The Unofficial Official Game Awards Drinking Game 2k20
once again into the bottle
For god’s sake, it feels like the hangover I had from this thing last year has just lasted the entire year.
Welcome yet again to The Unofficial Official Game Awards Drinking Game, brought to you this time by me needing something to kick off my Substack! Since Geoff Keighley’s monument to video games’ excess will be in a socially distanced presentation, we’re going to have to get creative, but I’m sure the chaos of 2020 will just lead to an absolute disaster no matter what I manage to come up with below. That said, I’m going to have overall less rules this time around, because keeping track while sloshed is really fucking hard.
This year, the streamed version will be returning to my own personal Twitch, https://twitch.tv/suprhero7. Seeing as I haven’t used it in over a year, it seems like it’d be fitting to risk deep frying it with a DMCA claim or twelve instead of bumming off of someone else. I’ll be streaming with multiple streamers and writers there, so be sure to check it out at 7:00 EST/4:00 PST!
As always, please only partake in this kind of game if you’re actually like a functioning adult who can legally drink and also capable of acknowledging that you’re bringing this on yourself, I didn’t make you do anything.
LET THE SHOW BEGIN:
Take a shot for every award they give away during the “Pre-Show,” which is apparently not just the show even though they give awards away during it.
Every time you hear a sponsor for the event, take a shot.
When a presenter’s feed quality drops, take a shot.
Take two shots if a feed completely crashes.
When Christopher Nolan comes on, take a shot if he sounds like he’s never touched a video game in his life.
Every time you hear about Instagram sponsoring a category, take a selfie. The last person to do so takes a shot.
Every time Nintendo is mentioned (winning or making an announcement), check chat to see if #FreeMelee is being spammed in the chat. No drinking here, it’s just funny.
If Hades wins a category, take a drink of water, you’ve earned it.
When Adobe is talked about as sponsoring the streamer content creator of the year, name a program that can replace an Adobe product. The last person to do so has to drink.
If The Last of Us 2 wins a category, take a shot. You probably need it.
If The Last of Us 2 loses a category, take a shot in honor of whoever on Keighley’s staff is gonna have to read Naughty Dog’s letter about it.
Take a double shot if the winner for the fighting game category is just a game from multiple years ago but they put more DLC on disk so it justified a full retail re-release. If they’re double dipping so should you.
If a “world premiere” gets you excited or “hyped” as the Gamers call it, take two shots. Joy isn’t allowed here.
In all seriousness, the reason I’ve been doing this game for several years at this point has a lot more to do with the fact that we all kind of treat this like a mini E3 presentation even when it’s supposed to be the equivalent to the Oscars or something similar, even though the presenters themselves have long since cast aside that notion. Either way, there’s no reason to not have a little fun with it - even if the Game Awards aren’t the authority on what the best games of the year are, it’s incredibly fun to ironic watch Geoff Keighley try to elevate this medium to something resembling respectability.
With that in mind, see you next time with my own Games of the Year list.