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OK, this looks like a lot of fun. Very interested.

They're not gonna mute the audience during trailers, are they?

Righto, so who's staying up for the Square conference? Apart from Nintendo and Devolver, this is the one I'm looking forward to.

It beats the many times I've seen a person walk on to the stage and attempt a joke only for it to fall flat. Devolver puts some proper effort in their presentations to stand out and entertain the viewers. Humour is subjective, I get that. But compare Ubisoft's to Devolver's and the difference is night and day. Devolver could come to a conference with absolutely nothing and they'd probably have me laughing in the aisles because they'd twist it into something funny. They've seen an opportunity to use E3 to do something unique and it's landed really well. And they commit to their gags, those fake credits were full of great little nonsense names ("Who puppeteers the puppeteers? - WHOAAAAAAA!"). And when those credits said "Download the soundtrack at...", I broke a huge smile when I found the tweet advertising the conferences soundtrack. Seriously, who does that!? Devolver Bootleg was very inspired too, and the icing on the gag cake was finding the introductory offer of a 1% discount for that. It's so stupid, it's endearing. Their conferences work for me because they take many of the negative aspects of gaming and E3 conferences and exaggerates it to a colossal degree. And they're not shy of taking digs at Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. It's funny because it's kinda true.

I mean, if you don't find them announcing a game for the arcade format even a little funny, then I don't know what to say.

Yep, I just heard. I was wondering what @Happenstance was going on about during the Ubisoft conference. I had a seriously ominous feeling over the past few months that Epic would be throwing an obscene amount of money at Shenmue to get that PC exclusivity. Sorry for those PC backers expecting a Steam key.

That camera angle approach to the main character was sooooo Breath of the Wild, it was painful. For me that was an average Tom Clancy... Sorry, Ubisoft conference. Nothing grabs my attention.

Yeah, strange. Probably quite early in development, I'd guess.

When I said I was hoping for a Child of Light moment, I didn't mean a 1 second clip of actual Child of Light!

I wonder if that means we won't see any Ubisoft games on Game Pass?

How many Tom Clancy games have we seen from Ubisoft today!? Bloody hell!

And Wii lives on for another year. WiiU? What's that?

And here comes our obligatory dance party EDIT: Yep, obligatory dance party!

Who let the dog on the stage!? Probably couldn't afford a car.

OK guys, place your bets! How many non-gaming celebrities will show up? My money's on 3.

This sounds waaaayyyy too ambitious. What's the catch?

Ubisoft love their long demonstrations. I am wondering if this large amount of characters that can be Fire Emblem'd can really have that much dialogue. I'm not quite buying that.

I like their futuristic double decker designs. Everyone jump on the "Set your game in the UK" bandwagon. Pokémon brought cupcakes!

Oh, I would be incredibly disappointed if there wasn't. We can't have the Wii going a whole year without getting a new game. This orchestra is funny timing considering the Final Fantasy Concert shambles that happened recently.

About to tune into Ubisoft's conference in the hope that they pull a Child of Light and have something that interests me. This orchestra makes a change from the usual dance parties.

I think he saw the Bethesda E3 conference. Haven't watched it yet, but will edit my thoughts in when I do.

Yes, I mentioned this during the N64 nominations. A game can be nominated if it's the first time it appeared on a Nintendo console, even if it first appeared on a non-Nintendo console. So, for example, Resident Evil 2 could have been nominated for the N64, but it cannot be nominated for these Gamecube ones.

Well, you see. When I was watching Bethesda's conference, I noticed something interesting about YEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHH! and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So yeah, that was something.

With how prevalent social media is in this day and age, it's very difficult to avoid stuff like this. People like me enjoy the element of surprise when watching E3 and yes, that makes me nerdy and that's fine. But I get the same kind of enjoyment from reveals like this that some might get from watching a TV series.