E3 2016

[opt2not]

Anyone keeping up-to-date with this year's E3?

Last year's E3 was pretty hype IMO, but this year it was all about VR support and established franchises switching up their styles.

Some of my favs from this year's show:

- Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Looks like it could be a fun VR simulator, and I've been wanting to play another Starfleet Academy style game.  I like that everyone has their own role on the bridge, and I am interested in how the missions are handled, whether it be a linear progression or a more open-universe concept.

-Robinson: The Journey
Another VR title. Looks pretty amazing, in a kinda Lost in Space feel.  After this E3 I'm really considering jumping in on the VR train.

- Resident Evil 7
I like the direction they're taking with this. They've changed the style up to more of a First-Person horror game, which for me is a nice fresh take on the series. I hope it ties into the umbrella/biohazard storylines, but by the demo it looks genuinely creepy rather than cheesy-creepy that the RE franchise has built itself on.

- Detroit: Become Human
Wow, I'm really interested in this title for all the choices in story-line you can make. The quality level is super high, but the narrative looks really powerful. Giving the player a lot of choices to change the outcome of the game is going to be really cool. Been looking for a game like this for a while.

- God of War: A New Beginning
Another direction change with this franchise. Loved the look of this game, and it looks like they're going for that Uncharted style of storytelling.  It could be another fresh update to this series.

- Spiderman
This is actually looking like a Spiderman game I'd actually play. The swinging and climbing elements look really good in this, and the combat feels more visceral than what most spiderman games are like.

- The Last Guardian
Officially announced to release on October 25!! New Trailer....HYPE!

- Horizon: Zero Dawn
Saw this last year and didn't really think much about it, till I saw the gameplay footage this year. I love the art-style, in the characters and the robot animals.

I can spout off more titles, like Zelda, or Final Fantasy XV and Paper Mario but those are givens. This year's E3 was pretty hype for me, and the prospect of high quality VR games being released is pretty exciting.   

What were your highlights from this year's E3?

[RetroGreg]

I've only kept up with the Nintendo stuff really. Zelda looks amazingly great and if you're into them I liked some of the amiibos they announced. I did see some of Spider-man and it looked pretty cool.

Retro-bit teased a new console on their Twitter feed that hopefully turns out cool when I hear the details.

My cat knocked my PS4 off of my desk and it broke. It wasn't hooked up so he was able to knock it over easy I guess. I haven't looked into fixing it yet.

[Howard_Casto]

Zelda looks amazing (for a Zelda game).  Everything else is pretty meh. 

I believe Sony is finally realizing that VR is horrible, horrible idea on their part and they are desperately trying to cobble together as many games as they can.  The only thing that looked even remotely interesting on that front was Bridge commander and while I might like a game like that, I'm certainly not willing to invest that much money to play one game and star trek bridge simulator games have traditionally sold as good as purple astro-turf. 

God of War painted itself into a corner and is now shoe-horning in Norse mythology.  I'm sure you'll mash buttons.  I never cared for the series as it's a poor man's Assassin's Creed/Prince of Persia/Castlevania. 

There are a lot of interesting things going on in the indie scene, but it's hard to get excited about budget titles.  I think Friday the 13th will be really fun even if it does look like it was made 7 years ago.

I'm looking forward to Watch Dogs 2, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only one.

There's really not much to get excited about.  The theme of this year seems to be "Hey you know that really expensive game console you bought not too long ago?  Yeah that thing's ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---..... throw it out and buy this new console that's really the old console."

[opt2not]

Steredenn, a PS4 shmup, is looking pretty good. Rogue-like shmup!? cool:


Oh I forgot about Wild Guns: Reloaded!  The E3 gameplay video was released and I gotta say I'm pretty happy with it. 
4-player action, in Widescreen with higher res (updated) sprites. Yes please! Great SNES game and I'm happy to see this obscure title get an update.


The new Shantae game is also looking pretty good. For those who need a good ol' platformer:


Civilization VI is also looking pretty great too!  I might have to get back into playing Civ games!

E3 has been so HYPE this year!  

