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I.
Blame.
Geoff Keighley.
And e-celebs
e-celebs aren't any worse than Hollywood celebs or sports celebs, if we're being honest with ourselves
Grim times
>Verification not required.
I'll miss the cringe parts of it more than anything. I'm not that beat up over losing a shitty conference where devs lie and morons eat it up, though.
Everything is so corporate and controlled now that E3 in the future wouldn't contain any of those entertaining elements anyways. It's best that it died before it became an ACTUAL convention for industry insiders.
>Everything is so corporate and controlled now
like E3 in the early 90's?
lmao corporates are still as clueless and incompetent as back then
Instead we get TGA, which is basically what you described. Just a bunch of lazy ads with some journo dick sucking on top
We'll NEVER get kino like this ever again...
It was shitty for a long time before it ended was the last good thing to come from it
>I'll miss the cringe parts of it more than anything.
Same, it was honestly disappointing to see the shows become more and more polished as time went on. Somewhere around the late 2010s they just became so sterile and rehearsed that all the entertainment value was lost and I just started watching the highlights on youtube instead of tuning into the conferences themselves. Didn't help that AAA development times became so long that 25% of a show was just 'here's this game that's coming out sometime in the future, maybe, possibly, you better like it because we're going to show it at next year's show too'
>I'll miss the cringe parts of it more than anything
True. These things and e-sport events had such charm to them back in 2010-2014. The gamers, hosts, everyone where so awkward and not used to it. It created a lot of fun. But then they got more professional and corporatized and it lost some of that charm.
But i think the reason they are not holding these events anymore is because they can't control the narrative anymore. If its livestreamed then the audience can chime in and say something that is a "no no" and they can't have that happen.
There's nothing to show anyway. israelites and japs killed videogames, the world too.
it was dogshit since they opened it up to the public
Nintendo did the right thing in killing this piece of shit.
Well skyward sword was so bad it killed e3. That's why they don't do live presentations anymore.
majority of Ganker won't even know what e3 was in 3 years time.
>tfw looked forward to becoming an adult to see E3 in person and witness all the cool games
same
Everything ends
and it's always sad
It's like if christmas and the entire holiday season just disappeared.
The last few years of E3 before shut down were barely remarkable.
Even if they weren't good it was still enjoyable.
>Pressures companies into reveals
>Consolidates a large portion of news into one point
>I's bad we get to laugh at it together
To be fair, christmas is the same, at least for me. Really haven't been feeling that holiday spirit in years.
Oh please. The conferences are still there, almost all of them - EA was just painful, and Sony not having shit to show is their fault - and they even happen pretty much at the exact same times as always.
It's more like they changed the name of Black Friday and everything kept working exactly the same. The "magic" of E3 had long since gone anyway.
Doesn't surprise me. THEY keep taking the good things from us.
Frick this era.
It had already been shit ever since it was closed to the public
Please Wrap It Up
E3 is unnecessary when publishers can talk directly to consumers.
I don't care about this at all because I actually play videogames
The best part of E3 was being a kid, seeing overage of it, and imagining it was like a exclusive convention instead of the marketing show it actually was.
what was the point of cancelling it if Microsoft still has the same dates sloted for announcements?
E3 is was the floor show, not the stage conferences
I forgot we're not getting one this year. Maybe Doritos pope's summer of games can get more budget
It was bound to happen. Everyone can just show whatever they games they got whenever they want. It was pretty fun to see all the new announcements each year and spouting shit like "Sony wins again, Xbots on suicide watch". The gaming climate is too corporate and safe now. Companies aren't experimenting, they're just chasing trends and playing copycat. What's the point of having these rituals with 30 trailers that all look the same? I'd go back if I could, I had no idea how good I had it.
I don't understand why the frick the economy needs billion dollar companies to sustain itself off of the equivalent of children's toys
>YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IF "GWIMBLY 3" DOESN'T FRICKING SELL X BILLION DOLLARS, HALF OF CALIFORNIA WILL BE LAID OFF
When did it get this bad
Why do video game corporations even exist?
