Welcome to the third and final part of my thoughts on the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards. Usually I put up a music track for each Wednesday to help you get over the hump, but not this week considering how big this rant on the VGAs has become. For those looking for a piece of music, come back tomorrow and I will have the Hump Day Music post then, which means I have pushed back On the Download to Friday. Enough of my little tangent. For the last two days, I have looked at the trailers and the awards at the VGAs. Today for my final rant, I will be talking about all the crap that took place on this show that I like to call the nonsense. So let's begin.
The Nonsense
Considering less than 10 minutes was spent on the awards, Spike spent the rest of this two hour show on trailers and all the other stupid crap. Honestly a good 30 to 45 minutes could have been cut from this show. Spike spent too much time on stupid skits that had no purpose on this show. Yes, other award shows have skits to keep the audience in the crowd and at home entertained, but that is what they usually are entertaining. All the skits from Felicia Day's charity contests to the tea-bagging segment to the Black Baron crap did not need to be on this show. They sucked up all the time from what should have been the focal point from the start and I will emphasize this Spike, the AWARDS. They even spent good five to ten minute chucks looking at each Game of the Year and showing off remixed E3 trailers for those games. Something that should have been relegated to the pre-show as the purpose of the pre-show is to hype the actual show. Funny how generic rock back number 171, also known as the Black Keys, was the musical performance for the night while Deadmau5 was relegated to nothing more then provide music just before and after commercials (what a crappy gig). Considering that the VGAs are a video game award show shouldn't the obvious choice have been to actually have video game music be it performed by Deadmau5 or somebody else possibly Video Games Live as the main musical performance than random rock music that has nothing to do with video games. Guess that one went over the heads of Geoff Keighley and the Spike execs like most things video game related do.
Overall, the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards were less of an award show and more of a two hour commercial. Zachary Levi made due with what he was given and was much better than Neil Patrick Harris (it hurts even saying it). All the celebrities up presenting trailers or awards felt they were promoting a show on Spike such as Hulk Hogan clearly wearing an Impact Wrestling shirt or some other product like a movie or video game. If Spike wants to get some credibility, first thing you need to get rid are the celebrities and have actual game designers or other game personalities such as Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, Warren Spector or Tommy Tallarico present the awards and introduce the trailers. Make this show for the gamers by the gamers instead of two hour crapfest thought up in the minds of people who certainly do not know anything about video games and the gaming community. Spike show some damn respect to this industry people pour their lives and money into instead of making a mockery of it. The 2011 VGAs were better than last year, but that is like comparing horse manure to human feces. It's still shit.
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