E3 2016 - The PC Edition

Dair76

I thought we could have our own E3 thread given that a lot of the stories in the main Gaming Forum's thread simply won't apply to those of us who game on PC only. There'll probably be little excitement by way of PC exclusives, but sure what the hell... At the very least, we won't have to read through the crap about who "won" E3.

Here's the trailer-only thread, although obviously that will include trailers for games that will never see the light of day on PC.

Here's the timetable for the main presentations;





For the cynics amongst us, TB is doing a Snarkathon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m83vN8cTX8

You can follow it on his Twitch channel.


Let the anti-climaxing begin!

Dair76

AMD are hyping up the PC Gaming Show (which they host, iirc). So expect lots of talk about Polaris and VR. The following are going to be there to talk it up as well;

Bohemia Interactive
Borealys Games
Boss Key Studios / Nexon
Digital Extremes
Finji
Microsoft
New World Interactive
NovaQuark
Oculus
Other Ocean Interactive
Paradox Interactive
Relic Entertainment / SEGA
Square Enix / Square Enix Collective
Studio Wildcard
TaleWorlds Entertainment
Torn Banner Studios
Tripwire Interactive

Would be nice to see some more info about Polaris (especially the rumoured 490 card).

Dair76

Pretty poor conference from EA. Hopefully Bethesda do better with the Wolfenstein and Dishonored sequels.

degrassinoel

andromeda got some new tidbits thrown into this video, not much to go on really, but here it is anyway

Zillah

degrassinoel wrote: »

andromeda got some new tidbits thrown into this video, not much to go on really, but here it is anyway

Hypemeter set to TEPID.

Robert ninja

Another E3 summed up by this picture



BF1. Looks impressive visually but ultimately can't get excited for any Origin DRM games nor FPS whose entire infantry shooting requires aim down sights. Had a good laugh about it on mumble when it was live. Don't think I'm even going to bother with Bethesda one. Just gonna play some insurgency for the rest of the night I think.

Dair76

New Quake.

Edit: Called "Quake Champions", seems to be MP only and is a PC exclusive.

Dair76

As rumoured, the trailer for the new version of Prey from Bethesda/Arkane was shown as well. Still has the futuristic sci-fi setting as the abandoned Prey 2, but now has a horror thing going on too. Interest is piqued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpidFeR6W4U

Here's the Quake Champions trailer too;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdH-h8TnL-Y

Robert ninja

Wow Bethesda is buzzwords, buzzwords everywhere!

I hate when they say "Coming to PS4, XBO, and PC." What does PC mean? Did they mean windows mac and linux? Makes about as much sense as saying "Coming to consoles and PC", tells us little about the actual platforms.

lol at that Skyrim remaster. Pretty much basic graphics mods we've had for years but with none of the gameplay mods. Was a no-brainer not charging windows players for it since nobody would buy it. Smart to make it seem like it was being so pro-consumer and nice to the most dedicated fans... yet not ever patching any of the huge issues that the unnoficial skyrim patch had to take care of all this time. No... graphics on PS4/XBO is much more important apparently. Nice try, Todd.

Edit: Microsoft on @ 16:00. Might tune in but I'd be better off skipping it since you know it's all going to be windows 10 and XBO one blabber. Anything less than announcing DX12 on W7-8 will be wasted opportunity.

degrassinoel

Zillah wrote: »

Hypemeter set to TEPID.

i'm kind of annoyed at them over that too, they've less than a year to meet their new release date and so far this is what they've chosen as E3 marketing.

very meh

Shiminay

Tell ya what, MS are pushing the "also on Windows 10" thing just as hard as they said they were going to. It's pretty cool

Dair76

I was watching the match. Worth watching the MS conference later so, Shiminay?

Shiminay

Dair76 wrote: »

I was watching the match. Worth watching the MS conference later so, Shiminay?

Ah, you're probably better off just checking the demo vids than the whole thing, it was a bit Microsoft

Currently watching Cliffy B and Day 9 talking about Lawbreakers which really does look quite fun.

CastorTroy

So the Polaris cards were shown off at the PC show. Couldn't hear what they were saying because the stream I found had a guy shouting over it in Spanish.

Also a few new games shown off. Only one I caught a glimpse of was Observer

Lockheed

Forza Horizon 3 is coming to PC, super pumped for that

Dair76

CastorTroy wrote: »

So the Polaris cards were shown off at the PC show. Couldn't hear what they were saying because the stream I found had a guy shouting over it in Spanish.

Also a few new games shown off. Only one I caught a glimpse of was Observer

Observer looks interesting - a detective game with a horror/cyberpunk theme.

Yeah, nothing exciting regarding the AMD cards from what I saw. The two newly announced cards are lower specced than the 480, so not likely to interest many gamers except those on a tighter budget.

Links234

Dair76 wrote: »

Observer looks interesting - a detective game with a horror/cyberpunk theme.

It definitely looks good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVVJTzX5hM

That and We Happy Few are what's mainly piquing my interest this E3, I really couldn't care for most of the stuff. And Gwent, but that goes without saying. And Dishonored 2 of course.

Links234

Oh and how could I forget Vampyr?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nEEiIws3EQ

Yeah, so there's actually a few games I'm really interested in.

degrassinoel

Potentially brilliant oldschool RPG, by obsidian & paradox, might be worth a look

EoinHef

Anybody know what Bohemia were showing off?

dreamers75

EoinHef wrote: »

Anybody know what Bohemia were showing off?

Apex trailer, its out july 11.

Sea of Thieves looks like fun but I forgot about Msft UWP, so fcuk that.

EoinHef

So they released a sneak preview of the Apex expansion,its under the betas tab on steam. 7.9gb update,had a hour or two of messing around on it checking out the new gear and vehicles and the tanoa map. Theres a decent amount of content,new map,a few new weapons and attachments,vehicles,camos,uniforms etc Also supposed to be a decent performance and graphical update but as its a preview might be a bit early to judge how it runs now

Probably the pick of it for me is the V 44 X Blackfish,it looks like an Osprey and can transport other vehicles and infantry around the map. Also the armed version is basically an AC 130:D

Pity they delayed the full release,thought it was a bit strange to only announce the delay at E3 unless i missed a previous one.

Dair76

M&BII - very much looking forward to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObwq1WaxQ8

Kiith

That looks brilliant. It's probably the game i'm most looking forward to, after spending a huge amount of time on Warband.

TheDoc

Dair76 wrote: »

M&BII - very much looking forward to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObwq1WaxQ8

A game I've always REALLY wanted was to just be a "solider" in a large scale battle. Medival or Roman style time settings. Nothing has every really come close.

I just watched the above without sound cause I'm in work, but looks absolutely terrible. Maybe harsh if its an early alpha, but the swing animations are like PS1 levels of bad, as are the looks.

Dair76

Skerries posted this over in the main E3 trailer thread. Basically, it's a list of every PC game* at E3 2016.

*some aren't really confirmed 100% though, so take with a pinch of salt