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[Icyflamez96]

 

[Calvero]

Seems a little salty. Sterling's been retweeting five year old tweets from Geoff today as well which is really kinda weird.

really?

 

[tearsintherain]

Decent show, I preferred last years though. Too much indie love this year for the main awards. I could watch an hour of Chris Roberts and Mark Hamill goofing around, deadmau5 should have taken his head off and Mark Hamill underneath.

 

[neogaffer1]

It was amazingly Muse-style perfect in the room so I'm surprised.

it was reeeaaaally bad over the livestream. as someone who loves chvrches.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Yeah. Definitely ended on a flat note compared to last year.

last year was such a surprise, I feel people set the bar a little too high for a jump in content/announcements.

although music last year was better

Overall I liked it, I would rather have a constant improvement than just dump it, I feel like there is a place for an award show like this, even if part of it is going to be marketing.

I mean, we've come a good ways from having someone be t-bagged on live TV.

 

[sinxtanx]

it's like when you walk down the stairs and your leg thinks there's another step and your balance gets weird for a moment

 

[Parapraxis]

It was amazingly Muse-style perfect in the room so I'm surprised.

It was a great live performance. People are crazy.

 

[EnlightenedMint]

I thought Jade's joke was pretty damn funny, don't know what happened with the award though.

 

[James93]

So what happened with Jade Raymond?

She was hammered

 

[John Rabbit]

Viva Seifert/Sam Barlowe/Her Story was totally deserving of both awards. really glad they won.

Bloodborne losing Best Art Direction is some insanity, though.

really awkward seeing all those empty seats behind Geoff and on the wide shot. surely they could've conned enough people in the greater L.A. area to attend? i'd make the trek from Phoenix if the tickets were cheap enough. Deadmau5 continuing to do what he does best; which is give zero fucks and do whatever he wants.

 

[Kinyou]

lol

 

[Herne]

I did like the "Westwood was acquired by EA" bit at the very end of the presentation. That and nothing more, because fuck EA.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

I think Mark Hamill is gonna stop coming to these shows. I feel he always ends up annoyed at these. The last time he went to a show, was because of Arkham City and he complained at the terrible attention he and Tara Strong got, and his expression here was just telling hahaha.

 

[Ambition]

Gamers

I hate that word

 

[...Scatter...]

I feel sort of vindicated for being one of the few not completely obsessed with Bloodborne. I gave it a good 10 hours or so. Maybe I'll go back sometime.

Spoiler

I stopped after it inexplicably warped me into some jail cell with one hit deaths.

 

[ChaosXVI]

Definitely a solid show...but damn what a rough ending...why would you hype up a musical act like that?

Was totally worth watching for the Psychonauts 2 megaton. Still, I kind of expected Nintendo to actually show something, but I fully understand when they don't really have anything to show.

 

[psynergylover]

That ending.

lol crowd was not impressed

 

[Hupsel]

Jim Sterling was just an ass on Twitter... then said he didnt even watch the show and will "wait for commercials". Just... go back to analyze 2 minute Steam greenlight trailers.

 

[munchie64]

Jim didn't even watch the show, he's just joking guys lol

 

[Crossing Eden]

Best shooter was Jade Raymond with those shots fired at Kiefer Sutherland.

Lmfao.

 

[trixx]

I kinda want that deadmouse super Metroid mix...

what happened to shooter of the year lool

 

[Karak]

I'm confused. Why's he doing that?

Its been straight up weird for awhile now. Like a loss of relevance thing or something.

 

[Intheflorsh]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Almost as cheap as Jade Raymond's shot, and I say that as a Sterling fan.

 

[Shenmue]

Great show Geoff. This made for a nice leadup to PSX this weekend!

 

[FluxWaveZ]

The show wasn't offensively bad. Perhaps boring if you had big expectations for it, but this is meant to be an awards show. In that respect, it is doing a good job of it. Go watch some of what the VGAs were for perspective if you think this is terrible.

Seems a little salty. Sterling's been retweeting five year old tweets from Geoff today as well which is really kinda weird.

That does sound weird.

Almost as cheap as Jade Raymond's shot, and I say that as a Sterling fan.

At least Jade's was clever and actually funny because of the delivery.

 

[Mahonay]

Tribute to Iwata, Westwood getting some god damn recognition, Geoff's massive middle finger to Konami, drunk Jade, ended with an absolutely nothing set from Deadmau5. The show was...interesting. At least Psychonauts 2 is a thing for real.

 

[foxtrot3d]

Droppin' lethal Ether.

