E3 2018

I can't believe it's still four days to Nintendo day

i usually watch the non-nintendo presentations via giant bomb since i enjoy their muted enthusiasm / skepticism at all the big budget nonsense. nintendo i just want to geek out on though

i mostly want to see some FFVIIR and Death Stranding and Metroid Prime 4

time to first gameplay footage at EA conference: 29 minutes

lol those assholes

tbf its a decent looking game, and out now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2TmLrTl6gs

lol they made command and conquer into a mobile game. makes sense but uh

anthem just looks like xenoblade x as a bioware game

i was just wondering if they'd played XCX! Doubt based on that footage that they'll tempt the Destiny crowd over.

no skate 4? lol

Urgh Unravel 2. Suddenly realising that lots of the announcements at this E3 are going to be for sequels to games I bought ages ago and haven’t even got around to booting up yet.

lol Jim I feel your pain

don't think I've seen studio acquisitions being part of an E3 conference before?!?

tales of vesperia remaster, hope thats coming to switch

appreciate microsoft getting on board with the new format of just rolling trailers mostly, not sure how many of these games im gonna play but its been v watchable

also seeing a tales game, which are basically b-list jrpgs as much as i enjoy them, get a trailer in the middle of all these fancy graphics current gen games was really weird/funny to me

I watched for a while but I don’t have an Xbox or a PS4 so this whole AAA world means nothing to me for the most part.

I'm never going to play any of these games. Sekiro looks pretty cool.

I assume the EA conference is skippable? The last EA game I played was, uh, Fight Night Champion.

really like that cyberpunk2077 doesn't look super serious. if the trailer's representative of the game's tone i think they nailed it.

tales of vesperia remaster confirmed for switch, nice. can finally play that one.

still have that unplayed on my 360

This is worth it for the audience reactions to Andrew WK.

the Jump Stars crossover game looks really bad, like their own version of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite

Online Fallout. With dozens of players. Woohoo.

well they confirmed that starfield and elder scrolls 6 are both things in production but sounds like they're not targeting this current console gen for either

which means theyre 3 years off at least

He specifically said Starfield was "next gen" and Elder Scrolls is after Starfield, so yeah.

I’m so jazzed for Cyberpunk.

"Braindance", a digital recording device streamed directly into the brain, allows the player character to experience the emotions, brain processes and muscle movements of another person as though they were their own.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Braindance-Coincidence/release/20737

I wonder why they bothered announcing Starfield or the new Elder Scrolls.

stock market bump, probably

they're probably just tired of people asking if they're real

(l-r): bethesda, gamers

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dang platinumgames is busy, how many games do they have in dev

Ubisoft presser so far has had a marching band, a dancing panda, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

thats pretty standard for them

trials on switch

hah that was unexpected. starfox crossover in starlink, ubisoft's toys-to-life space game

ubisoft showed a lot of pretty, immersive things and all im excited about is the dumb motorcycle crashing game

The only pretty thing I found interesting was the pirate thing and they’re probably too cowardly to scale it down for the Switch

idg the Andrew WK thing. seems like people trying to make a meme out of nothing. i saw the video. there were people smiling and stuff. yes everybody is sitting down because this is a multi hour long stageshow about videogames.

i expected the video to show everybody looking at their phones. they are at least watching him perform. imo the band brought their A game and not holding back but the audio mix is kind of shitty tbh.

what is the cringe here, are we supposed to feel embarrassed for the audience? i guess you can't report an event nowadays without some kind of Schadenfreude slant to it. we have to feel superior to somebody with each piece of news.

No Avengers RPG?

could be at sony presentation still

the trailer for the new DOOM is cool

MOOD

love the Moebius style graphics of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFQhEY9udE

awesome look. feels like nausicaa

sony starting in 10 mins

has sony regressed back to the stage show nonsense format

Watching The Last of Us 2 gameplay, I’m impressed that games can do all this stuff, but stuff like this still doesn’t resemble anything I want to play

lol Fortnite was already on every other platform including phones but yes it makes sense on Switch

Yeah I pretty much burnt out on Fortnite a while ago but was ready to jump back in on switch. Until this bullshit (which is absolutely Sony's fault btw, not Nintendo's): https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-06-12-fortnite-blocks-users-playing-on-switch-if-youve-already-logged-in-on-ps4

So I've played a little bit. Am I right that I am apparently playing against people who have a much easier time aiming than those playing with controllers?

Well yeah maybe, I think you get to choose whether you're playing against other platforms or just against folks on the same console as you? But even then some sweaty PS4 players are plugging in mouse and keyboard to get an advantage over other PS4 players etc.

In my experience though the more fun way to be good at Fortnite is to play smart and avoid combat until the end game, by which point you're more likely to have picked up some decent enough weapons to have a fighting chance. I've never figured out building but I can still do pretty well about 70% of the time just by adapting my play style to my strengths - the fact that's possible is a big part of what makes it compelling overall.

I wish AAA devs had the guts to make actively non-violent games like e.g., Undertale, but fuck it, that'll never happen. I like shooting, hitting, & exploding stuff as much as the next person, but it feels like there is such a wealth of unexplored ludo-narrative territory that has nothing to do with any of those things. Imagine, like, a Tomb Raider game with no combat. IMO that would kinda rule.

