That one time Yahtzee went to E3 was the most uncomfortable I've ever seen him more please

5:35 I appreciate Matt’s choice of visuals. Glad he’s working on this series

Personally I think the reason people really wanted to go to E3 themselves is because as kids we pictured it as some wonderful playground where only the most special people can go and see all the new games coming out before the plebs back home could. Everyone wanted to be a part of that special cool kids club, not knowing the reality of the situation or what would happen when they finally opened the doors for every John and Jane Doe to come in.

While this didn’t end up being Yahtzee’s thesis statement, he makes the very good point that E3 was an equaliser where publishers had to impress US, and now they’re all but off the hook to dictate to us how we should feel about their announcements.

No matter how many times he pulls the same joke, I'll never *not* fall for the "You were expecting a 'but' there, weren't you?" bit.

That picture of Yahtzee and John Romero will never not be funny. John's staring daggers, and Yahtzee crying for help with his gaze.

To answer Yahtzee’s last question: remember all those conferences where fanboys would cheer and chant at every trailer for literally no reason? That is why

5:35 to about 5:50 is the best case of taking two things out of context and putting them together for a joke. I nearly choked on my drink as I started laughing.

The communal aspect is key. A lot of KZfaq channels and journalists basically live in isolation but E3 gives them a chance to work together, as well as actual passionate game developers and not the scummy publishers.

5:40 whoever did the visuals deserves a huge raise😂

Let's be honest, Yahtzee - as soon as you started talking about how big of a pain E3 is for the publishers, I knew that you want E3 to come back just to piss them all off

I cant help but laugh pretty much every time I see the camera pan to John Romero, that intro has perfect comedic timing.

Yahtzee every E3: "There are people who actually WANT to be here!!" Yahtzee now: "I kind of miss E3."

Let’s all laugh for the ol’ Yahtzee, ‘Cuz now he likes going to E3-hee!

There is also the fact that a lot of indie devs attended E3, and it was an excellent place for them to make connections, or getting unexpectedly noticed. Because aside from the corporate hype-mongering, it was a social event attended by actual humans.

Yahtz, I'm surprised you've never done PAX or any other conferences .. with your pro-indie bent, it tends to be a much more indie-focused event

"thought you were gonna say 'but' Yahtzee" "You keep falling for that one, don't you?"

You know what? I think I actually like Extra Punctuation more than ZP. ZP is extremely witty, but it's going so fast I can't even really process the points in detail. Yahtz does a great job with the animations yes, but I mainly just listen anyways. The podcasts are nice, but they are usually less directed by the fact that there are multiple people with multiple perspectives. I think if there was a 20 min video of just Yahtz (or honestly other Escapist content creators) talking about video game concepts, that would be the ideal content for me. We'll call it, 'All the Punctuation'. OR you even do a Q/A and just take more time to consider the questions instead of trying to answer super chats on the fly. @The Escapist, I will gladly pay your monthly sub if you do this for me

I kind of relate to that feeling of missing the tradition, honestly. Ever since 2016 I've made it a point to watch the conferences together with friends, mostly to take the piss out of them. That was always a really fun part of the year for me, despite not being interested in 90% of what was shown, lol.

"It was a tradition, and traditions are what bring us together as a community" It has probably something to do with my fast approach to my 30's, but that hits as hard as a truck and made me shed a tear. E3, despite the fact that under the surface is just another soulless attempt of the capitalist empires to create hype from consumer products, was the proof that life is made of moments. Moments such as make up excuses to your friends because you cannot tell them that you have to skip the beach to see the presentation of the Wii U, or trying not to shout at 4 in the morning at Sony's 2015 press conference, or the reaction of Etika at the Everyone is here trailer for Smash. This are the kind of things that make us feel alive, and deep inside, alongside all the cringe, we all miss E3.

