Was Anybody Else Bored by E3 2013?

[Mummelmann]

dahuman said:

Mummelmann said:
Bored? Kind of, I think unimpressed is mote fitting for me though, gaming as a whole is taking the exact direction I feared; online focus, gimmicks, social nonsense, restrictions up the a-hole, even dumber gameplay and device tie-in's simply for the sake of tie-in's and not because it will heighten the experience one little bit.

Gaming is headed for the toilet as far as I can see.

Maybe that's it, I wasn't impressed by many things at all which lead to overall boredom, like I don't even care about it being over where I usually am camping for news all week long.

Yeah, I remember E3 being a huge deal many years ago. One of my best friends moved to the city before us and he had 100/100Mbit internet and always came home for the summer with a CD or more with fresh gametrailers from E3. We would watch them and be awed, the trailers were gameplay, they showed diversity or intense scenes being played out, they were captured from someone actually playing the game, were not heavy on scripted events, were not cutscenes, (mostly) not pre-rendered and almost always showed the concept in a good way. Today, you can't even tell which genre games are in judging by trailers and we're fed lines like "rendered in-engine", as if it matters.

Am I hopelessly nostalgic or is gaming taking a plunge? I think a bit of both, to be honest. There are still some great games being made but they're becoming few and far inbetween. The constant reboots and overall butchering of old franchises need to die as well.