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I am a 26-year-old guy who plays video games on occasion. I'm a casual collector and own various games from the Atari 2600 to the current generation of game consoles. Nothing really on the "rare" side... unless you count owning about a dozen variations of Wheel of Fortune as "rare."

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The VGAs are back in town, and they're still terrible. (Shortblog)

1:35 PM on 11.17.2010

So it's that time again. Spike TV's peddling their Video Game Awards show and naturally, there's conversations buzzing about on your social networking site of choice, including here on Destructoid. I've talked about the VGAs at length before, such as this Dtoid Cblog from last year, and within those 350 or so days since I wrote that blog, my opinion has not changed. The Video Game Awards are terrible, and nobody should be watching them.

I understand that video game award shows are considerably younger than the Grammys or the Emmys or even the Oscars. But it shouldn't mean we have to put up with the mediocrity of the VGAs. Is it seriously that hard to make a respectable award show without having to resort to D-list celebs and gamer nerd stereotypes to get viewers? Granted, asking for a "classy video game awards show" might be too much to ask, considering that the average gamer tends to be somewhere in their teens to twenties.

Either way, I think the only reason any of us should bother watching the VGAs is to see the trailers for the surprises they might show, like that Bioware game announcement and Batman: Arkham City. Even then, those trailers will pop up on GameTrailers (or YouTube) an hour after it airs on the East Coast, giving you one less reason to watch that silly awards show.

Maybe it would be entertaining to watch if I get drunk during the proceedings. Maybe I should buy a six pack of beer and chug along as I wade through the horrible jokes and nerd gamer stereotypes to see the trailer to some game I might be interested in. In fact, this gives me an idea: The Video Game Awards drinking game! If you see them perpetuate a gamer nerd stereotype, take a shot. If your nominees are slanted towards one game or publisher, take a shot. If you see Sarah Silverman badgering the audience, chug the damn bottle. Anyone else wanna help me with this one? :P

(on an unrelated note: Oh hey, when the Dtoid revert revamp happened, I lost my MW2 retrospective blog. Oh well, I'll repost that on here later.)

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Elsa

... the drinking game pretty much sounds what they're aiming for, I think they assume that we're all sitting there in our wife beater T-shirts, wearing stained boxer shorts and chugging a 2-4 of beer while scratching our balls. That seems to be the demographic that Spike TV aims for anyway.

It's just a shame that their video game awards show gets any type of press at all, and it's a shame that someone else hasn't done an awards show for gaming right. It's that spike-tv demographic that is voting on the "winning games" and if you've been to their website and seen the "Girls" tab with things like the "Hooters Swimsuit Pageant" and other such lovely objectification passtimes, then it's not going to be a surprise when COD sweeps the awards. "Limbo".... what da fuck is dat girlie game doing on ma manly awards show???

I'll cross my fingers and hope that maybe the VGA's have grown up... but I strongly doubt it.

Prota

The sentiments expressed here are the reasons I've never watched the VGAs before. The one time I was tempted to youtube part of a past VGA left me full of regret.

We're not asking for the most prestigious award show ever, we just want a little more respect for the medium. As TonicBH mentions, this show is much younger than other established award shows, but that doesn't mean they can't do it right and cater more to gamers rather than to stereotypes.

Occams electric toothbrush

Hope springs eternal. Give it some time and I think the VGA's will become something more meaningful than just a collection of wooping dudes and bikinis on women. Though I won't watch the VGA's when they are on television I always check out the highlight reel the next day. It's amusing in an Axe Body Spray/anything MTV plays now kinda way.

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