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5 poorly handled E3 game reveals

First impressions are important, so when a video game developer or publisher debuts a game at E3 it is absolutely vital that it puts its best foot forward. But these are our favourite botched games debuts...

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mushroomwig5103d ago

To be fair, GENJI featured real-time weapon change. :P

iamnsuperman5103d ago

It cracks me up every time I watch the GENJI reveal. Poor choice of words

CanadianTurtle5102d ago (Edited 5102d ago )

Yo don't diss okay? My great great grandfather fought in the war in japan back in the day. He died from fighting a giant enemy crab.

Shame on all of you.

/end sarcasm

dirigiblebill5103d ago

I'll admit to finding the Wii Music reveal a bit cool at first. Only at first.

Hicken5103d ago

Glad I have my ad blockers on. No reason in hell for five items to be on as many pages.

dirigiblebill5103d ago (Edited 5103d ago )

Yes, because havin to click through to another page is clearly a massive burden upon/insult to you, the all-deserving reader. And getting all a website's content for free is absolutely no compensation whatsoever.

We used to have to *buy* this stuff, remember? Remember?

OccludedGamer5103d ago

to be fair its a cheap attempt at getting more 'clicks' on the sites articles.

Hicken5103d ago

You wanna generate revenue from traffic on your site? Fine. I don't have a problem with that.(Aside from ads that play video or music through flash, that is.) After all, the money to keep the site up has to come from somewhere.

But you wanna take a five-item list and spread over five pages what could easily have been one or two, and I have a problem.

If you can give me ONE reasonable explanation for why it's necessary to set their article up like that, I'll turn off all my ad blockers and click through every page to give them revenue. If there is no good reason, then I don't see why I should subject myself to it.

dirigiblebill5103d ago

"If you can give me ONE reasonable explanation for why it's necessary to set their article up like that, I'll turn off all my ad blockers and click through every page to give them revenue. If there is no good reason, then I don't see why I should subject myself to it."

You've answered your own question: because it equates to more ad impressions, which equates to you not having to pay for the content.

A-Glorious-Dawn5102d ago

Pay for this 'content'? are you mad?

morganfell5102d ago (Edited 5102d ago )

I would prefer they have a section where I pay for anything I want to read on that site. Let's see how that works? It wouldn't because the value just isn't there.

What you are missing is the fact that were the content good enough people wouldn't mind the ads. But the simple fact is just because it is free, it doesn't make it good. As Dennis said, cheap clothing stores always have 2 for 1 specials. If they really wanted to screw you they would give you 3 of them. Just what I need, another lime green leisure suit with lapels shaped like hang gliders.

And just because someone clicks on the site out of curiosity and visits doesn't mean they think the material is worthwhile. Getting a hit from a story posted here is more of an accident or a sign of boredom than it is a mark of value.

Some sites need ads to generate revenue. Fact. But it is useless making apologies because the site layout is retarded and the webmaster is unable to design them in a less obtrusive manner or one that doesn't impede navigation.

dirigiblebill5102d ago

Morganfell -

CVG has a pretty robust, widely recognised tradition of multi-page list features. It also has a pretty robust tradition of doing huge traffic. Put two and two together. Evidently, all those repeat readers feel the content's worth the utterly negligible inconvenience of having to click through to a new page in order to generate a fresh ad impression.

This thread baffles me. Why do people have a problem with allowing websites to generate an income from content those people demonstrably want to read? Isn't it good that we don't have to pay for web editorial any more, thanks to initiatives like this?

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shackdaddy5103d ago

I would replace the MK with Konami's showing of lucha libre AAA. Huge men slapping each other is way worse than actors fighting. lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

You know what, just add that whole ridiculous Konami conference. Even the won millwon twoops guy :)

guitarded775103d ago

I'm so glad Konami has moved to pre-recorded E3 press events... then again, I kinda miss the brutally awkward moments they always gave us.

J86blum5102d ago (Edited 5102d ago )

Its sad, the middle guy La' Parka was in WCW back in the 90's when they had that huge push for cruiser weights, he is even in the n64 games. bet he is stoked to of been in another game again.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot16d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle16d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7716d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg22d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree22d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai22d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.

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15 Years Ago, Mortal Kombat (2011) Saved Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.

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italiangamer25d ago

"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde23d ago

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

Soy23d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand12523d ago (Edited 23d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.