Does the general audience actually care about these Hollywood hacks? Is Geoff Kelleigh really getting his money's worth in viewers by inviting them?
Like I can understand someone like Keanu Reddit Chungus Reeves appealing to the TGA's demographic, but not someone like Matt McConaughy or Anthony fricking Mackie.
McConaughey was explicitly there to announce and promote a video game he was in, he wasn't even there to present an award.
How heavily the awards actually given on stage were tied to promotional material is pretty stark. Fallout the TV show gets a trailer, the stars of the show come out and promote it, then they give the award for Best Adaptation. Best RPG, Action Game and Fighting Game? Fired off in a lightning round announcement off stage. Anthony Mackie was there to announce Twisted Metal season 2, and then he gave out Best Ongoing Game, which has nothing to do with Twisted Metal the TV show. Yet Best Score was off-stage, despite them literally PLAYING some of the nominees' music in the GOTY medley at the end, but the composers don't get to be awarded on stage?
Then there's how they effectively gave away the results by how they scheduled what would be on stage. Baldur's Gate 3 won six awards, but only two of them were on-stage and from different people, TOTK won one award, and it was on-stage, but the other genre awards were not. Basically they made sure to have TOTK, Alan Wake II and BG3 on stage for an award. As soon as TOTK won Best Action Adventure on stage, but Best RPG for BG3 was off-stage, you knew that BG3 was the GOTY winner and they didn't want a "repeat" speech giver.
Which is asinine. The winners are the winners, if they are up multiple times, so be it. The Oscar producers do not know who the winners are in advance, only the accounting firm that handles the votes. They can predict based on the general awards season, but it's only a prediction. And it's led to some awkward TV when an expected winner doesn't win. But it's legit.
>Then there's how they effectively gave away the results by how they scheduled what would be on stage. Baldur's Gate 3 won six awards, but only two of them were on-stage and from different people, TOTK won one award, and it was on-stage, but the other genre awards were not. Basically they made sure to have TOTK, Alan Wake II and BG3 on stage for an award. As soon as TOTK won Best Action Adventure on stage, but Best RPG for BG3 was off-stage, you knew that BG3 was the GOTY winner and they didn't want a "repeat" speech giver.
yeah that shit was really obvious, but felt super forced
As if Larian can't do a speech about different aspects of the game when that's what wins. Ok, you don't have the whole team there, you have the project lead and one or two others, unlike the Oscars where the VFX team lead accepts the award for the VFX team, it's not the film director accepting it.
But the project lead can still speak about it as an RPG when it wins Best RPG. You can still have all the nominees for Best RPG shown on stage before the award is given out. Same with it winning Community Support or Multiplayer, they can talk about that aspect. If they are on stage several times, so be it, they won several awards, that's how it is.
It's probably worth mentioning the Oscars also tends to treat VFX and the like quite poorly. And since Geoff is basically trying to copy them, it's not that surprising.
5 months ago
Anonymous
The academy awards got shat on for contemplating giving out the oscars for cinematography and editing during commercial breaks but I'm sure they've implemented those changes since the controversy anyway. But the academy awards is still somehow better than sellout pope Geoff's show because the former at least draws some of its judges from the professionals working in Hollywood instead of it being all clickbait journos from second rate content farm media houses.
5 months ago
Anonymous
The academy that votes for the awards are filled with losers
5 months ago
Anonymous
You should see who gets to vote for the Game Awards
5 months ago
Anonymous
>but I'm sure they've implemented those changes since the controversy anyway
No they have not. They reneged on that idea after the backlash and it hasn't come up since. But just the mere suggestion of relegating less A list awards to the pre-show red carpet or commercial breaks got a backlash because it was going so against the expected format of the awards. That's how far behind The Geoff Announcements is, their norm is something unacceptable to Academy voters when it was suggested.
In general when talk comes up of the Oscars being too long, which it is, the ire is directed at overlong skits, or host segments, or musical performances, or too many commercial breaks, it's not directed at having all the awards on the show presented on stage, in fact the pacing tends to be praised on Oscar shows where there is less downtime between award segments. Yes, your viewership is high because people want to see game trailers and announcements. Yes, the game trailers pay for the show. But you can have a balance. It's not hard. It's not like the Oscars don't have sponsors and promotion, they just thread it more carefully (like the commercial breaks, or what products get in their gift bags, or fashion labels getting exposure by dressing the celebs in their tuxedos and evening gowns for event, you don't stop the show to play movie trailers).
5 months ago
Anonymous
First off, no. Most people's complaints are of the winners having long as frick speeches about how they love whales or some bullshit
Secondly, the Game awards HAS to have these ad spots and less time for awards because the show is fricking free. Unless you are a TV exec willing to pay to air the Game Awards on NBC then there will always be a time crunch to make space for the people that actually pay for this shit to happen.
There simply isn't time to have enough ads that pay for all this AND keep the show at 3 hours. What you also neglect is that the Oscars often times run fricking late, sometimes into midnight EST. At least Geoff can keep a schedule
5 months ago
Anonymous
>. Most people's complaints are of the winners having long as frick speeches about how they love whales or some bullshit
No they aren't. There tends to be maybe ONE weird long speech on the night, usually from a later award like Best Actor/Actress. The awards for things like Best Sound or whichever tend to be simple speeches. You don't hear people complaining ooooh why couldn't they play movie trailers instead of the 35 seconds of the sound engineer thanking his staff and family and leaving. All I ever saw on pacing was complaints of long bad host segments, or stupid skits that go on forever, or too many musical numbers.
Why is it 3 hours? A mere 45 minutes of that actually concerned the awards. You can pay for the show and still have awards. There is a balance to be had, and this isn't it.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It’s almost like not everyone in the industry and not every category or award is as important as the next one. How warped in the head does the folet artist have to be to think they’re the equal of the directors and producers? They would be insane
5 months ago
Anonymous
They do. There's preferential treatment where the Best Actor/Actress tend to be allowed to speak as long as they like, but quicker playoffs for the less glamorous awards like Best Sound or Best VFX. Or including more jokey routines from the presenters of said awards while treating the top awards in a grander manner.
But they are still all presented on stage. The Game Awards is so far behind "real" awards that even the flaws of the real awards are something way beyond the reach of the Game Awards, never mind an ideal show balance.
>Yet Best Score was off-stage, despite them literally PLAYING some of the nominees' music in the GOTY medley at the end, but the composers don't get to be awarded on stage?
I unironically kind of despise how much focus and weight they give to shit like fricking "best performance". And yet there are no lead game designer or lead programmer awards. And as you say, not even the fricking music composers are awarded on stage.
But the actors doing performances? They get to hold long fricking speeches and crack jokes in-between each other.
there should definitely best character design(er) and best environment design(er) awards. Programming would be nice, but I don't know how the judging would work for that
>programming
Performance, like framerates and load times and so on, plus implementation of physics and uncommon simulations or mechanics that are obviously harder to implement. Basically the opposite of Starfield.
5 months ago
Anonymous
yeah that could actually work, maybe even as two separate awards
As interesting as that sounds I could see something like character design going to a character that has nothing really going on like Aloy and it's just a spot that goes to the highest bidder. imo it would end up an award often prone to abuse for the sake of trying to force a character into the limelight
game devs through a b***h fit if you do stuff like that because they go on twitter and scream about how they were totally the best programmer and the lead didn't do anything special.
