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E3 2016s "Cringe" Moments

FFXV demo during Xbox conference. Worst on stage demo presentation I've seen. It was minutes of failing to do a QTE sequence with a giant titan moving his arm slowly across the floor.
 
The EA BF1 Celeb interviews, they were bad in the most beautiful way possible.

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The Sea of Thieves commentary was pretty cringe-worthy.

As was the Ghost Recon: Wildlands commentary.

The multiplayer chatter over that Sea of Thieves trailer was pure cringe.

The Ghost Recon demo. My God.

This. The fake chatter is horrible.

Oh man, that fake role-playing crap they did this year was pretty bad, like they hired bad actors to narrate while testers played the games. God that was lame.
 
The FF XV demo at Microsoft. It was another example of the great marketing of SE
It's even worst if you compare with the incredible videos and gameplay that they show in the days after that.

The Minecraft section was terrible too. Ok, the game is a huge sucess, but do you need to spend 15 minutes showing a new update?

And also Mourinho at EA conference.


The South Park part of the Ubi conference was the most funny thing of this E3
 
The minecraft & sea thieves part in Ms conference was fucking unbearable. It is mindboggling they still think this kind of presentation is attractive.

Sony's actual show was an impeccable example of maturity and respect for gamers and what they should expect from a company this big.
 
"He's a special guy"

No kidding.

His job was to interview a bunch of celebs who were paid to attend and high as fuck. He was a bit awkward, but you would need a master to not make that job a disaster.

He made it memorable, I certainly don't recall anything else about EA.
 
The fake chatter with the pirate game and ghost recon hurt my soul. Oh, everything ubisoft except South Park.
I should have known with how the show began.
 
Minecraft presentation
Sea of Thieves presentation
PC Gaming Show opening with some weird Steam cart speedrun challenge?
Ubisoft's opening
Making fun of Kanye West making a game about his dead mother & making a gay fish joke at the seriously wrong time & opportunity to do so
Nintendo spending one entire hour on pretty uninteresting Pokémon info

If this counts: EA basically showing no actual gameplay throughout the whole conference
 
"I think we are winning" on EA conference.
You are not winning shit!

FFXV Microsoft demo and FFXV VR Sony demo, both are horrible. I have to look away from the screen.

Minecraft on Microsoft conference, simply unwatchable.

Oh right and the Ghost Recon chatter, we totally talk like that in videogames!
 
The Sony pre-show technical issues.

Everyone would stare at the camera for a little bit too long, waiting for trailers to pop up. I kept having to look away because it was so cringeworthy.
 
Saw nothing cringe worthy but I recall looking at twitch chat and seeing countless 'cringe' comments during literally everything. I'm assuming mostly kids but it was amusing
 
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