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The big E3 discussion thread

Retr0gamer

Might as well start this now as new releases are already leaking.

So far release I've heard about that are getting me excited are a western release of Gust''s Blue Reflection and Vanillawares gorgeous looking 13 sentinels: Aegis Rim.

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Batesy

It was pretty underwhelming alright. Anything decent looks set for 2018. What about this year!?! They usually have a few big releases for the Holiday season or have I missed something?

Grahamer666

Call Of Duty and FIFA, etc. The usual crapola.

ShadowHearth

MONSTER HUNTER FOR PS4 AND XBOX ONE!!!!!!!!

I was already toying about getting switch, because thats where all MH games live. Now though.... The only thing that would force in to buying it is Fire Emblem.

qrx

Detroit looks good. Needs a very strong story though, but definitely potential. Spider-man looks class.

Haven't played a COD game in donkey's years. WW2 could be worth a buy.

I originally thought Monster Hunter looks interesting but original game on PS2 was a 7/10 game.

PSVR - not convinced at all.

Retr0gamer

Monster Hunter has improvimproved massively since the first game. Also it's much better in multiplayer.

Doge

I think the PSVR gota decent amount of content, im glad theyre not dropping it.

Sephiroth_dude

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You say that like it's actually going to get released

You take that back!

:pac:

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

I think the PSVR gota decent amount of content, im glad theyre not dropping it.

It will probably still keep picking up VR games from the PC but it's telling Sony only have one internal studio producing for it. They'll drop support for it soon with third parties keeping it on life support. Kind of like the vita.

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It will probably still keep picking up VR games from the PC but it's telling Sony only have one internal studio producing for it. They'll drop support for it soon with third parties keeping it on life support. Kind of like the vita.

Yeah yeah, you said they'd drop it at e3 and its still going strong! :P

CiDeRmAn

That Sony E3 was a mix of predictable franchise updates, multiformat releases and VR/HD remasters.
And this is what is supposed to sell PS4 Pro and ongoing PS+ subs?
After this and Microsofts effort, it's all up to Nintendo now, roll on 17:00!

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

Yeah yeah, you said they'd drop it at e3 and its still going strong! :P

Well you might think so. Eurogamer put up an article where they compared it to the vita as well.

[Deleted User]

Spidey looked good, minus the QTE parts, I hate them bits in games...

SeantheMan

No gameplay...but Beyond Good and Evil 2 looked great.

I felt nothin for Biowares latest game.

Also...no information on Death Stranding or any From Software stuff

irishman86

People get very excited for remasters and playing games from 15 years ago, for the life of me I will never understand that

Gunmonkey

Best word I could use to describe the Sony conference is....safe. Nothing massively exciting or "out-there".

-Days Gone looks like the most by-the-numbers game ever. Just mash together Assassins Creed and Last Of Us.....and I think it has actually gotten the most screen time at the last two Sony E3's than any other game there. They must really want to push it hard.
-Detroit looks interesting, but I wonder can Cage pull the disparate threads together to form a cohesive game at the end? Does the game + story massively diverge from either "running when the cops were called" & "full on riot" into becoming almost 2 different games, or does the next scene just have a different news report play out in the background?
-For all that's shown of God of War, still don't know how it plays...yes I know you hit stuff and kill gods, but is it another linear game? Does the elements from the previous trailer (gaining xp and "discovering" locations similar to an open world game) hint at a Zelda/Darksiders style overworld exploration and advancement system?
-Was kinda tempted to grab Horizon at some stage, but looks like its waiting for the GoTY version now

-Skyrim VR...oh joy, its that game again. Weren't Nintendo heavily criticized for getting the 6 year old Skyrim on Switch, as opposed to all the amazing modern games on other systems? Just saying.
-SoTC remaster/remake/HD/whatever, massively out of left field, lets hope they just update and don't try to "fix" the game.
-Spiderman....I didn't feel much for it, they just removed the "Bat" from Batman and put in "Spider". I kinda get it fits Spiderman but was hoping for something a bit more dynamic and unique. And he didn't quip once in any of the fights...that's not Spiderman, he is the second most mouthy Marvel character after Deadpool....he even webs up a guys hands and then forces him to punch himself unconscious and doesn't say something like "stop hitting yourself"

Venom

SeantheMan wrote: »

No gameplay...but Beyond Good and Evil 2 looked great.

I felt nothin for Biowares latest game.

Also...no information on Death Stranding or any From Software stuff

I wouldn't be surprised if Death Standing is still in the early concept stage.

Penn

SeantheMan wrote: »

No gameplay...but Beyond Good and Evil 2 looked great.

I felt nothin for Biowares latest game.

Also...no information on Death Stranding or any From Software stuff

Kojima had announced in advance that there'd be no Death Stranding at E3 this year. He's already shown stuff last E3 and at PSX (I think). Still too early to show any more considering it's likely to be at least a 2019 game.

Penn

Gunmonkey wrote: »

-For all that's shown of God of War, still don't know how it plays...yes I know you hit stuff and kill gods, but is it another linear game? Does the elements from the previous trailer (gaining xp and "discovering" locations similar to an open world game) hint at a Zelda/Darksiders style overworld exploration and advancement system?

