Geoff Keighley Agrees Music Was Played "Too Fast" For TGA Winners This Year

"Christopher Judge spoke for around minutes in his own acceptance speech."

To fast for the award Winners, but Anthony Mackie was fine to ramble on for 5 minutes.

How do you go from "One guy had a speech that went on a little too long" to "nobody should be allowed to make speech about their work on a game ever"

This is starting to feel like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others" segment.

I'm fully expecting him to complete the joke next year.

Honestly, Im just shocked with so little game trailers. I was expecting more than what we got. Next year quadruple the game trailers please.

Glad I’m not the only one who noticed. These guys have poured their blood sweat and tears into their projects, I think they should be able to talk about it for a bit.

I view all of these gaming awards like the Sex Pistols view the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

You saw in the first few speeches that the music played rather fast until a bit later, but when the only cue the people have on stage is the promoter telling you to “wrap it up,” it doesn’t matter if the term is or isn’t cutting them off, they feel the pressure to conclude their speech and stop basking in the team’s massive accomplishment.

Anthony Mackie dragged on, aonuma got rushed, sea of stars devs sabotage didn't get stage time. Those were my main gripes. Other than that, decent show.

Yeah he says that now 🙄

They should get more time if they have a translator, and the larger awards should get more time I suppose. Perhaps they can be given a maximum of 5 name drops or something. Or maybe they submit speeches in advance that can be loaded into a teleprompter after being edited for length. Maybe the finalists can be informed in advance if they won so that they can rehearse more.

What a jerk. That’s far from an apology for the despicable way these dedicated and skilled people were treated like simple props for his big production.

Especially if you're using a translator, extra time should be given to accommodate.

But I also think that they were more ardent this year to avoid political speeches about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Especially after some kid in a suit demonstrated how easy it was to get on stage and go off about his reformed rabbi Bill Clinton.

While I do like a short acceptance speech, they were rude to some of the winners. Especially when compared to their guest game award announcers/advertisers. Judge, Kojima and Mackie being standouts.

@Desrever And yet they had a whole thing about Frogwares last year. Hypocrites.

I don't get how this guy came to have so much influence.
Also, I didn't bother watching this thing hut I read that Anthony Mackie was there? Is he appearing in any upcoming games? And, if not, Why was he there?

@ottoecamn
He’s in an upcoming series based on a game (can’t remember which.) he was just promoting season 2 of the show and then announced an award.

I honestly think the dude was drunk.

@ottoecamn @blindsquirrel
He's in the Twisted Metal TV series, which you can find streaming on Peacock. I only know this, because he mentioned Peacock a couple times during that disjointed speech. Also, the event was held at the Peacock Theater, which probably answers a few questions about why all that went down.

@nessisonett Oh yeah! I remember that!
Geoff Keighley is such a tool, that I'm going to drop the charade, and just start spelling it "Jeff Keely" the way it should be.

@Snatcher True, but look at the bright side: It's a good reason for them to become rap gods. Eminem's songs won't hold a candle to those speeches once they master them.

So the workers were just very overzealous according to Geoff? Well we have no way of knowing if that's the truth or an excuse

When you consider all the amazing talent within the videogames industry across the globe and the ludicrous amount of money that they collectively generate...

...why does the industry entertain this clown and why is "The Game Awards" the best that we get?

Time for the industry to push back on this shambles.

It would have been nice if the award winners had as much time to give their speech as the people who were announcing their own games. If I have to listen to Matthew McConaughey for over a minute, Eiji Aonuma should get the same respect.

TGA is an advertising event interrupted by occasional awards.

E3 is gone for good, TGA might be the next pointless, expensive event to fall. It became a 3 hour commercial with like 20 minutes of actual content.

Maybe if they had less trailers then they could of had longer time for speeches

So they only got 30 seconds? That's ridiculously low. You have 90 seconds tokick fir the conversion in rugby.

Surely 2and a half to 3mins max would be enough time for it and to keep show moving.

It's also pretty significant that the industry lay offs weren't mentioned in the show, or all the discourse surrounding the nomination of Dave the Diver as an indie game. And then he had the nerve to mention how it was impressive that "Light No Fire" was made by an independent studio. But if it doesn't feel like an indie game, it shouldn't be an indie game according to Geoff, right?

This guy is a joke, and the TGA are clearly not a celebration of video games, it's a way for Geoff to show off at the expense of the creators.

This was maybe my favorite TGAs, including the pushy music cues but especially Jeff's constant hand gestures and Anthony Mackie bugging out. The best were those miserable looking translators trying to condense long responses and fighting against the clock. The whole thing is such a fun spectacle to watch with friends.

