VGX is an Atrocity

8th December, 1 replies

Promises broken, dreams shattered - is our industry really still in this position? Spike, what are you doing to us? Is this some giant conspiracy to discredit gaming as an art form? Not so very long ago, Spike announced VGX, a replacement to the much-lambasted VGAs. The VGX was created to be a rebirth – a celebration of all things video games. The award show aspects would be torn away, and it would be a true, intimate look at new games and upcoming games for us to celebrate our industry. This is what was promised.

What was delivered was worse than anything the VGAs ever did. It’s hard to even know where to start on this truly embarrassing experience. Let’s begin with what was pretty clearly a last minute hosting decision of Joel McHale. McHale’s presence throughout the night erred on the line of an irritation blocking us from seeing the games we were actually interested in, to a cold reminder of how ludicrously horrible what we were viewing actually was. Joel made fun of the show even as he was a part of it. This was on occasion pretty funny, but any time developers were around to discuss their games he stopped the conversation dead, making this a largely useless venue to give information and announcements....

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  • Jarrod Garripoli
    It was such a horrible show, from the hosts to the reveals. That concert they did was equally as horrible, with the people standing outside doing the "interviews" most likely being drunk or high. I can't believe they wasted three hours on something like this.
    — 8th December

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