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Lol. So, at this point I guess mainline Halo is just a matter of time? Halo Wars 2 seems inevitable and considering how hard Age of Empire DE is guaranteed to bomb on the Win10 Store, it'll likely join the rest of the series on Steam before long. I just hope Ori 2 won't be the exception. Ori and the Blind Forest was great and I really don't wanna have to skip the sequel.

I was looking through the recent additions on Crunchyroll last night and noticed they added a few more Funimation shows I was hoping for, so I finally caved and resubbed. I really wish there was a better way to find out about these. Like a fucking newsletter or something. Their news feed section is cluttered with so much irrelevant bullshit that it's essentially useless to me. They really need a better way to see a list of all recently added shows and nothing else. Also, with surprisingly good timing, I guess the finale of Attack on Titan Season 2 just came out and they announced Season 3 for 2018 at the end. That's pretty cool because I remember hearing that S2 was gonna be the last one and would have its own anime-original conclusion, which is always such a terrible fucking idea as far as I'm concerned. Now I just need an announcement for Vento Aureo already. I need JoJo back in my life, damnit!

Development on Season 2 is well underway so I think we'll at least get some form of it. The assumption was that the ~40 millions loss Square-Enix mentioned was the budget invested into Season 2. Hopefully they have or can secure funding to fully develop what they intended. But seriously, they finally get a solid Hitman out the door with a solid engine and on a platform they could support with content for years and this fucking happens. Really glad they landed on their feet but fuck Square-Enix so hard for this one.

I'm too cynical not to take this kinda stuff with a grain of salt but they're really going all in on the size thing. Apparently the expansion is so massive they considered using it as the groundwork for XCOM 3. Also, this new system actually sounds pretty damn cool: I really need to do a new campaign before this drops. I only played through it once at launch, so I haven't touched any of the DLC yet despite owning the season pass. A friend of mine was telling me about the bosses from the Alien Hunters DLC last week-end and it sounds pretty sick.

I honestly don't think it is. They prioritize narrative but you're still spending most of your time walking around in an environment, interacting with things and solving puzzles (however downplayed they may be). It's still an adventure game, they just replaced pixel hunting with QTEs. Visual novels are, well, novels. You read them, that's what they are by definition. There are some VNs like Danganronpa, Zero Escape and Ace Attorney that overlap into adventure territory but you're still spending most of your time reading in those. The same is not true for Life is Strange and Telltale's games, their core DNA is fundamentally different.

SteamWorld Heist. Well, this was way better than you would expect "2D XCOM" to be. It seemed like a weird way to follow up SteamWorld Dig but it's a vastly superior game to it, so it ended up working out pretty nicely. It's also a way meatier game, it took me around 20 hours to beat according to Steam. Almost makes me regret waiting for it to be bundled, but then I remember that these guys always release their games as timed exclusives on Nintendo handhelds, so whatever. Hopefully they won't take as long to release SteamWorld Dig 2 on Steam. Lolwut? Life is Strange isn't a visual novel...? Actually, didn't you also refer to Telltale's games as VNs in another thread recently? That's not what they are. If anything, they're the modern version of a point-and-click adventure. Just look at Telltale's first few episodic series up to the first season of The Walking Dead and you can see the formula gradually evolve into what we have now.

I'm skeptical but I don't think it's completely hopeless. Anime games are fucking huge on Steam these days and Persona is pretty much guaranteed to sell very well. I imagine that has to carry some weight in any port discussion. It just needs to outweigh the (proven) stupidity of the people in charge in Japan.

