Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
Whenever I get Switch games, I usually like to plan out my purchase beforehand. When I'm getting it, where I'm getting it, digital or physical, what price it is, everything necessary to know about the game, etc. For example, I'm eventually going to get ACNH. However, it's going to be in March so that I start out in the spring season in-game (feels more natural that way) AND it's going to be bought digitally. I know damn well I could save €10 (and a lot of space on my SD card) at somewhere like Smyths but that's physical only and I feel like I need the convenience of digital for a game like ACNH, you know? As you can probably tell, I'm very fickle/selective when it comes to my purchases.
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@IceClimbers I hope it doesn't, honestly. It's an all-digital event for the vast majority of people watching anyway, and this just means there'll be fewer cringy stage productions to sit through.
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Lol, some of those can be fun to watch, though, @Ralizah .... But it's certainly not like I'll ever be likely to go in person anyway, so it doesn't matter to me if it's digital only
I remember the last E3 where I was complaining on here it’s format as a media/journo event was outdated and should be scrapped only for me to get a fair amount of blow back of people disagreeing. It’s about time some of you lot come around to my way of thinking! ;p
I just beat DKC Tropical Freeze last week for the 3rd time. The game is that good. I rarely replay games I've beaten before, unless it's a hybrid Switch port of a game I really loved. But to play a game three times to 100% completion? I've never done that... For any game other than DKC Returns and DKC Tropical Freeze.
Exploring and finding all 7-9 puzzle pieces in each stage, grabbing the skill-based KONG letters in each stage, unlocking the temple level for each world and beating those with all 5 puzzle pieces, which then unlocks the 7th hidden world with final 3 levels that are super hard and crazy fun... and as if all that weren't enough, running each stage for a gold medal time trial run too? And this isn't content that's filler. This is some of the most fun I've ever had in a video game. Time trials are like crack. Levels designed with such incredible depth and pixel perfect placement of enemies and stage layout to unlock skill-based shortcuts and time-savers virtually everywhere as you master it more and more.
DKC Tropical Freeze is a game I'd spend hundreds of dollars on if I had to. It's just that good. Getting it digitally for 30% off is like highway robbery. Don't sleep on Donkey Kong Country! Dixie, Diddy, Cranky and DK beckon you to save their beloved island! Don't let the Snowmads' keep their Tropical paradise frozen forever!
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I think E3 is a really weird concept in general, because the world has sorta moved on, but E3 has stayed the same. So many companies that once saved their biggest announcements for E3 are doing their own things and save their own biggest announcements for their own shows and there is so much gaming coverage everywhere now, in general, it is almost an absurdly oversaturated market for content production, that E3 is kinda meaningless.
I remember growing up that pretty much all of the biggest news of the gaming calendar would come from E3, we waded through all the ***** and cringe for the next drip feed of real information.
Now, how many of us just wait until the morning after an E3, a game awards, a direct… whatever, when the super cut of all the trailers and relevant parts are on YouTube, giving you the 10 percent of meaningful content without the 90 percent filler.
Now, I appreciate some may enjoy the pageantry that used to come with the information in E3 and I am sure for some older people who haven’t been, an E3 might be a bucket list thing to tick off, but the whole concept of an E3 is just so antiquated, to me.
Ok, no lie… Pokémon Legends Arceus is looking really impressive. I guess I didn’t realize how much this series needed this. But now that I see it… ya. This was long overdue.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I think E3 is a really weird concept in general, because the world has sorta moved on, but E3 has stayed the same. So many companies that once saved their biggest announcements for E3 are doing their own things and save their own biggest announcements for their own shows and there is so much gaming coverage everywhere now, in general, it is almost an absurdly oversaturated market for content production, that E3 is kinda meaningless.
1. Most of the game companies trying to do shows outside of E3 have felt even more meaningless. At best, they're like a single E3 conference with no other ones following it, and worst, they're a bad attempt at doing a Nintendo mini Direct.
2. People have complained that E3 doesn't matter anymore for nearly 15 years. For that matter, the Game Awards have never really mattered, and yet that does well. There's plenty of examples that familiarity alone can keep something successful long after its relevance should logically be gone, so E3's continued success does not surprise me. And it does still succeed, somehow.
I think E3 is a really weird concept in general, because the world has sorta moved on, but E3 has stayed the same. So many companies that once saved their biggest announcements for E3 are doing their own things and save their own biggest announcements for their own shows and there is so much gaming coverage everywhere now, in general, it is almost an absurdly oversaturated market for content production, that E3 is kinda meaningless.
1. Most of the game companies trying to do shows outside of E3 have felt even more meaningless. At best, they're like a single E3 conference with no other ones following it, and worst, they're a bad attempt at doing a Nintendo mini Direct.
2. People have complained that E3 doesn't matter anymore for nearly 15 years. For that matter, the Game Awards have never really mattered, and yet that does well. There's plenty of examples that familiarity alone can keep something successful long after its relevance should logically be gone, so E3's continued success does not surprise me. And it does still succeed, somehow.
How is a direct with unique announcements to those companies more meaningless than an E3 without those announcements?
But I will agree in a general sense that there is simply oversaturation in general, which is part of why a lot of the more general shows like the game awards feel less meaningful than say a company specific direct.
And you might be right that it's sustaining itself on brand alone. But id argue that the brand has less meaning year 9n year, so when those who see the brand as meaningful are no longer in the industry, what does E3 have then?
I think E3 is sustaining itself on just how awful the approach to gaming news was in 2020 (the only year without E3), people were begging for E3 to return in 2021. Sony's the only one that did well without E3 as shown by the very strong PS5 Future of Gaming stream though Sony quit E3 after the infamous 2018 press conference.
Nintendo and Xbox E3 2021 pretty much cemented E3's future for a while because they were a lot better than the scattered 2020 counterparts in the absence of E3.
I took a glance at the New Year's sale with the hope Fuga: Melodies of Steel would've gotten a steep discount. It's allegedly one of the best rpgs released last year. Sadly it was only discounted down 20%. Not quite steep enough considering my backlog.
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I think E3 is sustaining itself on just how awful the approach to gaming news was in 2020 (the only year without E3), people were begging for E3 to return in 2021.
This is the big thing. Outside of Sony's two good events and Nintendo's kinda ok mini directs, I hated every single attempt in 2020. Every other single event was a miserable waste of time, that made me miss the glory years of Nintendo's 2008 E3 conference.
Imagine how bad it was that E3 2021 was somehow an improvement.
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