Best of E3 awards

by **Wynn** on Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:25 pm

Booth babes are part of the presentation. Now if they let us sample the playability of the booth babes, I'd be going to e3 every year.

by **DarkViruz** on Fri Jun 13, 2003 6:26 pm

but the line up would be so damn long.

by **Stix** on Sat Jun 14, 2003 1:29 am

Slavar wrote:The whole point of E3 is originality and presentation.

Exactly. I'm more interested in how a game plays than how a company shows off their modified gameplay movies and touts the design at some exposition. Not all critics play the games there and some of the games can't be played, so I don't trust these awards to tell me how good game will be. I'm not about to jump and buy City of Heros when it comes out because it got an e3 award. I want to know if it has good gameplay, more than just an original idea and good presentation.

by **MFalcon** on Sat Jun 14, 2003 1:55 pm

I don't think it really matters if "you" like/agree with the awards that E3 has.

The point of E3 is like any exhibition, the industry giving it simply wants to open up to the public about thier new hot designs/developments and showcase what is coming out. The awards were produced to give the developers a pat on the back for a good job, it can hardly be considered a selling point.

Besides, I think most people are forgetting that video games are NOT easy to create, design, develop, program, and quality test. It takes a very long time and even if someone has a movie clip of thier product at E3 it shows considerable effort. So long as it isn't just an introduction, for example the video clip of Half-Life 2 was impressive.

Now.. "Game of the Year" in a specific genre is a selling point. That means that out of all the other crap produced that year.. you are getting some of the top stock. It still might not be the best in "your" eyes.. it just depends on if you enjoy it or not.

by **Stix** on Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:27 pm

I think it does matter, simply because the people doing the e3 awards tout something the awards don't do:

Welcome to the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2003. This site is dedicated to rewarding the games that will shape the future of interactive entertainment, shown at the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA. This year's expo was held May 14 - 16.

Some of the stuff they voted for in the past few years shaped hardly anything. A lot of it was mediocre, at best.

by **MFalcon** on Sun Jun 15, 2003 4:04 am

the games that will shape the future of interactive entertainment

They are only making a statement there, they didn't say whether or not the games will shape the future for the better or for the worse. In most cases we see a great game produced from an unknown company OR a great game from a well known company that wasn't given much PR. The problem with the E3 awards is that all the "hype" that is generated also hurts the products. It gives great sales revenues at first but expectations are set so high that most people are not overly pleased when they play them.

by **DarkViruz** on Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:24 am

MFalcon, your sig officially sucks.

by **Wynn** on Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:17 am

Hehe Falcon you should get some more pictures like that, and put each of our names at the bottom of one of them. So it'll flash up, Monster, Wynn, MFalcon, etc with dumbass pictures that make us all look like retards.

by **Slavar** on Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:25 am

falcon are all those pictures of you? lol

by **MFalcon** on Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:02 pm

Yea I am officially five different guys with fucked up teeth, oh and I like to wear a Santa hat and wave a shotgun around. Yea.. that works..

by **Monster** on Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:48 am

Since when did you become a 95 year old Japanese guy? Oooohh, I get it, you were being sarcastic.

I think the sig is pretty damn funny. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it. Actually I laughed the next few times I saw it too. It might be a little big and distracting, but so was Chris Farley and everyone thought HE was funny!

by **DarkViruz** on Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:18 am

Chris who?

by **Wynn** on Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:36 pm

You know.. the only funny guy in the movies with David Spade.

by **Monster** on Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:45 pm

You are dead to me now DV.

by **DarkViruz** on Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:03 pm

testing some new avatars, is this too small?

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