Kay, so I don’t know if you’ve been following E3 at all this year, but it’s really making me sick of the internet. I’ve only really been keeping up with Nintendo World Report ‘s coverage of the Nintendo side of things, and if this wasn’t something I’m so deeply invested into, I probably would have buggered off right after their press conference on Tuesday.
Here’s the issue: I was happy looking at new media for games and a new console that I will be enjoying later this year. Nearly everyone who posted comments on the site was there to whine about how the presentations weren’t good enough or about how much the games shown are going to suck. What? I thought this was a Nintendo fansite? Also, you haven’t played these games yet!
Most comments are pretty similar to this: “Nintendo did a crappy show because they didn’t tell me about every single game that’s in development. Give me more. I am entitled to more. Everything you showed sucks because I already knew about it. Nintendo Land sucks and New Super Mario Bros sucks and I don’t care about Pikmin 3. Show me what Retro is doing!”
It’s a little exhausting. I guess this is more or less the status quo for the internet though, and I just never paid that much attention before now. I suppose that maybe I was on this ridiculous bandwagon back in the day in some capacity, but mostly I just remeber being happy to digest all the new previews and videos provided to me, and not just bitch about how there should be more.
It’s kind of the same thing that happened with Xenoblade Chronicles. You had this game that wasn’t going to be released in North America, and gamers desperately worked to get it brought over. Operation Rainfall was ultimatley two-thirds successful (Xenoblade and The Last Story are go, Pandora’s Tower is still absent). This was a movement of gamers who unrelentingly demanded these games for themselves. Then when Xenoblade was released, half of them turned around and bitched about how the graphics aren’t good enough instead of savouring the hard-fought victory and enjoying the best game available on the Wii.
MegaMan Legends 3 had kind of the opposite story, but the same outcome. The game was announced, and the developers were kind enough to actually set up a website where fans could submit their thoughts on character designs and other aspects of the game. Then Capcom decided to can it because they didn’t think it’d be profitable enough. I was heartbroken of course, but the other nerds flew into an absolute rage, demanding that Capcom continue development because they deserved the game. Why? What did you do to deserve it? What makes you think you’re so special?
I’ll talk more about my personal opinion on Nintendo’s E3 showing in another post, but for now I just want to distance myself from these other gamers who feel they deserve so much more than the game makers are giving them. Yes, E3 could have been more exciting, but stop whining about it. You’re lucky these people are putting so much money and effort into trying to entertain you in the first place. If you don’t like it, go do a better job yourself. It seems like all anyone can do anymore is complain.