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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Games I'm Embarrassed by Spike's Video Game Awards

Posted by Earnest "Nex" Cavalli on Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:43 PM

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Tonight saw the latest entry in Spike TV's annual Video Game Awards "extravaganza" and while I couldn't be bothered to fly down to Los Angeles to attend this thing in person I've spent the last few hours watching the tape-delayed televised feed.

If you wanted to be polite, you could say I'm unimpressed.

If you wanted to be accurate, you could say I've been cringing with embarrassment for the last hour and a half.

It's one thing to ape the Oscars, but by replacing the attractive glitterati of Hollywood with the exceedingly plain looking (at best) denizens of the world of gaming while ignoring the fact that the development side of gaming has the sex appeal of a 70-year-old Jewish woman, the end result is a program that seems like a grade school art project with gee-whiz special effects and celebrities who Seth Green looks down on.

Gaming may need something like this to push it into the coveted mainstream spotlight, but Spike should really stick to metaphorically jerking off teenagers with television shows about mixed martial arts and the mystery of female underoos.

 

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It's really sad when the best part of an awards show about video games is the closing musical number.
Posted by LostCrichton on December 15, 2008 at 2:13 AM · Report
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I'm sorry...did you just insult Seth Green? You have lost all credibility...
Posted by DeepCerulean on December 15, 2008 at 7:08 AM · Report
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Female underoos. Hawt.
Posted by Will Radik on December 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM · Report
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'tevs, Manswers has gotten me more game than ... well, the Game by Neil Strauss.
Posted by Michelle on December 15, 2008 at 9:50 AM · Report
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so you're saying you're attracted to 70-year-old jewish men, then?
Posted by old lady on December 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM · Report
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Hey! My brother-in-law hosted those!... I think... was it JD Ryznar? The man's hilarious!
Posted by dougwastaken on December 16, 2008 at 12:25 AM · Report

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