 Hey everyone, today we're going to talk about this show that just happened last night and honestly it feels weird but I'm going to be talking in defense of the game awards because not only did I think it was an incredible show last night, I think that a lot of people don't understand what the game awards is and on top of that I find a lot of the complaints out there, I'm not going to call out any one person in particular, any content creator in particular today during this video but I do find a lot of the criticism around this game awards to be incredibly misunderstanding and misinformed and even misplaced. In fact, I have such a long list of things that was announced at the game awards that when people act like there was nothing at the game awards I think people are insane. Now before we get into the rest of this we are on our drive to get to 80,000 subscribers by the end of the month so I would appreciate if you would drop a sub, I want to do something special if we happen to hit that goal. Also we are giving away right now three copies of Pokemon Legends Arceus to win one of those three copies, all you need to do is head down into the description or the pinned comment, click on that viral sweep link and I wish all of you guys luck with that we announce the winner that's later in January towards the release of the game. All right that being so let's get right into this because I have a bunch of notes just some quick talking points but we're going to go through a list of games and I'll throw little clips of the trailers up when it's time but I really want to talk about some of this stuff because first off we're a Nintendo channel so let's focus on the Nintendo aspect. For a lot of Nintendo fans they were obviously disappointed Nintendo quote-unquote no showed at the game awards technically they didn't Doug Bowser was there Doug Bowser was on stage Metroid Dread won best action game uh action platformer or what is it action something it won it won an award it won it won the award for the category it was in it didn't win Game of the Year it takes two did but um yeah Metroid Dread won an award cool oh best action adventure game that's what it was so one best action adventure game so here's the thing that was incredible to see Metroid Dread get that award was amazing it basically was up for two major awards Game of the Year and this one if it couldn't win Game of the Year winning this one is really the best thing it could do I jumped out of my seat I didn't actually think it was going to win this award so I was really really really happy for Metroid Dread uh so yeah Nintendo was there now Nintendo didn't show any games they did have a couple commercials they had an indie world commercial and then a general 2022 commercial but Nintendo themselves really wasn't there showing any game in particular no brand new looks brand new trailers brand new gameplay or any of that even for things like Bayonetta 3 which originally unveiled at the game award so yeah Nintendo did do this whole no show act but Nintendo also already has so much announced for 2022 they might not have really needed to hype anything up uh here and Nintendo likely has an early direct now people took this to mean Nintendo doesn't care about the game awards I think that's silly if they didn't care about the game awards why the hell would Doug Bowser be there in person they could have sent someone from Nintendo Treehouse or anybody else there to accept Metroid Dreads award but it was literally the president of Nintendo so yeah Nintendo cares about the game awards they didn't take advantage of the audience and the platform but you know that's okay I think a lot of Nintendo's biggest games next year um at least ones that would fit with the crowd at the game awards which would be things like Breath of the Wild 2 might not be coming to the second half of next year so showing it now I don't know it might not feel great and who knows Breath of the Wild you know Zelda games have a history of getting delayed now some of you guys are going to go but Nate you told us no no no no no I never said Breath of the Wild 2 will be at the game awards there was obviously a rumor from Samus Hunter which we will no longer be covering Samus Hunter for the time being um until she gets a number of major things right at this point obviously I feel like she took her own personal opinion and stated it as a fact as a leak and she did apologize for it but it doesn't matter um yeah that was a big swing and miss there for Zelda 35th anniversary stuff so yeah screw that we didn't get a medley we didn't get anything Zelda related we didn't get a Zelda really uh looking kind of game but uh it wasn't Zelda so all right setting that aside obviously Nintendo fans are a little disappointed but here's the thing I always question why why are we upset because Nintendo didn't show anything I'm a switch owner I don't just play Nintendo games is that all you guys do is my audience just built around people who only play Nintendo games because the switch had a number of games shown and announced for it let me go over that list I have it right here so games that are shown that are coming to switch so we had Monster Hunter Sunbreak we had a new trailer for that hey what's wrong with the new trailer for Monster Hunter Sunbreak I don't think there's anything