Sonic Unleashed Shut Out at Golden Joystick Awards
Tristan Oliver | October 30, 2009
Sega Doesn’t Win…Anything
After so much rallying and even prize giveaways to get Sega and its games up in the count, there can be nothing but embarrassment within the company tonight, as their efforts to gain a previous Golden Joystick award have come up short in every regard.
Sonic Unleashed fell short in all categories in which it was nominated, including the Ultimate Game of the Year award. That honor went to Fallout 3. There wasn’t even a place showing for Unleashed–or any Sega game for that matter. That means Madworld and The House of the Dead: Overkill, among others, couldn’t withstand the barrage of some 1.2 million votes cast in this year’s competition. It also means Sega won’t be going home as Publisher of the Year. That honor went to Activision Blizzard.
There may even be added insult to injury for some Sonic fans out of all this. A Guinness world record attempt on Sonic 2′s Emerald Hill Zone Act 1 was made as part of the award ceremony. Some are quick to point out that the 22 second showing by James Richards, though in the books as a record, does not beat another Guinness world record of 20 seconds set on the same game, in the same stage, at last year’s Summer of Sonic. But because Richards’s record was set on the XBOX360 and not on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, as it was last year, the technicality likely means the record, in some form, will stand.
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I suspect foul play.
Anyway, loss or not. It had gotten that far, that’s something onto itself.
Hmmmm, I knew something like this would happen in the end. Oh well. Betta luck next time, Sega!
Democracy actually worked?
Well what do you guys expect from SEGA. They just can’t do anything right.
It’s also called the Golden Hype Awards.
It doens’t matter SONIC IS THE BEST, SO IS SEEEEEEGGGGAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Oh f*ck them I still like Unleashed
SEGA doesn’t really deserve any awards right now.
…And we should be surprised by this?
Platformers > RPGs.
Nuff sed.
Hmm…dont blame Sega for other peoples opnions folks, believeor not, not everyone likes Sonic
Crysore : You win the award of smartness … true I love Sonic & their is somethings I don`t love about Sonic …
LOL you guys actually expected Unleash to win an AWARD??! ROFL
flame6753: But how many of us “guys” were actually expecting Unleashed to get an award? Well, you should not generalize us “guys” as if we ALL were really expecting Unleashed to get an award, but believe it or not, not ALL of us expected that to really happen. Including myself. I really love the 360 version of Sonic Unleashed, and I play it every now and then, but even I am aware that the game was not likely to get a ward in this competition. So did I let my “fanboyism” overwhelm me and think that Sonic Unleashed was gonna get any awards no matter what? If you thought so, you are wrong! :-p
Crysore: Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I think 2008 was a better year than 09 for sega but anyhow there 2010 will probally be the best year since 2001
Stephen : Yup becuase they got their act together with Sonic , Project Needlemouse… but first I wish they show us some screenshots or a gameplay trailer…
@Edwin Shy: Same here. I have been waiting like…forever for some Project Needlemouse gameplay trailers and screenshots! What the big heck is taking Sega so long, anyway?
sonic unleashed got too far,I mean what do you expect from a game with a 4.5 from the reviewers,most people read the review before play the game, and sonic unleashed did very will
Sonication : Maybe just MAYBE we`ll finally get something about P.N.M (Project Needlemouse) in November
Anyone who keeps citing IGN and Gamespot’s horrible reviews as the average for the 360/PS3 version of the game need to look at Metacritic sometimes. It actually has mostly 60s and 70s and an overall average scoring across the majority of professional outlets. Indeed, IGN and Gamespot are in the minority on Unleashed when it comes to both its critical and public reception. Truly, the flak this game gets as a “sucky” one are completely unwarranted when the reality of the matter has proven said naysayers otherwise.
It should have won something, it definitely deserved it.
Bliz ; The only sucky from Unleashed 360 I dislike is how giant Eggmanland is & some of the werehog stages being to hard
Better luck next year then.
Besides 2010 is going to be the transition to an other type of decade.
@ Edwin: So you dislike large stages and difficulty? Um, hooray? Play Wii Sports or something? I mean, there’s much more objective problems with the game than that, such as slow down and missing collectables.
Ah well, shame to that. Besides, truth to everything RaveToGrave said. Being nominated was award enough.
I always thought SU will win the music award.. Playing many game last year.. I thought SU has the best music.. Too bad people think otherwise
It was only sonic fans who like Sonic unleashed and even then it was split right down the middle.
Sonication: you work for this site? If not, you took the context of my comment all wrong.
Oh no, an online poll never voted for Sonic!
@flame5753: Hey, no worries! I was just making fun of what you said for just my own reasons. I wasn’t really trying to be critical. No hard feelings, right?
@Sonication and Mr Flame: Haha! Yeah… I know exactly what you’re talking about Sonication! Something with cycles!
haha.. i love it.
whats the opposite of a fanboy..in this case?
“Democracy actually worked?”
Modern Warfare 2 won best Wii game, despite being abhorrent.
There is no democracy.
I wasn’t expecting it to win, so no surprise.
ACTIVISION-BLIZZARD AS PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR!?!?!?!? O.O BLASPHAMY!!!!!!!!!
SONIC UNLHEASHED should have won, but as U see this is all combined everything isa arranjed for some companys survive like those with CoD4, oh well since SEGA is the best that are trying to kill SEGA, BUT SEGA IS STRONG!!!
They will make games just like SONIC UNLEASHED and better than SU…. you’ll see SEGA SIMPLY RULES 
hehe
How is it embarrassment? They had some tough competition
How is this surprising? Go anywhere on the internet, mention Sonic and somebody will yell, “Oh, nobody likes that gay shit of a series and anybody who does is a whiny fanboy who’d better sprout balls and get on with their lives. Who the fuck would wanna be that?
”
And you’ll be lucky to get it in that tone of voice…
Honestly, unless you’re a Sonic fan in one section of the fanbase, everybody wants this series to die (because apparently we’re the only games less than brilliant on the market). No wonder nobody but a handful would even be voting for the Sonic series to win anything.
We’re the most hated people on the internet no matter our actions or our individual personalities, because Sonic the Hedgehog was never good in the first place. And if it was, nobody outside us even cares, because everything after 1994 apparently was complete bollocks that just made everybody vomit repeatedly.
I keep wondering who I have to shoot to make people happy, but in the end I just shot Sonic anyway, because if that’s what people want, then I’ll give it to them.
This is one of the reasons that one of the few places I’m happy at is the Summer of Sonic every year.
Maybe if SEGA wasn’t a shitty company that likes making shitty Sonic games, they would have won an award.
@Steve: Well, someone here has made quite a bit of sense. Still, Unleashed did have some great music. Upbeat and catchy.
I have faith in Needlemouse. BUT… If SEGA dare add anything as ridiculous as a monster or a sword again, I will send them a big fat letter describing my disappointment. After so many mistakes, you would think they would learn, yes? Well… We have yet to see, and by god, they better have learned.
Greg: Like Sega will care if they get your letter. They will continue to do what they do: Make money.
what?! sonic unleashed didn’t win anything? what a huge suprise! oh, wait, no it isn’t.
“Embarrassment”? “Insult to injury”? A handful of Sega games couldn’t stack up againt a bunch of heavily-marketed, community-driven titles (many of which are actually pretty damn good) in a popularity contest. There’s no shame to be had here, especially considering how said Sega games had enough percieved merit to be nominated in the first place.
Also, these “articles” piss me off. They always seem to be lined with a layer of snotty pretentiousness and asinine embellishments. It’s as if they’re all goddamned editorials.
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