Topic: The All-Encompassing E3 2014 Thread

Suda 51 and From Software.

Needless to say the PS4 will continue to sell like crap in Japan.

May hold onto my PS4 a little longer but man they didn't make the PS4 seem headover heels better.

Baffled at people saying the software line up was weak. Let's look at what got announced. Brand new IP from Miyazaki, brand new IP from Suda 51, brand new IP from the creators of Journey. Do you think Nintendo will have 3 new IP tomorrow? 3 new announcements, games we've not had confirmed before? They will show great footage from Smash, X, Bayonetta and Zelda, but that's just the equivelent of Sony showing off new footage of stuff like Arkham Knight, No Man's Sky, Destiny and Uncharted 4. They also announced the re-release of Grim Fandango, a game that's seriously hard to play these days, not only because it's difficult to get a copy, but because it doesn't run on modern operating systems. That's like the Earthbound for Wii U announcement.

I hope to god it doesn't happen, but you just know a huge amount of people here would proclaim Nintendo's event the best, even if they didn't announce anything new tomorrow.

The problem is that we already knew about the best titles, and most games we didn't learn anything of value about them...

Should have showed Persona 5 footage.

The problem is that we never actually saw much of the new software. If I remember, the only new game with footage was Little Big Planet 3, everything else was something we had seen before or a pre rendered trailer. I still was impressed at some of the stuff especially that Arkham Knight trailer.

We know literally nothing about the IP from Miyazaki, and the Suda 51 game has very little known about it. And to be fair all 3 of those aren't new IPs from Sony but from other studios.

Arkham Knight, No Man's Sky, and Destiny are all multiplats. Destiny even comes to previous gen consoles.

Uncharted 4 is the equivalent of Nintendo showing Zelda, it was preconfirmed.

Also the diversity was nonexistent. How many Zombie games were shown again? And how many experimented with unique art styles and tones?

Maybe if the new IP's had some gameplay I'd be interested. All I got from the cgi trailers was "yay, at least it's different."

My thoughts so far...

Microsoft: 72.5% C- Good display, but games could have been better.
EA: 53.2% F- Sports, sports, sports. Look! Star Wars! Oh, wait, just a teaser...Sports, Sports...
Ubisoft: 75.6% C Good display, but some games I couldn't care less for.
Sony -Overall:82% B- Good varied look at new things
-software: 70.3% C- Everything felt sluggish except for the last 3 games (MGS 5, Batman, U4).

So I think the avg opinion I'm hearing on this board is:

Microsoft: B+
EA: F
Ubisoft: B-
Sony: C-

They Literally did a walk though of Entwined.

Bloodborne gameplay

Al you need is kill was a gameplay trailer with live action interspred.

What more do you want.

Also let's be honest nothing Microsoft or sony was going to show would have impressed you dudes, You are the same guys that rag on Sony/MS but defend crap like last year's E3 direct like crazy,

Is entwined a new IP? I thought they just gave an indie game some show time.
And that Bloodbirne gameplay was not shown on stage. They should have presented that mixed with the cgi trailer. That gameplay looks really promising!

Lolno. Last year was boring with the only really outstanding thing being Megaman's reveal.

Well..... the conference wasn't BAD. It was good but man... I got a feeling alotta Japanese gamers are rolling their eyes at the conference. That's really Square Enix's fault for not bringing FF XV and KH3.

Entwined is from Pixel Opus a sony owned developer made up of student interns from the University of Santa Monica.

I agree with the gamplay footage myself.

I mean they both showed new first party IP.

Sony
Entwined
Bloodborne
Let it DIe

Microsoft
Scale Bound
Inside
Ori and the Blind Forest

They both also relased content out today to buy or play.

Oh boy, a walkthrough of what should be an Armor Games flash title...

So from about 5 seconds of gameplay we see that it's an action game. I'm not saying I'm upset about Bloodborne, it's likely a good game. But it's hard to get excited about something I know nothing about.

Look I thought Microsoft's conference was terrific, and I've never owned and likely never will own a Microsoft console. And Nintendo had a rather weak showing last year. So I'm not fanboying. Sony's conference was just bad.

I think I played it on DOSBOX like 5 or 6 years ago, so not sure what you are talking about.

You forgot Phandom Dust and Crackdown.

Microsoft also had several previously announced titles like Fable and Sunset Overdrive and KI, and demoed games much larger in scope than Entwined or LBP3.

And don't forget that all the games you mentioned have trailers that actually tell us something substantial about the games we are going to be playing, even if some of them were CG.

Even the 3rd party multiplats announced at Microsoft's conference were bigger.

And anything that Sony or Microsoft would have shown would have "impressed" those Sony and Microsoft aficionados who roam Nintendo Life obsessively trying to educate everyone about how better the other consoles are, instead of just, you know, playing these consoles. Or I guess waiting for 2015 to play those consoles.