Thread 712432353

E3 2006 would have taken place in the Los Angeles convention centre
Grab yourself some Mnt Dew and lets take a trip through the convention and see how the next generation of consoles is shaping up

are you gonan post pictures from it?
pinned thread

>>712432429
>>712432423
why yes anon

>>712432353 (OP)
hey that's the year I was born

>>712432602
conference is really packed this time!

>>712432787
holy crap Turok is back?|
i loved his games on N64

>>712432938
technicly im a month late considering E3 this year took place in may

>>712433060
lots of movie advertisments this time around

>>712432860
yup we're back

>>712432705
>n-gage ad
Man, what a blast from the past. The original model was truly one of the most horrific pieces of early 2000s product design.

>>712433162
lots of cosplayers!

>>712432860
>Frontlines: Fuel of War

>>712433449
we finally enter the showfloor!

>>712433840
cool laptops!

>>712433938
can you beat the Fatal1ity challenge?

>>712434220
lets head over to Activision, seems like they have something big planned

>>712434375
holy shit Tony Hawk!

>>712434448
what a cool guy

>>712433214
They tried.

>>712435262
I've been waiting for this slut, where is Elexis?

>>712435393
ask and you shall recieve

>>712433938
I really miss old web designs

>>712432353 (OP)
Is it just me or does the thumbnail look like an n64 cart?

>>712435729
Xbox time!

>>712435652
Thanks, shame we never got more episodes and ritual is kill

>>712436049
Microsoft isnt playing around

Was E3 2010 legit the last good one (if only for the Konami conference)?

We were clowning on E3, but we didn't know how good we had it at the time.
Now it's truly over.

>>712432353 (OP)
>n-gage
those were the days...

>>712435729
>WiC
I'm dying from old rn

>>712436489
>>712436424
im mostly doing these comps because i miss shitposting here around this time
E3 really brought the board together, even if it fell apart again once the conferences where over

was "MIG" or whatever at this same conference?
that massive multiplayer whatever war game

Was this the year Sony showed the first Killzone 2 Trailer? God that shit got me so hyped as a kid. First time I had the displeasure of learning about pre-rendered trailers.

>>712436049
>tom clancy
I haven't heard that name in forever...

>>712436995
>>712437026
i think you mean MAG? that got anounced in 2008

>>712437026
mag

>>712437219
>>712437227
yea thats the one, aight

>>712437219
HOLY FUCK GTA IV
THIS IS BIG
MOORE DOES IT AGAIN

>>712437368
there he is
Cliff Bazinga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_sVK6i0zs
Who's ready for the new Banjo Kazooie?

>>712437484
owen wilson looking ass

>>712433060
Don't let the weirdos on /x/ see this one, they'll add it to their list of predictive/programming media.

>>712437557
>>712437539
Looks great!
Xbox really needs a true to form platformer

>>712434072
God I fucking miss Quake

It was Nintendo that killed E3 with directs.
I miss the cringekino.

>>712436489
how much as most of these? I remember only a couple cost over $500-1k when browsing on eBay back in 2022

>>712437753
what are all these cartoon characters doing here?

>>712437840
Finally we arrive at Playstation
Sony is just aching to showcase the PS3 to the world
I get a feeling 2006 will be a great year for Playstation!

remember the ouya truck outside E3?
I also faintly remember ngage having their own conference one time
our IRC channel used to make bets on which of the three big presentations are going to be the most boring and full of sales numbers etc

>>712437794
Back before video game fans took themselves too seriously.

>>712437753
>>712437840
Yes, I wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpvMHdWmdc

>>712437990
They got told to fuck off and their truck got towed.

>>712437947
Oh no...

>>712437794
Pretty much, but covid is what killed it for good.
The benefits of a public presentation is the ability to have a truly 'live' show. Stuff like the Uncharted 4 running on real hardware thing was a really good example of that for Sony.
Nintendo just showed the 'path' essentially. Every company had their E3 flubs and Nintendo had by far the most, so they bowed out completely. I imagine MS and Sony were more worried about looking like they were scared if they dropped public appearances prior to covid.
What *is* the best E3 flub should be the real question though.
>$599 US Dollars
>Killzone 2 running on real hardware
>Konami E3 2010
>PEGGLE... 2
>The Xbox One showcase
>Wii Music
>Skyward Sword reveal
That last one is probably the reason why Nintendo only does directs now.

