The big E3 discussion thread

martyos121

fergus1001 wrote: »

Hoping for a proper pokemon game for the switch so I can pay 300 euro for one game

My thoughts exactly, that series is the only reason I've ever owned most Nintendo systems. A proper Switch title along the lines of a fuller and longer Colosseum or XD and they'd instantly have my money. They can still leave the top-down series on handheld, but a proper RPG on a home console (based on the same game system and concepts, of course) would be amazing.

MiskyBoyy

Battlefield will be streaming some of the night maps in a few mins if any interest:

https://www.twitch.tv/battlefield

Jamiekelly

How come there has never been a proper AAA prison based RPG game? Always seemed like a better option than what A Way Out looks to be, a linear story driven rip off of Prison Break.

dunworth1

there was this never played it myself

Icyseanfitz

martyos121 wrote: »

My thoughts exactly, that series is the only reason I've ever owned most Nintendo systems. A proper Switch title along the lines of a fuller and longer Colosseum or XD and they'd instantly have my money. They can still leave the top-down series on handheld, but a proper RPG on a home console (based on the same game system and concepts, of course) would be amazing.

i dont see them doing it tbh, they make too much money from having a dedicated handheld device and the only thing that really sells those anymore is pokemon imo. Put a main pokemon rpg onto the switch and theve killed off the ds4 or whatever it will be called

ERG89

Jamiekelly wrote:

How come there has never been a proper AAA prison based RPG game? Always seemed like a better option than what A Way Out looks to be, a linear story driven rip off of Prison Break.

I've never understood why there has never been a game where you play a cop. I know there are stuff like LA Noire or Deadly Premonition but I want a game where I can arrest random people for nothing & express my authoritah!

Gunmonkey

Jamiekelly wrote: »

How come there has never been a proper AAA prison based RPG game? Always seemed like a better option than what A Way Out looks to be, a linear story driven rip off of Prison Break.

Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay would like a word with ya

Mr Crispy

Arkham games. :pac:

Zero-Cool

True Crime LA was a class cop game.

Doctor Nick

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Arkham games. :pac:

What???? Serious?? I'm not watching but that would make my day.

martingriff

Have not been keeping up with much pre E3 stuff but looking forward to more on Far Cry and Assassins Creed. Hope they will show stuff on FF7 remake and Kingdom Hearts 3

Gunmonkey

Another pic of Anthem, Biowares new game. Least there is a definite reason to watch Microsofts conference now

martyos121

They look like Power Rangers on steroids. I'm trying to figure out if that's a good thing or not.

Anyone play dark void? That what that Anthem screen reminds me of

Pac1Man

martyos121 wrote: »

They look like Power Rangers on steroids. I'm trying to figure out if that's a good thing or not.

Tommy: Dragonzord!
Zack: Mastodon!
Kimberly: Pterodactyl!
Billy: Triceratops!
Trini: Saber-Toothed Tiger!
Jason: Tyrannosaurus!

You just know that's what they are shouting behin those masks!

Mr Crispy

Doctor Nick wrote: »

What???? Serious?? I'm not watching but that would make my day.

Nooo. Sorry for getting your hopes up. It was a reply to the OT chat about how few games are set in prisons. Sorry!

Jamiekelly

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay would like a word with ya

Loved that game, it wasn't really an RPG though. Over 13 years ago since it came out as well :eek:

Rossi IRL

No Skate
No Fight Night
No UFC

Dissapointing press conference for me.

Prison game looks decent but looks like a game that will be on EA access after 3 or 4 months.

Jerichoholic

J. Marston wrote: »

Why won't that franchise just die already?

Assassain's Creed is still good. I can't wait for the next one. Black Flag is one of my favorite games ever along with with Brotherhood, I've enjoyed every single one of them. Even the movie isn't that bad.

Why won't that franchise die?

