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As an awards show which celebrates the developers, I thought it was pretty bad, so many awards just get quick fire announced alongside other awards like they mean fuck all, why for example was best debut indie given an acceptance speech but best indie wasn't? You can ask that same question about other notable awards as well, then despite the fact that a bunch of awards don't even get acceptance speeches, the ones that do get about 1 minute of speaking time before that annoying music starts playing to cut them off.

The tone was set from the start though with some questionable nominations, Destiny 2 in best community support after laying off practically their entire community team, Dave the Diver which isn't an indie being nominated for best indie, an eSports coach being nominated who didn't even coach and the boring line-up of best ongoing which is basically the same line-up every single year aside from 1-2 changes because they just pick what is the most played, it's questionable to even include Cyberpunk in there at all.

I'm fine with what won for the most part, aside from one or two disagreements.

As a show for gaming announcements, it was perhaps one of the best TGAs in that regard.

As for Xbox, they took their criticism last year of not showing up seriously it seems, they had a very strong showing with the announcement of Blade, an amazing trailer for Hellblade II and the reveal of Overdose + Jorden Peele. This is the sort of stuff that Xbox should give to TGA's Imo as I've said before, a few significant announcements that are quite a ways off, leave the near future announcements for things like their Summer Showcase and give TGA's one or two "far away" things.