>>712437947
>The Eye of Judgement
2006 really had it all

>>712437753
>>712437840
>>712438045
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pss6NkSCAto
I wish someone had E3 footage of this game prior to its release

>e3 2005 was 20 years ago
Bros? What's this feeling of being old?

>>712438210
a lesser known one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vizBWaNdSgQ

>>712437947
hope the PS3 wont be too expensive

Halo 3 reveal

You have no idea how many times I watched and re-watched and re-watched and re-watched this trailer, analyzing it. I remember every single line of dialogue being decoded and theorized by autists, "Am am your sword I am your shield" and some people heard it as source. Fucking kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ezd2FqxAU

We will never have moments like this in gaming anymore. Zoomers can never understand the hype for this game, there will never be another game reveal trailer like this ever again.

>>712438210
Nintendo bringing out some hr and marketing people to waggle that dildo around and talk about puppies was crazy.

>>712438503
Another good reason why the 2000s were the last great decade

>>712437484
kek, i almost forgot about the douchey affliciton style t-shirts from the 2000s

>>712438548
There it is
the PS Tripple

>>712438627
the man behind Playstation
Ken Kutaragi

>>712438621
I'd take it a milion times over the faggy shit of now

>>712438627
Still a beauty

>>712438627
BALLIN'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3SslQsZys
I can't really find the E3 2006 trailer for it mainly because either it's lost or I'm particularly lazy

>>712438239
>2006
>still treating meg like shit
What's their problem? I stopped watching Family Guy for like 5 seasons.

>>712438627
Why was it so fucking big though?

>>712439047
this was when Family Guy's revival was new at the time

>>712437794
Nintendo don't even do directs anymore. They drop games trailers randomly and do major announcements like the zelda movie in tweets!

>>712438387
how the actual fuck did this shit get on stage? it's not even a video game, its straight up a toy

>>712438537
I genuinely can't believe how bad things have become and how much worse its going to get because of AI, especially for video games.

I want to go back.

Most of the posters on this board weren't even fucking alive 19 years ago.
Its time to move on, anon.

>>712439056
lots of hardware

>>712439165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnp-vIrNaYc

>>712439165
Damn right. It's gonna be sad when kids from the 2010s and 2020s are gonna remember these decades in about to 10 to 20 years

>>712439026
>>712439056
looks tame today compared to the PS5

Post yfw
>599 US Dollars

>>712439452
>>712439173
no

>>712439474
and keep in mind, this was two years before the worldwide recession

>>712439529
New Gran Turismo!
graphics look insane

>>712439474
bro music concerts are like 600 dollars too

>>712439621
METAL GEAR

>>712434534
I loved Faction. Them changing its channel number to something my tuner couldn’t get is why I dropped Sirius.

>>712439775
woah i hope it plays Ridge Racer

Ahem... Giant enemy crab.

>>712439474
Seriously, what the fuck was Sony even thinking?

>>712438239
>>712439047
not Family Guy but there were rumors of an American Dad video game back in the late-2000s but were scrapped in favor of another Family Guy video game. Another rumor was that Fox also intended on making a second Futurama video game following after the success of 2007's Simpsons game, but that never happened

>>712440150
jesus christ more fucking movieshit

>>712439165
Not only that. Devs also have a tendency to put political stuff in the games too. It's so annoying.

>>712437753
>>712437840
>>712438239
That time period when people were legitimately for hyped western IP games.

>>712434923
>>712437840
>>712440228
>>712440315
Does anyone have any footage of the Ice Age The Meltdown video game at E3 2006?

>>712440441
hey you forgot to reply to >>712438045

>>712440483
thats a insane line for Final Fantasy

>>712440441
The time period when USA wasn't retarded

>>712440552
so uhh
That Playstation conference was something
Lets hope Nintendo is cooking something good

>>712441154
finally we get to Nintendo!
This line is insane

>>712432353 (OP)
To any younger readers:
Don't be fooled. This was the beginning of the end. By this point, normies infected the hobby and publishers did everything in their power to take their shekels. There was so much shovelware being made back then, kids call it "slop" these days, but it's really not much different than now. The only reason why boomers think this time was better is because today is worse, when really it's been worse for almost 2 decades.

we didnt know how good we had it back then. im sorry for EVER clowning on E3. TAKE ME BACK TAKE ME BAAAAAAAAAAACK

fucking games for windows aids

>>712441330
this line better be worth it

>>712441478
Finally we arrive!

