WEBVTT 1 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.199 Hello, and welcome to episode number one hundred and forty one of the Chief 2 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:35.520 Stakes and Controllers Podcast, present of by Fox PHL The Gambler one oh two 3 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.200 point five FM fourteen eighty AMI Heart Radio. Wherever you get your podcast is 4 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.880 where you're listening to this right now. Be it Spotify, Apple Music, 5 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:47.399 Amazon Podcasts. If you're that guy, I appreciate you just as much as 6 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.039 everybody else. My name is Jason Fonell. I don't know if I said 7 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.719 that already because I have very bad short term memory. But here I am 8 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:57.359 episode number one hundred and forty one, after a long, long night for 9 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.880 the gaming industry, both in good and bad ways. I am, of 10 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.079 course, of course, talking about the Game Awards twenty twenty three. They 11 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:11.640 kicked off last night with all of the announcements and award blink and you'll miss 12 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.439 it, awards and all that stuff that we love so much and hate so 13 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.280 much about this this little event of hours, and I'm gonna spend the next 14 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.359 good amount of time talking about it because there is a lot to unpack. 15 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:32.280 I had planned on doing this right after the show ended last night, right 16 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.400 after the show went kicked off the air, I signed off of twitch shifter 17 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:40.200 streaming the whole thing for four hours and dancing around to the song you're hearing 18 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.439 right now and all that other stuff. But I thought maybe I would wait. 19 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.400 I'm gonna wait until the next day. I'm gonna sleep on it, 20 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.640 and I'm gonna see how I feel in the morning. And honestly, I'm 21 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.480 glad I did that. I'm glad I took that approach. As the song 22 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.560 wraps up here, I love this song so much. It's just so good. 23 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.239 Old Gods Vassard aka Poets of the Fall, They're just very good. 24 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.000 Anyway, I don't want to get two sidetrack. When I signed off of 25 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.479 my stream last night. You can go watch it. You can go watch 26 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.080 the whole Thing's archived on Twitch. I'm not gonna get rid of it. 27 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.120 I may try and download it for posterity, just so in case they deleted 28 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:21.520 it for me. But the whole thing's there, and I was I was 29 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:27.400 happy with what I with what we saw. I was happy with the games 30 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.800 that were announced. I was happy with the things that went on, like 31 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.960 the musical number I talked about. But then when I went back and watched 32 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:40.919 that outro again, I didn't talk about the awards. Once I focused so 33 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:46.159 much on what was announced, I basically went into E three mode, right, 34 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.560 I went into post E three press conference mode, where I talked about 35 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.879 the things we learned about that are coming in the future rather than the games 36 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:00.280 that were being honored on the night, And that, right there is a 37 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.639 microcosm of the entire experience. Now, the next thing you say is, 38 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.039 well, how is that different than any other year at the Game Awards? 39 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:13.680 And you're right, it always it has always had that issue. What once 40 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:20.280 was touted as a feature being able to blend the announcements that the industry fans 41 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:27.240 love with the celebration of the industry as a whole has now gotten blurred to 42 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.960 being more of a detriment. It just needs to find more of a balance. 43 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.400 But no, but where in other years it was like easy to pass 44 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.960 off, it was a little bit easier for lack of better term, ignore 45 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:46.120 this year. This year it was one hundred thousand percent on display. And 46 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:53.520 now that I have come into my own after sleeping on it, we're going 47 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.879 to get into that. But first, first things first, I do I 48 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.560 want to start with the games that were announced to get out of the way, 49 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:01.840 I want to get it out of my system. I know, I 50 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:06.280 just said that I'm basically going to take the same timeline in this podcast episode 51 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.159 that I took in my brain last night. So we'll talk about some of 52 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:15.680 the things I'm most excited about. Uh, we're gonna talk about the rest 53 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.680 of the show after this. And I don't think I'm gonna do segments in 54 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.360 this one. I know, I normally, you know, say stick around 55 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:24.120 or what have you. I think I'm just gonna run straight through, no 56 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:28.160 commercial breaks today. I don't think this one's getting put on the the Uh, 57 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.279 what's the word I'm looking for the radio, you know, that's what 58 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:33.720 it's called. I don't think this one's getting radio play this week. This 59 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.759 is just me. I'm gonna go off for forty five minutes. I'm not 60 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:40.920 gonna put any ads on it, so you'll adds at the beginning, adds 61 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.759 at the end, nothing in between. We're just gonna run through this and 62 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.240 I'm gonna talk about what I'm feeling right now. This this afternoon, one 63 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.399 pm on Friday, December eighth, the day after the Game Awards kicked off. 64 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:55.879 So let's go through some of the things that I liked to see Brothers, 65 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:59.600 a tale of two sons getting remade or brought back to modern consoles. 66 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:04.199 That's really cool. Game came out twenty thirteen. Novel idea of being a 67 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:09.040 sort of puzzle platform or sort of game where you control two people at the 68 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:13.759 same time, with one half of the controller being one brother and one half 69 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:17.040 of the controller being the other. Made by Joseph Farris who also made it. 70 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.399 It takes two and a couple other games. Very very cool game. 71 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:26.480 Happy to see that get some time back in the spotlight. Pony Island two 72 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.199 Panda Circus only means anything if you played Inscription. If you haven't played Inscription, 73 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.959 you should do so that's a fun game as well. Loudest pop of 74 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.120 the night for me or second loudest pop of the night for me went to 75 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:41.680 The Rise of the Golden Idol because The Case of the Golden Idol is one 76 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:46.480 of my favorite games ever. It is a very well done puzzle game, 77 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.680 really makes you think, and it's one that I feel needs to be played 78 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.480 by everyone. It's on most consoles right now, I believe, and at 79 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.240 least don't switch and PC, so if you have a switcher PC you can 80 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.959 play it. There so go check that out. That's really cool and worth 81 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:08.639 your time. Harmonium the musical was really cool. It's a it's a musical 82 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:14.600 game but made with the death in mind. So we may be hearing things, 83 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.639 you know, hearing the words that are being said, but the but 84 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.680 like it's all all they're all being signed and everything subtitled. Just a really 85 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:28.480 novel idea there as well. Finji, who most recently made Tunic, is 86 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.079 back with usual June. That was a cool trailer. Motion twin The Dead 87 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.360 Cell Studio announced their next game, win Blown. That was pretty awesome as 88 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:39.160 well. The biggest pop of the night probably went to God of War Ragnarok's 89 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:46.639 Valhalla update, the new free to download roguelike game from Sony Santa Monica. 90 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:51.879 Inside God of War Ragnarok, players credos go through some go through this this 91 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:57.040 some sort of like mysterious island with this temple that you just fight monsters over 92 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.720 and over again in the rogue light setting. That should be cool. Uh. 93 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.279 Hell Blade two looked really great. The new game from House House, 94 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.920 who made untitled goose game, Big Walk looked very very strange. Kids love 95 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.680 that trailer, as I thought they would, as did the Moon Studios game. 96 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.360 No rest for the wicked, very stark departure from Ari, but I 97 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.319 am excited for that Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, which is basically just the next 98 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:24.720 ten Kaiichi game. I'm very excited to see that franchise, that spin off 99 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:30.319 of dragon Ball come back casting a frank Stone, which is a horror game 100 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:34.600 collaboration between the Dead by Daylight Studio and the Until Dawn Slashed the Quarry Studio. 101 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.600 Plus the Bandy Namco series. Man of Madonn is one of them. 102 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.480 I can never remember the actual name of the full series. Visions of Mana, 103 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.519 a brand new game in the Mana franchise. Did not see that coming. 104 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:55.279 Final Fantasy seven rebirth trailer was fantastic. Marvel's Blade probably the biggest announcement 105 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.800 of the night. That Arcane is making a Blade game that's kind of cool 106 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.600 for free d enough free but paid DLC for Final Fantasy sixteen first pack out 107 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:09.519 Last Night second pack coming in spring twenty twenty four. Monster Hunter Wild's ending 108 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:15.079 the show also a very cool award sorry, very cool announcement as well. 109 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:18.680 So yeah, there were some very cool games to get excited about. Some 110 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:24.480 with twenty twenty four release dates, some with twenty twenty five release dates, 111 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:30.040 which is a little disheartening. So twenty twenty five already has Monster Hunter and 112 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.440 Grand Theft Auto in it. That's pretty impressive. And you know we're a 113 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.200 year away. Lord knows what's going to be announced in the next couple of 114 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.720 months for that stuff. But yeah, so the announcements are great. I 115 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.399 don't want to take away from the things that were announced, the things that 116 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:48.960 were presented. The games look fun. I am excited to learn more about 117 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.879 them. For the games that may be a little closer to their release date, 118 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:58.000 I am excited to play them. But this is an award show about 119 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.039 the past year twenty twenty three, right, so, meaning that they should 120 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:09.679 be spending time, most of their time devoted to honoring those shows, at 121 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:15.120 least honoring those games, at least in the way, at least in the 122 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:20.639 way that like the people, people want the Game Awards to be like the 123 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.399 Oscars, right, they want it to be that. They want it to 124 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.159 be this, you know, celebration of the industry with awards mixed in, 125 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.639 and unfortunately that has never been where the Game Awards has landed. Right, 126 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:41.279 This is more of a pop culture oriented Award, as exemplified by Anthony Mackie 127 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.360 and Timothy Shallomy for some reason and stuff and people like that coming to present 128 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.200 awards now. Anthony Mackie makes sense. He's in the Swiss to metal game 129 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.240 Twist Metals based on video game, got it? The cast of Fallout, 130 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.759 same thing, makes sense that they're there. Timothy Shallomy to make a whole 131 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.039 lot of sense. I mean, yeah, he used to stream video games. 132 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.000 Great, but why is he here now? And furthermore, he could 133 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.720 not have seemed more disinterested to be there. But that's another neither here nor 134 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.639 there. At least he introduced and presented an award, right, he was 135 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.799 the Game of the Year guy, so he got to bring the orchestra on 136 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.480 stage, he got to give the Game of the Year award to the winner. 137 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.399 Stuff like that. That's neither here nor there. My big issue is 138 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.879 the lack of attention devoted to the winners of these awards. This is a 139 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.639 common critique. It is one that we have talked about with this show for 140 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.559 years, and we talked about it, I believe when it was the Spike 141 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.840 Video Game Awards in the early twenty tens, and then it went away for 142 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.639 a while. And it came back in twenty fourteen in its current form. 143 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.799 And here we stand. So this was the tenth Game Awards. Next year 144 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:58.639 is the tenth anniversary of the Game Awards, So it's now a decade in 145 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:07.759 and we're still talking about it being more of a marketing presentation oriented event than 146 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:13.679 it is a celebration or award show. And that sucks, frankly, because 147 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:20.679 this is easily the most visible, the most viewed, the award show with 148 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:26.440 the highest reach in the entire industry. There are others the BAFTAs, the 149 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.840 Golden Joysticks, the Aias or the Dice Awards, which I think are the 150 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:35.000 same thing. I could be wrong. The Spawnees run by Khalif Adams, 151 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.480 which is a great up and coming award show there as well. These all 152 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:45.519 exist and they all figure out a way to honor the award winners along with 153 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:50.039 if there are any announcements or whatever going on and creating that balance here that 154 00:11:50.159 --> 00:12:00.519 seesaw went way too much in the direction of trailers to the point where winners 155 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.240 of Awards this is the worst part. And if you saw it, you 156 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:07.879 know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying anything new right now, Winners 157 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:15.360 of these awards were given thirty seconds for speeches if they were one of the 158 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:20.360 ones selected for speeches, and one moment they did a bunch of rapid fire 159 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:28.639 awards at once, including some high like major categories. Best Indie for Sea 160 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:35.559 of Stars, Best RPG for Balder's Gain. I guess just blown through with 161 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.840 no care. What is the point right? Kotaku wrote a great article this 162 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:46.000 morning. Zaxwison wrote a great headline, It's time for the Game Awards to 163 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.480 just become the Winter e three it wants to be. You want to give 164 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.960 awards, you want to honor people, fine, but just call yourself what 165 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:58.440 it is. Stop with this. You know, the best form of entertainment, 166 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.600 as somebody pointed out in the game spot slack today, stop with that. 167 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.759 There is no best form entertainment. The best form entertainment is whatever entertains 168 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:09.519 you. There is no it's somebody. There's a tweet that I wrote that 169 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.960 I read. I wrote tweet that I read that said, events like last 170 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.559 night make it seem like we're a The gaming industry is a very successful little 171 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.879 brother who's trying to measure up to the older brother who was more popular in 172 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:30.559 high school. And that is so right, it's so right, it's not 173 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.039 even funny. And in some moments I kind of I kind of think it's 174 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:39.600 cool to have like Anthony Mackie there and and al Pacino last year, and 175 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.360 you know, people like that, But like, are the Muppets necessary? 176 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.240 And I love the Muppets. Muppet this is my time of year. This 177 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.879 is the Muppets time a year for me. Muppett Family Christmas is one of 178 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:56.440 my favorite Christmas shows of all time? Was Gonzo needed? Did I need 179 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:01.360 to hear Gonzo thirst about chickens for six minutes or whatever it ended up being, 180 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.200 Bring out some Alan Wake corkboard. Never reference to Alan Wake. I 181 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.960 mean, make the Alan Wake joke. You're making an Alan Wake corkboard. 182 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.879 Make the joke. No, We're just talking about how much he really wants 183 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:20.919 to do unspeakable things to that chicken or chicken in general. It's very weird. 184 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:26.320 It's very I feel, I don't know, it's hard to it's hard 185 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.399 to really get into. The more I think about it, the more problems 186 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.399 I have I want to I'm just gonna paint a couple of situations here that 187 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:41.000 people have talked about that are really really bad and of course, you can 188 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:45.360 make your own judgments. If you don't agree with me, that's fine. 189 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.279 But if you, you know, just listen to what I'm saying and see 190 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.240 if it at least makes any sense to you. So first, somebody on 191 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.159 Twitter, Haley Elise at Haley Elise on Twitter, because I refuse to call 192 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.360 it what it's called. She went through where they went through. I don't 193 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:11.120 want to assume they went through and broke down by timing five different categories for 194 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:16.159 these award shows. Now, this only counts for the Core Game Award show. 195 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:22.440 It does not include the however many awards and I think a dozen reveals 196 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.799 that happened in the opening act as they call it, from seven thirty to 197 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:31.720 eight o'clock Eastern time. This is just eight to eleven trailers and advertisements were 198 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:37.159 given one hour and twenty eight minutes. That is half of the runtime. 199 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:45.240 Eighty eight out of one hundred and eighty minutes we're spent on trailers and advertisements, 200 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:52.200 which is fine, but there are other areas that are sorely lacking, 201 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.759 and we'll get to that. Musical numbers at thirteen and a half minutes, 202 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.639 that's fine. They had two, right, maybe three? They had Old 203 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.720 Gods of Asgard. They had the final Fantasy seven rebirth one. I think 204 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.159 it might be it. That's fine, that's perfect for a three hour show. 205 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:10.840 One or two songs to mix things up. Good Oscars does the same 206 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.440 thing. If you want to keep making that comparison, they do the same 207 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:17.480 thing for all their best music. Whatever I'm in, that's fine with me. 208 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:26.200 Presenters of the awards, the people presenting the awards got almost triple the 209 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:32.639 amount of time as people to give speeches who won them. Twenty six and 210 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:37.720 a half minutes for award presenters, ten minutes for the speeches of the winners. 211 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:45.080 That is bogus. That to me is completely backwards. Now, some 212 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.919 of that may have been extended by Anthony Mackie, who was very upset with 213 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:56.080 the crowd for yelling at him, were very drunk or very both um yelling 214 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:57.159 at the crowd to stop talking, and how much he loved them. He 215 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:02.080 kind of padded his time there. Whatever. Christopher Judge I think patted it 216 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:06.599 on purpose, making fun of call of duty because of his speech last year, 217 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.640 which kept going on and on and on, and they got a get 218 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.759 inside joke whatever, and that started the show that was a great icebreaker to 219 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.920 start the show. Bring out Christopher Judge, make fun of him, play 220 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.880 him off. But also, as I'm just now realizing, it, kind 221 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.359 of set the stage for the entire night because he starts talking and they immediately 222 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.319 turn on the playoff music, which for him is a joke. But then 223 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.640 when they did it to everybody else, when they weren't supposed to the joke, 224 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.599 it wasn't a joke anymore. There is one award in particular, it's 225 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:41.960 either Accessibility Games for Impact. I have to go look where the accepters of 226 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:44.720 the award. The two people who accept the award, it's a man and 227 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.400 a woman, and they go up and the man gives his speech and he 228 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.880 says, you know, whatever he wants to say. He says, thank 229 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.960 you. The woman walks up to the mic to get her turn, and 230 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.640 damn they play the playoff music, full bore, full blast boom. They're 231 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:03.839 playing the off as if they assumed she had nothing to say. As soon 232 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.880 as that happened, I go back to my live stream. I immediately was 233 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.519 like, oh no, that's not good. You let them both speak. 234 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.480 That didn't happen again for the rest of the show, but it happened to 235 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.680 them. I have to find the award specific award that that happened to, 236 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.519 and I will do that while we're talking here. But that was just not 237 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:29.119 not a good look at all, and I am genuinely curious how that was 238 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:34.880 able to happen. But then you have the voice actor for Astarion, who 239 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:42.640 won the best Performance category for Balder's Gate, giving a very moving speech to 240 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:51.599 Neil Nubahn is his name, giving a very moving speech about how his performance 241 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:57.000 helped people who were suffering from abuse, and it's just very wonderful, wonderful 242 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:06.160 thing, and their playing him off. Give him time, let him soak 243 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:12.119 in that moment. He had what thirty seconds forty seconds before that screen that 244 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:17.440 has become the lasting image of the game awards, please wrap it up, 245 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.720 was being shown to him, and that was the first award to bookend the 246 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:27.720 show, the last award Game of the year, also for Balder's Gate. 247 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.480 The head of the studio, in a suit of armor by the way, 248 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:38.000 Great Touch comes up and starts giving his speech and talking about members of the 249 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:45.200 team who have died, won as recently as a month ago, and they're 250 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:52.119 playing him off again. It's the end of the show. There should be 251 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:56.920 no time limit for the Game of the Year speech. What are you doing? 252 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.119 Why are you doing this? I understand, I mean, I can 253 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:11.799 sympathize or understand if, in the beginning of the show the lesser not lesser, 254 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:15.880 but these smaller categories get less time to speak. Fine, that makes 255 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.000 perfect sense to me, but not Game of the Year, right, And 256 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.599 even then, the smaller categories deserve longer than thirty seconds before they're being played 257 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.279 off with a patronizing Uh, please wrap it up? Who picked that? 258 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.000 Please wrap it up? You could write, you could have written anything. 259 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:41.920 You could have written overtime, you could have written, you know, something 260 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.440 else, like, uh, just just have the zeros there flashing. That 261 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:52.039 would have been enough. Please wrap it up. What the hell? Man? 262 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.680 Somebody's put on Twitter and this is right. I don't remember exactly who 263 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.359 wrote it. I want to say Javier Cordero was the name I got find 264 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.000 that tweet. I want to make sure I get that appropriation or not appropriation, 265 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.519 that attribution correct as well. That said, if I'm accepting an award 266 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:14.599 for Game of the Year on a project I spent blood, sweent and tears 267 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:22.160 on and I'm talking about people on my team who have died while making these 268 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:30.400 games, and you're playing me off, I'm gonna be pissed. And he's 269 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:37.839 right, there's no excuse for that. And then and then, which is 270 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:44.759 where there are weird practices got in their own way. That man, the 271 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.200 head of Balder's Gate three, when he was accepting his award for Game of 272 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.240 the Year, was supposed to announce that the Xbox version shadow dropped. The 273 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:57.240 Xbox version of Baltersgate three was available on Xbox right then and there for the 274 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:00.559 first time. They didn't give him the time to do that. Now he 275 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:04.319 says he forgot. He says he would. You know, he wasn't thinking 276 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:11.559 he was in the moment. But if he's not played off after thirty seconds 277 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:17.680 of accepting an award or giving a speech for Game of the Year, maybe 278 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:22.759 he remembers that particular tidbit, huh. I mean, that just makes sense. 279 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:27.039 He gave more time on the stage to that dope from games Com who 280 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.440 rushed the stage looking for GTA six, who I hope is still riding in 281 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.599 the gooleg because that, I mean, they had more security last night. 282 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:44.160 But that's that whole I'm not getting onto that your haste and your lack of 283 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.920 focus on the winners kept you from a pretty big announcement, which is your 284 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.559 bread and butter anyway, right, you spent half the show on trailers and 285 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.680 stuff like that, and as I have been saying, the social media reaction 286 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:04.240 has been strong, to say the least. Jeff Grubb over there Giant Bomb 287 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:07.920 says, I don't think we I don't want to say we shouldn't criticize the 288 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.279 game awards. We should. I just think maybe it's more useful to question 289 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.599 the whole importance in the first place. Some guy just decided to hand out 290 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:18.279 trophies, we don't have to take it as seriously as default. That is 291 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.440 a very good point that he made there. I think that there is something 292 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.480 you could something to be said about how this guy just, you know, 293 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:29.799 decided he wanted to do this. Now, granted, he did invest a 294 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:33.119 million dollars of his own money, and he clearly does care about the industry. 295 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:36.319 He just has to get his priority straight here. It is Javierra Cordero. 296 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.240 That's the name. If I had one Game of the Year and was 297 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.799 dedicating the award to a member of my team who had died during development, 298 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:47.319 and saw the words please wrap it up. I'd be expletive pissed. I 299 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:53.000 would too, Pavierra, you are absolutely right about that. Swen Vinki is 300 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:59.160 his name from Larry and he was the one accepting the award. One great 301 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.119 joke didn't know gave de Game dev Award acceptance. Species were also subjected to 302 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.200 crunch. That was a nice little little dig there. Simoulu, who came 303 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:12.839 out to present himself a present an award and reveal himself in a game called 304 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:18.279 Stormgate, got to talk about his broken foot longer than developers won an award 305 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:23.680 tonight. That was pretty pretty good commentary there. Roger Clark, who was 306 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:27.559 the voice I believe is the voice of Arthur Morgan, I think I have 307 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:33.039 the guy right here. He tweeted that the gaming industry has an odd complex 308 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.400 at the moment. They're disregarding their own plate, their own disregarding their own 309 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:40.160 in a place in place of a film industry that doesn't really care about them. 310 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.279 They're like the more successful little brother here it is still seeking validation from 311 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.160 the big brother who was cool in high school. Yes, that's one hundred 312 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:52.079 percent true. It's it's a shame, right, It is a shame. 313 00:24:53.240 --> 00:25:06.480 That the awards that we most associate with this industry have become fifty percent marketing 314 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:10.960 and fifty percent and not even fifty percent celebration. Let's go back, Let's 315 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:14.319 go back to those times again, shall we? Let me find that tweet 316 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.480 again while I'm right here. One hour and twenty eight minutes for trailers, 317 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.519 thirteen and a half minutes for musical numbers. That's the only one I'm okay 318 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:26.480 with award presenters twenty six and a half minutes. Winter speech is ten minutes. 319 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.680 I didn't get to the other thing that really makes me upset, and 320 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:37.839 that is forty two and a half minutes devoted to other I believe Kajima is 321 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.400 in that because he had eight minutes with Jordan Peele and all the other stuff. 322 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.920 I think the warframe stuff is in there because they were talking about the 323 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:51.079 warframe drop and stuff like that. That right, there is more time that 324 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:56.079 should be devoted to winter speeches. There is no reason that the speeches of 325 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.480 the people who are winning the awards should have the least amount of time. 326 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:04.880 What are you doing, Jeff? Now? I did have a thought that 327 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:11.519 maybe he was overreacting to Bill Clinton kid last year, right he didn't want 328 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.880 that egg on his face again after some kids snuck up on the stage and 329 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:21.440 talked about Bill Clinton out of nowhere. Yeah, fine, that's fine. 330 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.119 But you had the guardrails for that, You had the extra security guys at 331 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:29.279 the end of the rows for that. You took care of that. You 332 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.359 don't take care of that. By limiting the time of the people who are 333 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:37.759 supposed to be giving the speeches, you are punishing the wrong people. And 334 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:41.680 to be honest, I don't even know where the solution is, right, 335 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.400 I don't know is it. I mean, well, clearly the answer would 336 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.079 be less attention given to the trailers and the ads. But that's why the 337 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.039 people tune in, right, So what do you need? What needs to 338 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:56.359 happen here is you can have your trailers and your reveals and all that other 339 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.119 good stuff. You can still have that stuff, but you need to spend 340 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.640 just as much time honoring the speeches too. I don't want to hear that 341 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:08.839 people get bored if speeches are too long, and and people on Twitter or 342 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:12.519 whatever start saying move it along, move it along. That's because people on 343 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:18.200 Twitter have no attention span, my boy. They just as long as something 344 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.319 is the least bit boring. They're complaining about it. It's what they do. 345 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:25.359 If anyone's live tweeting this, they've already told me to move it along 346 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:30.960 fifteen times in twenty seven minutes. It's just how it works on social media. 