The Devil Man
12-06-2006, 11:12 AM
A couple of months ago in the UK, there was an Award ceremony for Games which was meant to be 'quite important' but instead...
It turned out to be a MASSIVE joke :(
The BAFTA Video Games Awards was shown pre-recorded on TV and has been hugely criticised in every single games magazine in the UK as one of the worst piles of crap ever witnessed. It really was a joke. Badly presented, badly hosted, bad winners, bad everything, everything, everything...
There have been discussions in other Games Forums which I wanna bring over here. Quite simply... do games even NEED Award Ceremonies?
Some would say that, sure, it is good for games to get recognition for the sheer hard work that developers put into them. They deserve recognition in the way movies, music, books and other stuff gets awards, because hard work needs to be celebrated.
The counter argument is that it's nonsense to say one game is 'The Game of the Year' because worldwide, the video games industry chucks out so much quality that it is foolish to say one Game is far better then the rest. Example for this year? Okami, Twilight Princess, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Guitar Hero 2, and many others are sheer quality games. How can you pick one game as the best above all others? They are ALL amazing!
What do you think? Do Games need Award Ceremonies? Or is it a waste of time?
Discuss Plz.
It turned out to be a MASSIVE joke :(
The BAFTA Video Games Awards was shown pre-recorded on TV and has been hugely criticised in every single games magazine in the UK as one of the worst piles of crap ever witnessed. It really was a joke. Badly presented, badly hosted, bad winners, bad everything, everything, everything...
There have been discussions in other Games Forums which I wanna bring over here. Quite simply... do games even NEED Award Ceremonies?
Some would say that, sure, it is good for games to get recognition for the sheer hard work that developers put into them. They deserve recognition in the way movies, music, books and other stuff gets awards, because hard work needs to be celebrated.
The counter argument is that it's nonsense to say one game is 'The Game of the Year' because worldwide, the video games industry chucks out so much quality that it is foolish to say one Game is far better then the rest. Example for this year? Okami, Twilight Princess, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Guitar Hero 2, and many others are sheer quality games. How can you pick one game as the best above all others? They are ALL amazing!
What do you think? Do Games need Award Ceremonies? Or is it a waste of time?
Discuss Plz.