E3 coverage

E3 is over, thank God. And that about covers it.

The only interesting tidbit of information I gleamed from all the E3 coverage was that Guild Wars sold 250,000 copies in its first week. Not quite up there with WoW, but definitely a success. The remaining E3 coverage was all about games you can't buy. I know no other industry which goes through such lengths to promote products that won't come out for quite a while, most of them either in 6 months for christmas or even next year and beyond.

A good number of the games presented at E3 will never come out at all. The great majority of them will come out, but will have significantly changed in the process. Last time Tabula Rasa was presented it was a fantasy game, today it is a Sci-Fi game, and who knows if and as what it will be released.

I can not understand the huge horde of so-called journalists descending upon E3 and writing so much hot air about it. Most of the time the only material available about the announced games is a couple of screenshots and a trailer. I would be ashamed if I based my game reviews here on just having seen the trailer, game trailers usually have nothing at all to do with the actual gameplay. The WoW trailer is very nice, but all it tells you about the game is that it is a fantasy game with different races battling each other.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:41 AM Permanent Link