You Know What? I Kinda Miss E3 | Extra Punctuation
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- This week on Extra Punctuation, Yahtzee admits that maybe he sorta actually misses E3?
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That one time Yahtzee went to E3 was the most uncomfortable I've ever seen him
more please
My favorite segment is after they watched the Modern Warfare gameplay reveal, which was the “clear house” mission. He looked shell shocked while talking about it
@@samlipton7872 Yep, that one was a pretty haunting no knock raid. Shame the rest of the game capitulated on the whole morality thing tho.
@@Neatherback TBF, when your core player base is the type of person who will see that sequence and go “that’s so fucking badass,” you’re probably not gonna get the message across no matter how hard you try
@@samlipton7872 I was thinking exactly this lol, he came out and described it like a 1984 thought police simulator
@@harrylane4 remember the AC130 mission in CoD4? Even half the developers thought it was the coolest shit ever, while a good chunk of them thought the whole sequence was horrifying
5:35 I appreciate Matt’s choice of visuals. Glad he’s working on this series
"the one subject I know a lot about" really coincided perfectly with the group wank pantomime. 10/10 editing
The only problem with matt being the editor is no one knows hes the editor
@@CaptainZark the I’d say last XP got that point across well. Not everyone will see it but still
@@jordanj809 for now
It tickles me that there is a sort of grudge stirring in the escapist kingdom. This feels like a Little Finger-move right out of game of thrones :)
Personally I think the reason people really wanted to go to E3 themselves is because as kids we pictured it as some wonderful playground where only the most special people can go and see all the new games coming out before the plebs back home could. Everyone wanted to be a part of that special cool kids club, not knowing the reality of the situation or what would happen when they finally opened the doors for every John and Jane Doe to come in.
As a kid who would read EGM and Game Informer cover to cover every month, this is exactly how I thought of E3 too. A glamorous, exclusive event where you could see games way before anyone else. This was back before it was opened to the public, too, which added to the mystique.
I remember developers also being a PART of their communities at these events. You could communicate with developers in person, receive unique merchandise, try out things early.
Also games used to be better. There used to be like 10 games revealed at each E3 that hyped us up. Now there’s maybe two each year.
I think part of it might be the mythology around previous events and details about old games coming out at those as well. Like when Nintendo showed stuff off at SpaceWorld various years, and how we as a community are kind of obsessed with knowing what our favorite games were like back then, before they were released, and what it could have been like to try them out and explore them ourselves. And so people want to go to these new events, hoping that perhaps something similar will happen in the future, and WE are the ones asked about what we saw or experienced back then when a game takes off in the future or something.
I don't know if they still do it, but back in my day there was the CBS Toy Test. The video game portion was done at the Seattle Science Center and it was the high point of my summer. Taking a trip out there and getting to play all the new video games before anyone else did, then tell some adult with a clipboard how cool they were before getting in line again. I guess visiting my beloved cousins and getting to sail around on my uncle's catamaran was cool too but come on, how that compare to Donkey Kong Country 2?
I wouldn't mind going to get riotously drunk on someone else's bar tab. The rest of the experience can fuck right off.
No matter how many times he pulls the same joke, I'll never *not* fall for the "You were expecting a 'but' there, weren't you?" bit.
He's going to drop an epic but(t) on us one day...
butitdoesn'tjustifybuyingaclunkynewconsolewithnobackwardscompatibility
While this didn’t end up being Yahtzee’s thesis statement, he makes the very good point that E3 was an equaliser where publishers had to impress US, and now they’re all but off the hook to dictate to us how we should feel about their announcements.
What also just helped publishers have an even bigger stranglehold on the consumers is TH-cam getting rid of the dislike button so now publishers can spew crap out all the time
Never underestimate my ability to dunk on publisher announcements for the most flimsiest of reasons
@@johningles1098 I like the cut of your jib.
5:35 to about 5:50 is the best case of taking two things out of context and putting them together for a joke. I nearly choked on my drink as I started laughing.
Tha was great!
