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With E3 less than a month away, I'd say now's the time to start with our predictions. I have a feeling, not sure why, that this year is going to be a little disrupted compared to normal, so it'll be harder to predict, which should make this a little more fun.

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I'm breaking these up by company, but I'm still counting points if I get it right, just not in the right presentation (like P5R coming to Xbox being in a Sega presentation rather than the MS one).

 

Sony

  • PS5 sold so great! We're winning the generation!
  • Horizon Zero Dawn - gameplay reveal; release date announcement; release August/September this year
  • God of War - something in-game, possibly actual gameplay, possibly just an in-engine trailer; release date/window announcement; release November/December this year (or Q4 if they just give a window)
  • At least one new IP announcement/tease from the ~12 or so they said they have in development
  • The Last of Us Part 2 PS5 version detailed
  • Something about PSVR2, even if just a mention
  • Something major getting a PC port

Microsoft (I'm rolling Bethesda into here even though they said their presentations will be separate)

  • Series S/X sold so great! We're winning the generation!
  • Halo Infinite - gameplay re-reveal; release date announcement; release November 11 or 12 (Thursday or Friday before the 20th anniversary of Xbox/Halo: CE), possibly Monday November 15 (the actual anniversary)
  • Forza Horizon 5 - announcement; in-game trailer; release this fall
  • Something major from Bethesda that we haven't seen, possibly Starfield in-game trailer
  • Some 3rd party AAA game coming to Gamepass day-one later in the year
  • Some 3rd party AAA game (possibly old-ish) coming to Gamepass "today" (the day of the conference), "so go play it now!"
  • A bunch more games getting FPS boost
  • Persona 5 Royal for Xbox

Nintendo

  • Breath of the Wild 2 - gameplay/in-game trailer; release date/window; release this fall
  • More Zelda 35th anniversary stuff - WWHD & TPHD Switch ports; Link to the Past remake a la the Link's Awakening one (this is mostly wishful thinking on my part)
  • Switch Pro - announcement; details; 4k when docked (via DLSS); release date; release this fall
  • SMTIV

EA

  • Something new from Respawn, possibly Jedi Fallen Order 2
  • Dragon Age 4
  • SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORTS!

Ubisoft

  • Far Cry 6 - gameplay; release date
  • Details on that f2p Division game
  • Mario vs. Rabbids 2 (more wishful thinking on my part)

ActiBlizzion

  • Blah blah, Call of Duty, blah blah, Hearthstone, blah blah, Call of Duty, blah blah, Call of Duty

Sega/Atlus

  • Possibly the P5R and SMTIV announcements here instead of MS/Nintendo
  • New Sonic game (possibly Mania 2 or something in that style)
  • Something Total War
  • More Atlus games coming to PC

Squenix

  • Avengers roadmap
  • FF16

Capcom

  • REmake 4

General

  • Lots of next-gen upgrades for existing games
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Sony

 

  • Horizon Forbidden West: Cinematic trailer, gameplay trailer, big focus on the haptic stuff, release date of Holidays 2021 but no specifics
  • God of War: Cinematic trailer, no release date yet
  • Trailer showing glimpses of every game that's currently in development, a tiny, tiny tiny hint that Bloodborne 2 is a thing, maybe. :P
  • Details about PSVR
  • Bloodborne to PC :P

 

Microsoft

 

  • Halo Infinite is still a thing, no specific release date but "soon"
  • Forza Horizon 5, trailer, release date, game pass details
  • Skyrim for Series X :P
  • Gears of War movie teased
  • STALKER 2 coming to game pass day 1
  • They're working on their own controller with haptics, will most likely be part of the Elite series

 

Nintendo

 

  • Breath of the Wild 2 still in development, no release date yet
  • More details on Pokemon Legends
  • Switch Pro/XL/2/whatever is announced
  • What's a Metroid? :(
  • Genshin Impact finally released on Switch

EA

 

  • New Battlefield game, will be F2P with battle royale, conquest and gold rush modes
  • Dragon Age, F2P gacha game
  • All sports game double, triple, quadruple down on their microtransactions stuff
  • F1 game will join the club, want to play as Hamilton or drive Checo's Red Bull? Pay up!
  • Dead Space remaster/remake (Yeah right :P)

 

Ubisoft

 

  • Splinter Cell event for one of their games
  • Far Cry 6
  • Breakpoint DLC that moves even further away from the robot storyline
  • That Rainbow Six game with monsters

 

Activision/Blizzard

 

  • Call of Duty stuff
  • Diablo remake stuff
  • WoW stuff
  • What's a StarCraft?
  • Overwatch 2

 

Capcom

 

  • DLC for Village, focusing on Hound Wolf and the BSAA
  • More mercenaries stages for Village, some free, others paid
  • REM4KE, will look absolutely amazing, will be about 20% of the original in terms of content also no more right hands coming off

 

Misc

 

  • XSEED and/or IFI announce they'll be bringing over that Neptunia X Senran Kagura game
  • Ninja Gaiden 4 teased
  • Elden Ring was a collective hallucination
  • Callisto Protocol trailer or just a message from the devs
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  • 4 weeks later...

So most of the big shows were today and now that it's mostly over, there was a shocking lack of anything to get excited about. A lot of games that looked... fine. But nothing that I'm actually hyped about. Closest thing was those Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters and even that seems to be getting Square-Enix'd. Steam and mobile only (at least so far) and basically no details given other than they couldn't be bothered to do a proper collection and will be releasing them individually. People are going through the 30 seconds trailer with a fine tooth comb trying to glean any kind of info lol.

 

Seems like Elden Ring might actually be the only big thing of this entire E3 for me.

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I thought it looked kinda meh, tbh. At least the character designs don't look like shit like the Avengers game, I suppose. But it's so weird to make a Guardians game and have it be single-player where you only play as Star-Lord. You'd think having all the Guardians playable and a co-op feature would be a no-brainer. Based on how it looks, I'm going to guess that it has a super low budget and they just couldn't afford something like that.

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8 hours ago, TheMightyEthan said:

I thought that game had the same problem as the Square Avengers game: it just looked like off-brand MCU characters. At least it's not always-online.

 

100% this. The problem with MCU being so much a part of the zeitgeist is that it is canon for most people. Even if the GOTG Game characters were closer to the comics and therefore more "authentic", I wouldn't even know.

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