>>712441641
the first DS revision!

>>712440895
What happened to Pioneer anyway?
Did they die along with Plasma TVs?

>>712438503
Fuarrrrkkk I honestly feel bad for people who missed out on the halo experience. I have such good memories having my friends over to play split screen and staying up till 2am screaming into the mic. Gaming is literally shell of what it used to be.

>>712441846
The Nintendo Revolution is now the Nintendo Wii!

>>712442423
Shiggy and Steven Spielberg

>>712442613
there he is!

>>712442871
lets take one last tour through the main hall to look at what we missed

I was lucky enough to go to E3 2014. And even though it didnt have the level of charm that the older ones had, I prefer that era over the shitshows we have today.

>>712443612
remember these ungly ass skins people would wrap their consoles in

>>712444398
Mario protesting outside

Dont forget to enlist!

were booth-babes a thing of the past by 06?

>>712444775
that was all i have for now guys
Thank you for joining me in these threads
Ive been here with you guys with most E3's through the years and have been feeling a form emptiness in this board around this time of the year wich prompted me to start these threads
Ill leave you guys for now
But ill see you next year for the next E3 season!

good times. thanks

Based thread
Only good thread right now that isnt obvious shilling or shitposting

>>712439474
As someone whos main gaming system was the PS2 this shit still pains me

>>712444840
nah they where getting less common around 2012

>>712441920
Online multiplayer driven by matchmaking, skinnerboxes, and anti-social behavior is as far away from the local multiplayer LAN days as possible. It's self selected for a miserable experience
>>712444985
Cool thread, thanks for posting anon

As much as the "brown & bloom" generation was lambasted during its time there were still good games coming out consistently. Now we're see-sawed between short periods of decent games releasing and months of nothing but shit. Having dudebro shooters releasing regularly was a much better marker of time for the industry than having to see the exact the same liveservice slop shooters proliferate for a decade.

>>712432353 (OP)
Where did the soul go? Geoffs show is so shit

This thread makes me sad, we'll never go back

>>712432353 (OP)
I remember in 2009, people on /v/ were posting their "pillow forts" in preparation for E3.
I was 15 at the time and considered dumb and childish. Now I wish I got the chance to do it. (Of course I can do it alone right now but it's not the same. Internet culture is also not as forgiving of dumb shit like that anymore.)

>>712435973
I thought the same thing.

All I remember is this Penny Arcade strip. Back when you could still make fun of Asians.

Konami 2010 E3 live with /v/ was where this board peaked.

>>712432353 (OP)
blessed thread

>>712433720
Yakuza, is amazing how big it got.

>>712446748
Notch started posting about Minecraft not long afterwards

>>712438831
based playstation2 it was the sleeper winner of 7thgen.

>>712446748
Peak E3.

>>712441154
man, a Veggietales game was kino

>>712447274
Its actually funny how the PS2 lineup had more games and instant classics than the ps3 one

>>712444840
Halo 3 booth babes in 2007

>>712447991
and here's a World of Tanks booth babe from E3 2012

>>712435798
it's only nice to look at, not actually use it.

>>712432353 (OP)
why do americans love their advertisements so much? they will literally even sing the ad songs they hear on tv

>>712437753
>>712444398
Back in the 2000s when Cartoon Network still had soul

>>712447991
>Booth babes are gone
>F1 girls are gone
>Not even James Bond is allowed to flirt anymore
I can't take this anymore
Russia just fucking nuke us already

>>712432429
not a single tranny in sight

>>712438295
To think I outlived E3.

>>712448248
and you're also underraged

>>712448325
Harold Camping was right. The world ended on May 21, 2011. We should've listened to him

>>712448248
ads work well. not vidya, but any time I hear "head on" I awaken like a sleeper agent and say "apply directly to the forehead."

>this thread
I'm overdosing on SOVL brehs

>>712444985
Remember E3 2007 when, of all people, star of Son of the Mask Jamie Kennedy hosted the Activison panel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzThMe7bBM

>>712448758
ZOMG A GAME ON YOUR PHONE? WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?

>>712435545
Kind of sad how zero tolerance E3 got on realistic looking guns in 2013

>>712448121
we used to be a proper country

>>712440503
no

>>712432662
MOOOODDDDS

>>712448346
>tfw been more years on 4chan than moot himself

>e3 2006
>noone mentions Foodfight movie-tie game
I'm very disappointed in you all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-VNODT6LRY

>>712450083
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwRNdIghPSw
oh I almost forgot to add in this

>>712450083
>>712450148
Back when shovelware existed

>>712450080
surely he still lurks

>>712432860
Turok? You mean that ancient comic about them redskins and dienosaurs?