I pointed at the screen and said I do that a lot!... The gesture, not the act... Okay the act too.
truly an inspired editing choice (funnier that Yahtzee doesn't see the footage in advance)
That picture of Yahtzee and John Romero will never not be funny. John's staring daggers, and Yahtzee crying for help with his gaze.
If I ever met John to be honest I might think he's a great guy, but let's just say I've never liked his attitude and consider his work to be severely lacking. Sure he does deserve credit for being a pioneer in some areas, but I'm not sure why he's been acknowledged for anything now, never mind receiving an achievement award. I mean I sort of expected Daikatana should have been the last word on John Romero.
Right after Yahtzee claims they got along.
The communal aspect is key. A lot of TH-cam channels and journalists basically live in isolation but E3 gives them a chance to work together, as well as actual passionate game developers and not the scummy publishers.
Out of the studio crunch, to the trade show crunch - yippieh!
To answer Yahtzee’s last question: remember all those conferences where fanboys would cheer and chant at every trailer for literally no reason? That is why
Bethesda?
16 times the detail!
@@theangryholmesian4556 WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It is a religious ritualistic practice.
Remember all the half-baked bullshit titles that would never be anything close to even 75% finished by the holidays, but then released anyhow as the mediocre shovelware that you build this brand upon righteously tearing apart?
That is why.
5:40 whoever did the visuals deserves a huge raise😂
Let’s all laugh for the ol’ Yahtzee,
‘Cuz now he likes going to E3-hee!
If they don't pin this gonna riot
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Dammit you got me singing the ditty 😂
I cant help but laugh pretty much every time I see the camera pan to John Romero, that intro has perfect comedic timing.
this mf has a snoo avatar in youtube
Yahtzee every E3: "There are people who actually WANT to be here!!"
Yahtzee now: "I kind of miss E3."
Let's be honest, Yahtzee - as soon as you started talking about how big of a pain E3 is for the publishers, I knew that you want E3 to come back just to piss them all off
The bestest reason for E3 to come back.
It helps balance all the pissing off they make us feel.
There is also the fact that a lot of indie devs attended E3, and it was an excellent place for them to make connections, or getting unexpectedly noticed.
Because aside from the corporate hype-mongering, it was a social event attended by actual humans.
"thought you were gonna say 'but' Yahtzee"
"You keep falling for that one, don't you?"
You know what? I think I actually like Extra Punctuation more than ZP.
ZP is extremely witty, but it's going so fast I can't even really process the points in detail. Yahtz does a great job with the animations yes, but I mainly just listen anyways. The podcasts are nice, but they are usually less directed by the fact that there are multiple people with multiple perspectives.
I think if there was a 20 min video of just Yahtz (or honestly other Escapist content creators) talking about video game concepts, that would be the ideal content for me. We'll call it, 'All the Punctuation'.
OR you even do a Q/A and just take more time to consider the questions instead of trying to answer super chats on the fly. @The Escapist, I will gladly pay your monthly sub if you do this for me
Check out our Quest Log, Anatomy and In the Frame series if you want more essay content! We also previously did Ask the Creators as Bonus Content, but the edits were too large so we've shelved it for now, but would like to bring something similar back in the future.
EP feels a bit more honest, less a rehearsed script packed full of as many jokes as you can and more like a conversation that Yatzee has with the bartender at 4 in the morning while nursing a beer, half drunk and reminiscing the good old times
Less about the games only and more Yahtzee's opinion over a topic. Why I like listening to Lets Drown Out.
Extra Punctuation is about discussing general trends in gaming and gameplay, while Zero Punctuation is about showing how specific games either miss certain marks, fail to meet expectations, or do something right depending on the game.
@@mitchhamilton64
As far as I can see, the last “let’s drown out” was 5 years ago. Is there another channel with newer content?
Yahtz, I'm surprised you've never done PAX or any other conferences .. with your pro-indie bent, it tends to be a much more indie-focused event
I kind of relate to that feeling of missing the tradition, honestly. Ever since 2016 I've made it a point to watch the conferences together with friends, mostly to take the piss out of them. That was always a really fun part of the year for me, despite not being interested in 90% of what was shown, lol.