 

[Akara]

I'm SOOOOO glad i wasted two hours watching a shitty version of last years show.
Bloodborne or MGSV should have been GOTY, not Dragon Age Inquisition #2
Garbage premiers
Garbage deadmouse ending
No kojima

Nahh Witcher 3 winning was fine. BB getting snubbed though, welcome the new leonardo dicaprio.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I muted all the music segments, but a chance at Psychonauts 2 (Though 3.3 Million is a number...) and them actually choosing the correct game for GOTY made this awards show more than I expected.

Decent show.

 

[Swass]

I enjoyed the show, and I'm glad Witcher won best dev and goty for not trying to rip gamers off and their above and beyond support of the game post release!

 

[schlynch]

Someone stole all of Life is Strange awards, we got a picture of the suspect

but to be honest... looking at LiS they probably stole dotnods only decent writer too.

 

[Mark5130]

There is no way that Jade's Keifer burn was scripted, right? She must have ad libbed that.

 

[mephixto]

I'm SOOOOO glad i wasted two hours watching a shitty version of last years show.
Bloodborne or MGSV should have been GOTY, not Dragon Age Inquisition #2
Garbage premiers
Garbage deadmouse ending
No kojima

Ye, too bad that Dark Souls: Yharnam didn't won,

 

[Styles]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

RUTHLESS.

 

[QuantumSquid]

Really enjoyed the show, hated a large number of the comments in this thread.

This is how I feel. What were people expecting? It's a 2 hour show, there's awards, some music, and a bunch of neat guest appearances. Yes the ads detracted a bit but without them it probably wouldn't have happened at all.

Ending did suck though, I will say that.

 

[Azelover]

Nintendo apparently saving everything for E3 for the NX reveal.

Hopefully they won't unveil the NX at E3. It's the kiss of death.

Almost all the consoles that were introduced at E3 performed terribly. Beginning with the Dreamcast and most recently the Wii U.

 

[entremet]

Absolutely not. As long as Keighley is in charge of these things, it's always going to be the same thing. He's the common denominator here, every year.
It's a really shitty awards show. The BAFTA's Game awards puts it to unbelievable shame.

BAFTAs would be too dry and boring for streaming crowd honestly.

 

[zma1013]

People complaining about adverts don't seem to live in the real world.

These shows don't pay for themselves.

For sure shows live and die by the advert, but the ratio of adverts-to-content here is strongly in favor of the adverts. They need to work out a way to have less of them at some point in the future.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Yeah, I mean Xbox practically won every single category.

What....?

 

[RPGCrazied]

How was he frustrating them? I thought it was awesome, maybe he is being sarcastic.

 

[ryseing]

Who is Jade?

Former head honcho of Ubi Montreal, works for EA now.

She was wasted AF presenting tonight.

 

[Plywood]

I just want to relive that Jade Raymond moment. I hope someone posts it up on youtube.

I got you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBx2BTYs6h8&feature=youtu.be

 

[Aaronrules380]

Did he actually say that???

I mean, I heard he did but I want to see a quote because people online all the time put words in peoples' mouths/misrepresent what they actually said.

If he did, poor poor form.

He said it on a periscope broadcast

 

[chubigans]

Absolutely not. As long as Keighley is in charge of these things, it's always going to be the same thing. He's the common denominator here, every year.
It's a really shitty awards show. The BAFTA's Game awards puts it to unbelievable shame.

You are absolutely nuts.

 

[NotLiquid]

Keepin' it real

 

[dreamghost]

The Game Awards, sponsored by, among many other brands, Xbox, presented at the Microsoft theater in LA.
Did you really expect a PlayStation first party exclusive to be awarded?

Hell, with the amount of Star Wars Battelfront shilling going on, I'm surprised they didn't give that game at least 3 awards.

Goes without saying, though, it was worth watching for all the middle fingers pointed at Konami. #FuckKonami

Yeah only if there was HD Remaster of the year award I'm sure PlayStation would of walked away with the award. ;x

 

[Eppy Thatcher]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

JIM!! You got me laughin bad right now!! LOLOL

 

[Mahonay]

There is no way that Jade's Keifer burn was scripted, right? She must have ad libbed that.

Definitely added since she didn't appear to be sober.

 

[V-Faction]

I think Mark Hamill is gonna stop coming to these shows. I feel he always ends up annoyed at these. The last time he went to a show, was because of Arkham City and he complained at the terrible attention he and Tara Strong got, and his expression here was just telling hahaha.

He's put on there to fill pat out the list and attract viewers with his stardom. It's a pretty shitty thing to do.

 

[Jebusman]

Well so far he's done it at TI5 and now TGA, what's next?

Which E3 conference is going to have a Deadmau5 performance.