MovieBob said:
If the Oscars Were the VGAs
An illustration of how VGAs are ruining our image.
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The problem is that "gaming" has become too big to just be a single category: "Gaming." It's an activity that engages several different audiences, but neither wants to give up the rights to the name.
It's like how gymnastics and football are both Sports, but they are extremely different and reach very different audiences. (And the bigger, angrier side continually claims the other side "isn't really a Sport.")
The Spike VGAs aren't about honoring games. They're about reveling in the culture and in-jokes of the "Chet"-side of Gaming. It's not meant for the folks that take Gaming-as-an-artistic-medium seriously. The sad part is that we have no real alternative for
those folks.
But the fact remains we can no longer afford to keep "Gaming" as a single heading meant to encompass all participants in the activity. It's like Sports or Music, or even Movies -- it's a broad category that defines the medium, but there are many facets
within that can't be grouped together.