The game awards begins roughly ~11 hours from now. what announcements are you hoping for?

  • MoreZombies@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    52 minutes ago

    I’ve never cared for it - the entire show’s awards and announcements could be YouTube Shorts that I can pick and choose to watch, and I’d get exactly the same thing out of it.

    I wait a day and then check for a megathread with bullet points, then see if there is anything of interest to me.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 hours ago

    I’m not really excited about anything because I don’t care much for AAA but it‘s funny to me that a show like the Game Awards was never about the awards but just an excuse to show some world premier trailers.

    They keep telling us how this is a celebration of this year while trailers for games in the coming years take center stage. It feels more like the most cynical funeral of old games while the new ones get coronated with their announcements.

    And I know this is comment isn‘t deep or profound to anybody who ever watched the Game Awards but I just find it comical every year.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 hours ago

      On the other hand, winning an award from this show has a tangible effect on game sales, so it’s nice when a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 can beat the mainstays like The Legend of Zelda and earn that bump for themselves.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        It‘s definitely clever to wrap the Award show into a Superbowl type of event for the gaming industry. It ensures there will be a lot of eyes on award winners. But they still have to share the attention with the new shiny things that are being advertised so it‘s always a little awkward. It‘s bizarre but part of the experience and let‘s be honest, most of don‘t care about popularity contests. We tune in for the trailers.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        11·
        7 hours ago

        The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It’s just a AAA circle jerk mostly.

        But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          The jury is composed of the review outlets, not the studios. It does have a bias toward larger games, because the outlets reviewing games have an incentive to more reliably cover the games that most of their audience will be interested in, but it’s not because Sony’s voting for themselves to win.

          • warm@kbin.earth
            2·
            6 hours ago

            Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.

            As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It’s just advertising, hyped up.

            Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.

            Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there’s lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      2·
      7 hours ago

      It’s just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.