Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Didn't watch any of this myself but it sounds like the show really pissed people off with how it used the time - screwing the devs over by not letting them talk whilst others who have little or nothing to actual do with games got to spout bullshit for ages.
They really should just drop the pretence that the awards aspect of it is in any way the focus and accept that it's a glorified advert show
Oh God, yeah, I found the timed speeches to be really quite disrespectful. You had people like Neil Newborn and Sam Lake clearly emotional and wanting to express their feelings in a thoughtful and considered way and then this ridiculous sounding, sad violin would start playing, almost to the point of drowning them out. As I said, it was really disrespectful.
And then you had the other awards where Geoff just machine gunned through a bunch in under a minute and didn't even show the dev reactions.
