E3 2014
 

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Looking forward to all the E3 Coverage starting tomorrow, Hopefully lots of great announcements.

According to this post Nintendo's E3 direct will only be 30 minutes:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=833554

Disappointing if true, there's not a whole lot they can reveal in 30 minutes.

Prediction: Everyone will be disappointed and sad.

Team The Last Guardian reporting in.

This has to be the year! :dead:

Phantom Pain trailer has been leaked. For anyone who cares, it's right here.

Two posts in and we get an alarmist NeoGAF post. Great.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the only interesting game I've seen announced so far. I hope they make it even better than the first.

The Microsoft Press Conference was pretty good, Lots of Games.

Oh and one of the videos they showed, Had the two guys from SNL talking about what they wanna see, and they were wanted to see a game that is, Ninja Turtles and Batman. :)

Microsoft was solid. Nothing insane or totally out there, but solid. All games and no f*cking around.

The one thing that absolutely pissed me off was the bait and switch with Conker. You get him coming out and chain sawing the Spark logo in half and then "Oh, he's gonna be in this game no one gives a sh*t about. Make it yourself I guess."

So mean spirited and frustrating that I wanted to scream.

Edit: Oh, yeah. And this little bit of insanity. Spoiler tagged for huge image.

Haha, Dead Rising 3: Arcade Remix Hyper Edition DX Plus Alpha looks insanely awesome. Tofu!

Edit: I think I'm most excited for The Master Chief collection so far. Really cool that trailer tied into Halo 5 and YES! Arbiter is back.

I do have hope for Pokken Fighters tomorrow

EA's conference was terrible. Mass Effect and Star Wars Battlefront just showed conceptual footage and Mirror's Edge 2 was the only thing that looked decent.

As for Ubisoft I just can't get excited for another Asssasin's Creed at all.

You and me both, just completely burned out....

E3 has been rather underwhelming so far. Everything we're seeing is far off 2015 games anyway and most of them don't even have proper showcasing. Its hard to get excited about games so far away.

EA, Activision and Ubisoft are literally rehashing the same games over and over again. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assasin's Creed, etc. is so tiring.

Mirror's Edge 2, Star Wars Battlefront, maybe Mass Effect, and The Division look to be the only exciting stuff from them. Thankfully we also have Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat X, Batman Arkham, Metal Gear Solid V, The Witcher 3, etc. from other developers.

I hope Sony announces something good.

AC seems to be heading into fresh territory with four player co-op, so I ain't complaining. Love the fluidity of it all. At least the series hasn't felt as generic as the COD franchise, which is a bigger issue than a yearly release.

Same.

It should be pretty interesting to see how she matures as a character in this one. Could do with less obnoxious moaning, doe...

We're sooo close to the Zelda U Reveal! Just one more day! :D

Hopefully 3 years of waiting pays off.

I'm with you. It's been the number one game I've been looking forward to this E3. I also hope we get a Metroid announcement. I'd like to see another 2D styled game for the 3DS. Hopefully even a part 5 because it's been too long since the story has progressed.

I doubt the Zelda U trailer will be more than a minute of footage.

The Microsoft and Sony conferences got boring with all the "timed' Only On XBOX/Playstation talk, none of that exclusive crap makes any console more appealing, they should spent that money on other stuff.

The Xbox conference didn't show anything exclusive that was appealing to me, I actually got bored from seeing trailer after trailer, some talk about the game is good because if not you kind of realize you're just seeing commercial after commercial. It for a while made me wish it had been done the same way as the previous years.

The Sony conference was like previous years and it made me realize that while the Microsoft conference needed a little more talk between games when they demo games it can be so boring or sometimes they just go on for too long. No Man's Sky peaked my interest, looks amazing and has tons of potential, is it an exclusive? I also liked the "dragon" game controlled by two sticks but counting it's only 10 dollars and they didn't go over much of the game and it's already out so it'll be a small game that could be a nice addition but won't get me to buy a PS4. PSNow is something that I'm curious about, I personally think that's the future of gaming whether gamers like it or not. Wish they had talked more about the VR headset, that's the one thing that would get me to buy a PS4.

For third party games, I'm actually kind of excited for the french revolution Assassins Creed, that's a very interesting time to me and the first AC I'm excited about since Revelations, not that I'm excited of more of the same gameplay though..Mortal Kombat X looks more of the same which is alright, I'll probably get it when it's cheap. I'm glad there's new characters, that's something the previous one lacked. Hope we get more post MKIII returning characters though instead of just the first trilogy characters. Star Wars Battlefront looks like it could be good, not much was shown though, so now they're remaking the games to be included in the new canon? Well I hope it includes the awesome moments from the first(two) Battlefronts. And Yeah Mirrors Edge 2 looked great, I"m glad we're finally getting a sequel, I loved the first one but I hope "re-imagining Faith" and "varied gameplay", doesn't mean this becomes another FPS. But yeah I'll be able to play these games on PC and with better graphics, so yeah, both MS and Sony failed to get me to buy their consoles.