>Geoff is a Kojimaboo >Kojima is a westaboo
it's not a surprise Geoff keeps inviting random Hollywood celebs on his show, Kojimbo does the exact same for his games
I genuinely wonder what viewer puts on a show called "The Game Awards" to watch Hollywood actors talk. I don't think it's really about appealing to the audience though.
>Does the general audience actually care about these Hollywood hacks?
No but since the early 2000's the gaming industry has been inflicted with little brother syndrome and desperately wants Hollywood's approval.
When are you going to learn that TGA isn't for video game fans? TGA is all a big sham so Geoff Keighley can rub elbows with prominent figures in Hollywood.
I glazed the frick out of death stranding, but last night felt like it broke my brain around kojima
it really feels like he wants to just circle jerk with everyone in hollywood rather than focus on making a fun game
death stranding was fun, but the movie part and story dragged it down the most
Yes, Kojima just wants to make movies, but his innate need to give his shit some kind of out-of-media gimmick would probably make any movies he makes completely unwatchable (or incredibly annoying to watch).
Like some kind of shit where there's different versions of the same movie, with changes large enough to change the plot completely, but each version only shows on specific platforms and theaters.
Yeah, three endings.
But I'm sure if Kojima ever directed and produced his own movie, it'd be infinitely more cancerous than that. Its why he had fricking handlers when he was doing MGS.
>Like some kind of shit where there's different versions of the same movie, with changes large enough to change the plot completely, but each version only shows on specific platforms and theaters.
NGL, I would love that.
because geoff keighley and kojima always wanted to be the icons of hollywood and american movie industry, instead of being involved with stinky stupid games for menchildren. Geoff especially is so fricking insecure, I wouldnt be surprised if he spent the past year seething at the zoomer who humiliated his showrunning and event organizing. This years awards had resurrected auschwitz guards patrolling the venue and making a human wall against any and all threats to Geoff Keighleys pristine bootleg jimmy kimmel showbusiness career
I think its both sides. >gamer losers want to mingle with the rich and famous >hollywood wants in on that ez vidya money that israelites are missing out on
That's because it's not really an award show. It's a marketing event for the game industry. The "award show" part is just a ploy to get people to watch commercials for 3 hours straight.
The Japanese were racist towards them long before. It took the Xbox being made for Western developers to even have a chance in console markets - and they immediately began to dominate. Look up what Ion Storm had to do to get the PS2 copy of Deus Ex on shelves, just constant bullshit protectionism.
Only if it's Hideo Kojima's tiny Japanese penis.
If Kojima's translator told Goeff "Kojima-san requests that next year, he be present on stage the entire ceremony", Geoff would probably do it.
>He made it apparent but everyone was taking 2-3 minutes to say thanks.
the show was going for 8 years without needing a prompt to tell the winners when to stop.
Is this a moronic person? They have a schedule to keep it doesn't matter if this person created the best game ever made, keep to the point then frick off for the next chud in line.
game boomers are all fricking HACKS! and don't understand modern games. They think modern games is graphics and how much you can israelite the player outta their time and money.
>lets make zelda into microwavable mac n cheese, its tasteless goyslop that keeps the goyim filled for a bit
It's crazy that BOTW dominated the frick out of the game awards in 2017 and now literally no one gives a frick about TotK lmao. It basically had even more hype than Baulders Gate 3 and people still talked about it for years, but Tears had literally zero staying power and has already been forgotten. I already knew that Baulders Gate would win but damn I guess some people just can't face the facts.
I don't understand how having more things to do = tedium but having nothing to do besides collect korok seeds isn't??? It feels more like an actual game instead of a tech demo. If someone hasn't played BotW or TotK I would just recommend they skip BotW entirely.
The fuse mechanic is tedious to a fault, it legitimately ruins the game since it's so poorly implemented.
5 months ago
Anonymous
The fuse mechanic is a bandaid that makes durability much less insufferable overall. I don't know what the frick you're smoking. If anything vanilla durability is more tedious, especially in the beginning when everything breaks in 3 swings.
5 months ago
Anonymous
No, fuse makes the durability "problem" far worse - and I don't feel durability was nearly as much of a problem as people made out. BotW's durability system only got in the way of my playthrough in master mode, but in normal mode it was fine. Yes, a tree branch will break very quickly hwoever even right from the start of the game you can obtain much more durable weapons than that and if you use the valid tool for the job (e.g. an axe to chop trees, a hammer to break ore, etc.) then the weapons last a reasonable amount of time. Many players don't understand the fundamental durability difference between the weapon types in BotW, they tried to make this more obvious in TotK with the fuse mechanic but it's just unnecessary extra steps to pad out the game. The UI for fuse is an absolute mess.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>No, fuse makes the durability "problem" far worse
You are delusional, I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of your post. The fuse mechanic makes the game bearable. BotW durability was one of the worst mechanics I have seen in a video game in literal decades.
5 months ago
Anonymous
How the frick can you genuinely prefer having to use the Fuse mechanic every time you pick up a weapon?
I don't get it anon, it's an awful system. This is blatant contrarianism to claim that fuse is somehow an improvement when it literally is just adding extra steps. They made the base weapons WORSE just to force you to use fusion on everything, it's asinine.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Not him but holy shit you're moronic, you can easily hoard fuse mats and make a serviceable weapon out of a rusty piece of shit.
Fighting a Lionel in BOTW took 2 or 3 weapons yet only rewarded you with 1.
In TOTK you get 1 base weapon a handful high quality fuse mats.
Fusing weapons might be tedious but it is a bandaid for BOTW weapon durability.
5 months ago
Anonymous
What the frick are you smoking, you're still only awarded with 1 base weapon when killing a lynel in TotK, only now there's extra steps to make that weapon viable to use via fusion. How in any way is this "better" than the game would be without fusion?
All Fuse does it add extra steps to make your weapons viable in combat, whereas in BotW you'd simply pick up a usable weapon to begin with. Also, 3 weapons used to kill a Lynel? How poor are you at using your resources? You can kill them with 1 melee weapon only, no need to waste 3 of them.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>spend 3 weapons killing a boss >get rewarded 1 great weapon
vs >spend 3 weapons killing a boss >get rewarded with 1 great weapon (base + 1fuse mat) and 3 more fuse mats you can use on any piece of shit weapon for an average weapon or a good base for a great weapon
You have limited weapon slots, specially at the start of the game, but you can carry a shit ton of fuse mats to easily make average weapons with any shit base you find
5 months ago
Anonymous
Again, what are you doing that it takes you 3 weapons to kill 1 lynel?
I would do it using only 1 or, at most, 2 melee weapons for a lynel kill.
Why do you believe that having to fuse things onto a shit weapon (which is most weapons in TotK unless you really want to explore the empty Depths for the non-rusted base weapons), would be a good thing? In BotW, most weapons are average quality or greater, and very early on you'd learn not to use weak crap like boko clubs and tree branches to kill anything. Frick, even in the Great Plateau you are basically outright given a large axe with decent durability and damage, no fusion bullshit necessary. These axes are common, being at just about every stable. In TotK, you have to fuse to use any axe-type weapon and they still don't last as long as the BotW axes, and this is just one basic example.
I could legitimately write an entire essay on exactly why TotK's durability is objectively worse if I need to to get through to you.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>then the weapons last a reasonable amount of time.
