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COKTOE said:
super_etecoon said:

You gave enough to post a gif when I intended no troll whatsoever.  I think it's super fun to anticipate a show.  I feel the same for Sony fans that I did when I was a kid and I learned about Jehovah's Witnesses and how they didn't get birthdays or Christmas.  My mom threatened us one year that we would convert and she was serious and it sucked. Of course, she may have started me on my path to atheism that day, if a religion can giveth and taketh away.

Are you suggesting that posting a gif confirms that I care more than I'm letting on? And I never even thought for a second, much less suspected you were trolling, and acted on that suspicion by overcompensating. I can assure you, my sentiment is genuine. I'm not even a big E3 guy in general. Last year was the first time I watched any E3 live ever. Good timing with Sony's show. Which was VERY generous with the bathroom breaks. I didn't even make it halfway through. All the important info was disseminated afterwards, and i took it in. The next day, or 4 months later: When the info comes matters not at all, only it's contents are important. Like Sony's oddball Feb 21st 2013 PS4 reveal. E3 is there whether it's good or not. It's just ceremony. It doesn't mean anything in and of itself.

That is crazy.  Not as in "you are crazy," but it's just foreign for me to think about.  I've been watching E3 since there was such a thing and so much is revealed in that event that I couldn't imagine not hearing it real time.  I even excuse myself from work for Nintendo's live event.

Hiku said:
super_etecoon said:
This will be a sad poll. I really feel bad for Sony fans who won't get to have at least the anticipation of a show.

Sony not being there changes very little for my anticipation of PS4 games.
The bread and butter for any PlayStation is third parties, and while they do have some interesting first party games still on the ay, there are just that many more third party games for me to look forward to.

Microsoft's press conference will essentially be the same thing, and possibly even more interesting because the third party announcements will be less spread out across different conferences, and more focused on one instead.
And Square Enix will probably show off Final Fantasy 7, so I am anticipating the show.

Ok...this nails it on the head for me.  This truly makes me understand the error in my sympathies.  As a Nintendo fan (I enjoyed the PS1 and PS2 tremendously), E3 has traditionally been the only time we got info on the games coming to our console.  Third party reveals sometimes may have delivered a gem or two, but the games that have made me the most excited have always been announced during the conference.  Of course with Nintendo Directs being a thing that has diminished.  And I can see that, in addition to the third party reveal aspect, Sony's State of Play and Microsoft's Inside XBox are also negating the need for a once a year information dump.