VGX: Takin it to the VGX-treme!

Well, that is one way to sum up the only Lars Von Trier film I've seen.

But if others have anarchist talking foxes in them I might have to check them out...

Nailed it!

@truthtellah: Saw those and they were worthwhile, I actually meant were there any good ones of Geoff and Joel that may or may not be cringe worthy.

@scampbell Thanks! :D

Ah. hm... Well, that was one of the ones that was more amusing to me than it hurt me to watch. If you just want some terrible back and forths between them, I'd recommend watching the first hour and a half of the full stream I linked to on the first page. Though, if you want videos that will be amusing but not make you question your humanity and sense of place in the universe, that clip is about it.

I wish you could give me the cliffnotes for all my TV @truthtellah. So much better than watching the real thing.

that was glorious.

You just wrote VGX fanfiction.

Congrats.

P.S. This is incredible.

@robothamster: @markwahlberg Okay, this collection of clips is worth watching. Everyone reading this post should do themselves a favor and watch them.

I think some people believe I was making up certain parts of this, but if you watch these clips, it reveals that most of what I wrote was all too real.

(Watch them before Viacom takes down yet another video. They seem to be trying to scrub out the fact that VGX happened.)

@truthtellah: My god, I'm happy I got to see these awkward highlights, but I'm even happier I spent Saturday night watching college football over this!

Joel was so drunk! I'm glad I read this blog too, sounds more entertaining than this show.

@truthtellah: Wow those highlights are incredible. This might be the only way to turn the VGBULLSHIT game commercial extravaganza into something watchable.

heh. I was not kidding. He was wearing layer after layer. Though, I think we was actually wearing a light jacket along with the leather jacket. Which just blows my mind considering how hot studio lighting usually is, especially for three hours.

I did give my theory in the post, but who knows!

Huh, only once...

Yeah... I guess I dropped the ball a bit on that. I thought for sure there were at least three masturbation worthy points...

I mean, what else is this all for, if not that?

@truthtellah:

I dropped my balls all over your post.

Where I'm going, I won't need eyes to see.

Wait, there was a talking fox in Melancholia?!

Well.

That got weird fast.

Thanks for this amazing recap. Now I guess I'm leaving videogames.

Nice read. I caught most of the stream with a friend (pretty fun thing to watch if you have someone watching with you to talk with, especially the "what the fuck is going on" moments) and some of the reveal trailers / gameplay videos were cool.

Joel seemed to get better later on and as he went off script, but then again that's basically how every guest host does, seemingly, during all large gaming events (like the E3 conferences, the scripts always seem terrible when they go for comedy).

And I really, really fucking hope No Man's Sky turns out awesome.

@demmetje: It's going to be okay. We can rebuild them. Videogames shall survive.

@fattony12000 haha. I'm glad you liked that line. I really appreciate when people mention specific things, as it helps me improve. :)

And you will forever be in my quote. ♥

@capum15 I honestly wouldn't have survived it without the Giant Bomb chat. It gave me strength and fed my spirit. I opened up my heart and just let Giant Bomb in.

This is incredible, I doff my cap to you @truthtellah, you have truly excelled in showing us this hell. The Antichrist reference just topped it off perfectly.

@marino gotta put truthtellah in the community spotlight buddy, man got good "flow"

@gatehouse VGX isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

@mrfluke Thanks, duder! You are the flow beneath my wings.

I'm glad I missed the VGX, because this seems so much better. It was a vision to read.

This was by far more entertaining to read then it was to watch the show itself!

I didn't watch the vgx' but I damn near died reading this, well done sir, this is a masterpiece of surrealism and nonsense I genuinely love it. Having not watched the show and reading this took me to another shard of reality.

Nope. From what I gather the talking fox is from Antichrist.

excellent op, i applaud you

this is an incredible achievement.

Oh, I'd heard just enough to know you were riffing on the actual events, I just... well, now we're overexplaining the joke. Well done all the same.

@truthtellah: Thank you this was exactly what I was looking for, and now I don't know how I feel...

@claude@tennmuerti@spookytapes Why thank you. It was my pleasure to sacrifice myself for everyone's entertainment. :)

@primalhorse The terrifying fact is that this twisted shard of reality is actually about 80% accurate to what really happened. That it is at all surreal is merely to help myself and others accept what happened to us when we watched it.

@stonepawfox Your applause is appreciated. Though, it reminds me of all of the moments in VGX where there was no applause, as they had failed to provide any audience for most of the show. It was a bit like watching a CBS sitcom without a laugh track.

