The Video Game Awards! 3

by Anthony Delprete • Features, News

Hey! The VGA’s were on this week, did you watch it you guys!? guys? But it had Olivia Munn! I am told she is hot.  OH WAIT and Denise Richards! Who either doesn’t know how to read or really was that nervous about speaking in a room jammed full of nerds.  Yea the VGA’s are shit.  A bunch of B celebs most likely being forced by their agent to do this tv spot.  You can just see it in their eyes whenever they speak, “Why am I even here?”.  This year, however, seemed to have avoided being a total disaster with Neil Patrick Harris hosting, who did a fine job btw.  Still amazes me that gamers, one of the most homophobic communities, accepts him as one of their own, but maybe most gamers aren’t the douchebags they make themselves out to be? Unlikely.  The show also reminded me how much Nathan Fillion should be the lead in the Uncharted movie and not Mark Wahlberg!  I guess they are straying away from everything about the game, so it makes sense… I guess.

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OK OK guys I’ll talk about the actual awards, I know you guys really want to know.  Red Dead Redemption wins GOTY which it well deserves, but it really could have gone to any of the other nominations.  Red Dead was also nominated for best Action-Adventure, well the game won GOTY it had to have won its specific genre right?  Nope! Assassins Creed took home that one.  A game that wasn’t even nominated for GOTY beat out the GOTY winner in its own category.  Oh VGAs, you have done this before and have been called out on it, why continue do it?  If the VGAs ever wants us to take it seriously it must first take itself seriously and not treat us like imbeciles.  It just makes me think this whole thing is one big ad where game companies pay for their tv spots on the show, including awards if it fits.

There was alot of good that came out of the fake award ceremony, like trailer debuts and announcements.  A spectacular Mass Effect 3 teaser trailer was debuted, showing that the battle is coming to earth.  Last time a game had its battle brought to earth was Halo 2, and a whole two levels were played on earth, maybe even just one, I forget, but I’m sure ME3 will not make that kind of mistake.  Though ever since the Halo 2 let down, I have always been reserved about these kinds of things.  A new Elder Scrolls was announced.  Didnt show any gameplay or footage whatsoever but the idea of a game like that this late into a console generation is tantalizing.

Uncharted 3 was also debuted at the one-we-dont-speak-of award ceremony.  Later that week the very lucky Jimmy Fallon got to play the game on his Late Night show.  He was the first person to play the game outside of the studio, well at least that’s what the barely understandable man by his side said.  Jimmy Fallon has called himself a gamer many times on the show and even was saying how much he loved playing Uncharted 2.  So he was given the controller and the truth about Fallon and his so called gaming habits were revealed.  He basically sucked, his aim was all over the place, it wasn’t cohesive at all, this man hasn’t played an Uncharted game before.  I’m sure he’s a busy guy, he runs a late night show for christ sake, but if Fallon is gonna talk about how much of a gamer he is he has to back it up.  I’m sure the guys there promoting the game were dieing to yank the controller out of his hands, he was making their scripted events in the game look bad.

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