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Here is this year's schedule. All times are Center of the Universe Daylight Time. I'll add links when they become available.
Saturday, June 10
- 15:00 Electronic Arts
Sunday, June 11
- 17:00 Microsoft
Monday, June 12
- 00:00 Bethesda
- 13:00 PC Gaming Show
- 16:00 Ubisoft
- 21:00 Sony
Tuesday, June 13
- 12:00 Nintendo
EA is on Saturday? Weird.
Anything interesting rumored? What are you people looking forward to?
AAA Blockbuster N+1
I've been replaying Borederlands 2 and it has me excited to see what they do with 3. Other than that, nothing in particular.
Funny, it doesn't sound like something that would excite.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
I'm leaving it.
I'm hoping we'll see another glimpse of Cyberpunk 2077. That's all I want really.
I suspect we'll see a new Underworld Ascendant demo. Looking forward to that.
The same thing I want every year, a new console Animal Crossing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Changeling
There's a lot of boring stuff and then Sony and Nintendo and some opportunity for Square Enix to be fascinatingly boring as hell while announcing the one thing i wanted but never imagined could happen
Finch, you haven't played the thing from last year that was the only thing you wanted but didn't imagine would happen.
I don't want a lot. The psp valk Chronicles games put on steam. Mother 3. some anime games with girls with big butts.
The Evil Within 2 is the most interesting thing to me that I have seen rumored.Quote:
Originally Posted by Changeling
My want list is probably similar to other years and subject to "oh shit I can't believe I forgot..." edits:
New Game or Port Announcements
- Daytona 3 Championship USA (PC) - Yes I know it's too early for a port
- Dino Crisis 4 (PC)
- The Evil Within 2 (PC)
- F-Zero (NS)
- Half-Life 3 (SteamVR)
- Hardcore Uprising (PC)
- Ketsui (PC)
- Mario Golf, Sluggers, and/or Strikers (NS)
- Metroid (NS)
- Snatcher/Policenauts Collection (NS and/or PC)
- Virtua Fighter 6 (PC)
- Virtual Console (NS)
- Yakuza Series (PC)
Additional Details
- Cyberpunk 2077 (PC)
- EA Visceral's Star Wars game (PC)
- Fallout 4 (SteamVR) - "available tonight" announcement
- Ghost Story Games' new game(s) (PC)
- The Last of Us: Part II (PS4)
- Remedy/505 Games' new game (PC)
- Shenmue III (PC)
- Shin Megami Tensei (NS)
- Super Mario Odyssey (NS)
Other Happy Thoughts
- Gearbox bankruptcy announcement; would settle for Randy Pitchford suicide
- Scorpio will be $500; some games will not playable on base One but will be on Win10
- Sega acquisition of Io Interactive
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would settle for Randy Pitchford suicide
lol
I'm hoping to see Bioshock Vita unveiled.
A Monster Hunter XX Switch port (and US announcement date) would be nice.
You made it happen with your belief https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAtv_zsX...jpg&name=large
Monster Hunter going from one Nintendo handheld to the next isn't much of a Double Cross.
Should have made it an XBO exclusive to really live up to the title.
Then XX would be the number of copies sold.
edit: That being announced on Switch is pretty much the eulogy for the 3DS that the BotW announcement was for the Wii U.
Sony to announce Vita 2 for this fall at $149.99, and castable to Firestick and Apple TV.
yaaaaaay :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
We still need the 3DS for Monster Hunter Stories, coming this fall!
I legit forgot about e3 this year, old age is catching up
That's because it sucks now.
Last 2 years were fun. I have high hopes for this year.
I'm excited to see the final unveiling of the Xbox Scorpio.
Boldly going where no one has wanted to go before: 4K, 30fps.
I want a Scorpio and I don't even have 4K. It doesn't matter what Microsoft shows, it's cool to hate them right now.
If it has compelling VR support or some killer exclusive, then I'll be interested.
1080p 60Hz with vsync is good enough for me, but that should have been the standard day one, so I'm not buying a new console just for that.
I can't believe I'm about to type this, but there is finally something technological that Nintendo understands better than Sony and Microsoft. Frame rate is more important than resolution. The PS4 Pro, and likely Scorpio, prioritize incorrectly, because 4K makes a better bullet point.
