I ‘watched’ it on YouTube after it had finished. Thankfully so as I ended up skipping though the majority of it. It felt like one big advert with content in certain places where they had room between trailers.
It wasn’t great, but expecting great from this would be like expecting actual game industry insights from E3 in the latter half of its life. They’ve been slowly easing out of some of the egregious things they do, even, like advertising ‘robots’
I will say that some of the speeches were extremely rushed for the amount of fluff they have in there, and I didn’t care for all the rapid fire “no one cares about these” awards. I’d actually like more expounding on some of them, like talk more about game soundtracks, audio design, accessibility, and “impact” in their categories. You could probably fit this in just from cutting out each time someone said ‘world premiere.’
They’ve succeeded in at least giving ‘Game of the Year’ a point of reference, even if every game in the world can get a Game of the Year edition. They’ll have to try much harder if they want it to be the prestigious event they’re dressing up as.
I watch it annually (for the game reveals and occasional Warframe announcements, and it’s just 1 night a year). It’s just been trailers interspersed with awards, celeb cameos, and the odd live performance for a while now. Not sure why people get upset about it, apart from being mad their game didn’t get X award. It’s never gonna be the Oscar’s, and I don’t want it to be. I want Kojima to come on stage and ramble about his new game for 10 minutes without actually saying shit.
Edit: I read the article and they make fair points. They’re right that it should give more time to creators to make an acceptance speech. And the Muppets thing is always just odd.
I don’t have a problem with the overall format but the fact that they start blasting music 60 seconds into a speech to get them to finish after the guest spent 6 minutes chatting shit why video games are actually cool now just like the movies, was very disrespectful in my opinion. I feel like the industry has matured enough to be beyond these kinds of guests but geoff still thinks we need some kind of validation from Hollywood while the shunning of the actual winners is just icing on the cake.
But we already have award shows that are like that, we have DICE awards, BAFTA Games Awards, GDC awards. This event is clearly just a commercial for many publishers. Noone is forcing devs to appear here. Hell I think it would be fucking great some devs just don't appear just to snub this award show. If the audience actually cared about recognizing developers they would watch the other 3 awards, this event is just about the hype machine and game trailers.
I’ve never watched the other awards because I never know when they’re on or know where to watch them. They haven’t really advertised them, they just happen one day and then outlets start talking about them in the past tense.
Isn't that the sad part about gaming media/journalism. They are all for banking on the drama about "no appreciation for the devs from the vgas" but chances are their front pages are filled to the brim with things announced during the VGAs. While they do nothing to really highlight the actual meaningful award shows for game developers.
Yeah. Some people watch the awards for the trailers too. Like I’ll be honest, I don’t really care much about who won what at this point. As far as I’m concerned, as long as people like David “I don’t make games for f-ggots” Cage or Quantic Dream (David “I’m so misogynistic I drove Elliot Page out of the closet” Cage’s company) are still eligible to receive awards then the game awards don’t actually mean anything. I just like the trailers and was very excited about Sega’s announcement.
Edit: I’d read somewhere that Elliot Page said that David Cage was one of the contributing factors to him deciding to publicly come out as a trans man, or something along those lines, but I can’t find it now so I might be thinking of someone else?
I know David cage is problematic but what is that thing about Elliot page you are alluding to? I haven’t heard of that. Of course I know he was in beyond two souls so must have worked with cage but that’s the extent of my knowledge
Iirc Elliott credits David Cage with being such a horrifying misogynist that he decided to come out of the closet (he’s a trans man) so he wouldn’t have to deal with that again. The amount of effort and risk involved with being a public figure who is trans should drive home just how horrible of a person David Cage is.
Edit: I just looked it up and I can’t figure out where I read that. I may have been thinking of someone else? Regardless, David Cage is a massive misogynist and Quantic Dream is known for being an extremely toxic work environment.
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