-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Well, TGA 2020 is over, what would you rate it out of 10?
- Thread starter Deleted member 45617
- Start date
+Sephiroth
-Does not need to be three hours
-Should have more time dedicated to the developers. I would love to see mini profiles on the creators, especially those who made GotY nominated titles.
-Not the awards fault but jeez how many coop shooters do we need?
It was overall well produced, I know it must've been an incredible challenge to pull it off.
-Does not need to be three hours
-Should have more time dedicated to the developers. I would love to see mini profiles on the creators, especially those who made GotY nominated titles.
-Not the awards fault but jeez how many coop shooters do we need?
It was overall well produced, I know it must've been an incredible challenge to pull it off.
I'm a little stunned that the Mass Effect franchise has enough capital left to be worthy of a vague "one final announcement" trailer for something we already knew about.
Also, the show was much, much, much better without an audience. They weren't forced into as many cringeworthy gags.
Also, the show was much, much, much better without an audience. They weren't forced into as many cringeworthy gags.
6
No one cares about the awards.
Entertaining enough.
Some good trailers.
Filler moments that felt out of place.
No one cares about the awards.
Entertaining enough.
Some good trailers.
Filler moments that felt out of place.
Honestly I would give it a 6/10
Can't go wrong with Eddie Vedder.
But seriously, Perfect Dark, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Back 4 Blood, It Takes Two were good announcements, shame only one of those had actual gameplay. I also liked the new game being made by the folks from Black Desert, I think it's more single player focused? Yeah, that looked nice besides rough framerate.
Also some good additions like Flight Simulator Series X footage and Game Pass announcements, it was solid, not a killer show, but very good especially since we're living on a pandemic world.
It dragged too much tho, this could easily be a 1:40-2:00 hours show, and be a 7-8/10 but gotta put some AD on it I guess.
Can't go wrong with Eddie Vedder.
But seriously, Perfect Dark, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Back 4 Blood, It Takes Two were good announcements, shame only one of those had actual gameplay. I also liked the new game being made by the folks from Black Desert, I think it's more single player focused? Yeah, that looked nice besides rough framerate.
Also some good additions like Flight Simulator Series X footage and Game Pass announcements, it was solid, not a killer show, but very good especially since we're living on a pandemic world.
It dragged too much tho, this could easily be a 1:40-2:00 hours show, and be a 7-8/10 but gotta put some AD on it I guess.
1 for me. I only even remembered the game awards from that thread where Sony said to tune it so like Dewey, I came in expecting nothing and was still disappointed. The way they speed run through the awards and weird ass categories like best upcoming valorant player just reminded me why I don't really pay attention to TGA.
I turned it off around the Vin Diesel time, and was busy cooking/eating dinner much of the time before that so wasn't paying close attention.
Not an enjoyable show and the reveals that I saw were mostly weak (there are so many known 2021 games I would have rather seen).
Not an enjoyable show and the reveals that I saw were mostly weak (there are so many known 2021 games I would have rather seen).
I liked it, as usual. A lot of cool games shown, especially smaller titles, and I agree with most of the awards.
I loved, some announcements that I would never expect, some strange games that I would never think would be made
With the Academy Awards and the Grammys the nominees themselves are part of the overall product. There's entertainment value in seeing a celebrity you like or watching how they react to winning. Game development is highly collaborative and most developers are essentially faceless to the public. There are certainly some star programmers and project directors out there, but for the average gamer a game development team is as anonymous as the automotive team that works on the Honda Civic each year.
This is a bit of a ramble, but I think the game awards are trying to "televise" something that doesn't have much inherent entertainment value for those outside of the industry. Reminds me a bit of how the technical Oscars are given out at a separate event off camera. Most people find traditional celebrity award shows boring, so the game awards definitely has an uphill battle.
The world premieres are fun, but part of me thinks the commercialization cheapens things a bit. Like this is the only way a "serious" awards show in this industry can survive.
This is a bit of a ramble, but I think the game awards are trying to "televise" something that doesn't have much inherent entertainment value for those outside of the industry. Reminds me a bit of how the technical Oscars are given out at a separate event off camera. Most people find traditional celebrity award shows boring, so the game awards definitely has an uphill battle.