"It was a tradition, and traditions are what bring us together as a community"
It has probably something to do with my fast approach to my 30's, but that hits as hard as a truck and made me shed a tear. E3, despite the fact that under the surface is just another soulless attempt of the capitalist empires to create hype from consumer products, was the proof that life is made of moments. Moments such as make up excuses to your friends because you cannot tell them that you have to skip the beach to see the presentation of the Wii U, or trying not to shout at 4 in the morning at Sony's 2015 press conference, or the reaction of Etika at the Everyone is here trailer for Smash. This are the kind of things that make us feel alive, and deep inside, alongside all the cringe, we all miss E3.
its the same as christmas, everyone knows its just a date to buy crap, but we still love it because even though its a souless capitalistic driven mess, its still fun and whimsical.
Don't include me in that "we" of yours. The death of E3 has been the best thing for game announcement festivals thus far.
@@aturchomicz821 The Wholesome direct cannot be praised enough in my opinion. It was the absolute best event by far and gave credit to so many interesting projects.
Tangeant:
While every other festival was focused on just releasing or announcing sequels or spiritual successors to games that already exist, the Wholesome Direct offered new ideas. Every other festival focused on announcing or displaying games that express conflict through violence and nothing else. Shooting, slashing, punching, exploding, bludgeoning, burning, etc is how the majority of games have you solve all your problems. It is awesome to see nearly 100 games where you solve problems with words, terraforming, cleaning, cooking, building, travelling, running, or generally helping. Violent games certainly have their place but they are definitely over-represented and the Wholesome Direct displayed games challenging that.
@@aturchomicz821 I actually went through every Steam Next Fest game then counted how many violent vs nonviolent games there were and what percentage of the top 100 belonged in each category.
24% of the Steam Next Fest games were nonviolent.
32% of the most wishlisted were nonviolent.
There is an 8% gap in the market for indie games and when I went through all the big-name publisher events they were also lacking nonviolent representation (though I can't measure their interest.)
5:39 editor hits a home run with the visual lol
Show up once kills it and looks back on it thinking “you know you weren’t useless after all” that’s character development
And would you look at that, E3 2023 has been cancelled, Yahtzee didn't know how right he was
I love the E3 days thumbnails, the first he looks semi-engaged, the second completely blank and the third completely bored
TRADITIOOOOONN!!!!!!!!! Tradition! Great video. Also, I always forget how tall Yahtzee is. I only ever see his little character or him sitting down while streaming. And then I'm like oh! Dude's tall!
I was also annoyed when I needed to go to professional conferences, and I dearly miss them now.
Miss E3?!
OK, Yahtzee Cloneshaw has escaped again. Anyone seen the real Yahtzee?
From what I've picked up over the years from different YT people, E3 always looks fun when it's just the expo stuff and not those EA day/Ubi Day/Sony day or whatever, because it sounds more like a nob measuring contest.
I do miss E3 myself at times. I imagine it is a pain in the ass but to me i always saw it as a Gaming Community tradition where like minded gamers came together and bonded over what the new year was going to bring us. What previews we were gonna see, what new tech we might find, it was all so exciting to imagine how we'd get wow'ed at the presentations. Granted i've never been to one. It was kinda like how most people feel about TV award shows. Their expensive, tiring, unnessesary but it was still fun to watch and expiience it in some way. Wether it was seeing the cosplays of various game characters, seeing the journalists rub elbows with developers and publishers alike or seeing who WINS E3 and who screwed it up were a time honored tradition, and i miss that tradition remembering the highs and lows of some of them. I'll never forget when Resident Evil 7 was announced at the Sony theater and how it was presented as a found footage short film. I remember when microsoft introduced the Kinect and showed us some of the fun but janky things you could do with it. Every year had something memorable to it, and i miss that.
this video is a summery of Yahtzee and Romero coming to terms
Its striking how forgettable the past few e3s have been. I think the real selling point of e3 was having all those hands on demos really showing you what a game was instead of just cheap pre-built trailers that in the end say nothing.
