Umbasaborne
Banned
I feel like giant bomb popularized the watching of and reacting to e3 press conferences, it was novel 6 or 7 years ago. Unfortanutley it feels as if those reaction videos and watch alongs have all but replaced traditional games event coverage.
The thing that was exciting about in person e3 was listening to industry pundits talk about previews that we could not see or play from our telivisions from home. everything is uniquitious now. Game demos are often made public in the new normal, and all game events are mostly digital.
I feel like every game pundint having ther own “we talk over x press conference” or “we react to game award trailers” is just their way of clinging to relavency for an industry and audience that does not need them anymore. G4, Giant bomb, ign, and game trailers were invaluable to me as a kid and in high school, thats largely how i learned about new games. But with information, trailers, demos, and previews being so ubiquitious and widely availible now, it feels as if the need for these dinosaurs is greatly diminished.
Why do i need to see kinda funny’s fake youtube reaction to trailers, when i can just watch them myself without a group of schilling morons putting on a production for youtube bucks? Jeff Gertsmann was right in his halo infinite review (def worth a read). We do not need traditional games media anymore, and their attempts to adapt to a ubiquitous digital land scape have been embarrassing at best.
The thing that was exciting about in person e3 was listening to industry pundits talk about previews that we could not see or play from our telivisions from home. everything is uniquitious now. Game demos are often made public in the new normal, and all game events are mostly digital.
I feel like every game pundint having ther own “we talk over x press conference” or “we react to game award trailers” is just their way of clinging to relavency for an industry and audience that does not need them anymore. G4, Giant bomb, ign, and game trailers were invaluable to me as a kid and in high school, thats largely how i learned about new games. But with information, trailers, demos, and previews being so ubiquitious and widely availible now, it feels as if the need for these dinosaurs is greatly diminished.
Why do i need to see kinda funny’s fake youtube reaction to trailers, when i can just watch them myself without a group of schilling morons putting on a production for youtube bucks? Jeff Gertsmann was right in his halo infinite review (def worth a read). We do not need traditional games media anymore, and their attempts to adapt to a ubiquitous digital land scape have been embarrassing at best.
