For nylig løb årets Game Awards-show af stablen, og her kunne Josef Fares, der lige nu arbejder hårdt sammen med resten af Hazelight på A Way Out, afsløre udgivelsesdatoen på det ambitiøse kooperative eventyr. Ikke bare det, værten Geoff Keighley interviewede Fares på scenen, men dette interview kørte lidt af sporet, da Fares påbegyndte et længere "rant", hvor adskillige gange bandede og svovlede af Oscar-akademiet.
Disse kommentarer ønsker han nu at forsvare, og i et længere interview med Polygon uddyber han hans kontroversielle Game Awards-kommentarer.
"I can't change who I am. It's very hard to control. When I get excited, it's like — it's hard to control. Like, it's almost like: In my head, I want to say something, but my mouth, it kind of, like, takes out everything... I mean, I would probably do the same thing now."
"It's not that I have anything against [the] Oscars. But there's a lot of talk about, like, you know, 'This is like the Oscars.' Like, the Oscars, the Game Awards, 'we're trying to be like the Oscars.' I'm like, come on, man. I mean, it's time for people to understand that games are, like, a serious art,"
Vi tænker at Josef Fares vil gerne have spil anerkendt som en seriøst kunstform, og at organisationer som Oscar-akademiet er en kende reaktionære i Fares' optik? Hvad tror du han taler om her?