Not-E3 2024 Thread - A place to discuss the whole week's worth of video game broadcasts and announcement

Sniperwoof said:
Elden Ring Shadow Of the Erdtree might be my only gaming purchase of 2024.

What a fuck awful lineup.
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If there is one thing I've learned long ago, it's to find your entertainment media by yourself or people with relatively similar tastes to give you recommendations. Western game journalism and western stream events are a miserable experience that mainly has a purpose to demoralize. Sole stream I'm looking forward is the Japanese Nintendo Direct.

Earth Defense Force 6 is very much my GOTY 2024 for instance and this franchise gets virtually zero coverage in the West.
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
Has the world gone insane and I'm too retarded to be affected by the cause of it?
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Those events aren't representative of the actual state of the indie industry; I can count with one hand the number of good and popular indie games that I've ever seen mentioned in one of those events before those games got popular by their own merits. It's just that those showcases have a set of rules that gatekeep most actual indie games and are heavily skewed towards the usual DEI-infested slop or the incestuous arty-farty scene, and the chasm dividing actual indie games and "indie" "games" gets bigger each year.

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To be featured in Dorito Pope's big boy treehouse, you have to pony up an amount that is just outside most real indie game's budgets. I don't know the numbers for the PC gaming or the Future whatever event shows but If I had to guess I'd say those aren't cheap either. Both of those let a small number of games to be shown for free, but you can be sure that the kind of game would get this preferential treatment are those that tick certain boxes or their exclusion would invoke twitter drama and gratuitous accusations of X-phobia.
The alternative to those main events are the gay smaller events that it's logical to assume are much much cheaper to gain access to, but then you have to meet some arbitrary thematic prerequisite related to what's on your pants or what country you were born in. Even then, the number of views of those are just sad compared with the main events, but at least it's something.
The troon game I've talked about earlier showed up in at least 3 different events (Future of play, "Women" games and LatinXXX games) while they have admitted on twitter that their budget for marketing is next to zero, and I think anyone can guess why. A lot of pretentious games have little disclaimers that they are subsidized by this or that country if you look for them hard enough, so I guess that another way to buy access to those events when you can't realistically expect to recoup the investment is just to use tax money.

So, to recap; in order for an indie game to even have a chance to appear on those events, it has to meet at least one of the following requisites:
-Spend up to half a fucking million dollars of their (or someone else's) money.
-Be connected enough with the right (aka wrong) people on the industry.
-Belong to a big publisher even under their "indie" label.
-Check certain, almost arbitrary boxes related to Current-year sensibilities.
-Be already big and popular.
Now think about a good indie game from the last five years or so and ponder if it could have realistically met any of those before being released. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
 
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Honestly, the only games I'm interested in is the new flight sim and that 83 game (spiritual successor to Rising Storm 2 Vietnam/RO series).
 
Sniperwoof said:
If you have corporations sponsorship or venture capital you're not a real indie studio.

Most of these games are only "indie" in the sense that the graphics suck and they're pretentious.
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Yeah. I mean, I like Cuphead but it's not an indie game; it was bankrolled by Microsoft and kept it off anything besides PC and Xbox for a year. The Switch port came six months after the Mac version.

True indie games like Palworld and Factorio get popular due to word of mouth.
 
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I bet the Xbox showcase will be absolute slop, but if there’s a new doom maybe it’ll happen to be good. ID has been good so far, but Phil knows how to ruin everything.
marvlouslie said:
Keep on wasting your money on slop and "remakes".
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I’ve literally never played the original.
Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
@Sniperwoof same for me its Elden Ring DLC and FF14 then everything looks shit. FF7 Rebirth looks like a good game compared to this shit.
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The only stuff I’m somewhat looking forward to rn is shadow of the erdtree, dawntrail, and repop. Got nothing for 2025.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Yeah. I mean, I like Cuphead but it's not an indie game; it was bankrolled by Microsoft and kept it off anything besides PC and Xbox for a year. The Switch port came six months after the Mac version.

True indie games like Palworld and Factorio get popular due to word of mouth.
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And Lethal Company (I think). Which gave cookie-cutter CoD a run for it's judeo-communized shekels.
 
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The Xbox showcase starts in a few minutes:

And the first game shown is Cawadoody BLACK COCKS 6
 
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Resunoit said:
As always, doom is the highlight of the whole show. Doombros stay winning. The rest will be goyslop.
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I think that honor would go to Black Ops 6. It was first to be shown, with more to tease AFTER the showcase. Nothing against DOOM, it just came and went as any other title.
 
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