Well, before we get to Ubisoft’s E3 thing, let’s talk about the other stuff I watched that I didn’t make posts about. Koch Media… Not only did it include the lizard man himself Geoff Keighley, but it was possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Instead of, you know, showing games, they just pretended to talk about games (because half the shit they said didn’t mean shit), and none of it was meaningful or interesting. It was so pointless and long, it was basically unwatchable. I stopped watching to go to the IGN stream…

The IGN stream was… lots of advertising we didn’t want to see in-between the advertising we DID want to see. Compared to the Koch Media bullshit, this actually had games. Some of them were even a little bit interesting. They had nothing major to show, and they could’ve done without the “personalities” being boring in-between the trailers… This wasn’t great but it was kinda okay-ish after the pure boredom that was the Koch Media thing.

The Guerrilla Collective Showcase actually had several really cool games. My highlights were Akatori and Severed Steel, but there were actually several games that I’m sure many people will find interesting in there. You can check out most the games here.

The Wholesome Direct was meh. 75 games shown, none of them were particularly interesting to me. Some of them might be more your taste than mine, there were some that I’m sure will be a little bit popular. The link I put for Guerrilla Collective also has a list of things from the Wholesome Direct.

So anyways, it’s Ubisoft’s turn. We’ll more than likely only see one cool thing, that being the Mario+Rabbids sequel which Nintendo themselves leaked by mistake (they published the page for it on their website too early). This is hilarious that they’d do that, as it’s really the only thing Ubisoft probably had to show that wasn’t gonna be shit. The only other things they could show that could be interesting would be a new Rayman or a new Blood Dragon, pretty much, and I doubt that’s happening. Everything else Ubisoft makes is shitballs. So we’ll see I guess.

So anyways… this is gonna be my live reactions to the Ubisoft presentation. I will write these as I’m watching, then I’ll write my overall thoughts on what is sure to be a shitshow, then I’ll edit my live thoughts just to make sure they’re readable, and that’s that! Also I’m writing this intro before watching.

Well the countdown is about to end so time to watch this crap. Let’s go I guess.

’tis the season of the E3. There’s a LOT of streams that will happen for the next 6 days. I will watch everything (I mean, I might skip the Verizon presentation, because why is that a thing), but I don’t know if I’ll actually do posts about every presentation. I will try as far as what’s reasonable to even post about. Like, I’ll obviously do a post for the Microsoft and Nintendo ones, but some like Capcom and Square Enix are more questionable. I’ll write something, but I may not post them if there’s just nothing interesting to talk about. And then stuff like Verizon and Intellivision… there’s basically no way I’ll do postws about those.

What I’ll be writing for these events are LIVE commentary, though I will edit those and make them more readable, and I’ll have a conclusion about the presentation as a whole at the end. Also of course I’m writing the intros before watching the streams.

So the first E3-but-not-actually-E3 presentation comes from the Dorito Pope himself, boring reptilioid robot Geoff Keighley. Not a fan of the guy, he reeks of soulless corporatism, the way he says “presented by Doritos” proudly after the name of his events is rather chilling.  Summer Game Fest was a fun idea where not much of note was really announced last year at those few streams that were spread out through the summer (I think the biggest announcement was THPS1+2?). This is a kickoff stream for the rest of the summer. Apparently 30 games will be shown, and it will last a whole million years.

Let’s go and see if Dorito Pope has a good show or not! I doubt it, but let’s see! Stream is starting in a minute so I’ll be down in the post writing my reactions. IKZ

Last year E3 was skipped. Things were fine. There were a bunch of smaller events where games were announced, Nintendo took the great idea of waiting until the games were 2 months away from release before even announcing them (by randomly dropping the trailers on their youtube channel with no warning, which is great) which is WAY better than waiting years for any info, and a lot was delayed anyways on all fronts. As a result E3 showed itself to not be something that is needed anymore.

So E3 is coming back this year. Kinda? The ESA is gonna be running… something? On an app? People weirdly don’t know this, but the E3 presentations we watch on the internet aren’t actually E3 (they’re ran in separate buildings that are reserved by the game companies themselves, it just makes sense to have those running at the same time as actual E3 for some fan hype), with the actual E3 being the showfloor where journalists (largely) go down to try the new games/hardware and run interviews and presentations and such with the devs.

I usually post about E3 around a month before it happens, addressing rumors and what will happen there, with some predictions and such. This time it’s a bit of a different post than my usual because… I have no idea what E3 2021 is, and there’s no “real” info. What we have is basically useless.

Let’s see what I’ve got to say about this one!