There are many articles from online PC publications that 4K shouldn't even be where resolution should go. Rather, it should be less traditional aspect ratios, such as those that movies use.
But the TV manufacturers, which Sony also is not coincidentally, have chosen to ride 4K, so the console upgrades have beefier GPUs but are still saddled with relatively weak CPUs, which are going to continue to cap their frame rates at unacceptable levels in too many cases.
It'll have support for that MS Mixed Reality thing. Which means cheaper and probably better thank PSVR, but kneecapped by limited hand-tracking.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Sony prioritizes 4K because it sells TVs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
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Originally Posted by Frogacuda
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
I dont know if you can make that argument. They all have 30 and 60 FPS games. BOTW can't even hold 30, and that's their big game, so I don't know what they learn from that other than "for this type of game, people don't care".
4K is a joke. And soon they'll "upgrade" to 8K. Meanwhile the streaming 1080P movies aren't anywhere near Blu-ray quality, and I can't be bothered to buy/rent Blu-ray discs.
Nintendo is nearing a two-generation graphical lag with the Switch. It'll clean up.
Yea 4K is pretty bleh now. It's not even where HD was when the 360 came out.
I liked the Pro when it came out because a lot of games were doing supersampling but developers seem to have dropped that for some reason. Plus Sony is letting developers omit and even lie about support.
I'm not going to lie though, when I put Crysis 3 at 4K on my TV, it was glorious.
Scorpio will be a big boon for those with 1080p TVs (which is almost everyone), especially the die hard Xbox fan base. It's a huge leap in power over the One and games will have the best performance of any console at that resolution. One will be Minimum Specs, Scorpio will be Recommended and PC will be Ultra. They'll have everyone covered if they do this right.
Did Sony already give up on the Pro? I really like it so far, it's the reason I want to see the Scorpio. I like the different console tiers. If I want to spend more for a better experience I can and people that don't give a shit can spend less. Everyone wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Or we can all join the hive mind and get PCs.
You're making the massive assumption that developers are going to let users choose video settings. Very few do on PS4 Pro. Without that, the best you're going to get at 1080p is 4K downsampled at 30fps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Gross.
Horizon looks pretty damn awesome downsampled at 30fpsQuote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
I'll take your word for it. I've never see it in any 16:9 resolution or under 60fps.
MS has to come out swinging. The best thing they can do is to tell developers to go for it. Scorpio should default to 60fps in this scenario. I think MS sees what's happening with the Pro and doesn't want their 2017 hardware to be hamstrung by their 2013 hardware. They're behind, they need it to sell. Otherwise, what's the point in putting all of this time and money into this project? How are they going to sell a $500 box otherwise? They deliberately waited a year for a higher tech jump for a reason. This thing will be future proof for the living room. Buy it now with your 1080p set and you have the best version of third party games (I think they'll show off a new IP, maybe 2 if we're lucky). When you get a 4k TV, just plug it in and you have a ton of content ready to go. Already have a 4k TV? That "Native 4k!" on the side of the box is for you. Oh, and any Play Anywhere title you have will let you download the 4k texture pack for free (which is already on PC so there's no more investment in time or money needed). Throw down the gauntlet, do everythng the Pro didn't do from the start and isn't doing now. That's what Sony did when they followed up the One announcement with the PS4. It worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
MS has to be laser focused on the pitch for this thing. 4k doesn't present well on a live video stream. Have that shit running at 60fps at 1080p with more effects so people can see the difference. Tell the in house audience that, when you play these games on the show floor, it's in 4k. Put up 4k videos on Youtube during the week for the best presentation possible for those with the bandwith and monitors. Keep it light on talking about tech numbers no one cares about or understands and just say "this is what it looks like with the worlds most powerful console" and let that game footage roll. No dumb, tone deaf celebrities in sight. Sony figured out how to do an E3 presentation last year, copy that model.
Personally, I'm done with Microsoft for the foreseeable future. There's just nothing there for me any more. The 360 had a good run and then...? I wanted to care about Xbox One but couldn't, and a revised piece of hardware won't change that. I like my PS4 but barely use it, and never bothered upgrading to Pro. I love the Switch as a handheld but have only used it twice on the tv, and the bulk of my gaming time is PC. All the new console tech just makes me shrug nowadays, which still feels weird.