Especially when one can make the same amount of profit as a company just by some autist trying to sell his book
What the frick are you even trying to say?
The very idea of a video game corporation is absurdist
or that you need to have a tradeshow for video games where corporations spend millions of dollars to try to attract investors is fricking moronic
Vidya was never supposed to be part of the global economy or matter this much
Anon, every piece of entertainment media is like that, you need to stop seeing it as just a toy.
I mean not really
Back in medieval times did we need an entire kingdom just to shit out Triple A Jesters or bards?
Did Renaissance painters need a whole town of people just to paint a single picture?
Did an entire city-states economy depend if a concert did good or not?
The advent of the printing press was mainly done to push a governments propaganda in the form of news, but books were still typically done by singular individuals trying to share their thoughts.
The advent of Hollywood was when it started to really matter and that's because the Americans strongest export was propaganda, but a movie flop didn't mean that the entire American economy would suffer because the new fricking Cape Shit didn't break a trillion billion dollars like it does today
Imagine telling someone decades ago that if not enough kids bought BING BING WAHOO, that Japan would fall into an economic depression
But now it's a harsh reality
Economy's have staked their entire futures and fortunes on hoping that Nintendo and Microshit continue to put out childrens playthings that are worth buying
How do you not see the absurdity of it? It makes me fall over laughing thinking about it
>Back in medieval times
I don't even need to read your post.
it needs to go back to being toy because the way it is now isnt working
your mindset brought us here
>because the way it is now isnt working
It's been working for years, what isn't working is AAA movie games, a fairly recent trend.
>AAA movie games
these work
>open world slop
these dont
Anon, those AAA movie games are currently failing
E3 started as a trade show so retailers could make informed decisions on what games to supply, but you're right that it grew too big for its boots.
>I don't understand why the frick the economy needs billion dollar companies to sustain itself off of the equivalent of children's toys
First, the childrens' toy industry is much more serious than you might think. Just look at Lego for example.
Second, video games are not exclusively toys for children. The mere existence of video games made for children does not mean ALL games are for children.
That would be like calling every book an entertainment for kids, simply because there are books made for children.
Can you buy Stock in a Book?
Does a book need 50,000 employee's to make it?
Do you take a book to a tradeshow to showcase it to billion dollar investors who will stake entire pension funds in the hopes that the book has enough interesting words in it that billions of people will purchase it?
Does an entire countries economy hinge on the fact that a book is good?
>Does an entire countries economy hinge on the fact that a book is good?
yeah, pretty much
>Can you buy Stock in a Book?
Yes you can actually. You can buy book publisher stocks.
>Does a book need 50,000 employee's to make it?
That would depend on the book but no. What is this argument supposed to even be? A game doesn't NEED 50k employees either.
>Do you take a book to a tradeshow to showcase it to billion dollar investors who will stake entire pension funds in the hopes that the book has enough interesting words in it that billions of people will purchase it?
Yes, are you unaware of pitch meetings?
Additionally, games do not NEED any of those.
>Does an entire countries economy hinge on the fact that a book is good?
Name a single game that decisively, without question, ruined the economy of a country because that game failed. This argument is rubbish.
>Name a single game that decisively, without question, ruined the economy of a country because that game failed
Cyberpunk
>more than 2 decades of E3, each one bigger than the last
each decade bigger than the last decade? Bit arbitrary and probably not even true because the last decade was the beginning of covid
yearn to read
What they wrote is different to what they meant, and what they meant isn't even accurate
>games take about a decade to make these days
>every E3 started showing less and less games
im not surprised they threw in the towel when publishers are barely giving them anything to work with
E3 2015-2020 were filled with games that where like 5 years in dev hell at that point
imagine making a giant presentation for like 10 games total (3 at most with actual gameplay demos)
E3 should be every 5 years.
