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Post by dschult3 on Apr 27, 2022 1:45:22 GMT
I was talking to someone who just brought up the fact that E3 was cancelled. I completely forgot about that. Does it bother anyone that it is gone?
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Post by stratogustav on Apr 27, 2022 1:53:39 GMT
I have to admit that some of the most emotional moments in the industry in recent years have come from E3 announcements. Even from games I didn't follow as much. For example when they dropped Final Fantasy VII Remake some people where on tears. With Resident Evil VII people were jumping on joy. I remember when they announced Ace Combat 7 I was very excited myself. The same thing when Harada announced Tekken 7 in consoles. The game was only on arcades and it was pretty much unreachable in the West. Even recently seeing that Gran Turismo 7 was going to come out, I was hyped. So those things will be missed.
BUT in the big scope of things it doesn't affect me whatsoever. I already have all the games I want to play, there is no need for more games to come out at the moment, so it is fine by me if they take a break for a couple of years while I catch up.
This gen I'm looking forward for games like Dead Or Alive 7, and SoulCalibur VII among others, but for the most part I'm good right now because the previous entries are fairly recent and I'm still playing them.
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Post by dschult3 on Apr 28, 2022 1:41:23 GMT
I have to admit that some of the most emotional moments in the industry in recent years have come from E3 announcements. Even from games I didn't follow as much. BUT in the big scope of things it doesn't affect me whatsoever. I already have all the games I want to play, there is no need for more games to come out at the moment, so it is fine by me if they take a break for a couple of years while I catch up. This gen I'm looking forward for games like Dead Or Alive 7, and SoulCalibur VII among others, but for the most part I'm good right now because the previous entries are fairly recent and I'm still playing them. I mostly don't miss it at all, because I hated how over the top it was. People were more interested in the show instead of the games. The presentations were horrible, and the presenters were hilariously bad. Often times the revealed games rarely showed game play, but instead they showed cut scenes. It reminded me of the Disney World of gaming. It was all hype with a 2 hour wait time to be let down. Now, I will admit that a piece of me misses the anticipation part. However, I think we still get that from State of Plays and Nintendo Directs. |
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Post by stratogustav on Apr 28, 2022 5:01:42 GMT
Yeah, things have changed for sure. I feel the worst part of E3 is how early games would show up, so people will be waiting years before they were able to play the game.
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Post by Cervantes on Apr 28, 2022 22:19:07 GMT
I'll miss all the compilations of cringe moments on YouTube.
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Post by Spirit Bomb on Apr 29, 2022 0:45:00 GMT
Some other neat stuff from today. Turbografx-16 Mini announced. Looks like some of the announced games are from the TurboDuo, which is neat. I haven't grabbed any of the mini consoles yet, but the Turbografx does have a nice library, so good to see this Mana Collection announced for the Switch, and out already. I'm generally happy about this one, as it is great to see an official localized version of Seiken Densetsu 3 (now Trials of Mana) even 24 years later. I never did get to the fan translation, so I'll pick this up at some point. That said...$40 US/$50 CAN is a lot for a 3 game collection from the GB/SNES era. I liked the $30 price point for the Castlevania Collection recently. So, I'll probably wait for this one to go on sale. I've played the remakes of both Final Fantasy Adventure and Secret of Mana recently, so I'll likely only be playing Trials of Mana when I pick it up. Speaking of which, likely the reason it was finally translated...Trials of Mana has remake coming next year. It looks like it is a much more significant remake than the Adventure of Mana/Secret of Mana ones we had in the last few years. I did enjoy both, but aside from some extra dialogue at the inns in Secret of Mana, they were just the originals, in polygons with some remixed tunes. This looks like more of a ground-up remake, and that suites me just fine. It means I can grab both this and the collection and not feel like I'm playing the same game twice. The Link's Awakening remake still looks pretty, and looks like it is going to have a dungeon builder mini-game. We've got a teaser of Breath of the Wild's Sequel. Looks like a direct sequel as well, not just a mini-game. Teaser features Link and Zelda exploring a dungeon. As little as this is, it does have me excited. At the end of Breath of the Wild, I was hoping we'd get to see the pair explore this new world together, and hopefully the dungeon is a hint that Nintendo took the feedback that people felt Breath of the Wild could have used some more tradtional