Former NoA President Reggie Returns To The Game Awards As A Presenter

He is the Regginator no longer. Judging by his Twitter activity, sadly, he has become an agent in the Matrix 👎

Oh yes Reginald.

Oh boy, a real-life muppet.

I wonder if spider man’s award will be presented by Tom Holland

@NImH Dear lord, and you lot talk about cancel culture.

@nessisonett "You lot?"
Creepy 😶

@NImH Read his Twitter bio. Your comment comes off rather crass.

YOOOOOOOOOO THE KING IS BAAAAACKKKK!! I don’t wanna get too hyped due to last game awards reveal not being my thing but either way I’m excited for Reggie to be there. Hopefully they show something cool that’s upcoming for next year

My guy. Can't wait to watch!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO Can't wait missed you Reggie.

He has transcended being the president of Nintendo. He is now the hero we all want and need. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he fights crime and runs a soup kitchen in his spare time.

People like him should be the presenters, not idiots from hollywood.

I swear to god, if he doesn't have Mother 3 ready by the awards show, he's gonna have some serious explaining to do.

@nessisonett and you're coming to the rescue, checking me in service of a stranger who couldn't care less about you, why? Just to annoy, likely. Begone, Copper Top.

I'm so happy while I played Nintendo since I was like 4 or 5 when my dad got me the Wii I didn't know Reggie existed until the SWITCH came out and then he left like early 2020 I think...

My sign in works here too (push square/pure Xbox). I'm just here to say I finally bought a switch (lite). Last Nintendo console was wii (pre owned). Bought my switch brand new. First non-pre owned console. Loving the free retro games with 12-month subscription.

That sounds great! 😁

@NImH Your comment actually got to to check Reggie's twitter only to find out the inevitable that it was all a big nothing burger.

Reggie is like Ryan Seacrest or Carson Daly. Way too many jobs and way too little time.

@Snakesglowcaps You’re not actually far from the truth. He’s currently working to increase diversity in businesses in Washington.

@NImH It’s rather funny to see how certain types have appropriated The Matrix considering the directors.

Good for him, he is one of the more likable figures in the gaming industry. I just never saw what the big deal was when it comes to the video game awards though, always seemed like kind of a silly thing but I guess it makes some people feel good.

@JayJ They’re like absolute trash but I kinda love them. Hugely cringey, dead air, terrible presenters, nonsense awards and some of the most lacklustre trailers you’ll see. But there’s something quite nice about seeing video games get their Oscars moment, however rough around the edges it is.

I have major issues with the Game Awards, basically I hate how video games are being "hollywoodized", especially many of the first party Sony titles. I get it, video games are a huge industry and many actors/writers/directors who work on movies and TV are now working on video games, but it comes off very artificial and fake when these people who have zero interest in video games come off talking about video games. I also hate the obvious bias the awards have for specific games. Like this year for example, I'm absolutely sure that The Last of Us Part 2 will win every major award while games that in my opinion are far superior such as Hades, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Doom Eternal will be mostly ignored, and I think a lot of this has to do with the big budget, marketing dollars and hype machine behind TLOU 2 that the other titles just didn't have in comparison.

Having said all that, I'll probably still watch. =)

Reggie seems to be enjoying retirement. He should be a hidden character in Smash.

This thread, oh lordy loo

@kingbk Yeah gotta say I feel the same way, I think it's a part of the whole aggressive push they have had to legitimize gaming as sort of a movie industry type of thing. Obviously the big story driven action games that Sony has been known for lately has a lot to do with that, so of course they are going to be favored among the type of people who are trying to accomplish that, which is pretty much what the video game awards has been about lately. Media awards in general is just sort of a ridiculous concept, it's entertainment, you shouldn't be trying to take it so seriously and placing too much value in how some shadowy group of judges rate everything.

@kingbk Video games became that way back in 2006 man. Ever since the 360 and PS3 generation.

Everyone comments about Mother 3 again

Reggie virtually throws fireballs at everybody's screen like a throwback to E3 2014

I do enjoy hearing what Reggie has to say, but wtf are actors doing there? They gonna talk about how much they love playing the Nintendo Xbox?

Video game awards shows are, at least for me, scarcely tolerable at best. The celebrity appearances tend to be intrusive, everything is scripted and artificial, and there's way too much sociopolitical agenda-pushing (pretty much universal among all award shows anymore, sadly). The big "winners" are inevitably the ones from the biggest publishers and/or the ones that had the biggest sales figures; true hidden gems (or even many better-known games/franchises not made by the "right" companies) rarely if ever get mentioned, let alone win anything, because at the end of the day it isn't gamers these shows are for; it's just another marketing opportunity for the "AAA"s.

If I ever watch, it's only for the game reveals...which are way too few and far between amidst an ocean of shallow, meaningless fluff and exchanges of back-patting. So honestly I usually just read the online articles as they're revealed after the fact.

@Prizm Actors are there for the same reason they endorse politicians (you bet most if not all of them get paid, and paid well, for public endorsements and appearances of any kind). And their opinions regarding what videogame console or franchise they "love" is intended to create hype and/or brand loyalty. Speaking personally, I don't need a celebrity endorsement for a videogame or console any more than I need one to tell me who/what to vote for. But the folks in the big corporate boardrooms seem to think it works on a lot of people.

