chapter 5 and you could get wet, since the skins are labbled the same, both characters (Fake chloe and real chloe) would get wet as you roll through a puddle. But you shall notice that in chapter 25, in the rain, of you play as chloe, she gets wet, but elena doesn’t. Why don’t they get wet in the multiplayer, beats me. Just on more thing, in the chapter A train to catch, the only badie who does not get wet is that guy similar to zorskel, but w/out the skull.
I love to see the bruises in the badies faces after u punch them

Posted by: King_Chile on 12-18-2009

Congrats on the GOTY guys. I’ve never been much of a fan of competitive online play but UC2 forced me to join the crowd. Great work!
Now how about talking to Squeenix/Eidos about some Kain/Raziel skins for MP? Simon’s already doing Roman’s voice. Just saying.

Posted by: brechtsky on 12-19-2009

I’m a bit disappointed with ND as well...eht y win the VGAs and dont update or say thanks to the voters for a week.

On top of which, they have said since day one thered be DLC before the new year, and if the fort was all he was referring to before the new year, thats friggin lame.

Finally, they supposedly patch stuff, but wont give any details on obvious things like booster balancing ... HELLO WHAT DID YOU CHANGE?!?!?!?! I dont want to have to re-try EVERY booster to figure it out, geniuses…

Posted by: brechtsky on 12-19-2009

yeah i should have to play 15-20 games JUST testing the boosters because they refuse to write an extra sentence or two (that clearly should have been included to begin with).

Yeah, thats makes a whole lot of sense.

Posted by: liamb77 on 12-19-2009

I just got to lv 49!!, i was on it for ages last night:) haha im well proud wanna get to lv 50 to get schafer and that lt, congrats naughty dog keep it up, and keep making us proud by working on DLC, we heart you:)

Posted by: king_ruckus on 12-19-2009

Congratulations:). You made an outstanding game, which you continue to support. I was saying GOTY at the Gamer Advisory Panel MONTHS ago!

Please release the Eye of Indra Motion Comic bundle in the US so I can shoot people in the face with new skins. Thanks.

Posted by: TEC-WeaponX on 12-19-2009

No shit you guys won. I said it many times before and I will say it again.

Playing U2 was like being in a long movie. AN AWESOME EFF’in movie. Not only was I playing, but I had family and friends watch me play to see what happens at the end of the movie.. I mean game.

Congrats to all the team at ND. Nice work to all the ND fans who took the time to vote.

And thanks ND for not forgetting about the fans and supporters of U2 by bringing us constant updates to make the game even better.

And for those still complaining, chill, I’m sure there is more to come. And if not, then I still feel I got more then my moneys worth.

Posted by: Colt_Gun00 on 12-22-2009

the only reason MW2 has only won ANY awards is because the PSYCOTIC FANBOYS of the game would have a freakin Breakdown if it didn’t. When you take into consideration and really look at the game. it is exactly the same as any other first person shooter, actually, i know a few FPS’s on PS1 that have a better storyline than MW2, its only attraction is multiplayer, and even that is average. UNCHARTED 2 is not only GAME OF THE YEAR its GAME OF THIS GENERATION OF GAMING! MW2 is OVERRATED and not worth your time. and NAUGHTY DOG ARE THE KINGS OF THE GAMING INDUSTRY!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWARD ND!! YOU DESERVE IT WAY MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE!!!! PS i still play crash bandicoot. bought the 1st and 3rd of psn store =) want the 2nd! that was the best!

Posted by: gphjr14 on 12-19-2009

I voted for Uncharted 2 and to return the favor ND could be nice enough to fix it so I don’t loose 40K points for a connection error when I just got screwed over and lost 20 kills (like I’d leave willfully when I’m 3 kills away from winning).

Seriously fix this I know I’m not the only one who’s brought this problem to your attention.

Posted by: PeteX19 on 12-20-2009

Hey check out some of the old posts this has been argued to death and they arn’t changing it. iceman888srf has given the same narrow minded answer of ‘well it hasn’t happened to me so its not a problem’ which just makes me laugh now. What I can tell you is since the new update I only get the 40k penalty if the connection problem is my end. If it happens because of ND servers I don’t get the penalty, thats some compromise I guess.

Also well done ND on the multiplayer side

plunder, rematch, dlc and addressing the loading times has really made a difference of making it a tighter and more fun experience.

Two things I would like to see;

Higher sensitivity option and the melee attack to be a one hit kill. Its frustrating to hit some one only for them to hit u, so u hit them again(which should kill them) but for some reason they get another hit and you both die. Every other melee attack like kicks and pull downs are one hit kills so why is normal melee different.

Please comment on these two issues Im intrigued what others think.

Apart from that thanks ND for a great SP and listening to the players on how to improve the multiplayer.

Posted by: iceman888srf on 12-19-2009

dear ND i wish those crapy players would stop crying about the 40k when you exit or get kicked listen crapy players iam lvel 50 and i have onlt got the 40k penlty 1 time. the game lets you exit 2 times and if you do it 3 times than you get the 40k penlty. and when there is a connection error which happens from time to time. the kills i have gotten in the match have gone on my recored ive check. trust me you still get your kills and when it error’s i have never got the 40k penlty never.

