With E3 coming up in just a few days, I figured we should have a discussion thread. This opening post is pretty useless right now but I (or any other mod) can edit in any useful information regarding schedules, where to watch, etc.
Schedule (thanks Cyan):
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This year's schedule:
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Twitch and YouTube will continue to be the best place to watch. I know I'll be watching the Giant Bomb riff streams.
I had a quick write up of what to expect at the major conferences, let's see if I can find it…
Nintendo on the 13th well shit that's not ominous or anything.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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! EA: It's (Not) In the Game
! Microsoft: The Phil Spencer Blues Explosion
! Bethesda: Almost Heaven, West Virginia
! Square Enix: Hopefully Simple and Hopefully Clean
! Ubisoft: A Dance Odyssey
! Sony: Hideo Kojima and the Half-Dead Fetus
! Nintendo: We Have Such Sights to Show You
! Other
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And of course what's an E3 thread without
Ghosts of Tsushima is the only thing we're aware of coming that I have much interest in at the moment. hopefully get more info on that and maybe a release date?
(Well not counting stuff like Dragon Quest 11 which is already set for September and was inished ad released in Japan a while ago.)
I guess I have some interest in Last of Us 2, but if its anything like the first one I feel like I can get basically the complete experience just watching it.
Hopefully something new from That Game Company. Journey was five years ago, and Flower was 10! years ago. Abzu wasn't technically by them even though it had a lot of the same talent… and Sky is just for cell phones. So.... something?
And really crazy pipe dream of course Okami 3. But since that won't happen, an update on Lost Ember would be nice. Kickstarted that thing nearly 2 years ago and while they've had updates they haven't had a lot of actual footage to show and it was originally supposed to be out in March.
My hoped-for unexpected bombshell is Dark Cloud 3. Won't happen.
Mainly in it for whatever Bluepoint's next remake is. Assume Horizon 2 and Bloodborne 2. Pretty sure we'll get a R&C teaser. Also wondering if we'll get a teaser for the usual second game Naughty Dog is doing. Probably too soon.
Honestly, at this point, a lot of the kinds of games I really enjoy don't get big showcases at E3, so, hey, whatever.
DMCV and RE2 please.
I hope a coked-out Adam Sessler hosts something again with Morgan Webb, really get that circa-2007 feel going.
And really crazy pipe dream of course Okami 3. But since that won't happen,
Goes over there in the same pile as Dragon's Dogma 2, Viewtiful Joe 3, & Darkstalkers 4
@Cyan:
- Hey remember that Elijah Wood thing?
I remember that Shaun White thing.
Well shit, prerecorded conferences aren't fun.
Well, work's serendipitiously given me Tuesday off so I'll be able to catch the Nintendo insanity live. I'm ready for all the next "u throw ur hat on a frog now ur the frog" moments.
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I'm ready for all the next "u throw ur hat on a frog now ur the frog" moments.
Is it too much to hope for info on Dragon Age 4?
And really crazy pipe dream of course Okami 3. But since that won't happen, an update on Lost Ember would be nice. Kickstarted that thing nearly 2 years ago and while they've had updates they haven't had a lot of actual footage to show and it was originally supposed to be out in March.
Okami never got a proper sequel. I don't count Okamiden since it wasn't about the actual Amaterasu/Okami.
Is it too much to hope for info on Dragon Age 4?
That's officially unnoficial. But I'd be amazed if Bioware puts any spotlight on it when Anthem is the thing they have to really push this year.
We might get an official announcement and a title but I doubt much more than that.
Okami never got a proper sequel. I don't count Okamiden since it wasn't about the actual Amaterasu/Okami.
Okamiden took place after the first game, made many direct references to the original, and used many of the same characters and settings, and it's ending tied into Okami's ending and set up for the same thing the original setup. It was a sequel.
It was a downgrade in many, many respects, and didn't move forward the story we wanted to see, but it was absolutely a sequel.
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Mainly in it for whatever Bluepoint's next remake is. Assume Horizon 2 and Bloodborne 2.
Is it too soon for Horizon 2? The DLC for part 1 was just last November. I mean, I guess if its announced now for a early 2019 release that'll be a 2 year window since the main game came out which is enough, but it feels like an event franchise with 3 or 4 years between outings. Big open world games done right take time. Big open world games done wrong like Assassin's creed are annual. But I guess it was a system pusher so they'll be pressed to go sooner than later.
I dunno, I guess they have all the tech and a roster of monsters in place now so as long as they just iterate and don't reinvent the wheel two years is enough… though I have to imagine BotW will force them to change their climbing method away from the Uncharted style... or at least give Aloy a grapling hook access to flying options or something.
(It'll also be interesting as a progressed plot game, she should start the next game with all her gear... but they'll inevitably do something to break all her loot and put her back to square one tutorial mode which kind of sucks.)