I hope some new smash related reveals will take place.
Nintendo is kinda silent lately and i dont like it.

@JON22

Very cool! Tons of good games! Wait for the new years sales to pick up any big ones. Good time to have purchased a switch.

@AtlanteanMan Couldn't agree more.

Brie Larson is a gamer. She's a massive fan of Animal Crossing. She earned her spot.

I'm totally utterly unopposed to seeing more of the cheerful impish loveliness that is Gal Gadot.

I've never understood all the interest in Reggie, he's just a Marketing Executive at the end of the day.
Even now, having left Nintendo ages ago, we still hear far more about him and almost nothing about his replacement.

@JON22 welcome to the site, welcome to the switch! I've been playing mine almost every day since launch and i still love playing it. I hope you enjoy your switch!

Well now we know who be awarding the price for best switch game this year

@6thHorizon agreed. I guess he has a memorable personality. Had some good presentations... But don't get the following he garnered...

@iulis84 They are all muppets.

@rockodoodle It’s just a meme at this point. None of these people actually know or like him.

@6thHorizon Reggie was the man behind the plan for Nintendo to go away from competing on specs to go after non-gamers and winning a generation that way. That worked with the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo's highest selling home console of all time (and to be completely honest, perhaps my least favorite console of all time). He also was very visible as an executive. Doug Bowser by comparison is extremely quiet and keeps to himself.

@kingbk
So Reggie single handedly created the Wii?
I'll be respectful and give you a chance to back up what you are claiming with some facts or sources instead of laughing out loud at your assertion quite yet.

Reggie is not wearing a mask or social distancing. I feel deeply disappointed in him. Also can we give these leechy actors something to do so they do not appear everywhere like a bad Roger Rabbit remake?

Retired? You mean rehired 🤣

@Lionyone Seriously, so all it takes is for some token celebrity to play a single video game and they are all of a sudden considered a serious gamer worthy of hosting a video game awards show?

@AtlanteanMan said "Actors are there for the same reason they endorse politicians"

It was a rhetorical question.

@Savino said "Most consumers do so get used to it"
Most consumers like to see actors in the game awards?

More self promotion, must be trying for a directorship at tencent.

@JayJ Yes. She's serious about Animal Crossing. She's a gamer.

So, basically Reggie still does everything he used to do except collect a paycheck and answer questions about Mother 3?

@kingbk Agreed. And agreed on Sony's games. It's been rubbing me the wrong way, particularly with Naughty Dog - not so much the content Sony produces. I'm fine with that. They're a movie studio making games, and at the end of the day, they're uniquely suited to marry their film making experience to video games and create a unique presentation no other company is similarly set up to produce.

But where it rubs me wrong is the way "fans" and media treat it - I wrote a comment the other day that it seems like modern video game critics are just film critics without credentials. Games like TLoU2 get runaway praise and rewards (granted, Sony paid off some critics for some of that praise.....) but Naughty Dog games have very little real gameplay at all. They're fine interactive movies, and there's nothing wrong with interactive movie as a genre, same as point and click adventures, but for an interactive movie to sweep awards as they do, and then amass fan praise as the finest examples of "AAA" gaming - it feels like games are reviewed by how good a movie they are, not by how good a game they are, more and more, and the idea of what a "AAA" game is has been shaped to mean "it's a movie that you play". "Gamey" games, the point of the medium take a backseat now.

I end up resenting Sony and their output as a scapegoat. They did partially create that situation with their marketing and bribery, but ultimately their content isn't the source of the real blame, it's the media that seems to not understand games, so they evaluate games as movies, and it's a growing player base that mostly just enjoys "video games for movie watchers."

I already figure this would happen and so would most NOA followers.

@NEStalgia Yeah right there with ya. I think we all just need to understand how video games are the type of thing where you are never going to find everyone being interested in or a fan of the same thing. It's just that the "games are art" crowd and the type of people who are desperate to legitimize gaming with Naughty Dog sort of games seem to have the most trouble coping with that. It's an issue of people taking video games too seriously, they place all this value in what they want games to be and when people don't agree with them on that they freak out, often lashing out at people who have a contrary opinion from them, going so far as trying to censor and berate them.

@JayJ very true, and you raise two very good points. The games as art crowd is one. And a lot of critics out there tend to be of the literary/journalism background which tend to embody the pretentious art crowd, rarely ones to turn down an opportunity to look included in what is supposedly erudite.

And more importantly the crowd always looking to legitimize games as "grown up"... The convenient way to do that is simply compare it to interactive film and associate it with the "normality" of Hollywood. Naughty dogs format is an outlet to associate games with something familiar and accepted in the mainstream (as though games now aren't) and it takes on a life of it's own.

That's not to knock the format of naughty dog games. As a cinematographic take on a visual novel format it's a perfectly fine genre. But i don't think it necessarily deserves to be praised as the pinnacle of gaming. It's a fun entertainment product that doesn't necessarily embody the best of games. Best in category of cinematographic interactive stories, sure. But there are many games with far more sophisticated gameplay mechanisms, including other Sony studios output, that are denied deserved praise as critics and fans fawn over the presentation of a film as a game.

Then again, the steep sales cliff that game fell off says something about the real size of that audience. Even the rightfully maligned Jim Ryan admitted the sales performance of the game isn't quite what fans make it out to be.