@robothamster It has been over a day since the Event, and I also don't know how to feel. Am I better? Am I worse? Why do good people die young? Why must some flourish while others go hungry? Why did Japan escalate the war in the Pacific instead of doubling down in East Asia? Why did GameTrailers do this? Why VGX?

Maybe I'm simply not Xtreme enough to reconcile it all in my mind just yet.

in painful news, the show was a success according to Viacom who's been producing this for over 10 years.

Let that sink in for a bit.

...

Well, I guess we can only hope they attempt to either reign it in to something far tighter or take it to an even further extreme.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. Sweetest in the gale is heard and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm.

I've hear it in the chillest land and on the strangest sea, yet, never in extremity, it asked a crumb of me.

In a mad world, all we have is hope.

Haha, yeah I would have tuned out everything but the announcements and gameplay videos if there wasn't someone else to laugh with.

It's a really weird drastic change from "giant stage celebration" to "upscale looking bar thing".

I would have watched through the GB chat but the stream was lagging weirdly through that, but fine when watching via steam. I was playing Starbound though, but still.

But man, No Man's Sky best be good.

@truthtellah: well the biggest problem is there is no competition and it's funded by Viacom which isa massive cable company. Second half is, they didn't air it on basic cable tv, and then realized "WAIT? THERE'S MORE PEOPLE ON WEB THEN ON TV?" Which is like when industry claimed High School Musical as a success and it's like 2 million viewers. It's like watching thickies trying to learn how to open a door for 3 hours.

The only hope is we get more announcements on next year's show.... I just don't think that the whole talking format works considering how awkward it is if they replace Joel McHale and someone like Aisha Tyler who is also going to say something "GIRL WOOD" and then have everyone look uncomfortable when she says it.

It'd be interesting if they had web site reviews editors come into a thunder dome style debate with switchblades and battle it out over Bioshock Infinite vs GTA5. But like no one cared at all over the awards, just wanted to see announcements.

But yeah, who else has enough money to make another show to rival this? That's the real question. Giantbomb has CBS money, but even then they wouldn't make anything that ridiculous, maybe collab with Gamespot into something like when they had that big Gamers event in 2005.

I only caught hour 2, and oh my god how terrible it was.

Joel Mc.Hale just seemed to want to conduct the most awkward, uncomfortable interviews possible and was constantly condescending and rude to everybody. One of the few people they could have picked which actually made Geoff Keighley likeable, as it was clear he was just trying to do his job and get the show moving in the right direction.


When they brought PewDiePie out I broke down and shut the show off

@crithon: I feel like only Polygon has the kind of money that could possibly have its own show like that.

Though, man, a highly-produced and widely-broadcasted Polygon awards show... I'm not sure the gaming community could take that.

I kind of want to see it happen.

@truthtellah: I was honestly surprised the streaming quality of twitch of the entire event. I do not understand how twitch is used for Starcraft, Dota2 or League of Leagends since it looks all blurry impossible to read. So yeah, a lot of money was spent on there..... we are totally screwed and this is our future.

Geoff's dead on the inside.

Joel was the only reason I could sit through this trainwreck. I'm glad he was there to dump all over this shit-tastically made, 3hr long video game commercial aimed at the dudebro crowd. I hope Dorito Pope never tries to do something this stupid again.

Xtremer.

@truthtellah Only a literary Genius can write such a masterpiece of such a shitshow Bravo bravo.

@crithon I didn't actually have any issues with the Twitch stream. Though, Twitch is known for varying widely by region.

@fapathy For the first hour, I was more bothered by his presence, as he was just making fun of gamers and disrespecting devs, but once he turned his focus on mainly mocking how absurd everything was and actually seemed to feel for those devs that had to be a part of it, he absolutely rescued the show. His "... Holy crap." after part of the show just summed it all up.

@donutfever Xtremest, to the max, brotowski.

@soulcake I gladly Accept your uniquely Capitalized praise, good sir.

@truthtellah: Well thanks for the post. Really well done! Though, I'm glad I watched football as opposed to this.

• Any feelings of hope are quickly dashed aside as Rooster Teeth remind everyone that they are still alive, but honestly... how alive are they really?

I don't know, remember Extra Life? When RT raised more than anyone else? And like tripled our total?

heh. I was mainly just making a joke, but yeah, they still hold plenty of clout. I'm glad they helped raise so much for Extra Life this year. That fundraiser has been a great thing. :)

Hey, I understand, bro. Though, football is just one night. VGX is forever.

@truthtellah said:

It was a great write-up in general. I imagine it's the kind of thing Alex Navarro would write if he never wanted to get invited to anything again, and that RT sketch was just as terrible as the rest of it. Here's what I woulda wrote:

"Rooster Teeth shows up in black to mourn the death of their comedic ability."

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.