It's not a linear game. I think the elements from last year's trailer are still there (XP, open world, exploring etc) but this trailer was more focused on expanding the story than showing gameplay.

Gunmonkey wrote: »

-Spiderman....I didn't feel much for it, they just removed the "Bat" from Batman and put in "Spider". I kinda get it fits Spiderman but was hoping for something a bit more dynamic and unique. And he didn't quip once in any of the fights...that's not Spiderman, he is the second most mouthy Marvel character after Deadpool....he even webs up a guys hands and then forces him to punch himself unconscious and doesn't say something like "stop hitting yourself"

I do remember hearing one or two quips last night, but given the hour, f*ck if I can remember them now. Most interesting and exciting thing for me from the trailer was Miles Morales at the end. Definitely want to see more of what that might lead to.

Robert ninja

irishman86 wrote: »

People get very excited for remasters and playing games from 15 years ago, for the life of me I will never understand that

Playing old games I can definitely understand. Mainly because I find older games to be better than most modern games. However I don't get the sudden excitement for remasters when a lot of them are just paying for the same game to play on the console that didn't support backwards compatibility. They hardly look or play better nor do they reduce loading screens or anything significant. I buy games all the time on GOG that are ancient and have tons of fun with them. For full 3D games they can still look half decent and sometimes there's open source engine ports or other mods to get them to run with modern setups for things like the resolution of your screen or perhaps modified control systems.

ShadowHearth

Okay, Spider-Man looked great. Never liked him as super Hero, but it looked damn cool.

Gunmonkey

Penn wrote: »

more focused on expanding the story than showing gameplay

TBH that sounds like the tag-line for the whole Sony conference.

Or if you are very cynical, the general shift in most of their games

Penn

Gunmonkey wrote: »

TBH that sounds like the tag-line for the whole Sony conference.

Or if you are very cynical, the general shift in most of their games

It's offering something in unique in their exclusives; single-player games with strong stories. Days Gone, Horizon, God of War, Spider-Man. Uncharted and TLOU have multiplayer modes but they're always secondary to the single-player.

Loads of multi-platform games offer multiplayer games with solid single player campaigns. For their exclusives, Sony are focusing on the reverse. Suits me to a T, as I much prefer single player games with good stories.

I was especially delighted with the Days Gone footage they showed last night, as they did exactly what I wanted them to do; they showed gameplay that wasn't reliant on shooting into a mass horde of zombies like the last one did. Now we got shown human enemies, using groups of zombies against human enemies through stealth, and a zombear which is something I never knew I wanted to see until I saw it.

Varik

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well you might think so. Eurogamer put up an article where they compared it to the vita as well.

That'd be the one line where they based that opinion on the fact that the PS VR content was grouped together in the conference.

biggebruv

Batesy wrote: »

It was pretty underwhelming alright. Anything decent looks set for 2018. What about this year!?! They usually have a few big releases for the Holiday season or have I missed something?

holiday season is mostly for the 3rd party's I think sony sees it that way now
fifa
cod
battlefield
ass creed
evil within
etc etc

what big ip games has sony released during the holiday season?

at least sony has alot of exclusives on the horizon Microsoft hadn't got much

Xenji

super_furry wrote: »

Just Crash Bandicoot and Gran Turismo, nothing exciting.

Matterfall, Hidden Agenda and Everybody's Golf were also shown on the pre show.

And Knack 2, easy to forget about.

ERG89

heebusjeebus wrote:

Read on twitter that there was more games shown at the Sony pre-show. Any details on that?

Superhot VR , Undertale for PS4 & Vita &
Hidden Agenda look good to me.

[Deleted User]

Found this article on Polygon interesting:

Sony's E3 event was really unusual

Anyway, glad I didn't stay up for it. Found it a little limp, borderline boring. Actually, a better word might be "lazy".

Doge

irishman86

Robert ninja wrote: »

Playing old games I can definitely understand. Mainly because I find older games to be better than most modern games. However I don't get the sudden excitement for remasters when a lot of them are just paying for the same game to play on the console that didn't support backwards compatibility. They hardly look or play better nor do they reduce loading screens or anything significant. I buy games all the time on GOG that are ancient and have tons of fun with them. For full 3D games they can still look half decent and sometimes there's open source engine ports or other mods to get them to run with modern setups for things like the resolution of your screen or perhaps modified control systems.

Really? I find once Ive played a game, I have no feeling to go back and relive a story again. Its similar to trophies for harder levels in games, I find them pointless.
Give me a new story any day of the week

Robert ninja

irishman86 wrote: »

Really? I find once Ive played a game, I have no feeling to go back and relive a story again. Its similar to trophies for harder levels in games, I find them pointless.
Give me a new story any day of the week

For me it's not about going back to play the same games (although I do that a lot but usually for gameplay). There's lots of older games I haven't ever played. I jump around from playing the original doom (with mods), to some early 2000 games, to modern titles. It makes no difference what time the game was released released but I find generally higher quality, attention to detail and niche appeal for older titles.

Point is there's absolutely tons of older games I can check out and have a safer bet that they'll be good. Where as modern games a lot of flash but are generally shallow... which is why I buy so very few of them. I think Tekken 7 & Witcher 3 are the only full-priced modern titles I bought in the last 5 years.