>tfw whoring out gaming to advertisers didn't actually get it recognized as a valid form of artistic expression, somehow
Geoff just had to wait for the industry to catch up with his prestige obsession. Look in the background of the Dorito Pope image. That's Master Chief, it was taken when Halo was still a relevant franchise. Peak dudebro era shit when tired zombie schlock like TLOU was considered highbrow art because the MC looked sad sometimes.Now we have the prestige GOTYbait template and 2026's entire GOTY race will be figuring out which game will be the best publicity stunt to deny giving GTA6 the GOTY award, just like they did to RDR2 years ago and what they were probably planning with Expedition 33 had GTA6 not been delayed into 2026, hence the obsession with "small teams working with limited budgets" on press stages that year. This year my money's on Saros, Sony's always good to shill out for awards press, and they don't have to share the money with Disney like they do for Wolverine.And of course with the death of E3 he positioned himself perfectly to take advantage to make his cartel the most important name in video game promotion. He took over the summer, he's trying to make Gamescom about him. If TGS didn't already have Japan's biggest game awards event attached to it he'd try to take that over too.That'll be a hundred thousand dollars per minute of trailer time, thank you.