I honestly miss E3, but can't justify going any more. It's $1,000 I could spend on other things for a show that's gotten progressively less interesting over the years. I went there less interested in the press conferences (which were pretty fun to attend, for the most part, even the Nokia N-Gage one I went to) than the floor show, and with everything getting more and more decentralized the draw is gone. I miss going but it's just not a show that's worth a cross-continental airplane ride plus a week away from home.
1080p @60 fps would be ideal, but these consoles are hamstrung by a CPU that struggles to keep up with the draw calls once physics are already hammering it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
My TV is like 8 years old. I'm not the target market for this stuff.
Yeah the TV I play my PS4 on is 720p. Consoles are a means to an end for me really.
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My television is 8 years old as well. It stopped working, but I was able to repair it with the replacement of 4 caps to the power supply.
I thought that this video was rather interesting. It looks like they were showing game play footage from the console version at this E3.
Digital Foundry confirms what I'd said here.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
You mean what I said 14 posts earlier? :p
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
The only thing that will keep me from getting a Scorpio is price. I'm excited for it, and interested to see the VR it will bring.
Ace Combat 7 E3 trailer, yay!
Slipped to 2018, boo!
VR can fuck off IMO. Just make games that run 1080p and 60fps. If you can do 4k, it better damn well run smooth.
Final Fantasy Picross? I'm down.
I'm not invested in VR currently, but flight games are what VR was goddamn made for.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
I'll always take more picross.
I'm thinking about EA's cock swing of a Saturday Presser and I can't think of anything they'd announce other than a Burnout Remaster that I'd give a damn about.
I'm going out to lunch rather than watching that.
Get Hype For E3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06VGdUVfd98
All Star Wars, all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Ok, so Amy Hennig’s Star Wars, but what else? Battlefront 2 is already a known quantity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
There is at least one more Star Wars game, though I can't keep EA's studios straight. It's probably a 2019 game though, so we'll be lucky to get a teaser.
A title of a new IP has leaked as well, though I haven't seen any other details.
EA already screwing up
lmao Battlefield and fucking Soccer.
the fuck was that blazer thing
Give us ME1-3 remastered for buying your disaster also.
this guy doesn't even know why he's here
Something tells me I have to catch up to this truck...
A Way Out looks cool though
I love when the guy was talking about Adrian Brody Escapes Prison he forgets the word "gameplay" at E3, that's the most E3 thing to happen yet
Anthem huh? Gameplay on Xbox stage tomorrow.
On the whole, the presentation was cringe-worthy but the games look good and if Anthem is awesome that is good
bbobb won.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
A Way Out looks really good, but that was quite a let down. The Visceral game must be part of Sony's conference.
I always win.
https://twitter.com/amy_hennig/statu...37385338093568Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I'm surprised EA was smart enough to not mention the Visceral Star Wars game at all, which was absolutely the right move. No reason whatsoever to mention it now, Battlefront II should be the entire focus as it's the only EA Star Wars game releasing this year. Then properly feature the Visceral Star Wars game as their big showcase game of E3 2018, with the hopes (emphasis on this) of a full, quality game shipping by Holiday 2018.
If they were in any way competing with each other, that might make sense. Instead, they had a pretty terrible conference.
I have to separate the conferences from the games, because the people in them just suck
I really like the idea of A Way Out, although it remains to be seen how fun it is. I'll play it (coop obviously) for the story
Anthem has promise, but we don't know much yet, so it's whatever
NFS might be fun, but it's no longer a racing game...but this was unsurprising
FIFA 18 is probably going to be the best one yet FWIW, but I don't care much about FIFA
I feel Madden has that same ceiling (and I feel more or less the same about it)
NBA Live looks less terrible than the last several, but see no reason to play it over 2K...yet
Battlefield 1 stuff is whatever
Battlefront 2 has a lot of potential, and I am happy it has a SP component
Did I miss anything? I say C/C+ grade, if Anthem is good then this lineup goes a bit higher for me
I agree with your opening salvo, but I'm not as high on the lineup as you are:
Battlefront II will be my multiplayer game for the holidays and hopefully well into 2018.
