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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Now this is something that deserves it's own Category.

The VA director is arguably more important than the talent of the VAs themselves in some cases.

Absolutely, especially as performances in games get more complex. For the two games mentioned Alan Wake II has performance capture and extended live action sequences while FFXVI has facial capture in addition to voice work.

KamikazePotato posted...

Gaming is an interesting industry in that the critics and casuals are in agreement more often than not. With movies, Marvel Movie #82 can be adored by audiences, make a trillion dollars, and not come anywhere close to a spot on the Oscars list. Gaming does have some examples of that (see: all the popular mobile garbage) but there's overall a larger overlap in popularity and critical respect. Many things that sell well are beloved by reviewers.

With that in mind, I'd say TGA are actually a pretty good representation of what 'gamers' as a whole feel. It isn't perfect, but no award show is going to be perfect. That's not even possible unless literally everyone is in agreement on a subject.

Hmm I think this is broadly true but the voterbase for the Oscars is different as thats Academy members while TGA is press (with a minority from the public vote). The equivalent of the Oscars in terms of who votes on it would be DICE, TGA is more like Critics Choice in that way. Still, I think the Oscars are slowly dropping their objections to popular films since they expanded the membership a few years ago and these days are usually a lot closer to public sentiment. Then looking in the other direction you have a film like Oppenheimer making a billion dollars while The Marvels struggles. So I think theres movement in both ways.