News E3 2019 (including EA Play)

[Sterge]

Would hardly call them a Joke. They listened to what people wanted and tried to deliver it. 76 is going ok. They are turning it around.

The first half of their presentation was literally the onion article about please don't be mean to fo76 we promise it's good now and look at our mobile games.

 

[Jack Richards]

The first half of their presentation was literally the onion article about please don't be mean to fo76 we promise it's good now and look at our mobile games.

At least Todd Howard acknowledged they didn't quite hit the mark and working hard to rectify it. That gives them some credit.

Unlike Anthem which has yet to do anything to fix their rubbish.

 

[Sterge]

At least Todd Howard acknowledged they didn't quite hit the mark and working hard to rectify it. That gives them some credit.

Unlike Anthem which has yet to do anything to fix their rubbish.

Yeah props for not dodging it completly, but they lost a ton of good will in the last 12 months and not having a major announcement this yeah didn't help.
We won't see much this year i don't think as devs wait for next year to go all out on next gen titles

 

[LukeSA]

Commander Keen... what have they done to you?

Way to kill a childhood favourite with what will be a ftp mtx plagued shithole.

 

[berisha]

Was an interesting day one. Some highs, some lows and lots of okays.

I wrote about it here: https://www.well-played.com.au/e3-2...s-while-bethesda-goes-big-on-mobile-and-doom/

 

[dwwaino]

Did anyone get up for this morning's stuff? I did set my alarm for this morning but some extra beauty sleep before work was chosen. Catch up time .

 

[Ry009]

Caught the end of Ubi, really underwhelming, even moreso than Bethesda.

Bringing in a new subscription service (like EA Access) called Uplay+ ($15 USD p/m)

3 'episodes' coming to Division which includes stories outside Washington and a new raid. Very ambiguous but almost sounded like some sort of zombie enemy being introduced (could be 110% wrong but that's how i interpreted it.

 

[dwwaino]

Caught the end of Ubi, really underwhelming, even moreso than Bethesda.

Bringing in a new subscription service ($15 USD p/m)

3 'episodes' coming to Division which includes stories outside Washington and a new raid. Very ambiguous but almost sounded like some sort of zombie enemy being introduced (could be 110% wrong but that's how i interpreted it.

Anything new outside of Watch Dogs 3?

 

[Ry009]

Anything new outside of Watch Dogs 3?

Only caught the last hour or so.

There's a new game called 'Roller Champions' which seems to borrow heavily from Rocket League. Alpha is available now, but they showed 5 seconds of gampelay which doesn't bode well.

Same team that did AC Odyssey doing 'Gods and Monsters' which may cop flack over being a Icarus/Zelda cartoon rendered knockoff.

 

[Ry009]

Case in point RE Gods and Monsters

 

[Ry009]

 

[dwwaino]

You're right. Gods and Monsters looks like the Aldi brand knock off of Zelda BOTW.

 

[Ry009]

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Yeah the Ubisoft conference sucked. Only thing that was half interesting was Watch Dogs 3. Didn't see enough of God and Monsters to have an opinion either way.

 

[Firestarter]

Thanks to Limited Run Games my switch library will get a few blasts from the relative past. Rogue Legacy, Freedom Planet and Blaster Master Zero will be on my to-get list (... I like a physical library)

 

[ioppolo]

Unless Square or Nintendo do something unprecedented, this will be the most underwhelming E3 ever imo

 

[Quivorir]

Bugger this final fantasy crap, show me the Avengers dammit.

 

[Ry009]

Only real gameplay footage shown at E3 and its a remake of 22 year old game.

 

[Quivorir]

My ****ing god how many final fantasy games do they need?

 

[Quivorir]

Outside of Nolan North I have never heard of any of them people.

 

[Glenno23]

Outside of Nolan North I have never heard of any of them people.

You've not heard of Troy Baker? I mean he only played Joel in the Last of Us, Booker in Bioshock infinite......

And these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Baker#Video_games

 

[Ry009]

Outside of Nolan North I have never heard of any of them people.

Troy Baker was Joel in Last of Us.

That being said, Nolan North's voice is so distinctive, almost takes you out of it.

Not sure what to make to this. They have the characters so close to the MCU, but then alter them slightly. Just screams they've only got x amount of right. Should have just done the comic book versions.

 

[Quivorir]

Have only played about 5 of those games, probably only 2 of them with any real play time. No idea who he is.

 

[bourbons]

Well that was pretty lame. Some cool stuff from Microsoft and Bethesda brought very little to the table. Without Sony this is pretty much over now. Outer Worlds sounds like it will be shown on the PC show tomorrow morning before Ubisoft. Will now finally have a shower and see if I can be bothered with Devolver.

I actually had it the other way round ie. pretty flat from MS and marginally better by Bethesda. Did we get even one thing we didn't already know about at the MS conference? Blair Witch I guess? At least Bethesda had 2 pretty cool looking new IP in Ghostwire and Deathloop. Plus a proper gameplay demo for Doom, looks insane.

 

[bourbons]

DOOOOM... hell yes.

I think game publishers are in a sort of holding pattern this year because of the impending next gen consoles which at this stage is about 18 months away.

Definitely. Probably a good decision from Sony to skip this one.