I'm very likely to give A Way Out a shot, but I hope it's a $40 MSRP game.
FIFA 17 hasn't gotten enough of my attention, so 18 is a hard sell through no fault of theirs.
I've never bought a NFS that wasn't a Hot Pursuit or Most Wanted. Viewed as an action game instead of racer, I might give this one a shot on the cheap.
Battlefield looks competent, but there just aren't enough hours in the day.
The Anthem tease was a joke, and BioWare is a has-been developer that has begun its EA-driven descent. The odds are against it.
I'd say I couldn't be less interested in Madden except that Live proves that to be incorrect.
I hope that's the worst conference we'll see, but I don't think it will be. A Way Out has set a reasonable bar for pleasant surprise of the show so far.
I wonder if Atari is going to announce this new console that isn't another flashback type of system?
It almost has to be another flashback system. The success of the NES Classic is going to give others the mistaken idea that they can get away raising the price on them, and we've already started to see that with the Genesis one.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
An ad for The Evil Within 2 went live early on Reddit, so I actually am getting something I asked for this E3!
Supposedly they are working with someone at Atari Age and he said that it was not that kind of console.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Maybe that atari box can play 2600, 5200, 7800 and 8-bit games. Small chance it will play Lynx, no way it will play Jaguar games.
Probably because it supports original carts, just like the Genesis one I mentioned. Why else would they need expertise from Atari Age?Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
This sounds like the best we could hope for. I'd actually probably go for that in fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
It doesn't use carts.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/266...box/?p=3779755
It has nothing to do with legacy hardware.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/266...box/?p=3779920
To say they are working with an AA-er is exaggerating it a bit.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/266...box/?p=3779966
It will be a piece of shit.
http://www.joustwmusings.com
If that's the case, then so is this:Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
There is no room left in the market. The PS4 and Xbox barely have a purpose. There is no way a company with no R&D budget is going to be relevant in any way that doesn't require nostalgia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Dewrito says the Scorpio will be $500, exactly what I said a year ago.
Clearly Ouya-level. but why
It's the long-awaited Atari Panther! They recently found a stack of them in a warehouse.
If it's PS3 powered for $99 I'm in.
It will also actually be called "Xbox Scorpio." Microsoft must have hired Nintendo's naming "expert." Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Scorpio is way too close to Wii and Wii U for the ignorant masses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Unlike Wii and Wii U though they all play the same games.
I expected it to be called Scorpio just because it's been referred to as such for so long.
I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse though from a confusion standpoint.
I think these high end boxes are targeted to "knowledgeable" people though.
I think the name is fine.
BTW, I am excited for this conference, I think this is maybe MS' last chance (or last desire) to do something great in this space. I think if it sucks, you can almost write off MS as being a major player in gaming, PC or otherwise.
That's a great point. Ignoramus X isn't going to opt for the box that's $200 more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
I'm not all that excited, because I will never own an O(ne)SS(corpio), and I don't like UDP or the Windows Store and would rather not support either. However, I do agree with your point about the importance. Microsoft is simultaneously fighting two behemoths in the PS4 and Steam. They need a LOT of content that either won't come to either of those or is somehow better to compete. I think what Mog wants, the 1080p, 60fps, is key. If this is marketed as a native 4K, 30fps box, no one cares.Quote:
BTW, I am excited for this conference, I think this is maybe MS' last chance (or last desire) to do something great in this space. I think if it sucks, you can almost write off MS as being a major player in gaming, PC or otherwise.
I'm not really just talking about console exclusives (or maybe not even the main point). They can still carve out some inroads on the PC side. But it will take more than token initiatives.
I don't really expect there to be much in the way of "this can only play on the box" or even "this can only play on the W Store", but we'll see.
There is not much they can do with Windows beyond what they already have. I treat the Windows Store like Origin. I will buy their games on it and nothing else. I actually like it less than Origin though, because at least EA uses x86 and not that UDP shit. I appreciate Play Anywhere (I think that's what it's called) for a subset of first party games but frankly hope they don't get any more creative.
almost time for round 2
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Speaking of Dewrito: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sue-geoff-keighley