E3 2018

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

Why can’t a AAA dev make a game about running around like that in an optimistic future

Like why not a story about friendship and queer teens playing laser tag in the post-scarcity rewilded Appalachians

yeah that was too gruesome for my tastes i dont really see the fun in those sort of games

ciderpress which thread are we screaming in tomorrow morning, this one or the Switch one?

https://i.imgur.com/7TilnVF.jpg

i'll post in the switch thread i think

i watched the sony showcase. i liked the banana playing a guitar.

a bit underwhelming this year, feels like there were no really big announcements, just trailers for already revealed stuff.
wonder if studios are already transitioning to next gen development?

ciderpress e3 report

yes:
cyberpunk 2077
trials rising
tales of vesperia remastered
just cause 4

maybe:
sekiro:shadows die twice
fallout 76
ori 2
forza horizon 4
asscreed odyssey idk

need more info:
babylon's fall
starfield

no:
kingdom hearts 3

I'm slightly intrigued by Death Stranding.

all the sony games fall under 'i enjoy looking at them but have no interest in playing them'

the Death Stranding moss is so nice

been waiting so long for games with HD loam

I want to watch someone talented play that Samurai game

Shadows Die Twice looks really cool. Death Stranding as well. so nice to have gameplay footage of both!

still not convinced that death stranding is a real game and not just kojima messing around making trailers

If that's the case I'll watch the eventual blu-ray collection.

i liked how the death stranding trailer was just showing off the movement animations

It would be great if Death Stranding has no combat and is just Norman Reedus making deliveries and hiding from ghosts

TLoU2: ... and then they all lez up

It would be great if Death Stranding has no combat and is just Norman Reedus making deliveries and hiding from ghosts

The Last of Us II trailer was riveting. Super hype.

big day lads

praying for josh in chicago

because he won't buy a PS4?

No joke, depending on how things go today that may decide it for me! Given how inexpensive a used or refurbished PS4 slim is, and given that the games can be $30 or $40 cheaper for big titles, I could save money by spending money. I'd buy it for the Souls and Bloodbourne stuff alone.

Obviously I'd keep the Switch though, because there are all those games I haven't played and my kids like it. Another major factor for me is that I rarely play the switch in portable mode, so I am basically hurting my gaming experience for no reason. Also, with stuff like Fortnite and Animal Crossing on the horizon, a second console might give me something to do when the kids commandeer the Nintendo.

My E3 report:

Cyberpunk 2077
Ever Scrolls 6
Death Stranding

I wouldn’t be surprised if all three weren’t released on this generation of consoles. 😳

I expect that I’ll need to update this after today’s Nintendo direct.

cyberpunk looks like its gonna be a 2020 release imo regardless of generation. don't really see anything in that trailer that isn't doable right now

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.

¿?

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.