E3 - 2019 - 9th to 11th June

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Kotaku confirmed a Watch Dogs 3 leak that will be shown at E3. "Called Watch Dogs Legion, set in London, you can recruit any NPC in the world and then control that NPC with everyone having a voice over, animation set and ability. It's supposed to be so ambitious, it has led to dev headaches and a further delay has been reported. More to come at E3."

Sounds ambitious alright, will be interesting to see this running.

Here’s the official summary of what Watch Dogs Legion is said to entail (Taken from amazon posting so not confirmed ) :

“Watch_Dogs Legion is set in a near-future, dystopian version of London. It’s a post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London’s fortunes. London is one of the most iconic cities in the world and has had a massive influence on all of Western Culture for centuries… London makes total sense for WD, as the city has one of the highest surveillce levels in the world making this the perfect playground.”

Lets not forget the end theme for Metal gear solid.. :pac:



A song i still listen to regularly to this day, whopper!

J. Marston wrote: »

Dark Souls 2 had a couple of Irish voices. Laddersmith Gilligan had a heavy "wesht" accent and Ruth Negga played the Emerald Herald.

And Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne has a definite Irish twang and sayings ("beasts all over the shop").

ZiabR wrote: »

They need more though. They need to have more software, more exclusives etc. People arnt going to buy the next Xbox if there is nothing decent on it. They will end up fighting the losing battle they have been doing for the past few years with Sony's exclusives.

Come on King Phil, we need something mind blowing.

All those studios they bought over the last two years "should" be releasing games by 2020/2021 so very early in the console life cycle.

Hopefully we'll see a little of what they are working on shortly.

ZiabR wrote: »

. People wont just buy a console without good exclusives.

Of course they will. If it has FIFA, Minecraft, Fortnite and COD then there's millions of people who will buy the console.

ZiabR wrote: »

You have essentially confirmed what I was talking about. People wont just buy a console without good exclusives. Microsoft need more than brute power for the next gen.

I think as Retro says, exclusives aren't going to matter hugely to most gamers, as most games are multiplatform, so they'll get the consoles they just personally like or that their friends are playing. But exclusives are vital for selling second consoles, especially later in the console's life. Hence why PS4 is still selling well and is likely to hit 100m soon. Even many of those who bought XB1s in 2013 or later have ended up buying a PS4 as well, because of the exclusives. You can read it on most forums any time the likes of Horizon, God of War or Spider-man came out, they're exclusives that made people want to buy the second console.

Xbox just doesn't have those exclusives that have made me want to buy the XB1 (or XB1X) as a second console. Gamepass is a great deal and completely puts PSNow to shame, but it just doesn't have the exclusives to justify it all for me.

Unless Sony at least matches what MS are doing with Gamepass from the start of the PS5 MS could very well take a good lead early next-gen, but if they do, exclusives could be one of the few deciding factors that makes people go one way or the other.

Penn wrote: »

I think as Retro says, exclusives aren't going to matter hugely to most gamers, as most games are multiplatform, so they'll get the consoles they just personally like or that their friends are playing. But exclusives are vital for selling second consoles, especially later in the console's life. Hence why PS4 is still selling well and is likely to hit 100m soon. Even many of those who bought XB1s in 2013 or later have ended up buying a PS4 as well, because of the exclusives. You can read it on most forums any time the likes of Horizon, God of War or Spider-man came out, they're exclusives that made people want to buy the second console.

Xbox just doesn't have those exclusives that have made me want to buy the XB1 (or XB1X) as a second console. Gamepass is a great deal and completely puts PSNow to shame, but it just doesn't have the exclusives to justify it all for me.

Unless Sony at least matches what MS are doing with Gamepass from the start of the PS5 MS could very well take a good lead early next-gen, but if they do, exclusives could be one of the few deciding factors that makes people go one way or the other.

People are buying second consoles now because they are getting so affordable. There's been deals on One S for €99 (Curry's Clearance) and PS4s for less than €200.

TitianGerm wrote: »

People are buying second consoles now because they are getting so affordable. There's been deals on One S for €99 (Curry's Clearance) and PS4s for less than €200.

Agreed, hence why it tends to happen later in a console's life. However you also have to add on subscription fees (XBL/Gamepass/PSN) and the cost of peripherals if needed. So ultimately, while all that does get cheaper further into a console's life, it's still a good chunk of money to put down, and exclusives are one of the driving factors that makes people do that as they'll already have their primary console for multiplayer and multiplatform games. The way I see it at the moment, XBox simply doesn't have the exclusives to make enough people want to buy it as a second console (even as cheap as it gets), and likely won't for the rest of this gen.

I came really close to getting a One X last November in Black Friday sales, but I just couldn't justify it to myself. I ended up buying the PSVR instead (again, Black Friday sales, not sure I would have bought it full price) and I was very happy with my purchase.

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Rocksteady just confirmed on Twitter that they won't be at E3.

Thats a bit of a surprise. Saw a lot of rumours lately they might have something to show.

Ubisoft have confirmed Watch dogs legion is real.
https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/1136057718471516160?s=20[/]

SharpCoder wrote: »

If Sony go ahead with moving PSN from Amazon AWS to Microsoft Azure, it does make the idea of more cross play a lot easier.

As for exclusives, well and good when there's plenty, but most are promised but take years to come into light, hell look at Last Of Us 2 or even death Stranding or Days gone or cyberpunk or others, hearing about them almost the entire life cycle of the PS4 and now we're heading into a new console cycle with the PS5 and still 90% are still a no show with god of war been the better one that actually got released.

So much for exclusives.

Only game there with the unending development is cyberpunk which isn't an exclusive at all so no idea what you point is, kinda bemusing you're including Days gone or death Stranding also.

Days gone was only announced in 2016 apparent development start in 2015 so pretty normal development cycle. Death stranding a little later, Kojima only free mid 2015 and only started his new company and announced any Sony partner ship at the end of the year. Naughty dog only released Uncharted 4 in mid 2016, so would had have people shifting to Last of us as they freed up from that.

https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/1135925443914326017

First THQ game

https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/1136271457988808704

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated!

Maybe THQ will surprise everyone and release Wreckfest for PS4 this year! But looking at their catalogue, aside from the Darksiders series they haven't really done anything I've been interested in.

And yes, there are a lot less exclusives these days, but of the few that are there, Sony has the most/best of them. Granted, I would love Forza on the PS4, but it'll be a fine collection of games to blast through when I pick up a One X cheap at some stage.