Nostalgia Corner

Does anyone remember E3? Boy, was it ever terrible. I think there's merit in piling up all as much terrible stuff into one event in the year though, much as Christmas is the one time of year you can have the most gauche house decorations imaginable. Sometimes you just gotta let the demons out.

The Coronation

Talking about things like "winning E3" is ridiculous. Now that we've all agreed to pretend to be reasonable, Nintendo won E3 by talking about games that might come out this year instead of concentrating on ones that probably won't make next year. That Breath of the Wild 2 bit hurt that a little, but what else can a publisher do in the face of Genshin Impact supremacy?

The Thirst for Publicity

Do you really need to set up a big video presentation just to tell people you're translating the lawyer game you didn't translate before? They could have translated it in the first place and saved themselves the trouble.

I Fell in the River and Now I'm in the World Where All the Good Games Went?!?!

If you've never been to the world where all the good games went, you're missing out. It's not all mouses and keyboards there, though.
"So let me get this straight. Only I can defeat the Dark Lord Eethree for some reason, and he's doing something or other that's bad. Sounds plausible."
"I'm glad you think so! I'd sure hate if you became suspicious."
Nothing could be more suspicious than my self-declared guide, a snake with a bowtie and comically large glasses. I mean, a snake? Why not a scorpion or a three-toed backstabber?
"Lead the way, snake buddy. You go first. I'll follow at a distance that shows my regard for your privacy."
"Wow, you're the most polite hero we've been sent so far! I hope you do better than the others!"
"What was that?"
"I said, I hope you like competent RTS games, space sims, RPGs (narrative-based, open world, real time, turn-based, dungeon crawler, and more), puzzle games, first-person shooters, third-person shooters, strategy games, hardboiled detective mysteries both with and without FMV, pirate simulators, 2D platformers with lots of secrets, action games with non-numeric powerups, god games, rhythm games, wrestling games that work, fighting games with singleplayer content, and much more!"
"I do like those things."
"Then off we go!" The snake wriggled into the strange world I'd washed up in, and I followed.
Finis

The Bright Side

Now that games are dead, we'll all have much more time to spend reading blogs, commenting on blogs, and throwing money at writers of blogs. It's like horse armor, but you don't get armor and there's no horse. Possibly a horse face though.

Just to be Clear

Tales of Arise looks terrible, doesn't it? It isn't just me, right? Both visually and in the indications of plot and characters and whatnot. Completely ugly and joyless with no real style.

My Deepest Apologies

January 2022, not Holiday 2022. So far. Who releases games in January?

E3 Fever

I'm burning up! With E3 fever! Vision growing dim! Leaks everywhere! I don't know if I'll make it long enough to check out some gameplay-free trailers for games set to come out Holiday 2022, half of which will never make it to release! Tell my wife I married her for social status!