E3's format was fine
the industries constant fixation with AAA budget inflation is what destroyed consistent game releases
at this point Nintendo is the only publisher who releases more than 3 games a year
E3 shouldn't even think of coming back until the industry is ran by gamers again. The industry should know how to put on a show that's fun and exciting to gamers rather than cringy and/or boring, and the only people who will understand how to mentally navigate that field are gamers themselves.
The budget inflation of the entertainment industry is a symptom of the extremely incompetent people at the top and their lazy, problem-causing DEI hires. They're not fans who understand what makes the industry tick, and this idea that this somehow makes them objective is stupid on its face and demonstrably false. What it makes them is lost without a compass. Some of them are so stupid that they don't even realize that they're lost even after losing millions of dollars. That shows how low their level of competence is.
What was the best E3 and why was it 2013?
You mistyped 2010.
>3DS unveiling
>PS3 making the comeback of a lifetime
>Xbox shitting the bed hilariously
>WAN MIRRION TROOPS
>Spoony embarrising himself so hard he gets banned from every gaming conference
It was truly the last fun E3
I'd say 2014, but the press conferences at 2013 were good too. That actually includes Microsoft, believe it or not. This is because all the moronation happened at the pre-E3 Xbone reveal event, and of course that Mattrick interview. Their main E3 conference was actually pretty solid as a presentation. They just didn't backtrack on all the stupid shit like they should have, so Playstation bent them over the coffee table on that and on price.
Regardless, 2013 and 2014 are probably the two best back-to-back E3s ever.
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it really doesn't hurt anymore because every E3 for the last 10 years sucked dick
i think the defining moment of what killed E3 was #GIRLWOOD, when stuck up suits tried to capitalize on the cringiness of E3 with their "we're so relatable guys, we're gamers just like you".
2013 was probably the last good year for E3 although 2014 still had good thread energy, at least for when Splatoon was announced and the thread had thousands of posts within minutes, shame every year since was just boring sloppa from every studio
Unfortunately it was bound to happen. The internet was once the same when corpos didn't have a stronghold on websites but now that they do, the game has changed and things aren't as fun anymore. They try to go where the money is, or willing to go. E3 was never safe from them. Although it took a long time for them to make it crash and burn.
no e3 past 2006 was good
E3 had been trash aimed at boomer investors since the late 00s. The only stuff that got announced there was the next batch of dumbed down shit for morons. The same kind of shit that threatens the continued existence of these companies today.
>Derpa durr! That's the point of a trade show!
This is why the west is losing its economic relevance. Targeting investors is putting the cart before the horse. Customers should get excited, and then investors should get excited because that means money for them. If investors don't understand the customers, it's the company's job to teach them. That means that the guy who made a lot of money at real estate but can't list the two bad guy factions in the original Halo should be sitting on the outside being educated about Halo as an investor by long time fans and devs for the FPS genre, not stumbling around blindly and ruining everything as a clueless board member who's outside of his area of expertise.
In the latter years it did more harm than good.
It hurts.
It hurts my stomach so much. I am still laughing.
E3 has always been my highlight of the year and now it's fockin gone, replaced with a couple of commercial marathons. The console warring and cringe compilations will be sorely missed.
ill most of all miss the shitposting
post your favorite E3 cringe moments
Well, it's sad that it's over but Summer is still a big period of announcements anyway and I'll keep calling it E3 because it's annoying when people go
>ummm actually E3 is over sweaty
It's the same shit.
If E3 was still gaming's biggest party made by gamers for gamers, it'd be alive and healthy today.
>safe
>sanitized
Those will always be stupid words to use for behavior that's poison to any any industry and especially to entertainment.
The "magic" of E3 was basically that it was the closest thing to videgame comic con.
Why is it so hard to just make a proper Viyda Comic Con?
>GGWP
I don't think that's true.
They catered to the homosexual ass games journalists instead of the general audience. It was doomed to fail.
crowbcat needs to make one last mix for the road
Not as much as losing the Victoria Secret Fashion Show to fatties, uglies and trannies.
