Presentator Geoff Keighley is The Game Awards flink aan het hypen met teases, Q&A’s en interviews.
In een interview met USAToday heeft Keighley opmerkelijke uitspraken gedaan. Zo gaf hij aan dat de gameplay onthulling van Elden Ring tijdens de Summer Game Fest belangrijk was voor hem en dat we tijdens The Game Awards zo’n 4 tot 5 grote onthullingen krijgen van dat niveau. Ook geeft Keighley aan dat het een eer was om samen te werken met From Software en dat er weleens meer van die kant kan komen.
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Outside of The Game Awards, Keighley has been setting Twitter alight with Summer Game Fest, a digital event created to fill the void left behind by E3, LA’s yearly games convention. While E3 has been struggling during the pandemic, Keighley’s more accessible event has been thriving. In June this year, after two years of people begging for it to be at Keighley’s shows, the first gameplay trailer was shown off for Elden Ring, the next game from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware. If you watch the reveal back now, you can see the satisfaction in Keighley’s face as he says the name.
“That was two or three years in the making,” Keighley says. “Every show got questions about it, and even last year’s Game Awards, people really wanted something. It won Most Anticipated Game, but they weren’t ready There was a lot of built-up pressure. And that’s the thing I think people don’t realize – the things they want, sometimes developers just aren’t ready to show them. There will be things again this year, I’m sure, where it’s like, we want to show things, but they’re just not ready.
“I was very happy because the trailer was great. It was a great asset, a highly anticipated game that really delivered. There were a lot of things that were good about that so yes, I was uniquely excited to be able to bring that to people. This year? Oh, God, there are probably four or five things of that level. I can’t wait to show people this stuff. Summer Game Fest was a new thing that I had created. The fact that FromSoftware bet on me and Summer Game Fest where they could have done more traditional E3 stuff, that meant a lot to me. It was a huge honor to work with the From guys, so stay tuned, there may be more coming.”
Thursday, #TheGameAwards streams live everywhere.
Here's this year's hype trailer I personally edited to get us in the mood.
I am so excited to share this show with you.
Thanks to Hayley Williams for the song.
See you live Thursday at 4:30p PT / 7:30p ET / 12:30a GMT. pic.twitter.com/lWn6G6NDlS
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 5, 2021
