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all these women are now out of a job. hope you happy you harpies!
E3 2022 Canceled - Like a dying dog being put to sleep, really
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May I recommend Kirby and the Forgotten Land? It's a fun little game.
I know the feeling. I had that realization when it occurred to me that I was more interested in replaying old favorites via emulation than playing new releases.
I'm hoping we'll get a DMC 6, but if we don't, at least 5 ended the series on a high note.
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How did E3 even manage to survive in this modern day and age? With the rise of Youtube and nobody really wanting to go outside of the house it makes me wonder how these conventions even survived. I'm thinking that the vast majority of people who go to E3 go there simply because of the experience and not because of the games revealed, but at the same time I wonder if they survive through the video game companies giving them financial backing.
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Will 90s and early 2000s era E3s go down in history the way people lionize 1920s era Great Gatsby style parties? Or is it destined to be memory holed because it's so antithetical to the image the industry tries to present now?
It really is reflective of the boom years for video games and the wider boom of the dotcom era, silicon valley, "techbro" era of the turn of the millennium as well that era's hedonistic excess in it's culture in general, everything was all about being big, blunt and in your face, hot blond bimbos with tits bigger than your head, getting piss yourself drunk and fucking till the skin came off your dick.
It was all one big party back then but the party's long over and now it's just one big hangover.
It really is reflective of the boom years for video games and the wider boom of the dotcom era, silicon valley, "techbro" era of the turn of the millennium as well that era's hedonistic excess in it's culture in general, everything was all about being big, blunt and in your face, hot blond bimbos with tits bigger than your head, getting piss yourself drunk and fucking till the skin came off your dick.
It was all one big party back then but the party's long over and now it's just one big hangover.
Nguyen Van Phuoc
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You've already done this to an excessive degree lol
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The second one, but not because of it's antithetical to the image the industry presents now. It's not even going to be memory holed. The vast majority of gamers were not even able to view E3 until it had already become corrupted.
E3 was something you typically read up on in August in game magazines up until the middle of Gen 6, when you read up on it on game sites as it was going on. You didn't even really get to *see* E3 until Gen 7, and even that's being generous as I don't think they started doing dedicated livestreams and such until 2009 or 2010 maybe? And all this is assuming you were even alive or aware.
Dom, when exactly did you start to actually pay attention to E3? Because it really feels like you're viewing a history you never experienced with rose tinted glasses. E3 has, by and large, never been anything special to the average gamer until it already started going to shit.
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As I've said before E3 2002 was the first one I was aware from looking at photos of it in gaming mags, the following year X-Play had plenty of TV coverage and afterwards G4 had tons of TV coverage.
You can also find a shit ton of photos of E3 on Flickr.
Looking over all this while I never got to be there in person it all looks very impressive with the booths, the booth babes and the debut of trailers, I remember my jaw hitting the floor when I saw the first trailer for MGS3 on X-Play, it was a completely unreal moment.
E3 2002, E3, 2003, E3 2004, E3 2005 were all pretty exciting, but by the end of the 2000s it had already transitioned to something people made fun of more than anything else, starting in 2006 with the infamous Sony conference and especially by 2009 the whole thing was basically a joke with fake games like "Milo" on display.
But I imagine it was pretty exciting for those first 10 years for those that got to see it and might become something that's legend grows over time as gaming and the whole climate surrounding it becomes shittier and shittier.
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they got other shit like PAX or GDC for it. half of them don't need one anyway, putting your game on steam is 100 bucks and shilling it on social media.
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Yeah, places like G4 and Tech TV would do live coverage of the event WAYYYYYY before 09.
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Like most I'd say good riddance, but overall E3 never had a full appeal to me anyways since it all boils down to previews of games that might or might not hit expectations.
Yeah the vintage footage of old school advertising and more loose gamerbro experience is cool, but most of that value came from the appeal of being in your niche hobby with some good news to look forward to at the time.