Yeah, like a whole 12 enemies.
ToTK is BoTW but worse. All of the new powers are gimmicks. Flying mounts ruined WoW and surprise, surprise, they ruin ToTK. BoTW’s runes were better as you had a real impact on the world rather than just having puzzles pieces scattered about. Story was somehow worse. And it’s the same map with little added. Complete downgrade.
I disagree. the issue is that a lot of mechanics that are in totk weren't ready for botw. caves, dungeons, towns, and some form of crafting should have been in botw. totk was just double dipping. it's even worse when you consider how much they got out of MM ,despite it also being an asset flip, in a year.
>It's crazy >that one game already got all the awards it wanted >and another, which is identical in many ways to the first one, only got its "adventure" part rewarded
Nah, this engine/game type got its fill of awards. Gotta leave room for others to get recognition.
I don't care about twitter crap or the feeling of these devs, but personally I believe it's worse than e3 to let homosexual celebrities have more time than the people making the damn games. I hope this years award show was so bad it makes people take the whole thing as a joke.
The whole show has become a joke
They speed read the winners for almost all categories then don’t even invite anyone on stage to talk then to back to half an hour of commercials
Big categories they let someone talk then chase them off stage soon as they start for another half hour of commercials
Christopher Judge this year was pretty based >"Alright team, Geoff is being a massive homosexual so feel free to ignore the 'shut up' music and prompt and keep talking anyway"
he predicted this entire event and no one listened.
why did they rush everyone off the stage this year i know they didn't want people to do what chris judge did but still it feels like they got 2 minutes tops, what was the hurry for?
They didn't get two minutes, they got thirty seconds. As if you can make a speech in thirty seconds, you're barely past processing you won for the first 10-15 seconds, and some like Aonuma need time for a translation (and he had a prepared speech no less). Even one minute would have been enough for some to talk.
We had extended segments of Matthew McConaughey and Simu Liu talking...and just introducing trailers for games they were in. They weren't even presenting awards. Anthony Mackie's weird rambling routine was terrible but he was at least on stage to present an award, the winner of whom then got 30 seconds to talk.
Yes, Judge went very long last year, nearly 8 minutes. But there's a middle ground. A 90 second or two minute timer is plenty of time for them to thank people and say something about the game and its development, then depart. You're not supposed to be hearing the playing off music in every speech, many speeches at awards shows are finished before they start playing that. It's only a few that go long.
Simu did give the award to Aonuma though. That being said I think the musical cue stuff being done in order to rush the developers was pretty rude. I get it as a joke for Judge but using it to push eveyrone else just felt forced.
He just wants gaming to be synonymous with art like television and film so he gets big names (in his mind) people will like and has them in the award show so normies say >wow Timothy Chalamet likes video games? maybe I should play video games and also consume product about said video games!
The irony is he's doing the complete opposite of actual awards shows. The Oscars isn't filled with movie trailers and actors shilling their new release, and they don't read off five awards at a time off-stage, all the awards are on-stage with speeches by the winners. Yes, they have their own problems, but they're not anything like the Game Awards' problems.
>Kojimbo rants for 5 minutes after another bizarre reveal about how his mind is so big and he's a genius >Aonuma in stage for 30 seconds and getting told to frick off
Kek
Again, the point of the program is to shill your next product and entertain the viewers. No one gives a flying frick about the winner of >best ui design of 2023
No one wants to hear from them either
Many have said this but barely anybody watches this show for the awards. GOTY is the exception, but holy shit it’s like Geoff has his priorities in a mix. Because guess what? Even LESS people watch it for half the stuff he does that aren’t trailers. Not only does he quickly rush through 4/5ths of the awards, he spends more time showing BANDS and CELEBS, then showing new shit. The Celebs are so fricking fake about it too, and I don’t even blame them because they probably got paid a good bit to bother coming. They’ll talk about their fricking broken leg and say “aging is… TOUGH!” before saying “Yeah I grew up playing Starfield… *pause for cheering*” like come the frick on. Everyone watching just wants reveals and screw-ups. Geoff said “Thanks homie” this year, that’s 100% more entertaining and memorable then having Nordic band play on stage before showing a trailer that has the same exact song over gameplay. It’s blatant filler, nobody likes it. People would rather see the rewards given the proper time of day then Kojima walk through a door, show face meshes, then talk a bit before a celebrity enters “the Kojimaverse” saying “Yeah my favorite game is actually, Metal Gear Solid 2… *slight cheering*” and then these same celebrities are at an event where they have to watch some truly moronic ads sometimes that aren’t helping gaming reach the status Geoff thinks it is.
Geoff really thought he was clear this year on making it out with zero controversies.
And while I wouldn't really call this a controversy, it is funny that he didn't make it out perfectly clean. It's pretty funny.
I think he actually did worse this year than any other because this was his own controversy.
This isn't some other frickwit causing issue, this is all on him. Someone else fricks up? You distance yourself. You frick up, everyone distances themselves.
But personally if I was a dev who had that happen to me I'd have whipped my dick out and sprayed piss on the stage while saying to Geoff I'm just helping to ensure everyone who comes after is real quick in getting their awards and getting off stage.
So I guess the devs deserve to be humiliated like this for not being willing to SPRAY IT WITH PISS
See? He can't distance himself from this controversy. So what is he doing instead?
Talking about one aspect, the music, while ignoring the other cavalcade of controversy that was the timer and the WRAP IT UP.
He can't distance himself so he's trying to whittle it down and make it smaller than it actually is.
When exactly did he say to relax that? Because the GOTY winner was still having that shitty 30 second timer and didn't get to finish his talk, he was clearly thrown off by the "WRAP IT UP" sign flashing at him.
>be coked up millionaire hollywood actor >immediately go offscript to do weird shit >keep doing it, no one tries to stop you
Actually embarrassing
Funny enough only the last zoomie actor was straight to the point, no bullshit
That's because he actually gave enough of a shit to memorize his lines. All these other actors they get on this moronic show are way too old to care, they likely bullied kids in high school for playing Pokemon.
He bought it back when he could only afford a set of shitty cheap LARP armour and wore it so much it became his 'look' and got a bunch of sentimental value attached to it.
I skipped watching this crap this year and just wait out until IGN/Playstation/Xbox release their trailers on Youtube after the event. I suggest you lot to do the same. This event is nothing more than Keighley wanking Kojima and their Hollyweirdo friends. It's a sham. Why bother calling it THE Videogame Awards when you'll just blaze through the actual awards and not giving any of the devs their due recognition? And for frick sakes, why stop with the "people's choice" award, it's just a bunch of chinese twats spamming bots.
>Hollywood names with little-to-no video game relevance deserve much more time on stage than the people who work on video games
Stop mashing the keyboard and get back to laying on Geoff's lap, dumb cat
>Hollywood names with little-to-no video game relevance deserve much more time on stage than the people who work on video games
yes that is what I said. though it's not really about favouring hollywoodoos, it's about making game devs suffer. Hollywood's ego is already too massively inflated, you'll never deflate it, no point even trying.
