[POLL] Who misses E3 this year?

[Kliemie]

Basically as the title says, do you miss E3 and why?

I do miss having a specific moment where everything gaming comes together.
I miss the pre-E3 Leaks weeks, the days of press conferences from major platforms/developers, followed up by deep dives with developers and hands-on impressions.

What say you ERA?

 

[LinkStrikesBack]

I certainly miss having all the news contained within a few days. Not a fan of this much more spread out variant.

 

[Steven]

Yes, I miss the hell out of it.

 

[_zoipi]

I miss having a complete day schedule for three dys in a row. Reallly meant that this period of time was important. Heck, i'm sleeping better, but is this a way to live?

 

[Ahti]

Kind of. The thing I miss most, is the Giant Bomb coverage.

 

[Magic Mushroom]

We essentially still have those pressers, they're just spread out more. I'm fine with it really.

 

[Phendrana]

Of course. I liked getting that one Christmas-like week with all of the news. It being spread out like this is lame tbh. And I'm not even sure if it's better for pubs overall, because I feel like I'm missing a bunch of stuff? Or skipping things I usually wouldn't during e3 week.

 

[Cantaloup]

I miss the Giant Bomb late night interview sessions.

 

[Xeontech]

Sometimes, I still think it's coming this year, then it hits me.

Sniff*

 

[Creamium]

I certainly miss having all the news contained within a few days. Not a fan of this much more spread out variant.

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Definitely. At least you got all the important news in a few days. With it being spread out it's even easy to miss stuff if you're not keeping up. I completely missed that EA stuff yesterday for example.

 

[Rotobit]

I miss having big announcements, but it's not like they aren't happening because E3 isn't happening, it's more down to everything else that's going on.

Like, if everything we've seen so far this year was shown within a week at E3, it still would have been very weak. Perhaps even more-so considering it'd involve people in Europe staying up to ungodly hours to be disappointed.

Really wouldn't mind the spread-out approach next year so long as it was more like 2 months and there were the games to bolster it.

 

[Hanbei]

Absolutely not. Current format is preferable to me.

 

[hydruxo]

Honestly, not really. Sure, it's nice to have everything all at once over a week but at the same time, after E3 we'd always have the rest of the summer where it'd be dead quiet for gaming news. I'm actually enjoying having it all spread out throughout the summer.

 

[Knight613]

Even though EA isn't actually part of E3, after EA's show this year and the fact that Microsoft and Ubisoft aren't even doing anything until July, I am so curious as to what would have even been shown at E3 this year.

 

[Noppie]

E3 means we probably would've had more Breath of the Wild 2 news, so yes I miss it.

 

[Astraea]

E3 was fun, but I like having all these streams and announcements to look forward through the year leading up to the new console releases.

 

[Undeniablybiased]

I don't particularly care about e3 as a format, and having stuff spread out like this is fun enough. But it is a little annoying when it comes to certain things like really wanting to see more Zelda but not knowing when or if we will.

So I'd say it's not the lack of e3 that I dislike. It's the lack of any kind of real structure or guarantees.

 

[John Caboose]

We don't even have a date for the MS first party presentation. Yeah, I miss it. It's way too spread out. It's basically like normal.

I'm talking about the internet coverage, mever been there and not particularly interested in going either.

 

[J_ToSaveTheDay]

I think this year has proven to me that getting swept up in the excitement of E3 has left me personally a little misled on more than one occasion in the past. I think I actually appreciate how sobered I've felt by game reveals so far -- I imagine if they were happening on stage with me hanging out with friends in a living room watching a livestream with crowds cheering, I'd have given them a way overinflated level of enthusiasm.

It's not at all that I have nothing to be enthusiastic about -- quite the contrary -- but I feel like I would've been way too overhyped for things that truly don't deserve it based purely on the spectacle of it all. I like this more leveled out view I'm putting into things being shown now... I can be appropriately excited rather than 50% too excited.

EDIT: I do of course miss hanging out with friends and sharing a common thing to be excited about. But I am also definitely glad I'm not overhyping my expectations on games based on the E3 boost.

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

Of course. We've gotten less than we would've already gotten by now if E3 was still happening.

 

[oni-link]

Yeah, I can see why even before COVID people are starting to move away from it, but the hype was great and watching it with GAF and then Era was always a blast

The GIF threads at the old place alone were worth the price of admission

 

[AYZON]

Im not "missing" it but I would have preferred it over how things are now

 

[Sylvalum]

Yes, but I'm not missing E3 exactly, E3 had a lot of room for improvement, so I'd rather say that I miss when we had everything grouped in a single week and you could feel the hype together at the same time. Now I don't even have energy to watch an entire standard streaming as I'd normally do because I'm not feeling that hype.

