I would piss on the ashes but I wouldn't waste good ammonia that's worth something unlike them..
The worst things E3 did was promote hype culture and give game journalists a higher amount of self importance with the event. Now that it's gone with a whimper, maybe this can also mark more of an uncoupling of California from gaming since that was one of the anchors they had with E3.
The death of E3 is because every gaming company realized they could do their own events for a fraction of the price and effort, with total control to themselves. All of the big 3 are headquartered in either Washington or Cali anyway, so this won't make any difference in that regard.
It'll help bled games journos drier, as they'll need to afford many events instead of one centralized one, but otherwise it'll have little to gain on our end.
I do think that the Game Awards will likely take in a lot of the Journo hype crap, if it doesn't start sinking like the Oscars too.
And yeah, E3 2021 likely became proof that the event's quality had gone down the drain slowly but surely and as such I agree to some degree with any assessment that it was partially responsible for the end of the event.
E3 used to be closed to just journalists, back when video game magazines were more prevalent. And I'd wait patiently to get a bunch of magazines and see their takes on certain games, and what they were anticipating. And what I could look forward to.
With the speed of the internet, and then opening E3 to the public, it got worse. Much worse.
Some say taking away booth babes probably had something to do with it. And maybe it did. Who knows. Those days are almost a decade ago now, maybe more.
So, companies themselves decided to just have their own hype train streams, and that killed it for good.
After all, why bother spending thousands to be at the same space as your competitors, when you can just stream it yourself for a fraction of the cost.
The only people I feel bad for are the lighting, stage and sound designers that will have less work with E3 not being a thing anymore.
When I was but a youngster, I loved reading about what games were coming out. Now I'm older and wiser, and couldn't give two shits. If it's not something I can play today, I simply don't care. It'll come out when it comes out, and once it's out I'll watch actual reviews by real people. I have no need for corporate hype machines to sell me on what they'll be releasing in a year or two, only to be let down because they had to cut budgets and meet deadlines. Whether it's E3 or Microsoft or Sony or whatever event, it's all meaningless until I can exchange money for it.
Back then there were much fewer games and we could be looking for major improvements. Magazines were fun to read because of that.
Computers have been able to run high quality graphics and relatively demanding games for so long, there are several great games, and a truckload of good or average ones in every genre and they don't look like ass.
The technological wiggle-room is so big now even small studios can make gems. ( And the 2 games I bothered buying in the past years were made by small studios and look great. )
Plus many classics of the SNES era aged so well their graphic style is still appreciated today.
So my excitement for new games that make a selling point of pushing for more RAM/GPU/CPU-demanding microscopically-acurate graphics is near zero.
Great visuals have been around for very long and somehow studios manage to make stuff look like ass. Very detailed, fluid, shaded, ray-traced crap.
Sometimes deliberately uglifying the characters.
Rest in the woke death pit, E3.
We have enough classics to let the big woke names die without regrets.
In terms of relevance to the consumer yeah, but the industry kept it limping on because they still placed value in games journos and their marketing worth.
If I remember right it started with an extremely fat metroid streamer. Once he "turned", the rest of them followed suit, like a bunch of tranny zombies. In a bit of irony it's also when the massive swathe of pedo activity started among their group.
In as much as I would see what new games were coming out. It took me longer than others to see just how bad the gaming industry had gotten. My eyes were finally opened when TLOU2 teaser came out and the critics were raving about it and I checked into why they were so excited.
I would piss on the ashes but I wouldn't waste good ammonia that's worth something unlike them..
The worst things E3 did was promote hype culture and give game journalists a higher amount of self importance with the event. Now that it's gone with a whimper, maybe this can also mark more of an uncoupling of California from gaming since that was one of the anchors they had with E3.
The death of E3 is because every gaming company realized they could do their own events for a fraction of the price and effort, with total control to themselves. All of the big 3 are headquartered in either Washington or Cali anyway, so this won't make any difference in that regard.
It'll help bled games journos drier, as they'll need to afford many events instead of one centralized one, but otherwise it'll have little to gain on our end.
I do think that the Game Awards will likely take in a lot of the Journo hype crap, if it doesn't start sinking like the Oscars too.