If you want to see a show where devs had unlimited time watch this year's summer game fest. It was 3 hours of incoherent rambling and maybe 10 trailers. Is that the type of show you want?
i'm sure the multimillionaires planning the show could work out how to trim some fat elsewhere to let each speech run a little longer instead of playing the embarrassing "get the frick off the stage" music almost immediately
the first time it happened it was treated like an ironic joke and then every subsequent speech did it unironically
maybe cut out some of those paid promotions for games no one sincerely cares about like the sweet baby ghost game, or dontnod's lesbian circlejerk game
shit, who's still giving dontnod money? they only made one or two well-liked games but they keep getting paid to shit out tons of forgettable garbage, and also market the shit out of it
every single person had this prompt show up except for goty. the show was 3 hours without ANY long speeches. can you imagine if every frick got on stage and rambled for 10 minutes each?
Just tell the nominees that if they win they get 30-45 seconds and be prepared to have you acceptance speech condensed. Not that hard. Just tell them how things are going to be before hand. Winners can get on board or get over it
Because that was scheduled time. What don't you get?
Just tell the nominees that if they win they get 30-45 seconds and be prepared to have you acceptance speech condensed. Not that hard. Just tell them how things are going to be before hand. Winners can get on board or get over it
I can't imagine they aren't made aware of this before the show if they're nominated.
NOOOO YOU CAN'T TELL THIS """LEGENDARY""" GUY (literally never heard of him because i don't care about who makes my games as long as they are good) TO STOP YAPPING AND FRICK OFF THE STAGE ALREADY
It's a show where you can just smell America and see the amount of losers who want to be validated for playing games or professionally play a part in the gaming industry as journos etc. Probably because people laughed or laugh at them, like Geoff.
If you don't work in a game, you have no business being in the public or on stage, it's that simple. Even if you are I would call it unethical to step on stage yourself instead an actual important dev. Same for streamers, youtubers etc.
These losers biggest moment was "Frick the Oscars" yet they do everything they can to suck celebs wieners to feel validated and legitimate, just a sad bunch of little homosexuals, specially nowadays when Hollywood is literally going bankrupt, cinema is crashing down and gaming is bigger than ever.
Imagine getting FRICKING AONUMA, one of the best and biggest directors in gaming on stage and give him 30 sec to talk translation included before playing some music on him to kick him out, he even had to take the phone and read some prepared bullshit just so he could get in time, all while jogger celeb nº1324 speaks 5 min about some garbage game he is promoting, I would never show my face in a gaming event after that from the sheer embarrassment.
he likely made more money in a single night thanks to videogames than all his bullies combined make in years, you would think he should have gotten over it by now.
Hobby fornerds, kids, and grownups who act like children. This sellout Geoff needs to stop trying. Nobody is going to take this shit seriously no matter the bullshit he sets up
>tumblrwhales whining that the guy who sounds like squilliam got kicked off the stage because "he had a wholesome messagearino they should've just let him drone on for an hour"
5head moment
He cant read english
More like they don't respect developers in general. The Hollywood hacks had unlimited time on the stage.
The Hollywood hacks had a much bigger price tag.
That only furthers the point.
Does the general audience actually care about these Hollywood hacks? Is Geoff Kelleigh really getting his money's worth in viewers by inviting them?
Like I can understand someone like Keanu Reddit Chungus Reeves appealing to the TGA's demographic, but not someone like Matt McConaughy or Anthony fricking Mackie.
>Keanu Reddit Chungus Reeves
>Reddit Chungus
The frick are you on about you actual moron?
Back to your cave, old man.
McConaughey was explicitly there to announce and promote a video game he was in, he wasn't even there to present an award.
How heavily the awards actually given on stage were tied to promotional material is pretty stark. Fallout the TV show gets a trailer, the stars of the show come out and promote it, then they give the award for Best Adaptation. Best RPG, Action Game and Fighting Game? Fired off in a lightning round announcement off stage. Anthony Mackie was there to announce Twisted Metal season 2, and then he gave out Best Ongoing Game, which has nothing to do with Twisted Metal the TV show. Yet Best Score was off-stage, despite them literally PLAYING some of the nominees' music in the GOTY medley at the end, but the composers don't get to be awarded on stage?
Then there's how they effectively gave away the results by how they scheduled what would be on stage. Baldur's Gate 3 won six awards, but only two of them were on-stage and from different people, TOTK won one award, and it was on-stage, but the other genre awards were not. Basically they made sure to have TOTK, Alan Wake II and BG3 on stage for an award. As soon as TOTK won Best Action Adventure on stage, but Best RPG for BG3 was off-stage, you knew that BG3 was the GOTY winner and they didn't want a "repeat" speech giver.
Which is asinine. The winners are the winners, if they are up multiple times, so be it. The Oscar producers do not know who the winners are in advance, only the accounting firm that handles the votes. They can predict based on the general awards season, but it's only a prediction. And it's led to some awkward TV when an expected winner doesn't win. But it's legit.
>Then there's how they effectively gave away the results by how they scheduled what would be on stage. Baldur's Gate 3 won six awards, but only two of them were on-stage and from different people, TOTK won one award, and it was on-stage, but the other genre awards were not. Basically they made sure to have TOTK, Alan Wake II and BG3 on stage for an award. As soon as TOTK won Best Action Adventure on stage, but Best RPG for BG3 was off-stage, you knew that BG3 was the GOTY winner and they didn't want a "repeat" speech giver.
yeah that shit was really obvious, but felt super forced
As if Larian can't do a speech about different aspects of the game when that's what wins. Ok, you don't have the whole team there, you have the project lead and one or two others, unlike the Oscars where the VFX team lead accepts the award for the VFX team, it's not the film director accepting it.
But the project lead can still speak about it as an RPG when it wins Best RPG. You can still have all the nominees for Best RPG shown on stage before the award is given out. Same with it winning Community Support or Multiplayer, they can talk about that aspect. If they are on stage several times, so be it, they won several awards, that's how it is.
It's probably worth mentioning the Oscars also tends to treat VFX and the like quite poorly. And since Geoff is basically trying to copy them, it's not that surprising.
The academy awards got shat on for contemplating giving out the oscars for cinematography and editing during commercial breaks but I'm sure they've implemented those changes since the controversy anyway. But the academy awards is still somehow better than sellout pope Geoff's show because the former at least draws some of its judges from the professionals working in Hollywood instead of it being all clickbait journos from second rate content farm media houses.
The academy that votes for the awards are filled with losers
You should see who gets to vote for the Game Awards
>but I'm sure they've implemented those changes since the controversy anyway
No they have not. They reneged on that idea after the backlash and it hasn't come up since. But just the mere suggestion of relegating less A list awards to the pre-show red carpet or commercial breaks got a backlash because it was going so against the expected format of the awards. That's how far behind The Geoff Announcements is, their norm is something unacceptable to Academy voters when it was suggested.
In general when talk comes up of the Oscars being too long, which it is, the ire is directed at overlong skits, or host segments, or musical performances, or too many commercial breaks, it's not directed at having all the awards on the show presented on stage, in fact the pacing tends to be praised on Oscar shows where there is less downtime between award segments. Yes, your viewership is high because people want to see game trailers and announcements. Yes, the game trailers pay for the show. But you can have a balance. It's not hard. It's not like the Oscars don't have sponsors and promotion, they just thread it more carefully (like the commercial breaks, or what products get in their gift bags, or fashion labels getting exposure by dressing the celebs in their tuxedos and evening gowns for event, you don't stop the show to play movie trailers).
