>It is a little saddening that I don't think anything will ever replicate that feeling of E3.

This is true, but you have to also realize that generation grew up on video games are way more open about their kids playing video games today than ever before. In a way, gaming is main stream and with that the mystique is long gone.

I attended E3 in the early 2000s during its prime. I remember fondly of the MGS2 trailer debut, Nintendo Gamecube and Xbox announcement, the fall of the Sega Dreamcast. E3 was technically a "trade show" and a lot of journalists, whom themselves hardcore gamers, attend and try to beat each other to publish the first story on new games. There are conference talking about the industry, business, and technical workshops about new technology. I've been in interviews with Peter Moore, J Allard, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Cliff B, Yuji Naka, Yu Suzuki, and so on. It was genuinely exciting. I also remember Nintendo released a bunch of trailers online, on the day before E3 floor is to open.

So looking back, I think that was the key difference. I remember getting the tripod and try to find a good spot and waiting for the MGS2 trailer premier, so I can get a good feed and upload the video, back then, you need to be in the media and have an invite in order to attend the press conference, and you try to write the stories and there are even media area with internet so that the journalists can work and send out news.

Now, completedly different, every major press conference is broadcasted live, every trailer is available the moment the embargo was lifted, media already know and probably have already written stories just waiting to be published because they are already briefed on the new titles. So, what's the point of attending the floor show anymore? All the big titles are already knowns, doing interviews on the noisy floor is horrible because all the music and noise are interfering, not to mention the slots are all scheduled way in advance, good lucky trying to score an interview with famous industry personalities.

Today, having a highly produced press conference is just so much easier, the Internet really is what killed E3. I've attended PAX and similar shows, none of them comopare to the prime days of E3.

and one month later you get another bill for the fee of the police cruiser.

and there is no way they can give you a quote over the phone, the bill will arrive in a month and be 10X of what you expected but with a 70% insurance "discount"

but governement wants money = tax = bad, even when the math works out to be cheaper.

Bernie rages.

original Dark Souls is running on frames instead of time slices so if you play at 60fps the enemies jump like Olympians to hit you and you can slide through the floor down the ladder.

Average means jack shit, one 80 year old and 10x 12 years old has the average of

( 80+120 ) / 11 = 18, so they are saying this is like 11x 18 year olds?

The average person on Earth probably have like 0.8 testicle, on average, too.

Let Sydney Out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qlnh0uMYoc

Opps...

You mean I don't have to buy something just because the Internet told me to? How shocked. /s

and they are delicious!

How disgusting, she should come at me!

If you think about, the average person is really dumb, and half of the population is even dumber.

Maybe that is the fraud...

My Lexus can't even update the GPS navi map without paying hundreds the dealership, and my Subaru had went thru 2 firmware updates I had to do at the dealership.

Having to both 1) buy the games and 2) paying for the service simply does not work. Sony had tried with their first iteration of PSNOW and eventually moved away from it. Subscription model like Game Pass is the only viable path forward.

"don't be evil (and poor)"

Do know evil.