Great points all around! The Oscars actually tried out a bit of marketing for future movies last year, with the extended advertisement for The Little Mermaid live-action remake, and it did not go over well at all with the audiences and critics because it did seem to open the door to crass commercialism rather than a celebration of cinema's history and more particularly a celebration of the previous year of cinema. The Game Awards could do so much with clips of past games on a theme, musical performances not just from the past year but from games of the past, maybe a lifetime achievement award section, and an in memoriam segment. Instead, as you say, it's mostly just ads for upcoming games, not that different from a dozen showcase events every year. It was also pretty egregious how quickly they got the winners off the stage. I know listening to people thank other people can be tedious, but at least give them more than 30 seconds!
All that said, the musical performance of Herald of Darkness from Alan Wake 2 was a stand-out moment in the show and I'll probably watch it on YouTube about a million times.
Great points all around! The Oscars actually tried out a bit of marketing for future movies last year, with the extended advertisement for The Little Mermaid live-action remake, and it did not go over well at all with the audiences and critics because it did seem to open the door to crass commercialism rather than a celebration of cinema's history and more particularly a celebration of the previous year of cinema. The Game Awards could do so much with clips of past games on a theme, musical performances not just from the past year but from games of the past, maybe a lifetime achievement award section, and an in memoriam segment. Instead, as you say, it's mostly just ads for upcoming games, not that different from a dozen showcase events every year. It was also pretty egregious how quickly they got the winners off the stage. I know listening to people thank other people can be tedious, but at least give them more than 30 seconds!
All that said, the musical performance of Herald of Darkness from Alan Wake 2 was a stand-out moment in the show and I'll probably watch it on YouTube about a million times.