well that wasn't as big as a train wreck as everyone thought

@PeasantAbuse said:

@TheHT said:

did she just gabe's names wrong? coulda sworn she called him gary.

Didn't she correct herself?

edit: They should have let Gabe talk a bit...

she most certainly did.

and hell yeah, walking dead. episodic adventure game and game of the year..

Huge improvement over last year

Thank you backstage stream

• South Park: Stick of Truth
• Last of Us + release date (May 7, 2013)
• Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2
• Phantom Pain Solid
• Dark Souls II
• Ass Creed 3: Tyranny of King Washington
• Gears of War Judgement
• Tomb Raider
• Halo 4 Spartan Ops
• Bioshock Infinite (Gameplay)

And that's a wrap.

Congrats to The Walking Dead. But Journey is my game of the year. I hope it's brought up in conversation or at least makes it way onto top 10 lists from the staff this year.

VGA's seem to have listened to a lot of the criticisms of last year's show. or get better judges or something.... no, it must just be better judges.. the show itself is still terrible.

@Colourful_Hippie: stream has 4td now in effect

I don't agree with the choice, but hey, it's unusual for the VGAs. There were games far less deserving that I would have pegged as shoe-ins to win this.

that pheonix looks rather phallic to me

Is the pheonix in the background meant to look like a dick?

@dOm_CaTz said:

@Colourful_Hippie: stream has 4td now in effect

dat pixelation

This show was great. Watching the backstage stream during commercials probably made it all better, but the show itself was still way better than it's been before (a low bar, no doubt).

Alright VGA's. You did pretty good this year. Well done.

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@Clonedzero: @face15: It's supposed to look like a dick. It is Tenacious D, remember.

For what it was it wasn't bad. I liked the reveals.
 
Now if you all will excuse me, I have this strange compelling need to go view that movie starring Tom Cruise.

This is at least closer to what the SPIKE VGAs should be like...not perfect...but better than years past for pacing and interest.

Guys, I didn't facepalm once!
 
It was a well done show and I even enjoyed it.  Huge, huge step up from last year (although most of the premieres were just games we knew about).

Half Life 2 for Game of the Decade is still my highlight in terms of awards and Dark Souls 2 for reveals. Can't wait to hear more about Dark Souls 2 (hopefully even an E3 gameplay reveal). Very curious on the console platforms FromSoftware is aiming for.

@face15 said:

Is the pheonix in the background meant to look like a dick?

Yes

Guys, what the fuck is going on with the phantom pain?

@TaliciaDragonsong: I know right? He just seems like the kind of down to earth movie star that people like me can relate too.

Also ya, the show was better this year. XCOM is still my GOTY but it is awesome that Walking Dead won.

so what did I miss? what won what?

With the new consoles around the corner, it's not really a surprise that there weren't many "big" reveals. I think overall, 2013 is going to be a pretty muted year for big game releases, as all the usual suspects ramp up for the next generation of consoles.

It didn't make me cringe like years past, but I was several underwhelmed by everything they showed off. Also, going out on Tenacious D and a giant bird that looks like a dick doesn't exactly scream video games to me.

Also, fuck Half-Life 2. Seriously.

@Mrsignerman44 said:

Guys, what the fuck is going on with the phantom pain?

It's MGS

The show was much better than last year. Glad to see Half-Life 2 win the Game of the Decade award as well as The Walking Dead winning game of the year.

I liked that much more than last year. Nice that The Walking Dead won.

@Dourin said:

With the new consoles around the corner, it's not really a surprise that there weren't many "big" reveals. I think overall, 2013 is going to be a pretty muted year for big game releases, as all the usual suspects ramp up for the next generation of consoles.

I wouldn't say it will be muted. I'm just expecting that a lot of big announcements have been held back for E3 cuz that's when the next-gen hype train will get a rolling.

Yep, as many others, I'm surprised with this year's VGAs. Was pretty good, actually.