And yeah, E3 2021 likely became proof that the event's quality had gone down the drain slowly but surely and as such I agree to some degree with any assessment that it was partially responsible for the end of the event.
E3 used to be closed to just journalists, back when video game magazines were more prevalent. And I'd wait patiently to get a bunch of magazines and see their takes on certain games, and what they were anticipating. And what I could look forward to.
With the speed of the internet, and then opening E3 to the public, it got worse. Much worse.
Some say taking away booth babes probably had something to do with it. And maybe it did. Who knows. Those days are almost a decade ago now, maybe more.
So, companies themselves decided to just have their own hype train streams, and that killed it for good.
After all, why bother spending thousands to be at the same space as your competitors, when you can just stream it yourself for a fraction of the cost.
The only people I feel bad for are the lighting, stage and sound designers that will have less work with E3 not being a thing anymore.
They still got comic con out that way, though.
Taking away booth babes was a symptom, not a cause. But alas, it was a symptom that if it held in place, might have helped against the infection.
It was one of the first things 'they' attacked and successfully got removed. E3 helped feed the beast in that regard, and now they're gone.
Back then, it being shit didn't even need to matter.
When I was but a youngster, I loved reading about what games were coming out. Now I'm older and wiser, and couldn't give two shits. If it's not something I can play today, I simply don't care. It'll come out when it comes out, and once it's out I'll watch actual reviews by real people. I have no need for corporate hype machines to sell me on what they'll be releasing in a year or two, only to be let down because they had to cut budgets and meet deadlines. Whether it's E3 or Microsoft or Sony or whatever event, it's all meaningless until I can exchange money for it.
Me too.. i enjoyed reading gaming mags and game manuals.
Back then there were much fewer games and we could be looking for major improvements. Magazines were fun to read because of that.
Computers have been able to run high quality graphics and relatively demanding games for so long, there are several great games, and a truckload of good or average ones in every genre and they don't look like ass.
The technological wiggle-room is so big now even small studios can make gems. ( And the 2 games I bothered buying in the past years were made by small studios and look great. )
Plus many classics of the SNES era aged so well their graphic style is still appreciated today.
So my excitement for new games that make a selling point of pushing for more RAM/GPU/CPU-demanding microscopically-acurate graphics is near zero.
Great visuals have been around for very long and somehow studios manage to make stuff look like ass. Very detailed, fluid, shaded, ray-traced crap.
Sometimes deliberately uglifying the characters.
Rest in the woke death pit, E3.
We have enough classics to let the big woke names die without regrets.
wasn't it 100% dead a decade ago?
In terms of relevance to the consumer yeah, but the industry kept it limping on because they still placed value in games journos and their marketing worth.
Indeed, I think one could say the event's rise and fall is symbolic of the industry as a whole, in a sense.
I would be celebrating, but TGA has sort of taken its place...
I was going to say, there were several gaming announcements made recently.
Now hopefully gdq is next. Get rid of all of the useless and outdated things.
When did Games Done Quick become Genders Done Queer?
The Great Transitioning of male autistic gamers was something to behold.
The autist to tranny pipeline is real.
If I remember right it started with an extremely fat metroid streamer. Once he "turned", the rest of them followed suit, like a bunch of tranny zombies. In a bit of irony it's also when the massive swathe of pedo activity started among their group.
I used to mark it on my calendar each year
What shade of lipstick did you use?
Is that a reference to something? I meant that years back I used to be excited to see what games were coming out. Not so much anymore
So you are saying you liked E3 before it was one giant gay op to manipulate the media through a complicit gaming press?
Okay, what kind of dinosaur were you riding?
In as much as I would see what new games were coming out. It took me longer than others to see just how bad the gaming industry had gotten. My eyes were finally opened when TLOU2 teaser came out and the critics were raving about it and I checked into why they were so excited.
The very last time I cared was at the announcement of English PSO2, which I think was the same time Cyberpunk2077 was announced.
Nintendo has traveling shows, directs, and events now. I want to be part of that, but don't know how.
Peak E3 was when Nintendo promoted Conker's Bad Fur day with free beer at their booth. Everything went downhill after that.