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Video Game Award Show Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hedgehogs-and-plumbers dept.

HorrorIsland writes "According to the Boston Globe, Video game industry gets TV award show. Of course, it sounds like the on-screen awards will focus on celebrities both real (Dennis Hopper), artifical (Laura Croft, perhaps), and in-between (Jenna Jameson)... so you can quit trying to hold in your gut, programmers!"

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  1. A hope by katalyst · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is great !!! Now, it may not be the market ALONE which judges the game... (as the same goes for movies). Actuall SKILL will now be appreciated. The possible areas for awards are amazing: -best action/adventure/blah blah -best gfx -best sfx -best soundtrack -best voice over -best gameplay -best MOD -best charecter male -best charecter female -best weapon (?) -best story line -best cutscenes/direction woha... i'm drooling here.
    Incedently, Lara Croft was the only woman who made it in the top 50 personalities.. listed by the Time Magazine a few yrs back.. (2000 I think).

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  2. Like Beavis and Butthead on MTV or... by wwwssabbsdotcom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...like the animated characters on Monsters for the Emmys was it? I think they should have Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid in here somewhere, but who knows what they'll do.

    Cool idea, I wonder other than Gamespy.com and GameSpot.com how are people voting on these?

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  3. First reality TV now this... by will_die · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So a TV channel looking for rating has decided they will create thier own awards show.
    You already have some of this with channels dedicated to a specific topic, but do we really want this with a general anything goes network?

  4. This will suck royally to watch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It will also mean jack shit.

    This is an awards show being produced FOR TV. Not for the developers. It's an excuse to get some lame Hollywood stars up on stage to say, "Wow, games are great, I didn't know you could do this kind of thing with computers. [Insert outdated Pac-Man joke here, pause for lau^H^H^Hcoughing.] I'd like to thank EA for letting me do the voice work for Stinkface McAss, because I've been stuck doing dinner theater in Tahoe after getting caught doing lines off so-and-so's wife's tits. Hi Mom!"

    Meanwhile, it's a given that pretty much no Japanese or European dev talent will be recognized. But for some reason I envision Microsoft already has a team working on sweeping these so-called awards with gaudy "extreme" non-games fewaturing an all-Scientologist voice cast extravaganza.

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  5. Dennis and Jenna are in GTA:Vice City by AgentTim3 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Dennis Hopper plays the porn director at the film studio, Jenna Jameson is Candy Suxxx.

    And don't forget Gary Busey, playing the gun-toting hard-drinking redneck Phil.

    What a great game. :)