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While E3 is gone, Geoff Keighley, lord of The Game Awards, has tried to replace it with Summer Game Fest, a nebulous collection of reveals and mini-events that does have one main showcase full of its biggest slate of games, and that aired yesterday.
It was…not great. 65% of Keighley’s own Twitter followers gave it a C or D grade in a poll he put up.
How about this, gaming community, what's up with people trying their best after the Big 3 go their own way and stop supporting events in general in favor of their own shows not being good enough when no one else is trying at all?
I think the community needs to look at the status of the industry and realize that we're where we are because of how much the competition has shrunk and how the bigger companies focus more on their own presentations over that of community-focused events.
Were these games the AAA bangers people wanted to see? No. But you know what it was? It's the people that get overlooked like crazy trying their hardest to put out games for people. Thank you to those developers who work on games and took the time to try and show us something some of us might actually like. Thanks Geoff for actually trying.
More than I can say for the community that, at times, only complains.
Well I've said this in the other post.
I get it there's 2 sides to this. One side, we need the AAA showcases to give reason to own these consoles. Something that 9th gen has struggled with more than any other. Regardless ppl need reasons to buy the machines.
On the other hand AAA games have been bland, predatory, over hyped, deceitful marketing, especially the bad marketing. We a scream for triple A and new IP then we get burned almost every time due to lies and exaggerated marketing and PR. We often times get lost lost in the AAA space I know I do. We fantasize what new worlds, characters, gameplay mechanics there can be. Unfortunately AAA is hardly really creative because of shareholders and making a certain type of AAA that continues to make them money, LS.
Hell look at SF, the fact that the game is releasing its expansion this fall and is suppose to be the game that everyone wanted, tells me SF should of released this fall instead of last fall. I guess they were pressure to release the game a year early or were afraid of yet another backlash of a delay?
Anyway, maybe we do need the AA guys to get creativety back on track, devs keeping their jobs and us having fun playing these games again and having new kinds of experiences.
I see both sides.
E3 should’ve never died. People enjoyed the show and while there were some cringe moments it was fun watching the big 3 go head to head and seeing all the game reveals.
I agree with Christopher on this issue. Keighly took the time to get a show together which is more than other ppl did or have been doing. You think it's easy to get companies to greenlight exclusive reveals on a specific show? It's not. Even the fact he gets rated a C is very decent for someone trying to do what he's doing. The gamers are spoiled brats who will say a showcase tanked if not every game is to their liking. I'll say we'll done Jeff.
E3 style presentations doesn't make a lot of sense in a world where most publishers wait with reveals until 6 months before release. It made more sense when you were trying to hype up the next year of video games. Publishers don't do that anymore. We don't know much about 2025 and have only recently started to learn about the latter half of 2024.
Gotta agree. I think the idea of constant complaing arises out of an internet culture that is jaded with everything. And... he can only show off games that want to use his venue to be shown.
And the caliber of games being shown is really irrelevant because content creators aren't looking for things to be excited about. There bread a butter comes from trying to beat things down. To trying to outdo each other with their own pessimistic viewpoint. To become the fattest bottom feeder in the pact. To be the most upset.
It's so tired and I am shocked people haven't wised up to the game. Being upset is the point.
I for one like a lot of what was shown (here and at the State of Play) and as always I have wade through a river of people trying to convince me that the right reaction is to be dissatisfied.
Even though I'm not an Xbox gamer my optimization will continue to that show as MS makes the transition to support other consoles. I see games literally everywhere to get excited about.
Exactly!
Maybe I’m getting old and I view things differently than most but this is exactly right. Thank you Geoff for trying. Your passion for games and this community is truly something special. I liked the show and would love to see more next year.
Side note if you want the big 3 to care about this event you have to watch it and discuss it good or bad. The more attention it gets the sooner we might be able to revive an E3 type event. Call me selfish but I would still love to go.
I thought the showing was good. A lot of what I saw was why I love gaming in the first place, a variety of just fun games. The industry is oversaturated with these huge budget cinematic "experiences" that clearly aren't sustainable, and a lot of studios and publishers have forgotten how to make a straightforward videogame without 2,000 pages of dialogue. But gamers wouldn't know what they wanted if they made it themselves anyway.
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