Damn I'm getting old, when you said 19 years ago I thought you meant before the 00's. I can really see some of the cracks forming in the industry. Thanks for sharing!

>>712438621
I think that style is cool.

>>712432353 (OP)
I love Neverwinter Nights 2. Interesting to see that it had such a prominent banner.

You really don’t know how good you had it until it’s all gone, huh.
They might not have been perfect times and the rot was already starting to set in but they were still more innocent times.

I remember when the industry was actually fun to follow

>>712432353 (OP)
I still have the 4 discs E3 2005 set

>>712448808
>Jamie Kennedy - "Comedian"

>>712450224
It makes me wonder if we lived in a world when the Foodfight movie never even existed
>>712450546
But the 2000s were still a good decade. It was 90s on steroids looking back. In fact, it was still soul compared to what would happen the next two decades

>>712433594
Same here

>>712451485
He's literally a reverse King Midas. Almost everything he touches is a failure

>>712448808
kino

>>712432353 (OP)
Now all we got is a sterile, corporate advertising and journo dicksucking event. The future sure is amazing, isn't it.

>>712436489
Crazy how you were allowed and even encouraged to customize your console back then, it was your own, you owned it.

>>712451763
If a charisma vaccuum like him was at one point slightly famous then I guess it gives hope to the rest of us
https://youtu.be/4lzWmDIY9Zk

>>712451874
>funny awkward presentations of corpo suits desperately trying to appeal to the young and hip gamers
vs
>hours long fed-sponsored propaganda reel with nothing but total garbage you will see aggressively spammed all over the board for months on end
pick your poison

>>712444985
do you have a link for your previous threads? I can't found them on archives.

>>712452158
This is why nepotism can affect anyone

>>712450008
anon, do you realize that if you do the math, they've already turned 19. People age, grandpa

>>712439452
What game are they showcasing here

If E3 were still around, do you think it would have gotten canceled this year in light of recent events?

>>712432429
SOVL

>>712453420
2002
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/711505935/#711505935

2004
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/710316291/#710316291

>>712438239
>>712439047
>>712440153
makes me wish we got an actual American Dad or King of the Hill video game during the mid-to-late 2000s instead of them being regulated into crossovers with IPs, point-and-clicks or mobile games. American Dad had a shitty mobile game and King of the Hill had a shitty PC game and the two ended up being regulated into crossover games with Animation Throwdown and Warped Kart Racers (and both are rumored to be in Fortnite soon)

>>712435729
>World in Conflict
Such a great game, the story was such kino, Bannon's arc for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNa2wmXNyE&ab_channel=blackhiro94

>>712441920
Even the online multiplayer back in the 2000s was way better than dealing with screaming zoomer kids talking babble I can't even understand. Give me the dudebro era any day over whatever the fuck online gaming is with these screaming fucking autistic kids.

>>712439474
didn't matter to me because my dad was rich and still got me a PS3 at launch, I remember it came with Talladega Nights on blu ray, still got it on my shelf somewhere lol

I do miss the shitposting
>Here's this giant enemy crab, and you... attack... its... weak... point... for massive damage!
>RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!!!

unlike my xbox 360 which I had 2 RROD (both my launch edition and 2007 Halo 3 Edition) my PS3 never bricked.

>>712441365
Feels good knowing all the faggots replying to me when I said E3 dying would come back to bite them were prove thoroughly wrong.

>>712441746
I miss real handhelds.

>>712432705
>N-Gage
That's a blast from the past. I almost convinced my father to buy one for me. Thank God he didn't.

>>712433162
>spyhunter
I never heard about that game in my life what the flying fuck

>>712456430
>get the blue one with Soulsilver
>put my starter into the pokewalker
>go to school
>come home, transfer it back
>get a couple of levels + berries
Shit was technology

>>712435652
>she's probably a granny now
It's so fucking over

>>712438503
Lame

>>712437484
He still owes money to people he grifted throughout the years. lmao

>>712440150
>50 Cent Bulletproof
kek

>>712455769
>>712441365
To be fair E3 was getting worse with each year, if it were still alive today it'd be an unrecognizable beaten dead horse.
Remember when /v/ got mad that one year everyone was wearing rainbow badges because someone shot up a gay bar? Imagine in 2025 how it'd look like.

