and a new level of hype was born.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNGZMx2vhY
The announcement thread at the old site was made on January 31st, at 11pm EST. It received over 20,000 posts in 3 weeks, right up until the day of the meeting, February 20th, 2013.
I had joined the old site around 2010. There had been a lot of hype threads in my time there, but the Playstation Meeting thread was just on a different level. For some of the younger folks here, you have to know that, at the time, the ps3/360 generation of games had lasted a long time. No gen had lasted this long before. 8 years. The wait for the new consoles had reached an untennable degree. So when Sony made the announcement for the Playstation Meeting in early 2013, it was collective satisfaction.
The main vector through which people were expressing their excitement was gifs. Lots and lots of gifs. Not just existing gifs; oh no. Many new gifs were created just for this event. Some good ones, some creepy ones, and some legendary ones.
At the time, I was in university. I remember going to the library during the day to study for my midterms, and keeping a tab open for the thread. I would struggle to contain my laughter.
I sifted through the thread to try to find some. I didn't go through the whole thing because it,s way too long. Also, some of these gifs are no longer there, as they were hosted on new defunct image hosts. Some of Sunhi's and DemonNite's gifs were lost (though I do believe that DemonNite had archived his gifs in video form on his youtube). Here are some of them:
(RIP Dawg)
and my favorite:
happy retirement, Kaz.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNGZMx2vhY
The announcement thread at the old site was made on January 31st, at 11pm EST. It received over 20,000 posts in 3 weeks, right up until the day of the meeting, February 20th, 2013.
I had joined the old site around 2010. There had been a lot of hype threads in my time there, but the Playstation Meeting thread was just on a different level. For some of the younger folks here, you have to know that, at the time, the ps3/360 generation of games had lasted a long time. No gen had lasted this long before. 8 years. The wait for the new consoles had reached an untennable degree. So when Sony made the announcement for the Playstation Meeting in early 2013, it was collective satisfaction.
The main vector through which people were expressing their excitement was gifs. Lots and lots of gifs. Not just existing gifs; oh no. Many new gifs were created just for this event. Some good ones, some creepy ones, and some legendary ones.
At the time, I was in university. I remember going to the library during the day to study for my midterms, and keeping a tab open for the thread. I would struggle to contain my laughter.
I sifted through the thread to try to find some. I didn't go through the whole thing because it,s way too long. Also, some of these gifs are no longer there, as they were hosted on new defunct image hosts. Some of Sunhi's and DemonNite's gifs were lost (though I do believe that DemonNite had archived his gifs in video form on his youtube). Here are some of them:
and my favorite:
happy retirement, Kaz.