Sony had such a dismal showing. Absolutely nothing interesting. Anything cool was multiplat. Their holiday season is BARREN.

I can't help but feel every game looks too similar to the last generation.

Uncharted 4
Metal Gear Solid V
Tomb Raider sequel
Mortal Kombat 10
Batman Arkham Knight
Assassin's Creed
Far Cry 4
Littlebigplanet 3
Remasters of GTA V and The Last of Us
Typical FPS Call of Duty/Battlefield


No Man's Sky looked interesting but I can't figure out what the gameplay of it was supposed to be.

Exploration maybe? That's what it seems to me.

No Man's Sky looks so amazing, I haven't been this excited for a videogame in forever, I can't remember last time I was this excited for a game, it's been many years. I've looked forward to games but this game seems like an experience that few games recreate and truly immerse me in the world. It seems to be a timed exclusive, which is good so I can just play it on my PC.

I sort of agree, but I guess this generation is still "young", it's just the fact that last gen lasted 8 years that the transition to new types of games is painful. And who knows if it'll change, people seemed to like their generic shooters/zombies/rehashes. I'm hoping it changes but who knows, games have hit a level of mainstream that change might be more gradual from now on just like Hollywood movies...

You two should date.

Excited for Nintendo tomorrow. Hoping for at least one big game reveal that we haven't seen or heard about yet.

Also... Zelda Wii U please.

PS4 lineup looking great, love the From Software title. That's sure to get a lot of play out of me.

LBP3... it seriously looks just like the second game. It doesn't really look like they are making enough changes to it to set it apart from the previous entries. It basically looks like LBP2 with a few new playable characters?

Anyway I slept through most of the stuff today due to my work schedule. I'll be catching up on more trailers in the coming hours.

The amount of zombie games on the market is sickening. Makes me miss the days of classic Resident Evil. I didn't even know The Order 1886 was a zombie game more or less.

I have no interest in any of the FPS games, except maybe Far Cry 4. Even Destiny looked rather meh to me from that opening trailer. I just can't understand how people get so excited for the same FPS they've been recycling since 2007.

I'll add my 2 cents in that it feels like there hasn't been much movement in the industry since last year. It's like we are seeing the same games again. Anything new is either just a proof of concept, a teaser trailer, or am indie game.

Anything that isn't a FPS or indie game is basically sequels to all the big games from the PS3/360 era. Same Uncharted, Batman, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Mortal Kombat, Assassin's Creed, etc.

There were very few new IP's shown that weren't indie games.

and I like some indie games...but they aren't system sellers for me. I need a good reason to invest in a PS4 or Xbox One but I haven't seen it yet. I've got a decent PC build and the only sequels I care about so far are coming out on PC (DA:Inquisition, MK:X, & Witcher 3).

Seriously? It was a CG trailer that implied nothing. I don't get the sudden love affair everyone has with From now. They were constantly dumped on for this entire generation, then put out an accidental classic that's sh*tty and broken in a way people find endearing and suddenly they're an amazing developer ? What?

Nothing exceptional about From's use of CGI trailers... it's not a decision I agree with but they're just following what has now become standard protocol for reveals, particularly for games set in a fantasy world.

Here is the Dark Souls II announcement trailer, also CGI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6uyuIQYlfY

If you want implications, it does the job that most CGI trailers are intended for... beyond trying to look nice it's secondary importance is to set a tone for what to expect from the game, and you can already tell some key differences from the past Souls games even while they are all set in brutal worlds filled with grotesque monsters.

If people are able to still be excited despite it being a CGI trailer instead of a gameplay one, it's only due to their track record. I think most core gamers eschew CGI trailers, generally speaking, unless there is a background of solid games to prop it up.

And hey, I really admire From's rise. Even studios with spotty or mediocre output can turn it around sometimes. They've managed to find a nice niche for themselves and I'm very thankful for that. We need more developers out of Japan that can appeal to such a wide audience.

Nintendo coming up!

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They better reveal Majora's Mask 3D today. That's all I know.

still hoping for Pokken

Uh-oh some of Nintendo's reveals got leaked on Time.com ... careful where you read if you want to be surprised.

LOL that gif is amazing!

Ugh...if that line up is true I'll be pretty disappointed.

Oh wait... back peddling fast now. I saw a game on there for Wii U that just made everything better. :D

Wow, The Legend of Zelda looks ****in' beautiful.

Nintendo's direct was tight.