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Survival is a Choice
Earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, we shared lots of new info in our Halo: Nightfall panel. Geoff Knighley welcomed Executive Producer Kiki Wolfkill, Scott Free President David Zucker, Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor, and two of the stars of Halo: Nightfall Mike Colter and Christina Chong to talk about the digital series with a packed crowd of fans.
Skewed and Reviewed kick off 2024 with a look at the need for in-person game conventions with the End of E3 and compares the cost-cutting methods of Hollywood who still value in-person events.
so, this article didnt tell me why we NEED to have in-person shows like e3, other than the authors nostalgia and remembrance of covering one of these shows.
but it also doesnt mention everyone outside of america who have never had the chance to see it in person either haha
we had to watch the darn livestream, if they had it available, at 3am in the morning haha with lags amd crashes (not all the time)
while i think these shows are great and all, i dont really "need" to have them. people are busy, im busy. id rather watch a livestream than to book a flight, a hotel etc.
but theres still pax and all of that.
I'd rather publishers send out closed betas to garner gamer concern and interest like how we had demos back in the day.
I don't miss E3 as much as I loved it at one point but that era is long gone.
Sad to see it go. It was a great event for gamers and developers all around the world getting together and celebrate gaming as a community.
The announcements of new games/hardware, hype, surprises and seeing live audience reactions, it's something only events like E3 are able to bring. It will be missed...
if its going to be anything like the game awards where celebrities that dont even play games are there and its just full of fluff and commercial crap than no we dont need in person shows. we just end up watching the trailer montages the next day anyway.
To be honest E3 was one of my favorite times of the years when I was younger. I couldn't wait for all the big conferences and new announcements. It was hype even if nothing good was announced we had cringe moments to laugh at.
Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries has moved to explain a recent microtransactions price hike following a community backlash.
so they made several changes how the helmets etc work, however, ive never seen anyone raising prices in a shop due to changes THEY made.
There is absolutely no reason for ever raising the price of cosmetics. They are some of the quickest assets to create but charge silly prices for them. Its greed. There's no other way to spin it no matter what the game is.
During SDCC I spoke with Ed Boon and Thiago Gomes about Mortal Kombat 1 as part of a Roundtable.
Halo would have to severly screw up in order to make me not want to play their games anymore or watch the shows they are making. The Master Chief Collection is brilliant all four games two of them remastered the rest get resolution and fps boost. Every multiplayer map ever made, co-op for all four games story, added content (gungoose). They are doing it the way it should be done with remakes. Halo 4 had a deep story i loved it the multiplayer was kinda annoying but still not horriable. The spartan ops extra that shows what happens to Dr. Halsy was very well done as far as animated anything. Keep on being awesome halo :D