During the Game Awards 2017, Hazelight co-founder Josef Fares took the stage to show new gameplay footage from Hazelight’s new title A Way Out. What happened next has become video game folklore. Here are some of his great quotes from that night.
“F..k the Oscars!!”
“This is the s..t! I’m telling you — this is, this is the real s..t!”
“Look, the Oscars should f..k themselves up,”
“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.”
“There are, like, passionate people, there are crazy people and there is me.”
“If the whole world looked me in my face and told me my game is sh*t, I would say, no, no it’s not.”
In what was possibly the most memorable moment, Josef mentions Electronic Arts, who published his title A Way Out. At the time, Electronic Arts was involved in a class action lawsuit for including high-level items in their games that were only available through purchased lootboxes. This angered fans, and they let it be known. When asked by host Geoff Keighley about this subject, Fares answered, “EA has been very good to me. Because it’s nice to hate EA, blah blah I don’t care about that sh*t. What I’m saying is this; all publishers f*ck up sometimes. That’s how it is, they f*ck up.”
Here’s hoping we get a grand appearance by Josef at the Game Awards 2024.
