This is the worst. The absolute worst. It's because of things like this show that people who enjoy games are still put into this insulting category of "Gamers." If we don't get past this image that Spike is perpetuating, Games will never be able to become anything more than a toy for immature 24 year-old males in the public eye. Please just stop, Spike. Please. I don't need dudes on a stage showing footage of robots and explosions and then shouting "HOW COOL WAS THAT?!" It's insulting.
I don't think I care too much about who wins, I just want to watch it 'cause for one, it's about games, and two, I want to see the new trailers and announcements (though I can just see them on the internet). I hated last years awards show, it was my first, and it should be my last because it isn't great, but like I said, I watch it for the announcements.
It's unfunny, I don't care about the rewards at all, the crowd is probably not composed of many people who care about what is even being shown and the augmented reality is crap. But those exclusives...
Gamers is a valid category because it describes people who do a thing.
But yeah, pretty bad. Who is this guy? He has, like, negative charisma.
Do you call people who watch movies "movie-ers?" What about people who watch tv? Or use the internet? Or read books? As a form of media becomes more ubiquitous, a specific category describpng people who consume it becomes increasingly irrelevant.
@Dtat: Yes. The terms are moviegoers, viewers, internet users, and readers. Reviewers in papers and magazines use those terms frequently.
The connotation is different and you know it. Those words are convenient terms to refer to a segment of the market. "Gamer" is used specifically to describe a person's lifestyle. There is an image of the "gamer" as being a 20 to 30 year old immature dude who spends his time shooting people on Xbox Live and going "OH SHIT!" when he sees explosions. That is the image that people picture when they use the word "gamer." There is no such stereotype of the "reader" or "moviegoer."
Not trying to be aggressive to you personally by the way. I just get really frustrated by a lot of the games press for perpetuating this stereotype.
This is the worst. The absolute worst. It's because of things like this show that people who enjoy games are still put into this insulting category of "Gamers." If we don't get past this image that Spike is perpetuating, Games will never be able to become anything more than a toy for immature 24 year-old males in the public eye. Please just stop, Spike. Please. I don't need dudes on a stage showing footage of robots and explosions and then shouting "HOW COOL WAS THAT?!" It's insulting.
The VGAa are pretty good and real fun, stop acting high and mighty, dudes.
There is nothing high and mighty about hating something as stupid, shallow and insulting as this show. If you like it that is cool. Don't shit on those who don't.
It's alright. God, had no idea that gaming award shows are such serious business. Leave it to gamers to always act as if they have pine cones up in their buttholes.
It's unfunny, I don't care about the rewards at all, the crowd is probably not composed of many people who care about what is even being shown and the augmented reality is crap. But those exclusives...
The VGAa are pretty good and real fun, stop acting high and mighty, dudes.
No one is acting high and mighty. The show is just stupid. There's only one reason worth tuning in; the trailers. But even those could easily be seen on Youtube.
The VGAa are pretty good and real fun, stop acting high and mighty, dudes.
There is nothing high and mighty about hating something as stupid, shallow and insulting as this show. If you like it that is cool. Don't shit on those who don't.
I'm shitting on those who gave me the impression that the VGA's was some horribly superficial show with a lot of smiling fake-sounding tools, ACTIVISION banners everywhere and big breasted babes all over the place.
Now that I'm watching it for the first time, it's pretty damn entertaining. Not even remotely as bad or insulting or awkward as us "real ass gamers" make it out to be.
It feels like they really tried but it's awful. It's not an award show, it's some kind of advertisement show with funny 30 second disneyland sketches in the middle
This is pretty terrible on all levels. Felicia Day paired with a Jonas brother is like crossing the streams, and Shigeru Miyamoto being on stage was the only time it briefly flirted with legitimacy.
This is the worst. The absolute worst. It's because of things like this show that people who enjoy games are still put into this insulting category of "Gamers." If we don't get past this image that Spike is perpetuating, Games will never be able to become anything more than a toy for immature 24 year-old males in the public eye. Please just stop, Spike. Please. I don't need dudes on a stage showing footage of robots and explosions and then shouting "HOW COOL WAS THAT?!" It's insulting.
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