Mister Jack

I would much rather they make a whole new game. Anyone interested in Pokemon already owns a 3DS as it is, so a Switch port seems rather pointless.

I don't really see the problem with doing "Now in development" announcements if they're brief, like the Metroid and Pokemon ones were. They just said "Hey, we're working on it" and moved on. They didn't waste a bunch of time talking to developers behind the scenes who went on about how excited they are to be working on it like EA did that one year. That's something I can definitely understand not liking.

Prime 4 Pokemon on the Switch An actual Metroid on the 3DS that isn't spinoff bullshit They don't have actual footage for the first two yet but weren't people just saying that you like to know you have something to look forward to rather than having a conference with no surprises at all? The fact these games even exist is fantastic news. My E3 ranking goes like this: Nintendo Sony Devolver Ubisoft Microsoft PC show EA Bethesda Yeah, I'm putting Bethesda below EA. EA was shit, but at least they aren't deliberately making the industry worse. Bethesda's constant Skyrim shilling, paid mods, and the fact they expect people to actually pay 60 dollars all over again for Fallout 4 VR kind of make me want them to fail as a company. They haven't even started on Elder Scrolls VI, if rumor is to be believed, and I believe it. Wolfenstein II was not enough for me to forgive all the other bullshit.

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In some more lighthearted news...

Pack it in. Nintendo actually won E3 this year.

Videos that autoplay when you visit someone's Youtube channel. Don't do that.

I don't understand why they'd make a prequel when the whole reason people were clamoring for another game is because the last one ended on a cliffhanger.

I played Monster Hunter 4 on the 3DS. It had some pretty good things going for it, but also some infuriating things as well. The combat is structured in such a way that you gotta learn the flow of your weapons kind of like an MMO character's skills, which is cool, but the game is already damn hard and sometimes it feels like it goes out of its way to make things unnecessarily harder. Healing potions, for example. Why in the name of all that is holy does your character have to stop and pose every time he drinks a potion? I can understand needing enough time to drink the potion without getting hit. That makes sense. But stopping to pose? You're in the middle of a fight, you idiot! Get your head in the game!

I was at work all day and just now got the chance to catch up on today's shows. Ubi was kind of eh for me. They finally made that pirate game I wanted except it's esports shit. They finally revealed Beyond Good and Evil 2 again...and it's a god damn prequel. South Park was neat, but we've known about that game for ages. I still don't care about Assassin's Creed and that spaceship game is doomed to fail. That Rabbids game did not win me over either. It's such a blatant XCOM ripoff that it's embarrassing. Also there is no way that Far Cry 5 trailer was "actual gameplay." You're not gonna trick me again, Ubi. At least they kept the Just Dance cringe to a minimum. I'd give them a C. Sony was good. It wasn't great. It was good. Some of the VR games looked kind of neat. I particularly like the idea behind Moss and would like to know more about it. Uncharted looked okay but I'm kind of burned out on that series at this point. I also don't really feel much excitement for Days Gone. I already played Last of Us and that game doesn't seem very different. I did like what they showed from Dad of War though. Oh yeah, Team Ico games are overrated. There, I said it. Spiderman looked pretty good, although there were a lot more QTEs than I would like. I hope they're not that prevalent throughout the entire game. I'd give them a B-, mostly for Spiderman. So I guess I'd say Sony won? But this year was so underwhelming that that isn't saying much. PC show was a snoozefest. I didn't even bother finishing it. If you don't like survival or RTS games there's really nothing for you there. Also, if I never see another fucking Skyrim announcement in my life it will be too soon.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Fuck the Creation Club. I know paid mods when I see it, Bethesda. I'm on to your shit.

It's certainly the most bizarre E3 presentation I've ever seen.

So, the Microsoft conference. It was okay I guess. I didn't see a whole lot to love in there, but not really anything to hate either. All the good stuff is multiplatform. So it's really not much to write home about, but at least they didn't completely embarrass themselves like EA did. Xbox One X is a stupid fucking name, though. C+

Still strikes me as odd but whatever. They can do what they want.

Evil Within? Didn't everyone basically ignore that game? You can get it for next to nothing these days. Why are they making a sequel?

What did they do with Titanfall 2 again? I didn't realize that game even had microtransactions. Given this is EA, though, I guess I should have.

So did nobody else even watch the EA conference? Frankly, I don't blame you guys. It was exactly what I expected it to be. SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS I don't understand why they even bother wasting time with their sports lineup. Isn't EA the only option for officially licensed NFL, NBA, and FIFA games? If you're a sports nut, you either play EA games or you go fuck yourself. Need for Speed was just completely generic looking, but that's pretty much every Need for Speed game now. That prison game (A Way Out, I think?) looked interesting, at least. Battlefront II looked better than the last one, but that's really not saying much after the first one was so fucking terrible. I might have misheard but I think they said they were dropping the season pass to go with a more Overwatch inspired model of monetization? If so that's definitely a step in the right direction because season passes are a cancer on the industry. Still, way too much uninteresting filler bullshit. D+

Ghost Recon: Wildlands I dunno, this was pretty underwhelming. I was playing with a friend, so I still had fun, but why do your other two AI squadmates disappear the second someone joins you? Doing all these missions with just two people was a pain in the ass. The mandatory stealth missions were super aggravating too. I still got a bunch of missions I haven't beaten, even after finishing the story, but I don't know that I really even want to. The game was okay. I don't want to give the impression that it's terrible because it's not. It's just unambiguously average.

I just beat that game too. Telltale should really do more games with original characters. It allows them to actually have stakes to the conflict. Playing as Batman or whoever, you know going in that he'll be just fine, but I found myself worried for the Tales cast at several points. It makes for much better drama. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Payday 2 is free on steam right now. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

But why?

Wonder Woman I debated on whether this belonged here or in the OK thread, but it squeaks by into this one because I wasn't bored while watching it. Is it cliched? Totally. It hits all the story beats you would probably expect it to. However, it's still fun to watch. There's some questionable CG in there, but not so much that I couldn't deal with it. I'm still getting used to Gal Gadot's accent, but she was better here than she was in Dawn of Justice so I guess she's starting to feel more comfortable in the role. Either that or she got some better direction. There are some nice actions scenes, though these DC movies still have too much fucking slow-mo for my taste. Despite being Wondy's first film, it also showed some restraint and didn't get obnoxiously political, which is a relief because it would have been so easy for them to just make this two hours of all the men being sexist idiots only to get proven wrong by how awesome Wonder Woman is. The supporting cast feel more like actual people than a bunch of strawmen, which ultimately makes the film stronger. If I were to compare it to Marvel movies in terms of quality, I guess I'd stick it somewhere around the level of the first Iron Man film. I definitely liked it more than either of the Thor films.

Does anyone know a good place to sell cd keys? I got a copy of Final Fantasy XIV that I can't use because it's the wrong version. I'm trying to either trade it for the right one or sell it for the equivalent cost. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk