I actually enjoyed the show quite a bit. I think Geoff has done a hell of a job with it considering what he has to work with. The Iwata tribute was awesome and calling out Konami was great as well. Little moments like that help to really elevate the show for me. The Greg Miller speech was cool and I like him. He had me with him until the very end until he said we're in their debt forever or something like that. I thought that was a bit much. lol. I thought the camera work was better this year and the music acts were better as well. The battlefront plugs were kind of weird but I guess you gotta do what you can to fund the show. I just wish the interviews that went along with it weren't so awkward. That's something they can work on for next year. Film them in advance if you have to and play them before going into a break or something.
The one thing that kind of bothers me about the show is that I feel like, especially with the likely budget concerns he must have and wanting to get premieres on the show in the future, that they probably feel like they need to pander to each system a bit. You can certainly make an argument for Ori getting best art direction but part of me feels like they wanted to throw Microsoft a bone so they wouldn't be unhappy.
Another mini gripe I have is seeing Witcher 3 winning best roleplaying game over Fallout 4 and Bloodborne (which is perfectly fine) but then it gets matched up against those same two titles for GOTY. If Fallout 4 and Bloodborne aren't even considered the best RPG over Witcher 3, how could they possibly be GOTY over it? So it just felt like it was Witcher 3 vs MGS V which was kind of silly. Maybe it's just me, though.
And I think it's a bit of a shame that Bloodborne didn't win anything. I thought it should've had best art direction but I can respect the Ori decision. Maybe I shouldn't feel as suspicious as I do over that, haha. I don't mind seeing some big titles walking away without winning anything, even if it's a game like Fallout 4 that deserves something. Because it would just drag the show down if they threw in a handful of meaningless categories just to give everyone an award. It would sort of cheapen things a bit if they did that. If that makes any sense. But those are just a few of my random thoughts. I'm glad gaming has something like this and I'm looking forward to the show next year. I feel like it improved over last year's so I'm excited to see if that improvement continues.
I just read the list of winners an Total Biscuit not winning for "Trending Gamer" is kinda sad. Dude's got cancer, it's such a meaningless category, give it to him. And how does Greg Miller win over PewDiePie in any case? I mean, PewDiePie does interviews on Colbert and appeared as himself in South Park. Dude's obviously the biggest deal in terms of "gamers" right now.
Pretty sure they said this category was fan voted.