Posted by: demonsgalore on 12-19-2009

i wish i could be a part of you. you have the same goal, a passion for what you are doing and you make it damn good. finally, a team that fights for the ps3.

you have shown the people and especially the ms fags that can play the ps3 more than just bad porting.

all the details, knew no pixelated, vibrant colors, deceptively real water, well-directed visual effects, a gripping story and a cinematic action hero game.

you can proud of you.

dont worry mw2 is no more than poor addon.

the multiyplayer of uncharted 2 is well balanced. the only thing that would excite me would be even more realism, which is not necessarily more brutality must be called.

about playstation and me:
http://demonsgalore.blogspot.com/

btw:

...ive written the text with google, because my vocabulary is limited. I hope the text is understandable.

your fan demonsgalore

Posted by: iceman888srf on 12-19-2009

now what i wanted 2 say. version 1.03 is great clan tags. i did not even no this was happening. and that the sever is keeping the same people playing thats the way it should(just like in the cod games) i do have a problem this site should be updated more this site should have said version 1.03 is coming clan tags. and tell us all about it. it took all most a week 2 show that you won the 3 awards. that should have been up sunday the next day.(and agian DLC SKINS SKINS SKINS)PINKERTON RIKA EDDIE GAB ROMAN ETC. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO GIVE US PUT EDDIE AND ONE OF HIS MAN ON THE GOOD SIDE . EVEN IF IT ENDS UP BEING MORE SKINS 4 THE BAD GUYS OH WELL. i don’t care more skins the better. and i don’t get why you would give a free map(fort)for thanksgiving. and no map for christmas should have waited.
or you should have gave us 1 more since xmas is all about giving. either way i should not bitch at all. there is no other game company that is trying to please there fans like ND. YOU GUYS AND GIRLS REALLY ARE AWSOME . AGIAN CONGRATES ON ALL THE AWARDS you DESERVE IT.
since there is no free map for xmas . i really really hope there is a map pack on the way and soon. (rooftop map. cave map jungle map even 2 jungle maps, nepal city map, train yard map, boat map(end of uncharted 1)another fort(forts are awsome if you did not no)and most important suken city map(uncharted 1)(more dlc) so as captian parcard says MAKE IT SO. LOL THANKS FOR READING ND

Posted by: bruno-fortunto on 12-20-2009

This prize was more than deserved Uncharted 2 is a spectacular experience, which extends much more now with gameplay online. Congratulations to developers, congratulations to Naughty Dog throughout his work, I am in Brazil but always rooting for all and by the success of Nathan Drake. Will Uncharted 3!

Posted by: pappy8814 on 12-20-2009

You guys are great. congrats on GOTY. You guys deserve it, not only for a great game, but also for the way you listen AND respond to your fans’ suggestions, and concerns. Everyone is all about MW2, but U2 is a far better story with online play that is far less glitchy. I never knew ND existed b4 I got this game, but for what its worth, you have a loyal fan in me. Thanx for th hours of fun I’ve had, and the hours of fun I will have. cheers!

Posted by: swavage415 on 12-20-2009

I think the melee is getting worse. Some guy pistol whipped me through a wall today. I’m not sure if lag caused this but I was throwing grendades in between a level 5 ranked guys feet and he wasn’t dieing of even getting stunned. The guy didn’t have sure foot so it must have been lag. This happened with a few other higher ranked players today also and they didn’t have sure foot either. The grendade was right between their legs. Also the silent movement booster isn’t working for me at all, my guy still makes noises with everything he does.

Posted by: I--AdepT--I on 12-20-2009

Congratulations ND, Uncharted 2 certainly deserved to be Game of the Year (and some of the other nominations as well...). You guys really stepped up your game to dethrone Modern Warfare 2, and I could not be more delighted that you did so. Nathan Drake is too good. Modern Warfare Who? But seriously, thanks again for a job well done.

Posted by: fire_spirited on 12-21-2009

Congrats ND! Thanks for the awesome game! Last 3 month (since beta test) I played only Uncharted 2 every day! I have 11 years of gaming experience and i never ever loved any game that much as I love Uncharted 2.

Posted by: DRCD1 on 12-21-2009

You know what I’ve been thinking: After watching WANTED a couple of times, and having climbed a train in Uc2 6x2 times, pheraps a good MP Map would be a map w/ 2 trains, made of 3 carriages, hanging from a cliff, the third carriage w’d be on the top of the cliff horizontally, the others would be hanging. Both separated 100 meters. Plunder: Each base at the bottom of the carriages, an Idol at the top of the cliff. Turf War, 2 bases deep down in the trains, 1 base at the top of the cliff. Chain Reaction: 2 bases in the bottom of the first carriage of both trains, 2 bases in the bottom of the second carriage and one at the top of the map. Environmental changes: Strong wind that would make the trains balance and colide and then go normal again, possibly every 2 minutes, instead of just once per match. Just an idea. oh and congratulations to you for VGA’s GotY.

