E3 2018

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

im pretty excited for Death Stranding now that i've seen some gameplay (pretty sure all the walky bits are gameplay). yay a game trailer with no guns and no shooting! that world looks incredible. i'd definitely down for some weird sci fi where all you do is explore and see weird stuff if that's what it is.

don't have massive expectations for nintendo in terms of big surprises, i think the general theme will be games we already know about but haven't seen yet.

I think "when" will be very important for Nintendo/me. There are lots of games we already (think we) know about but we still have no idea when they're arriving. Stuff like Metroid and Yoshi or whatever - Hollow Knight - they've been teasing for months. And stuff like Dark Souls, that featured big in the last Direct - it was the finale iirc - but since getting delayed two months ago and missing a perfectly placed May released date, there have literally been no updates.

I watched that grim Last of Us 2 gameplay and was sort of captivated (extreme violence aside). I have no idea how the mechanics of something like that even works, and the AI interaction was uncanny. Like, you sneak up somewhere and hide in some bushes, then baddies in the background hustle over and talk about how they just saw someone right around here but they must be hiding, then divide up to find you. Or you rush through a scene and fluidly grab a bottle and throw it at someone while running. It was like watching someone play a cut-scene, which is to say, like playing an interactive movie. Which was pretty neat. Maybe all big games like this are like that, I have no idea.

i just watched Last of Us 2. looks amazing but the violence is a little too brutal/real for me. also why i stay away from horror movies.

nintendo will continue to publish roughly 1 big game a month which means august thru december will have ~5 games, 2 of which are pokemon and smash and another 2 are likely fire emblem and yoshi

based on everything i've heard i think one surprise that could exist is another non-bayonetta platinumgames switch game

really hope Fire Emblem is coming before xmas. wouldn't be surprised if another FE Echoes remake was announced for 3DS lol.

Yeah, but we have no idea, right? Metroid 4, for example - wasn't that introduced at E3 2017? Anyway I hope there are some surprises. Love Smash, but no interest in Pokemon, Fire Emblem or Yoshi. And that follows passing on Kirby and DK (the latter at least at that price point).

(LOL aside, I had no idea Marth was from Fire Emblem. There are all these characters in Wii Smash we play that are of unknown provenance, to us!)

So Last of Us 2, how do games like that even work? How do you program stuff that seemingly fluid and reactive, like fight scenes that seem choreographed yet must be responding to controller input? It really baffles me, a different sort of uncanny valley.

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.