We might get an official announcement and a title but I doubt much more than that.
It would be nice to get at LEAST that.
I know some people are hoping that Anthem turns out to be a new Mass Effect game in disguise. While I highly doubt it, I think it stupid to shelve the entire ME series because of one bad-ish game. Dragon Age didn't stop with DA2, and look what that got us.
Ok, so I love a multitude of video games, but when it comes to E3 I'm always looking more forward to Nintendo, so as for a want/prediction(ish) list, I'm gonna do a "Nintendo List" and an "Everything Else" list lol.
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Nintendo:
[hide]Smash Bros: We're getting a lot I know. I fully expect a huge trailer reveal and probably a lot of talking about it in addition to the tournament. We're going to know a LOT about Smash and that's awesome. Hoping we get at least a couple of new characters revealed beyond the Inklings we already know about.
Metroid Prime 4: Just want a real trailer. Don't even care if it's a cinematic teaser. I want to see what the game is going to look like.
Yoshi: Want a full title and release date. Good Feel did amazing with Yoshi's Wooly World and I'm really looking forward to this one.
Dragon Ball FighterZ Switch Port: This would be super super neat. I already own it so not sure I'll rebuy it, but I know Jessica wants to own it and she doesn't have a PS4, so I'll be able to try this thing out.
Bayonetta 3: Gameplay trailer would be super cool here.
Pikmin 4: This one might be a longshot, but Miyamoto teased this thing back when Pikmin 3 was new, so it's like 3-4 years now. I figure we should know something now and a new system is a good excuse to do this.[/hide]
Everyone Else:
[hide]Resident Evil 2 Remake: It's been too damn long. Give us something damnit.
Kingdom Hearts III: Release date? Release Date?! RELEASE DATE!!!!
The Last of Us 2: freaking LOVED the first one. Definitely ready for some more here. Maybe gameplay?
Death Stranding: This one has intreagued me since it's beginning… hoping we actually get a look at what it's really going to be.
Square Enix's Mysterious Avengers Game: They announced this and then.... nothing... haven't heard hide nor hair of this. Want.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Expecting Trailer at the very least.[/hide]
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For me it's pretty much I hope we get see gameplay of the new Tomb Raider as well gameplay of the Spyro trilogy. Also I hope we get aleast some news about Borderlands 3.
Devil May Cry 5 is pretty much confirmed, with Capcom registering domains for it, as well as warming up to the announcement with the DMC HD re-re-release, and Dante's skin in Monster Hunter World. RE2make also got some domains registered and after 3 years it should have completed the dev cycle. I am somewhat interested in Death Stranding despite not really liking Kojima's and his team works for the past 10 years, but maybe this time they will pull it off (i also believe it will be a stealth game with some parallel dimension shenanigans but whatever).
Hopefully Retro Studios' game is not the rumored "Star Fox Racing spin off", and instead an earned new IP or something very unusual (like an Eternal Darkness or Doshin the Giant). F-Zero seems likely to be announced, with Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi presence at the Switch presentation in 2017 but without a word since (and his team being the one responsible for GX).
Bayonetta 3 is possible, but Bayo's voice actress Hellena Taylor as of april 2018 said she still wasnt involved in any voice recording so development should still be early on, and at best we may get another cinematic trailer or a very rough gameplay one.
Mother 3 will be discussed anyway so my take is that someone heard there was demand for it and its being discussed, but no consensus will be reached and it will be released in an embarassing botched port sold at full price but digital only.
I want to see pokemon Gen 8 shown….at the very least confirm it for switch.
I'm hoping to see something about halo on sinday.. it's been too long since guardians came out
Devil May Cry 5 is pretty much confirmed, with Capcom registering domains for it, as well as warming up to the announcement with the DMC HD re-re-release, and Dante's skin in Monster Hunter World.
I heaard the same damn thing in the last 2 years.
Is it too soon for Horizon 2? The DLC for part 1 was just last November. I mean, I guess if its announced now for a early 2019 release that'll be a 2 year window since the main game came out which is enough, but it feels like an event franchise with 3 or 4 years between outings. Big open world games done right take time. Big open world games done wrong like Assassin's creed are annual.
First was announced E3 2015, came out early 2017. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see them release late 2019/early 2020, so timeframe is good. Think this one's a pretty safe bet, personally.
I just remembered what I most want to see at this E3: Wild.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.
First was announced E3 2015, came out early 2017. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see them release late 2019/early 2020, so timeframe is good. Think this one's a pretty safe bet, personally.
I just remembered what I most want to see at this E3: Wild.
Well yeah, announced in 2015… but they already had a pretty fair amount of work put into it at that point. It was 4 years between the last Killzone and Horizon coming out.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's announced now for 2019 release, and I look forward to it.... I just don't know if 2 years is quite enough time to do a open world game with proper diverse content. Similarly, Witcher 3 took 4 years after Witcher 2. Dragon Age 3 took 3.5 years after Dragon Age 2 and even that was still loaded with repetitive content.
