Are E3 Press Conferences DEAD?!

[@LiquidSteve89]

Tim Rogers is a national treasure

[@miembrosgibran]

我的鸡巴是国宝

[@ShredST]

@@miembrosgibran nice google translating.

[@JediMB]

INTERnational treasure.

[@andrewhickinbottom1051]

Verbose observations, rambling personal anecdotes, witty writing - this is some top Tim. I love you, man! Looking forward to all your Electronic Three coverage!

[@pdthorn]

Tim Rogers has created the Video Game parallel to LCD Soundsystem’s Losing My Edge.

[@ar_xiv]

thought of that lol

[@sinisterelephant8658]

"What will 2020 bring?" Oh Tim, there was no way of knowing just what 2020 would bring.

[@jordanresin9226]

Well now I've gotta know Tim's entire ordered list of the top fifty best video games ever made. More relevantly (and perhaps redundantly) I agree that the shift to video games playing a larger role in their own promotion may be a sign of the maturation of the medium. Games are slowly emerging from behind their overprotective parents' pant legs and learning to speak for themselves, and we're listening. As an aside, I'd encourage those of you who haven't read Tim's 2002 article "life, non-warp" to give it a go. I'm not sure what Tim thinks of it now, but, for what it's worth, it's one of my favorite video game-related essays (written or otherwise).

[@countryboyred]

The only reason I’m subscribed to this channel is Tim Rogers.

[@klarkolofsson]

And now the morons lost him =)

[@shashix6551]

Time to unsubscribe

[@Archivist42]

I swear Tim has gotta be the most underrated mega legend on KZbin -

[@yakulto1977]

This is elite tier Tim Rogers.

[@joycestick]

Posting to commemorate E3's real actual death. RIP E3 1995-2019(21)(23)

[@proximacentaur1654]

03:05 "ill-fitting suit wearing boat owners speaking halting sentence fragment salads intoned as waterfalls of grandiose promises."

[@ask5118]

Even a stream of consciousness from Tim is so profound and funny

[@jamesgiles8467]

Happy birthday to all of us really. Thanks for the video!

[@RyanLofasoHurst]

This is now one of my favorite covers of that one LCD Soundsysyem song

[@Nevare_]

"I'm 23 years old. With any luck, I'm about a third as old as I'll ever be." Nice

[@Azmodaeus49]

Bruh, your friggin young, i'm 25 years old, that's half of 50 lol, time isn't on my side

[@TheZaius]

*does the math* Nice. 😏

[@dominicg554]

LCD Soundsytem's losing my edge would be perfect background music starting around 5:55. ("I was there...") nice video

[@Gazs93]

That's the joke

[@xandergarretson9795]

i was the first guy playing skies of arcadia i played it on the dreamcast everybody thought i was crazy we all know now

[@NordicWildSoul]

Tim Rogers intellectual prowess and high brow literature is wasted on the medium of videogames.

[@IBODEGAI]

Astral Luminosity I disagree. It’s even more impactful because Tim waxes poetic of that which he (we) loves so dearly.

[@HundreOblique]

"Let me see DAT TAT"!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jockel9502]

I am so looking forward to your extended Electronic Three coverage. That's like the third most important thing to look forward to, after Nintendo Direct and Devolver Digital.

[@sinisterelephant8658]

Happy Birthday Tim Rogers! The only thing missing was finding a way to say, "eldritch horrible."

[@PizzaDinosaur]

That cold open is a little standalone bit of video art.

[@TheCodingGamer]

Well this aged oddly well

[@ToasterBrain51702]

even moreso now

[@MrCarzo]

E3 is dying, and it's been one of the best parts of my year since I was a kid. I made it my life goal to go to one and I finally made it in 2017. It was better than I imagined and I'm glad I got to see it. Long Live E3.

[@willuigi64]

I had always had a goal to attend E3. Living in Canada I decided that I would attend with a friend during one of my adult year. I had only become an adult during the pandemic, and now modern E3 has changed yet again. Before it’s absence, it had been a shell of it’s former self, yet still was verifiably an E3 with it’s accompanying E3 season. Now it seems it’s entirely dead. The E3 season may remain, but the production and access doesn’t feel right. I think it’s just the title and prestige of being a gamer and finally attending your first E3. Seems that is no longer possible. What a shame.

[@Kasamakoukou]

Tim is one of my favorite content creators today, and I can't tell if it's because he's my Internet crush, or my future doppelganger from a parallel dimension. Whose life has been a cautionary tale, to better warn the other? Never before have I related so much with someone's grim severity as they lay out their vivid assessment of a past event which has both haunted and heartened them to the present day.

[@Zaswarley]

but I'm losing my edge... the kids... are coming up from behind

[@pdthorn]

Zaswarley but have you seen his cartridges?

[@tr1p1ea]

It should be HARDWARE manufacturers as the main features only. If publisher press events have destroyed E3

[@americanalpha7606]

E3 isn't dead yet! But, if it keeps going the way it is now. Yep!

