Honestly, good. Should have given them more time instead of Hollywood celebrities that, frankly, seemed embarrassed to be there. People watch the game awards to hear about gaming, not listen to Simu Liu, Matthew McConaughey, and Jordan Peele monologue with awkward jokes.
I wanna listen to the people I voted for talk about the projects they love and worked so hard on. That was a huge moment for the winners, and they were just shooed offstage like they were randos no one cared about. What a way to sour their moment.
It was really cool to see the awards do an homage to big gaming trends by doing an any% speedrun of the actual awards in between the ad breaks
Worst part this year was that they allowed the people advertising stuff talk endlessly but an award winner talking more than 60 seconds? Blare that music and get them off stage
They had a giant display that counted down from 30 and then changed to “PLEASE WRAP IT UP”
That’s awful
I’d like to note that the vote for “independent games” (i.e. games without a dedicated publisher) had only one actual independent game.
It sucks because while the award has lost ‘prestige’ by becoming too much of a marketing gimmick it still obviously means a great deal to the teams that win. Maybe I’m too jaded on the topic but I can’t watch these kind of events anymore. Unaffiliated celebrities, shitty ad slots, can’t even hear the people your watching for talk for any length of time. For the viewers it’s kinda a shitty thing to watch live. Catch the highlights as they make their rounds on social media.
“Lost” implies it was not this at some point.
I mean, the TGAs, VGAs, Spike awards, whatever, have always have been this. Which is basically the MTV awards of gaming.
For what it’s worth, the DICE awards are the ones where actual industry pros get to vote. Wihch doesn’t make the results any more valuable, honestly, but at least the gala is self-congratulatory, as opposed to a thinkly veiled speedrun of what used to be the E3 keynotes.
I guarantee nobody complaining now has seen the original spike tv video game awards.
Don’t forget the raffles for viewers that were impossible to enter and only us zip codes were accepted in the brief moment that it worked even though several countries were listed as eligible
I’d love to read the article but this is as far as I got
Reloading the page got rid of it but still wtf. Forcing me to leave your website and reload the page is idiotic.
Two fucking inches of actual content, maybe less
JFC why use the internet at this point lol. I’d rather return to pigeons
And this comment is just ads. Great content people.
Root-less adblock exists. Use it. It’s nearly 2024, man…
How do people still live without uBlock Origin is beyond me.
Thanks for embedding the image so it interrupts the comments here, too. Very helpful.
Unfortunately no one cares about game devs.
Gonzo was cool though.
