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The Spike VGAs Worldwide Livestream [*Over*]
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Hey mods, can you take that Geoff thing out of the thread title? Apparently, Mark Burnett was the guy lying, and its kinda embarassing that even mods jumped on these conclusions without evidence just because its hip lately to hate on Geoff Keighley. Although I am not his biggest fan either, this is just a bit ridiculous.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Interesting, the rerun of VGA on Spike cut out the entire Phantom Pain completely.
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
iNvid02
Member
play it man
Maybe Dark Souls 2 and Phantom Pain are the equivalent of 5 movies.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
You mean the game, or in general?
Puppet Shadow
Member
Shit, now what am I going to do with this flaming pitchfork?
Mushroomer25
Member
Oh shit.
I think we've figured out what happened. Mark said "five movies" - indirectly insisting that five new games would be revealed. He never said that there would be five game announcements - just announcements that would be equivalent to five new movies.
So it's him being an intentionally deceptive piece of shit.
Geoff's retro comment still needs to be justified, though.
HAHAHAH What?!
pieatorium
Member
He lied about retro game revival
3rdamention
Member
What was the retro game Geoff was talking about? I understood some game that Geoff loved to play many moons ago was making a return........What was it?
AlphaTwo00
Member
Yup, the just cut straight to adds, for like 6 minutes, and goes right back to VGA right after that trailer was over.
Yup, dug it up and the 5 unannounced games quote was from another producer as previously linked on the last page, My bad for trusting the mod title edit -_-.
Geoff does still need to explain away the next-gen comment (said we would see games "far beyond summer 2013") and the retro-game thing though.
Geoff does still need to explain away the next-gen comment (said we would see games "far beyond summer 2013") and the retro-game thing though.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Pachter said Walking Dead didn't have a chance of winning coz it was a downloadable game. Get him in that Wicker Man!
Gsak
Member
Gemüsepizza
Member
So please educate us what's wrong with refering to a direct quote.
Maybe they didn't think people would figure it out so easily?
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
The five reveals thing just seemed like an analogy instead of a promise.
Think people looked too much into it.
Though the Spike/GT guys could have been more clear.
Think people looked too much into it.
Though the Spike/GT guys could have been more clear.
Hot Coldman
Banned
There wasn't one.
Alcibiades
Member
If they got you to watch does it matter if they lied? This is a marketing event first and foremost aimed more at dudebro gamers than anything else. The closest thing you'll get to the Academy Awards is the AIAS awards which I believe still take place but without all the media hubub. Spike Awards are like the MTV Movie awards - for fun and not serious.
Gsak
Member
Or maybe it was an unnecessary viral gimmick.
Castlevania is an ongoing retro game revival, as is Dark Souls in gameplay difficulty. Geoff apparently never said that the last entry in that series needs to be 46578 years ago.
Which is still... stupid PR speech to get attention, but not completely lying.
Is that why they had that "We are experiencing technical difficulties" black card up for a few minutes on the rerun? Oh wow!
M_A_C
Member
or Metal Gear?
You don't remember Dark Souls 2 for the NES?
Puppet Shadow
Member
Either had I, totally unfamiliar with it. Odd, considering it's my Game of the Year. Buy it!!
Gemüsepizza;45194167 said:
Because 99% of GAF is blaming Geoff for the 5 unannounced games, when he was not the one who said that. Mods really need to change the thread title, people were posting that and the title got edited so I took it as fact myself. Unless they're leaving it for the next-gen and retro-game statements that Geoff made of which nothing came of (apparently)?
In general. I don't watch TV though.
Yeah, USA Today in the article bullet-points his statement as "five new games will be announced." Burnett overhyped, USA Today misnterpreted, people are disappoint.
The retro thing has to be Dark Souls 2. Geoff specifically refers to an amazing announcement for "old-school gaming fans". Nothing about a retro title or an old-school game, just fans of old school gaming. Which is a comparison that has been drawn a lot with * Souls, and the reveal was pretty goddamned epic and unsurprising.
Kojima trolling everyone.
Edit: Also, mods. Geoff wasnt lying, making the thread title quite a bit embarassing. Please change it.
SpikedGunner
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look I will admit (and I never thought I would be doing this), while there were still terrible/groan-worthy moment, this year's VGA was an improvement compared to past efforts(still needs a lot of work though).
I just have one question though...has anyone found out the name of the violinist from orchestral bit yet?
I just have one question though...has anyone found out the name of the violinist from orchestral bit yet?
Schmitty
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Tomb Raider?
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
Phantom Train not showing in the reruns? Sounds like Konami's or Kojima's doing.
SlowRevolution
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Burnett is a pretty solid producer, it's possible that he just used "five movies" as a general example without realizing people would end up thinking that meant exactly five game announcements.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Crazy. It's a huge TV show based off an ongoing comic book. I believe Activision is also working on an FPS game of it as well. Shit is everywhere.
Ah wasn't that show at the start of the event with the engineer and his sentry gun being the winner? I'm pretty sure that was it.