"E3 2012: my thoughts on tihs"
I think you guys touched on why I find E3 kind of uninteresting -- basically, there's two kinds of announcements. There's "here's a game you already knew about 6 months ago. It's almost done. Here's some more screens and videos from it." Or there's "here's a game that's going to come out sometime after next year's E3. It probably will go through lots of changes between now and then, or it may even get canceled, so this video kind of doesn't matter."
Of course WiiU was showcased, but I'm not really interested in it. I've got two Wii's in my house, and they're both used for Netflix far more than for games. (Well actually my wife uses them for games a lot. But I don't very often.) And generally speaking, I'm not much of an early adopter of hardware. I tend to want a console after its had a price drop or two, and once it has a year or more to build a library that I can start digging through via second-hand markets.
Some of the indie games excite me (Retro City Rampage for one -- and Dave, was it Jake Kaufman that did the music? That guy is great. But I can't remember if he's the one that scored it or not) but of course that's one I've known about for some time. I'm no more excited about it after E3.
That said, you guys kept the conversation interesting for the full show. So kudos there. And the fact that you secured an interview with Ron Gilbert seems to make the whole trip worthwhile as far as the Racketcast is concerned. I'll be sure to fill the podcast mailbag up between now and then.
Question: was the mic setup any different than normal? I felt like Dave kept sort of getting really quiet this time. Like maybe he wasn't facing the mic directly or something? I had a bit of trouble hearing him as opposed to John.
And also, you guys should move the mics away from the clickety-clack of your mouse-hands internet browsing during recording.
