{"id":2021,"date":"2015-06-19T01:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2015-06-19T01:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T01:43:59","slug":"e3-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/06\/e3-15\/","title":{"rendered":"E3 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"E3<\/a> <\/p>\n

Just some thoughts:<\/p>\n

– Offering backward compatibility is a great \u201cwe respect you\u201d sign. We change hardware rapidly but we play our games forever. MS obviously has some idea about how backward compatibility makes you stick somewhere.<\/p>\n

– Same games over and over and that\u2019s fine<\/em>. Even outside AAA game development, developers make things they know how to make, they\u2019ll just make it slightly different. Once again yes, games are hard to make so let\u2019s make what we know we can do well! The polish level is high and all over the place. Tons of games look solid. This is good. <\/p>\n

– All About Fans. It\u2019s been a couple years like that and I\u2019m not sure how to feel about it. Fans scare me a bit. Their devotion creeps me out a bit. Talking about communities around Hitman or Tom Clancy\u2019s stuff freaks me out a bit. Who are you to obsess so hard over a fictional assassin game that you are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for or spend hundreds of hours on? Doesn\u2019t seem healthy. But yeah, they\u2019re needed (ask Prince about fans sustaining his ass for decades).<\/p>\n

– All games land on Windows and all \u201cPersonal Computers\u201d at some point. So much that there\u2019s a conference about it. Going back to that backward compatibility, I think it\u2019s huge: I can play any game I have ever played on my current laptop<\/strong>, that\u2019s just awesome. People are starting to notice that. You can play\/emulate\/use probably 90% of any app ever made on any platform, on Windows. The back catalog is infinite and as nostalgia grows while we age, having one platform to do it all is fantastic.<\/p>\n

– EA went from being considered the worst US company to being the one listening and paying attention, in a couple years. Bravo.<\/p>\n

– European and Japanese game developers once again demonstrate a stronger aesthetic game than their US friends. Always the same reason: a wider variety of culture available growing up. It\u2019s changing though: US millennials grew up with a wider culture, incorporating international influences. <\/p>\n

TL;DR: same old stuff but some signs that things are getting more interesting. And more stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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