The VGX 2013 Thread (in before Mountain Dew)

[Wirdschowerdn]

Geoff is Canadian? I always knew there was something weird about him...

 

[abnaxus]

Why hast thou betrayed thy Lord, Geoffrey?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

A repost, you say? The other video has been shut down due to copyright violations from Viacom.

 

[Vicissitudes]

A repost, you say? The other video has been shut down due to copyright violations from Viacom.

did Joel kinda self-heckled the show that he got paid for?

 

[felipepepe]

If you watch movie or music awards, his performance was nothing special, is what you get from hiring comedians. But vidya games are SERIOUS BUSINESS, so insecure and self-aware that just saying you're on a "nerd event" already gets everyone uncomfortable.

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

so insecure and self-aware that just saying you're on a "nerd event" already gets everyone uncomfortable.

Hm? Aren't all these "awards" just a self-congratulatory marketing circlejerks bought and paid for by publishers, directly or indirectly? Can't imagine even nerds watching this shit, except through facepalms and a boner for masochism.
Joel didn't seem to be doing comedy, to me, but generally seething with "WTF am I doing here. Oh god, kill me nao." and couldn't hide it as well as the rest of the whores that came to the show.
Watching Geoff try to gobble as much publisher cock as he could manage with "What are you doing, Joel?!" plastered all over his face was amusing, though, I admit.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

A repost, you say? The other video has been shut down due to copyright violations from Viacom.

'If you tell me which game you love the most I will buy you four more layers'

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Angry lamer is very angwy!

 

[Dr Tomo]

So this is making waves on reddit and yes it really hasn't been verified yet. Ironically everything said is pretty believable and not surprising, either way it is a amusing read.

A lot of people seem a bit confused as to just what the hell is going on with the VGAs. As a former employee of both Spike and GameTrailers, I can tell you exactly what's happening.

I've worked for Spike and GameTrailers in web content, and both times, I left, on good terms, the same way: A few ranks above my boss's head, a new executive was slotted into place, and the first thing he did was, essentially, piss all over everything to establish dominance. Usually that meant people (like me) getting fired and at least one of the editors on the site forced to quit, or deciding to leave before the hammer came down. It also meant budget cuts with higher demands.

To give you an idea of the scale of the problem, I have no bitterness over my firing because the first day of work I realized that what they wanted me to achieve was impossible. I wasn't told this in so many words, but the job of myself and a fair number of good guys was to get GTs views up so they wouldn't get killed by YouTube. I worked hard for my money and was very well paid, but I knew the clock was ticking down the moment I was told I couldn't use a YouTube embed because "YouTube is our competitor."

The VGAs are really to promote GameTrailers, a site Viacom has spent a lot of money on and is probably going to wind up killing sooner rather than later. The short of it is that Viacom had to demonstrate to publishers that there was a compelling reason to not just post everything on YouTube. They haven't done that.

The VGAs this year had the rank stench of executive piss about them, to be honest, starting with the name change: I know the staff there still and VGX is definitely an order from on high. They can be cheesy but they wouldn't do something like that voluntarily. I'd lay down money McHale was a last-minute addition to the show and that neither he nor GT wanted him on there. The budget cuts, again, classic Viacom executive: I guarantee that the new guy just cut the budget in half and sent it back with a note saying "Do Better."

So, essentially, the VGAs suck because they have an impossible job; Make gamers care about Spike and GT. Once GT gets shut down, and I give that a couple more years, expect the VGAs to go with it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1sffu9/a_former_spikegametrailers_employee_on_why_the/

 

[HanoverF]

Show was free of commercialism

 

[Whiner]

Thank god for the Youtube stars

 

[Direwolf]

This industry needs to fucking die.

 

[deuxhero]

The VGAs are really to promote GameTrailers, a site Viacom has spent a lot of money on and is probably going to wind up killing sooner rather than later. The short of it is that Viacom had to demonstrate to publishers that there was a compelling reason to not just post everything on YouTube. They haven't done that.

