I'm done with it. I enjoyed it over the years though. Last year was full of cliches and ho hum material. Sam Jackson's tired jokes were annoying, but it had some level of personality. This year was just atrocious on so many levels. I'm not going to support it again. I'll read a VGX round up article and watch the videos on Youtube. And to make it worse, they had those idiots from Loiter Squad spew that drivel towards the end.

Because adding an 'x' to anything makes it seem cooler. Of course.

Lol it felt very low budget xD the "x' didnt help at all :P

http://www.gamrreview.com/article/90790/vgx-is-an-atrocity

Already articles sprouting up about how bad it was.

The show summed up:

Hired a comedian that specialises on a certain type of humor. Said comedian delivers on that humor. Everyone whines.

I personally loved Joel putting Tim Schafer on the spot about where the other $3million went.

It's pretty clear that they were aiming the show at a different audience. There wasn't anything shown, that wasn't (basically) already known or seen prior to the event. A few milliseconds during a few trailers were new, but overall it was garbage, aimed at a different crowd. This Video Game Awards (now X) was not aimed at the core gamer. It had no worthwhile reveals or surprises, it had meaningless drivel (like the youtube crap) and wreaked of low-quality. Joe McHale is usually pretty funny, and I thought was a guy who actually liked games. I wonder if he actually felt the same way we did about the new format, and wasn't aware of how it would be until he was already locked in. Meaning the only way he could show is hatred for the format, was to screw up the co-host position.

That's what I'm hoping anyway. I just can't believe that this is how this event was intended to go. Co-Host who appeared to care less about games, no big surprises, no real world premiers worth having, bad rapper spots, and self-proclaimed youtube freaks....None of that says Video Game Awards to me. Wonder if that's why the big devs (with real reveals) pulled out at the last minute. Didn't want to be associated with it, and didn't want to waste their world premiers on this trash.

I stopped watching. For future reference guys.....the best way you can show that this isn't something we care for as gamers, is to not watch. The viewership is what they're after. I know it's hard to turn it off, when it's such a train-wreck...But you have to. It's your only way of saying, "No, this is not ok." I stopped watching when I heard it announced that this mess was the highest viewership that the show had ever had, and was trending at the top of social media charts. Speak your mind, by not tuning in....or at the very least, turn it off, don't just keep watching for the sake of watching.

Sorry guys, I was really looking forward to this too, bummed me out pretty hard.

Had to do other things whilst watching it.......... just simply PAINFUL.

I'm so happy Naz wrote that article. There needs to be articles like this on all forums/news sites. Hopefully Spike will learn the lesson that the gaming industry isn't as ridiculous as they think it is.

The only award show worth watching is the Oscars and even that can be incredibly dull at times or just bad period especially two years ago when James Franco and Anne Hathaway where the co hosts.