First off, no. Most people's complaints are of the winners having long as frick speeches about how they love whales or some bullshit
Secondly, the Game awards HAS to have these ad spots and less time for awards because the show is fricking free. Unless you are a TV exec willing to pay to air the Game Awards on NBC then there will always be a time crunch to make space for the people that actually pay for this shit to happen.
There simply isn't time to have enough ads that pay for all this AND keep the show at 3 hours. What you also neglect is that the Oscars often times run fricking late, sometimes into midnight EST. At least Geoff can keep a schedule
>. Most people's complaints are of the winners having long as frick speeches about how they love whales or some bullshit
No they aren't. There tends to be maybe ONE weird long speech on the night, usually from a later award like Best Actor/Actress. The awards for things like Best Sound or whichever tend to be simple speeches. You don't hear people complaining ooooh why couldn't they play movie trailers instead of the 35 seconds of the sound engineer thanking his staff and family and leaving. All I ever saw on pacing was complaints of long bad host segments, or stupid skits that go on forever, or too many musical numbers.
Why is it 3 hours? A mere 45 minutes of that actually concerned the awards. You can pay for the show and still have awards. There is a balance to be had, and this isn't it.
It’s almost like not everyone in the industry and not every category or award is as important as the next one. How warped in the head does the folet artist have to be to think they’re the equal of the directors and producers? They would be insane
They do. There's preferential treatment where the Best Actor/Actress tend to be allowed to speak as long as they like, but quicker playoffs for the less glamorous awards like Best Sound or Best VFX. Or including more jokey routines from the presenters of said awards while treating the top awards in a grander manner.
But they are still all presented on stage. The Game Awards is so far behind "real" awards that even the flaws of the real awards are something way beyond the reach of the Game Awards, never mind an ideal show balance.
>Yet Best Score was off-stage, despite them literally PLAYING some of the nominees' music in the GOTY medley at the end, but the composers don't get to be awarded on stage?
I unironically kind of despise how much focus and weight they give to shit like fricking "best performance". And yet there are no lead game designer or lead programmer awards. And as you say, not even the fricking music composers are awarded on stage.
But the actors doing performances? They get to hold long fricking speeches and crack jokes in-between each other.
there should definitely best character design(er) and best environment design(er) awards. Programming would be nice, but I don't know how the judging would work for that
>programming
Performance, like framerates and load times and so on, plus implementation of physics and uncommon simulations or mechanics that are obviously harder to implement. Basically the opposite of Starfield.
yeah that could actually work, maybe even as two separate awards
As interesting as that sounds I could see something like character design going to a character that has nothing really going on like Aloy and it's just a spot that goes to the highest bidder. imo it would end up an award often prone to abuse for the sake of trying to force a character into the limelight
game devs through a b***h fit if you do stuff like that because they go on twitter and scream about how they were totally the best programmer and the lead didn't do anything special.
>Geoff is a Kojimaboo
>Kojima is a westaboo
it's not a surprise Geoff keeps inviting random Hollywood celebs on his show, Kojimbo does the exact same for his games
I genuinely wonder what viewer puts on a show called "The Game Awards" to watch Hollywood actors talk. I don't think it's really about appealing to the audience though.
>Does the general audience actually care about these Hollywood hacks?
No but since the early 2000's the gaming industry has been inflicted with little brother syndrome and desperately wants Hollywood's approval.
When are you going to learn that TGA isn't for video game fans? TGA is all a big sham so Geoff Keighley can rub elbows with prominent figures in Hollywood.
The game community is collectively jerking of Kojima who is far less competent than anyone in Hollywood.
I glazed the frick out of death stranding, but last night felt like it broke my brain around kojima
it really feels like he wants to just circle jerk with everyone in hollywood rather than focus on making a fun game
death stranding was fun, but the movie part and story dragged it down the most
Yes, Kojima just wants to make movies, but his innate need to give his shit some kind of out-of-media gimmick would probably make any movies he makes completely unwatchable (or incredibly annoying to watch).
Like some kind of shit where there's different versions of the same movie, with changes large enough to change the plot completely, but each version only shows on specific platforms and theaters.
didn't the clue movie do that? apparently it was so annoying they just made it one ending for the video release
Yeah, three endings.
But I'm sure if Kojima ever directed and produced his own movie, it'd be infinitely more cancerous than that. Its why he had fricking handlers when he was doing MGS.
>Like some kind of shit where there's different versions of the same movie, with changes large enough to change the plot completely, but each version only shows on specific platforms and theaters.
NGL, I would love that.
Why the frick was every award presented by some film industry frick?
because geoff keighley and kojima always wanted to be the icons of hollywood and american movie industry, instead of being involved with stinky stupid games for menchildren. Geoff especially is so fricking insecure, I wouldnt be surprised if he spent the past year seething at the zoomer who humiliated his showrunning and event organizing. This years awards had resurrected auschwitz guards patrolling the venue and making a human wall against any and all threats to Geoff Keighleys pristine bootleg jimmy kimmel showbusiness career
These awards are as much about video games as Ganker is.
celebs bring eyeballs and twitter reactions which let you sell advertising
Gamers and devs really wanted to be Hollywood so bad this past decade.
I think its both sides.
>gamer losers want to mingle with the rich and famous
>hollywood wants in on that ez vidya money that israelites are missing out on
That's because it's not really an award show. It's a marketing event for the game industry. The "award show" part is just a ploy to get people to watch commercials for 3 hours straight.
>legendary director
More like legendary asset flipper
I’m convinced that the west is racist toward Japanese developers.
Maybe they should learn the universal language of business instead of sticking to their chingu speak
Elden ring DLC better have micro transactions
Frick you, maybe we need to speak less nuenglish, homosexual.
>Maybe they should learn the universal language of business
USD?
The Japanese were racist towards them long before. It took the Xbox being made for Western developers to even have a chance in console markets - and they immediately began to dominate. Look up what Ion Storm had to do to get the PS2 copy of Deus Ex on shelves, just constant bullshit protectionism.
xbox deserved it for being garbage and trying to strong arm devs studio, while just running them into the ground due to sheer incompetence
they were even worse to sam lake, they gave him like 20 seconds each time LMAO
There were 40 fricking different trailers for NIPPON RONIN FUTURE SHINOBI: NIOH 8
Always was, still is.
Pearl harbor is their holocaust.
Black person they did the exact same with Larian, and they won the fricking GOTY.
That can’t be true since it’s geoff’s show and he clearly wants tiny jap penis in his big Canadian butthole
Only if it's Hideo Kojima's tiny Japanese penis.
If Kojima's translator told Goeff "Kojima-san requests that next year, he be present on stage the entire ceremony", Geoff would probably do it.
Did you miss the complete bootlicking of Kojima?
Or having the quirky Asian dev girl on stags?
>the west
Americans. And yes, they definitely are.
Yea we are, frick off asiatic
They're just jelly, japs actually make good games
Standard take from a fricking weeb
It is, but much is due to being Chinese owned.
>racist toward Japanese developers
>15 minute Kojima wanking session
kojima is honorary american
Retro Studios did not deserve the treatment they got from Nintendo. Frick le "glorious Nippon."
>go over your allotted time for a highly scripted event
>teleprompter tell you to wrap it up
>get mad at it
???
>we need more time for the musical segment
lol homosexual
It's speech 101, just accept it.