It's funny: Youtube does everything it can to drive people away, but its competitors are too dumb to capitalize on it.

 

[sser]

I actually love it when Hale gets up on these shows - because he doesn't give a fuck.

Obviously, he's absolutely a terrible presenter. Apathetic, hates the product, etc.

But the way he subverts the tropes of being a presenter by just not giving a shit is awesome. I'm amazed he even hosted considering his E3 presentation was hilariously sardonic and critical.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Angry lamer is very angwy!

Angry ? He is laughing his ass off !.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

so insecure and self-aware that just saying you're on a "nerd event" already gets everyone uncomfortable.

Hm? Aren't all these "awards" just a self-congratulatory marketing circlejerks bought and paid for by publishers, directly or indirectly? Can't imagine even nerds watching this shit, except through facepalms and a boner for masochism.
Joel didn't seem to be doing comedy, to me, but generally seething with "WTF am I doing here. Oh god, kill me nao." and couldn't hide it as well as the rest of the whores that came to the show.
Watching Geoff try to gobble as much publisher cock as he could manage with "What are you doing, Joel?!" plastered all over his face was amusing, though, I admit.

Self-deprecative humor, might not work as intended if it hits too close to home among the audience.

 

[Xor]

The VGAs are really to promote GameTrailers, a site Viacom has spent a lot of money on and is probably going to wind up killing sooner rather than later. The short of it is that Viacom had to demonstrate to publishers that there was a compelling reason to not just post everything on YouTube. They haven't done that.

It's funny: Youtube does everything it can to drive people away, but its competitors are too dumb to capitalize on it.

I was just thinking the same thing. I feel like any company sizable enough to start up a streaming service could effectively take youtube on, at least in the areas that are hardest hit by this copyright claim bullshit. Blip is the only other video service I'm aware of that caters to people talking about video games, movies, etc, and they're too focused on trying to be exclusive to really compete with youtube.

 

[CSM]

I actually love it when Hale gets up on these shows - because he doesn't give a fuck.

Obviously, he's absolutely a terrible presenter. Apathetic, hates the product, etc.

But the way he subverts the tropes of being a presenter by just not giving a shit is awesome. I'm amazed he even hosted considering his E3 presentation was hilariously sardonic and critical.

Or more likely: McHale got hired to do precisely that.

 

[DeepOcean]

I actually love it when Hale gets up on these shows - because he doesn't give a fuck.

Obviously, he's absolutely a terrible presenter. Apathetic, hates the product, etc.

But the way he subverts the tropes of being a presenter by just not giving a shit is awesome. I'm amazed he even hosted considering his E3 presentation was hilariously sardonic and critical.

To his credit he showed a glimpse of interest on Dying Light and the Tell Tale GoT movie.

 

[DeepOcean]

Why hast thou betrayed thy Lord, Geoffrey?

My God, compare Doritos Pope eyes then and now, his soul was lost when he abandoned Emperor Gaben to sell the shitboxes from the devil.

 

[sser]

I actually love it when Hale gets up on these shows - because he doesn't give a fuck.

Obviously, he's absolutely a terrible presenter. Apathetic, hates the product, etc.

But the way he subverts the tropes of being a presenter by just not giving a shit is awesome. I'm amazed he even hosted considering his E3 presentation was hilariously sardonic and critical.

Or more likely: McHale got hired to do precisely that.

It goes against T.V. production code and you can read that fact on the faces of almost everyone he talks to. Still a possibility, sure, but unlikely. Somebody higher up probably made a mistake by going off name recognition. Same shit with his E3 hosting which was a trainwreck for the poor pitchmen who had to work around him.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Why hast thou betrayed thy Lord, Geoffrey?

My God, compare Doritos Pope eyes then and now, his soul was lost when he abandoned Emperor Gaben to sell the shitboxes from the devil.

Gabe is so slim on this picture, and that fabulous shirt

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Not even my grandma would have worn that outmoded nightgown.

What the fuck Gaben.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

By the way, from the Angry Joe video.

 

[Psquit]

Yeah. Fuck those multiplatform games.