The world premieres are fun, but part of me thinks the commercialization cheapens things a bit. Like this is the only way a "serious" awards show in this industry can survive.
It bears acknowledging that those shows hire some of the industry's top writers to whip up entertaining banter and skits and are much more heavily produced in terms of pacing and flow from one presentation to the next.
Geoff literally just reading award after award with no fanfare or even images from the games that were nominated is amateur hour stuff. He might be good at getting companies to show their wares, but beyond that he's no great TV producer. The whole event felt clunky and arbitrarily assembled.
Yeah, this sticks out to me. How come they don't play a clip of the game when the say it's title? Weird.
It felt pretty hollow to me, like pretty much every event with most everyone on a webcam this year. I get why that is, but it just makes me think they should have cancelled it for the year. I'm sure next years event will be much better. The announcements were on the weaker side, but this year has sucked so no surprise there, not much Geoff can do about that. I'm sure next year will be an improvement.
-1.
Only thing missing for a full circle is the organizers demanding a standing ovation for the investors.
Only thing missing for a full circle is the organizers demanding a standing ovation for the investors.
Gorgeous
this is not a meme
this is a lifestyle
this is a tattoo
Bearing in mind they produced this remotely, during a pandemic - I think they did a terrific job.
It was great. I don't think every event needs a score.
It had great appearances and some neat games to show. Geoff clearly worked really hard on this.
It had great appearances and some neat games to show. Geoff clearly worked really hard on this.
I think it sucks that they blow through so many of the awards in the preshow or do a bunch of awards rapid fire. It's not like the reveals were that exciting this year.
I was actually really pleased. Overall the production was good, cringe was less of a factor, some great announcements.
7 and idk why. it didn't really have anything to hype me but I enjoyed the presentation. No chance for cringe moments cuz covid restrictions
8-10. For the first once that I actually watched, I enjoyed it. I usually skip it and just read about the announcements or watch reactions but it was fun watching it with a few friends on discord.
The announcements were pretty good in my book and I'm glad to see Perfect Dark reboot. Pretty much the winners are what I expected.
The one glaring issue however was Nintendo. They had absolutely nothing outside of the Smash reveal despite showing up plenty times in the show. There was a ton of times that Nintendo pops in and shows 30 seconds ads for shit we've already seen, like whats the point. Or the insultingly short Mario medley. Like what's the fucking point Nintendo. You don't have anything to show and your presence overall was extremely lackluster. Not saying Microsoft and Sony knocked it out of the park, but we at least got some new information from them on upcoming software.
The announcements were pretty good in my book and I'm glad to see Perfect Dark reboot. Pretty much the winners are what I expected.
The one glaring issue however was Nintendo. They had absolutely nothing outside of the Smash reveal despite showing up plenty times in the show. There was a ton of times that Nintendo pops in and shows 30 seconds ads for shit we've already seen, like whats the point. Or the insultingly short Mario medley. Like what's the fucking point Nintendo. You don't have anything to show and your presence overall was extremely lackluster. Not saying Microsoft and Sony knocked it out of the park, but we at least got some new information from them on upcoming software.
I had something entertaining to watch on a cold December night while eating some Chinese/10. Very nice viewing treat!
4/10. Some of the indie reveals were really cool and of course Sephiroth/Perfect Dark but when it comes to the awards I felt like some of the winners were either predictable or head-scratching. Like how on earth does Microsoft Flight Simulator win an award in a category where it's barely in the same genre as the rest? How did Doom Eternal not win a single award? And on top of that, I understand that TLOU2 won most of the categories it was in but a side effect of that was that it limited how many of the devs were given a direct platform to accept recognition for their games. I don't think anyone from Supergiant got to speak at all. I went into this thinking that I wouldn't care who won but with how I'm reacting to how little variety between studios there was in the awards given I guess I've proven myself wrong.
well, i never watch the tga, i just watch the trailers the day after. so its usually a cozy 5 or 6, and this year was no different
dont give 2 shits about the awards themselves, frankly.
dont give 2 shits about the awards themselves, frankly.
why not just announce the wooper watch at the beginning and let us know if it was updated to a wooper warning? careless.