The Award You Don’t Want to Win
Nominations are just seeing release over on ScrewAttack for the 2010 SAGY awards. Sonic is represented, but this is not an award worth winning. The S#!tty Ass Game of the Year award is SA’s traditional antithesis to the usual array of year end accolades, sticking it to the worst of the worst.
Unfortunately, Sonic Free Riders is among the dishonored for 2010, nominated in the Worst XBOX 360 game category. The Kinect exclusive, as of this writing, is leading by a fair margin among the other nominees, which include Fighters Uncaged and Ninety-Nine Nights II.
Sega couldn’t escape subsequent nominations in the SAGYs, either. Super Monkey Ball: Step and Roll and Tournament of Legends were both nominated in the Worst Wii Game category, though at the moment they are both thankfully not the frontrunners in voting.
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Wasn’t Black Knight nominated last year? Anyhow, people will probably downvote it against even terrible games solely due to it being a Sonic game.
Not big surprise.
^Yeah, I’m still upset about that. Black Knight was no Colors, but it was still good fun (except it’s multiplayer).
SAGY = video game responce to the Golden Rasberry Awards.
At least Colors isn’t on there. But I think maybe SFR should had at least had a controller option to play the game and should had been released on XBLA.
@XD375: Both Black knight and Mario & Sonic were Nominated last year.
Sonic Free Riders isn’t THAT bad, and just because they were tripping over their brains while playing and, therefore, couldn’t play it right or didn’t bother to calibrate the Kinect OR they didn’t realize that you don’t JUST bend your waste to play it doesn’t mean it’s an absolutely terrible game.
Nothing I could say that won’t warrant an elaboration, but I friggin’ hate ScrewAttack.
Sonic Free Riders isn’t that bad really, it controls tough but it’s fun to play when you get used to it. Damn you Angry Joe, people bashing a game that they didn’t even play, and when their are worse games people towards their attention to the Sonic games (Big RIgs better than Sonic 06? I’m not stupid but I know that’s not right).
Reeeady,re,re,reeeeadddyy.
Jajajja, the only cool in that game is the main theme (songed by crush40 sounds even better)
Black Knight was horrible and deserved the nomination, and Free Riders is a game where you need put in a lot of your troubles to get it to work right, which is a bad thing because every game is supposed to be simple enough to just turn on and get right into, which Free Riders isn’t capable of. It might be the Kinect’s fault, but there are other games that do a better job.
Screw ScrewAttack! Sega finally fixes Sonic and people still aren’t impressed. I am, the only thing of the new generation I can’t stand is Amy’s new voice. I didn’t like Amy’s voice from the 1st gen voice actors, but when Sonic X came along, I liked it from episode 1 and all the way through. Why did they get a voice actress that makes her sound as annoying as Minni Mouse!? Sure, they can fix Cream’s voice, but not Amy’s!?
“Sonic game nominated for SAGY on Screwattack”
Oh dear God, no!! Why!? This is such a horrible-
“Sonic Free Riders”
Oh. Nevermind.
Its soundtrack didn’t save it from nomination =(
WOO-HOO! I’ve been mentioned!!!
I don’t blame screwattack because they didn’t make the nominations, it was the people who didn’t play it and thinks that it sucks. As for me, I’ve own a copy and at first it didn’t work as well, but once you figure out you uses your arm to turn, then it became a lot easier. Fighters Uncaged deserves this award, not Free Riders.
Its a Kinetic game. What do you expect? Right now, the perphiral itself barely functions, and given that amount of physical moves the game expects you to pull off, there’s no way its going to register it all. Blame the Kinetic, not the game. Though its SEGA’s fault they released it with no controller option.
@Setnaro X You’re not helping
ScrewAttack once again confirmed that they are stupid.
@XD375 and BlueHedgehog25
Yeah, I hear ya. I can imagine a least more than 50% of those votes are not even from people who have played Free Riders.
krazeeKidd102′s comment did make me laugh.
I think the Riders series are good but, I’m not sure if Free Riders is good. I use the Cube controller on Zero Gravity myself.
But how much can you play the Kinect without getting too tired?
A good sequence of No More Heroes almost tired me out. …But one thing that did that was the 100 man fight. Fun though.
Anyway, I’m sure it’s ok but is the Kinect a hurdle so high you’d have to limbo under instead of jump. I figure people understand at least the first part. The Kinect may be the problem.
Alternately, the Kinect may be the second albatross about that game. And unlike Storm, it’s a problem. It hangs around Sonic’s neck.
Meanwhile, I think Colors is a good game. So far, I’ve had fun. Also, Sonic Hat is fun to have.