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The Game Awards has made its peace with what it can and can’t do

I can agree that the actual awards themselves felt rushed. I must add that I was also playing Diablo on the Switch so it’s possible that the advertisements just blended into background noise.

But the point of the award presentations themselves being underwhelming I think helps make my suggestion that it would have been nice to see some lead-up videos or interviews with the people who made the games a reality. It would have been really interesting to see discussions with the RDR2 or GoW artists and learn where they got their design influences from for the game. Stuff like that to connect the players with the actual developers.

I love to play video games, but I don’t go digging through message boards to learn the in’s and out’s of the industry or to pretend I even know the who’s who of it. I think an awards show for the gaming industry could or should bridge those gaps.