Every year I try to get my self excited about watching the gaming summer shows , what use to be E3. This year honestly I just couldn’t. I tried watching a few minutes of both the Sony and Summer Games fest and felt bored. I’m sure a lot of these games these they show will be great. But the way the present most of them honestly doesn’t engage me in the slightest.
Sometimes you get a cinematic trailer that shows no gameplay sometimes (mostimes) you get just gameplay with no context.
I feel like the presentation format doesn’t work for games not anymore anyway. I feel like just setting up a YouTube channel or a playlist with game logos , descriptions and back stories with a small trailer would work so much better.
Unlike E3 this SGF is a Geoff cash grab where most larger companies seldom take part. Outside of new hardware I don’t see the need for this no context trailer barrage.
Maybe I’m just out of touch maybe I’m just insane. Thoughts ?
I really miss the E3 days but it’s not hard to see why we’ve arrived here.
Also back in the day many if not most presentations were garbage. Half the fun was making fun of them with friends.
For us it’s still an excuse to get everyone together and sometimes it even feels like the old days. Sometimes.