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Pacino is by far the biggest star that host Geoff Keighley has ever bagged for the show. In a lot of ways it was pure Spike TV energy, dating back to when the TGAs were the VGAs and the cable TV broadcast was littered with B-list talent aimed at channeling the MTV Music Awards for nerds.

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It didn’t matter that Pacino will never play God of War Ragnarök, let alone touch a PlayStation controller, in however many years he has left on this beautiful blue ball. Best Performance winner for Kratos, Christopher Judge, got to accept the award from one of the most renowned actors in any medium. Pacino even seemed to be enjoying himself, pumping the award a few times as he monologued like a grandfather about needing to make up for his missed workout during the day.

Or at least he convinced me he was enjoying himself up there on stage for a hundred-billion-dollar industry’s biggest trailer night of the year in a room full of complete strangers. He has been honing his craft longer than gaming’s even existed, after all.

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