Anyone watching the SpikeTV VG Awards?

[JoyMonkey]

This is possibly the greatest load of crap I've seen on TV in years; and I've seen my fair share!
You can tell that absolutely everyone presenting it would rather be anywhere else. It's only stay-tuned factor is 'how much worse can it get'.
The guy that read out the winner of best driving game (sorry, The Pontiac GT SpikeTV Best Driving Game of 2005) didn't even read the name of the game. Whuh?
What genius decided to televise a video game award ceremony? 

[HaRuMaN]

Yeah, I flipped it on at that point, he just kind of help up the game for the camera to see...  I think it was Burnout 3 that won.  What a boring show, lol.  I watched for about 5 minutes.

[rampy]

I saw that it was going to be on... and made a conscious decision to pass on it....

I sat through part of the last G4techtv awards show in hopes of seein some hl2 footage or some lame crap like that...  and it was such a train wreck...

as much as video games are now a huge entertainment busines now...  I don't think watching the guys who ray traced a building in GTA Vice City accept an award hardly merits as entertainment (or what have you... )

sure these people deserve awards... but it just can't support an awards show that will hold my interest... even when they dress up anna nicole as laura croft...

rampy

[SaiNRuB]

Tommy Lees wailing just like the good ole days.

That was cool to see em perform together again.

[SaiNRuB]

Oh wow they toally bombed Dr Feelgood lol, they got a lil rusty seems. Still pretty cool to see em perform together tho.

[clanggedin]

It wsn't that they bombed Dr. Feelgood, but whoever was in charge of the audio/vocals was drunk or something they kept missing their cue. Or they were just having audio problems.

They played much better on Jimmy Kimmel.  I TIVOed the whole show  just to see Crue play. I was getting tired of Snoop Dogg singing every 10 minutes of the show and Funkmaster Flash was a horrible MC. They should never get Roy Jones Jr. to announce an award. He can't even friggin read! LOL

 

[MameMaster!]

...after last year's train wreck... I personally didn't even bother Tivoing this !

[Stingray]

I saw that it was going to be on... and made a conscious decision to pass on it....

Ditto.

If even the hard core gamers like the people who visit this site weren't interested, exactly who does watch crap like this?

-S

[GGKoul]

Didn't watch it.. but I'm interested in know want games won.  Anyone have a list of the winners?

[Luxury]

Well, from what I understand - this years show was MILES above last years.

[GGKoul]

Winners:

Game of the year:  GTA: San Andreas.
Best Game based on a Movie:  Chronicles of Roddick
Best performance from a Female (Human):  Brooke Burke (NFS: Underground 2)
Best Male: Samuel L. Jackson, GTA: San Andreass
Best Cyber Vixon: BloodRayne (BloodRayne2)
Best Racing Game: Burnout 3
Best Action: San Andreas
Best Sports: Madden 2005
Best Soundtrack: San Andreas
Fighting Game:  MK: Deception
Designer of the Year:  Jason Jones (Halo2)
First Person Action: Halo2
Best PC: Half-Life 2
Best Wireless:  Game: Might and Magic
Best Graphics:  Half-Life 2
Best New Technology:  Nintendo DS
Best Handheld Game:  Metroid: Zero Mission
Best Mass Multi Player Game:  City of Heroes
Best Role Playing:  Fable
Best Miltary: Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Best Song in a Game:  Green Day, American Idiot, Madden 2005
Best Gaming Publication: Game Informer???  (Never heard of it)
Best Gaming Site:  Gamespot.com
Viewers Choice Game:  Burnout 3

[geomartin]

Tried to watch it.  First ten minutes was a who's who rap video.  Mostly a bunch of self promotion for the celebs and very little video game info.  I gave up when the man behind the wheel of Pontiac's new GTO couldn't figure out how to do a decent  burn-out when bringing out the envelope for the Best Driving Game award.