If anyone doesn't know what VGX is it's some video game award thing hosted by Spike TV and it involves talking about games for a bit, and then announcing a load of awards given to whoever made the best of whatever category they are pushing. The show is produced by Geoff Keighley, the man known to the masses as "Dorito Pope", so you know it's probably a load of bollocks.
Now when I woke up this morning it was already underway but having a quick look at my twitter turned me right off the whole thing. The first thing I saw was that Nintendo announced a new Donkey Kong game, which I thought was cool but apparently the rest of the internet was just complaining about it. The day has come when people are cursing a new DKC game....and that's a sad day.
So aside from the Dorito Pope the whole thing was hosted by Joel Mchale, who I'm not familiar with but he's not much of a game fan by the looks of things. From what I saw and heard about the goings on, he spent most of his time looking like he didn't want to be there but he did manage to ask a couple of really awkward questions to certain people, which gave me a little chuckle.
Now I have a bit of a problem with these kinds of award shows because the winners are always really really predictable. The game of the year winner at VGX was, surprise surprise, Grand Theft Auto 5. Not that I'm saying that there's anything wrong with GTA5, I've not played it yet, it's probably a good game at the very least however the game of the year really can only go to like 1 of maybe 3 games off the top of my head. Most of the big review sites will probably give their game of the year award to either The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite or Grand Theft Auto 5.
In fact, I'll make a bet with people right now, for every major gaming site that gives it's GOTY to something different, I'll give £5 to charity, so make sure you email me and make me aware because I'm not going to go hunting for it.
Not that those 3 are bad games, they are all passable titles, well put together with lots of polish and all that jazz but the fact that every gaming site will give their awards to one of these three is a little boring and sort of smells a bit of that whole "paid review" thing that gets talked about sometimes. I just wish that they would be more open about what their game of the year could be, so that when I watch I don't just fast forward through nominees because I know exactly what they are going to pick.
I heard though that fucking Gone Home of all goddamn things won indie game of the year. THIS I don't fucking agree with, because it's barely even qualifies as a game. If you want to tell me that Gone Home was better that Rouge Legacy, Don't Starve, Gunpoint, Antichamber and many others (that's just going off my sidebar) then take your shitty opinion and fuck off out of my face, I reject your awful taste in video games. I'm not sure if it actually did though, so if I'm wrong I'll be happy to discover that.
I didn't ignore the VGX completely but what I did see seemed low budget, badly made bullshit. The reveal about DKC was cool and I didn't see the others but the awards were so predictable I ended up closing the tab and playing fucking Gynoug on the Mega Drive. Do people actually give a flying fuck about these award shows? They know which handful of games is probably going to win so why bother?
Although if the VGX did one thing right it bored me enough to make me get up from my computer and work through my PS3 backlog for a few hours.
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