But like I said, if they don 't reinvent the wheel and keep all their starting assets, add in another 20 monsters and a few new weapons and abilities they can be good to go sooner than later so maybe two years is enough. (But I also can't imagine them reusing the same map or the same developed tribes so....) Maybe late 2019 rather than early?
Similarly, Witcher 3 took 4 years after Witcher 2.
That only took four years? Good scott. I mean, there's your example of completely reinventing the wheel between games and having a massive amount of new content. This won't be nearly that difficult. And I'd say Guerilla Games is at least as capable as CD Projekt Red in terms of pure programming.
Dragon Age 3 took 3.5 years after Dragon Age 2 and even that was still loaded with repetitive content.
Yeah, but, uh…
whispers Bioware sucks.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.
Yeah, but, uh…
whispers Bioware sucks.
Well, they do now that EA has sucked the life out of them and keeps forcing them to release games a year before they're actually done, but they used to be great.
I'd rather have a studio take their time with a game to make it good rather than rush it out as crap. DA2 taught us all about that.
And even DA2 wasn't THAT bad, it just really sucked in comparison to Origins and DA3.
Also the ending of ME:3 and the entirety of ME:A and SOnic Chronicles and…. Like, they're competent games and I'm one of the people that will defend ME3 purely on the strength of everything except the main plot, but.... they're games that absolutely could have used more time to bake. Bioware used to be untouchable for story and character rpgs. And... that's less the case now.
I'm not even excited at all about Anthem because I've been playing Warframe. But maybe new trailers will convince me otherwise.
Anthem's just not my type of game.
There have been rumors for a while that Rocksteady is working on a Superman game and those rumblings are back now saying we're getting an announcement for it at this year's E3.
If this is true it's amazing and I'll be so excited.
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Oh fucking shit yesyesyesyesyes
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Oh fucking shit yesyesyesyesyes
Awww yeah!
! Just need to beat the previous one now. I've beaten literally every other game in the series though.
Looking forward to cyberpunk, red dead 2, last of us, ghost of tsuki gameplay.
Hope 4 new IP too. MSoft has been slacking on exclusives, especially console sellers.
Microsoft's conference is supposedly going to be 45 minutes and Crackdown 3 has already been pushed back to 2019.
What the fuck do they have to show besides inevitable new Halo and inevitable Gears of War?
@Cyan:
Microsoft's conference is supposedly going to be 45 minutes and Crackdown 3 has already been pushed back to 2019.
What the fuck do they have to show besides inevitable new Halo and inevitable Gears of War?
the Rocksteady Superman game I'm looking forward to is supposedly going to be revealed there if the leak is accurate
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so, uh, nobody is expecting any splatoon or just not interested in it?
With the official tournament, I feel like it's a given there will be splatoon content (besides Smash)
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Also for those interested.
https://gematsu.com/2018/06/tales-of-vesperia-10th-anniversary-remaster-website-discovered
Gematsu has discovered tov10th.tales-ch.jp—a password-protected website presumably for the Tales of Vesperia remaster Gematsu has heard is in production in celebration of the RPG’s 10th anniversary.
Gematsu heard from multiple sources that Bandai Namco will announce the Tales of Vesperia remaster at E3 2018, which runs from June 12 to 14 in Los Angeles.
@Cyan:
Microsoft's conference is supposedly going to be 45 minutes and Crackdown 3 has already been pushed back to 2019.
What the fuck do they have to show besides inevitable new Halo and inevitable Gears of War?
Another Forza Motorsport or Star Wars Kinect 2 :ninja:
Also for those interested.
https://gematsu.com/2018/06/tales-of-vesperia-10th-anniversary-remaster-website-discovered
Wow, that's… actually something I would replay. I have and love the PS3 version, but I wouldn't mind another playthrough after all these years if they localize it. <3 Patty
Also for those interested.
https://gematsu.com/2018/06/tales-of-vesperia-10th-anniversary-remaster-website-discovered
Maybe it'll actually make it to a Sony console this time around outside of Japan.
There's been a mystery Tales game announced for the Switch ever since the official reveal, so that could possibly be it.
Did they announce the date for the Octoling DLC yet? Or did I totally miss that?
Good question. I think there's no release date yet, just "this Summer"
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DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY
@Cyan:
DAWN OF THE FIRST DAY
It's upon us once again.
EA play is on, they just showed off Battlefield V and they're on to FIFA18.
Fuckin battle royale and HANS FUCKING ZIMMER scoring FIFA
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ahahahahahaha fuck you its a mobile game
Nice, mobile competitive esports C&C game. Good job, EA.
