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Advisory Board for "The Game Awards" is kind of nuts
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Kacho
Gold Member
haha yeah he is
This year gonna be awesome.
No I don't because these awards don't mean anything...
Yes, in some cultures it means tasty.
lol true
Although given the lists thus far doesnt seem like anyone was pushing any games...really the only surprise was Ubi as game dev nominee
Brutalitops
Banned
My day is better knowing there is a man somewhere with the name Nacho Ortiz
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Jeff got this
Love Deterrence
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juicyfruitas
Member
Just off the top of my head looks like Crescente and Francesca Reyes were not re-invited to be on the judges panel.
The omissions of Stephen Totitlo and Tina Amini from Kotaku are disappointing.
Dale North still on the panel seems awkward
New additions like Brandon Jones and others from Euro and Jpn outlets is an excellent change.
The omissions of Stephen Totitlo and Tina Amini from Kotaku are disappointing.
Dale North still on the panel seems awkward
New additions like Brandon Jones and others from Euro and Jpn outlets is an excellent change.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
No surprises here, the Keeley can grab all. I'm not sure how much effect having a board this connected will have on presentation and marketing. And Hayashi being the only Japanese critic is...well, I expected it, but there are relevant Japanese publications other than Famitsu, even on the PC side of things.
Brutalitops
Banned
No, that's just Geoff Keighley's disguise to get on the voting council.
Freedom = $1.05
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isn't jeff gertsmann the guy who gave twilight princess an 8.8? not sure he should be on that list.
LordBaztion
Member
Wow Keighley is going big time. I'm glad he can pull up an event of this magnitude.
BeatResetsTheWorld
Banned
Was loving it till I saw Victor Lucas. Ewwww
http://thegameawards.com/jury-and-advisors/
Miles beat me to the image. But DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
Judges selection aint bad either
Lotta dudes.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
KOJIMA IS GOD
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
I wonder how long until Totalbisquck posts a video complaining that he wasn't asked to be a juror?
I think they're the representatives of their sites anyway.
Zeyphersan
Banned
"terrifying"
CosmicQueso
Member
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MrCunningham
Member
That's an all star line up of game developer talent and media press. It's as if the AAA developer pool got fed up with the amateur hour antics of Gametrailers and just said "fuck it, we're making our own high production awards show".
Though I look at that list and think that there should a little more variety in that panel of judges. Throw Jim Sterling in there to spice things up.
Now that you mention it....
Though I look at that list and think that there should a little more variety in that panel of judges. Throw Jim Sterling in there to spice things up.
Now that you mention it....
Gametrailers guys make it very clear they werent involved with it....it was the Spike/Viacom part
Yeah, it really shouldn't have scored that highly.
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
There's what, two women on there? Disappointing.
From what Ive seen it looks like the judges are the owners or lead editor/reviewer of their respective websites
They totally snubbed all of the other prominent female video game critic.
Triggerhappytel
Member
And unless I'm mistaken, only two women. I mean really, it wouldn't have been hard to get a bit more gender representation on the panels, would it?
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
The judges are all mainstream outlets? So, this is basically a big marketing event, huh? Not that I expected anything different.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Well at least no Kotaku.
MrCunningham
Member
Oops, my mistake. I always tend to associate Geoff Keighley with GameTrailers.
It also sounds like Geoff was constantly fighting with producers....hence the break away
Dragonborn
Member
As someone else said, it seems to be made up of the most prominent press people (mostly the higher ranked people in their review sites) and unfortunately, there's not many prominent female video game press.
Overall, I'd say it's a damn good selection of judges and the advisory panel is pretty good too.
Riposte
Member
If I think Metacritic is shitty (which isn't a rare sentiment here, although perhaps even more rarely genuine), what reason is there to respect an awards show?
funkystudent
Member
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
This whole thing makes it abundantly clear to me that he actually cares about games and all of that shit (Dorito Pope, etc) was just Viacom being greedy asshats.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
It's Kojima though. He may be the most recognizable gaming figure outside of Miyamoto.
Honey Bunny
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our Kojima who art in Tokyo
hallowed be thy name
Your trailers come
your movies be done
On earth as it is in Konami.
Give us this day our daily tweets
and forgive us our fanboy rants
as we forgive those who rant against us.
And lead us not unto nintendo platforms
but deliver us from call of duty
diminutive form of Ignacio in spanish.
MrCunningham
Member
Geoff really is fighting an uphill battle with VGX. The fact that he is paying for this years out of his own back pocket says a lot.
This "The Game Awards" event feels like the mainstream game industry trying to intervene and bring some sort of legitimacy to video games as an art form. The majority of these broadcasted gaming award shows have been a joke anyway with the exception of maybe the BAFTA Games Awards.
This feels like a push to get gaming back into the mainstream spotlight, which is something I feel like it has been slipping away from over the last few years.
He's there for street cred.
It's the diminutive form of Ignacio (originating from Ignis in Latin, which means fire).
EDIT: Fuck, beaten
