I actively avoid looking at Geoff Keighley

Picked up a severe dislike for the man back when these were the SpikeTV video game awards and I was in high school

Or was it middle school?

Either way, never cared about this sort of thing

I can only manage it with a talk over stream. So I used Remap (Patrick klepak and Rob Zacny and Cado) to get a slight leftist dunk on the whole proceedings.

I was thoroughly unimpressed barring seeing new titles from a few indie devs I’ve liked and the reveal for monster hunter 6.

The awards are farce (although this year mostly good titles were nominated, but in such a stacked year any of the nominated games could be seen as acceptable winners) given barely half a minute to say thanks, while Kojima is given 5 minutes to say he’s working on a game. And it feels like a security guard told all the winners that they would have their legs broken if anyone mentions the real world, no mention of either the mass layoffs within game development or the Palestine situation. Because Geoff is a coward who wants to get paid and is afraid of offending anyone especially his friends at the big publishers and advertisers.

The reveals are mostly garbage slop. the indie stuff is fine because they just announce a game quickly and show some gameplay and move on. But AAA bullshit is just big long reveals with no gameplay and you just wonder what the game is, until Geoff says “wow what a game, I saw it a few months ago and let me tell you to keep your eye on that title!”

Basically avoid the show at all costs unless you have streamers you enjoy and trust to dunk on the shitty show.

I saw that highlight reel of Todd Howard’s face every time Baldur’s Gate 3 got an award