E3 2015

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Just like last year, I can only yawn. Not interested in console games, not interested in mmo's, shooters, japanese games. .

Man, that Mass Effect trailer looks extremely dull. BioWare really doesn't seem to be trying any more. Or at least the marketing department isn't.
 
Just saw the Mass Effect Andromeda trailer, man that thing is indeed laughable bad. In what way does this impress any potential buyers from buying this over any other new game at the time it comes around. If anything it might convince them to just 'wait it out' for the reviews and when the game is getting a discount during a sale or when the price is permanently lowered.

At least they got around the problem that sort of arose at the end of Mass Effect 3; with your own mythology unmade and most of the places you made up in ruins now or worse, where will you now head next?
Still the Milky-way galaxy is quite large and was not fully explored, and now to ditch it to head to the Andromeda galaxy? It feels a little cheap.

As for the new threat to humanity and the galaxy at large, I think we either come across the Andromedan reapers, or one of those machine intelligences they apparently were created for to prevent to arise. ('you broke the reapers, now all AI hell is going to break loose' kind of trope)


I did not watch much of the E3 presentations so far as I am not really interested in many of the titles present. Funny to see that Last Guardian is still alive. Next Duke Nukem Forever perhaps?

One title that does come back to me is Doom or Doom 4. I am going to be honest, when I saw that trailer I was quite bored after a while and it also really made me face palm. "You guys worked for years on a new entry into the franchise and this is what you come up with?", this was basically Doom 3 reskinned with some execution moves and it looked more like a tech demo than a game a person would put down 60 Euros for on the day of release.
I am not even sure if the Doom audience is so interested in this title which seems to be more focused on the console gamers than anything they recognize and like. Did like the snapmap map building tool, seems easy and fast.

Still if I worked for Bethesda and had arranged the financing for this I would be quite nervous right now because this is not a title I can show to my bosses that will bring in a lot of revenue that makes up for the development costs and gives profit too. It is so generic and similar to other current day shooters.


Neat find Akratus, that really looks like those old timey cartoons, complete with the quite creepy designs they sometimes had.
 
Persona 5 is in this year's Press Badge so it oughta get an announcement, but obviously a smaller one as Atlus games are not AAA monstrosities.
 
Doom 4 did look pretty uninspired. It looked like they saw Brutal Doom and made the entire game around that. Doom isn't JUST about shooting shit and running fast. I think they keep forgetting the wide open levels, secrets, and music were some of the things that Doom what it was. Now it looks like all the enemies are designed from Doom 3, which weren't nearly as good as the originals.
 
Nintendo's E3 conference was pretty bad. It started out very strong with the New Star Fox game.... then it just fizzled out talking about amiibos and that Map maker they are intending to sell as a full game and then it just ended.

But hey Yokai Watch is coming to the west.


SMTxFE looks atrocious, looks nothing like either series. People are saying it looks like Persona, but it doesn't. Persona might be ligther toned than core SMT but it was never Bubblegum pop idol bullshit, even the Idol character in P4 was a tired girl bored of her fake personality, this thing just looks foul. It's cutscenes even look worse than the ones of the new FE game on 3DS.

Persona 5 seems to still be going for a 2015 western release so there is that.
 
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I agree. There was nothing of note aside from Star Fox, which most people are bashing for not having multiplayer and sub-par graphics. The Metroid game has the most dislikes I have ever seen for a game. They should have shown something from Zelda to appease the rabid Wii U audience. If they can't start increasing their output and third party titles they are going to be in trouble. The NX will have a lot to make up for.
 


Nier 2?!...developed by Platinum Games?!!!!! I must be dreaming, please don't wake me up.

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So far, it's been a pretty good E3 for me.

Fallout 4 is shaping up to be a fun "turn off your brain and explore" game, like Skyrim. Actually kind of looking forward to it, in a way.

Contrary to what others have said in the thread, I actually liked the Mass Effect trailer. I really liked the unexpected Western tone with the Johnny Cash music. It gave it a "frontier" feel.Apparently they're putting an emphasis on exploration this time around with the new Galaxy. I have absolutely no trust in EA, but there's a sparkle of weird hope in me about Mass Effect: Andromeda.

DOOM I'm a little unsure about, I liked Wolfenstein and the demo for DOOM looked underwhelming, but it seemed like one of those games where it's way more fun and faster to play than it is to watch. I'll just have to wait and see.

I don't know whether X-COM 2 counts as E3 (Is it on the PC conference?), but I'm incredibly excited for that. I absolutely adored X-COM: Enemy Unknown (and Enemy Within).
 
While pocketing some extra money. I mean if they were gonna Fund and publish it anyway couldn't they just make a survey to see if people were interested?
 
Wish there was some sort of HD remake of Shenmue 1 & 2. Yeah, ain't gonna happen because that would actually make sense. :roll:
 
I think Shenmue 2 cost 50 million to make so 2 million isn't shit really. Obviously they wanted to see if the audience was still there and people responded well enough to where they broke records on Kickstarter.

A survey? Be real dude.

Saying you are going to buy something is one thing, but actually putting money down is another.

You said you didn't like how Sony didn't put any money forward so there ya go. Sony wanted to be the new home for the Shenmue series I guess.
 
But at the very least is gonna be made, let's hope it doesn't turn into an action shooter or a Teltale style low budget movie.

In any case, that PC gaming conference was kind of boring, I know it's the first time we have one but they could've planned it better. Still better than Nintendo's.
 
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But at the very least is gonna be made, let's hope it doesn't turn into an action shooter.

In any case, that PC gaming conference was kind of boring, I know it's the first time we have one but they could've planned it better. Still better than Nintendo's.
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Yep. Now I'll have to either track down the old games or watch them on Youtube.

Nintendo dropped the ball by leaking some of their info before E3, like the Smash DLC, Mother 1, and some other stuff I can't remember. It is becoming pretty obvious that they are winding the Wii U down. Wonder if the newest Zelda will be on the Wii U and NX like Twilight Princess? Mario Maker looks awesome as hell though.

I didn't even watch the pc conference.
 
Isn't the Nintendo NX an android based device? I thought they confirmed it was for mobile games, but I am not sure.
 
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