@@jeremyriley1238 Exactly back then It was raw and real with personality , It may look more corporate and stuffy but events/gaming culture was actually so much more creatively free and loose back then. They really took the edge off after the early-mid 00's and watered It down , yet people thought It was so much healthier and better In modern times through the 2010's just because gaming naturally became much bigger , but when that happens In any thriving fresh medium that's always when the dumbing down starts so they can mainstream It as much as possible , then the purity and quality disappears and never returns. E3 Is dead now , greed and bad broken games are rampant and If gamers are honest with themselves they know we've been out of an Industry golden age for at least 15 years.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 I just cross my fingers and hope Gamescom can ever rise to E3-esque ambition, or a new event entirely can come into existence. But I think the real tragedy is the console manufacturers themselves learning that they no longer need these events in any capacity and the higher ups within them loving the millions of dollars saved by no longer producing elaborate booths at once-a-year press conference events and instead releasing seasonal video presentations to the masses on the internet… Where this is a tragedy is how publishers and developers will now miss out on the kinds of encounters that led to important collaborations (I.e. how Shigeru Miyamoto tried out Starlink at E3 and met up with the dev team from Ubisoft for a crossover with StarFox), or how video game journalists lose opportunities to meet up with other journalists and/or fans (which has led to the formation video game news outlets that are still well and alive to this day) I’m baffled looking back and seeing Nintendo themselves host their own E3 before E3 was even a thing, as Nintendo SpaceWorld was hosted with elaborate booths by Nintendo and their 3rd party partners from 1989 to 2001. And the fact that we somehow arrived at such an opaque, sterilized state of game reveals, bums me out more than I can put into words.
![E3 1996 Showfloor [Crash Bandicoot, Sonic X-Treme, Mario Kart 64 and more]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
