BNR: Let me get this out of the way: I watched The Game Awards 2014, the Geoff Keighley produced replacement for the VGAs- and I enjoyed them. If you followed my Twitter feed during the first several minutes of the awards, you'd have realized that. It was, on the whole, a classier affair than Spike's VGAs- dumb jokes and Mountain Dew were, for the most part, dodged. However, there were several (big) mistakes made during The Game Awards 2014. They weren't big enough to get me to turn the show off- but they were pretty significant. This was my first year watching, and I intend on watching next year- but some things need to change. Here are four things that could massively improve The Game Awards 2015.
There is an energy to The Game Awards that doesn't fully shine through on the screen.
The Game Awards have been done for a few days now, but if you think that people are done talking about its "events," you'd be sadly mistaken," as this is a topic that will be talked awhile for months. Here is what The Outerhaven has to say about it all.
Are people really crying cause there was a bunch of trailers. How can you not see that as a good thing. Am I missing something
The show is called "The Game Awards." Having less time for actual awards, is basically what everyone is getting upset at. Not just us, but most people who actually cared about the event.
A lot of substance, not enough respect.
i dont quite understand what people want this award show to be ?
a ridiculous woke environmental climate friendly show or a show about videogames?
not everything needs to be addressed. most people dont know the ins and outs of everything going on in the industry and therefore dont rly care all too much.
lets focus on the games and not on specific groups of people alone.
I would take an hour of gameplay and in game trailers, and an hour of interviews and award acceptance. They need to strip out all of the other nonsense. This event should not just be one long advertisement, they have already raided our wallets. Shows like this are supposed to be for the gamers and the culture of the industry.
sure but what kind of advertisement, besides hamepass haha, did we see?
we saw alot of awards being given out, loads of trailers etc.
ok, to your point, we saw an ad for the fallout show.
i agree on the celebrity thing, there was literally no need for some of them to ve there. at all lol.
but other than that ... comedy stuff wasnt rly advertisement.
They need to show gameplay, most trailers are adverts for preorders. One example is that Banishers advert trying to sell the collectors edition plastic statue.
I watched the MW3 joke and then a compilation of the trailers. E3 I'd at least watch a few showcases. They both are mostly irrelevant.
PS and Nintendo show off what they have made in their own videos. Xbox lets us know what they have bought/monopolized monthly for game pass, you don't need anything more than that.
TRASH TRASH TRASH
Bring E3 back and all is good
JK does both GA & GF for his own self profit
Jeff could not find another job if he tried - the very green production is always off and has major problems
Kill both shows and the world will be in a better place !
1. WORLD PREMIERE
I heard the words world premiere so many times during the show that by the end, they sounded were devoid of meaning
2. Improved Audio Equalization
This is a pretty big deal- several times during The Game Awards 2014 I found myself either straining to hear and cranking my volume up, or scrambling to get my headphones off before I suffered permanent hearing loss.
3. An Explanation of Why Games Win- Make Me Care
The Game Awards got compared to the Oscars- but I think that if they went to explain why the games in the show won, it’d be a lot better off.
4. Better Categorization of Games
One category of the award show that particularly irked me was the category for “Best Handheld/Mobile Game”.
I would add new categories like Best Racing , Best Sports, Best Innovation in Gaming, Most Underated Game and Worst Game of the Year.
Well i have to admit that this years show was pretty good . CONAN OBRIEN skits were pretty good . And it felt more like a award show.
I would like to see a "Best Shooter Campaign Award" . Not sure if WOLENSTEIN NEW ORDER did not win because it had no multiplayer, and FAR CRY 4 did .
I think FAR CRY 4 won "Best Shooter" because FAR CRY 3 did not win at the 2012 VGA's, due too game coming out in DEC 2012 . Wait... what t#.,***? Why not do the show in January !!
5.) More Reggie and Nintendo games.
6) Get Rid of youtubers
Really, why did they give them screen time over DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR??
Some awards were given out kind of oddly. Like they were given in the crowd instead of on-stage and it felt rushed which I guess makes since considering even with this shortcut, the show was still 3 hours long.