Welcome back to my thoughts on the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards. Yesterday, I took a look at the trailers from the awards given at the show. So instead of wasting your time with a drawn out intro, let us get on with the second part of the rant so big it takes three parts.
The Awards
Awards?! What awards?! For an award show, the VGAs spent less than ten minutes on actual awards. What a slap in the face to us gamers and to all the developers, voice actors and others involved in these huge multi-men and women projects. Take it from me, making games are not easy. For Spike, Geoff Keighley and the other who wrote and produced this show to not make these awards the focal point of the show really shows how little these people care about the video game industry. Spike does this supposed award show to make them look hip and cool, but it makes them look as cheap and pathetic as they actually are. There are much better video game award shows out there. Spike should watch the Canadian Video Game Awards to see how to do a proper award show. Oh and I have not even gotten to few awards that they gave out on the show. Those awards were Action Adventure Game of the Year, Gaming Hall of Fame Award, Shooter of the Year, Gamer God Award, Character of the Year and Game of the Year. The others were either given out on the non-televised pre-show or in a little 2 minute segment that ran down all the award winners. Yes, most of the awards were given off-camera. Yet another slap in the face to the video game industry and the gaming community. Thanks Spike. The award winners were reasonable sort of. Arkham City won Action Adventure Game of the Year, Zelda was inducted into Spike's Video Game Hall of Fame, Modern Warfare 3 won Shooter of the Year (an act that simply encourages lazy game development in the industry), Blizzard won the Gamer God Award (wait, what did they release this year? Nothing!), Joker won Character of the Year and to nobodies surprise Skyrim won Game of the Year (rolls eyes).
I can bitch and complain about who should have won these awards all I want in the end these are the opinions of others and not in my control. But it makes me wonder who was on the panel that decided Modern Warfare 3, which is literally a copy and paste of Modern Warfare 2 with a new coat of paint (don't believe me, look at the code), should win Shooter of the Year. Out of all of my complaints, the one that is most prevalent is the lack of time Spike gave to the awards themselves. It does not help the credibility of your award show, let me say it again AWARD SHOW, when you focus your time on stupid random crap, which I will get to tomorrow, rather than honouring those who put their blood, sweat and tears into the games we play each and every day. What the VGAs proved to me that their blue monkey statues mean nothing in the video game industry and to gamers alike.
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