5:39 editor hits a home run with the visual lol

And would you look at that, E3 2023 has been cancelled, Yahtzee didn't know how right he was

Show up once kills it and looks back on it thinking “you know you weren’t useless after all” that’s character development

I love the E3 days thumbnails, the first he looks semi-engaged, the second completely blank and the third completely bored

TRADITIOOOOONN!!!!!!!!! Tradition! Great video. Also, I always forget how tall Yahtzee is. I only ever see his little character or him sitting down while streaming. And then I'm like oh! Dude's tall!

I was also annoyed when I needed to go to professional conferences, and I dearly miss them now.

From what I've picked up over the years from different YT people, E3 always looks fun when it's just the expo stuff and not those EA day/Ubi Day/Sony day or whatever, because it sounds more like a nob measuring contest.

Miss E3?! OK, Yahtzee Cloneshaw has escaped again. Anyone seen the real Yahtzee?

I do miss E3 myself at times. I imagine it is a pain in the ass but to me i always saw it as a Gaming Community tradition where like minded gamers came together and bonded over what the new year was going to bring us. What previews we were gonna see, what new tech we might find, it was all so exciting to imagine how we'd get wow'ed at the presentations. Granted i've never been to one. It was kinda like how most people feel about TV award shows. Their expensive, tiring, unnessesary but it was still fun to watch and expiience it in some way. Wether it was seeing the cosplays of various game characters, seeing the journalists rub elbows with developers and publishers alike or seeing who WINS E3 and who screwed it up were a time honored tradition, and i miss that tradition remembering the highs and lows of some of them. I'll never forget when Resident Evil 7 was announced at the Sony theater and how it was presented as a found footage short film. I remember when microsoft introduced the Kinect and showed us some of the fun but janky things you could do with it. Every year had something memorable to it, and i miss that.

the title of this video got an eye roll from me, as I assumed this would be something only media types would understand but I admit he convinced me. it's good for media and big companies to have a neutral middle ground respectful discourse is the driving force of positive change after all

this video is a summery of Yahtzee and Romero coming to terms

Man, Extra Punctuation is such a wonderful idea. I enjoy it more than ZP at times.

"Suits with the beaming confidence of total psychopaths" That is the most accurate description I've ever heard.

I do understand the perspective and appeal. E3 really is a lot like Thanksgiving for gamers. Everyone goes and we watch as the adults at the table lie to us about all the progress they made while secretly stealing the leftovers. The community aspect is probably the biggest thing I'd miss. But at the same time it's not enough of an incentive for me to wish it back. At least not the way it used to be. Maybe a hybrid of what we have now and what was before

I love and miss the E3 cringe as an always remote watcher. One of my most fun summer memories is me and a total stranger watching the EA press conference and going "surely it can't get any worse?" As they bring in sports cars and sports players galore with all the tone deaf appeal.

Its striking how forgettable the past few e3s have been. I think the real selling point of e3 was having all those hands on demos really showing you what a game was instead of just cheap pre-built trailers that in the end say nothing.

I'm that hopeless loser that always liked this sort of thing. WAY back in the 90's, I used to work for Best Buy. Everyone else would grouse and whine and groan about having to go to the yearly tech demos or previews, but I was always up for it. You get paid for the day of work and get to learn about all the cool new shit that will be hitting the shelves soon. I dunno, kinda cool from my humble perspective. Admittedly I've never been to E3 nor am I a journalist in any way, but I did have to go back and sell stuff to people and having information about what was upcoming was always like my little personal prize. For once in my life I was able to be ahead of the curve for most of the people who I saw on a daily basis. And I got to play games earlier than most. I got to see new gadgets before they were on the market. My own personal little world of neat toys and fun games. I even got to brag to fellow Halo fans that I got to play it weeks before anyone else in my group. Yes, I realize a ZP video space isn't likely the best place for that to be a feather in my cap since hating Halo has been a ZP staple since the word go, but it was fun for me at least. YMMV.

E3 from the common man perspective was just a fun get-together. You could meet up with a bunch of people who all shared similar interests, gawk at the cosplayers, and cross your fingers at a chance to run into a developer from a game you like. Maybe get a picture from them as well. Sure the primary goal was a giant sales pitch for the major studios, but we made a comfy shantytown around the big boys' mansion.

