2011 Spike Video Game Awards Will Award Video Games With Awards, Also Announce Things

The VGA's are pretty useless as an award show, but to be fair, so are pretty much every other awards show.

A lot of cool games get announced and shown at this thing, so I'm looking forward to it.

I just clicked this for Rising, guess I'll have to watch the VGAs.

Obviously, Nolan North should win best male voice actor.

Wasn´t that the show that use a bunch of fake jocks from a fake Jock Tv series to present an award for a videogame?...

So people can save some time...

You can just check GameTrailers.com after the VGA awards. All the announcement trailers are posted there. No need to watch D-List celebrities give awards to people they no nothing about.

I really think the VGA awards should have more Nominees,such as Skyrim for GOTY and GTA V for Most Anticipated.

It's still silly to put Zelda and skyrim in the mix when neither are released yet.

@Bucketdeth said:

It's still silly to put Zelda and skyrim in the mix when neither are released yet.

Buut...why? If they've been played by the people who are judging them, it makes complete sense. Also, by the time the actual show airs they will have all been released, so gamers will have played them too.

@ValiantGoat said:

Game of the Year is dominated by games from Q4, VGAs are a joke like all "award shows".

Most big games are released in the fourth quarter. In some years, such as last years Spike VGA's, RDR won, and was not a fourth quarter game. In 08, GTA won, and it was also not a fourth quarter release. However, lists for GOTY will often feature the biggest ones, most of which are released around the holiday system. This has nothing to do with awards shows but the economics of the retail environment.

Spike is the embodiment of hegemonic masculinity. And I can never find it inoffensive. Sigh.

I want Portal 2 to win so badly...

@GloriousDinosaur said:

@Aetheldod said:

No Dark Souls???? Bullshit

I was just looking for somebody to quote, but I'll add that it's my game of this gen.

Skyrim

I demand that Skylanders be nominated for best game.

I hope BioShock or Last Guardian win that category.

So these judges for GOTY played Skyrim and Skyward Sword? For how long? An hour? Did they beat those games and if not then how can they even be considered? Did Assassin's Creed: Revelations get submitted for GOTY by Ubisoft? What about Mario Kart 7 or Super Mario 3d Land?

Can any publisher submit their game for consideration or is it based on hype like seems to be the case for at least the two unreleased nominations? Dropping the "it was played by the judges line" doesn't cut it since it could have "been played" for 5 whole minutes. Who is to say, certainly not the judges at this time.

This whole cloud of suspicion and shady backroom deals could have been avoided by holding the awards show in early 2012 where every game in 2011 could have been given a fair shake. The show was, is and ever will be a joke to me until they try to go out of their way to at least act in a legitimate and fair manner.

Oh look, another shit quality award show, brought to you by the hurrr-duurrr derps at Spike TV!

Where the fuck's Deus Ex: Human Revolution ?!!

@Maelstrom: Considering that people are probbaly getting copies of Skyrim about now for reviewing purposes, I'd say it's pretty likely that an entire month will be long enough for them to play the games enough to figure that stuff out. You don't need to play all 300+ hours of content of Skyrim to make a decision on it.

Looking forward to awesome reveals and HILARIOUS awards. They have always been real good for a chuckle. Last year was actually kind of well produced and I was pretty happy with NPH's performance because I love the guy, which helped make the awards a bit more watchable in a sort of silly "what is going on here" kind of way, and a lot of the choices making no sense helped too.

@Andorski: Well no shit, of course they won't be kept for only live viewers. It won't take long for those videos to filter out throughout the rest of the industry either. But what about the excitement of watching live! I actually like watching for the reveals because it's like the E3 press conferences. There is no video title to ruin the surprise.

Assassins is shit then....?

A lot of cool games get announced and shown at this thing, so I'm looking forward to it.

Why does this need to exist? Oh wait, it doesn't.

My Alan Wake is still in the shrink wrap.  Guess I need to look into it.
Soon.

