E3 2014

[Henry88]

hopefully we will some good stuff this year.

[Dr Kain]

All three companies need to bring their A game to this E3 and just roll out the massive amounts of must own games. If they don't Sony will probably be the only one to come out on top due to how well they are currently doing.

What I want to see:

The end of DLC and season passes.
New Metroid games (3D for Wii U and 2D for 3DS)
A new open world IP
LA Noire 2
Red Dead 3
A new stealth IP
A new Deus Ex
GTAV for PS4
Nintendo do more than promote SSB
MS really prove that they are going to take this generation seriously
Sony to prove the Vita is worth owning
A new Legacy of Kain
HD collections of the Onimusha Trilogy and the Legacy of Kain series
The end of not giving a game an ending just to milk the **** out of it
Square to make a good game again... oh wait, that would take a miracle

[XvGojira]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

My predictions

MS
-Halo 5 shown off
-Halo 1-4 collection annouced later this year for Xbox One
-Next Gears teased
-Direct X 12 showcased

Nintendo
-SSB gets its 3DS and Wii U dates
-Wii U Zelda shown off
-New Metroid shown off
-Wii U hardware remodel (Wii U Slim?)

Sony
-Uncharted Shown off
-PS Now release date and pricing information

Third Party
-Next Gen Rockband shown off
-New IPs
-GTA V annouced for PS4 and Xbox One

Also Kain Season Passes and DLC aren't going any where they're too popular.

[Dr Kain]

[XvGojira]

[Henry88]

hoping to here more about dragon age 3 and mass effect 4

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

I just want news from Shantae

[Dr Kain]

Well for a MS conference that was not bad, not bad at all. I give them a nice B+. Phil Spencer had a great opening bit and the man is far more fan friendly than Don. Still a heavy focus on FPS, but they had a nice variety in the later half of the conference and they did show some really impressive games. Sunset Overdrive, Tomb Raider 2, and Inside being the best of the show. Nevertheless, MS really did bring their A game and finally figured out where their focus should be. They could have used some new info on Quantum Break though. Not a bad start and I really hope both Nintendo and Sony can be just as good, if not better.

[Shokara]

Personally I'm hoping to see and hear more about Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain from Konami, the next Mass Effect game from BioWare, and maybe, just maybe some word on the next Fallout game from Bethesda.

[Dr Kain]

I give EA's conference a D-. They started off with a nice Star Wars video and then dropped the ball with boredom and showed absolutely nothing new with Mirror's Edge 2. Lame, very lame. Oh, and they had what, three new IPs?

[Jorzilla]

Halo collection is tempting, but I'm not sure I can justify nearly $600 + online subscription for games that I already played. I'm going to hold out for first impressions before I make any sort of final decision.

Holding out for PC support. I can dream, can't I?

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

EA's Conference In A Nutshell:

EDIT: At least I got the Shantae news I wanted

[Dr Kain]

OMFG Far Cry 4 looks amazing.

[Dr Kain]

Man, this has to be one of the weakest Ubisoft conferences in years. What happened? MS had a strong conference and Ubisoft had a weak one. Wow. Far Cry 4 looks amazing and my god, I want to climb Chartres Cathedral in Assassin's Creed Unity, but for the most part, this conference was mediocre at best. Yes, there were too many FMV trailers instead of gameplay trailers, but that is just the nature of the beast. My biggest issue though is too much multiplayer focus over single player focus. Anyway, hopefully we will see FC4 gameplay during the Sony conference. Overall, I give Ubisoft a B-.

[Dr Kain]

Sony's press conference has come and gone and while there are an amazing amount of games coming out, there was nothing shown that made me go, "OMG!!!" Well, okay, GTAV alone made me go "OMG!!" but that is because that game is one of the ports I have been wanting on the PS4 for months now. I also want Far Cry 4 and The Last of Us Remasterd, and obviously next year Uncharted 4 and Batman are a must. Destiny really impressed me and if it weren't for being an online multiplayer game, I would definitely get interested in it. Oh, and Mortal Kombat X looks sick. However, the conference did seem to stagger at times and there was a lot of pointless information thrown out, disrupting the flow of games as MS and Ubisoft had. Overall, I give it a B+.

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

Woah Nintendo's was a lot better than I expected.

[Dr Kain]

Well that left a lot to be desired... I give Nintendo's conference a C. The new Zelda games looks down right amazing but they showed us nothing on any games we really did not already know about. Where is the new Metroid? A brand new IP that isn't an online multiplayer? The Robot Chicken skits between segments was cool, but overall, this was a let down.

[XvGojira]

Open world Zelda? Haven't seen that since.. well A Link Between Worlds but it's been some time before that. Still it looks dope a hell. I love the cell shading they're sticking with. It doesn't have the same painting look that Skyward Sword has but that's fine. I love the ancient world tech feel some of the suff has. Not sure about Link's little pony tail though.

While I haven't watched the entire conference, I got to say I love all the stuff Nintendo announced that I've seen. Splatoon looks fun a hell, and the characters are just cute looking. And putting Bayonetta 1 with 2 is kind of genius, makes it even better of a deal. That Xenoblade Chronicals X has some great looking gameplay.

But I did get sucked into the Smash Bros tournament, man that was insane at times.

So I plan on getting a Wii U before fall, that's for sure.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I have mixed feelings about the new Wii U Zelda, on one had I love that it's open world but at the same time that's getting over done. But on the other hand I dislike that it's cel-shaded we got that with the last Zelda game and wind waker. I will admit though I wasn't fond of Wind Waker when it was first annouced but I fell in love with the game after I played it.