E3 was of the time in which it was created, namely the early creative years of the Video Game industry. The shows were, at times, glorious and groundbreaking with the spectacle and the game reveals that happened. It was a special time that unfortunately the E3 planners failed to see were fleeting and they did not plan accordingly to adapt to the changes coming. So in the absence of a platform that the industry can use unilaterally we are left with this farcical example of what is passed off as industry representation.

He isn't the people behind how and what events are planned and how they proceeded. Everyone on here needs to learn your not the planner your the host and that's the part you play. People posters on here are a joke they have no idea of the planning and timing of events and they don't follow your schedule they have a schedule to follow for good or bad.

I didn't watch this year because I don't want to support it any more. I just wait until the next day and review all the games that were announced. I think the devs of these amazing games should receive some kind of official praise for their work because they really do work their tails off, but this isn't the way to do it

TGA was and will always be an Ads, Celebs, and Hideo Kojima-first platform. Geoff's baby likes money and prestige more rather than actually honoring developers.

I value the DICE awards more.

@rushiosan
I wouldn't be so quick to expect failure from it. The event is trying to be the video game equivalent to the Oscars or the Grammys, considering there are no other North American alternatives of that scale.

@roy130390 Lmao! They are rappers in training! Of course! Why didn’t I think of that!

(Btw I’m sorry I haven’t replied to you about the fighting game conversation we where having, I will make sure to do that)

that would mean zelda was robbed from this award big time which it should of won that category reason why this show was a joke.

next time, spent more time on developers, not on random unfunny celebrities, disrepectifull, for what you done to the developers, did Kojima really need for 10 minutes for basically nothing, 30 seconds just for award speech, disrecpetifull and absurd this.

Gotta make room somehow for the real stars of the show, the ads.

@Rooty How does one think smartphones apps are so free to use as well? Nothing can survive with some kinda ads-unless you want to pay a subscription to keep it going yearly? Take online sites that uses ads so you can access them for free aka email yahoo, gmail? You wouldn't have those services without some kinda ads, Right?? People are just for the flick of the day-not thinking all the planning and staff needed to make this works isn't just a let's just do this DayOne that isn't going to happen people.

Everyone upset on behalf of creatives not getting time to speak is in the right.

Everyone upset ONLY because the Zelda guy got told to hurry up is a clown.

@RiasGremory TotK didn't deserve the GotY win. It deserved the nomination, not the win. Disclaimer: subjectivity.

@axelhander there other sites that it still has a chance to snag goty from and besides i still think totk is still better then baldurs gate 3

@RiasGremory k

@ModdedInkling It's not about highlighting the best crafted games of the year, It's about promoting companies. The "awards" are nothing but premium ADs. There is a good reason why you only see AAAs populating the relevant categories, even though stuff like Among Us were extremely popular or influential in their respective years. Those deserve the budget categories like Best Indie or Best Family Game so the billion-dollar publishers don't get offended. The fact we're always labeling pixel art games as "Indies" says a lot about how the industry works.

TGA is just a very expensive farse.

@HammerGalladeBro and always twirling, twirling towards freedom!

@axelhander

Your username made do a double take. It looks so similar to Axehound from The Way of Kings lol

@Classic603 I have learned something today!

@rushiosan
The key difference is that most of the money comes from Geoff Keighley and his company, rather than something like E3 which requires much more investment from the participating companies themselves.

Additionally, E3 really served no other purpose anymore as it could be done entirely online at the control of each publisher. The Game Awards is still an awards show at the end of the day, without the sponsored content and advertising from the publishers. To publishers, it's almost free advertising.

@ParadoxFawkes Twirling is all fine and good and all, but so long as we're moving forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! 👾🤣

@blindsquirrel
Hey now, can't forget the minutes-long Keyojima and Peele appearance to promote the Hollywood celebrity movie game.

@SwitchForce I'm sorry, it seems you're clearly passionate about the subject but I legitimately haven't a clue what you're talking about there.

So that's God of war's fault! Bad god of war.
Also give back last year's best OST award, Xeno3 has clearly been robbed.

@PipeGuy64Bit he says it was the team. But when the man in charge of something like this says that it was his lackeys.... mmmmm.

If you ask me, acceptance speeches are boring.

Developers given 30 seconds to accept their rewards.
"Yes, that's something we need to address going forward."

Developers get their awards at the podium and get shooed off stage.
"Yes, that's much better. Fire up another Marvel ad."

I feel like if Playstation had won anything for its games this year he would have let them speak for longer but there we go.

@N00BiSH It's called overcorrection and it's very common.