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[PeteBull]

It was mostly solid, just final trailer was terrible AF, ppl expected something of caliber of HL3, new Final Fantasy or something big from sony or ninny first party and we got extraction shooter/arena shooter slop instead

Personally really diseapointed we didnt see some gangbuster hits from both sony and ninny here.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

To be fair overall western gaming industry is very boring, plus even from the chinese side we saw all the same game. And every game announcement with a release is basically not reliable as it is 70% that it won't hit that.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The worst? No.

Trying for the music/movie industry clout chasing cringe? Yes.

 

[Pharaoh 117]

Pharaoh 117 Bondo did you forget to sign out of your alt account or do you always use the same avatar to each others bar-mitzvahs?

I saw someone was using the same avatar but I'm just too lazy to change it.

 

[NeverYouMind]

The Witcher 4, new Virtua Fighter, Project Century (Stranger Than Heaven), Intergalatic, new Onimusha (I think it was revealed there), new Okami. I remember those from the top of my head.

Those two were pretty cool but the best stuff about them was revealed at different venues. As it was in that glimpse Project Century was not even on my radar. Stranger Than Heaven is a different story.

 

[SantaC]

Yes only western crap

 

[Arsic]

I saw someone was using the same avatar but I'm just too lazy to change it.

See you both at the schvitz.

 

[splattered]

Things in industry just seem kinda stale right now outside of some standouts like Arc Raiders etc.

Was this the first year they didn't give away like steam decks or legion go machines etc?

If they did i totally missed it because i went to sleep halfway through the show.

 

[Sethbacca]

I'm surprised so many are surprised by how far out some of these games are. Anyone remember back in the 90s when we used to have to look at barely larger than postage stamp sized photos in magazines around E3 for games that may never be heard from ever again.

This shit's always been going on, and we've got more access than we've ever had in reality. Sometimes waiting just sucks.

 

[lughnasadh123]

As award shows go, that's about as good as their going to get structurally. Short enough times for speeches that don't drag on, limited musical numbers if you really must have them, Miss Piggy as a minor distraction for the show that's both harmless and brief, plus a lot of good trailers of things to come. The only change I'd make would be to swap Highguard with Fate of the Old Republic. No mega bombs dropped, so a solid B with a mix of interesting hype trailers and gameplay for the show.

 

[Bondo]

Pharaoh 117 Bondo did you forget to sign out of your alt account or do you always use the same avatar to each others bar-mitzvahs?

LMAO! Well i was ready to change it soon. Guess that time is now. lol
Had no idea we were Delta twins.

 

[Aressa]

Not really. There were some genuinely funny moments. Also the preshow with Sydnee Goodman was a good call. She's both beautiful and engaging and set the right tone from the start and brought genuine feminine presence rather than corporate checklist shaved head energy.

 

[Arsic]

LMAO! Well i was ready to change it soon. Guess that time is now. lol
Had no idea we were Delta twins.

Change it back you rat bastard. A bucket of filler?

Here use this Bond O face, Free of charge:

 

[RetroGamingUK]

In terms of reveals it peaked in 2023, sharp decline since then.

 

[ssringo]

It was fine. Not amazing, not terrible.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I live to shit on Geoff, but ...

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

The best in a long time because it got Resident Evil 9 and Warhammer 40k total wars which each by themselves is already better than all games this gen.

 

[Bondo]

Change it back you rat bastard. A bucket of filler?

Here use this Bond O face, Free of charge:

lmao, thats great! I will update it just for you.
Back in the day on the IGN forums i was Bondo07- everyone stuck with Bondo and i worked in autobody(filler) in my teens. It worked ahahah

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Yes it was.

 

[March Climber]

-Mostly not in game trailers

This is not true. I did a count and listed which had gameplay in the rating thread.

40 trailers were shown. Out of the 40, 25 games had actual gameplay in them.

At least 5 of them could be argued as just in-engine footage or target footage.

The other 10 were either CGI trailers or animated trailers.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Its not as bad when you mute the sound and watch Thursday Night Football as well though with how bad Al Micheals has been lately it makes me want to mute the Thursday night games as well

 

[Arsic]

This is not true. I did a count and listed which had gameplay in the rating thread.

40 trailers were shown. Out of the 40, 25 games had actual gameplay in them.

At least 5 of them could be argued as just in-engine footage or target footage.

The other 10 were either CGI trailers or animated trailers.

I'm surprised that's the case. My bad.

 

[Arsic]

lmao, thats great! I will update it just for you.
Back in the day on the IGN forums i was Bondo07- everyone stuck with Bondo and i worked in autobody(filler) in my teens. It worked ahahah

Lmfao. That pfp is too much. back story fits.

Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same.

 

[diffusionx]

Maybe it is because I was sober but I had way less fun watching it this year than last year, even if I thought many of the announcements were better.

