[Hack of the Year] Nomination Round - 2012

Wow it was about time for the nominations

Best Mapping: Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Snakewood
Best Gameplay: Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Liquid Crystal

Liquid Crystal's new Beta that was released about a year ago is IMO the best beta that came so I think it must be HOTY of this year. I mean c'mon movesplit in 3rd generation...

Best Mapping: Pokémon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokémon Ash Gray
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Pokémon Sovereign of the skies
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack:Pokémon Victory Fire
Overall Favourite:Pokemon Flora Sky

Best Mapping: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Best Scripting: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Best Story Line: Pokemon - CrystalDust (Its a remake but i like the Story xD)
Best Gameplay: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon - CrystalDust
Overall Favourite: Pokemon - CrystalDust

Best Mapping: Pokémon Brown
Best Scripting: Pokémon Brown
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokémon Brown
Best Story Line: Pokémon Brown
Best Gameplay: Pokémon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokémon Brown
Overall Favourite: Pokémon Brown

Best Mapping: Pokemon Lilac
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Lilac
Best Story Line: Pokemon Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Energy
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Dark Energy

:3

Best Mapping: Pokemon Topaz by Bazza
Best Scripting: Pokemon Garnet by Xatoku
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Topaz
Best Story Line: Pokemon Topaz
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Topaz
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Garnet
Overall Favourite: Undecided

Best Mapping: Pokemon Lilac
Best Scripting: Pokemon Brown
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Brown
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Brown
Overall Favorite: Pokemon Brown

There we go.

Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Light Platinum
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Light Platinum

Yes, you might think I only played that hack, but I actually played a lot of them. It's just that Pokemon Light Platinum is an amazing hack. You know when you think: Out of this series, this game is better in everything. That's how I feel about Light Platinum... It's just got something special to it I really like. If PRD LoG was voteable, it would hae gotten most engaging, best scripting and best storyline, but that's not here so I have to vote all Light Platinum.

Best Mapping: Pokemon Lilac
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Lilac
Best Story Line: Pokemon Super Rising Thunder
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Super Rising Thunder
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Liquid Crystal

Best Mapping: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Best Scripting: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Most Graphical Appeal: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Best Story Line: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Best Gameplay: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Most Engaging Hack: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.
Overall Favorite: Mechamon: You got your Pokémon in my robots.

Best Mapping: Flora Sky
Best Scripting: Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Flora Sky
Best Story Line: Snakewood
Best Gameplay: Snakewood
Most Engaging Hack: Snakewood
Overall Favourite: Snakewood

best mapping: -
best scripting: -
most graphical appeal: -
best story line: snakewood
best gameplay: flora sky
most engaging: light platinum
overall best: light platinum

Best Mapping: Fuligin
Best Scripting: Lilac
Most Graphical Appeal: Lilac
Best Story Line: Brown
Best Gameplay: Yet Another Fire Red Hack (No seriously, I was forced to do a sideshow because the others on here don't seem to really try quite as hard with actual gameplay.)
Most Engaging Hack: Dark Energy
Overall Favourite: YAFRH

Best Mapping: Flora Sky, because it was beautiful
Best Scripting: Super Rising Thunder. Because of original scripted events that aren't recycled and because floor traps
Most Graphical Appeal: Again Super Rising Thunder because of the imported or customized sprites. Also character portraits
Best Story Line: Super Rising Thunder again. Yeah it was a favorite of mine
Best Gameplay: Again SRT because of the fact that you have to scavenge and carefully avoid traps. Also has puzzles
Most Engaging Hack: Super Rising Thunder
Overall Favourite: you already know. Super Rising Thunder

Best Mapping: Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Flora sky
Most Graphical Appeal: Victory fire
Best Story Line: Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Flora sky
Most Engaging Hack: Victory fire
Overall Favourite: Flora Sky

Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Light Platinum
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Light Platinum

This might look like I only played LP, but i did play other good hacks too, but let me give a few reasons why LP:

1) The storyline can compete with black/white and black2/white2 (and seriously if you can achieve that, it deserves to be hack of the year, cos B/W and B2/W2 have a great storyline)

2) The graphics are epic for a ruby hack. The cutscene when Arceus created the legendaries was just brilliant.

Okay there were some evolution glitches, and sometimes team steam has too many repetitive pokemon (at the end there we like 50 fricken purugly in 1 building), but thats like nothing in comparison with how great this game is.

Best Mapping: Silver Legend
Best Scripting: Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Victory Fire
Best Gameplay: Pokémon SkyLine
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Victory Fire
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Victory Fire

Best Mapping:Light Platinum

Best Scripting:Flora Sky

Most Graphical Appeal:Light Platinum

Best Story Line:Liquid Crystal

Best Gameplay:Liquid Crystal

Most Engaging Hack:Victory Fire
Overall Favourite:Victory Fire