wrong with that in fact after the show this is kind of an addendum to that news they announced three new amiibo look at them I mean they look pretty good right um we had a brand new game announced coming to switch in persona for arena ultimax and all I saw when this was announced as coming to switch was oh we still don't have a real persona why are we looking at gift horse in the mouse this is a good game why are we come I I'm confused we got an announcement for cuphead dlc and guess what cupheads on switch so we're getting that dlc and it looks incredible right sonic frontiers are you kidding me did that not look incredible that will look like the exact sort of trailer we wanted to see to unveil sonic frontiers if you're not hyped after watching that trailer even if you know we should be cautiously hop optimistic and hype responsibly reality is that trailer was incredible so I don't understand okay there's nothing shown for switch I I'm confused here lord of the rings golem we got another look at that we haven't seen that game in over a year that game's coming to switch looked pretty good from what we saw it's looked good every time it's been shown and then we obviously got a plague tale requiem which yes it's likely going to be a cloud version for switch then it stayed there at the show that it was going to be a cloud version but the prior a plague tale game is also on switch what is also a cloud version so I see that I understand that I understand the criticism around that obviously we'd rather have the game locally on switch but whatever that's a nice handful of games coming to switch now here's the thing I think a lot of people's opinions around the game awards are because people don't understand what the game awards are yes it's an award ceremony and yes there's still going to be the criticisms that you know a handful of awards get rushed through every single year don't get the proper stage time um some people are actually upset thinking that you know joseph eras was like rushed off stage after winning game of the year when really he made that decision himself joseph eras could have made a 30 minute speech jeff kealy was going to let it go he's the one that decided he wanted to make this an incredibly quick thing because it was a long night a couple things I want to talk about here one jeff kealy I have seen a number of people claim that jeff kealy doesn't care about games that this show is nothing but to puff jeff kealy's ego that he cares so much about his ads and his whatever I don't know jeff kealy but we just had someone on the podcast who does know jeff kealy so I'm going to let him do the talking for me I have so many thoughts on this and I don't think that they're the most popular thoughts for a lot of people but it comes with a lot of actual knowledge of the industry and how the stuff works and the the reality is the back end aren't you guys on the panel I think for the yeah we yeah we have been one of many people that vote for this and I can say like jeff cares man jeff kealy fucking cares about this stuff he listens to the feedback he knows what people are saying and there's just a reality to it all of I know that it's easy for us to look at and be like oh it's an award show but like you're focusing more on upcoming trailers and stuff than you are the actual awards if they focus on the awards nobody would watch it and that's just the fact like there's no no getting around that and the reality is like we look at other game award shows other ones like the BAFTAs or dice and people it does not get the views like yeah exactly like the award shows exist where the focus is awards and the mainstream doesn't care not even the mainstream the hard cores don't care people do not watch it take award shows and apply it to the the Oscars the Grammys the all that stuff it's the same thing the ratings are going down down down because it's just such a weird niche thing and like we can talk and we can you know be on our high horses and be like we want to see the awards this is an award show the reality is numbers speak blah blah blah we're here for the announcements we're also here for the speeches and the awards and they I really think are doing their best job of trying to make it as entertaining as possible while also rewarding the people for other stuff there was one side of this that does not get talked about enough and it's that the awards actually fucking matter being on stage being able to like have the winner having this moment all that stuff is very nice and can be extremely extremely important I know this from experience Greg Miller won Trendy Gamer the year in 2015 he gave a speech and he fucking used that platform he killed it and I'm so proud of him and to this day people talk about that oh yeah not every speech is that you know and and that's okay it doesn't need to be but the reality is game awards matter I saw a whole like anytime we talk about game awards there'll be comments on YouTube and Twitter and everything and being like none of this matters anyway like it's all a bunch of bullshit whatever it is not bullshit man if you go to a developer if you go to a publisher their lobbies of their offices are covered with these awards they mean something to them this allows them to get more funding for their next project these awards allow them