Mister Jack

I have to agree. Nice to not have tacked on stats for a change. I dismissed the game at first because I thought it was just Samurai Souls but now I'm interested.

Sekiro is confirmed to NOT be an RPG. There are no stats to level or armor and weapons to collect. There are no classes and no multiplayer. It is purely a single player action/stealth game.

Crysis was a good example. It has console ports now, sure, but it was designed first to take advantage of powerful PC hardware. Anyone with even a half-decent PC these days can outperform a PS4 or Xbox One. I don't care if the consoles get to have their ports, but it would have been nice to see someone actually take advantage of that extra power. I wasn't expecting it, mind you, but it would have been nice.

It means that no big company is going to develop a big budget game with the PC first in mind anymore. At best we'll get ports from the consoles and hope that they aren't poorly optimized cash grabs.

Well E3 is more or less over for all intents and purposes so let's see those report cards. EA EA gets an F- from me. That was, no joke, the first E3 conference where I actually fell asleep from boredom while watching it. Not only was it boring, but they also butchered Command and Conquer while they were at it. I don't even play C&C, but I feel so bad for anyone who is a C&C fan. What EA did with your beloved franchise is appalling. One of their worst conferences ever, and for EA that's really saying something. Microsoft Microsoft gets a B. They're improving! Most of their interesting stuff was third party and multiplatform but hey, at least it wasn't boring. There still isn't really any reason to own an Xbox One if you have a decent PC, but I don't think Microsoft cares that much as long as you're using one of their platforms. They showed some cool games. That's what matters. Bethesda Bethesda gets an A. I think they had the best show in the conference. Their non-gaming bits were actually entertaining, Todd stole the show with his charisma, and MOTHER FUCKING DOOM. Fallout 76 looks ok. I'd need to know more about it. The presentation for it was charming, at least. This was a huge turnaround for Bethesda after last year. Devolver Digital Devolver conferences are a meme. There's no point in giving it a grade. It's nice to finally get Metal Wolf Chaos though. Square Enix I hate to say it, but Square gets a D- for that lame show. We already saw almost everything they had to show, and the new things they did show were just teasers with no meaningful information. The only reason I graded them higher than EA is because they at least had the decency to not desecrate a nostalgic franchise in the process. Ubisoft Ubi gets a C. I find myself struggling more and more to care about Ubi franchises with each passing year, but I realize there are a lot of people out there who still buy every new Assassin's Creed. I might be more excited about Beyond Good and Evil 2 but honestly fuck prequels. I'm sick of prequels. You know what? C- for no new Splinter Cell. PC show The PC show gets a C. It was pretty average. The Sega announcement was the best part. Other than that, there wasn't much worth talking about. I saw a few games that I might (might) want to play, but this show just convinced me that the days of big, exciting PC games are probably over. Sony Sony gets...a B, I think. They did have some cool stuff, but they really need to leave the band at home next year. That was just weird and awkward. The games they showed off were interesting, but that gameplay was scripted as all hell. Also Death Stranding had better start making sense soon or I am gonna lose my frickin' mind. Nintendo Nintendo gets a B. Yeah, this is one of those rare years where I really can't say any of the big 3 feels like they have a clear advantage over the other two. Smash looks good, but that was the only thing they had worth mentioning. No Metroid Prime, even. They only announced three new Smash characters too, one of whom is an echo character or whatever they call it. Then they said they won't be bringing in many new characters. I find that kind of disappointing. I know that it's an accomplishment to bring in every previous fighter, but I can think of a few I'd prefer to lose in favor of new, better characters.

Well the only part of Nintendo's E3 that was interesting was Smash, but at least Smash had some good surprises. I'm a little disappointed that we're only getting a few new fighters, though. I would have dumped some of the extraneous Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus trash, but Snake is back so I'm content.

I don't know who is in charge of audio this E3 but they need to be fired.

Finally caught up on all the conferences I missed while I was at work, which was pretty much everything except Square-Enix. Ubi was lame. I don't give a crap about Assassin's Creed anymore. The only thing they had that I was even kind of interested in was the Donkey Kong expansion. Very underwhelming. And who the hell was asking for more For Honor? PC show was average. The Sega announcement was the best part. Other than that there were a few games that looked fun, but nothing that really got me hyped. Pretty average. Still, that Yakuza. Sony was weird. Why do they keep wasting time with these weird musical bits? It was nice to get a better look at some of their games, but that gameplay was scripted as hell. It picked up more in the second half after that RE2 reveal. Slow start but solid if not spectacular finish.

It took me much longer to get to Witcher 3 for the reason Ethan said. Witcher 1 constantly crashed my old pc for reasons I never figured out and then when I finally got to Witcher 3 it turned out that it barely even acknowledges the first game at all.

So if I've never played Yakuza, is this one a good place to start? Fantastic price point, I have to say.

Why even bother announcing Just Dance anymore? We all know it's coming.

What the hell, Square-Enix?! That's it?! That's your show?! That sucked! What happened to you? You used to be cool! That was almost as bad as EA!

God damn, Bethesda really brought their A-game this year. It was sorely needed after the shitshow that was Bethesdaland. I would be happy with the Doom announcement alone, but Fallout 76 actually looks better than I expected. And an Elder Scrolls VI announcement is just the icing on the cake. I don't give a shit about Prey, but the other stuff sounded pretty good!

You know they would. Even if not, I don't want to have to clarify which Doom 2 I'm talking about every time I talk about Doom. I'm fine with the name. Honestly I'd be annoyed if they called it Doom 2.

Fuck yeah! New Doom! Hell on Earth! This is literally exactly what I wanted the whole time!

I finally caught up on the Microsoft conference just in time for Bethesda. They brought some good stuff this year! Of course, almost all of it is multiplatform and a lot of it is also on PS4 but hey, at least they had something interesting to see, which is better than what could be said for their show last year. I'm getting the feeling that Microsoft doesn't actually care about pushing Xbox as a console as much as they care about pushing Microsoft as a platform. I can't help but suspect that they don't care that much about selling you an Xbox if they can at least get you to play the games on Windows 10, which I bet the majority of these games require.

I had to watch the trailer on a phone when it dropped so I'll have to take another look later.

What's wrong with DMC V? I did briefly worry that this was the shitty Dante again but I realized quickly that it was Nero. I'm fine with his new look because he honestly did look too much like Dante in 4.

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We really don't have an e3 thread yet? Well fortunately I made one before the show began. That EA abortion does not count.

Nintendo has already said no virtual console. You're just gonna have to stick to Dolphin. I mean buying the official Wii hardware.