 

[LightKiosk]

I thought I wouldn't and that the streams would provide a better rollout of information, but in reality, yeah I miss it and how condensed the information was.

 

[nelsonroyale]

Yeah, just have a week where we get a ton of news. The PS5 reveal happened, and that would have been by far the biggest part of E3 for me. But also, good to see some more third party stuff, and that hasn't delivered at all so far. Far too stretched out.

 

[Bashteee]

I love the atmosphere of E3. Two weeks just pure madness.

The PlayStation stream lifted the mood a bit, but I can't deny that everything happening around the world just really gets to me these days.

The spread out information is just making it difficult to follow all those streams, and some of them feel half assed. Except for EA, they were garbage for years.

 

[Deleted member 59109]

E3 was definitely a much better format

 

[SteviaRelievingYa]

Me, a lot.

 

[Windu]

I don't care about the conference itself but yes I miss having a week of gaming news with hands on impressions vs 3-4 months of a trailer here and there. Especially when trailers these days tell you nothing about the game.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

yeah. i miss having all the big announcements happen in one week. now it's 3 whole months :/

 

[Navid]

I like that the news and announcements are more spread out... feel like I'm able to give each game (even he smaller stuff) more time to digest the info around it rather than just watching the initial trailer and moving on.

 

[PS9]

fuck yeah dude this new way of doing it is wack

 

[drunkpacman]

Online E3 could have worked if they kept it to one week, but this slow drip-feed of news is really killing it for me. Damn I miss E3 and the week of hype.

 

[Zen Hero]

I miss the certainty of knowing that certain announcements were going to happen, like a Smash character. Now who knows when things are going to come, they just drop randomly.

 

[Martylepiaf]

I miss the hype and the marathon. Also having journalists play the games was a huge plus.

 

[PhantomArtifice]

I honestly really just miss the schedule. One week where everything was there, you weren't thinking "Oh, I wonder when we'll see this" all the time throughout the course of the 3 months that are the Summer of Gaming.

 

[Lucreto]

I miss E3, all the information put into one week made it fun.

I thought it being more spread out would give the smaller titles to shine but that hasn't been the case.

 

[Chaserjoey]

I certainly miss having all the news contained within a few days. Not a fan of this much more spread out variant.

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This is how I feel too.

 

[Wane]

Mostly no. The rare thrill of big reveals was usually buried in mountains of cringy BS.
That said, I would probably watch E3 presentations, should they return.. What is wrong with me?

 

[Deleted member 17990]

God no, good riddance to that cringefest.

 

[Łazy]

Since absolutely nothing is happening, yeah, kind of missing it a bit.
The usual period more than E3 itself.

 

[Hella]

Gamer christmas, I miss you.

😭

 

[shark97]

I certainly miss having all the news contained within a few days. Not a fan of this much more spread out variant.

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yep. we got all the concentrated news within a week. Instead of spread out, never knowing what we will get, rumors and innuendo....and so far just a lack of info and game footage period. Only the Sony event even came close to e3 quality so far. Everything else has been disappointing.

Like traditionally after E3 is done you have a satisfied feeling you're ready and know how the holidays will shake out. Now, we're still waiting on EG, Microsoft's moment etc.

 

[TechMetalRules]

I definitely miss the barrage of new announcements condensed into one week. I also really miss the E3 show floor specials for Huber Syndrome and Easy Update.

Ya can't feel a carpet in a stream.

 

[Mbolibombo]

I do.

I know E3 definately has it warts and has a lot of things it can improve on, but it's always a bit of a gaming holiday for me.. lots of reveals, cool interviews and tree house segment.

Yeah I hope companies will go back to E3 next year.. I really hope. But who knows what the future will hold after this year :S

 

[Pyro]

I say no because I think I like all this news being spread out. But I do miss really the Giant Bomb night show.

 

[Deleted member 11370]

Not even remotely. If ERA didn't remind me that this was E3 time, I wouldn't even notice. And seeing the announcements made so far, I would have been totally underwhelmed by this year's potential E3.

So, no, I don't miss it even one bit.

 

[DGS]

Funny sidenote: Sony, the company that said goodbye to E3 in 2018, delivered the best show and the only E3 worthy moment in 2020 so far.

 

[Papercuts]

I miss it a ton. These events strung over a month+ are impossible to follow, and had E3 proceeded as normal we would have known SO MUCH MORE about everything.

 

[IvanSlavkov]

Not at all. Loved the way Sony did they presentation and for once I did not have to stay up till 6 in the morning to watch their conference.