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

3 years ago by nanoUFO to c/games

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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yads 55 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kbin_space_program 25 points 3 years ago

There is a tweet that determined of its three hour runtime, 45 minutes was actual awards.

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newthrowaway20 -4 points 3 years ago

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.

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Weslee 24 points 3 years ago

Hasn't it always been game trailers with a few awards here and there ( I didn't watch it this year btw)

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Triple_B 22 points 3 years ago

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.

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MossyFeathers 3 points 3 years ago

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?

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steal_your_face 16 points 3 years ago

Maybe it’s just me but I was more interested in the game trailers and announcements than the actual show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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altima_neo 3 points 3 years ago

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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