Just last week I was sitting on my porch drinking my evening Earl Grey, and as the hot southern Georgia sun began to gently lick the barren plains en passe to its nightly resting place beneath the horizon, thought to myself:
“What this industry needs to more fluffed up franchised generic shooters, gimmicky peripherals, and contrived ’services’ selling things we already own or never use. I really don’t think this industry could bear anymore original IP and culture-centric direction; it’s overrated.”
Imagine how content I was to find out that’s exactly what has been shaping up in some of the bigger E3 conferences. Also, that was sarcasm and a lot of it.
E3 is an annual event that normally makes the hearts of gamers sing and this year is probably going to be no different. Twitter, facebook, even myfonts.com has some kind of E3 updating mechanism, so it goes without saying how big a deal the expo is and how excited people become over the announcements. But, this guy – this guy for some reason hasn’t been overly shocked or pleased with the direction he suspects things are headed.