347 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:34.279 Man, you need to be the one to hold up You and your 348 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:38.160 team need to be the ones to hold up the Hey, we need to 349 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:44.960 give these people equal time. And it's gotten me wondering what a Game Awards 350 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:51.400 show would look like without Jeff Keey, somebody else hosting, just his team 351 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:55.279 organizing everything. I don't know how hands on he is now. He talks 352 00:27:55.319 --> 00:28:00.759 about going to a studio like house House and playing Big Walk or whatever that 353 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.319 game was called from the untitled Goose Game. People. He talks about, 354 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.119 you know, being in the room for all these demos, But is he 355 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:14.640 booking them or is team booking them? Is he producing the rundown or is 356 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.160 his team producing the rundown? Is this a Vince mcmn situation where a bunch 357 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:19.799 of people do work and he has the final say. And I hope that's 358 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:23.319 the extent of the vincetrick Man situation. If that's what it is, I 359 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.119 don't know. Maybe we get somebody on the not on the inside. Maybe 360 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:32.920 we get some of those answers, we get some of those things told to 361 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.200 us, so we know maybe maybe I don't know. I don't know. 362 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.640 All I know is something's wrong. Something's wrong, And it was very apparent 363 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:48.680 last night based on the the reactions of people on Twitter about the show and 364 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:52.680 what they were seeing. There is a problem here. There is a rot 365 00:28:53.359 --> 00:29:00.000 at the core of the Game Awards that has been festering for almost a decade 366 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.519 aid and it's time to figure out how to get rid of it and create 367 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.160 a balance. Does it mean adding an extra hour to your show? Fine, 368 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.880 start at seven six thirty, seven o'clock, six thirty opening act, 369 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:17.680 seven o'clock start time. If you add an hour and give all of that 370 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:22.599 time to the winner speeches, nobody says a word, everybody. You have 371 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.799 thirty awards at this show. You gave ten minutes to the winners. If 372 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:32.279 you make that seventy, that's what. Let's do the quick math here, 373 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.440 real quick. More than a little more than two minutes per speech, that's 374 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.400 fine, And then you can play with it as is. You want to 375 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.880 give Game of the Year more time, then I don't know, the e 376 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:47.079 Sports Awards whatever, that's fine too, or maybe the Esports Awards are in 377 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.599 the pre show and then you do them and you give them their their their 378 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:52.680 their laurels, and then we move on. Because it's mostly about the actual 379 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.000 industry, the the core gaming industry, and not so much about esports. 380 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:00.440 There are ways to do this, I don't I think anyone would complain if 381 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.720 that show starts at seven pm Eastern Time instead of eight pm Eastern time. 382 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.720 But every every single speech, every single winner of an award gets more time 383 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:12.039 to give a speech. I would have loved to see Sabotage on that stage 384 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.559 last night for Best Indie Game. I would have loved it. Was it 385 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:23.720 there, No, it wasn't. It got mentioned, it got clapped for, 386 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:29.839 and then it was moved on to the next one. Sabotage deserved that 387 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.200 time on stage. They deserved it. They didn't get it, and that, 388 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:38.920 to me is bogus. And I hate to do this because I look 389 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.759 forward to this. I look forward to this from Thanksgiving. I mean, 390 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.440 I'm always kind of on the periphery of it. It's one of my favorite 391 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.519 events of the year and has been for years. I've been talking about going 392 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:53.000 to this damn thing for five years. You think I would do it eventually. 393 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:59.599 But I love this show, I love streaming it, I love talking 394 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:07.359 about it friends. With the absence of E three, that void has been 395 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:14.240 filled to a point by this and now I'm realizing that that's a problem. 396 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:19.000 But it's not an unfixable one. There just needs to be more time given 397 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:25.680 to the people winning the awards as opposed to those who want to announce the 398 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.759 games that may be winning them in the future. It amazes me how much 399 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:34.319 Alan Wake two is a perfect example of what's going on in this industry, 400 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:38.839 in this particular industry event. Remember when alan Wake two was announced in twenty 401 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:45.039 twenty one. Remember how much time they got on stage to talk about the 402 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:53.400 return of alan Wake on that stage two years ago. Now, when it 403 00:31:53.440 --> 00:32:00.079 came time to win the awards, their creators got what third of that time. 404 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:05.079 Allen Wait might not be the best example because they also had one of 405 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.559 the musical numbers. I understand that, but it doesn't change the fact that 406 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:12.720 you spent more time on the game's announcement two years ago than you did on 407 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.839 the awards that it won. At the show that has awards in the