I thought the same thing about Atlus ever since the acquisition, but I'm less optimistic now. It's true that SEGA have a strong presence on PC but it's mostly a SEGA Europe thing. Most of their PC-centric studios are based in Europe and we now know that the PC port effort is also mainly a SEGA Europe thing, with the Japanese branch being largely uninvolved and (seemingly) uninterested. There also seems to be some kind of disconnect between the two. You know that PS4 remaster of Valkyria Chronicles that everyone assumed was just a port of the PC version? Yeah, turns out that was actually a completely different port developed independently in Japan. I mean, that's just mindbogglingly inefficient and implies a pretty serious lack of communication between the branches of the company. At the very least, day and date PC releases of their Japanese-developed PS4 games seems incredibly unlikely if not impossible. All we can realistically hope for is that Japan doesn't block Europe from getting their hands on the games, I think.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! I know better than to get my hopes up but after they finally delivered on Bayonetta and Vanquish... maybe there's actually a chance? Of course, this is a SEGA Europe dude. So who knows what he can realistically get done...

First english trailer for Zwei.

Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting something when making my list. Wargroove looks fucking great! So that's another point for the PC Gaming Show.

Cool, thanks! edit: Nevermind, it was just French PR being dumbasses.

Yeah, I guess. I just think that having literally nothing to show is pretty much the one scenario where you're definitely announcing too early. I'm not gonna give them a pat on the back for showing a fucking logo and having entered pre-production on something people have been asking about for like a decade. Anyway, don't really feel like ranking the conferences because most of them fell into "good, not great" for me. Except for EA, they were trash as usual. A+ for consistency, guys! The highlights for me were: The Evil Within 2 XCOM 2 expansion Wolfenstein II Metro Exodus Griftlands (new Klei game) So, I guess Bethesda and PC Gaming Show technically win. Btw, I'm probably missing something obvious but how do you guys do line breaks without a full line skip? Since the forum update, whenever I hit enter it skips a line and goes to a new paragraph. I had to copy paste Ethan's post to not have my list take double the amount of vertical space.

Those "Now in development!!" announcements are exactly what I was talking about when I said don't go full retard. It just reeks of desperation. The Pokémon Switch announcement I can kinda get since people acted like complete nutjobs over the Ultra Sun/Moon thing. That was probably just to appease the crazies.

Why was this not shown during the stream?!? That certainly explains their treatment of AM2R.

Did they actually show that? I could've sworn it was literally just a logo.

An inexperienced assassin could botch it and just end up really injuring/paralyzing someone! Probably...

Yeah, it's pretty cool that it's coming to PC. I only tried a demo for one of the PSP games and didn't really get it but I'd be willing to give it another shot. Monster Hunter is one of those series that's not insanely popular but the people that are into it seem to be really into it. It just ends up making me super curious because it kinda feels like I'm missing out on something. Same reason I'm curious about Ace Combat 7.

Yeah, that's really dumb. People need to learn some damn patience. If they have something that's ready to be shown, they should show it regardless of how far off the actual game is. Just don't go full retard and start showing concept art and tech demos like EA and Square-Enix did last year. Sometimes I like knowing that a game exists ahead of time. Like, it's cool that Evil Within 2 is coming in just 4 months but I would've been fine waiting a year or longer instead of having to wonder if the IP was dead.

I was hoping for at least one major new game reveal or something. Days Gone, Lost Legacy, God of War and Spider-Man all looked cool but we already knew about all of them and none of the gameplay really blew me away. Detroit looks kinda meh and I'm not really a Monster Hunter fan, so that one did nothing for me. I'm not saying it was awful, Sony are just the ones I usually have the highest expectations from. This has been a pretty good E3 so far, all things considered.

That was kind of underwhelming from Sony. Can't win every year, I guess. Also, am I the only one confused as to why they're remaking Shadow of the Colossus? It just seems... unnecessary.

Meh, they didn't really have a whole lot that I'm all that excited for and they failed to announce a new Splinter Cell. PC Gaming Show was the best one for me, by far. They finally have a normal format like the other conferences and they showed way more stuff that I'm interested in.

Expansion is called War of the Chosen, coming August 29. They claim it's their biggest expansion yet but it's not entirely clear if they mean out of all their games or just compared to Enemy Within (which they specifically said this is twice the size of).

Damn, I really hope that toy space game isn't the only project Ubisoft Toronto are working on. If this is Clint Hocking's game and they don't announce anything again this year, I think I'm gonna have to give up on Splinter Cell.