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‘The Game Awards’ Was A Full-On Parody Of Itself This Year

www.forbes.com ‘The Game Awards’ Was A Full-On Parody Of Itself This Year

The Game Awards did, technically, give out awards, but it's often insulting the creators it's claiming to honor by sidelining them for celebrities and ads.

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Watched a few minutes of it and basically it's just game trailers. It's an industry award show, there's not much to say about it.
- There is a tweet that determined of its three hour runtime, 45 minutes was actual awards.
  
  Well yeah, the award show doesn't pay for itself. It's not like game developers are unionized and paying for their own awards show.
  
  Didn't they sell tickets though?
- Hasn't it always been game trailers with a few awards here and there ( I didn't watch it this year btw)
  
  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.
- Maybe it’s just me but I was more interested in the game trailers and announcements than the actual show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
  Yeah that's all I cared about. The awards mean nothing to me. I already know what games I want to play regardless if they're the best or not.

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