>>712436489
weird how this whole concept went away
it'd probably just be ads for hollywood properties, but selling casings seems a lot more feasible than entire special edition consoles
unless you're nintendo i guess

>>712446126
And 20 years from now, imagine how all of this will fucking punch you through the heart

>>712454280
thanks I will download everything.

>>712439775
LOL memes? like the numa numa guy?

Remember that all of this was before the iPhone. Steve Jobs opened the Pandora's Box with his cursed device.

>>712432705
wow there is space to walk around. I went there 3 or 4 times but walking room was always hard to come by.

These were only good times because the place wasn't being totally fucking ruined by brown people lol.

>>712457631
Internet should have stayed by cable only, and with slow speeds.
Fiber was a mistake. Give me 2 minute download for a single porn pic if it means keeping the undesirables away from the internet.

this thread makes me want to kill myself, thanks OP

>>712457906
Times can and will get good again.
Don’t accept this period of cultural rot as the norm, they want you to give up.

>>712450008
>People age, grandpa
I'm twenty years old lmao

>>712457906
Memories are a funny thing. With time, they can become better than the lived experience was.

>>712456430
was sad seeing phones slowly kill the handheld market, the switch is pretty much the last vestige of true handheld gaming

>>712457906
do it i believe in you

>>712432429
Funny how insanely packed AX is by comparison.

>>712458949
The switch is still too big and barely counts. The Vita tragically flopping and the 3DS’ twilight years was the last gasp of handheld gaming to me.

>>712433938
Hey that's the g158 keyboard right? Good times

>>712432353 (OP)
looks like a big n64 cart

>>712458095
You think times were good because Califags were out having fun while the rest of America was getting choked to death? Who do you think helped spread all that cultural rot?

>feeling nostalgia for...being advertised to?
Kys

>>712459535
4chan is 18+ you spastic

>>712459535
lurk here much?

>>712459158
I don’t know how I dodged a ADHD or some other meme diagnosis for being an unruly kid but I thank my stars I never had to spend my childhood doped up on psych meds. Rip bro.

>>712459598
>>712459690
>[The NPCs hated that.]

>>712459535
>waaaah, quit being nostalgia for things I didn't grew up with
lol lmao even keep lurking

>>712459879
*having nostalgia
sorry my autism fucked up my grammar

>>712432353 (OP)
Lol E3 wasn’t open to the public until 2017.

>>712459942
Too late
I am going to call you an ESL pajeet now

>>712459320
I feel the same. Switch is a neat concept but 99% of the time it's docked anyway. There was nothing quite like sharing DS Mario Kart with other guys at school who had DS but not the game, or coming home from a walk and seeing you had streetpass visitors.

>>712432353 (OP)
was neverwinter nights a good game? only played the wc3 custom game version

>>712432429
anyone remember anything from kentia hall?

>>712460106
yes
though people will debate endlessly on whether 2 specifically is good or shit

>>712459158
>2006
>emerging drug epidemic
>family unit collapsing
>multiple jew wars
>cultural decay
>But at least we got to watch nepobabies play games early and get paid for it.
I'm glad they can't use stuff like E3 to put a big phony smile on America's current state anymore. It's healthier for everyone that way.

>>712456430
For me it's the crimson red

>>712460010
I'm whiter than you

>>712460031
>99% of the time it's docked anyway
Maybe for you. There's a reason Nintendo shelved the console-only version of the switch.

>>712460010
You're a latinix typing this shit out. What difference does this make?

>>712460106
nwn1 and nwn2 base games were justifiably forgotten as medicore, probably below icewindale in terms of CRPGs.

nwn1 hordes of the underdark and nwn2 mask of the betrayer are good games, and many times better than the vanillas they are expansions of.

>>712448182
Not like current web design is good to use

>>712460642
Very nice.

Bump

>first smash brawl reveal was 19 years ago
No. I'm not old. You are!
https://youtu.be/a5JPYQeHE7M?si=b7S7FfSb_vfhg63G

extremely based.

t. 33 year old

>>712459505
>Um actually chud times were never good
>Just accept this miserable existence as the new normal and be a depressed sadsack forever
nope still not falling for your psyops

>>712459505
Sure Rabbi

>browse the thread
>start to feel tears
God damn, I may have only been 6 back then, but jesus fuck life really was better wasn't it

This thread and these pictures really hit home of how good gaming and the community was back then compared to the dogshit we have now. We had it good back then /v/ros.

