E3 Griefing Thread - RIP 🙏

I met a kid in high school who ran a Nintendo review/fansite and pestered him into letting me write for it. We tried getting passes for E3 but 18 was the minimum age for press at the time so we settled for covering the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas for a couple years since their minimum was only 16.

Eventually we made it to E3 just in time for the last original show in 2006. Honestly, looking back CES ended up being the more interesting show just because of the greater amount and wider range of stuff on display, but E3 was still a bucket-list item for me. From the first time I read about the show in an issue of PSM in elementary school it was a goal of mine to attend.

I saw the newly-unveiled PS3 on display, I played Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London, but most stuff like the Nintendo booth had hours-long lines and I was more interested in collecting swag and seeing as much of the floor as possible.

I met the Penny Arcade guys, the VGcats guy, Stan Lee was signing issues of GameInformer for some reason. They were supposedly cracking down on booth babes but I still found some to stare at at the R6: Vegas booth and the Bandai-Namco booth(where I answered some trivia and won some Naruto action figure that I immediately turned around and sold to somebody in the crowd for lunch money, which helped with the $12 pretzels they sold at the LACC since they didn’t offer free lunch to the press like they did at CES.)

I ended up getting thrown out by my dad because he had forbidden me from going since I had to skip a week of school for it, but it was still worth it. It had been a dream of mine since I was a kid and considering they downsized it the next year I made it just in time, and even when it “came back” it was less of a trade show and more just a convention open to the public.

The show’s been more and more irrelevant each year for more than a decade and it lost a lot of the prestige or mystique when it opened to the public, and I haven’t even really followed the show since G4 went off the air and all coverage went online, but it’s still sad to see it go.

RIP F in the chat for E3.
 
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E3 died the moment booth babes became "problematic." As an industry-only con, the early days were nothing short of free breakfast buffets, open bars and all-night coke binges while playing vidya in a strangers hotel room. Compared to the amount of pussy a nerd could get, it made Comdex look like a convent. E3 behind the scenes was Sodom and Gomorrah. Honestly, once it started catering to a literally retarded demographic, shit sailed downhill and going to E3 was a fucking chore. Oh well.
 
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I remember staying up all night and rewatching my fav youtubers reacting to E3 2015, No Man's Sky, Uncharted 4 (the demo bugged out lol), Last Guardian. Dreams. Holy shit, man. Most of those games turned out not that good, but at the time it felt like the sky was the limit.

And then wouldn't you know it, it just got more predictable and boring as time went on. Why couldn't E3 have stayed awkward and retarded like it used to be? That's the shit people would tune in for, not the fucking tech demos. It's like Super bowl commercials.
 
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Early 2000s: "Wowzers this is so heckin' cool, I would do anything to be there! Can't wait to play XYZ!"
Late 2010s: "Holy fuck this looks like absolute niggedry, boy am I glad to not be there. Not a single game to look forward to, either."
Now to wait until Quakecon dies. Can't imagine it taking too long since it's not even about Quake anymore.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Still laughing that the games themselves got like 30 minutes total versus the entire pointless rest
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No different than sports on television. Where 90% of the broadcast is advertisements and 10% is left to the actual sport. Advertising companies are basically the largest companies in the world now. Same with half of the sites on the internet as well.
 
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Gravityqueen4life said:
2021 was the last year of E3 and they went full on globohomo with troons and representation. its a good thing it died since it only would have gotten worse.
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While E3 definitely went down the "woke" path I will always have good memories of watching the shows equally for the announcements and the cringe inducing moments. Its been replaced with stuff like The Game Awards which is synonymous with gay shit and irrelevant celebrity guests.
 
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E3 died after 2014, so it was already bound to happen.
 
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