Hopefully the show continues to get better as years go on. This was a big step up from last years shitfest.

@Colourful_Hippie: I mean muted in terms of actual releases. We're not going to have a year of back to back stellar releases like we've had the past few. The 2013 summer drought is probably going to be the worst one in a long time. All the big devs are moving on to the new hardware. E3 will be nuts, as we'll get console announcements, as well as a slew of next-gen games being shown off or teased, but as for actual releases for the year? Don't expect a ton.

Great show! No dumb teabagging or anything this year. Congrats to Telltale and The Walking Dead for the GOTY Award!

Actually a decent show other than not acknowledging Far Cry's existence.

So that was actually not as terrible as expected. There were a few parts that fell flat (Sam Jackson just using quotes from his movies while in games, being bombarded with NERDS) but it wasn't as bad as last year.

@Milkman: That hat just made me feel ill

Great show, Sam Jackson killed it and the announcements were actually worth noting this year. Zachary Levi should pick his nose with a shotgun though, ugh was he just a plague on the show.

The awards show that some of you people are wanting will never happen as long as it has to be aired on television. We've been over this already you guys. Backstage stream has been a good compromise so far and I can see it improving.

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Brilliant

Wasn't there supposed to be something about a classic game ?

Anyone care to recap the announcements/trailers?

I was shocked at how decent this year's show actually was. Games that deserved recognition actually got it, there were some great announcements, and Sam Jackson is the best possible host a show like this could have.
 
 @Mrsignerman44 said:

 Zachary Levi should pick his nose with a shotgun though, ugh was he just a plague on the show.

@SirPsychoSexy said:

Actually a decent show other than not acknowledging Far Cry's existence.

FC3 came out after the VGA deadline which sucks> it could have one some awards, it's definitely a contender for character of the year.

Dude. So going with that Phantom Pain guy being another Snake clone, maybe all the hallucinations are side effects of being a direct clone (rather than one that's born and raised a la Solid and Liquid), so all of Big Boss' memories and whatnot are completely fucking with this clones sense of reality, all the while actual dudes are coming to kill the clone of the greatest soldier what ever existed.

@devilzrule27 said:

Wasn't there supposed to be something about a classic game ?

Yeah I remember a tweet about a classic game being revived or something. Kind of thinking they are talking about Castlevania now.

@TheHT said:

Dude. So going with that Phantom Pain guy being another Snake clone, maybe all the hallucinations are side effects of being a direct clone (rather than one that's born and raised a la Solid and Liquid), so all of Big Boss' memories and whatnot are completely fucking with this clones sense of reality, all the while actual dudes are coming to kill the clone of the greatest soldier what ever existed.

Flying fire whale and fire pegasus can be explained away by nanomachines right?

@Zella said:

@devilzrule27 said:

Wasn't there supposed to be something about a classic game ?

Yeah I remember a tweet about a classic game being revived or something. Kind of thinking they are talking about Castlevania now.

But that's a sequel to an existing reboot.

@Hailinel said:

@Zella said:

@devilzrule27 said:

Wasn't there supposed to be something about a classic game ?

Yeah I remember a tweet about a classic game being revived or something. Kind of thinking they are talking about Castlevania now.

But that's a sequel to an existing reboot.

Yeah I know, but it is the best guess I can think of. Nothing else shown is classic really at all.

@Colourful_Hippie said:

@TheHT said:

Dude. So going with that Phantom Pain guy being another Snake clone, maybe all the hallucinations are side effects of being a direct clone (rather than one that's born and raised a la Solid and Liquid), so all of Big Boss' memories and whatnot are completely fucking with this clones sense of reality, all the while actual dudes are coming to kill the clone of the greatest soldier what ever existed.

Flying fire whale and fire pegasus can be explained away by nanomachines right?

Actually this one will take a hint from Assassin's Creed with ancestral memory being the cause. Also the Patriots were really Promoforerunnertheans-Who-Came-Before.