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So does anyone watching the Game Awards even care who wins what award?
- Thread starter Uzumaki Goku
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I don't care in a genuine sense, but I quite enjoy the reveals and annual dose of cringe and I find it fun to root for my favorites and see what happens, knowing full well the obvious biases in play.
It's gotten better over time too, with the production values improving and the cringe getting, uh, cringier generally each year. My wife and I have made something of an event out of it, in fact, making sure to have plenty of "World Premiere" drinking game beers on hand!
It's gotten better over time too, with the production values improving and the cringe getting, uh, cringier generally each year. My wife and I have made something of an event out of it, in fact, making sure to have plenty of "World Premiere" drinking game beers on hand!
I'm fine if my favorite game doesn't win, but I care about the awards because it celebrates the hard work of the people who make the games.
The whole point of the awards is to celebrate the medium. It's cool and all to get new game announcements and such, but we should all be celebrating the medium that we love and tune in to see the accomplishments of the games that released throughout the year.
Results is genuinely depressing. The awards portion should be better, but why can't we have fun seeing which games and the developers behind them get to be recognized by members of the industry?
Nah, just give me my advertisements!
But I also think it's a reflection on the people watching. I don't think the results would change much if they managed to make the show more sincere. I think it stays insincere because of the audience.
Nah, just give me my advertisements!
But I also think it's a reflection on the people watching. I don't think the results would change much if they managed to make the show more sincere. I think it stays insincere because of the audience.
Well I'm more interested in seeing the new trailers, but knowing the games I played winning certain awards is fun too.
To be fair Keighley did a great job with the recent and past Game Awards events. I think TGA is the perfect event to end a year of gaming, it gives recognition to the games released that year and the developers behind those games then it provides glimpses of the future through reveals and trailers. For me it is right for what it is.
Sure, its always personaly satisfying when a game i really enjoyed gets some form of recognition. Like when last year Fire Emblem had been snubbed from Game of the Year, it was cool (and kind of unexpected) to see it win the popular voice award. No big deal though.
Yes. I'm happy for the people who made something I like getting recognized for it. Same with every other award show across all mediums.
When GOW won it was extremely satisfying to see the studio celebrated for what they achieved.
When GOW won it was extremely satisfying to see the studio celebrated for what they achieved.
No. Why should I care, when they themselves don't really care for most of the awards?
It's and advertisement show, where most people watch because of new trailers and shit.
Also rules get changed every year, just to please certain games. I would love a big ceremony that would
actually celebrate people in the industry, to give them a face. I remember that one time when Roberta and Ken Williams
got an Life time award. That was great, give me more of this
It's and advertisement show, where most people watch because of new trailers and shit.
Also rules get changed every year, just to please certain games. I would love a big ceremony that would
actually celebrate people in the industry, to give them a face. I remember that one time when Roberta and Ken Williams
got an Life time award. That was great, give me more of this
I care in the sense that Animal Crossing or TLOU2 winning GOTY will make people mad and that'll be amusing, but beyond that not really.
Yes, because I like seeing my peers recognised for the hard jobs they do. Gamers tend to focus on specific developers and celebrities, forgetting that tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of people are involved in bringing the games they love to market. It's really nice seeing teams get the recognition they deserve, even if just through a nomination.
I don't think the people making the game awards care who wins based on how many of them are not even announced on the show itself. I know all award shows are marketing, but these ones don't ever let you forget you're watching a giant commercial. When Edge or Eurogamer do a GOTY feature of some kind, I'm interested, and kind of use it as a guide to pick up anything I might have overlooked, but The Game Awards? Nah.
I don't particularly care who wins which reward. I mainly watch it for the some announcements of new games. The music and visual spectacle as part of the package is also something enjoyable.
It's pretty depressing actually that TGA is becoming nothing more than a trailer fest. Says a lot about gamers that we, as a whole, don't really care about celebrating the art form but rather obsess over the next shiny new thing. Even worse, the awards become fuel for arguments and perceived injustices. There's discussion going on that one/other publishers HAVE to show at this event. Like there's pressure to do so. That's bonkers. Like showing trailers at the Oscars.
Typically no, but I'd like Hades to win because it's the first and only roguelite to absolutely convince me that the genre can work. And I wouldn't mind TLOU2 winning either because the game is A+ (a lot better than the first game) and I'd like to see its subreddit in tears.
I probably had a little more fun with Persona 5 Royal and Nioh 2 but those games are a little too Japanese to be nominated for these things. Still, not a bad list of GOTY candidates.
I probably had a little more fun with Persona 5 Royal and Nioh 2 but those games are a little too Japanese to be nominated for these things. Still, not a bad list of GOTY candidates.