How did you miss MS basically pulling a 'used games' skit on Sony?

The 'we're not charging you for used games' is a direct shot at PS now'. That's good. Hopefully Sony will let us stream games for free if we already own them, charge us for the rest.

/swoon KH3 was glorious

 

Didn't see the actual FF7 trailer until just now, and holy bejesus, what am I supposed to do with my life until it comes out?

Maybe by the time we're done with FF15 we'll have a date for the remake.

 

For Honor looks pretty damn awesome.

 

I've never owned a console of any kind, so most of the news slips by me. I didn't catch that. Still, if MS needs to take potshots at Sony just to have something to say, they apparently suck.

Besides, the whole conference was basically guests from other companies talking about their games being exclusive to Xbox (and PC in some cases). They really only had 3 things to say for themselves over almost 2 hrs: backwards compatibility, GoW4 and Halo5. And Halo wasn't even big news. The gameplay they showed was nothing spectacular and we've known for months it was coming.

Even EA had more to say despite spending 15 fucking minutes fanboying over Pele and FIFA 16. And I just remembered, when the guy said how everyone is excited about the new Madden and the audience barely made a sound. Golden.

 

Jesus, Nintendo. Worst E3 conference by far.

What is wrong with Japanese people? Why has their taste in gaming degenerated so much?

Of course there are some great games still being developed there, but I feel like they're all more popular in the West than in Japan.

 

Starfox looked awesome.

 

It's because the market in Japan is apparently heading towards mobile games pretty hardcore.

 

Wait, GoW4? What?

 

You think so? I found it underwhelming. It didn't look up to 2015 gaming standards to me.

And that Metroid game looks retarded. I remember playing Super Metroid on SNES and fucking loving it. It was tense and dark, the music was cool, the graphics were really good for the time, and the gameplay was a lot of fun. But Metroid hasn't once reached that level ever since. Personally I think it deserves a serious reboot. I only wish it could be on a platform like the PS4 instead of anything Nintendo.

Back in the SNES and N64 days, I feel like Nintendo games weren't nearly as childish as they tend to be today.

I just hope the open world Zelda, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem will all be good, and more games in their mould will then follow.

 

E3 gameplay

 

I don't really care about modern gaming standards. In fact, most of the games at the other conference just bored me.

Starfox Zero looked like a prettier SF64 - bright, on-rails shooter with fun gameplay mechanics. That's exactly what I wanted.

 

For a minute I thought this meant God of War 4 and was excited. The disappointment is crushing

 

Lol, sorry dude.

 

In that case, fair enough.

 

Even knowing all the shit they removed, I'm still somewhat impressed with Battlefront.

 

Indeed. It's graphically amazing, and the attention to detail in making everything look authentic is really impressive. It really looks like Star Wars, not like a game approximating Star Wars. It's a first day purchase for me.

The games I'm most excited about so far are: Star Wars Battlefront, Fallout 4, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Doom, and Final Fantasy VII Remake. There are some others I'm interested in, but those in the list are the ones I'm more likely to buy.

I never played the Kingdom Hearts games, and they seem a bit kiddy to me, but everyone is going bonkers about Kingdom Hearts III, so I might give it a try.

 

Battlefront will have Co-Op? Finally a Co-Op game I can play on my PS4 (hopefully).

 

Is there any articles out there detailing For Honors game mechanics? From the preview it looked like sweet old school sword technique fighting. But it also seems to have a meta battlefield gaming aspect as well.

Sign. Me. Up.

 

Other than Destiny? (or do you mean local?)

I'll give you something, the Warlock sith lightning looked pretty fucking badass. I'll wait to see if they address my biggest issues though.

Battlefront has singleplayer (co-op with AI vs AI) too, I've not seen anything intricately detailing these yet though. I imagine you'll be playing out famous battles from canon though? I guess?

Everyone will be going hands on this week, so r should be getting detailed write ups.

As for Metroid, go play Axiom Verge on ps4. If you don't mind pixel art (understandable if you don't), it's essentially a love letter to Super Metroid. Came out a couple months ago.

Shenmue is almost at $3m. I'm...not even sure what this means. Pretty sure the original cost $70m... 16 years ago (that might include marketing).

Update: Derp. Seems Sony just said they're partnering and supporting it with their Third Party Productions division 'all the way', despite what they seemed to say during the conference.

 

Pretty sure that this Kickstarter is more or less a PR idea and a way for Sony to gauge the real interest for the game (+gain a loyal and most likely vocal playerbase years/months before the game appears). After all Sony is behind the development team and finances the whole thing.