Posted by: liamb77 on 12-21-2009

Its a good idea, but the problem is there already is a train level, we should want something new. I would like a map of the ship at the end on uncharted: Drakes Fortune, or a map in the forest like in level 3 on uncharted 2, or a map underground where that glowing blood was:)

Posted by: honaxl on 12-21-2009

Hey ND thanks for a great game! But It would be cool if you guys could add a feature were you can play with people who are around the same level as you. For example, let’s say you are level 40, well you could play with people who are around that same level. You have no idea how bad luck I have and always get paired up with noobs.

Posted by: tylerthegr8 on 12-21-2009

ND, i’d like to suggest a “No Party Mode”
that way if you have none of your friends to plays with, you wont have to worry about a party of 5 all in the roman numerals, i personaly like it better when its 100% random

Also i want to suggest a 3v3 mode. i always have ALOT of fun when it ends up only finding 6 people for a round. JUst a small team makes players work together more instead of everyone running around doing whatever.

Posted by: CaptainGillette on 12-23-2009

I’d definitely be in favor of a ‘no party’ option as well. Keeping parties and clans together is fine, except when it screws up the skill balance. The other night I was placed on a team of 0-30 rank players against a party of five III+ players. I even left the matchmaking and came back in twice and got put up against the exact same team of guys three times in a row. To avoid the quit penalty, I had to sit through 45 minutes of getting my ass handed to me—particularly because some of my teammates *did* quit and left me on a 3-man team of n00bs vs. five well-coordinated Romans. It was still fun to try and make at least one kill, but repeatedly losing 50-2 is never as fun as a well-balanced match. I think the matchmaking algorithm should attempt to prioritize a balanced match over keeping parties together, lest the game become boring both for the high-level players who won’t have any challenge at all and the n00bs who have no option but to get creamed over and over or lose $40k.

Posted by: CARNlVORA on 12-23-2009

Congratulations!
It would be unfair if you guys didn’t won the award.
This way you get to see that your hard work is accepted by the world, and you need to do even better with Uncharted 3. hahaha

Best of luck!

Btw...sorry for my english. It is not my native language.

Posted by: AngeloComet on 12-23-2009

Congratulations, ND.

Uncharted 2 is a spectacular achievement, a tremendous amount of fun and with fiendishly addictive online thrills to keep people like me, with our hard-earned Platinum Trophy, coming back for more.

Your MY game of the year, no question.

Posted by: MEGAGLOKTICUS on 12-23-2009

i voted for you guys till my fingers fell off!! im typing this with my toes. totally off topic, can you guys PLEASE make a JACK X 2?? I LOVED THAT GAME TO DEATH N NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY IT ONLINE. THANKS. ADD ME. MEGAGLOKTICUS.

Posted by: tylerthegr8 on 12-23-2009

@CaptainGillette (and anyone else)
you dont lose 40k if u just quit the round, as long as u play another round afterwards you wont be penalized

example: u leave a game of deathmatch, & join a game of plundrr after you left deathmatch you wont lose 40k

However if you leave deathmatch & decide to turn your PS3 off, or just quit Uncharted 2, you’ll lose 40k

Posted by: BanyaKnoT on 12-23-2009

No, dont thanks us for our support, thanks yourself for your amazing work doing videogames and us gamers so happy !!! im from south america , chile , and please, dont stop doing the BEST games in the industry.

Posted by: DubVUnderground on 01-05-2010

you people talk about cod mw2 fanboys you should hear yourselves. It’s sickening. I own the game and it should not have won goty. Dont get me wrong it’s a great game. It has a wonderful story mode, gorgeous graphics, and it’s literally nail biting, but when it comes to online play it’s lacking. Once again fanboys i’m not putting your miracle game down like ive stated it’s a great game but online needs improvement. It seems as if the weapons go horribly with the maps, and if any of you fan boys have played gears of war then you know what i mean. The bottom line is that it’s a great game. Even the online is good, but after the story mode the online just is not good enough to keep me playing. However, I have a open mind I try many different games of all genres. I don’t just pick a game thats decent and worship it but to eaches own i suppose. Dub.

Posted by: lukesparow on 01-10-2010

Lol the only game that will ever be able to top uncharted 2 will be uncharted 3! u guys are awesome! ur like rollmodels for developers!uncharted 1 was already top notch and than u guys come out with uncharted 2! i just cant stop playing this! i’d hand in every single game ive got to get this (if i didnt already have it) every single 1! thats nes nintendo 64, ps1, ps2 nintendo gameqube and ps3 games! thats 464 games! (counted them XD)

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UNCHARTED 2 wins GOTY at the SPIKE VGA 2009 - nabs 2 more VGA awards and 2 Inside Gaming Awards

We went to two award events last weekend—the SPIKE Video Game Awards 2009 and Machinima.com Inside Gaming Awards – and walked away with an armful of awards including a very awesome Game of the Year Award from the SPIKE VGA 2009!

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