There are awards shows for absolutely everything nowadays from films to wrestling. The fact that these shows are usually two hours of boring television with only a handful of decent to good moments does not make them that appealing. Let us look to Spike TV. The only television network that tries so very hard to appeal the adult male demographic, but fails at every chance they take. Why would anybody want to watch a television network that has about 1001 generic car shows, a wrestling show that has seen better days and more rip-offs than you can count?
In a desperate attempt to capture the male demographic back in 2003, Spike TV brought us the Video Game Awards. An award show that year after year has done much more to damage the reputation of the video game industry than help it. Honestly my brother and I could not get through the first hour of last years' VGAs because it was so downright horrible and Neil Patrick Harris was the host. Spike TV hopes to change things around this year with a huge amount of exclusive premieres and trailers and with host Zachary Levi. As a huge fan of the show Chuck, where Levi plays the main character, I really want to see if Zach Levi can pull off what the great Neil Patrick Harris could not, an enjoyable show. There are a lot of premieres set for the VGAs this year. A new game from Bioware, a new game from Epic and the Sony project that will supposedly blow us away will be revealed and new trailers for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Mass Effect 3, Metal Gear Rising, the Amazing Spider-Man, Rainbow 6: Patriots and more will be shown. There will also be a special musical performance from deadmau5. Now let us talk about the awards. Apart from the actual awards probably looking nothing even related to video games, Geoff Keighley and others on the VGA panel did a good job picking the nominees this year. There have been quite a few times where I questioned why the hell they nominated a certain thing such as the voice acting from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game for an award. As much as I would love the awards not to all fall into the big blockbusters (they deserve some, but not all), the realist side of me says that there will be a whole lot of love for Skyrim. Personally, I would love Skyward Sword take home Game of the Year, but that will not happen sadly. To prove my point, just watch the episode of the Bound Round which was suppose to highlight Skyward Sword as a Game of the Year nominee. In short, it did not.
It will be interesting to see if Spike TV can finally pull off an award that does not make you want to immediately change the channel. We will just have to tune in tomorrow night at 8 on Spike to see for ourselves. Also before I leave you tonight, due to all the announcements at the VGAs I will be posting this week's Bit by Bit on Sunday instead of Saturday. So have a good night and I hope you enjoy.
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