I remember growing up looking forward to this expo every year. It feels like a piece of history is being lost with it.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]English
    30•1 year ago

    I preferred E3 to the hyper individualist online things like the Nintendo Direct. It seemed like more of an even playing field where you could learn about general trends and games instead of having curated slop.

    I dunno, I liked seeing the games and companies competing with each other in a shared space instead of these echo chambers that remind me of gamefaqs forums.

      • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]English
        3•1 year ago

        I remember watching the Screwattack news team getting smaller and smaller because they kept getting e3 invites and eventually they just moved production into a hotel room because it was easier to do it there.

        I feel like they’ve probably all had sex scandals in the intervening years, but I didn’t know that at the time.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]English
    21•1 year ago

    My memories of E3 are few since I never particularly cared, but when I was like 19 and going to college for something I never finished, I had a bunch of friends that were super hype for it and we were all planning on going out to it in like 2010, not only to go to the con, but to also try to network since we all wanted a job in the games industry. Some other students that were close to graduating gave out some tips on how to approach some bigger names at the event. The only thing that still sticks out to me is how we were told to buy a pack of cigarettes, and go to the smoking sections and hang out to chat up studio people and even if we didn’t actually smoke, we should have a lit cigarette in our mouths. Apparently this worked for a number of other people at the school.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]English
    20•1 year ago

    Did any companies ever come out ahead from E3? I guess the announcement of the Wii was a big deal that caused a bug uproar.

    Nowadays all I remember are the very embarrassing things. Those moments make me feel warm inside. I can’t imagine companies were very excited knowing one of them would be made into the industry laughingstock for that year

    One million troops, woooow. Giant enemy crab. Intense staring guy at the Konami panel. My body is ready. It’s spooooky.

    • @impiri@lemm.eeEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      I picked up a sealed copy of Otomedius Excellent for a buck just so I’d have a physical reminder of that Konami press conference.

      Farewell, E3. You will be sucked :(

    • booty [he/him]English
      4•1 year ago

      That is a pretty good summary of it, yeah. You never got to be the star of E3. You either sailed through it without any major fuckups or you were giant enemy crab guy. No alternatives.

  • regul [any]English
    18•1 year ago

    el problema es el capitalismo

    but fr this was because of industry consolidation

    • booty [he/him]English
      1•1 year ago

      That said: PAX is basically “the better E3” and is still ongoing, so it’s not all bad.

      They cancelled the only PAX that was close enough for me to attend, though. :(

  • LeZero [he/him]English
    14•1 year ago

    Didn’t E3 died like 5 years ago? With Sony starting their own conference outside of it?

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]English
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah I seem to recall that E3 has died once in the past and was resurrected with juche Necromancy? Maybe its previous “death” was just a downsizing.