suzzopher » Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:59 pm wrote:Qikz » Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:56 pm wrote:Dan. » Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:47 pm wrote:What exactly did Treehouse offer that's not been done before? It looked to me like it was just a live stream of the developers playing their games, is that a new thing? I very rarely follow E3, I just look at the threads after and read website / magazine articles.
Actual gameplay.
Everyone shows off actual gameplay on the show floor. What Nintendo did differently was to cut out the gaming media doing streams/videos of games being played (which often meant having to wait for video to be edited etc) and did it themselves. This is how every company should do it from now on though, the Treehouse stuff was brilliant.
The big difference between showing off games on the floor and showing actual gameplay is not only the treehouse stuff not very time restricted, I mean some games went on in like 45 minute segments, but it's also all direct feed.
If you look at GTs stuff for example after the conferences was over, it's mainly them just talking over and about a CG trailer they showed off. When you eventually do see them play a game it's often off screen with the sound completely impossible to hear due to all the outside noise and most of the time they don't even seem to find any joy in gaming anymore. They're oftentimes both overly optimistic and pessimistic about the completely wrong things and I find it impossible to find any enjoyment from watching them.
The thing about the Treehouse people they had on was they weren't media trained (Nate especially being hilarious) and you could tell when they were playing that they genuinly wanted to explore and show as much as possible off while still having a complete ball playing. Those are the people I prefer watching, because watching them enjoy things as much as they did makes me a hell of a lot more excited.
Yes I guess you can say that's just clever advertising and ok it probably is, but I honestly felt somewhat of a connection with the people showing stuff off on the Treehouse stream in terms of enjoyment. I could see first hand that they were enjoying the experience just not, if not more than me. They had fun and money seemed to be secondary compared to the majority of games critics.