Pretty Voices, Pretty Faces
Ever since the Spike Video Game Awards nominees were announced over a month ago, I’ve had a blog post a-brewing in my netbook. It originally started as an attempt to go through the list and rationalize the options, give my opinion on what should win, and what will most likely take the popular vote. While that’s all fine and dandy, it’s ultimately pointless. The games that got nominated are obviously qualified in one way or another.
The real shenanigans spawn from the topic of four individual categories that span the bottom portion of the nominees:
- Best Performance by a Human Female/Male
- Best Cast
- Best Voice
Now, even just looking at the categories leads one to question the validity of what Spike’s setting up here. The most obvious one being, what exactly is going to be the difference between ‘Best Performance’ and ‘Best Voice’? Upon first glance, you might think that it has something to do with a specific performance in a game versus just having an awesome voice. Apparently not! To the nominations:
Posted by Leif on Wed Dec 9th at 12:16PM