I've been thinking somewhat about "E3 attendees" in the context of Overwatch 2 Beta, in that OW2 is going to be F2P, but you can get into the closed, incomplete beta by paying $40. I guess there are just some people who need to spend money, and not that gaming conventions are losing importance, corporations are finding other ways to knock the money out of weak and excited hands.

It’s nice to hear Yahtzee enjoying doing an activity You don’t get that a lot, him having a good time

I think this ZP perfectly captures the feeling for anyone who's industry has a big convention (or 3) for it. Exhausting pain in the ass while happening..... God I miss it now.

I attended E3 2018 on a gamer pass, and i has a great time!! To me, it was basically the best video game convention I could've ever hoped to have gone to 😁😁 that said, I can totally understand those there on the clock didn't care for the gamer pass attendees... Despite being for what assumed was the love of the game, a lot of them had a really piss poor attitude, some seemed to only he interested in grabbing swag, talking shit about the free swag, and didn't seem too interested in all the new content. I've read they'd hound famous game developers, come in smelly, and just clog up wait lines at a place famous for being too crowded anyway 😑😑 Don't know if thar huge convention will ever come back, but I'm thrilled and content getting to be there at least once in my life 😁😁😁

Just yesterday i rewatched Yahtzee‘s E3 report from 2019 - hoping he would do another one as soon as e3 comes back 😅

I don’t understand the part about “late for the bus”?

I get it, for as annoying E3 was, it was a novel experience different from watching trailers on KZfaq.

R.I.P. E3 😔

5:40 Knowing now that Matt does all the editing and visuals makes this joke even funnier. I really hope yahtz sees this at some point.

Glad you finally see things my way Yahtzee: w/o an E3, the month of June is just kind of a dull month to go through outside it being the start of summer.

Yahtzee and Romero streaming Daikatana please.

I get the same feeling when I do my conventions, it can be a pain in the arse making sure I have everything ready; my workload tends to be allocating time outside my job for patching up my costumes, making endless checklists so I don't leave anything behind, ordering stuff well in advance and paying extra for postage so I can guarantee it will be there before I leave, coming up with artwork for the art show, and then torturing myself periodically by checking in on it to see if anyone bid on it, checking in on the days leading up to the event logging events I know I won't attend and then adding notes berating myself if I don't attend them, running around taking photos of everything I see, and then wondering if there was another amazing costume in the other 180° I wasn't looking in, balancing the important tasks of socialising, eating, resting, cosplaying, photographing, attending panels, visiting the Dealer's Den, remembering to breathe every once in a while, and then kicking myself because I missed something. Weighing up all the reasons I get stressed makes it seem like these are profoundly negative experiences, and in the moment they are, but surprisingly I always want to come back for more. I am not sure whether it is compulsion, or the fact that the human brain desires rewarding stimulation, but I end up it enjoying it. Putting yourself through the hardship for these events comes with some kind of feedback, whereas most of our daily lives, noise is just noise, bright lights are just bright lights, there's no overall connection to us, and yet these events provide us with that. That's perhaps why we do it. Corporations go because they want to show off something, and maybe some of their presenters actually crave the negative attention, because it's actually a response, it's a genuine human response, whereas inside the walls of their offices, a negative response is ultimately very sterile and formulaic, and just a product of control groups. It's an actual human interaction, and that's what makes them rewarding.

I think that you had a similar feeling going to a regular gaming convention. Mainly because there’s an anime convention I go to when I get all dressed up in my fancy clothes, and I pay a lot of money, and it’s a pain in the butt, but I love it. That’s why I’ve been doing it since high school 💗

E3 always happened during the last week of school or the first week of summer break for me so it was always the most lovely tradition to start the summer with.

LOLed at some good jokes that I know of! :D Especially the "Pain in the arse" running gag! XD

I think the point about the event being an equalizer is really accurate. As for why I miss it and similar events, it's the cosplaying. I love seeing the effort, style, and theme everyone goes for - and I live for the moments when random cosplayers of the same IP run into each other.

