This year's Game Awards ceremony garnered a lot of justified criticism for the way it rushed winning developers off stage in favour of adverts, rambling conversations with Hideo Kojima, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Timothée Chalamet.
Geoff Keighley Agrees Winners Weren't Given Enough Stage Time at The Game Awards | Push Square
16.12.2023 - 15:17 / pushsquare.com / Anthony Mackie / Swen Vincke / Geoff Keighley / Will Smith
The Game Awards has come and gone again, with 2023's show proving somewhat contentious, depending on who you ask. Something that became increasingly apparent as the show progressed was the pressure winners appeared to be under to wrap things up. Even Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke, who managed to snag Game of the Year with Baldur's Gate 3, appeared to be whisked off the stage after around 30 seconds, surprisingly spry in a suit of armour.
Host with the most and producer of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, agrees and Tweeted as much after the show. Keighley maintains that «while no one was actually cut off», it would be something to «address going forward».
A teleprompter was used to urge award winners to «Please Wrap It Up» as the music unsuccessfully used to get Kratos' actor Christopher Judge offstage last year began to swell, underlining the point. In Larian's case, Vincke was dedicating the award to colleagues who had passed away during development, which was undercut by the outro tune.
Geoff says that the rule was relaxed as the show went on, but we thought it felt like the opposite, that the awards in the tail half were rushed to make up for the time Hollywood actors spent doing crowd work upfront. What do you think, and how much time is appropriate for a winner to get on stage? In the comments section below, continue the show, no matter the cost.
Khayl Adam is the second best video game journalist Australia has ever produced, and his ambitions of world domination have (thus far) been curbed by the twin siren songs of strategy games and CRPGs. He has always felt an affinity for the noble dachshund, the best kind of dog.
To be fair they needed that extra time so Anthony Mackie could prat around forever and Shang Chi could talk about his leg.
When the actual award winners get to speak for 5% of the time at a game awards it's a bit of a farce. The movie, not game stars got 10x longer. Every single award winner should get their moment on stage, the majority of winners were just rattled off on a list.
The Oscars, the Globes, the Baftas… all have been slowly dying in the ratings. The only time that anyone cared about any of them in the last ten years was when Will Smith punched Chris Rock.
And in my opinion the reason why is exactly what we saw with the likes of Anthony Mackie: boring, self-indulgent celebrities who have no idea how the real world works being given centre-stage over the people you are actually there to see.
@LifeGirl Once again, this couldn't be further from the truth. For one thing, most of those celebrities weren't born rich. They lived in the «real world» for decades (doing all sorts of odd jobs) before they made it big. Some of them that have leading roles and have even won
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