The Game Awards: Two and a Half Hours I'll Never Get Back

I was originally planning to write about the great reveals that Nintendo gave us in The Game Awards last night. Nintendo didn't reveal anything though. They did have a moving tribute to Iwata, which was nice, and they won two awards, which was great, but no big reveals like last year's Zelda Wii U footage. That was pretty disappointing.

Actually, I should note that Nintendo won THREE awards really, but the third one wasn't mentioned during the broadcast. Splatoon won Best Shooter. I think they didn't mention that because they figured they'd have a riot.

But I'm not here today to write about how disappointed I was in the no Nintendo reveals last night. I don't feel like being the typical Nintendo fan and bad mouthing Nintendo today.

Instead, I want to talk about what a waste of time The Game Awards was.

First of all, Nintendo was an after thought for The Game Awards. During the broadcast's pre-show, people were asked what games they liked this year, what big gaming news there was, and Indie game of the year and Game of the year was discussed. Barely anybody talked about Nintendo. None of them were Nintendo fans clearly. Not a single Nintendo bit of news was brought up, none of the Nintendo Indies were nominated for an award, etc. Super Mario Maker was only talked about because it was nominated for Game of the Year. And the sequence had a guy saying he hoped it DIDN'T win because HE wasn't creative. sigh.

Then there was the opening segment: How do you play? With Splatoon getting a cameo and the rest being Sony and Microsoft related games!!! Seriously. What a bad sign.

Also the awards ceremony took place in the MICROSOFT THEATER. How biased can you get! An awards ceremony like this should be on NEUTRAL GROUND. No one company should have a clear bias in this program.

And most of the broadcast focused on Sony and Microsoft, with Nintendo only getting a few moments to shine; the Iwata tribute being the biggest moment...

But the Anti-Nintendo bias isn't the only thing that bugged me about the Game Awards.

The program also had useless categories like Trending Gamer and esports team. Who the heck cares about that stuff?!

I also didn't care for most of the music that was brought out and think that it should have been more related to VIDEO GAME MUSIC. There were a couple of things like that, but it should have ALL been game music.

Overall, The Game Awards was just BORING. If you don't care about Sony or Microsoft games, you should have avoided this program last night. Yes, there was a moving tribute to Iwata, but you can catch that online today. If you're a Nintendo fan, you didn't miss anything. Heck, I'd go as far to say, if you're a gamer, you didn't miss anything. The reveals this year weren't as mind-blowing as last years The Game Awards. In fact, the only two really surprising reveals were Psychonauts 2 and the Batman Telltale game.

(as aside: neither of which will be coming to the Wii U I'm sure. sigh).

I'll never get those two and a half hours back.

I guess I'll know better for next year though.

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I'll be back on Monday!