Man, Extra Punctuation is such a wonderful idea. I enjoy it more than ZP at times.
the title of this video got an eye roll from me, as I assumed this would be something only media types would understand
but I admit he convinced me.
it's good for media and big companies to have a neutral middle ground
respectful discourse is the driving force of positive change after all
I love and miss the E3 cringe as an always remote watcher. One of my most fun summer memories is me and a total stranger watching the EA press conference and going "surely it can't get any worse?" As they bring in sports cars and sports players galore with all the tone deaf appeal.
"Suits with the beaming confidence of total psychopaths"
That is the most accurate description I've ever heard.
I'm that hopeless loser that always liked this sort of thing. WAY back in the 90's, I used to work for Best Buy. Everyone else would grouse and whine and groan about having to go to the yearly tech demos or previews, but I was always up for it. You get paid for the day of work and get to learn about all the cool new shit that will be hitting the shelves soon. I dunno, kinda cool from my humble perspective.
Admittedly I've never been to E3 nor am I a journalist in any way, but I did have to go back and sell stuff to people and having information about what was upcoming was always like my little personal prize. For once in my life I was able to be ahead of the curve for most of the people who I saw on a daily basis. And I got to play games earlier than most. I got to see new gadgets before they were on the market. My own personal little world of neat toys and fun games. I even got to brag to fellow Halo fans that I got to play it weeks before anyone else in my group. Yes, I realize a ZP video space isn't likely the best place for that to be a feather in my cap since hating Halo has been a ZP staple since the word go, but it was fun for me at least. YMMV.
I do understand the perspective and appeal. E3 really is a lot like Thanksgiving for gamers. Everyone goes and we watch as the adults at the table lie to us about all the progress they made while secretly stealing the leftovers. The community aspect is probably the biggest thing I'd miss. But at the same time it's not enough of an incentive for me to wish it back. At least not the way it used to be. Maybe a hybrid of what we have now and what was before
That is might be but as a Brit living in Oz-land it's got to give Yahtzee a shudder writing and performing for such an exclusively US-centric viewpoint. Least I bloody well hope it does.
@@stryke-jn3kv Yahtzee moved to the states a couple of years ago. That's how he was able to attend e3 at all.
Has it been a couple of years now? I though it was just last year. My sense of time has gotten all messed up.
Yahtzee and Romero streaming Daikatana please.
I think this ZP perfectly captures the feeling for anyone who's industry has a big convention (or 3) for it. Exhausting pain in the ass while happening..... God I miss it now.
I concur.
@@javiermontiero4982 you must be a blast at parties.
I've been thinking somewhat about "E3 attendees" in the context of Overwatch 2 Beta, in that OW2 is going to be F2P, but you can get into the closed, incomplete beta by paying $40. I guess there are just some people who need to spend money, and not that gaming conventions are losing importance, corporations are finding other ways to knock the money out of weak and excited hands.
E3 from the common man perspective was just a fun get-together. You could meet up with a bunch of people who all shared similar interests, gawk at the cosplayers, and cross your fingers at a chance to run into a developer from a game you like. Maybe get a picture from them as well. Sure the primary goal was a giant sales pitch for the major studios, but we made a comfy shantytown around the big boys' mansion.
Just yesterday i rewatched Yahtzee‘s E3 report from 2019 - hoping he would do another one as soon as e3 comes back 😅
I get it, for as annoying E3 was, it was a novel experience different from watching trailers on TH-cam.
R.I.P. E3 😔
It’s nice to hear Yahtzee enjoying doing an activity
You don’t get that a lot, him having a good time
I attended E3 2018 on a gamer pass, and i has a great time!! To me, it was basically the best video game convention I could've ever hoped to have gone to 😁😁 that said, I can totally understand those there on the clock didn't care for the gamer pass attendees... Despite being for what assumed was the love of the game, a lot of them had a really piss poor attitude, some seemed to only he interested in grabbing swag, talking shit about the free swag, and didn't seem too interested in all the new content. I've read they'd hound famous game developers, come in smelly, and just clog up wait lines at a place famous for being too crowded anyway 😑😑 Don't know if thar huge convention will ever come back, but I'm thrilled and content getting to be there at least once in my life 😁😁😁
Glad you finally see things my way Yahtzee: w/o an E3, the month of June is just kind of a dull month to go through outside it being the start of summer.
