• djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    Feel like I’m the only one surprised by this. I play games quite often, but I’ve never watched the Game Awards. I’m barely even aware that it exists. Never heard anyone in real life mention it.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I’m not interested either. I play games, but I rarely play new releases because they tend to release in such a bad state. So most of the games I play are a year or two old by the time I get to them, and those wouldn’t be featured on this year’s awards show.

      And yeah, I’ve never heard anyone talk about it. I have coworkers that watch the Super Bowl, World Cup, etc, but nobody watches game awards.

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      3 days ago

      I am barely aware of it, definitely don’t know about it until it’s in progress. I do like cramming a few trailers though, and wondering whether silksong is real

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        3 days ago

        That sounds very wholesome. My friends just talk about their kids or about how we never talk anymore.

  • Viri4thus@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    TIL US represents the world and everyone else watching F1, Tennis, the Olympics, FIFA world cup et al, are not human. Actually unsurprising, given current events, the US elites consider the rest of the world Untermensch.

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        3 days ago

        Hey, football (no, I’m not prefixing that) rocks. Soccer also rocks. Sports in general rock.

        That said, I don’t expect anyone outside the US to care about the super bowl, so the audience would basically just be the US. Whereas the audience for game awards is global, so I’d expect that to be much larger than the super bowl.

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    3 days ago

    I wonder if they included all the additional channels costreaming it?

        • Kerb
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          9 hours ago

          people dont tune in for the actual awards show.
          the real reason people watch it,
          is the announcements and reveals for upcoming games.

          the actual awards are imo not that respected by a lot of consumers and usually cause complaints with bad nominations & picks

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I didn’t watch The Game Awards myself, I mostly just know what I’ve heard about it being more of an industry advertising event rather than a real awards ceremony. And from what I’ve seen of this year’s they aired an obvious AI art trailer and they snubbed ZZZ for the music category, so they’re just reinforcing my lack of respect for them.