Don't be that guy.

degrassinoel

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Another pic of Anthem, Biowares new game. Least there is a definite reason to watch Microsofts conference now

Bioware jetpacks! Gonna avoid that like it's got the crabs

fergus1001

Half life 3 calling it now

fergus1001

Icyseanfitz wrote:

i dont see them doing it tbh, they make too much money from having a dedicated handheld device and the only thing that really sells those anymore is pokemon imo. Put a main pokemon rpg onto the switch and theve killed off the ds4 or whatever it will be called

They have merged there handheld and home console devisions, the switch is there new hand held and the ds will be phased out

Mr Crispy

Andrew Wilson, on Anthem;

This game is built around a live service, and through our creative process, we've decided to add more to the disruptive new social designs for our players.

Can someone translate please?

5uspect

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Andrew Wilson, on Anthem;



Can someone translate please?

Micro transactions.

Robert ninja

@Darch Nemesis

Always online restriction?

Sephiroth_dude

Jesus divine...Just saw snippets of EA's conference............Cringe fest !

lawlolawl

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Andrew Wilson, on Anthem;



Can someone translate please?

Online only game with a bunch of micro-transactions and very little content that you 'make you own fun' in by running the same content over and over, i would guess.

It's EAs attempt at Destiny.

jcd5971

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Another pic of Anthem, Biowares new game. Least there is a definite reason to watch Microsofts conference now

Dragon age inquisition fooled me, not again bioware i said..
Andromeda fooled me not again bioware i said.....

But this dylan/anthem looks good*


*fast forward some time in 2018/2019

I got fooled again....:(

Jamiekelly

Some on Facebook are already calling it "Call of Destiny, Advanced Halo Warfare"

Grahamer666

Another reason i ditched ****book. Jaysis !!

neirbloom

Looks like every destiny, halo, battlefield Titanfall knockoff made in the past 5 years or so take your pick and this is what they sacrificed MEA for. Better be worth all the hype they surrounded it with. What did Casey Hudson call it "the Bob Dylan of videogames"?

The Specialist

Jamiekelly wrote: »

How come there has never been a proper AAA prison based RPG game? Always seemed like a better option than what A Way Out looks to be, a linear story driven rip off of Prison Break.

The first game that came to my mind when I saw the trailer for A Way Out was Prisoner of War:

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

Great game with really interesting mechanics. Would love to see a reboot of it.

johnny_ultimate

neirbloom wrote: »

What did Casey Hudson call it "the Bob Dylan of videogames"?

He could be on to something: Blonde on Blonde was widely acclaimed on release for telling the story of blandly designed space marines fighting monsters by shooting at them, while using nonsense marketing speak to describe its online features. Still beloved by millions of fans today.

Xenji

It is possible that the Evil Within 2 will be announced today at the Bethesda event, headed up by Mikami again.

Mr Crispy

Xenji wrote: »

It is possible that the Evil Within 2 will be announced today at the Bethesda event, headed up by Mikami again.

Yeah, have read a few rumours to that effect alright. Another Wolfenstein (The New Colossus) is being touted as well; apparently Amazon accidentally added it to the store, albeit briefly.

Anyone else hear the rumour that Bethesda are working on a new sci-fi IP? The "source" claims it'll essentially be TES/FO in space. The same guy also claims L4D3 will be announced this year too, so I'd say I should probably be ignoring him, instead of spreading his sweet lies.

dunworth1

interesting Scorpio placeholder price on Gamestop

Mitch Connor

dunworth1 wrote: »

interesting Scorpio placeholder price on Gamestop

If the price was half that I would think it interesting, but with that placeholder price I can't see what is interesting about it at all

TitianGerm

Mitch Connor wrote: »

If the price was half that I would think it interesting, but with that placeholder price I can't see what is interesting about it at all

I think Scorpio will be €499. Saying that Microsoft announced a price cut to the One S to $199 so maybe we will see Scorpio priced at €399?

dunworth1

Mitch Connor wrote: »

If the price was half that I would think it interesting, but with that placeholder price I can't see what is interesting about it at all

why not have a €1 placeholder price

€999 is high i wonder if GS are expecting a €700/800 price tag

Mitch Connor

emmetkenny wrote: »

I think Scorpio will be €499. Saying that Microsoft announced a price cut to the One S to $199 so maybe we will see Scorpio priced at €399?