...
Nothing is sacred. Nothing is safe.
I miss the old in-person stuff. I miss it when studios were hiring bands to hold a concert or whatever.
Even the later years of E3 were better than this disjointed garbage where every studio hosts their own 2 hour bullshit online.
E3 died because Playstation couldn't produce enough videogames to showcase and they were embarrassed about it.
Unironically.
The consoles gatekept themselves to indie, while indie was an accidental hit on PC. Any codkiddy could recreate his dream game on a PC.
I mean LBP was a techinical indie hit, if I recall correctly. If the whole industry had indie outreach prioriitized even now, it would save the lifeblood of the industry.
Now, it just sucks. At least recognizing it is a good thing. It's something to endure.
I'll miss the E3 shitposting week on Ganker
Me too.
E3 week on Ganker was always something to look forward to each year.
Great memes came from it.
I always tuned out, because I don't see anything fun about looking at the pure cringe that's occupying a space that used to make me feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
The thing that makes it cringe is that it's absolutely radiating disrespect for the viewer. They legitimately think that you're stupid and wish that they didn't have to sell anything to you. I'd trade all of the memes away in an instant for a history where the industry gatekept people who look down on its customers.
Nah its for the best. E3 became a shell of it's former self and it was time to old yeller it.
It really is peak "You just had to be there". One era is over, and instead of reliving the past, I hope something new appears and recaptures whatt makes that special
E3 was cool
It's a simple fix. Just keep it industry professionals only.
>Height of "An Ancient Evil Awakens" meme
>Halo 4 trailer gets announced
>"AN ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENS"
>At this time, Ganker and friends just swarmed into whichever big game journo sites had active, semi-stable streams
>Anons spam the chat with "AN ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENS" so hard that we crash multiple streams on different sites
So NOW you like E3? Even though you all were tuning in to watch a minute of it, hate it, wait for the shitty memes spawned by corporations acting awkward in public, rinse and repeat every year? That was not fun, and neither entertaining, you just miss it because your dumb human brain wants thing, that is now gone, back.
>"waah it sucked anyway"
>implying you aren't zoomzooms, exhaling their disgust that they missed it
Pounds of salt. Enough salt to make us friends, in a second.
E3 died when the game demo and the industry documentary stuff that would get included with the magazine demo disks were shuttered. If you even looked at the still photos of the show early on, it was flashier. When it got embarrasing in 2007 it was fun to watch but, those guys were dead serious still. It's a real phenomenon; the fact that they captured genuine attention, almost by accident, and could not hold it.
But you guys are just salty, unless you can prove you even know what you're talking about.
E3 had not been remotely entertaining for over a decade. The last meme worthy one was what, in 2010 or so? With the EXTREEEME Konami presentation. After that everyone tried to put the brakes on the cringe and it became boring corporate shit.
Good riddance.
Oh no, not the AAA western slop
it represents the death of a shared monoculture.
I disagree. It represents the failure of the neo-Marxist cabal to hijack the culture and foretells a course correction that will happen in spite of them.
People didn't just keep buying. They united in saying "frick you". Now some of these formerly invincible devs couldn't sell pancakes at a lumber yard. That's a market opportunity for people in that "frick you" crowd. Men (the primary consumers of media) still like the same things that they liked fifteen years ago.
Black folk 2!
Kek that was great
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how does anyone give a shit about this? it has been nothing but embarrassing since 360/ps3 era.
E3 had been losing relevance for years by that point anyway. No one watched it for the game announcements or performances, they watched it to see how badly the big names were going to embarrass themselves. The best part was seeing how out of touch they were as they spent precious time talking about shit no one cared about or bringing out washed-up celebrities to awkwardly announce some game no one wanted.
>e3 then
>new games every year
>modern e3
>devs aanouncing yearly updates for games that have been in dev for 5+ years
yeah, rip
E3 used to be for devs to understand where games are going be looking at eachothers work.
