skip said:
it was only noticeable to me during the opening MJ craziness. everything else was either genuinely well-received (child of eden, brotherhood, rabbids) or bombed HARD (breathing coach, imagine: lazerz, etc). felt bad for joel having to try to save those segments with a weak prompter script.
Yeah, I'd pretty much agree from my outside perspective, Eden and Rayman came out pretty well-received on the stream. Joel was trying harder as it was clearly getting worse content-wise, went for a lot more during games quips than he did last year.
But on the stream, I was on at least, there were some odd semi-standing ovation sounding cheers (from segments of the audience but clearly not the bulk of it) for Shaun White and Ghost Recon trailers and post-gameplay but crowd shots didn't seem to show anyone excited. (I admittedly bailed to get a drink and stuff halfway through the breathing montage.) It was Joel's pushing hard of Ghost Recon when the "crowd cheers" were like five seconds long that made it seem weird and the Jackson thing just made it seem like all of the crowd reaction was faked since it seemed like nobody even knew what was going on as I heard cheers but saw nothing but boredom.
I defer to you and anyone else there of course, and anyone else who watched the Ubisoft conference for reasons other than lulz, in what "really happened." Especially after the EA conference stream where I saw more of the PS3 controller than I did Medal of Honor.
Don't think I've seen anything bomb in the last few years like Imagine: Battle Tagz though. It was like three straight minutes (on the stream I watched) of crowd shots of people checking their phones. Mid-season Laker games show more interested people in the crowd.