Lovin the side series. I also miss E3. I'd contribute in if you guys want to go again!

Another thing I kinda miss about E3 is that it was all there in one spot. Now with everyone just doing their own announcements it's very easy to lose track of all the livestreams. Heck, Devolver studios had their own livestream with suda51 with a few new good trailers and most didn't even realized it happened. Or how on one day IGN made a whole "BRAND NEW ANOCEMENT LIVESTREAM" and it was just *one* CGI trailer and a couple of interviews from the studio....that was it.

My kingdom for footage of Yahtzee and John Romero being pally.

"Gonads, you say?" Hilarious

Those late for the bus would probably also appreciate chatting with people about a subject they're passionate about especially with their heroes.

0:21 - "There might be one next year..." Poorly aged things.

That's fair, I miss the E3 videos

5:41 excellent editing choice.

The original crew of Rooster Teeth on a quiet Wednesday: "Hahaha.... .... wait, what?"

I worked as a booth rep at e3 2019. It was very enjoyable and tiring. I also found it quite baffling that people paid to come to wait in line. It did not have fun interacting with the paid ticket guests.

5:41 «... And be in a social situation where I can talk in depth about the one subject I know a lot about» Superb choice of visuals here

5:40 Dear editor, Your amazing

This was good. Great take on E3. I feel the same about EGX, some great moments despite the difficulties in attending.

Obligatory comment about how appreciated these slowed down vids are. EP and ZP are my favorite bits of content that are abbreviated "vowel-P" followed by DP but let's not give The Escapist any ideas.

It's nice to set aside a time for "trailers and announcements" like a few E3 broadcasts.

I miss it for the genuinely hype moments, like the Re7 and Re2 Remake, FF7 Remake, God of War 2018 announcements. “You’re breathtaking!” And also betting on what’ll bomb and what’ll be industry mainstays. I was right on Horizon Zero Dawn :D not so much on Watch_Dogs. But then I wasn’t as aware of Ubi’s flaws back then. I’ll always remember Butler’s speech about loving games, not taking sides in a pointless console war and just declaring our love for the medium. It was always a dream of mine to present a game at E3. I think of that one dev that presented the Mario x Rabbids game, and they were practically about to cry knowing Miyamoto was there giving his approval. Now it seems the most relevant platform to announce something new is the game awards. Which as much as I appreciate Geoff’s passion, it just doesn’t feel as big a stage.

Yahtzee really is the Hunter S Thompson of video games

Just started watching but commenting to say I love this series. EP is OP

Absolutely agree on why would you want to go as a consumer? It's the same for me with other cons as well; I went to PAX Aus, and there were so many lines and waiting for things I just didn't see the point. Why would I want to stand around waiting for ages to do or see something when I could just stay home and spend my time better? Also I don't understand the ending joke about late for the bus? What's the joke?

I may just be being stupid but can anyone explain the "late for the bus" joke?

Uh oh, Yahtzee's getting nostalgic.

Does Bethesda being in Microsofts grasp now mean no more fan cheering presentations from them?

I think the pleb reasoning might be the same reason I went to comic con a few times back in the day, theres a surprising amount of free shit you can get from walking around. For the low price of like 10-20 bucks you can stand outside and try buying badges off people leaving so theres a mountain of useless shit you can sift through to find the one poster you absentmindedly picked up that you actually like.

Kind of sounded like you were going to say but there Yahtz "You keep falling for that one don't you viewer"

I always loved watching E3 because it was like..gamer christmas. A week of just exciting announcements of the years and future upcoming releases, all the cool new games to look forward to etc. It's just what I like.

Ahhh, there's nothing quite like Con Life~ Where you just slip out of your normal life and enter a different dimension for three days. Where the vibe is uniquely exhausted and excited, where everyone understands how stellar it is to be here but also know the financial and time costing price they've all paid to be here. Like going on vacation to another planet but Starbucks just still happens to be here. I highly suggest it to anyone who hasnt tried it to definitely do so, so long as you dont mind feeling like you're a claw machine prize, leaving their comfortable plush friend bin, to be dropped into a hole that leads who knows where.