title, 408 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.559 and that to me is a problem. We play these games because they're 409 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:30.240 made by excellent creators, and the most visible award show in the world needs 410 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:37.960 to give those creators that spotlight. It needs to give the industry that spotlight, 411 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:44.000 not just the marketing committees, not just the business side, the entire 412 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:51.759 industry, which brings me to my last point. There have been a lot 413 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:58.240 of critiques about this show, a lot of them deserved, none of them 414 00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:06.079 more deserved than anybody who had anything to say about the lack of mention of 415 00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:13.480 layoffs there. I mean, there was that wonderful letter that went out by 416 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:20.079 the Future Class regarding acknowledgment of what's going on in Israel in Palestine. Should 417 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:24.680 that have happened to Yes, they mentioned Ukraine in twenty twenty one, they 418 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:32.160 should have mentioned Palestine this year as well. I won one hundred percent agree. 419 00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:37.559 There were people who were going to give speeches on Palestine. They didn't 420 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:44.079 win that the team one of the people who made Goodbye Volcano, Hyatt co 421 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.359 Op, shared his speech if they had won, and it mentions Palestine. 422 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:57.519 So now is it p will the tinfoil hats put on you go on to 423 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:01.119 say that that game didn't because they might mention it. No, you can't 424 00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:04.240 say that because you didn't see a speech before here. You have to clear 425 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:06.160 anything. I don't know if they have to clear it, but if they 426 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.599 had to clear it, whatever, But that's a whole other That's what I 427 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:14.639 want to get into. It should have happened, But that is a very 428 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.920 it's a hard topic to talk about it. It's a hard topic to give 429 00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:25.639 the gravitas that it needs. So I would have loved to have hear about 430 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:31.400 it, heard about it, and the fact that it wasn't there sucks, 431 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:38.400 But just as importantly, if not because of the industry we're talking about more 432 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:42.960 importantly, even though it's it's not. I don't want to say one's more 433 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.039 important than the other. I'm just trying to make a point here that one 434 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.039 that definitely should have been said was the layoffs. Both of these things should 435 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.039 have been said. Let me let me make that very clear. But if 436 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.679 we had to choose one, or if I had to, if you came 437 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:59.119 to me and said, one of these two things is definitely going to be 438 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:00.679 talked about it this award show, what's it going to be? I would 439 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:05.239 have chosen the layoffs. It was a huge part of this year, one 440 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:12.119 of the most successful critically successful years in video games ever, overshadowed by nearly 441 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:19.480 ten thousand layoffs in studios across the world. That to me is something somebody 442 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.360 would have addressed and should have been addressed. At the beginning of the show, 443 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:29.960 Nope, not a word. And my favorite part, My favorite part 444 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.239 of this is that multiple times during the show they panned a camera to Leanna 445 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:42.199 Ruppert. Nothing's wrong with Leanna Ruppert. The Honor Ruppert is great, The 446 00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.480 Honor Ruppert was laid off. The Honor Ruppert was laid off by Bungee. 447 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:53.079 She was affected, and they kept finding her in the audience, and anybody 448 00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:55.039 who saw her would be like, oh, that's Leanna. Oh yeah, 449 00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:59.039 she got laid off. Oh they're gonna mention that. They never did. 450 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:07.400 I don't know if the camera person knew that that was that situation. I 451 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.320 doubt it, if they were just part of the camera team. But every 452 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.920 time they showed her, all I thought was, maybe this is an opportunity 453 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:20.480 to mention something about the terrible layoffs, and this is going to remind somebody 454 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:22.800 to do it. When she's on the screen, No, didn't happen. 455 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:30.679 The Israel Palestine situation sucks. The layoff situation sucks. Both of those things 456 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:36.880 are very important topics that could and should have had a platform to be focused 457 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:42.159 on last night. One of them even stressed by the members of the so 458 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.840 called future class that the Game Awards considers to be the best and brightest of 459 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:55.280 the younger generation of game developers, and both were ignored. Spineless. It's 460 00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:02.000 cowardice, and it shows a lack of awareness for the world around you, 461 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.960 both internally in your little industry bubble and externally in the world at large. 462 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:15.880 And it sucks now and then people will tell me why kit we just walk 463 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:17.920 it. We just have a night to start to break the video games. 464 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.280 We wanted that toune. We didn't get it right. We got ten minutes 465 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:30.039 of three hours celebrating the actual winners. So spare me that crap. The 466 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:37.480 awards. The Game Awards need to change. It's that simple. You want 467 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.000 to give three hours of a platform to this industry, you have to do 468 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:45.400 it by celebrating this industry. You want to celebrate its future as you gave 469 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.360 an hour and a half to last night. Fine, that's fine. Have 470 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:54.519 your trailers, have your reveals, but you need to also make equal time, 471 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:59.159 if not maybe more time to the people who have already made their games 472 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:07.239 and are looking to be honored after winning your awards. It makes me wonder, 473 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.320 like I said earlier, about a show without him, what would that 474 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:16.000 look