to put things on game of the year versions of their games to sell more to reignite an interest game awards are so so important to these developers so yeah now assuming that all of that is true and I have no reason to doubt it Jeff Keely clearly cares about video games so what are the main criticisms I've seen to the show there was nothing exciting shown what is okay let's go over the list that isn't from Nintendo that that's going to be for other platforms pc playstation xbox right we had evil west metal health singer gods of metal steel rising vampire the mass grade gtfo which also shadow dropped during the awards home world three texas chainsaw massacre king of fighters 15 planet of lana summerville have a nice death thirsty suitors titchia babelans fall rumble verse tunic and oh my gosh it tunic look absolutely incredible destiny to the witch king which queen expansion warhammer space marine two dying light two final fantasy seven remake integrate coming to pc crossfire x tiny tina's wonderland nightingale a new saint's row game among us going to vr slitterhead which some people got a little upset about because the person behind it they brought up silent hill the point was bringing up why people should care about this game because it has the creator of silent hill it wasn't trying to advertise it as a silent hill game misconception of the fans there dune space wars the expanse a telltale series star trek resurgence horizon forbidden west a big showing for sony forespoken another big showing for sony arc raiders hellblade to send you a sacrifice the big showing for xbox at this show suicide squad kill the justice league elden ring wonder woman a new wonder woman game allen wake two confirmed star wars eclipse and then matric awakens an unreal five experience which yes folks obviously isn't really like a game it's more so a tech demo for unreal engine five but it is available for free for everyone on playstation 5 next on series x and does look pretty incredible so that's a massive list of games just glancing at it it looked like 35 to 40 games talked about the game awards and a span of three hours really three and a half hours because we all know the pre show is really the real kickoff so it was about a three and a half hour show and yeah 40 plus game shown off in addition to all the wards yeah musical performances i thought the orchestrated performance of the games leading in the game of the year i've seen people be critical of that like why do we have an orchestrated performance you know leading into the game of the year it's like are you are you kidding me right now are you actually kidding me right now this is the probably the kind of talk we should have after every nintendo direct probably the kind of talk we should have after every playstation showcase and everything else in between not getting the game or games you wanted does not a bad show make this show had something for everybody the only people you could argue it did not have anything for was if the only thing you care about our nintendo first party games you could argue for them the only moment was metroid drive winning an award but even then we still had that i am incredibly frustrated with the negative reactions around this show guys i'm a nintendo guy i should be as pissed off as any of you that nintendo no showed i should be pissed off that there wasn't you know 35 switch game shown off the problem is i have an appreciation for gaming even if their games i'm not going to play i have an appreciation for the games that win these awards it takes two you can cry foul on it winning game of the year it winning best family game as well you know instead of all nintendo's offerings but i ask you have you played the game have you actually played it takes two if you haven't and you're being critical what's wrong with you you can't be critical of a game winning you've never played because you don't know how great that game is and in the case of it takes two it's phenomenal it's literally top three if not obviously one game of the year best game that released in the last year it takes two is an emotional roller coaster it takes two is an incredible gameplay experience an incredible narrative an incredible visual incredible audio i i i venture that it takes two for what it is is near perfect near perfect i can't think of even one criticism i have of that game after completing it folks the game awards is a show for everybody and the problem with it being a show for everybody which includes game developers media and fans is that no one is really ever going to feel 100 satisfied right right no one is if you're a sony fan oh they've only hit two things that you hit about if you're in a microsoft only only in two things i care about pc fan only only had a couple things i cared about oh man who cares about the award this is the award show that doesn't care about the awards which is bullshit they clearly care about the awards jeff kealy just knows the big audience coming in isn't there for the awards i want to be clear about this the awards are not for you maybe that bothers you these awards are for the developers for the studios for the publishers not for you that's why the reason you're tuning in isn't the awards you're tuning in because hey you want to see some game announcements that's what you're tuning in