I doubt anyone cares but 2006 Spike TV VGA winners

[A Notebook]

www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/theelderscrollsivoblivion/news_6162929.html

...anyone find it funny that Princess Peach was nominated?

[Thunderchirp]

If Tenacious D is involved, I may have to watch it.

Also, I'm glad that Guitar Hero II actually won something.

[TonicBH]

Video game award shows are a joke

[dead]

Samuel L Jackson, Tenacious D, Seth Green, Seth Macfarlene....I might try to watch just for that.

[Piers]

tonicbh said:

Video game award shows are a joke

At least be thankful you arn't getting our sort, the Videogame Emmy Awards which is really, really lousy compared to Spike's one.

Where Spike put in the effort for celebrities, a big hype and up-to-date choice in games, the Emmy was just...a drab. You couldn't call Ghost Recon: Advance War Fighter 'game of the year'.

Plus the backstage celebrity interviews were fairly embarrasing. ("so like u play videogames, mr. celeb?" "I USE 2 PLAY SUPER MARIO THE HEDGEHOG WID MY M8S ALL DER TIME!!!" "now im going to make retarded joystick gestures!!")

[Sofox]

The BAFTA awards you mean Piers?
Yeah, I watched the last ones. It was decent but just awful how little actual gamers were there (co-host was openly discussing how she might get into games after this, even during the "girls in video games" which reeked of "not just for guys, honest!") and people who knew what they were on about (they main host just had to make a Tarrant joke when it came to Brain Age).
Thankfully, there were a few people who knew what they were on about, the guy who did the history and famous video game mistakes was pretty competent and fun, even making the cynical joke that in the rush to develop cutting edge 3d games for new technology developers forgot about a little thing... what was it called? Oh yeah... GAMEPLAY!
In the part, there was also a guy who who smartly mentioned how a decade ago, people thought games would become about VR, showing that predicting the future of video games can be near impossible. Finally, at the end there was also a comedian celeb they showed a few words of who when asked what he was playing, actually replied with a couple of modern, decent games and topped it off by saying "Of course the best game is Elite but you're too young to remember that". I've never played Elite but to make reference to an old school game like that deservers respect.
Overall, I just felt it was a bit mismanaged, and it just felt empty that an awards ceremony about video games seemed to involve so little video game developers/gamers/any game people. I know this sounds funny and pathetic, but it felt like they were trying to take this thing away from us and then spent the next while tapping it, turning it upside down and figuring out how to use it.

[ila]

I liked videogames better when they were for geeks.