[pbj]

Watch Dogs, man.  His cell phone was a magic wand and the driving was horrible.  I was completely agnostic to the controversy with that title when I played it and I think it lasted all of 20 minutes on my hard drive.  I am skeptical that anything can be salvaged from it. Does it get better?  Sleeping Dogs had the most excruciating 30 minute slog to start an excellent game that I've ever encountered.  I'm yet to see the hoards of "it gets better" defenders lined up for Watch Dogs, though.

I'll hold out for WiiU Zelda until it's $20.  Last good Zelda game was Phantom Hourglass. 

[thomas_surles]

Yooka laylee! I've been watching this since the beginning of playtonic games. (Former rare guys) not sure if it was at E3 but I saw the E3 titled trailer they finally released so I assume it was. And God of War. Just saw the new teaser yesterday. It looks great. Another reason I should finally get a ps4.

[Speed Racer]

I'm looking forward to Forza Horizon 3. As good as the main series is, I just find the less serious open world Horizon to be more fun.

Might give Dead Rising 4 a look. Didn't like the first 2 games but 3 was decent for a new console launch title.

I think Watch Dogs 2 will right some of the wrongs of the first game (which was far from a bad game itself. Bland story and average driving aside).

Will keep an eye on Dishonored 2. I really liked how the powers system let you play the game in different ways.

I am a little wary of all the "open world action" genre games becoming a little stale... Just so many of them coming out. At least there is no Assassins Creed to be disappointed by this year 

[Howard_Casto]

Watch Dogs was fun despite it's flaws.  Where it really clicked for me was towards the end of the game where you have to infiltrate this redneck compound and kill a few security cameras.  The game wanted you to use stealth but since it doesn't have set fail events like the Assassin's Creed series, I found a better way.... just get caught, run to finish the objective anyway and then drive off in the charger parked outside, with the whole compound chasing you through the woods for miles like an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard. 

It's one of those games where you very much have to make your own fun.  I can imagine it being horrible for those that followed the missions by the numbers. 

I never played DR3 because I hated the first two so bad.  Is it a big departure or something?

[Speed Racer]

DR3 isn't a massive departure from previous games... It's a bigger more open world with much larger hordes of zombies. I find it more fun because surviving/killing the hordes is easier than the other games, which is what I found a bit tedious. In DR3 you also build combo weapons and vehicles from all the junk lying around - a game mechanic that works well.

[Howard_Casto]

I couldn't stand the series due to the stupid time-based mechanic and the fact that the bosses were stupidly hard.  Some of that would have to be changed before I gave it another try.

[pbj]

Watch Dogs didn't click with me.  I've been tempted to try it again because it gets down to $5ish regularly and would be a good entry in my "new PS4 game every week" series. 

Zelda game looks kinda rough in my opinion.  Graphics circa 5 years ago.  Unfortunately all the combat is muted in the trailer so I don't know if Nintendo has ruined it with endless hyuh hyuh HYAH sound effects.  They got it right on the 3DS game, though.

[Howard_Casto]

Well you've got to remember it's a wii u title so it IS graphics circa 5 years ago.  I know it'll be released on the NX as well but I very much expect this to have been a last minute decision like twilight princess on gc/wii where it's really a last gen title shoe-horned in to sell the new console. 

The only thing that concerns me is it looks very much like skyward sword.  Skyward sword probably had the best story in several years but the art design was awful.  It couldn't decide if it wanted to remake twilight princess or wind waker. 

[opt2not]

Watch Dogs didn't click with me.  I've been tempted to try it again because it gets down to $5ish regularly and would be a good entry in my "new PS4 game every week" series. 

Zelda game looks kinda rough in my opinion.  Graphics circa 5 years ago.  Unfortunately all the combat is muted in the trailer so I don't know if Nintendo has ruined it with endless hyuh hyuh HYAH sound effects.  They got it right on the 3DS game, though.

Yeah, I felt the same way about Zelda.  It just looked "ok" to me. Hopefully they'll work on getting it looking better before release, but right now I wasn't really blown away like most people.

Wind Waker was the last Zelda game I enjoyed playing, every zelda game since then has felt like another rehash ala EA sports titles.

[thomas_surles]

I'm ashamed to say how far behind I am on the LOZ series. I've only played through the first one. Started Zelda 2 but didn't care for it. I have almost all of the (except 3ds) just haven't got there yet. So I'm more looking forward to finally playing a link to the past and Oct than the new one.