all those games vonn said are budget games made for crappy computers

What are you talking about man? Try getting Theif 3 to run with dynamic shadows on anything less than a 9800xt over 30fps then make a sensible statement. Secondly SS2 and NOLF 2 are some of the greatest overlooked but respected games ever made, while I mentioned Scrapland because to me it was a breath of fresh air, it wasn't a WW2 shooter or a zombie blast fest. The game reminded me of Spyro on the PSone with it's interesting enviroments, imaginative characters and the games scope, I mean it did a hell of a lot more than GTA with better graphics, flying around a huge futuristic city with hundreds of flying cars minding their own business and looking 10 million times better than GTA and without the gangster rap crap.

After hearing the recent news on how "Darwina" developer might go under due to lack of game sales I thought to myself that the gaming industry is becoming a sad place. Games like COD2 and BF2 reign supreme with generic "already been done" things while the truly innovative games get trampled. Games like System Shock 2, Theif 3, Scrapland,NOLF all get overlooked, no matter how good the reviewers tell people the game is, the public is like a game publisher always going for the safe-bet in a genre they have played millions of times before.

I think game of the year for me would have been Vietcong 2. Overlooked by many for not having fancy graphics and the lure of COD2.