In years past I'd be found drowning myself in anything that had fifth letter of the alphabet and the third, uh, number of the, uh, numbers on it. Basically, if I saw that yellow and red <font color=bbbb00>E<font color=red>3, I clicked. I watched. I read. I planned my life and my future spending.
But this year I skipped it all.
I didn't even really have anything better to do but I still didn't have that burning desire to follow anything. And it's not that I wasn't interested because of course I was. But I just wasn't excited. I guess as I've gotten older and less susceptible to hype, I just want to let all the hoopla die down, then go back and sort through the mess. And as I'm sure you know, the cream rises to the top. Well, the same can be said about the turds. But the turds of E3 are fun to read about too.
What's my point? I'm cool with being late to the party when it comes to videogame news. I even do it with games themselves. I just finally got Mass Effect - I know. What? I'm also notorious for stacking up issues of gaming magazines and waiting months or years before I read them. I've got about 13 unread issues of Game Informer stacked neatly, aging like a fine wine.
Perhaps the always-current internet is to blame: I've kind of become addicted to browsing old media (old news stories and reviews, playing old games) simply because there's way too much current media thrown in my face every single minute of every single day. It hasn't had time to simmer on the stove of society, and I think I like my gaming news well-done.
So how do you like yours?
