Dear Geoff Keighly, these should have been your presenters at the Game Awards

[Deleted member 51539]

Last time I heard about Mark Cerny was last year's DICE. I think he never left the building.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Because, like the Oscars, they're industry peers recognizing the work of other industry peers. The people who do the same work telling you your work is the best is one of the highest possible forms of validation and compliment in creative work. TGA is an important PR/marketing opportunity, but that's a very different kind of "matter." I should probably have said "meaningful" instead.

It's the difference between winning Best Actor at the Oscars and winning Best Actor at the MTV Movie Awards. Both are good things, but guess which one's going on the mantel?

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You put the Oscars on too high of a pedestal. And by the hyperbolic comparison to the MTV Movie Awards, you put The Game Awards on too low of one.

 

[The Last Laugh]

ethereal whispers in the distance

I aM aDaM sEsSlEr
AnD i Am MoRgAn WeBb
AnD yOu ArE wAtChInG xPlAy

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[Verelios]

Troy Baker is quite good looking.

On topic- That's a lot of people.

 

[DrScruffleton]

But nobody outside of the world of games knows who these people are and Jef needs famous people to get eyeballs and ad dollars for his big commercial

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I dont know who half these people are.

 

[Camjo-Z]

why do people keep expecting the game awards to become some high-class thing

just enjoy it for the amusing and enjoyably awkward mini-E3 it is

 

[Pyro]

Yeah the commercial aspect of TGAs has always been disappointing. I guess the DICE awards are the Oscars (the real ones) and TGAs are the Golden Globes/MTV awards?

 

[Budi]

Jordan Vogt-Roberts (don't think he makes games), I'll pass. Funny that they misspelled his name though. Mark Cerny, the creator of Knack has also presented on TGA:s.

It's hilarious how hurt some gamers get when someone doesn't share their excitement of the hobby. Or even worse, dare to poke fun at it openly mock it.

The problem is nobody really cares about the presenters to begin with. It doesn't really matter if Pitbull or Tim Schafer shows up presenting the award for Game of the Year. People tune into The Game Awards for the announcement trailers, not the awards themselves.

Not trying to downplay the huge amount of work Geoff does every year. It's just clear to me that people aren't interested in an award show.

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Well you're not entirely wrong. Hence TGA:s gathers interest from the gaming community while BAFTA:s, DICE Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards really don't.

 

[jml]

Greg Kasavin?? is that the guy with Gamespot?

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Yeah he's been working for Supergiant Games for a while now though. He's one of the main guys behind Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, etc.

 

[Akita One]

I kinda thought the Game Awards were like the golden globes for games (awards given out by press) and that Dice was analagous to the Oscars (awards given out by artists to artists i.e., an "academy").

So the difference in presenters kind of makes sense to me.

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Nice man, came in to post exactly this.