{"id":27438,"date":"2015-06-19T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27438"},"modified":"2015-06-19T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:25:20","slug":"superbunnyhop-lies-hype-the-e3-2015-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27438","title":{"rendered":"SuperBunnyHop: Lies &#038; Hype: The E3 2015 Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rGLe_fR4AJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rGLe_fR4AJE'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>George gives us another smart, thought-provoking video, and I thought it was so interesting that I wanted to give it its own thread here. Also, a lot of what he discusses involves the non-journalist, non-developer, non-publishers out there &#8211; the gaming public at large &#8211; and how they respond to this sort of advertisement-as-news. <\/p>\n<p>Like George, I kind of feel like it&#8217;s my job to follow this stuff. Not because I think you folks want to be deluged in screenshots, trailers, and marketing speak, but because it&#8217;s kind of required to be part of the overall conversation. For a lot of people, there&#8217;s an expectation that I ought to know about all this stuff already.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Shamus, I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re never heard of <em>Gunface III<\/em>! It&#8217;s been at the last two E3 shows!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s totally unfair for you to ding this game for having too many jump scares. The trailer they showed at E3 made it clear this game is ALL ABOUT jump scares!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;re being unfair to Headshot 3. Remember when Adam Sessler interviewed the developer and they said their budget had been cut? Everyone knew this was coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to understand what people are talking about when they say, &#8220;Riiidge RACER!&#8221; or &#8220;Five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I need to ride the hype train, but when the train finally arrives I need to be able to know where it&#8217;s been and who was driving it. And to be fair, sometimes knowing this stuff is really useful. Every game has an arc from inception, to teaser, to hype, to release, to Metacritic, to legacy. Being able to follow those points can make for some great stories. It&#8217;s rewarding to understand why a game changed direction, lost it&#8217;s way, become an exclusive, wound up canceled, changed studios, or was undone by an influx of poorly-managed cash. <\/p>\n<p>Josh and I did our livestream of E3 <a href=\"?p=27360\">earlier this week<\/a>. That was me taking a stab at making this obligation more fun, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with how it turned out. Not a ton of you watched it, but some of you did and I got to see your reactions in chat. That&#8217;s part of the story too, and in a lot of ways those reactions are going to be more rational than the audience that&#8217;s sitting in front of the jumbotron, drinking hype directly from the firehose. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m curious what you think. How do you feel about shows like E3? Do you follow them because you&#8217;re excited to see the games? Do you follow them because you don&#8217;t want to be left out of the conversation? Do you hate-watch them? Ignore them? Cherry-pick through the best bits days later? Do you think it&#8217;s healthy? Bad? A farce? Do you wish you could go?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t feel obligated to answer all of those questions directly. Just consider this an open thread regarding E3 and George&#8217;s video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) George gives us another smart, thought-provoking video, and I thought it was so interesting that I wanted to give it its own thread here. Also, a lot of what he discusses involves the non-journalist, non-developer, non-publishers out there &#8211; the gaming public at large &#8211; and how they respond to this sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[181,372],"class_list":["post-27438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-e3","tag-superbunnyhop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}