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It exists to serve ads, both during broadcast and to print on the boxes of games. Are people still somehow thinking Gamers need some big yearly award ceremony to be considered a Real Artistic Medium?

If I'm Jim Youtuber and I spend enough money to rent a large concert venue, requisite stage and filming crew, and hire an entire audience, does this make my opinions more valid?


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

The way I see "event" things like the game awards or the golden joysticks or the BAFTA game awards or whatever is that the venn diagram of the target audience for those shows and my taste in games is two circles that grow further and further apart by the year. The games that "should" win big in my eyes will, at most, get a token nomination or two and, seriously, Xenoblade 3 should have won best soundtrack last year. I bet the actual winner had the same score every AAA release has, the "We have Hans Zimmer at home" music.

I mean I'm hugely biased here because I don't care about most new game releases in the first place, but the whole thing is built around backpatting and advertising so how would any of the picks be any more valid than me making a 1000 word post about it? Because they have money?

But because of all of this, I'm always surprised to see people getting upset about decisions because like... what does it matter? Someone with money says game A better than game B, who gives a shit? You like it? Sweet! Go play it, have fun! This bullshit is not worth your emotional energy!

Which I usually get a response basically saying "oh but I watch it ironically". "I just watch it for the announcements" :eggbug-asleep: "I just watch because my friends watch it with me" :eggbug-asleep: "I watch in hopes that something funny happens" :eggbug-asleep:

Oh absolutely, Xenoblade 3 is easily one of the best games of last year (even if I didn't have the time for it til THIS year) And it not winning one of a number of arbitrary awards doesn't somehow detract from that experience, and I'm glad to say that I've stopped watching these things (Nintendo Directs being my one real exception) and instead only learn these things against my will thanks to cultural osmosis.

I also think group hatewatches are, like, the biggest thing keeping TGA specifically alive and the sooner other people realise that, the better.