Even if E3 came back today, it wouldn't be the same. It'd be funny as fuck, though, so I'd like for it to return

>These times are so horrible, we had it so good bros.
Wait until you see 2030.

>closest thing we have nowadays is Geoff’s game journo circlejerk-off
grim

>>712437484
what's the name of his rock band?

>>712465204
>AAA barely clinging to relevance as more and more small studios rise to prominence
>widespread rejection of the cultural insanity that has plagued the west for the past decade
Gaming is healing.
Society is healing.
Things are looking up bros, don’t fall for doomsissy propaganda.

>>712439173
It's unironically a good thing if kids lurk this website, despite the adverse effects

>>712435652
who is that behind her with her underwear?

>>712441267
idk bro TWEWY, Ghost Trick, MHFU, God hand, MGRR came after that

>>712432353 (OP)
the building looks like an N64 cart

>>712460642
I had that one too.

>>712469253
first thing I thought when I saw the thumb kek

>>712466141
You're fucking retarded, were heading into a militarized police state surveillance dystopia where we don't even know if our leaders actually exist because of avancements in AI. Literally everything is going to get worse.

>>712435262
Oh my fucking god, I wish that game got another "episode"

>>712440813
>Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Damn, Ecclesia wasn't even out yet.
;_;

>>712443758
lmao wtf
>Target the audience least likely to ever buy a game

>>712444309
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
HSKJGHasgdjkaa
FUCK

>>712432353 (OP)
That's cool that they set up the top to look like an N64 cartridge.

>>712471864
And then put a PC game on it, lol

>>712432353 (OP)
>>712432429
>>712432503
a better time
gaming used to be so lively and full of cool upcoming shit from the big developers

>>712448808
>>712451763
>>712452158
>They cast Jamie Kennedy in a Tremors movie
I mean I know the direct to video sequels weren't exactly great but GOD DAMN

>>712432503
>shadowrun
>titanquest
sounds like real winners

>>712450080
>one pathway ends really early

What where you guys playing in 2006 during E3
I just got my Nintendo Wii, started catching up on tons of GameCube games (was a ps2fag in gen 6)
Spent the entire E3 week playing F-zero GX while finishing up my freshman year

It really makes you notice how terrible the gaming industry has become.

>me going through this thread
I want to go back bros

>>712432662
Nonu weerent

>>712432353 (OP)
from the thumbnail in the catalog that looked like a gigantic N64 cart

Most of /v/ were shitting their diapers during 2006

>people are now nostalgic for the brown n bloom era
grim

>>712482396
To be fair 2006 was the early days of Brown and bloom
Nobody expected it to be a Industry wide trend

trust me. you don't want to "go back".

>>712438896
He's a fuckin dad now

>>712441746
>The DS was 20 fucking years ago

>>712442343
The beginning of the end
Fucking wagglan arc

>>712471723
You don't get the fucking surge of 'appeal to normalfag' that went on during this entire generation.

>>712482396
Purple and gay era is worse.

>>712445923
>I'm rated 'E' for everyone
Based /ss/queen

>>712439474
My mom got mine (OG 80gb model) for like $240 because some crackhead stole one and sold it to a dealer she knew. Shit was SO cash.

>>712433162
I'm still pissed at how bad Eragon was

>>712441241
Tendies looking grim as per usual.

>Only exposure to E3 was CN magazines
>Finally can watch one with the internet
>Its shit
>And then died

>>712443758
This is one of the most 2000s era core ever

>>712451542
>But the 2000s were still a good decade. It was 90s on steroids looking back. In fact, it was still soul compared to what would happen the next two decades
It was on steroids because everyone wants to compensate the loss of spirit they dealt with during 9/11. And then the recession happened

>>712442691
KINO

>>712444985
Good thread, this.

>>712435262
yeah...

>>712484401
You’re not wrong. That era was peak “look look we’re for everyone now!” horseshit. Every trailer felt like it had focus group fingerprints all over it. Real gamers were getting table scraps while the spotlight was on fitness moms and suburban dads flailing around with Wiimotes. It was like watching your favorite dive bar get turned into a franchise brunch spot. Just soulless.