They REALLY should consider splitting it up into a game award show and an announcement show. I really think putting them both together doesn't work. It hurts both of them. I do think people would happily watch a 2 hour game award show focused on the past year in games and a 60-90 minute new game show (they already do, it's called SGF or old E3 shows). But together, it's bad. Really bad.

 

[Sethbacca]

I don't have the bandwith to do it but I'd love if someone could post:
-All trailers shown in 24 and in 23
-How many acceptance speeches were allowed each year

I'm curious when you look at a list of what happened would you consider this year as hype as say last year where you got a glimpse at Witcher 4.

I'm not gonna do the speeches part but the trailers part is easy enough :
2023 Playlist :
2024 Playlist :

 

[Durin]

They've done worse, but they've done better.

It's probably a C year for them, D maybe with ending on HighGuard which looks like slop.

Kojima not winning anything so Geoff can't fluffer him on stage again also helps.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

We got Ace Combat 8 (megaton), RE9 Leon gameplay (the whole 5 seconds), Control 2 (looks amazeballs), Phantom blade 0 (also amazeballs), LoTF 2, Divinity, 2 new Tomb raider games, new Yakuza - like from Nagoshi, Pragmata release date and demo.

I'm surprised that I wasn't disappointed with the whole thing, yes, the "show" remains Uber cringe as ever, Keighley is a little worm of a man in all his sleazy fakeness and good guy persona and the whole thing IS just a mash up of Ads/ trailers for upcoming games (aka products ) but, again, we actually got some interesting premieres.

Solid 6.5-7/10

 

[yurinka]

Is the 2025 Game Awards Show the Worst in a Long Time?

No

-Games with no date or 2027 date

2027 is barely a year away, and several games with no date will release in 2026 or early 2027, but sometimes they don't announce date to reveal it in another trailer, or because they still aren't sure about its release date and are doubting if it would be released at the end of a year or the start of the next one (as could be in this case late 2026 / early 2027).

-Miss Piggy shit was insanely whack compared to other puppet stuff/comedic relief

I agree this one, Muppets shouldn't be in a videogames award. It's really embarassing. I think he may have some weird fetish or childhood trauma related to muppets or something like that.

-Least amount of awards given out on stage to let a person speak?

This really sucks, particularly important awards.

-Street fighter cast cringe and then Jason says Ryu wrong

That was clearly an scripted joke/meme, like the Mortal Kombat 2 reference.

-An odd return to a lot of deeply mature trailers with lots of profanity. I'm cool with it I guess but is this necessary for a show trying to take itself seriously?

I disagree, I'm happy to see again mature games targeting men instead of woke trailers filled with 'diversity' and ugly, androginous lesbians.

-Worst live band of all time?

No, they did a great job as usual

-Little to no hype trailers in general. My only big "ooh I need to get this" game I didn't have on my list already is the new control game

I saw like around 20 cool games, even if many weren't my type of game. Here they have to cover different tastes.

Why would you subject your mother to that divinity trailer Geoff?

I think Geoff's ego is a big issue. Shows are not about him, his father or his mother. They are supposed to be about the game industry.

I know we have a thread for rating the awards but I'm curious who thinks this year is a major fuck up compared to years past.

I think it had several flaws, but also improved in different areas: this year didn't have constant spam of non-gaming stuff, didn't have almost shovelware games, had more game announcements, had no celebrities unrelated to games (there were a few but to announce game related stuff or to host an award).

The average quality of the trailers was very good and there were a lot of big names announcing new games, including several industry icons returning after a long period.

 

[Lightbreak]

Yes, definitely. Exp 33 winning Indie game and Indie debut when the game costed like 20M and had hundreds of people working on it made me realize that the TGA are a joke

 

[yogaflame]

Maybe mid but not worse. But has the worse last game reveal ever, with a gaas crap

 

[Sethbacca]

Yes, definitely. Exp 33 winning Indie game and Indie debut when the game costed like 20M and had hundreds of people working on it made me realize that the TGA are a joke

This idea/attitude that a game needs to cost hundreds of millions to be worthwhile is exactly why the industry is in the state it is in. This mentality is exacerbating the issue in real time.

It's just like 15 years ago when the first thing everybody checked was game length and now we're all stuck with these bloated out checklist gameplay abominations and runaway budgets.

Edit : I think I misunderstood you initially. Are you saying you think they're too big to be an indie?

 

[Lightbreak]

This idea/attitude that a game needs to cost hundreds of millions to be worthwhile is exactly why the industry is in the state it is in. This mentality is exacerbating the issue in real time.

It's just like 15 years ago when the first thing everybody checked was game length and now we're all stuck with these bloated out checklist gameplay abominations and runaway budgets.

Edit : I think I misunderstood you initially. Are you saying you think they're too big to be an indie?

Yes. Is too expensive/had like 333 people working on it to be considered an indie.

 

[Sethbacca]

Ahhh gotcha. I mean on the one hand yeah that feels large, but by the metric of the larger publishers still miniscule in comparison. Maybe categorizing by team size instead of budget might be the better idea.