E3 2017: The Shame of Games

Xbox E3 2017 Briefing

Revealed Scorpio to be "most powerful console, ever" and renamed the Xbox One X. 

Forza 7 racing, revealing Porsche 9-11 GT 2 RS

Game will have dynamic, living environments that change, with weather, debris, and living, moving backgrounds that change/interact properly with night and day aspects. Over 700 cars from brands like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, other large racing brands. Most technically, and comprehensive racing brand. 

XBONE-X Specs

6 teraflopGPU clocked at 1.172Ghz

12 GB of GDDR5 memory

326 GB/s of memory bandwidth 

True 4K

8million+ pixels

HDR High Definition Resolution 

Wide color gamut

Premium Dolby Atmos sound

4K UHD Blu-Ray playback

Backwards compatibility all XBONE accessories and games work on XBONE-X. 

Claims games in current library will look, and play even better. 

Uses technique called "supersampling", games rendered in 4K improves 1080p output. 

Scorpio engine most advanced console processor ever. 16 nanometer technology to build a 360 square millimeter chip with 7 billion transistors, and 384 bit wide memory bust.  Liquid-cooled vapor chamber.  Optimized power management. Smallest Xbox ever. 

Games revealed: 

Metro: Exodus

Assassin's Creed: Origins

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds major announcement/update

State of Decay 2

Major Minecraft update, and 4K resolution updates, larger in-game servers as well. 

The Darwin Project

Dragon Fighter Z 

The MMORPG: Black Desert

The Last Night

The Artful Escape

CodeVein

More gameplay and details on Sea of Thieves

Tacoma

Super Lucky's Tale November 7th

Cup head September 29th release date 

Crackdown 3 November 7th  starring Terry Crewes

Osiris: New Dawn

Raiders of the Broken Planet

Unruly Heroes

Path of Exile

Battlerite

Fable Fortune

Observer

Robocraft Infinity

Dunk Lords

Minion Masters: Forced to Duel

Brawl Out

Ooblets 

Dark and Light

Strange Brigade

Riverbond

Hello Neighbor

Shift

Conan Exiles

Ashen or Aswen

Life is Strange: Before the Strom, three episodes, EP 1 out August 31st. 

Middle-Earth Shadow of War

Ori and the will of the wisps

Expansion of backwards compatibility of Xbox original titles, all older games will look/play better on Xbox One X. 

EA's Anthem ended the show, game will release in 2018. 

There was information on Mixer, and trying to show off how it will be better than the likes of Twitch and YouTube for competitive gaming perhaps? 

Bethesda opens up with children talking about their parents who work with Bethesda, and their affiliates. It was definitely different from most other press conferences I've seen. Bethesda E3 showcase. 'Bethesda-land'.... like an awkward Fallout 4 opening, Pete Hines, Global Vice President PR of Bethesda. There is a look back at Doom, Dishonored 2, Prey, and of course Fallout Shelter 100 million users. Fallout 4, and Skyrim:Special Edition. User mods for console players. Bethesda VR Doom V.F.R. Fallout 4 V.R. Elder Scrolls Online More than 10 million players since 2014. Morrowind new expansion. The marketing was quite impressive, rather funny with the discussion of the bear, and the guy who felt like he was fourteen again. New guilds, and old returning. Horns of the Reach. Mammoths coming soon. Clockwork City, steampunk style. The main game is available now. Elder Scrolls Online: Battlegrounds update. Mods made available to consoles last year. Big announcement on mods. Creation Club. New game content for Skyrim and fallout 4. new crafting, housing features Use credits to download, and it will instantly be inside the game. All content is made from Bethesda Softworks, so it will work with everything saved, currently on your existing game. Elder Scroll Legends. Card game based on Elder Scrolls. Elder Scroll Legends:Heroes of Skyrim 6/29/17. Skyrim coming to the Nintendo Switch, not necessarily news, but being the best example of mobile Skyrim makes the system interesting. You can add Zelda mods, which is kinda cool using Amibo. Sure this was doable with mods, but if it is Nintendo mods precisely, that's pretty impressive. Dishonored Death of the Outsider 9/15/17. New game from the Dishonored Universe. Quake Champions eSports update. Quake World Championships Quake Con August 6th in Dallas Texas. 1,000,000 prize pool. Quake.com for Beta play. Game about a guy named Sebastian who lost his daughter Lily. Game looks like a mixture of psychological thriller, horror, and noir. Kinda comes off like Death Stranding in presentation, but it's entirely different, in-that it looks cultist, and the place is a forest, instead of an oil-covered beach. lots of white paint-like stuff. The Evil Within 2. Friday the 1th October 2017. Strange old-school advertisement that looks a whole lot like a strange crossing of the sound of music and mechanics. odd. like a big machine in Liesel, and Little House on the Prairie, but it looks to be a Germany-WW2 won dystopia. A super intelligent monkey-cat. guy wakes up from a coma, named William. He and his wife are having twins. German Nazis hunting him down, KKK members there as well. Nazi soldier getting strawberry milkshake. Revolution in America. Wolfenstein 2. The New Colossus. Weird cartoon chameleon thing. Guy dropping acid while pregnant woman stabbing Nazis. Sony Press Conference EA Press Conference Battlefield 1 New Update Fifa 2018 Need For Speed Payback gameplay A Way Out Co-Op splitscreen. You have to play with a friend, or online. it forces you to play co-op. Game starts in a prison. One player can be in control while the other is in a cutscene, meaning the cutscenes run in real-time. SO it's basically a prison break that forces you into Co-Op, so good luck ever trhying to finisht he damn game. Early 2018 release date. Anthem NBA Live 18 Star Wars Battlefront 2 There will be a bunch of free games to play all the rest of week, such as Madden, Battlefront, and Garden Warfare The game will have a full offline story mode for Star Wars Battlefront II