The rise of internet culture and social media removes a lot of the build up to things like E3 since your phone will always let you know if a developer farts amongst the rest of the force fed details turning most places into a minefield you have to avoid for days since every no name faggot wants to meme or make art of the underaged pokemon girl in 15 mins.
It just removes the "you had to be there" aspect only to show it wasn't much to talk about outside of a 2 min reveal for a game that gets stuck in dev hell for 5 years.
Yeah the vintage footage of old school advertising and more loose gamerbro experience is cool, but most of that value came from the appeal of being in your niche hobby with some good news to look forward to at the time.
The rise of internet culture and social media removes a lot of the build up to things like E3 since your phone will always let you know if a developer farts amongst the rest of the force fed details turning most places into a minefield you have to avoid for days since every no name faggot wants to meme or make art of the underaged pokemon girl in 15 mins.
It just removes the "you had to be there" aspect only to show it wasn't much to talk about outside of a 2 min reveal for a game that gets stuck in dev hell for 5 years.
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Yeah, but there's a whole lot of stuff made available on steam and social media. You're going to need a whole lot more attention than that if you want your game to actually be a hit.
THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN
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Part 1 of E3 2020, 44:00
I think up to the early 2010s E3 was still something that hardcore gamers, casuals and executives alike could partake in to see what was new in gaming and technology and what advancements had been made, even featuring demos for those who wanted to try the game hand-on to better gauge judgement. Games like Portal 2, Skyrim, Kirby's Epic Yarn and Mario Galaxy 2 were all marvels at the time in terms of visual presentation and technological prowess. Over time E3 stopped being an "expo" and became more of a corporate circlejerk, where companies have absolutely no shame showing you fake trailers to generate hype and then get away with it scot-free, and I think Ubisoft deserves a lot of blame for this change. One thing to note though is that the out-of-touch executives at E3 always tried to cater to the current trend, right now that is woke globohomo AIDS but a few years prior (which feels like an eternity) it was the MLG Doritos dudebro phase, except the latter was an organic thing that happened as more and more pre-teens started playing military shooters (which saturated the market at the time) whereas the former is astroturfed to hell and back. I'm sure if Jace and Tyce had seen what gaming has become today they'd jump in front of a train.
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And I stand by what I said, the vast majority of gamers didn't watch G4 or Tech TV.
E3 isn't going to be remembered, but it has nothing to do with the industry not wanting it to be remembered. It was a trade show at it's heart during the "good old days". Only the most hardcore of hardcores even back when video games were still niche paid that much attention.
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E3 was always a spectacle to laugh at rather than build up hype from. I was immune to its presence, I preferred magazines to reveals with run on word salad.
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I remember watching hours of E3 coverage on G4 in 2005.
And before that was the Wii/Guitar Hero/Rock Band inspired "causal" phase where grandma, grandpa and your little sister could get in on the fun!
Gaming has gone through 3 phases of stupid shit now, it was at it's best 20 years ago when it was unapologetic about being for nerds, the joke with the booth babes was it was the only time the guys attending would ever get attention from women like that.
All attempts to make gaming something more than for nerds has only made it worse and has only gotten stupider and stupider.
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Honestly, the only people that are upset or care about E3 are the people who put way too much fucking stock into the identity of being a "gamer". Half of you people don't even like games and are more concerned with your weird gamer identity.
Niggas, you are grown ass men and have the internet you don't need a trade show to watch babes and embarrassing cringe.
Niggas, you are grown ass men and have the internet you don't need a trade show to watch babes and embarrassing cringe.
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Humans naturally like a sense of community and belonging and for a while there "gamer" as an identity really did offer that, it really was a cool community to be a part of for a while there and I know how faggy it sounds today, but it's true.
It was never more important to me than the games themselves which is why I still play games even though the wider culture surrounding it is now something alien to me, but all I'm saying is the community not being complete shit was fun while it lasted.
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Tell that to the executives who thought that creating and having a thing called The Game Awards and rebooting G4TV in current day for the Internet was a good idea.
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E3 stopped being relevant the moment "Nintendo Directs" became a quarterly (or game specific) thing.