It was a lot of time. The event was like 3.5 hours.
Yeah, last year. That's why they changed it.
He made it apparent but everyone was taking 2-3 minutes to say thanks.
>He made it apparent but everyone was taking 2-3 minutes to say thanks.
the show was going for 8 years without needing a prompt to tell the winners when to stop.
Why have shit be that highly scripted. Fricking soulless event.
Almost like your awards show sucks geoff
Meanwhile Black personKratos was allowed to ramble on for like 5 of the longest minutes in human history.
He's the biggest hack in gaming. Nobody respects him after he ruined Majoras Mask on the 3DS
TP made me lose respect for him
Is this a moronic person? They have a schedule to keep it doesn't matter if this person created the best game ever made, keep to the point then frick off for the next chud in line.
He should have paid for more screen time then
kek this shit was the first thing that went through my mind too
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The same happened with every other winner, including fricking Swen when he was receiving GOTY, there's even a video of it.
yet they let Will Smith rant 5 minutes about moronic shit on stage
>"N-NO LET US STAY ON STAGE MORE PLEASE GEOFF-SAN LET US TALK ABOUT OUR COPY PASTE GAME THAT TOOK US 6 YEARS TO MAKE -"
what were they doing all that time?
I saw a group of devs remake the building mechanic in like a week.
game boomers are all fricking HACKS! and don't understand modern games. They think modern games is graphics and how much you can israelite the player outta their time and money.
>lets make zelda into microwavable mac n cheese, its tasteless goyslop that keeps the goyim filled for a bit
I HATE WOKESLOP SLOPPY FLOPSLOP ESGFLOP GOYSLOP BOOMER ZOOMER SLOP MUHLENNIAL ZOOM ZOOM BOOM BOOM SLOP FLOP
I thought the other guy was the director.
>legendary director
>didn't win best direction or GotY
lol
what can any developer possibly say other than announcing a new game? it's not like they are some interesting minds
We made our game so that Helen Keller could beat it. Give us praise.
It's crazy that BOTW dominated the frick out of the game awards in 2017 and now literally no one gives a frick about TotK lmao. It basically had even more hype than Baulders Gate 3 and people still talked about it for years, but Tears had literally zero staying power and has already been forgotten. I already knew that Baulders Gate would win but damn I guess some people just can't face the facts.
botw was great. totk is shit, simple as that.
TotK isn't as good as BotW, I even said long before "the sequel to botw" released that they'd never top BotW and they didn't.
TotK is more of a video game than BotW though
No, it's just more tedious for no justifiable reason.
I don't understand how having more things to do = tedium but having nothing to do besides collect korok seeds isn't??? It feels more like an actual game instead of a tech demo. If someone hasn't played BotW or TotK I would just recommend they skip BotW entirely.
The fuse mechanic is tedious to a fault, it legitimately ruins the game since it's so poorly implemented.
The fuse mechanic is a bandaid that makes durability much less insufferable overall. I don't know what the frick you're smoking. If anything vanilla durability is more tedious, especially in the beginning when everything breaks in 3 swings.
No, fuse makes the durability "problem" far worse - and I don't feel durability was nearly as much of a problem as people made out. BotW's durability system only got in the way of my playthrough in master mode, but in normal mode it was fine. Yes, a tree branch will break very quickly hwoever even right from the start of the game you can obtain much more durable weapons than that and if you use the valid tool for the job (e.g. an axe to chop trees, a hammer to break ore, etc.) then the weapons last a reasonable amount of time. Many players don't understand the fundamental durability difference between the weapon types in BotW, they tried to make this more obvious in TotK with the fuse mechanic but it's just unnecessary extra steps to pad out the game. The UI for fuse is an absolute mess.
>No, fuse makes the durability "problem" far worse
You are delusional, I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of your post. The fuse mechanic makes the game bearable. BotW durability was one of the worst mechanics I have seen in a video game in literal decades.
How the frick can you genuinely prefer having to use the Fuse mechanic every time you pick up a weapon?
I don't get it anon, it's an awful system. This is blatant contrarianism to claim that fuse is somehow an improvement when it literally is just adding extra steps. They made the base weapons WORSE just to force you to use fusion on everything, it's asinine.
Not him but holy shit you're moronic, you can easily hoard fuse mats and make a serviceable weapon out of a rusty piece of shit.
Fighting a Lionel in BOTW took 2 or 3 weapons yet only rewarded you with 1.
In TOTK you get 1 base weapon a handful high quality fuse mats.
Fusing weapons might be tedious but it is a bandaid for BOTW weapon durability.
What the frick are you smoking, you're still only awarded with 1 base weapon when killing a lynel in TotK, only now there's extra steps to make that weapon viable to use via fusion. How in any way is this "better" than the game would be without fusion?
All Fuse does it add extra steps to make your weapons viable in combat, whereas in BotW you'd simply pick up a usable weapon to begin with. Also, 3 weapons used to kill a Lynel? How poor are you at using your resources? You can kill them with 1 melee weapon only, no need to waste 3 of them.
>spend 3 weapons killing a boss
>get rewarded 1 great weapon
vs
>spend 3 weapons killing a boss
>get rewarded with 1 great weapon (base + 1fuse mat) and 3 more fuse mats you can use on any piece of shit weapon for an average weapon or a good base for a great weapon
You have limited weapon slots, specially at the start of the game, but you can carry a shit ton of fuse mats to easily make average weapons with any shit base you find
Again, what are you doing that it takes you 3 weapons to kill 1 lynel?
I would do it using only 1 or, at most, 2 melee weapons for a lynel kill.
Why do you believe that having to fuse things onto a shit weapon (which is most weapons in TotK unless you really want to explore the empty Depths for the non-rusted base weapons), would be a good thing? In BotW, most weapons are average quality or greater, and very early on you'd learn not to use weak crap like boko clubs and tree branches to kill anything. Frick, even in the Great Plateau you are basically outright given a large axe with decent durability and damage, no fusion bullshit necessary. These axes are common, being at just about every stable. In TotK, you have to fuse to use any axe-type weapon and they still don't last as long as the BotW axes, and this is just one basic example.
I could legitimately write an entire essay on exactly why TotK's durability is objectively worse if I need to to get through to you.
>then the weapons last a reasonable amount of time.
Yeah, like a whole 12 enemies.
Which is a net gain of weapons from the fight.
ToTK is BoTW but worse. All of the new powers are gimmicks. Flying mounts ruined WoW and surprise, surprise, they ruin ToTK. BoTW’s runes were better as you had a real impact on the world rather than just having puzzles pieces scattered about. Story was somehow worse. And it’s the same map with little added. Complete downgrade.
I disagree. the issue is that a lot of mechanics that are in totk weren't ready for botw. caves, dungeons, towns, and some form of crafting should have been in botw. totk was just double dipping. it's even worse when you consider how much they got out of MM ,despite it also being an asset flip, in a year.
To be fair Larian bought the judges
To be fair you're schizophrenic
>It's crazy
>that one game already got all the awards it wanted
>and another, which is identical in many ways to the first one, only got its "adventure" part rewarded
Nah, this engine/game type got its fill of awards. Gotta leave room for others to get recognition.