Then it became an ad campaign
>ad campaign
for investors and shareholders.
the whole event basically became the "scamming rich boomers who have zero clue about video games into pouring their money into you".
"gayymers" were not even near the target demographic of it in any shape or form anymore.
I don't care how fun E3 was for internet culture and discussion, it was literally a showcase of advertisements being played on a stage. Pay attention to what it really was and you should be happy it's dead just like I am.
The death started when they started letting the public in in 2017. It's hard to argue in 2024 that anything of value has been lost
Thoughts?
I liked the new console announcements, but that isn't very often and might be less often in the future. Well now it's never boohoo.
it was the most fun to shitpost here while watching it. newfgayggots will never understand,
Is he ok?
Xbox just announced their E3 show yesterday.
You can not kill it and dewritopopes adroll spam will never replace it.
>trailer for game that’s almost entirely pre-rendered
>OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER
>THEY WON E3 THEY WON
>years later and it finally gets released
>Mediocre reviews and sales
>Ganker: …
The amount of times this happened was obscene, people hyping themselves into a frenzy for something they’d forget about a week after release
>people hyping themselves into a frenzy for something they’d forget about a week after release
That's the lifecycle of 95% of video games. Interested people play them and move on, then they become a footnote in history at best, with those late to the party playing scraps bought on 50-90% sale, or completely forgotten at worst.
>Listen to feminists and troons and remove booth babes despite protests from your actual fanbase
>Flops
What did we learn from this?
I miss the pre pre show so much,
Sam Hyde levels of comedy
Pre pre show didn't have to die too. Such a shame...
Good riddance
How was E3 compared to Gamescom?
I went to GC a few times and it was pretty nice. Always walked away with neat stuff like merch, t-shirts and whatnot.
>e3 is dead!
Wrong. It's more alive than ever.
>funko pops
>wall full of consoles
you can't expect me to take these Black folk seriously
the funko pops are a joke you uppity autist
>the funko pops are a joke
and? wasting money on them is an even bigger joke
I genuinely do not see the appeal of those lifeless plastic figurines. they are only made to be bought and displayed, consooption only
>how am I supposed to take this seriously?
you're not, it's a joke
>what a joke, I can't take this seriously. comsoomers, comsoomers everywhere.
ok whatever
>annual normalgay festival
deserved its death
should've happened sooner
>my biggest dream was to go to an e3 at least once
>now it's never gonna happen
🙁
They were doomed the moment they got rid of the booth babes. Rest in piss.
>he doesn't know
i stopped watching a few years after the absolute peak of it which was the konami e3 2010.
they became way more boring safe and by the books.
idk why anyone misses it. The golden age of E3 died a long, long time ago, all that was left was the funny cringe moments and that also died after companies made it super boring and corporate.
I don't even know why they tried to revive it, everyone adopted the nintendo directs, and the rest of the stuff was pushed to the game awards show, which has also gotten super boring and corporate.
live action cringe had soul
from now on all we will get is pre-recorded soulless corpo slop
All these cancerous shitstains who only care about LE HECKIN CRINGE XD
Can you gigantic normalgays frick off from videogames already? Go watch your shitty movies and wank to celeb gossip instead of pretending you ever gave a shit about this medium.
>implying I can't enjoy both.
Go suck a wiener
I'm sorry geoff, nobody gives a shit anymore
So you don't want the old E3, you don't want the cringe E3, you want the overproduced corporate slop? and you're calling people normalgays?
So are The Gaming Awards supposed to be vidyas oscars?
Why would you want to do that
another chasing hollywood meme for vidya.
FRICK THE OSCARS
2013 was the last E3 that I remember having any intrigue attached to it. The PS4 price point announcement was a gas bubble exhumed from an already decaying corpse.
The last 5 or so years if E3 were absolute garbage
E3 died the moment they killed booth babes.