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Video Game Award Show Announced
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!"
It's "Lara", not "Laura".
But I guess that it doesn't matter, because the games blow.
...and all the prize-categories will be replicated for each region.
I suppose Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man were not invited, simply because they're out of favor with the "in" crowd. What a convenient way to overlook their innumerable contributions to video gaming over the years. I, frankly, am disgusted.
Most expanded Female chest in an Action Game
Largest amount of gore created from a shotgun blast
Largest gun
Largest impact on work productivity
Smallest number of patches before it would work properly
Smallest slip from proposed date to actual date
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There are already a ton of awards in the game industry as it is. They're all politically hacked back-scratching non-sense (to put it kindly) and this one won't be any different. Game geeks turned CEOs can be quite petty and vicious...
Government IS the problem.
It's CowboyNeal, not CowboyNeil...
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As winner of the "longest amount of overtime worked on wacky feature, removed two days after completion when the designer decided he doesn't want it after all" award, I'd like to say hello to my wife, family and dog who are all but a faint memory, and would like to know if I can use the MTV showers.
Why do I get the feeling this is just a cheap attempt to cash in on the industry? Of course, what else should I expect?
I would be curious to know if anyone has seen any more details about this even. I wonder if this whole thing is going to be arranged in collaboration with industry professional or if it is all going to be based on the opinions of a few random judges or something.
...as with all awards ceremonies, there'll have to be a Lifetime Achievement Award, which will probably go to Mario...
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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Do you really think this will be interesting? Why would anyone want to see never-before seen person like a producer of a game grab an award? Why you actually look at awards on the tv, is not because not the awards itself. It's because of the celebrities.
I demand the Cone of Silence!
I remember in the early 90s a so called "Video Game Awards Show" called something on the lines of 'Cybermania' that was shown on TBS one year. It was around 1993 or 1994. Im willing to bet that the TNN version would be pretty much the same thing, and probably will only come around once too.
No "Best Story" award?
*glitters*
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Of course the possibility of Duke Nukem Forever ever actually being released is pretty much nil. Indeed in a few years the possibility of it actually being released will go *Below* zero and soon we will have the memory of Duke Nukem Forever actually be erased from our minds and the collective consciousness of the geek community. Or something. I'm delirious time for bed.
...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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When I hear the Oscar nominees I typically try to see the movies I haven't heard much about. If I have heard of it already, chances are I've already made my mind up about it by seeing it or watching the trailers. Unlike a book, you can usually judge a movie by it's trailer.
Many times the Best Picture nominees are a lot better than the winner. Just look at 1997's group that lost to Titanic:
As Good As It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
Personally I don't think video games need an award show. There is so much gaming press on the Internet that good games rarely fall through the cracks.
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
I wonder if the Video Game Awards will produce anything worthy of inclusion on the Awards Show Awards? Is TV out of ideas or what?
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People kept mistaking DK for George W. Bush, and Pac Man went around eating everyone else's E.
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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?
There is a significant part of my mind that wishes I were 13 again, with nothing to do on a saturday except play video games all day.
Is it an inherent quality of getting older to feel that all of the coolest shit is marketed at people younger than you?
I would now like to pause my life for several years to read good books, watch good movies, and play all of the RPG's I haven't even heard of.
ARrrrrrr.
The typical game has a budget of 4-8 million US dollars, is designed by committee, and is created by 30-100 people working overtime for years. I know that fanboys think that there's a Designer With A Vision behind each game, and so on, but the reality is that marketing concerns override all else (games are marketed as toys) and there's no equivalent of the art film (meaning a movie created without bending to marketing concerns, even though it greatly lowers the odds of being successful).
why is this such a stereotype with programmers?
it's just because of this i've been trying to _get_ a gut for years, beer, cheetos the works - but nothing doing yet
and to top it all off, i have to have /. in the morning reminding me how much of a lesser coder i am with comments like these!
please stop this horrible stereotype, so us skinny geeks can finally stand up proud!!
No, you're thinking of Donkey DONG
One of the primary values of the awards shows for movies and music is that, for the most part, the people who are receiving awards are attractive, or at least interesting to look at. Somehow I don't think the show's going to appeal to much of an audience when the stage is populated by people who can barely survive in sunlight :).
Regardless, it's good to see the videogame industry being recognized for it's impact on the world in a positive way. Most of the time when it gets shown in the public light it's surrounded by phrases like, "graphic violence", and "think of the children".
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What a great game. :)
You know, I'd been saying to myself: When are we going to bow down before the voice talent?
Thank you, Hollywood - for teaching us how to love again.
I hope Aerosmith gets that long overdue award for 'Revolution X'. Ahh, the double-whammy of a videogame/hair-band crossover. Torgo would be proud.
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... for an awards show that focuses on the personalities and not the people who make it happen. That would be like awards for best movie that included no director awards.
Laura Croft is a fictional entity. It does not deserve an award. You do not give out awards to the character, you give them to the actor.
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This is stupid. Absolutely stupid.
I could care less how many Oscars a movie wins. I could care less how many Emmys a TV show wins.
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You know, maybe we don't want them to release "the big hairy mole on Doom guy's ass". Personally, I think my life would be a bit better knowing that a game called "the big hairy mole on Doom guy's ass" never made it out of the design stage. It would encourage me that there is some hope left.
Frankly, it should've happened a lot sooner- because there are a lot of great videogame pioneers who deserved more recognition than they got, including the geniuses at Infocom, Howard Scott Warsaw (despite the travesty that was E.T. for Atari...), ID and so on.
/. or The Onion, but the Webby Awards (recognizing "the best of the Web both in quality and quantity") is the most ridiculous and pointless awards ceremony of the last century.
And no offense to
If the Internet is, as is often claimed, one of the most important mediums of the last century (and perhaps even last 1000 years), doesn't it deserve a better body for the recognition of its best-and-brightest contributors than this? An awards ceremony created by a pretty actress cum filmmaker cum Good Morning America 'internet expert'?
(inserting obligatory karma-whore reply, "I dunno man- her body looks pretty good to me!")