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1 hour ago, amc said:

I enjoyed this. Never watched one before and with the right timing of the mute button It was pretty watchable. Saw Kratos on stage for an eternity but by the grace of Zeus I didn't hear a word of it.

 

 

I quite enjoy listening to him talk, he seems like a lovely guy

 

They should have made a Diablo movie instead of Warcraft.

 

Bandai were smart not to start the AC4 trailer with the Fromsoft logo. people might have boo'd when they realised it wasn't Elden Ring DLC.

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54 minutes ago, deerokus said:

God of War won nearly everything. Bit silly really.

 

6 for GoWR

4 for ER

2 Stray

2 Final Fantasy "A number"

11 others

+ 6 esports things no one cares about (I mean even less than everything else)

 

I think Game Awards as a concept seems completely pointless. Other than an excuse for people to run big trailers.

 

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5 hours ago, amc said:

I enjoyed this. Never watched one before and with the right timing of the mute button It was pretty watchable. Saw Kratos on stage for an eternity but by the grace of Zeus I didn't hear a word of it.

 

Some banging reveals/10, would watch again.


I’ve watched it every year I think and this was one of the best ones they’ve ever done. Great reveals, pretty well paced. 

 

5 hours ago, JPL said:

I know the joke is they've got no games, but they've got plenty in development. I just want them to show some stuff off for once. Sony seem to be managing things ok now we're out of the pandemic with a steady stream of things to come, so they can't use that as an excuse any more.


Knowing Microsoft I’m sure they’ve decided to send management to demand a wild change of direction in a bunch of games that were nearly finished. 

 

4 hours ago, Girth Certificate said:

 

I quite enjoy listening to him talk, he seems like a lovely guy

 

They should have made a Diablo movie instead of Warcraft.

 

Bandai were smart not to start the AC4 trailer with the Fromsoft logo. people might have boo'd when they realised it wasn't Elden Ring DLC.


I dunno, I read it the other way. When I saw Bandai Namco the crowd were excited, then all the fire hit looked like maybe it wasn’t just an Elden Ring DLC, but it had a vague Dark Souls vibe, then there’s guns and mechs and the FromSoft logo and the crowd go wild because they realise it’s a whole new game, not just DLC.

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I thought it was the best Keighley thing he’s done so far. I didn’t have the feeling of being cheated and duped into wasting my time at the end like I normally do with him.

 

Fuck remember one year (can’t remember if it was summer games fest or TGA) the big final reveal was a Fast and Furious game?

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8 hours ago, Strafe said:


I was hoping to see some more of Hellblade 2 which had an incredible reveal.

 

Gamepass is a great proposition but one I don’t use that much. Here’s hoping 2023 gives me a few more reasons for having a series X as despite having one at launch I’ve used mine quite sparingly, it really only got constant use when Infinite came out.

 

Could they get away with showing Hellblade a third time unless they were able to end it with an imminent release date? 

MS have put themselves in an awkward spot. People want release dates for stuff like Starfield and Redfall. If they showed off something like Perfect Dark or Fable last night then I think the understandable reaction would be cyncism about them making more promises when they haven't delivered yet. 

 

I didn't watch the show last night but it sure seems like they got a lot of good announcements this year. 

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It was a really good show.

 

But fuck me there's nothing there getting me excited. It's all end of the world disaster ruins action pretty nonsense that'll probably be three years in length with decent voice acting and animation. 

 

Desperate to be film, this industry. 

 

Out of all I'm probably more hype for Returnal on PC so I can widescteen it and not deal with shitty FOV.

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It would be great if that Suicide Squad game turns out to actually secretly have been a Batman game.

 

And it will probably sell more copies too. Nobody wants to play as the Suicide Squad except edgy Jared Leto Joker stans on Facebook.

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Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg tweeted to reassure fans that 2023 would be "incredibly exciting" for the platform and that fans wouldn't have to wait long for news.

“We have a lot planned to show and share about an incredibly exciting year ahead for 2023,” he wrote. “Appreciate folks are eager to learn and see more. Timing is always key, but don’t worry you will not have to wait too long for what’s next from us.”


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I kinda hated this. So desperately wanting to be The Oscars but totally hamstrung on being obsessed with the future. Awards should be about looking back, celebrating success and commemorating losses. But every single award is followed by a trailer saying 'Friendship ended with all the old games, this is your friend now' and it all descends into a capitalist wankfest (which at least is honest).

 

They mentioned Kevin Conroy but only in conjunction with shilling his voice in Suicide Squad. Judge's heartfelt speech was followed by Keighley sniping about it taking too long and then another trailer. Why no retrospection on individuals and studios lost in the past year? Why not a single comment about an industry riddled with abuse and scandal? Rhetorical, of course, I know why.

 

At the end of the day, the game awards are a transparent egotrip that only cares about fuelling desire for more consumption. Expecting anything else is naive but, Hell, I'll take naivety over total cynicism. Games are an amazing medium with huge complexity and possibility, but you'd never know this from watching the awards. So, just like the Oscars really...

 

Still, Dead Cells Castlevania and Hades II look fire.

 

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It’s never going to rival the Oscars until the only games that win awards are games about the stress and heartbreak of making videogames, and how it’s painful to be a videogame creator entirely misunderstood by the world at large.

 

though given it’s voted for by the press perhaps it’ll instead be games about the existential difficulty of making a magazine and moderating below the line.

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This is just the latest iteration of the Spike Video Game Awards, which Keighley has produced since 2003. We're well past complaining about its tone and contents at this point in time.

 

If you want an actual annual games industry awards show, go watch either:

 

The BAFTA Games Awards

The D.I.C.E. Awards

The Game Developers Choice Awards

 

But strangely enough, way fewer people bother paying attention to some actual industry voted awards, I wonder why...

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3 hours ago, Benny said:

It is of course one long back slapping advert, but it was nice seeing someone like Miyazaki receiving an award for his team and looking like the most humble and non egotistical person ever.

Of course. Same with Judge, the Until Dusk Falls rep and numerous others. Zero shade on the winners, just the tawdry framing of it all. Nicely topped off by Keighley's tweet about the imposter being arrested. Real narc behaviour.

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9 minutes ago, mushashi said:

This is just the latest iteration of the Spike Video Game Awards, which Keighley has produced since 2003. We're well past complaining about its tone and contents at this point in time.

 

If you want an actual annual games industry awards show, go watch either:

 

The BAFTA Games Awards

The D.I.C.E. Awards

The Game Developers Choice Awards

 

But strangely enough, way fewer people bother paying attention to some actual industry voted awards, I wonder why...

Oh, I agree (apart from the bolded bit; I reserve the right to never get past complaining about the tone). 

 

It's the gap between the stated intentions of the event - to celebrate the past year's highest achievements - and the glorified advert that it is that I find interesting/annoying. 

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30 minutes ago, Kevvy Metal said:


That reveal will have been made by a CGI studio like Axis, and they will of just started developing the game. 


They said it was in engine gameplay. I mean, I’d take that with a pinch of salt about how representative it would be of the final thing but they did say it was gameplay.

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