Not adding every game because there was a fuckton of them and quite frankly most of them blended together or have too generic of names for me to go look for them

This years game awards was... solid. There is a few things I'm pretty interested in but ultimately nothing super crazy for me was announced. I'm surprised how many games I thought could've been there turned out to not be there at all. What I really want out of a showcase like this is to have a good idea of what next year looks like and I don't feel like this show really helped with that. Very few games actually had release windows let alone dates which is fine but Idk. I feel like a State of Play or Xbox Showcase early next year is sorely needed as it still feels like most of next year is a mystery. Its both exciting but also a bit exhausting. The biggest thing we got was a Rise of Ronin date which is pretty cool, but nothing from Hellblade. Both Sony and Xbox have a completely unknown first party lineup for next year which is very interesting.

Besides all that honestly the only thing about the show that was actually upsetting rather than boring was the treatment of the awards. Most rapid fired off feels gross but isn't unusual, but when people do get a chance to talk they are rushed off the stage basically immediately. Sam Lake, a non native English speaker gets like 30 seconds to thank everyone for his award but we let Anthony Mackie take ages making an overlong joke and Simu Liu talk way too much about his leg. I get there's pressure because many people just want the reveals and dont care about the awards but its an important aspect of the show and shouldn't be treated like an obligation to be got out of the way as quickly as possible. Something needs to change.