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Yahtzee Deconstructs the E3 Trailer Park
With all the E3 wrap-up and deconstruction flying around Yahtzee has once again done a stellar job of summarizing and unmasking the standard bullshit in his own Zero Punctuation-style review of the E3 "trailer park". Labeling this year as "sequel boulevard" and questioning the lack of any meaningful amount of gameplay footage, this year was almost a universal disappointment. There are rumblings of some improvements next year, perhaps returning things to some small measure of their previous glory, but only time will tell.
Escapist Magazine's parody of a Yahtzee fan :-)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/de-rez/152-Yahtzees-Biggest-Fan
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling a pig in the mud. After a while, you realize the engineer enjoys it.
You can find the rest of his reviews here.
I would specifically recommend Smash Bros. Brawl. Hilarious.
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Not knowing who Yahtzee is and only knowing the dice game by the same name made this article title really, really weird.
..for all of his reviews are extremely entertaining, if not informitave. He is unbiased in most of his comments, taking the good with bad in most respects.
Anyone else see the headline and hope it was actually about the game Yahtzee?
... the the follow-up video where he replies to critics of the Super Smash Brothers review.
.. or at least they did a couple of weeks ago, when Yahtzee did a none too flattering review of Age of Conan. All the while, there was Gamespot style background on the site, promoting.... Age of Conan! Still, he's not been sacked yet, so it looks like folks at The Escapist are a notch above the scumfucks at Gamespot.
How long 'till Hasbro asks him to rename himself via cease & desist?
E3 is simply no longer necessary. The video game (ops sorry the electronic entertainment) industry is mainly an industry of marketing. That is where most of the money goes, that's were most of the focus goes (anyone who actually works in this industry knows that to be true). It's no secret that if you spend it on marketing, you will make it in sales, to a very large degree regardless of the quality your product reflects (it's a model copied from the Movie industry). To that end an entire sub-industry has emerged that is sometimes laughingly called "press". Most of these "press" outlets (and there are literally thousands and thousands of them) are simply PR arms of publishers or retailers and are in no way independent. So today the average gamers inbox is inundated on a daily basis with "previews", "first looks", "behind the scenes" or "discussions with X developer of x4 the sequel to last years x3". There is an industry underneath an industry that does very well constantly pimping PR releases and fluff pieces from publishers, as a matter of fact the only real issue is getting enough content to pimp.
E3 is superfluous, because the problem for publishers today is not "getting the word out" it's coming up with enough fake "buzz" to keep feeding their secondary outlets (which turn a pretty penny thank you). E3 just creates yet another (rather pricey) marketing opportunity that demands more content and provides less control. It has no "raison d'être" any more, the gaming market is simply not discerning enough to tell the difference between "real community buzz" and "fake marketing buzz", so there is no benefit to a publisher for taking a risk on E3.
Ohh spiteful one tell me who to smote and he shall be smolten!
Well...maybe if you hate RPGs and would pimp out your mom for a FPS with eyecandy and a plot.
Despite us having very different interests in games, I still enjoy his reviews. They're funny and frank, even if I disagree on which are the best genres.
That actually liked this E3? I don't care about the pomp and circumstance. I want to know what's coming out and maybe see a video and/or screenshot or two. I think the bigger problem is that there wasn't much worth showing this year.
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Always comes out on Wednesday. Post it then...
LittleBigPlanet and Mirrors Edge? Seems he has conveniently brushed over these non sequential titles.
Also, he complains that the games industry is too corporate, but is the film/tv industry any different? You always have to wade through the sea of commercial crap to reach the idyllic island of media that is actually worth watching/playing/whatever.