for and if what you want to see announced if what you want to see isn't there you're going to think it's a shit show that's so incredibly unfair to the 40 games shown yesterday now you want to say well there's too many cinematic trailers jeff kealy's not at fault with that the game awards ain't that fault of that be mad at the game publishers that has nothing to do with the show itself the show is not at fault that the trailers shown by others were not chosen to be full gameplay trailers that some were just quick little teases that's not their fault that's the fault of the publishers not giving more the music performances oh i got a problem with old man sting me and on the stage he was singing a song from a tv show based on video games that tv shows actually it's a it's a video game adapted into a tv show yeah that's related it's not jumping through hoops to justify sting being there no it's literally a video game that became a tv show and this is like the theme song of that show that is literally related that song does not exist without a video game existing that's not jumping through hoops that's not hyperbole it's gaming related imagine dragon some people didn't like their performance and yet the song they did is also in a couple of video games so is your bitching you don't like that song i guarantee you if you didn't like it there's millions of others that did same with the orchestrated performance you're not into the orchestra millions of others are not everything has to be tailored to you we're all selfish as people we all want what we want right some people think e3 was significantly better because we had metroid dread and breath of the wild to you as nintendo fans but if you think about that that was what five minutes out of a four plus day event for me three those five minutes was better than the entirety of the game awards of 40 games there were more games that you want to throw at wasting your time oh it's too long we had 12 hour days at e3 official stream start official stream end there wasn't a single day 40 games were shown off the show is not perfect let's address the marketing people bitch about the marketing how do you think the bills get paid i appreciate how the marketing was handled you know advertisers for mobile games there was actually only two ads in the entire show for mobile games two two and they lasted less than 45 seconds each most of the sponsors most of the sponsors were literally managed in less than one minute mentions do we want to go back to verizon 5g how e3 was paying bills verizon 5g 45 minutes do we want to go to a time where a show like this is so reliant on the ad partners that they have to have the mountain dew backstage area that they have to have the doritos player of the week do we want to go back to when an hour of the show was dedicated to ads and you might go but an hour of the show was dedicated ads you're wrong i went through and rewatched the entire show today stopped and started a timer every single time an ad was shown and i'm not talking about the little baked in commercial segments that were just you know trailers that advertise games i'm talking about when it was very specifically a sponsor of the show it only took up 16 minutes and 12 seconds out of a three and a half hour show 16 minutes and 12 seconds is what you're bitching about out of a three and a half hour show then i hear the argument oh the game awards it's nothing but an advertisement yeah what's a game trailer it's an ad for a game why do we get excited about nintendo directs what are nintendo directs advertising for games coming to switch so what you're bitching about isn't that the show's just a big marketing thing what you're bitching about is they didn't market the games you wanted them to that the studios that you wanted to be there didn't bring the goods and then is that the game awards fault is it jeff kealy's fault that nintendo didn't bring something incredible to this show that they didn't show off Breath of the Wild 2 or Metroid Prime 4 or bayonetta 3 even that's coming next year or even something for Splatoon 3 right is it the game awards fault that nintendo chose to not put something in this show no that's nintendo be mad at nintendo for not coming not the game awards you think jeff kealy was telling nintendo not to be there telling nintendo not to have something for the show are you you think there wasn't conversations of course jeff kealy wanted nintendo stuff at the show but he doesn't control what companies participate in what companies bring the goods the game awards to me was absolutely incredible it was the best gamemate event of the year i'm not exaggerating when i say that blue e3 out of the water had significantly more announcements and more hype than summer game fest and yeah we could talk about nintendo direct and state of plays and everything in between and maybe those individual events were more hype for you because it had things that you care about and if all you truly care about watching the game awards last night was say in our case nintendo games then why were you watching the game awards that's not an event for you wait for the next nintendo direct if all you care about are sony games why the hell were you watching the game awards go watch state of plays bottom line is we already have events dedicated to single