I'd be shocked if it came out under 500 - though they could reduce the price by putting a small hard drive in it and 'letting' pole pole supplement it with an external drive.

Mitch Connor

dunworth1 wrote: »

why not have a €1 placeholder price

€999 is high i wonder if GS are expecting a €700/800 price tag

Cause people would try to pre-order at €1 and there would be a stupid internet commotion when GameStop didn't honour that price.

Put the placeholder price way over what it is likely to be and then you don't have to worry about any of that stuff.

dunworth1

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Cause people would try to pre-order at €1 and there would be a stupid internet commotion when GameStop didn't honour that price.

Put the placeholder price way over what it is likely to be and then you don't have to worry about any of that stuff.

it clearly states that its not the final price.

i don't believe people are that stupid that they would somehow think they would get it for €1 it would be a deposit

Mitch Connor

dunworth1 wrote: »

it clearly states that its not the final price.

i don't believe people are that stupid that they would somehow think they would get it for €1 it would be a deposit

You've never seen threads where amazon or Dell missprice high value items? I know it's not the exact same but why do anything that could encourage that type of reaction. 450 to a max 600 imo, and I'd be surprised at 600. It's a big risk at 600 and utterly dead in the water at anything higher - it needs to be lower than you could build a comparable pc.

super_furry

Let me trade in my Xbox One and get the Scorpio for €350 and I'll bite.

dunworth1

Mitch Connor wrote: »

You've never seen threads where amazon or Dell missprice high value items? I know it's not the exact same but why do anything that could encourage that type of reaction. 450 to a max 600 imo, and I'd be surprised at 600

but why even bother to put a placeholder price at all in that case why not just a register interest or coming soon

Mitch Connor

super_furry wrote: »

Let me trade in my Xbox One and get the Scorpio for €350 and I'll bite.

They did a very good deal on trade in for the ps4 base model - specifically against the pro. Think it was a 200 trade in value.

Mitch Connor

dunworth1 wrote: »

but why even bother to put a placeholder price at all in that case why not just a register interest or coming soon

Because this is a pre-order screen, not a register interest screen. Probably needs a price against it for procedural reasons.

Shiminay

dunworth1 wrote: »

it clearly states that its not the final price.

i don't believe people are that stupid that they would somehow think they would get it for €1 it would be a deposit

Have you *met* people? I'm reminded of all those fucwits who took a fortune out of ATMs cause the link to BOI was down and they didn't think they'd have to pay it back despite the fact that the machine keeps logs. Humans are ****ing morons.


Back on topic, the EA event was *very* uninspiring - kinda what I've come to expect from EA.

lawlolawl

The PS4 Pro represents only 1 in every 5 PS4s sold and it only costs €350 (€50 more than the Slim).

The regular Xbox One is getting murdered by the PS4 sales wise and there is very little by way of interesting games on the horizon from MS so a price of anything over €400 will mean that the Scorpio will be dead-on-arrival.

Doesn't help that people who want real eye candy from the likes of Forza will probably just get it for their gaming PC, which they will inevitably have if they are a graphics whore/have more money than sense.

TitianGerm

lawlolawl wrote: »

The PS4 Pro represents only 1 in every 5 PS4s sold and it only costs €350 (€50 more than the Slim).

The regular Xbox One is getting murdered by the PS4 sales wise and there is very little by way of interesting games on the horizon from MS so a price of anything over €400 will mean that the Scorpio will be dead-on-arrival.

I thought I read that in the US Microsoft outsold Sony (One S has outsold the PS4) for the last 5/6 months?

We'll be very surprised how well this will do I'd say. Only 9% of people buy consoles for the exclusives. So if third party games look and play better on Scorpio you'll see plenty of people buying it.