Fallout 4 Snags Game Critics Awards' Best of Show Honor

[EternallyBored]

This is like judging a food awards competition while all the chefs are still in the kitchen cooking their meals.

"Gordon Ramsay's cheese grating technique is top notch, let's award him with 'best bolognaise'."


We have very little idea how any of these games actually play or will perform. To hand out awards like "Best RPG", "Best Hardware" and "Best Multiplayer" when virtually all of these are very much still in the development phase is quite ridiculous. Any of these games could completely fail to deliver. In fact some of them probably will.

Eh, E3 isn't really unique in this, they stole the idea from tech and car shows, which is pretty much the same thing: give out awards for who has the prettiest concept, prototype, presentation, etc.

It makes sense the way it was originally used, magazines and websites would name promising upcoming games and present awards based on what looked best at the show, it pretty much was an award for having a good reveal/presentation. And that was it, the company gets some recognition, the magazines display the titles they think their readers should keep their eyes on, and everyone forgot about it beyond basically ranking what was shown at the expo.

Then, somewhere in the last 5-7 years, advertising companies started putting the awards in the advertisements for the games themselves, some sticking E3 awards on the game boxes or as part of commercials, leading to those ridiculous splash screens, "OVER 350 E3 awards!!!!", basically hyping up the awards from, "we had a cool reveal that critics liked at the last E3" to "yeah this award basically means we are Game of the Year before release". The awards themselves aren't the problem, giving out acknowledgement for having a good reveal/presentation is a good way to spread the word on the product, companies acting like an E3 award is the equivalent to good review scores before release have twisted it into basically prerelease hype.

 

[thewatergamer]

Uhhh guys with all due respect, why the fuck do you or any bloody "gaming website" or magazine with "gaming critics" or "journalists" or whatever still give "best of show awards" to games that don't exist yet? Remember Titanfall and more importantly Aliens Colonial Marines? Those games got tons of marketing money because of all the "awards" they got from stuff like this and in case you don't remember, Titanfall was a decent idea with solid gameplay but an incredibly average and hollow experience, and Aliens Colonial Marines, well that was a blatant false advertising case

I understand to an extent that this type of thing is embraced by games publishers, but games publishers aren't our friends and they aren't yours either, your useful to their marketing nothing more

 

[DerangedHobo]

They have prizes... for showing the shiniest advertising now? I... what is wrong with these people? Could this be any more self-gratifying if it tried? How about actually releasing the functional product before we all line up around the block? Fucking ridiculous.

As a side note, consoles (PS4 especially) can go fuck itself with a spiked dragon dildo for taking No Man's Sky. Cunts.