platforms all year long the game awards ain't that event the game awards is about the whole of gaming and what you discover in a lot of these reactions is how many content creators and gaming fans just don't give a shit about anything but their own selfish desires when eric and i react to these shows every year we see the same thing whether this game awards e3 summer game fest we see the same thing people bitching people complaining that they didn't get what they wanted showing no appreciation for the other people that did get what they wanted events like this are hard to run just running my e3 show on my own was difficult i can't imagine the stress that jeff kealy's under running the game awards the pressure he's under the negativity and backlash he faces every single year after a show knowing the amount of work and passion and time and just effort he puts into that show to have to deal with the negativity of not being able to satisfy all gamers because inherently gamers are selfish that's not pretend that that's not true you know you're selfish i'm selfish we're all selfish we want what we want and we if we don't get it we get mad i think that's just a dumb way to look at this every game that was showed yesterday i thought was incredible the only really weird eyeball one was that doki dance thing going on which actually looks like it might be an interesting game but i'm not really into the whole k-pop scene so you know forgive me for maybe not being into that that was maybe the only announcement but even if i wasn't into that you know who probably was everyone watching in china everyone watching in japan it might not have been for you but gosh darn were the eastern fans probably hyped by that showing jeff kealy has a whole world of gaming to take into consideration not just you and because of that i think he does an incredible job i thought everything showed well even when i was like oh man cinematic trailer that's not his fault that's the industry's fault that's the studio's fault every game shown looked incredible from the indies all the way to the tippy top of the first parties everything looked wonderful even the sparing movie trailers which there was actually less of them than i expected right we got we got a matrix movie trailer we got a trailer for the silent movie too and that was basically it i mean they showed a trailer for the halo tv series as well that wasn't a movie i actually thought we're gonna get more i thought like the last of us was gonna have another trailer there right like i thought there was gonna be more of that and there was actually less than i expected and i always wonder what do people really expect going into these shows jeff kealy told us about musical performances oh let me bitch about this he told you was gonna be there if you didn't like the musical performance why were you watching he told you they were gonna be there he announced sting in imagine dragons ahead of time the orchestra ahead of time he told you what this show was and again while i get upset that the awards maybe aren't treated a little bit better the awards aren't for us we don't win awards the developers win them and you think joseph eris is pissed off that he won game of the year and was only on stage for five seconds do you think he cares that guy is busy cussing his way to the airport throwing that thing in the air probably getting ready to make lots of viral videos with haze light studios over winning game of the year you think nintendo cares that oh my gosh we only won one of the awards we were nominated for no because it was metroid dread a game that when they announced that they probably had no idea if it was going to be a big success and here we stand today and the selected the best selling metroid game of all time and it got recognized as the best action adventure game the same sort of category zelda goes up for metroid just won it with a 2d side scroller let that sink in you think these game studios are upset they're proud they walk with pride winning these awards they walk with pride being nominated these nominations get people jobs the awards aren't for us and jeff kealy knows that that's why you focus us so much on having 40 games at the event because he knows that's why we're watching he's trying to cater to the entire industry this is an all-encompassing industry event the only one like it in the world and it's start that we appreciate it so i want to end this video by saying thank you jeff kealy i think not enough people give you praise for how hard of a show this was and how incredible it really is this was the celebration of gaming's past present and future that i needed and wanted sure say it selfish because i got what i wanted really most of the game shown i'm not going to play but i can appreciate how great they looked and appreciate the millions of others that are going to enjoy them because i don't need the game awards to be the perfect show for me the perfect show for me is a direct what i want the game awards to be is something that properly recognizes the entire encompassing sphere of gaming and it did that there was something even it was small for everyone even if for nintendo you only cared about metroid dred you had something then didn't you i am nethander ruffle jance from the tenor prime and i'll catch you guys in the next video