I was in a party chat and I said this exact same thing. The salt must have been delicious..
XBox and SEGA truly smashed the Game Awards. If only XBox would announce a Series Pro model Life couldnāt get much better
If a Pro is coming, itāll be announced very late. No company wants to undercut current console sales with people waiting to buy stronger hardware.
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It felt like a great Xbox show, man they are learning.
Correct me but FM won more than TotK.
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Remind me of that old meme with the kid being so excited and once he went back at the screen, his face flipped instantly. Excited first, downed next.
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Thatās kinda funny since everyone was saying that TOTK would sweep the awards lol
Iāve been watching some recaps, and tga is barely an awards show anymore lol.
Against my better judgement i watched the start of the show. My immediate thought was āi want Mixer backā. It looked soo bad. And i cant stand this Dorito Pope stuff any more. Turned off, went to sleep and watched all the trailers in 4k later in the morning with a nice cup of coffee.
Some good stuff was shown but also a lot of this is far away. Not a big deal, my backlog is ehm, ā¦, lets not talk about it.
Do you think there will ever be a timer for Kojima?
Exactly.
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There will be when he is giving an awards speech.
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Itās a giant marketing exercise, always has been. Awards themselves are the same, though. A simulacrum of critique, but really just another marketing tool. Ditto for most mediums, franklyā¦
At the least awards carry some sense of serious thought. Game Awards drown that in marketing anyway.
Good show overall, though some bad pacing brought it down and Iād have preferred they gave more time to the award winners they just read out than a lot of the trailers we saw.
Hellblade 2, Blade reveal, and the Sega trailer were my highlights. B+ for the show.
Iām a big proponent of TGA and I like Geoff Keighley, but I think people calling this out has a point. I know itās a timer, but they need to have a control room with an experienced producer or director able to make decisions in real-time as to when to delay the message and the ushering music.
I understand itās a slippery slope. As soon as anyone gets āspecial treatmentā there will be calls of bias and other nonsense, but thatās a risk you have to take in my opinion.
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Iām sure thatās the kind of thing they can work out as they continue to adjust the system to improve things. I donāt think itās right to make a big deal about it like heās being insensitive or something when the timing was pre-defined and was the same for everyone though. It comes off as people look omg for stuff to drag him about.
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Oh, that I agree with 100%. It likely wasnāt insensitive, it was probably just poor production.
Unless, of course, they do have that control room and producer, and they actively made the decision not to give Larian a few extra seconds. But thatās something none of us know anything about, and so shouldnāt be part of the criticism.
As with everything, itās a learning experience. Theyāve finally tightened security to avoid people rushing the stage, maybe in a year or two theyāll figure out a more dynamic speech timer. 
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Iām probably the only one here, but the game I was most excited to read about being announced is the world of goo sequel. The first one was amazing.
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Catching up on the announcements, seems like that was probably the best TGA theyāve ever had, especially if youāre an Xbox fan