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I miss E3
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Yeah I basically wanted to see the Giant Bomb coverage more than anything. On the other hand it's nice that companies have time to announce things when they want, which could mean earlier announcements or more polished ones.
To be honest the Giant Bomb at night stuff kinda felt they could do that any time, it's basically just a bunch of off the cuff interviews. I feel it didn't even really have much to do with E3 outside everyone gathering in one place obviously making it way easier to organize for GB.
E3 always was a little party of one event for me, I usually took a week off from work, stocked up on Pizza's, snacks and booze and stayed up til 3 in the morning watching E3 live at Giant Bomb, hanging around in chat during the conferences streams and the @Nite stuff. It was always a good time.
E3 wasn't just video game commercials, it was industry people hanging out, having fun, having good talks and making new friends. And we as viewers could get together as well in the chats and on the forums.
E3 wasn't just video game commercials, it was industry people hanging out, having fun, having good talks and making new friends. And we as viewers could get together as well in the chats and on the forums.
Well said. This trickling of news has so far been disappointing. Hopefully it picks back up.
Good enough excuse for me, but I'll take what I can get given the circumstances.
I miss it too. Never understood why people were so glad to see its decline. I looked forward to it every year like a holiday of sorts
Counter-point: at least with E3 we knew when big announcements were coming and could look forward to them. If something wasn't announced at E3, you could expect it to be at least a few months before you heard news about it. Now if there is radio silence, you don't know if an announcement is coming soon or not.
i'm rather confused at all the people criticizing the op for saying he misses e3 when we're one month before it normally shows up
i'm not sure if y'all missed the memo, but there IS no e3 this year. it's literally cancelled! sure, we'll be getting game announcements and such trickling in over the next few months, but whatever THAT is, it's not e3
i'm not sure if y'all missed the memo, but there IS no e3 this year. it's literally cancelled! sure, we'll be getting game announcements and such trickling in over the next few months, but whatever THAT is, it's not e3
Eh I dont see that as big of a benefit compared to the steady stream of news.
Last year was my first ever E3 and I went for Xbox Fanfest. I went to every fanfest event and it was amazing. My brother and I then went to the show floor when it opened up and it was like a different society entirely. It is hard to explain without sounding like an ass but it was a bunch of like wannabe famous Twitch streamers and bloggers just walking around with their phones in those stabilizer things and if you got anywhere near them just walking they would look at you really shitty like I was ruining their shot even though they were in a hallway. At a certain point my brother and I made a joke out of how many times we heard the phrase "Hey [Peeps, Ya'll, Squad etc] its [Y'boy/Y'girl]. It was comical.
Like it was seriously one of the weirdest damn experiences I have ever been a part of. I am from the midwest so I was definitely a fish out of water in LA I will admit that. But the level of weird desperation for fame on the E3 show floor was just...weird. Everyone acted like a celebrity, but everyone was a nobody. There were a number of people we saw who were streaming live on Twitch or Youtube and we looked them up. They were literally streaming to no one and faking conversations. My brother actually went into one of the people chat room because he introduced himself to start his stream. He was saying shit like "Hey whats going on chat. xXXBongRipperXxx good to see you again man!" The guy was having a conversation pretending to interact with views. My bro was watching the entire stream and its chat. There was no one. That was kinda the moment where we both just made a big look around the floor to catch the sights and then we fecked off to a German bar we found. E3 Fanfest was cool as hell. E3 Show floor is just...sad really.
Watching it at home is more than fine for me from now on.
There's a lot of jaded, perhaps miserable, resentful and disaffected people out there that begrudge trivial excitement of others.
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In theory I like the idea of spreading announcements you would usually see at E3 throughout the year and giving individual releases, interviews, showcases, etc, time to breathe, but what I'm starting to realize is that maybe some things didn't need all the time they got in the first place. E3 was a big event that I do miss, but the highly packed and condensed nature of it allowed you to forget the parts that maybe weren't that great. Dropping individual announcements throughout the year is cool and I like that, but not every single one of them needs hype men and countdowns. It's far more exhausting. But maybe I just say that because I'm not really the type to obsessively get caught up in hype threads and theorycrafting. I just want to see good showcases of games.
Different people and at different times. Mostly everyone thinks a conference is boring until their game(s) of interest show up lol
No, the actual memo is that unless you were physically going to E3, you're still going to get about the same amount of streamed presentations. Probably more even.
So the OP is ridiculously premature.
I totally agree, OP. I was thinking about this the other day as well. Even if E3 was sometimes underwhelming, it always felt like THE event that every gamer looked forward to.
COVID-19 has made everything so boring, depressing and uninteresting. Oh well. As long as we still get some kind of event showcasing new games leading up to the new console launches, then that'll be fine I guess. But without the passion, excitement and enthusiasm E3 always came with, it won't really be the same.
COVID-19 has made everything so boring, depressing and uninteresting. Oh well. As long as we still get some kind of event showcasing new games leading up to the new console launches, then that'll be fine I guess. But without the passion, excitement and enthusiasm E3 always came with, it won't really be the same.
It's been really interesting seeing the opposite reactions to E3's "demise" between gamers and the media. There isn't a consensus but it seems fans miss the experience while the media is celebrating it. I can't really blame the latter, seeing as how they leaked a ton of personal info, among other things.
I do agree with you though, OP. I always treated E3 like a mini holiday. Yeah, yeah, I know - it's a glorified commercial, but I don't give a damn, it was so fun seeing new games and crazy reactions.
I do agree with you though, OP. I always treated E3 like a mini holiday. Yeah, yeah, I know - it's a glorified commercial, but I don't give a damn, it was so fun seeing new games and crazy reactions.
um okay, but it's still waaaaaay different than the traditional e3 we normally have, which was op's point i beieve.
also, as one of those people who WAS going to go to e3 this year, this also effects me double.
This right here. The conference threads were insufferable, everyone keeps expecting megatons and nitpicking other stuff to death.
Probably not over the course of a few days though which is kinda what made me care a lot about E3. I found a lot of the presentations boring and disappointing but it was just nice to have 3 or so days to myself to sit around and just watch, discuss, and complain about video games. It made the good presentations even better as well. What reason do I have to even tune into EA's presentation if it's not next to all the others? EA has always bored me but you watch them because it's part of the E3 lineup.
Well this is certainly not true lol but I do miss having the show, even in the off-years.
Thanks for telling me that it is not true that I had an incredible time working at the last 3 EA Play and E3 events, showcasing Battlefront 2 and Battlefield V to the world.