   So I sat badk and watched the major press conferences, and also read the general consensus of the gaming community. Many saw this year's E3 as a total waste of time, and see these games, and new consoles as nothing spectacular, but barely keeping up with the times. Granted, most games aren't really even new or world premiere titles,,although many of them were fairly new to me, most were not s surprise. Ironically the biggest surprises I saw were from Nintendo, and with the announcement of a metro id Prime 7, a Rabbids and Mario crossover, also restated in the Ubisoft press conference, which I will do later, there weren't a wholelot of big winners out there. Ever conference was lackluster it seems by the general opinion, but I felt Sony's pr so conference was nice, and elegant, however, it wasn't nearly the showstopper I was hoping for the big winners of last year's press conference to do. Their biggest announcement may be that there was some expansion DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, or Uncharted The Lost Legacy. Most of everything else shown was already old news. God of War, Detroit: Become Human,Days Gone, and even the bug Spider-Man revel wasn't all that big, as they hinted at it last year. To be fair, Spider-Man is great when you're three years old, but he's far from the best character Marvel has to offer. Still, the game looks like a more interactive version of a Tell-Twle title with about as much excitement as a ten year old's sugar high wet dream. It doesn't interest me apnearly as much as the new video of Days Gone, but Sony still hosted the best press conference, but the other guys made it very, very easy to win.  Sony literally showed the exact same line-up, added some drama, and it was still better than anything new or relatively new that Microsoft or Nintendo came up with, and if you think that Scorpio engine is anything more than outdated out of box, then you're living in a pipe dream my friend. The shadow of the colossus remake also was a bit under enthusiastic, as HD remakes came out for PS3, bundled with.Ico. 

       Sony didn't impress me that much this year, but I wasn't surprised, it's too early for big title releases, and most of the major announcement won't be until late October. Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite looked so terrible, I may just cancel my order of it, and the story mode looks so dull, filled with writing a child would call sophomoric, I may just switch over to Dragon Ball Fighter Z. 

        Overall, Sony won, but by the skin of their hypothetical teeth,  I was very unabashed by how terrible their conference was, and quite frankly, I agree that perhaps too much emphasis is out onto E3, and the fan as going to cheer for these underperforming games are just sheep with no true opinion on what they want. Even as a study sample, they fail to just boo shit that comes up on the screen. The VR stuff however, looked okay. Especially with Skyrim in VR, and Fallout 4 in VR, still seems like less for the player, as though they've all plateaued. New IPs are not coming out in AAA status, all indie games seem to be the new AAA, and that's fine to an extent, but I always state that I buy a system that is ultra powered to play the best of the best games, not some two-dimensional games that could run on my SNES. Game are ruining games, and people in the industry a sinking their own ships. It's sad to say that perhaps people should really just agree that the best years of gaming are done. Remember, Skyrim is now being remade in VR, and on the Switch, and the game is over six years old, will be seven once it reaches the new mediums on which it will be played. 

         Nintendo, which announced a new Kirby game, four player it seems, a new Yoshi's title, which does look nice visually, but introduces going behind the stage to flip it, a 2.5 D style, and the new Rabbids and Mario cross over game that is a tactical turn-based strategy, it seemed Nintendo at least has the balls Sony used to have in trees of taking risks. 

       Ubisoft is considered a strangely big indie company that most people have heard of, but also have never played one of their games. Most Americans don't do, nor care much for Ubisoft as a company. Assassin'sCreed is likely the only game franchise they know developed by Ubisoft. Maybe Rayman, but most other things go down the toilet and flushed out to Europe and Canada. Far Cry 5 is however, a more exception than rule situation. Far Cry is a u inquest shooter that tends to rely more on story, survivalist tactics, and is a staple of many gaming homes. Still, Ubisoft doesn't really I press me, not even yearly, nor with their biggest titles. Their Skull and bones concept sounds very boring, in-fact, it is a prettier version of Seaf Theives, but with less options, and more money spent on compsers than talent. Ubisoft looks to continue the dredge of what is a bad E3 year, and I think that most people are too scared toactiakky speak their minds. I know how much work goes into making games, but to call things out as poorly executed, mismanaged, and downright bad from conception to the end product is going to help games get great, not shittier as they have over the past decade. 

     Overall, the bigger announcements, like Monster Hunter, went really that big of a deal for me. I wanna see more multifaceted games, not with one major theme, but also not something that's all over the place.   Nothing really stuck oth for me, although I'm excited to see what happenes after E3, as huge announcements come out almost year-round. This was more like Pee-3 than E3, but maybe that's one me for holding it to such high expectations.  Overall, it was a shame, a very sad shame, even the Internet came together to piss all over it, as though we've all been trolled. Also, if anyone buys South Park: The Fractured But Whole ( a game supposed to be released November 2016, now posted for release October of this year.) you're part of the problem. Also, everyone should just give up on Kingdom Hearts 3, by the time it releases, it'll be as wasted an effort as The Last Guardian was, and remember, Kingdom Hearts 3 was supposed to be released nearly ten years ago, keep that in petrels five.