How communist of you
i mean its full price dlc, it sold well but critically its just "meh"
You can dislike the game all you want, but it objectively did great with critics.
not good enough if an early access rpg beat it lol
it was too similar to botw and the story was bad
it should have just been a dlc, like it was originally planned
BotW is Final Fantasy VII, TotK is Final Fantasy VIII
Explain how the next one will be Final Fantasy IX then.
I really enjoy TOTK but I'll be the first to admit, its just a big expansion pack. Its honestly shocking they took as long as they did to release it.
I don't care about twitter crap or the feeling of these devs, but personally I believe it's worse than e3 to let homosexual celebrities have more time than the people making the damn games. I hope this years award show was so bad it makes people take the whole thing as a joke.
The whole show has become a joke
They speed read the winners for almost all categories then don’t even invite anyone on stage to talk then to back to half an hour of commercials
Big categories they let someone talk then chase them off stage soon as they start for another half hour of commercials
The only reason people watch is for the "commercials." Nobody gives a frick about what these people have to say on stage.
Christopher Judge speech last year really pissed Geoff off kek
Christopher Judge this year was pretty based
>"Alright team, Geoff is being a massive homosexual so feel free to ignore the 'shut up' music and prompt and keep talking anyway"
he predicted this entire event and no one listened.
why did they rush everyone off the stage this year i know they didn't want people to do what chris judge did but still it feels like they got 2 minutes tops, what was the hurry for?
more time for alan wake and kojima awards, less time for everyone else
They didn't get two minutes, they got thirty seconds. As if you can make a speech in thirty seconds, you're barely past processing you won for the first 10-15 seconds, and some like Aonuma need time for a translation (and he had a prepared speech no less). Even one minute would have been enough for some to talk.
Yeah I think when someone added it up it was like 10-11 minutes total of talk time out of 3 hours for all winners who even got to go up there.
It's typical of these organized types they always go way too far when bad things happen lmao.
they need to rush you so that they can get advertisements in. If it's being televised then they have a limited timeslot too
how do they expect an esl to understand an idiom like "wrap it up"?
~~*660057529*~~
>all the devs being given 30 seconds to receive their awards
>10 minutes each for a fricking muppets skit and kojima's *absolutely nothing*TM
We had extended segments of Matthew McConaughey and Simu Liu talking...and just introducing trailers for games they were in. They weren't even presenting awards. Anthony Mackie's weird rambling routine was terrible but he was at least on stage to present an award, the winner of whom then got 30 seconds to talk.
Yes, Judge went very long last year, nearly 8 minutes. But there's a middle ground. A 90 second or two minute timer is plenty of time for them to thank people and say something about the game and its development, then depart. You're not supposed to be hearing the playing off music in every speech, many speeches at awards shows are finished before they start playing that. It's only a few that go long.
Simu did give the award to Aonuma though. That being said I think the musical cue stuff being done in order to rush the developers was pretty rude. I get it as a joke for Judge but using it to push eveyrone else just felt forced.
>WRAP IT UP SO THE REAL GOTY CAN COMMENCE
more time for trannies on stage
rent free
>tendie
>south american
every time
But he was the producer, not the director. Hidemaro Fujibayashi was the director.
he made the same game twice
should've just given the same speech twice
Why is Geoff so determined to kill soul?
He just wants gaming to be synonymous with art like television and film so he gets big names (in his mind) people will like and has them in the award show so normies say
>wow Timothy Chalamet likes video games? maybe I should play video games and also consume product about said video games!
The irony is he's doing the complete opposite of actual awards shows. The Oscars isn't filled with movie trailers and actors shilling their new release, and they don't read off five awards at a time off-stage, all the awards are on-stage with speeches by the winners. Yes, they have their own problems, but they're not anything like the Game Awards' problems.
Just comes across as low rent.
He wants to legitimize the industry as being on par with music and TV
AND the reason being is cause he's a careerist prick who wants to be the "face" of the industry
>Kojimbo rants for 5 minutes after another bizarre reveal about how his mind is so big and he's a genius
>Aonuma in stage for 30 seconds and getting told to frick off
Kek
8 minutes to be precise.
show sucks. remove 60% of the awards and let people speak for more than ten seconds
Yea he is a hack. Spent 6 years making a DLC and he expects anyone to clap.
I don't care how much tendies cry about it...
TOTK was a low effort asset flip. How they spent six years making that game is a total mystery.
I'm fricking howling holy shit.
we have orchestras and a musical, move it along losers!
>have orchestra playing a medley for the GOTY
>but Best Score award is given off-stage
Again, the point of the program is to shill your next product and entertain the viewers. No one gives a flying frick about the winner of
>best ui design of 2023
No one wants to hear from them either
>Please think of the show sponsors
>The game you made doesn't matter
if he was black they would let him ramble on stage for 30 minutes straight
Geoff was sucking him off at the start. Not like he deserves it, totk was a huge letdown especially compared to botw.
you can tell it was forced. compare that to how he treats kojima
>la creative dad and marvel actors gets to blow out as much air as they want
>
you gotta love it
Many have said this but barely anybody watches this show for the awards. GOTY is the exception, but holy shit it’s like Geoff has his priorities in a mix. Because guess what? Even LESS people watch it for half the stuff he does that aren’t trailers. Not only does he quickly rush through 4/5ths of the awards, he spends more time showing BANDS and CELEBS, then showing new shit. The Celebs are so fricking fake about it too, and I don’t even blame them because they probably got paid a good bit to bother coming. They’ll talk about their fricking broken leg and say “aging is… TOUGH!” before saying “Yeah I grew up playing Starfield… *pause for cheering*” like come the frick on. Everyone watching just wants reveals and screw-ups. Geoff said “Thanks homie” this year, that’s 100% more entertaining and memorable then having Nordic band play on stage before showing a trailer that has the same exact song over gameplay. It’s blatant filler, nobody likes it. People would rather see the rewards given the proper time of day then Kojima walk through a door, show face meshes, then talk a bit before a celebrity enters “the Kojimaverse” saying “Yeah my favorite game is actually, Metal Gear Solid 2… *slight cheering*” and then these same celebrities are at an event where they have to watch some truly moronic ads sometimes that aren’t helping gaming reach the status Geoff thinks it is.
Jason Rubin's 2004 speech is as relevant as ever.
Reading this thread made me glad I skipped the whole thing.
Geoff really thought he was clear this year on making it out with zero controversies.
And while I wouldn't really call this a controversy, it is funny that he didn't make it out perfectly clean. It's pretty funny.
Ironically his attempts to stop all possible time for any controversies resulted in a controversy over his ignoring and shooing away of developers
I think he actually did worse this year than any other because this was his own controversy.
This isn't some other frickwit causing issue, this is all on him. Someone else fricks up? You distance yourself. You frick up, everyone distances themselves.
But personally if I was a dev who had that happen to me I'd have whipped my dick out and sprayed piss on the stage while saying to Geoff I'm just helping to ensure everyone who comes after is real quick in getting their awards and getting off stage.
So I guess the devs deserve to be humiliated like this for not being willing to SPRAY IT WITH PISS
See? He can't distance himself from this controversy. So what is he doing instead?
Talking about one aspect, the music, while ignoring the other cavalcade of controversy that was the timer and the WRAP IT UP.
