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‘The Game Awards’ Was A Full-On Parody Of Itself This Year
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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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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.