[@xansaibot3134]

i feel like Tim telling us some kind of narrative which he created with passion soul of his....

[@FransLebin]

tim thank you for doing the VO again.

[@bryanwilliams1288]

You are truly the best, sir. Thank you.

[@IBODEGAI]

“ill fitting suit wearing boat owners speaking halting sentence fragment salads intoned at us waterfalls of grandiose promises whose hype ignition efficacy their equally awkward underling committees, had no doubt guaranteed.” I cannot write like that. I cannot speak like that. This is why we listen to Tim Rogers.

[@davitron86]

"ill fitting suit wearing boat owners" i lost it right there. this is very funny

[@samd.1891]

My favorite Tim Rogers video of 2019 to date. Hope you have a lovely birthday.

[@zhuyaj]

Yet you forget to mention the best e3 presentation of all time was that of Konami in 2010 with Mr. Tak Fuji

[@erikmontoya7079]

I like "Directs" but they can't all quit E3 it's a fucking tradition to show off all the games coming to your consoles.

[@ShapeyFiend]

Tim Rogers has been teasing to write about Landstalker for the past 15 years. At least.

[@angelrubiov]

Can anyone tell what’s the piano song at the end called? (Not the one at the last second, the piano one before that)

[@Lunarvandross]

btw, I realy think the song at the end is the Shinra Corp theme.........

[@ORIGINALGAMINGGUY]

Im wondering the same thing

[@angelrubiov]

@@Lunarvandross Way off :(

[@deannickname]

this is Tim Rogers's LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge

[@ouch11]

Please go to XBOX, Tim. Forgive past transgressions and embrace Xbox anew as if greeting a long lost friend/lover. I - we must know the secrets of the XBOX, Tim. Who else to disseminate this information but, you, the Tyrant King of Buddies?

[@Zaswarley]

you're getting big lmao

[@rob40480]

Happy Birthday Tim!

[@goldenmindcavity]

Will you guys be doing any live E3 coverage and will Tim be involved in any way, would love to see/hear his live reactions to the reveals and news

[@Antispor]

Tim at Kotaku and Ryan at IGN are the best.

[@Wesley_C]

Ken Kutaragi is a treasure.

[@rasyadiskandar759]

tim is like a video game john malkovich

[@bruta]

this is gold

[@fenrir.leonhart]

Give this man a Pulitzer.

[@drachmalius6126]

I am ready to attend the church of video gameing

[@twodumbcats390]

The video game industry as a whole doesn't deserve Tim Rogers.

[@argublio]

this is perfect

[@mileshawthorne991]

This was weird to watch. Every ten seconds I had the urge to click off the vid and never remember it again, yet for some reason I was so intrigued by the tone of the video. I could never quite grasp what he was going to say next, which is probably why I was so interested.

[@RGSTR]

I'm not sure about the amount of self-indulgence, but I very much appreciate your perspective on those E3 marketing theatres :) Cool style. Cheers!

[@JuniorSkeptic]

Thank you Tim

[@Chriscras2]

RIP E3 😭

[@Dwesk]

Are you saying most E3 related content here will be hosted by Tim Rogers?

[@danielsolorzano8623]

I only subscribe to Kotaku to watch Tim Rogers

[@jgloukas]

Are E3 Press Conferences LiveServices?

[@Penguinjohn4796]

Is it dead-answer:it’s up to the opinion of the person like in my opinion not really if done right

[@avivfrai4858]

what's the music at 6:47?

[@happytrailerreactor1723]

I hop not. It is incredibly fun

[@luizwantsaguitar]

Good. Let them show the games.

[@FredReckling]

Electronic 3 is dead. Long live Electronic 3!

[@marceloz7894]

Laureate poet of useless though essential videogame banter

[@TheZaius]

Scary ending. They all DIED.

[@biconditionals]

We need that Tomb Raider "not everything is about YOU" reminder clip for Tim again.

[@Direlle07]

Is kotaku dying?

[@bradystardust7708]

tim rogers

[@James120756]

You people are killing KZbin with all the ads, Kotaku are the worst.

[@RT55J]

hi tim

[@Jousoful]

This video is what true art looks like

[@khalidnaqeeb]

😢😢😢😢

[@PikaLink91]

Holy crap this narration is ominous as fuck, I'm outta here :P

[@Ferpsf]

Is this a robot text to speech audio? :/ :(

[@romaliwhispers]

Is this a parody?

[@theduwumslayer2984]

So, how much money is Sony paying you?

[@ShredST]

Probably none, seeing as he doesn't work there anymore.

[@LaundryLunatic]

E3 is not dead as long as people keep showing up year after year. They need to stop making cheesy gimmicks.

[@SKNGame]

no they are not or they should not be sony was foolish to not have one 2019

[@Ty-ub4nc]

No. Your entire audience is.

[@nunomagalhaes38]

Ya for sure

[@nunomagalhaes38]

Never been so alive, this does not even look like a video of you....very childish