I think the point about the event being an equalizer is really accurate.
As for why I miss it and similar events, it's the cosplaying. I love seeing the effort, style, and theme everyone goes for - and I live for the moments when random cosplayers of the same IP run into each other.
5:40
Dear editor, Your amazing
E3 always happened during the last week of school or the first week of summer break for me so it was always the most lovely tradition to start the summer with.
I get the same feeling when I do my conventions, it can be a pain in the arse making sure I have everything ready; my workload tends to be allocating time outside my job for patching up my costumes, making endless checklists so I don't leave anything behind, ordering stuff well in advance and paying extra for postage so I can guarantee it will be there before I leave, coming up with artwork for the art show, and then torturing myself periodically by checking in on it to see if anyone bid on it, checking in on the days leading up to the event logging events I know I won't attend and then adding notes berating myself if I don't attend them, running around taking photos of everything I see, and then wondering if there was another amazing costume in the other 180° I wasn't looking in, balancing the important tasks of socialising, eating, resting, cosplaying, photographing, attending panels, visiting the Dealer's Den, remembering to breathe every once in a while, and then kicking myself because I missed something. Weighing up all the reasons I get stressed makes it seem like these are profoundly negative experiences, and in the moment they are, but surprisingly I always want to come back for more.
I am not sure whether it is compulsion, or the fact that the human brain desires rewarding stimulation, but I end up it enjoying it. Putting yourself through the hardship for these events comes with some kind of feedback, whereas most of our daily lives, noise is just noise, bright lights are just bright lights, there's no overall connection to us, and yet these events provide us with that. That's perhaps why we do it. Corporations go because they want to show off something, and maybe some of their presenters actually crave the negative attention, because it's actually a response, it's a genuine human response, whereas inside the walls of their offices, a negative response is ultimately very sterile and formulaic, and just a product of control groups. It's an actual human interaction, and that's what makes them rewarding.
5:40
Knowing now that Matt does all the editing and visuals makes this joke even funnier. I really hope yahtz sees this at some point.
0:21 - "There might be one next year..."
Poorly aged things.
5:41 excellent editing choice.
LOLed at some good jokes that I know of! :D Especially the "Pain in the arse" running gag! XD
I think that you had a similar feeling going to a regular gaming convention. Mainly because there’s an anime convention I go to when I get all dressed up in my fancy clothes, and I pay a lot of money, and it’s a pain in the butt, but I love it. That’s why I’ve been doing it since high school 💗
Obligatory comment about how appreciated these slowed down vids are. EP and ZP are my favorite bits of content that are abbreviated "vowel-P" followed by DP but let's not give The Escapist any ideas.
Lovin the side series. I also miss E3. I'd contribute in if you guys want to go again!
I don’t understand the part about “late for the bus”?
Oh I do.
And he's not allowed to say it anymore.
@@paulrus-keaton439 can you? I'm lost on it too.
Does it help if I specify the bus they are late for is probably quite a bit shorter than most other buses?
@@00SmileTime00 perfectly done
me neither
I will say watching it with mates over a livestream laughing at lal the stupid inbetween bits was the best part of E3 for us, the cringe jokes the terribleness of some thing like when the cam zoomed in on that one guy whos scriped was different so he smiled and it cut to someone else. Or the adorableness of that one dev from Ghostwire tokyo i think it was, thats what made it special for me personally.
This was good. Great take on E3. I feel the same about EGX, some great moments despite the difficulties in attending.
"Gonads, you say?"
Hilarious
I always loved watching E3 because it was like..gamer christmas. A week of just exciting announcements of the years and future upcoming releases, all the cool new games to look forward to etc. It's just what I like.
