I was in the mood to watch something awful and to an extent, I got what I wanted. Spike video game awards 2011 was just as bad or if not worse then I intially expected it to be. Many people especially the media look down on video games as an art form. Of course me being the gamer that I am, I strongly disagree with people who say video games are not an artform. With games like Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid series, Assassin's Creed series, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Uncharted, Silent Hill and many more prove the point that video games can be taken seriously as an artform. But with all these games proving video game haters wrong...there's shows like this that give non-gamers an excuse to take gaming as a joke. My point is that this show is a joke, even gamers don't take this sorry excuse for a game award show seriously.
This "video game award show" is just a horrible comedy show with video games being referenced. Most gamers if not all don't even take the show's "credibilty" seriously especially when the awards Spike gives look like this:
This is a video game award show and you model your awards after monkeys?! I really can't find words to describe how laughable these awards look. This is supposed to be gaming's version of the Oscar and you have awards looking like that?
Like I said before, the Spike VGAs is just a bad comedy show with video games being referenced. This show is about celebrities that pretend to like video games. I mean c'on everytime the celebrities are on screen they constantly remind the audience that they love video games. This is a video game award show! If you didn't like video games you wouldn't even be on this show. This show went on for 15 straight minutes and there were not any awards being given out. It was just bad joke after bad joke. This show completely misrepresents gaming and gamers.
Alright, the didgital reality technology looks cool but they get old really fast. You're not going to believe me when I tell you this, but there was a grown man tea bagging other grown men on this show. I'm not even kidding. When I think of video game award shows I think of this:
I wonder who comes up with this kind of stuff? Believe me when I tell you this, most gamers don't behave like this. As a gamer I felt offended watching that. Yeah sure, I know this show was going to be awful, but I would not picture the VGAs going this low for humor. You know when I think of video game award shows, I think of a grown man teabagging other grown men, Kevin Jonas lying aganist a wall, and there was random cow. Yes I'm being serious there was a random cow on this show. Why was it there? To be honest lets ask the excutives at Spike, and I bet you they even know their show is horrible.
I have been ranting non-stop about how bad this show is, and now you must wondering why did I watch this show? Other then the fact I wanted to watch this show just to complain about it. It was because of the world premire trailers. This is an advertising technique used by Spike VGAs where it would have a show off an announcement of a new game coming out in the near future. That is an advertising technique used to appeal to many gamers like myself and that advertising technique works brilliantly because I want to see a new teaser or trailer of a new game coming out.This is why I and many other gamers watch this show, and to an extent hope that this show would finally improve, and be the award show that gamers would be proud of. But sadly, no, it is far from the show gamers wanted. The world premire trailers is the only reason why I watch this show every year. Why can't I wait an hour after the show to watch the premire on the internet? Well, that's because watching the trailer live the first time feels really exciting, even tough I have to sit through almost two hours of garbage just to be excited here and there. This is not even close to being video game's version of the oscars.
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