More than a few devs would like The Game Awards to be more about, well, the game awards.
  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    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

  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    49·
    11 months ago

    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

  • HonorIsDead@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • MudMan@kbin.social
      292·
      11 months ago

      “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.

      • CarlsIII@kbin.social
        62·
        11 months ago

        I guarantee nobody complaining now has seen the original spike tv video game awards.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    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

  • IanSomnia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    234·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I only watched some parts of the event, I can’t stand the celebrity cringe