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NightWatch
01/14/09

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I remember seeing Will Wright give a speech for accepting his award and I felt bad because he looked like he was in the wrong place. I'm not sure how a game designer could be out of place at a game awards show but somehow Spike TV made it possible.
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Quipp
01/14/09

@ShiningDark: During his speech I was actually worried that they might 'play him off' and go to commercial before he managed to make his point. I frankly wouldn't have been surprised that advertising might trump what their supposed Lifetime Achiever had to say seeing as they didn't bother to feature some very major awards categories (like Best Graphics) during the broadcast, squeezing them in as mere filler/afterthoughts.
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Rompehamster
01/14/09

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Maybe if they took it more seriously, and got more game developers instead of lame hollywood stars who don't know jackshit about gaming.And maybe if the whole show wasn't such a lame attempt to appeal to us a gamers.

Then maybe, just maybe, i would actually watch it.

It's highly improbable but adding the cast from G4 would help, at least they know gaming.
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
01/14/09

@Rompehamster: Jack Black is in Brutal Legend at least...it could've been worse. I think the show just needs to up its demographic a little bit. Make it more like the Oscars or the Emmys. Even the People's Choice Awards for Christ's sake. Give it a new name. We could call it...uh...The Viddies!

What? It's a better name than "The Tony."
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Little_Chief
01/14/09

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Wait, Spike? I'll start watching it after I buy a Jeep, pop my collar and start hitting the clubs. Perhaps pick up some lingo like "Dawg" and "Sup Homey."
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Rompehamster
01/14/09

@Little_Chief:

SHHHH!

MANswers is on!!
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Quipp
01/14/09

@Rompehamster: Nice.
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Squamden
01/14/09

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I enjoyed watching them, they definitely didn't take themselves too seriously.
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TRT-X
01/14/09

@Squamden: That's the problem. Why should I give a damn if nobody involved with the production does?
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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
01/15/09

@Squamden:

Yeah, They didn't take themselves seriously ENOUGH. The VGA's are absolute shit.
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Firemane
01/14/09

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The awards simply aren't entertaining. The only good part was JB making out with the consoles. The mall cop bit was too long and unnecessary. The awards also need more video game material. Right now it's 95% ads and 5% video games.
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GarretFazniah
01/14/09

@Firemane: How about also getting off the mainsteams nuts. They completely ironge, almost all the really good games in favor of whats pop.

Then you see the place filled with people that problary havn't played anything outside a wii. The show is aimed at the mainsteam, not the real players. I will countine not to watch it, I havn't since the frist one.
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Quipp
01/14/09

@GarretFazniah: Awards show by their nature are dull but actually featuring the nominees and the awards and their respective winners would go a long way to improving the show. It's current format of "Ad, ad, WORLD EXCLUSIVE trailer, sketch comedy, song and dance number, ad, ad, WORLD EXCLUSIVE trailer, oh btw some awards that were presented eariler, WORLD EXCLUSIVE trailer, non-gamer model faking gamer cred, ad, ad..." leaves a lot to be desired. If awards cermonies aren't taken somewhat seriously they will not endure. Even the Razzies try harder than this.
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Hobb3z
01/14/09

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Make the show not stupid. That might help.
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ph15h
01/14/09

@Hobb3z: Indeed. It just didn't... feel right. Also there wasn't enough hype or build up to the awards like last years. >.> Meh.
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Harfold
12/15/08

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No RTS genre award?

:-(
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excel_excel
12/15/08

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ah god damn you Soul Calibur IV! Smash Bros should have been they're!

/fanboy rant over
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Tyber_Zann
12/15/08

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What's with all the GTA hate? It's practically the only game I still play to this day. I'm glad it got the respect it deserves. Plus, after a hard day at work, there's nothing better than killing hookers. MGS, Gears and LBP can't provide me that.
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TRT-X
12/15/08

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Best Wii game is Boom Blox....really? Truly? I'm all for giving the 3rd parties some love, but in a year when we had Smash Bros. Brawl you're going with Boom Blox?
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kryo
12/15/08

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MGS4 for best graphics? FarCry 2 and Gears 2 are far more impressive. Best soundtrack for Rock Band 2? Just how unimaginative can you get - besides, one can easily argue GHWT has a better tracklist :)

GTAIV was over-hyped before and after release, so it getting GOTY doesn't surprise me much. Then again, nothing in that list really does. I guess that Shaun White comes down to no competition?
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TRT-X
12/15/08

@kryo: Rock Band 2's setlist was pretty impressive comparred to GHWTs.

And since GHWT came out second, and had roughly 20 shared tracks...RB2 would win by default there.

As far as "you can argue GHWT", that's the case with any award. It's the nature of the beast. You can make an argument for any nominee, but ultimately some random body makes the final say.
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codeplus
12/15/08

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BEST GRAPHICS, and ORIGINAL SCORE = METAL GEAR SOLID 4 (Only on PS3 :), and only possible on PS3 in consoles. This is just the first generation of PS3 high end title. Looking forward to Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, God of wars 3, Gran turismo 5, and especially Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy...
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SansSanity
12/15/08

@codeplus: fanboy much?
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SAKY
12/15/08

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There is a lot on that list I don't agree with at all but this is all opinion and you can't argue with opinions.

I watched the show for a few minutes last night, keep in mind that I don't ever watch these shows. Yesterday it was said the the lack of any game advertisements around the show was an ethics choice...fine, I even applauded the notion. However, I felt that the game previews, though informative, to those who aren't aware of these games' production and releases but to me it just seems that this is advertising. Now I can't say for sure that this was advertising because I don't know if any deals were made between the Spike TV and the publishers/developers that own these games to show these future releases. What I would like to know is if companies inside their respective industries run advertisements in or around say...the Oscars. Anyone?
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TRT-X
12/15/08

@SAKY: I can tell you the Oscars sure as hell don't run movie trailers during the show.

But the Oscars overall are a far more professionally run program. If the VGAs could class it up a bit (at least to the VMA/MTV Movie Awards level) they'd have a shot at legitimacy.
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Jippon
12/15/08

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GTA IV was good... but game of the year??? Don't think so. I'd rather see fallout 3 there.
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EnigmaNemesis
12/15/08

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Wow, I actually really cant disagree with this list.

Pretty solid!
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