Where the fuck is The WItcher 2? Dark Souls? Gears of War 3?

Come on, man! This is nuts! A large amount of people who are uninformed on the game industry and going to see this shit, and they may get the wrong idea on what games we, as gamers, truly like other than those well-known games. Many know what indie films are, but do nongamers and news reporters know that there are indie game developers?

Where the fuck is The WItcher 2? Dark Souls? Gears of War 3?

Come on, man! This is nuts! A large amount of people who are uninformed on the game industry and going to see this shit, and they may get the wrong idea on what games we, as gamers, truly like other than those well-known games. Many know what indie films are, but do nongamers and news reporters know that there are indie game developers?

@BaneFireLord said:

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

Where the fuck is The WItcher 2? Dark Souls? Gears of War 3?

Come on, man! This is nuts! A large amount of people who are uninformed on the game industry and going to see this shit, and they may get the wrong idea on what games we, as gamers, truly like other than those well-known games. Many know what indie films are, but do nongamers and news reporters know that there are indie game developers?

I do like how you mention Gears of War 3 before talking about the under representation of indie developers. However, yes, I do agree with what you're saying. Just keep in mind that this is being shown on Spike, which tends to pander to a certain audience.

Yeah, I kinda did contradict myself by saying Gears of War 3, but it doesn't halt the fact that the game is, for some reason, not on their nominees.

I think the games industry is running low on surprise announcement material since almost every game has been getting a sequel.

I hope for another Skyrim like reveal,, only rather than monks, it will be a bunch of people in fat suits and Gabe Newell announcing Episode 3......of Left 4 Dead.

@BaneFireLord said:

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

Where the fuck is The WItcher 2? Dark Souls? Gears of War 3?

Come on, man! This is nuts! A large amount of people who are uninformed on the game industry and going to see this shit, and they may get the wrong idea on what games we, as gamers, truly like other than those well-known games. Many know what indie films are, but do nongamers and news reporters know that there are indie game developers?

I do like how you mention Gears of War 3 before talking about the under representation of indie developers. However, yes, I do agree with what you're saying. Just keep in mind that this is being shown on Spike, which tends to pander to a certain audience.

That last bit does have me wondering where MW3 is. If any game would appeal to the meathead Spike demo, that's the one.

@BaneFireLord said:

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

Where the fuck is The WItcher 2? Dark Souls? Gears of War 3?

Come on, man! This is nuts! A large amount of people who are uninformed on the game industry and going to see this shit, and they may get the wrong idea on what games we, as gamers, truly like other than those well-known games. Many know what indie films are, but do nongamers and news reporters know that there are indie game developers?

I do like how you mention Gears of War 3 before talking about the under representation of indie developers. However, yes, I do agree with what you're saying. Just keep in mind that this is being shown on Spike, which tends to pander to a certain audience.

That last bit does have me wondering where MW3 is. If any game would appeal to the meathead Spike demo, that's the one.

@fentonalpha said:

I hope for another Skyrim like reveal,, only rather than monks, it will be a bunch of people in fat suits and Gabe Newell announcing Episode 3......of Left 4 Dead.

Silly you, we know Valve can't count to three ...

Come for the trailers and reveals and not really for the dumb award show.

The award show for the last four people on earth who still watch live television.

When I see a title like that I know it's better not to read it.

@RPGeesus said:

I'm really surprised not to see Dead Space 2 there for GOTY. That game was pretty baller, in my books. Hopefully, the fact that it came out 9 or so months ago doesn't make it completely forgettable.

Thank you good sir! I was checking the comments if anyone mention it and you were the first. I thought everyone forgot about it.

new game looks like RAGE http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/11/07/new-bioware-franchise.aspx

I am still cringing from last years stupid Dane Cook "comedy" sketches

I'm still more excited for The Last Guardian than any other game save the inevitable 3D Pokemon.