re: 2018 E3 Info/Hype/Discussion Thread: **Press Conference Videos in OP**

I liked Ubisoft. Probably won’t play most of those games but it had good production design and it was charming.

Ghosts of Tsushima looks beautiful, but something seemed a bit off with the combat and movement. Just kind of stiff.

Ready for Spider-Man now. I don’t even want or need to see much more of Last of Us 2. It will obviously be good.

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Personally thought Microsoft killed it this year. 

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How many of the games they showed, other than Gears and Forza, are not gonna be on PS4 as well, if not at launch, at some point? Im sure there are some I am not thinking of, but all of the big titles are gonna be on PS4, That's all I care about.

And yeah most of what Sony showed was stuff we already knew about but we got to see a lot more of it and some actual gameplay.

And still dont know wtf is going on with Death Stranding

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BaddestAndvari

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I'm kind of confused after watching a bit of Ubisoft. They showed Jade in BG&E2, super stoked, but from what I've read, this game is supposed to have happened a couple of generations before the events of the first game. First off, how if they are including Pey'j and Jade, and from what I saw, it looks like they are coming directly from the events at the end of 1.

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I would say overall, Sony fricked up.

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The loot system wasn't great, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it terrible. Likewise with forging.
Don't mind me jumping at you. I just tire of Souls fanbois who (not saying this applies to you) pretend that Souls is a perfect franchise with the first game being beyond criticism while acting like Nioh is complete shite without any redeeming qualities.
Nioh ruined DS for me with the combat/gameplay, which is really what I play those type of action games for.
DS just feels so brain dead in terms of combat.

Now that I look back, both conferences were pretty boring and lackluster. Microsoft spent a shite ton of time talking and jacking off to their games and Sony spent half of their conference with some weird oriental shite. They flat out said midway they weren’t trying to show any big reveals and more so just showcase what’s already been shown. It was all so boring. Hyper-real survival title after survival title with a few changes of pace in between.


I’m not calling off work 1 day to check in 55 hours the next 4 days to see some old bearded cuck play a god damn Japanese bamboo flute before a lame reveal of an East Asian set hack and slash. That’s the kind of shite that happens when you get movie directors and business executives acquiring video game IPs. They do weird shite. Dumb weird shite.

And I’m gonna say it once again. If there wasn’t a Kojima tag on Death Stranding, nobody would care about that game! Every piece of footage I’ve seen from that game just drags and drags. It’s like if you took all the worst parts of The Mist and Insidious and mixed it together with...wait for it....the walking dead....and said let’s make a game!



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Just watched the Spider-Man demo. Holy shite!

Only 3 more months. Time is actually passing by fast

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I just tire of Souls fanbois who (not saying this applies to you) pretend that Souls is a perfect franchise with the first game being beyond criticism while acting like Nioh is complete shite without any redeeming qualities.
Nioh ruined DS for me with the combat/gameplay, which is really what I play those type of action games for.
DS just feels so brain dead in terms of combat.

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they're not perfect, but they are the gold standard of the genre. Every weapon type in Nioh had 2 or 3 moves that you could use over and over that removed all difficulty from the game. That R1 + O move from the sheath is so OP it hurts. it was fun to mix stance combos and weapons on the fly, but even then, i found some inputs that trivialized the game. It was too easy too. Only boss that really kicked my arse in the base game was that bullshite Nobunaga + Snowbitch fight. I think I fell in the water against the blob too. most were beaten on first try.

date shigezane beat my fricking arse in the dlc, where it's VERY clear that they want you to grind in NG+. I pushed through and beat him, finished the first 2 DLCs, and had no interest in the 3rd. Not grinding to beat new content.


i was in every alpha/beta test, and I got the platinum and had a good time with it, but so many things about it were frustrating. Big issues with localization hurt the explanation of a lot of shite. and to quote a buddy "There are only so many rainy villages and caves I can play through." Enemy variety (or lack thereof) was the most frustrating thing for me.

Glad that the Souls combat is evolving a bit, similar to BB.


ETA: also, i really hope there's a long time before release. sequel announced a year later = assassin's creed-esque reskin that's going to feel like DLC

Death Stranding looks flat out dumb. Never got the appeal.