He can't distance himself so he's trying to whittle it down and make it smaller than it actually is.
no, something to address was letting hollywood morons have unlimited time to shill nongames
When exactly did he say to relax that? Because the GOTY winner was still having that shitty 30 second timer and didn't get to finish his talk, he was clearly thrown off by the "WRAP IT UP" sign flashing at him.
>be coked up millionaire hollywood actor
>immediately go offscript to do weird shit
>keep doing it, no one tries to stop you
Actually embarrassing
Funny enough only the last zoomie actor was straight to the point, no bullshit
You talking about Mackie? Because he seriously seemed like he was on something. Was awkward as frick.
That's because he actually gave enough of a shit to memorize his lines. All these other actors they get on this moronic show are way too old to care, they likely bullied kids in high school for playing Pokemon.
>the virgin seething French "knight" for "arts"
>the chad award-winning armored knight
he looks so moronic in that cheap plastic armour
>plastic
actually seething
i accept your concession troon
he should have asked a real devs with real medieval knowledge like KCD to lend him one atleast.
It's not his fault, anything medieval past the 13th century looks moronic as frick.
He bought it back when he could only afford a set of shitty cheap LARP armour and wore it so much it became his 'look' and got a bunch of sentimental value attached to it.
>nintendiesisters... it's over...
Who had it worse?
Todd wasn't even nominated for anything and didn't get a pity award
ENTER
Oh but they have plenty of time to throw in bad cringey jokes every sentence
nobody even wants to remember the AGP core zelda series with its troony customes and Link with child-bearing hips.
Never played any Zelda game, fapped a lot to "Link with child-bearing hips" fanart.
I skipped watching this crap this year and just wait out until IGN/Playstation/Xbox release their trailers on Youtube after the event. I suggest you lot to do the same. This event is nothing more than Keighley wanking Kojima and their Hollyweirdo friends. It's a sham. Why bother calling it THE Videogame Awards when you'll just blaze through the actual awards and not giving any of the devs their due recognition? And for frick sakes, why stop with the "people's choice" award, it's just a bunch of chinese twats spamming bots.
Cause I don't give a frick about the devs. I'd have them all skinned alive and replaced with robots if technology were at that level.
>"The way I see it, you all owe me for one Black person donut!"
Hartman should have like Geoff's face, and Pyle should have that black guy's face. With maybe random dev faces on the marines in the background.
Is this even on television? What's the rush?
can he even read english
I don't see what the problem is, game developers don't deserve even basic courtesy and I'm proud of that guy for treating them like they deserve.
>Hollywood names with little-to-no video game relevance deserve much more time on stage than the people who work on video games
Stop mashing the keyboard and get back to laying on Geoff's lap, dumb cat
>Hollywood names with little-to-no video game relevance deserve much more time on stage than the people who work on video games
yes that is what I said. though it's not really about favouring hollywoodoos, it's about making game devs suffer. Hollywood's ego is already too massively inflated, you'll never deflate it, no point even trying.
Gives the Asians and White people limited time
>shitholestine flaggot
>twitter screencap
If you want to see a show where devs had unlimited time watch this year's summer game fest. It was 3 hours of incoherent rambling and maybe 10 trailers. Is that the type of show you want?
i'm sure the multimillionaires planning the show could work out how to trim some fat elsewhere to let each speech run a little longer instead of playing the embarrassing "get the frick off the stage" music almost immediately
the first time it happened it was treated like an ironic joke and then every subsequent speech did it unironically
maybe cut out some of those paid promotions for games no one sincerely cares about like the sweet baby ghost game, or dontnod's lesbian circlejerk game
shit, who's still giving dontnod money? they only made one or two well-liked games but they keep getting paid to shit out tons of forgettable garbage, and also market the shit out of it
>had unlimited time
are you moronic?
every single person had this prompt show up except for goty. the show was 3 hours without ANY long speeches. can you imagine if every frick got on stage and rambled for 10 minutes each?
Or they could cut down on Kojima, who got more time than all the winners combined.
Just tell the nominees that if they win they get 30-45 seconds and be prepared to have you acceptance speech condensed. Not that hard. Just tell them how things are going to be before hand. Winners can get on board or get over it
How do you justify Kojima taking 8 minutes talking about a game with no gameplay footage?
Because that was scheduled time. What don't you get?
I can't imagine they aren't made aware of this before the show if they're nominated.
>Because that was scheduled time. What don't you get?
So Geoff is horrible with PR. He should work it out.
NOOOO YOU CAN'T TELL THIS """LEGENDARY""" GUY (literally never heard of him because i don't care about who makes my games as long as they are good) TO STOP YAPPING AND FRICK OFF THE STAGE ALREADY
>that black homosexual going back in forth with the crowd with I LOVE YOU
It's a show where you can just smell America and see the amount of losers who want to be validated for playing games or professionally play a part in the gaming industry as journos etc. Probably because people laughed or laugh at them, like Geoff.
If you don't work in a game, you have no business being in the public or on stage, it's that simple. Even if you are I would call it unethical to step on stage yourself instead an actual important dev. Same for streamers, youtubers etc.
These losers biggest moment was "Frick the Oscars" yet they do everything they can to suck celebs wieners to feel validated and legitimate, just a sad bunch of little homosexuals, specially nowadays when Hollywood is literally going bankrupt, cinema is crashing down and gaming is bigger than ever.
Imagine getting FRICKING AONUMA, one of the best and biggest directors in gaming on stage and give him 30 sec to talk translation included before playing some music on him to kick him out, he even had to take the phone and read some prepared bullshit just so he could get in time, all while jogger celeb nº1324 speaks 5 min about some garbage game he is promoting, I would never show my face in a gaming event after that from the sheer embarrassment.
>anons just now realize that only narcissists want to be on stage in front of an audience and the world
>legendary director
>of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Game Awards are just The Oscars with game trailers and without the slapstick humor
at least the oscars don't speed read half of their award categories
true
speed reads fricking suck
is this because that black dude rambling about inane shit last year during that God of War game award?
You just know Geoff was bullied as a kid for liking vidya. he can't stand the fact that vidya will never be considered a serious art form
he likely made more money in a single night thanks to videogames than all his bullies combined make in years, you would think he should have gotten over it by now.
all because of this guy.
Black folk do whatever they want and everyone else have to complain with stupid rules set in place to contain them.
>hating on based Gold Man
Frick Aonum, He shouldn't have even won the pity award for lazy ass zelda sequel
Dumb Black person that doesn't even do good work
PLEASE WRAP IT UP
>The Wrap it Up Awards
Hobby fornerds, kids, and grownups who act like children. This sellout Geoff needs to stop trying. Nobody is going to take this shit seriously no matter the bullshit he sets up
>flag
Opinion discarded
The Japanese aren't diverse enough, bring out the bogged homie again for another 25 minute inspirational talk
>tumblrwhales whining that the guy who sounds like squilliam got kicked off the stage because "he had a wholesome messagearino they should've just let him drone on for an hour"
They shouldn't even have awards. Everyone is just watching for the trailers so just get on with it and show them.
Then just wait the day after to watch the trailers on youtube. The people at the show are there for a ceremony.
>You rike my red shoes, gaijins?
>You want good game?
>Here ten minutes empty speech and troony, frick you!
Awards shows are fed operated fronts to generate funding and try to steer the culture. Prove me wrong.
HOLY BASED
He deserves it for releasing Breath of the Wild TWICE like it's two games. Fricking trash.