E3 2017

Revealed that BF1 is getting snow maps. I thought they were actually going to play a bit of it, other than the trailer, but they played one of the night maps instead. Night map looks alright perhaps.

NFS Payback seems rather disappointing to me. We don't want set explosive setpieces damnit.... Also lol they pretty much literally took scrap cars from The Crew (or also FUEL I guess). And I laughed and almost could've sworn that the girl's voice actress is either Zoey from the The Crew or her replacement from the newer expansions.... They're all the same!!!

Interesting (perhaps) was A Way Out by the Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons creator. Definitely not expected from him, but it seems like it might be alright at a discounted price, depending on lenght, and more definitively if you have a buddy. But.... Why did they have to throw in that moment spoiler at the very end? And it's the most extremely cliche moment you could probably possibly grab in that game... That was kind of a negative addition to the trailer. But if there's actually some really good stuff in there, then good.

One of the EA presenters mentioned Deep Learning (AI?) during his short talk about whatever they're calling their innovation initiative now. But nothing yet beyond that. I know Battlefield's and Battlefront's 3rd person player animation has gotten a lot better in the last few games, but there's gotta be more to Deep Learning that they're perhaps looking into. I'm genuinely curious as to what, and if it'll actually go anywhere.

Anthem teaser, Bioware's new IP.

Now for Battlefront 2. Biggest announcement really is that all map dlc and stuff will be free. But still she mentioned that the game is 3x larger than the previous one and I had to laugh. "Oh we get 6 maps now??" Not gonna lie, the game actually looks alright, and they're actually adding more vehicles now, though we only saw 1 map. And, I think perhaps even better yet is that classes are actually back this time. And we get the droid bipeds, however there doesn't seem to be any of the rolling droids. Here's another big thing, no more battle tokens to collect in the field (I don't think) and you can spend accumulative performance points on heroes (and Darth Maul) and starfighters and such. They played their "Operations/Rush" mode, which of course is partially an escort mission again, but with some added usable vehicles. What I want to know is if they uncrapified how their Conquest mode works, if it even has one... Also, you couldn't really tell from the video, but have the set back the starfighter control scheme to something that doesn't suck? ? Also of possible note is that there was mention that various weapons feel different from one another now and there's now a combat roll (which oh boy could be potential trouble). One thing with both Battlefield and Battlefront, which I still haven't really gotten to get a hang of that much (depending on the map) is that extremely aggressive offensiveness is a lot more favored since Battlefield 1 and Battlefront 1. That's just not really how I want to play, but... Also, I mean, I'm still angry at Battlefront 1 because of its lack of content, but I might actually pick up the next one if they've actually fixed Conquest and have maps that aren't all linear.

Holy ****....

New METRO game. That player camera motion did not look final product, not gonna lie...

Assassin's Creed Origins ((Roman?) Egypt)
Not much shown that was really different except using an eagle to help you scout over locations.
You can take and I think keep enemy weapons and of course now there's and RPG and ability points system. Woo originality.
Oh yeah boats are back it seems and you can also steer arrows that you shoot through the air.

State of Decay 2 with a lot of multiplayer.

I have to mention that the presentation for The Darwin Project was hilariously awful (with the Esports commentator). You should watch.

Black Desert coming to Xbox

The Last Night and The Artful Escape, 2 2.5D games with a lot of cinematic camera motion. I think the first one perhaps looks good. Not enough shown on the 2nd one.

The Sea of Thieves gameplay explanation was much better than last year. Had to have a chuckle at not-Craig Ferguson(/Danny O'Dyer? ) There's more to it than I was expecting, though I do want to know more about what you're actually building towards, if there actually is something.

Super Lucky's Tale - Looks pretty decent if you're lookin for a 90s/00s kids platformer with more cute than annoying, which is a good thing.

Cuphead finally gets a release date of Sept 29th.

Not gonna lie, I was... amazed at the absolute lack of building destruction they showed in that Crackdown 3 trailer. Quite a bit of bright particle effects over and over again though. I told you their building destruction system was gonna flop...  Also He said "Agents" and a part of me started to wonder if The Agency was coming back lol.

Ashen looks kinda interesting. Seems Brothers-like, ... which I'm sure was intentional.

Now Middle-earth: Shadow of War..... looks pretty great. That... and an Australian Orc named Bruce. Like... this looks pretty dang entertaining. Though I do wonder just how much cuts to an adversary speaking there's actually going to be in this game... I didn't play the first one, but that was just about this entire trailer. Could be good, but.... a bit much? maybe

Ori sequel.

Backwards compatibility with the first Xbox. (and of course I can't say Xbox1 )

Xbox Scorpio = Xbox One X $499.
Have we learned nothing from Wii U? And this is after the Xbox One S.... Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Great...
But at least it has watercooling... (or vaporchamber or whatever), which was kind of interesting, along with a small formfactor.

A large part of me (admittedly) partially wants to see Sony's ship sink, but even though this is supposedly true 4K, rather than Sony's mostly upscaled 4K, I still feel like lower price, and of course some exclusives, are going to win out for Sony even with whatever comes next.


Oh yeah, Anthem. Of course once again we got fake gamer commentary, but other than that... it looks like... a Destiny style player grouping (though nothing shown of seamlessness other than direct friends) with some Assassin's Creed Unity-like environment icons. Don't know enough to say that it's better than Destiny, but just so far it has a better resemblance to what (we thought) Destiny was originally promising (which it still might not really be doing in D2). And of course the big question mark is, how big is the world really? I wished I could be really excited about it, but damnit... I'm jaded.

So Devolver Digital did have... a thing..... (recommended watch, but language)



Too bad nobody knew when it was going to be or where to find it....

So "Pey'j" is sort of a religious name, and either given to or taken by Pey'j then? Also, we see that the black lady is Shani above. ^ Interesting because I thought it was spelt Shauni in the first game? Oooh, bet her and Jade knew eachother after this story....

My analysis of the easter eggs to find in the BG&E2 trailer:

0:06 - Baby Pey'j artwork on the right, that we haven't seen I don't think but it very much resembles the others.
0:10 - was curious if the wrecked car/cart might've been the one in the original trailer, but it definitely is not.
1:09 - Mammago poster
1:33 - Poster on the right? but I can't tell what it is.
They're stealing an m-disk (though it has a casing like UMD disks lol - didn't have that in the original)
1:56 - devil character hologram?
2:07 - Radio Cheeta? No idea what that is.
2:29 - Hologram of k-bups? Can't really tell, but they're pointy here instead of round.
3:00 - Mammago Rhino (holding "The" wrench) and Shark, and actual box of k-bups
3:03 - Took me a while because of so much motion blur, but M-Disk says "(?) hyllis" on it - which ends up being a map.
3:10 - The dead guy guy represents danger, as stated by Ancel in the interview video.
3:14 - Possible space whale next to ship?