The Game Awards has come and gone for another year of celebrations and announcements, and the verdict about the 2025 edition of Geoff Keighley's yearly showcase has come in.
In a poll on Twitter/X posted just minutes after the show went off the air, The Game Awards creator and host asked for viewers to give this year's show a letter grade, and the results are not what you'd like to see.
37.3 percent of voters said the show deserved a D or below rating, with 21.5 percent saying it was a C. All told, that's 58.8 percent of voters who chose the bottom two options in the poll. The second-biggest vote, at 25.2 percent, was for a B, and 16 percent gave this year an A.
Personally, I thought this year's show was par for the course. Way too many ads for anime gacha games (as usual), some cool announcements (the Resident Evil Requiem trailer, Divinity reveal, Mega Man announcement, and Exodus trailer were highlights for me), random celebrity appearances (the shrieking Street Fighter movie cast moment was a low-point), and not enough emphasis on awards. I know there's a time crunch, but the rapid-fire reveals of award winners feels rather disrespectful if that's what we're gathering for in the first place.
I know most viewers are tuning in to see some big surprises (this year's final reveal drop being a new free-to-play hero shooter was a head-scratcher), but if it truly is The Game Awards, then please let the developers who win these awards get their moment in the spotlight.
This has all been discussed before, though. This is the 12th iteration of the show, and it seems like it's gotten its formula down at this point. And honestly, I don't envy the position Keighley is in every year trying to put the show together. It lasts three and a half hours and has to fit in multiple awards, and a whole lot of game reveals and advertisements that pay for it all to happen (it's reportedly up to $1 million for a 3-minute ad this year) and I'm sure it's tough to manage.
What did you think of the show this year? Let us know in the comments below, and as always, keep it civil and classy.
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