>>712434134
>2025
>logitech keeps making the exact same wheel with a different button layout
>shifter is now a separately paid addon

>>712441848
I've seen some new pioneer head units when I was shopping for a radio for my car, so they're still around

>>712433594
Unfathomably based game. Very fond memories

I'll miss it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsH0s2_S_Ck

E3 was always a fun time to be on the internet. It all started to go downhill when Nintendo stopped doing stage shows in favor of directs, then slowly everyone else followed suit

>>712488336
I'll never forget when the recession screwed everyone globally between 2008-12

>>712483863
Good for him honestly

>>712486215
>Eragon was so bad it was the last movie to be released on VHS in Italy

>>712432662
lmao the baby from family guy is older than you

>>712452043
It was cool but really no one did it

>>712496592
and it was popular back then >>712438239

>>712463661
>6
>nostalgia
lmao lil bro crying when he was barely old enough to watch george shrinks

>>712454998
>rumored
You can already see bots using the Hank Hill and Bob Belcher skins, something they a few days or about a week before new skins go live. It's not even rumored anymore it's happening on Father's Day this Sunday.

>>712484401
>ytmnd
so much goddamn nostalgia

>>712497003
someday the American Dad skins for Fortnite will happen. Just wait and see Dadders

>>712441365
>burning crusade
life is pain at how fast the time moves.

>>712496781
bruh sam clover and the brown one are older than you.. dora and boots are literally older than you that's hilarious

Is this the shit on 7th-gen games thread?

>>712497192
nigga I was born in 94, keep on coping and seething

>>712454998
>>712497003
>>712497080
straight from fortnites twitter also i am surprised they chose cleveland brown>stan smith for fathers day but maybe to keep things diverse?

>>712497327
they saved Bob Belcher and Stan Smith in a future date for sure, but Hank is only up next because of the KoTH reboot that's happening in the next couple months

>>712497295
bro madeline that little french girl is older than you... bruh phil lil and tommy were out of diapers before you were eating solids thats wack

>>712497434
Do you have Clifford with?

>>712497423
Bob, Cleveland and Hank are this weekend. I really want to grab Bob's bundle for the burger of the day emote.. so much soul in a $5 emote

>>712497537
But what about American Dad?

>>712496781
>>712497192
>>712497295
>>712497434
>>712497491
>two schizos fighting each other over age
tale as old as time here on the boards

>2006 but no pics with sarah jean underwood as boothbabe or later carwashing/ star wars promos
what gives ?

>>712432353 (OP)
Damn I wasn't even born yet

>>712497801
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_nxCkuIbps
you're welcome

I remember seeing this insane trailer for Motorstorm on the PS3 and being shocked how good "the graphics" are.

Turns out it was 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wig-XT8Rbiw

>>712432353 (OP)
Literally one big celebration of gaming culture with curated reveals of consoles, games, and hands on gameplay demos. Man I miss seeing the set pieces they built just for this event. Never again will we get something so genuine.

>>712497537
I'll take that as no American Dad then?

>>712497609
I don't think Stan is in the cards. Cleveland has a pickaxe and backbling in game right now in the files while Bob has the emote and backbling iirc.

>>712498101
Of course. But let's hope, at least considering American Dad is returning to Fox soon

>>712457018
You retards say EVERYTHING is getting worse every year

>>712444985
Good walk down memory lane
Very saddening to see how much money publishers used to blow on booth marketing. Some awesome exhibits. My brother went in 2005 and got a picture with the Prince and a giant Katamari. I miss the physicality of the medium, the internet sucks.

>>712498339
Yeah but it actually did get gayer and gayer every year thanks to women and colored people

>>712498479
See? motherfucker if you literally hate fucking everything in life you simply don't enjoy life. Your opinion is not worth listening to. To say that absolutely nothing is better is ridiculous.

>>712498208
Oh neat I dropped out shortly after it moved to TBS so maybe new Fox seasons might be worth peeping

>>712497902
Danke, now i can go to sleep comfy yet full of pain knowing we will never ever get this back its really painfull to know that gamescom is the last bastion pax and all those other pretendious events are just freaking youtuber/streamer fan meetups ffs

>>712498565
I never said that, I am not the original anon you replied to I am speaking as someone that used to host /vg/ guild watch parties every year for 9 years straight. Always checked the event out myself in print from 99 onwards since my uncle got me in to it.General consensus after watching in a packed virtual theater was it was getting gayer every year and more outwardly corporate.

>>712497295
holy fuck did you help build the pyramids?