Death Stranding just might be what the doctor ordered here, but it seems to early to tell?

there's always racing games

my big E3 takeaway is the good shit isn't coming out until 2020. =|

Nintendo should release a new console called Coming Soon.

this is the first time i've seen Octopath Traveler in action. wow - the game looks like a dream!

it's like the ultimate take on a pixel-art-in-2.5D Final Fantasy Tactics-style presentation.

Demo out today with the first chapter of each character's story; progress carries over to the full game.

…I think I'm gonna hold off so I don't get mad about having to wait to keep going

yeah same, no reason to tease myself when i've already got it preordered

i tried the first demo that came out (w/ 2 playable characters) and i didn't really get it. it seemed like a totally generic JRPG? what am i missing?

the retro textures in a modern 3d engine presentation is cool and the boost system for combat looks satisfying - i didn't play bravely default but that game is very well regarded and this is an evolution of its system. idk more since i barely touched the first demo but it just seems like a well made game overall in a genre that has a lot of uneven games. and the characters all look fun

the combat felt really unenjoyable -- it wasn't clear to me how to use boost effectively and all the combats felt like a grind and then the [first?] boss beat me and i realized i'd need to grind up to win that fight and it wasn't a strategy issue and that's when i quit.

the combat's designed around you using break/boost well so it's kinda puzzley in that regard - if you don't engage with the system you do like 10% as much damage and fights will take a while. same deal as xenoblade really. i doubt you have to grind, almost no modern jrpg makes you do that.

I felt like had to grind a little bit for the boss in the original demo, and retry a couple times, which was fine; what wasn't fine is they hadn't implemented cutscene skips so I had to wait through like a three minute dialog each retry. But they already said the final version would have cutscene skipping when they did a video specifically responding to the early demo feedback.

And yeah the combat puzzle is basically identify weakness -> break -> do a ton of damage with a boosted special move, which is the sort of thing I really dig.

new demo has cutscene skipping

wish every jrpg used the same retry system as trails of cold steel - you never lose progress, any time you wipe in a fight you get a choice between 'retry' or 'retry but make enemies a bit weaker'. so if you're having trouble with a fight and aren't feeling it you can just make it incrementally easier until you pass

cutscene skipping is nice. feels like a SNES RPG with plenty of QOL improvements.

the presentation is so nice and not generic at all. i love the graphics and world design. the music is really good too, again, like a nice old FF entry. on that tip the writing is nice and classic and relatable. feels closer to FFIX than anything in the past decade.

heh i just said nice a bunch of times. but that 3d modeled world w pixel art textures & HD shading is legit stunning.

Is anyone else sick of 3D games where you shoot people? Half of the games at E3 were like this and I had no interest in them, except maybe the RE2 remake.

one reason Death Stranding stood out to me

The games are all becoming more movie like, and most big movies seem to be about people shooting each other too.

I am not really in the market for realistic gun games so it’s not much of a stance to say I’m boycotting them but I do think maybe they should stop making them.

do you think it matters if you are shooting monsters versus people?

I think the critical/commercial feedback loop is stuck on 3d action-adventure/action-RPG games right now, some of those have guns but I didn't get a sense that there were that many pure shooters at the show

do you think it matters if you are shooting monsters versus people?

That always has mattered to me actually, maybe that's odd. It's not even monsters vs people, it's cartoony people vs people too (or even sci-fi people vs people). So team fortress, fortnight, those angry solider guys in doom, imperial officers in star wars games, all fine. But put me in front of a cod or a battlefront and I just don't feel right about it.

Yeah, I don't like it either when it veers from fantasy to hyper-realism. I mean, I'm ok with hyper-realism applied to fantasy, a la Doom - it's cartoonishly OTT - but something like that Last of Us trailer, it's just suspect and gross.

i forgot where i heard it, Super Bunnyhop or somewhere, where someone explained that triangulating a single point in space is the most efficient thing you can do with 3D computing. lining up crosshairs with a target is the basis of pretty much all 3D gaming. it just happens that shooting a gun is a real world analogy to that simple act of computation (which you can design an entire game around, just ask 19th century carnival workers).

plus society is entirely violence and pro-gun, tv shows and movies glorify guns, the new/old media promotes the most shockingly violent stories. even at its most divided the US govt has never had trouble jointing reaching into the piggy bank for larger and larger budgets to buy bigger and more sophisticated weapons (that actually kill real people in real life). reality is violent therefore media is violent. sometimes people mistakenly think it is the other way around.

Yeah tbh I think I'm a lot more comfortable with shooting for fun as a UK resident than I'd be if anyone here actually had guns for real.

Which isn't justified at all but yeah.

triangulating a single point in space is the most efficient thing you can do with 3D computing

Eh, I think shooting at things is just the laziest way for these designers to craft something with minimal world building and story telling.

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But put me in front of a cod

do you think it matters if you are shooting monsters versus people?

I hardly consider myself a sophisticated or self-aware gamer (I barely consider myself a gamer at all!), yet I'm deeply anti-gun IRL but have little problem playing games where you shoot people.

Anyway, I do think that even if the enemies are monsters, that greases the wheel to

... making shooting people in games more acceptable.