I will say watching it with mates over a livestream laughing at lal the stupid inbetween bits was the best part of E3 for us, the cringe jokes the terribleness of some thing like when the cam zoomed in on that one guy whos scriped was different so he smiled and it cut to someone else. Or the adorableness of that one dev from Ghostwire tokyo i think it was, thats what made it special for me personally.

Around 2013 - 2019 people kept making comments about how E3 was a relic of the past and we should just have a bunch of individual directs like what Nintendo does, and that bummed me out. I like the big spectacle event that gets everyone in the gaming community all hyped about the same news, or when people get to see a bunch of indies showcased and they find something just for them. Getting rid of the event seems like a net loss to me, since it's a communal activity that brings the gaming space closer together, even if it is an advertising show at the end of the day.

Yatz, i'm sorry :(

I didn't realise how much E3 meant for the gaming community until this Summer Games Fest thing started and was so painfully generic it felt like eating gray mush out of a gray bowl with a gray spoon at a restaurant named Gray's where the guy serving me is just a gray blob who doesn't speak. Please come back E3 we didn't understand how much worse it could get.

What I miss is how for about one week each year all the game related media online would be focusing on E3. It felt like a yearly event, a proper tradition as Yahtzee said, something to look forward even if many of the people talking about it were mostly complaining about the whole thing. Everyone suffering together like a huge world-spanning family.

It should be noted that this happened before, the supposed death of E3. Circa 2010 most of the major publishers pulled out of E3 and did their own press conferences and E3 was a shall of itself. But eventually the benefits of doing E3 outweighed the cons for the publishers and everyone came back and pretended like nothing had happened.

E4 all was such a cool experience.

I could be talking from a nostalgia point of view; but E3 was at its peak in the early-mid 2000's. I think what ultimately saw its decline was the over reliance on prerendered cutscenes over bonafide gameplay footage that ramped up with the Sony's 2005's PS3 presentation of Killzone 2, Final Fantasy XIII, and Gran Turismo 5. All games that wouldn't surface until 2009-2010 and nowhere near to what Sony had promised in graphical fidelity. Then you had the E3 2007-2008 dilemma announced after E3 2006 that saw a massive restructuring of the event and downsized it tremendously. Conferences were still a thing and eventually E3 reformed with its 2009-2010 conferences, but I don't think anything outside of that ever was restored to its golden age of public perception.

3:54 "Oh haha I forgot about this moment, I'm gonna look it up to laugh again!" *video was uploaded 13 years ago* I am a little sad now.

0:55 is that guy eating a bowl of lemons or something?

3:25 is even more relevant now, as it was announced that Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft (at least the xbox division) won't be attending this year's E3

Seeing him next to Romaro reminds me of how tall Yahtzee is.

E3 of old was mostly stuffy press conferences only for journalists and the exciting stuff ended up in print. In the internet age it became a livestream hype party everyone is invited to

You know what it's like? Party conference. Pain in the arse for everyone concerned, the main reason everybody goes is to make connections and get extremely drunk. Yet it does bond people in the party together.

I want to live a life in which 10:10 a.m. is considered "early."

E3 used to be the biggest time of the year for games I'd always look forward too every year. Where I'll see some jawdropping announcement that'll make me want to preorder it. Even with all the BS, it was still an exciting time. It's kinda sad that now everything is online and game announcements are sprinkled throughout the year.

Another reason Yahtzee misses E3? He never got to ask Suda51 if he was the "51st result of an illegal Japanese cloning experiment to create the world's most auteur game designer".

What, you were worried John Romero would make you sit through a play session of an unreleased build of Daikatana 2 or something?

I thought I liked Matt's editing for this series, but MAN this was good.

I got snuck into both sections of e3 when I was 13 and it was a life changing experience Edit: fairly certain this was in 99 or 2000