Two days in the past, within the days main as much as The Recreation Awards 2022, I wrote about how the wildly inconsistent style on the occasion was indicative of the trade’s identification disaster. Issues shortly obtained out of hand.
The discourse machine revved up and commenced spinning at an impossibly quick charge: Nintendo president Doug Bowser tweeted at me, Xbox president Phil Spencer replied to the thread and confirmed he is now aware of what Mike Mercante wears to go get bagels, everybody was weighing in on the “T-shirt with a blazer” match, and the phrase “drip” was realized and subsequently overused by half the trade.
Other publications wrote about the discourse, builders weighed in, and the lead-up to The Recreation Awards grew to become much less about hypothesis over which recreation would win GOTY (spoilers: it was Elden Ring) and extra about whether or not or not Josef Fares would put on a skin-tight t-shirt once more (spoilers: he didn’t).
In the end, it looks as if my call-out labored. Quite a few individuals who attended the occasion advised me through DM that I shamed attendees into dressing higher. The presenters and on-stage expertise at this 12 months’s Recreation Awards had been virtually uniformly sharper-dressed than in earlier years, and even Phil Spencer gave the impression to be carrying a barely extra formal outfit.
The Recreation Awards is an opportunity to have enjoyable with style and to lean into the themes which might be so typically within the video games the evening is celebrating, so it was nice to see some folks actually doing that final evening. That’s why I made a decision to focus on the best-dressed attendees and honorees at gaming’s greatest evening. You all did wonderful, sweeties.