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Video Game Awards Thread Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 11:23:37 cd2b93 No.883

Not that I particularly think television and film awards are great but video game awards seem to always fall even further below the bar.

The recent video game BAFTAs had some good examples of what not to do.

You can see all of the categories, winners and nominees here: http://awards.bafta.org/award/2015/games

The first main issue is that DLC (The Last of Us: Left Behind) is being judged on the same level as full games. It's a game - it's part of a game. In its defence the rest of the games in the Best Story category didn't have particularly fantastic stories, but still Best DLC should be its own category. It's simply not equal even if it is DLC 'Oscar bait'. The same goes for Best Performer: Ashley Johnson has won the same award twice in a row for the same character because she played the character again in a bonus chapter. It makes little sense.

Minecraft: Console Edition won Best Family Game. A game that came out in 2011 gets a go at the 2015 BAFTAs because of the console version (which first came out in 2012 but the new PSBone release is special?). Simply put: new editions of games - unless they get a huge overhaul to the point that it could be considered a different game - shouldn't count as new releases. Is the lastest re-release of Resident Evil going to win a new award because it's recent?

The Game Innovation award went to a walking simulator that wasn't all that innovative. Some of the other nominees weren't innovative either: Titanfall is your standard FPS, for example. Overall it seems like a poor category to have since plenty of games simply follow a standard formula and still manage to be good.

Mobile and Handheld are one category. The Dorito Pope Awards did this as well. I don't understand how they think they're the same just because they're on a small screen and all have touch screen controls now.

Destiny won Best Game. A rather forgettable game but so were some of the other nominees.

I don't think video game awards are ever going to be good but the BAFTAs weren't even trying.

Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 11:34:23 b70906 No.884

Organizations like BAFTA are for wankers that are trying to carve out a niche for their parasitic psuedo intellectualism in video games, because they couldn't make it as art or literature critics. Their entire existence depends on people believing that their opinion somehow matters more because they're more educated. These fucks call themselves "ludologists" because saying "I overanalyze video games." when asked what their profession is would get them laughed at by their liberal arts colleagues.

Anonymous 03/14/15 (Sat) 23:15:06 cd2b93 No.886

>>884
That's certainly part of it but I think a good portion of the people who work for/on the BAFTAs just simply don't care. They care about the films and television side of it because it matters (slightly) whereas nobody cares about the video game BAFTAs. It's not worth anything and the fact they don't care to do a good enough job or try to understand the medium is why it'll never matter.

Anonymous 03/16/15 (Mon) 00:14:34 1a0241 No.889

Judging vidya like movies is retarded. Then again, judging movies like movies is also retarded. Art criticism is fucked.

Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 05:48:23 a72a6b No.895

>>889
Do you mean art should never be critiqued?

Or that these days it's merely an elaborate PR circle-jerk?

Anonymous 03/19/15 (Thu) 03:45:45 b70906 No.899

>>895
I mean that the whole field of art criticism has been rotten to the core for over a hundred years. It only exists to promote and hype up talentless trash, so the people who own said trash can use it as collateral for bigger loans. Anyone who points it out just "doesn't get it", so it's like the emperors new clothes. artists can't call them out because art critics determine the price of art.