So the weekend went by and the 6 annual VGA’S went on the air. After all these years I figured by now the VGA’S would have figured itself out by now, create an identity and just roll with it. And yes it has, for better or worse it has. The identity it has is some weird hybrid of celebrities and video games. Now, for whatever reason, it has worked for them. I guess it’s tailored to the young adolescent teenage males that think video games are the be all and end all of everything, which is fine. VGA’S too me are nothing more then a big advertisement for both celebrities and video games.

One of the best things about the VGA’S is the whole aspect of the exclusive trailers. I still remember to this day seeing the Godfather trailer as that big mafia guy was talking about stuff from the movie. Huge WTF moments ran through my mind as that trailer faded to black with the God Father logo making its way at the end. But now, all trailers don’t seem to have that certain umph that God Father had. Sure, that trailer didn’t show game play but that wasn’t the point. The point was to say “Hey look how good he looks” and be interested in it from then on.  But all these other trailers don’t have that umph. Most that are shown are too early in development to really peak an interest. Plus, God Father itself is far too popular for people not to take notice. Beyond that, there really hasn’t been a trailer aired on the VGA’S   haven’t really spread word of mouth. Most are just very early teaser trailers that don’t really show anything of interest.

The awards, again for some reason just doesn’t seem relevant in this show. Yeah, you see winners and an exception speech but there really wasn’t much emphasis on them. A lot of the time, more hype came around with the celebrities as they were presenting a trailer to the audience. I won’t go into the screw up that happened but it did so hahahaha. But going back to the awards, I was very VERY fearful when Will Wright came out to receive his “Gamer God Award”, I thought he would run the clock and eventually get a signal to rap it up. Fortunately, that didn’t happen but I feel like he purposely went short on his speech. Most of the awards given out were typical nothing really worth mentioning. Again, though they had that huge montage of winners for almost half of the actual awards. Which is just plain stupid, you call yourself an award show and montage half of the awards given out?

The music was horrible. Last year they brought in Video Games Live which I just thought was a fantastic idea. And then they go back and revert to what it was before. I’m sure by now everyone’s heard the Ludacris ‘ video game rap song and really, they dropped the ball. No song was related to a video game in anyway, I’m not sure why 50 Cent was there, I’m not aware if he’s trying to promote his Album or he has a new one coming. It was interesting for it to end with Weezer as they never really preformed for such a time. Aside from that it was very generic musical showcase.