I miss it for the genuinely hype moments, like the Re7 and Re2 Remake, FF7 Remake, God of War 2018 announcements.
“You’re breathtaking!”
And also betting on what’ll bomb and what’ll be industry mainstays. I was right on Horizon Zero Dawn :D not so much on Watch_Dogs. But then I wasn’t as aware of Ubi’s flaws back then.
I’ll always remember Butler’s speech about loving games, not taking sides in a pointless console war and just declaring our love for the medium.
It was always a dream of mine to present a game at E3. I think of that one dev that presented the Mario x Rabbids game, and they were practically about to cry knowing Miyamoto was there giving his approval.
Now it seems the most relevant platform to announce something new is the game awards. Which as much as I appreciate Geoff’s passion, it just doesn’t feel as big a stage.
5:41 «... And be in a social situation where I can talk in depth about the one subject I know a lot about»
Superb choice of visuals here
Another thing I kinda miss about E3 is that it was all there in one spot. Now with everyone just doing their own announcements it's very easy to lose track of all the livestreams.
Heck, Devolver studios had their own livestream with suda51 with a few new good trailers and most didn't even realized it happened.
Or how on one day IGN made a whole "BRAND NEW ANOCEMENT LIVESTREAM" and it was just *one* CGI trailer and a couple of interviews from the studio....that was it.
Just started watching but commenting to say I love this series. EP is OP
I worked as a booth rep at e3 2019. It was very enjoyable and tiring. I also found it quite baffling that people paid to come to wait in line. It did not have fun interacting with the paid ticket guests.
Around 2013 - 2019 people kept making comments about how E3 was a relic of the past and we should just have a bunch of individual directs like what Nintendo does, and that bummed me out. I like the big spectacle event that gets everyone in the gaming community all hyped about the same news, or when people get to see a bunch of indies showcased and they find something just for them. Getting rid of the event seems like a net loss to me, since it's a communal activity that brings the gaming space closer together, even if it is an advertising show at the end of the day.
Reading the comments has given me another data point to show that " a communal activity that brings [a community] closer together " seems to have less and less value. Half the comments seem to be proud of having 'cracked the code' on life by just not doing the stuff nobody wants to do, with no regard as to the deeper reasons to do it.
Absolutely agree on why would you want to go as a consumer? It's the same for me with other cons as well; I went to PAX Aus, and there were so many lines and waiting for things I just didn't see the point. Why would I want to stand around waiting for ages to do or see something when I could just stay home and spend my time better?
Also I don't understand the ending joke about late for the bus? What's the joke?
My kingdom for footage of Yahtzee and John Romero being pally.
Uh oh, Yahtzee's getting nostalgic.
Are there no awards for video game journalism? We need to create some and award them all to Ben Croshaw. He’s like a modern day Walter Cronkite with a a whole lot more cynicism and f bombs and commentary instead of fact reporting. Ok. That was a crap analogy. But you get the idea.
The games press likes to pretend we don't exist haha. Our documentaries don't even get included in lists when they're written about.
It's nice to set aside a time for "trailers and announcements" like a few E3 broadcasts.
Yatz, i'm sorry :(
Guessing you came to this after the announcement too 😭
Ahhh, there's nothing quite like Con Life~ Where you just slip out of your normal life and enter a different dimension for three days. Where the vibe is uniquely exhausted and excited, where everyone understands how stellar it is to be here but also know the financial and time costing price they've all paid to be here. Like going on vacation to another planet but Starbucks just still happens to be here.
I highly suggest it to anyone who hasnt tried it to definitely do so, so long as you dont mind feeling like you're a claw machine prize, leaving their comfortable plush friend bin, to be dropped into a hole that leads who knows where.
That's fair, I miss the E3 videos
E4 all was such a cool experience.
Does Bethesda being in Microsofts grasp now mean no more fan cheering presentations from them?