like? What would the Game Awards look like if he took a year 475 00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:22.440 off, just decided to do something else, focus on summer games Fest and 476 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.719 games Calm, and let us Game Awards team do that. I truly wonder 477 00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:29.800 what that would look like. Am I saying he's the problem? No, 478 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.679 but he's the final decision maker. What would happen if you made somebody else 479 00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:37.480 the final decision maker? How would that look? It's an interesting idea. 480 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.039 Is it going to happen? No? Not next year, not the tenth 481 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:46.199 anniversary. Absolutely not after that. No, we'll probably keep doing this as 482 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:51.039 long as he wants. But I am curious what that would look like? 483 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:59.039 Just once, just once? I suggest, if you want some extra reading 484 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:05.079 on this subject, you go to the Verge and read Ash Parish is former 485 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:09.920 guest of Chief Takes and Controllers. Read her excellent piece on the Verge called 486 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.559 let Me Get the Name of It? For you. I want to make 487 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:15.679 sure I get it right. Where is it? She posted it right after 488 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.519 the show she was on it. It is called Jeff Jeff Keilly let video 489 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:29.039 Game Developers Down? Is flat out what it says. She says basically what 490 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.079 kind of She goes into better detail in what I was saying earlier. The 491 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:35.920 numbers vary. Estimates. Estimates say anywhere between six and seven thousand workers lost 492 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:40.280 their jobs this year. No studio or no level of studio size or success 493 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:43.559 has been spared, and those who have been let go are now forced to 494 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:46.239 contend for an ever dwindling number of open job prospects. And then she goes 495 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:50.559 on to talk about how this platform should have been used to address that and 496 00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:54.239 it didn't. Excellent writing by Ash Parish highly recommend you go to The Verge 497 00:39:54.440 --> 00:40:00.800 and check that out. Also check out the zax Weissen article from Kataku. 498 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:04.440 The Game Awards needs to drop the act and just become Winter E three props 499 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:08.840 to whoever chose the cover image for that one. That is a very very 500 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:17.320 interesting place to do that. And you know, I just I just wish 501 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:22.880 the Awards show would be better, Like I'm sitting here right now, as 502 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:30.599 I'm saying these words, watching a video of the Dublin office of Larry and 503 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:37.360 Studios at what's this eleven o'clock Eastern, so it's four or five in the 504 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:44.920 morning for them right watching the Game of the Year announcement. And as soon 505 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.440 as they say Balder's Gate three on that stage, that studio turns into the 506 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.840 World Series Champions locker room. There's champagne spraying everywhere. They're screaming, listen, 507 00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:06.800 listen to this. That's amazing, and listen to them. Go look 508 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.920 for at Kirakira Cosmo on Twitter has this there. She's associate writing for Luster 509 00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:17.159 Phaleron. Listen to that. Joy. Why am I watching this on Twitter 510 00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:23.760 and not on the stage of the Game Awards. Look at them, Listen 511 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:34.719 to them. Incredible. That's what the Game Awards needs. More of the 512 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:38.920 cheers of those who won the awards, and not just the cheers from fans 513 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:45.840 excited to see all the new stuff that the award winners won't get enough time 514 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:51.840 to talk about when they win the Awards and Game Awards ceremonies of the future. 515 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.440 And that is episode number one forty one of the Chief Stakes and Controllers 516 00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:59.559 podcast, presented by Fox PHL. The Gambler won a two point five FM 517 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:06.119 fourteen I heart radio. Where you get your podcasts, Spotify, Apple Music, 518 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:07.400 what have you. If you want to discuss this more, I am 519 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.360 at big Man Finelle on all of the socials. Feel free to do that. 520 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:16.880 This is a tough one. Like I said, I love the Game 521 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:19.880 Awards, I love watching them, I love being a part of it. 522 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:22.559 One of these years I will actually go, and maybe I'll drag my wife 523 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:30.360 with me. But I can love a thing and also say that it needs 524 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:37.519 fundamental changes at its core. And those changes were never more apparent than they 525 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:43.960 were last night by the time that show had ended. Hopefully next year for 526 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:50.760 the tenth anniversary, they do better than the actual tenth edition. As I 527 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.079 always say at the end of the episode, if you're hearing these words, 528 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:55.840 that means you have reached the end, and I am ever so grateful and 529 00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:01.599 appreciative that you have done so you're educated. I hope you're entertained again. 530 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:07.280 I am more than willing to discuss further on social media. I might try 531 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.559 and do some more live streaming. Now. You can come into my chat 532 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.239 at Jfans sixty four and talk to me there. Ultimately, i'd love to 533 00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.840 hear your opinions on the Game Awards, what you liked, what you didn't, 534 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:20.320 what you're looking forward to, if there were things last night that were 535 00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.400 on your bucket list to be announced and they were love to hear that, 536 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.280 But just remember that that's not the only thing that this is words they're supposed 537 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.599 to be about, and it has now overtaken half the show, which is 538 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:37.400 pretty alarming. Regardless, I hope you have a fantastic weekend. I hope 539 00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.239 you have an even better week right behind it, and we'll be back again 540 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:45.639 next week with more of the latest and greatest and gaming news here on Chee 541 00:43:45.679 --> 00:44:00.000 Steaks and Controllers. See you later, y'all. F