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

[Kovic's Work Buttplug]

Niggas, you are grown ass men and have the internet you don't need a trade show to watch babes and embarrassing cringe

There is nothing wrong with wanting gaming based cringe. Booth babes are kinda cringe and coomer bait.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

There is nothing wrong with wanting gaming based cringe. Booth babes are kinda cringe and coomer bait.

Gaming in general is cringe. You don't need E3 for that.

 

[Pissmaster]

There is nothing wrong with wanting gaming based cringe. Booth babes are kinda cringe and coomer bait.

I'd appreciate booth babes now more than ever, if anything because they'd bring us more pictures like this:

 

[ScurvyRat]

I'd appreciate booth babes now more than ever, if anything because they'd bring us more pictures like this:
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This man is an absolute chad.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

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.

I don't know about you young folk, but the 90s kids followed E3 mostly through EGM and the related magazines, plus some janky stuff on dial-up. That was the era when booth babes were actual Playboy models like Lisa Boyle. Maybe the reality wasn't anything special, but the articles and pictures made it seem like a gamer's paradise.

 

[Pissmaster]

I don't know about you young folk, but the 90s kids followed E3 mostly through EGM and the related magazines, plus some janky stuff on dial-up. That was the era when booth babes were actual Playboy models like Lisa Boyle. Maybe the reality wasn't anything special, but the articles and pictures made it seem like a gamer's paradise.

Not to mention, you could play all sorts of games early, including ones that may not actually get released. There are still a good number of games out there that haven't leaked, like how the only members of the public who ever got to try DJ Hero 3D were attendees of E3 2010.

 

[Quijibo69]

I guess it's easier and cheaper to put shit up on Youtube. Who would have thought?

 

[Disc]

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.

Inertia. When you're The Place To Go For (X), people will keep going for a while even with a theoretically better solution because everyone else is.

Missing 2020 was a mistake, as it forced everyone to find alternatives. Making a really shitty 2021 was a possibly worse mistake, as it showed people that they could do better without you.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Just a reminder that E3 wasn't a con, it was a trade show. It wasn't even open to the public until 2017.

There's an argument to be made that the reason E3 got shitty and is dying is specifically because they tried to make it more and more into a convention.

 

[Broseph]

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.

We get it, your life peaked 20 years ago. You don't need to keep sperging about it.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

We get it, your life peaked 20 years ago. You don't need to keep sperging about it.

Deadass.

 

[Marissa Moira]

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Deadass.

No cap, but your life only peaks if you allow it to fr fr.

 

[Übertroon]

No cap, but your life only peaks if you allow it to fr fr.

I think there's a significant difference between the peak of your life and what you conceive to be the peak of entertainment.
Like my life is pretty great, each year actually seeming better and better. Probably going to change once I get to the age where your body starts deteriorating.
But the entertainment and general media is god awful. Like there are still gems to be found out there, but the amount of garbage games and tv shows they're now throwing to shove at you and pretend is good is staggering.
They made Star Wars shit. Lord of the Rings is about to be turned to shit. Halo got turned to shit. James Bond is shit. I went into the book store the other day but didn't dare trying to buy anything made in the last decade because it was all using something resembling that shitty corporate art that plagues everyone.
Adult animation is just getting worse every year. Good video games is becoming a rare thing.
It's honestly staggering how much awful shit there is out there right now, and that there are people who do nothing but consume trash on Netflix.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I don't know about you young folk, but the 90s kids followed E3 mostly through EGM and the related magazines, plus some janky stuff on dial-up. That was the era when booth babes were actual Playboy models like Lisa Boyle. Maybe the reality wasn't anything special, but the articles and pictures made it seem like a gamer's paradise.

I hope when I die I'm transported to some type of gamer's Valhalla that's like one giant E3 where you can fuck all the booth babes, the Doritos are endless, the Mountain Dew flows like wine and there's always a new game in your favorite series to play and you just keep on gaming on into eternity...

 

[Marissa Moira]

I hope when I die I'm transported to some type of gamer's Valhalla that's like one giant E3 where you can fuck all the booth babes, the Doritos are endless, the Mountain Dew flows like wine and there's always a new game in your favorite series to play and you just keep on gaming on into eternity...

I mean I don't think they're going to have professional strippers in any type of good version of the after life. Especially since the entire way of getting in there is to abstain from such things.

That and the entire purpose of sex in the first place is procreation, waiting until after death to have sex seems contradictory.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I hope when I die I'm transported to some type of gamer's Valhalla that's like one giant E3 where you can fuck all the booth babes, the Doritos are endless, the Mountain Dew flows like wine and there's always a new game in your favorite series to play and you just keep on gaming on into eternity

Jesus Christ, Dom. Did you do anything else between 2000 and 2010?

The big thing I remember reading about E3 *the event* from mags like EGM and Game Informer was that the food was completely trash and super overpriced. We're talking prison cafeteria food. Is it weird that it's those little things I remember more than them gushing over booth babes or whatever like some people?

 

[Marissa Moira]

Jesus Christ, Dom. Did you do anything else between 2000 and 2010?

The big thing I remember reading about E3 *the event* from mags like EGM and Game Informer was that the food was completely trash and super overpriced. We're talking prison cafeteria food. Is it weird that it's those little things I remember more than them gushing over booth babes or whatever like some people?

It was worse than prison cafeteria food, you see you don't need to pay for prison food, you get it for free.

Those shitty nachos with the small cup of cheese all at room temp? Well that's $30. Not even movie theaters would have had the gall to charge that much.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The big thing I remember reading about E3 *the event* from mags like EGM and Game Informer was that the food was completely trash and super overpriced. We're talking prison cafeteria food. Is it weird that it's those little things I remember more than them gushing over booth babes or whatever like some people?

I know from experience with con food how shitty that type of food can be, it's unfortunate.

But let's not forget that E3 would still have stuff like something with a confederate flag on display, imagine that in a late 2010s E3.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I know from experience with con food how shitty that type of food can be, it's unfortunate.

But let's not forget that E3 would still have stuff like something with a confederate flag on display, imagine that in a late 2010s E3.


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It was a shitty Dukes of Hazard video game. I'm pretty sure that the car on the show floor was rented out from Cooter's Place, you can still see the original General Lee there right now.

Conventions made up a very very small part of gaming that the internet has largely replaced. I don't need any of that shit to enjoy a game, it's all extra stuff that's always been unimportant.

Like I don't need to have supplementary media that reinforces my already established views or habits, that's just creates an echo chamber. My tastes in games has gone largely unchanged and I've primarily stuck to a few genres for the majority.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It was a shitty Dukes of Hazard video game. I'm pretty sure that the car on the show floor was rented out from Cooter's Place, you can still see the original General Lee there right now.

Conventions made up a very very small part of gaming that the internet has largely replaced. I don't need any of that shit to enjoy a game, it's all extra stuff that's always been unimportant.

Like I don't need to have supplementary media that reinforces my already established views or habits, that's just creates an echo chamber. My tastes in games has gone largely unchanged and I've primarily stuck to a few genres for the majority.

Obviously I know it's from Dukes of Hazzard, they still wouldn't have let a confederate flag within a 100 feet of the convention by 2019 no matter the context because by then a confederate flag may as well have been a sign saying "LYNCH EVERY BLACK PERSON YOU SEE, GAMERS!" according to the Woke way of thinking.

Anyone visiting "Cooter" and his "place" is going to know what they're in for, but a confederate flag at E3 would be hilariously antithetical to the image the gaming industry tries to present today.