I could be talking from a nostalgia point of view; but E3 was at its peak in the early-mid 2000's. I think what ultimately saw its decline was the over reliance on prerendered cutscenes over bonafide gameplay footage that ramped up with the Sony's 2005's PS3 presentation of Killzone 2, Final Fantasy XIII, and Gran Turismo 5. All games that wouldn't surface until 2009-2010 and nowhere near to what Sony had promised in graphical fidelity. Then you had the E3 2007-2008 dilemma announced after E3 2006 that saw a massive restructuring of the event and downsized it tremendously. Conferences were still a thing and eventually E3 reformed with its 2009-2010 conferences, but I don't think anything outside of that ever was restored to its golden age of public perception.
Those late for the bus would probably also appreciate chatting with people about a subject they're passionate about especially with their heroes.
I didn't realise how much E3 meant for the gaming community until this Summer Games Fest thing started and was so painfully generic it felt like eating gray mush out of a gray bowl with a gray spoon at a restaurant named Gray's where the guy serving me is just a gray blob who doesn't speak. Please come back E3 we didn't understand how much worse it could get.
I do like E3, it was a rush of what's new and exciting for the industry condensed in a few days. Now it's spreading the information of one game through several days. Also E3 used to showcase more game demos, either by hand-on off-screen footage or showcasing a game at the stage.
The only time I went it was 2017, when it opened to the public and it was a very good year for games and announcements. I can see it being tedious for a weaker year, but that's the thing, one is never sure how big or small the announcements will be.
I suppose in the future we'll all assist through VR, and having the simulation of walking around the event without lines. Trying whatever catches out attention. I think on-person events like theaters will still try to exist, but the conditions will need to get better and more enticing to have that happening. Not only because on-crowd infections but also because the current climate has been very violent.
All in all, I think the enjoyment of E3 is subjective, since the quality of it is inconsistent. Game development is ardious and it takes extra work to make a demo, and stage and the marketing is likely very expensive. Still I did appreciate that sort of effort, even when the games change, there's sort of a journey watching how a game shifts from reveal to finished product.
E3 of old was mostly stuffy press conferences only for journalists and the exciting stuff ended up in print.
In the internet age it became a livestream hype party everyone is invited to
I think the pleb reasoning might be the same reason I went to comic con a few times back in the day, theres a surprising amount of free shit you can get from walking around. For the low price of like 10-20 bucks you can stand outside and try buying badges off people leaving so theres a mountain of useless shit you can sift through to find the one poster you absentmindedly picked up that you actually like.
The original crew of Rooster Teeth on a quiet Wednesday: "Hahaha.... .... wait, what?"
Yahtzee really is the Hunter S Thompson of video games
3:54
"Oh haha I forgot about this moment, I'm gonna look it up to laugh again!"
*video was uploaded 13 years ago*
I am a little sad now.
3:25 is even more relevant now, as it was announced that Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft (at least the xbox division) won't be attending this year's E3
I mean, you could make that last point about literally any convention. And I would have to agree with you.
Seeing him next to Romaro reminds me of how tall Yahtzee is.
0:55 is that guy eating a bowl of lemons or something?
Randomly gotta know, what game is that with the cat-helmet dude on the motorcycle at 0:40?
What was the game shown at 3:35 ? I don't recognize it. It's got a dynasty warriors vibe but not quite 🤔 anyone know?
5:41
I see what you did there editor 😉
I went to PAX for years before I finally realized all that was happening was a mess of waiting in line to play Aliens Colonial Marines and For Honor a few months before their launch. Some of the panels are good but they tend to get redundant or you're just getting hyped at. Best experiences I've had a video game conference: Recognizing the head of Turtle Rock while waiting in line to play Evolve, and having him come over and talk to me while I was waiting, Showing off some of my own games, and talking to devs at the Indie Megabooth, which is way too small and should be the highlight of the entire event.
Anyone know what yhe blue oni girl at 0:44 is from?
Kind of sounded like you were going to say but there Yahtz
"You keep falling for that one don't you viewer"
Funny, that was very much how I felt about ComicCon. I went probably a dozen times over the decades, and never understood the allure. I always got in for free, which helped, but really it seemed a big pain in the arse for everyone as well.
He said but let's goo!