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E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games
_xeno_ writes: E3 2015 saw a lot of game companies banking on nostalgia, but much less hype for new games. While the biggest thing coming out of Microsoft's press conference was undoubtedly the Hololens, the biggest buzz from E3 was probably Sony's announcement of Square Enix's announcement of a remake of a two decade old game (Final Fantasy VII), seconded by the announcement of a sequel to a fifteen year old game (Shenmue). Nintendo announced mostly new sequels as well. Ultimately, though, it isn't surprising that the biggest buzz is around old games. Old games are a known quantity, while truly new games are — well, new. Who knows if they're going to be the next classic or not?
Mod me off-topic, but wtf is happening to /.? I haven't been able to log in for at least two weeks, lots of ads when I was signed in (with excellent karma), now a "share" button instead of the comment count. And don't get me started about the new, "dumbed down", non-controversial stories being posted. And now /. is too ashamed of most stories low comment count (compared to before the big backlash to 'New-Slashdot' occured.
I'm a five plus year user/ contributor here, but it's a weird vibe I've been getting here lately...