>>712433594
>Frontlines: Fuel of War was considered futuristic
>today it's just called the War in Ukraine

>>712439529
Oh my god, it's Lair!

Neat.

>>712434534
Faction was so based. Listening to the Radio Bam archives has me feeling like a kid again

>>712432429
Hardly any women

>>712506334
that's the thing anon, you're gay

>>712498587
There are some surprisingly good episodes in the TBS era (Gold Top Nuts, Rabbit Ears, First Do No Farm and many more come to mind), but yes the show got too weird for its own kind. But personally, I'd rather have that than Comedy Central/Hulu-era Futurama at this rate

>>712499529
And the Stargate portal

>>712437753
Stay out of my convention, Deedee

>>712439529
Remember LAIR

>>712507887
I do. It was peak

I was at e3 '06. Looking through the photos to see if I can find my retarded ass.

>>712446748
No longer tied down
You can move your fat body fwewy

>>712438503
I was a freshman in college last month before summer break. I remember a group of guys and I gathered around my friends shitty laptop to watch this trailer. It was like a real cultural event - nerds, jocks, party bros, everyone cared. The visuals looked unbelievable. So much innocent wonder for some game. We'd have to wait all summer for the game to launch in the fall.
It was Halo 3, and Half Life 2: Ep 2, and StarCraft 2. Those 3 games to me where where the magic slowly faded away into adulthood.

E3 1995: Nintendo were giving away Killer Instinct tattoos at the Killer Instinct booth.

>>712438210
Xbox shilling kinnect was so cringe especially those kids pretending to play with those kinnect animals on stage

>>712486215
I liked it as a kid even though it was just a mashup of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings made by an 18 year old nerd with rich parents who owned a publishing company. The movie did suck huge ball though

I remember some women saying online that they were bummed out by booth babes being gone because it was a very low effort, low humiliation factor job that paid really well.

>>712509832
It sure was funny though

>>712509832
The most shocking thing about kinect is how well the hardware retained it's value since they all get turned into ghost detectors now.

>>712496745
I had 2 friends who bought these meme aftermarket shells

>>712438387
and to think we will never have this kind of cringe kino ever again...

>>712498339
>You retards say EVERYTHING is getting worse every year
No? I consider that Steam has gotten better for example. Also Linux, linux has gotten a LOT better in time, compared to when I first tried it 15 years ago.
The problem is a lot of stuff suffers from enshittification, initial group who did the stuff gets replaced by money grubbing investors who start penny pinching and cutting costs and other bullshit in the name of profit, and of course things get worse. If you have an environment or person at the helm that doesn't value short term profits above all else, then things will get better.

>>712438387
I always remember this one, it doesn't seem to pop up in E3 nostalgia threads much. I can remember just watching it baffled as why grown men were running around a video game conference playing tag and what the fuck this had to do with video games.

>>712438503
I will just never get Halo period. Literally no one cared about it over there, it was basically an american phenomenon. To me it was just another shooter, and worse than whatever you had on PC at the time.

>>712439621
I still have that on my PS3. It's basically GT4 in HD lol

>>712441848
They are still making car stereos

>>712513313
Hell, when I was browsing /v/ in 2009, Halo used to be shat on at every opportunity for being a game for kids, the way Fortnite was when it came out. Meanwhile I was playing Unreal Tournament and Stalker and stuff.
Both groups grew up and replaced the majority though so now we deal with the consequences.

>>712513609
What I personally didn't understand was the hype for Halo single player, I certainly could see how the multiplayer was fun and I tried it couple of times at a friends house at the time... but the singleplayer campaigns are just completely awful! You repeat the same levels against very boring enemies and the combat doesn't feel punchy or like anything at all really

>>712450224
Still do, we just call them indies nowadays.

>>712438932
It's sad how Gundam control schemes haven't evolved past this game.

>>712513313
I had a PS2, GC and PC and the PC was the FPS machine, the only console FPS I played a lot at that time was 007 Nightfire for the local multiplayer on the GC. I played some Halo at friends' house but it was just whatever, Unreal Tournament 2004, C&C Renegade and Call of Duty 1 were my online multiplayer shooters. Halo on Xbox live was completely unappealing to me. Inferior controls to play with dumb brats?
As for singleplayer, come on, I was spoiled for choice on late 90s and early 2000s PC FPS.

>>712440050
The success of the PS2 make them to cocky