E3 2022 Canceled - Like a dying dog being put to sleep, really

Will you miss E3?

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Raiken said:
Man just knowing Capcom at least got their head out of their collective asses with the fuck ups inafune bought was at least a good goodbye for me.
Me and the guys being terrified that dmc5 would be DmC2 and jumping out of their sofa and giving out high gives was the last big gaming stream i've seen with them, and i'm afraid nothing Will ever get me that hypes again.
(Metroid dread was Nice but was not really the same)
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Yeah I recall me and my friends shat a brick when we saw Nero's new look thinking it was Donte, and I agree that capcom got their shit together but many still haven't gotten over their previous fuckups.
 
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The Big O said:
I haven't really played a single AAA game of any kind since the Nintendo Switch first dropped. I even found myself utterly disinterested in picking up my own Switch again despite how nice Animal Crossing: New Horizons was when COVID came around and was still scary and unknown, and I just don't have the patience to wait for the new Zelda game anymore with bigger things in my life to worry about. All I tend to play these days are stuff via Steam that mostly consists of turn-based strategies, colony sims/city builders a-la Banished, some Devolver Digital action titles, and not much else aside from Mass Effect: Legendary Edition because I felt a bit nostalgic for that series.

What about Elden Ring, one may ask? A part of me is interested in playing it having been a Soulsfag from way back, but... that game is a very obvious time sink at a point in my life where I need to work and save money up and not dive into escapism like I used to when I was much younger. Age really caught up to me, it seems. I feel like I'm slowly growing out of video games completely. It's an abstract kind of feel.
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I agree with all this post. Elden Ring being a huge time sink is why I won't play it and I plan on selling my Switch for a PS5 to join my Series X because there are just no interesting games on it, besides XBC2 and upcoming XBC3, maybe SMTV.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
2019 sucked because of #KickVic, the Notre Dame fire and the KyoAni fire.

But we STILL didn't know how good we had it, which is crazy.
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It's 2019 and:

#KickVic - Who's Vic and why should I care?
Notre Dame - I don't live in France, why should I care?
KyoAni fire - I don't work in KyoAni and their anime sucked ever since the Haruhi movie rolled off their presses, why should I care?

And thus summing up why people should stop watching the news and focus on their own lives. It makes your world a little brighter.
 
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When we were kings.

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The Big O said:
It could be that shedding E3 is a sign we really are overdue for a brand new game industry crash, COVID-related excuses aside. It probably won't happen in the same way as the 1980s did, but it might make Microsoft, Sony, Ubi, Squeenix, Capcom, Blizz, and maybe even Nintendo to re-evaluate their futures as companies.
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Let the crash come, my backlog is big enough to sustain me for a decade.
 
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I used to think E3 sucked because I was getting old but truth be told the last E3 worth a shit was what, 2005? 2006? and even then it was more about nextgen hype than actual content

Compare those to 2004s lineup, or 2000s if you're old enough to remember that epic one. Point is I was still a kid when E3 was already looking like a shitshow

Although the industry has stagnated the fact is so many NPCs are now hooked into this shit that another game crash seems impossible, no way that can happen in an age where gacha is massive
Dom Cruise said:
Ebert's "a video game is not art" comment is one thing that set us on our path to destruction.

I do think a video game can be art, but I also think it doesn't matter and first and foremost you play a video game to have fun, but people got real self conscious in trying to prove that games weren't just for kids and teenagers and could be taken "seriously" this led to "games as art" faggots which beget shoving Woke politics into everything in an effort to appear "deep"
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Making a game "deep" by appealing to first world narcissism, meanwhile the og halo trilogy managed to be far more dramatic and deep than current globohomo gaming is
Dom Cruise said:
But I can't imagine how amazing E3 2003 would have been to visit in person, what with stuff like the DOA booth babes and the MGS3 reveal, E3 was at it's best when it was unapologetically a place for gamerbros to hang out, party, ogle hot chicks and check out the latest in games.
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I dont even remember anything about E303 beyond the HL2 demo since the MGS3 reveral with snake eating a snake was kinda lame, and gay

And you mean these DOA booth babes?
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This is problematic? the average halloween party now has worse sluts in whoreist clothes than these. They could've hired jenna jameson and have her fighting in an actual DOA outfit which was fucking plastic diamond pasties

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If I was a billionaire game dev like notch I would hire booth thots like that out of spite
Beautiful Border said:
You're correct to a degree, there is a grain of truth to it, but so many layers of bullshit have been lathered on top over the years that the version of events as popularly repeated is basically fictional. What it should have been called was the "North American Atari crash of 1983", but that's obviously far less interesting or meaningful.

I'm convinced that the idea of "the video game crash of 1983" is spread at least in part by Nintendo, not so much by the company itself (although its marketing department would be foolish not to recognise its benefits) but by its legion of fanboys. I say this because every telling of the legend always ends with "...and then Nintendo arrived in 1985 and saved the day with the NES!". This is also used to retroactively justify Nintendo's business practices in the late 80s, such as their utterly draconian licensing system for developers.

The myth justifies this by claiming people stopped buying Atari 2600 games because the system was flooded with low-quality games (therefore justifying Nintendo's strict approach), but this is nonsense. People stopped buying Atari 2600 games because it was an aging system, the same reason people stop buying video games for any console. Even so the console continued to be manufactured in to the early 90s, showing there was still healthy demand for the system itself. The "official Nintendo seal of quality" had nothing to do with preventing low-quality games, it was simply a way for Nintendo to extort developers for more money, but these fucking sycophants use it to credit Nintendo with saving the industry.
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The only bigger faggots than applefags are nintendofags
Dom Cruise said:
This kind of hits on a personal level because E3 2002 was the first one I followed by way of magazines.
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Wait, how old are you? we were ditching magazines by then
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I’ll miss Todd lying to me on stage. I won’t miss all the stage acts that no one there cared about. I’m honestly convinced most of the acts were money laundering. Booth Babes were fine, the audience for games was horny young men. I’m still pissed car shows no longer have them.
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Honestly best stage production was Sony in 2016 deciding not to get performers or singers to embarrass themselves and just got a live orchestra to set the mood and give some flair in between presentations. Simple, efficient, and no fake performances.
 
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I won't lie, watching this shit show and having drinks with friends while we watch this train wreck is going to be sad if it truly is gone forever. The stockholme syndrome in me is going to miss being lied to his face, and all the other cringe inducing shit thats not at all related to gaming like Tranny and other homosexual things might not be missed but still, its part of this ritual of humiliation.
 
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