dungeons. I'd love to see Zelda as a player character, or at least some mechanism for them to team up in the dungeons.I know I'm late to respond to this post, but I just want to say that Zelda II The Adventure of Link and Majora's Mask will always be the greatest Zelda sequels in my mind. I replayed Majora's Mask early last year for the first time in almost a decade and wow, what an amazing game. Super dark, extremely creator driven, increased difficulty level, never holds your hand, dark fantasy graphic novel art direction, tons of fresh world building, an entirely new region to explore for once, tons of awesome new mechanics that sadly never made a return like the time limit, the three day cycle, the mask transformations, replayable bosses, replayable dungeons, controlling the flow of time via the ocarina, etc. Even OoT fans were surprised by how different Majora's Mask was when it came out. These modern Zelda sequels like Breath of the Wild 2 just feel like more of the same and I so miss the creator-driven ambition we got with Zelda II and MM. Sigh... |
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Post by dschult3 on Apr 29, 2022 1:26:10 GMT
I'll miss all the compilations of cringe moments on YouTube. Good God, you're right! This will be their legacy: I don't know what was worse: their last in person presentation, or their Zoom presentation. There really isn't much to show from last year's "presentation." Everyone skipped it. |
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Post by dschult3 on Jun 13, 2022 3:45:23 GMT
Should we call this E3 season now? I don't care what we call it, but this "announcement season of 2022" sucks. I'm tired of all the CG video trailers that do not include gameplay. It reminds me of the 360/PS3 era where many gamers were fooled by the trailers.
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Post by Cervantes on Jun 14, 2022 1:56:30 GMT
dschult3 - CG trailers were always useless to me, but now they're even more so since they don't even look as impressive as they did in the early 2000s. Any gameplay video of something like Metal Gear Rising, Furi or Sonic Generations looks much more impressive than any of those pre-baked CG trailers. I'm using slightly older games as an example just to show for how long good gameplay has surpassed any kind of CG trailer.
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Post by stratogustav on Jun 25, 2022 21:26:57 GMT
I saw State Of Play early this month, and the VR2 stuff is exciting, however the most important thing for me to jump on that wagon is that they make it wireless, otherwise I don't see the point.
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Post by dschult3 on Jul 8, 2022 1:19:53 GMT
Apparently E3 is coming back next year. I don't know why, but let's see how that goes. I wasn't a big fan of the "June Summer Games Fest" mentality of random announcements this year, so maybe it'll be cool? Who knows? E3 Returns in June 2023 |
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Post by dschult3 on Jun 8, 2023 21:29:06 GMT
Anybody care about the Summer Game Fest, since it was a replacement for the Expo this year? I wasn't all that impressed. It feels like we are repeating the mistakes of the Atari era: EVERYTHING IS SPACE OR MEDIEVAL!
Spiderman got a release date, and that was cool. Sonic Superstars MAY be interesting. I'm not too sure about the Final Fantasy 7 games, to tell you the truth. I feel like Square is milking that cow dry. Everything else seemed a bit boring to me. I do realize that every game is not for me, so I won't bash it too much. (I hated all of the clapping, though.) Was anyone interested in anything else? Did anyone on this forum care?
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Post by Pimpjira on Jun 15, 2023 20:22:56 GMT
Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor Re Fantizmo are the main announcements I'm interested in. P5 Tactica I'll have to be convinced with more gameplay, really don't like them reusing the Persona Q look for the game.
I still haven't played FFVII Remake and don't plan to get a PS5 anytime soon so no excitement for Rebirth. I am quite interested in FFXVI but not enough to pay $500 for a PS5.
Sonic looks cool but then I saw it has no online and is $70, meh I'll wait for a sale.
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Post by Cervantes on Jun 22, 2023 22:29:49 GMT
Anybody care about the Summer Game Fest, since it was a replacement for the Expo this year? I wasn't all that impressed. It feels like we are repeating the mistakes of the Atari era: EVERYTHING IS SPACE OR MEDIEVAL! Spiderman got a release date, and that was cool. Sonic Superstars MAY be interesting. I'm not too sure about the Final Fantasy 7 games, to tell you the truth. I feel like Square is milking that cow dry. Everything else seemed a bit boring to me. I do realize that every game is not for me, so I won't bash it too much. (I hated all of the clapping, though.) Was anyone interested in anything else? Did anyone on this forum care? It will sound petty, but I think Sonic Superstars is too zoomed in most of the time. The biggest problem with 2d Sonic games is not seeing the danger ahead, which was already fixed by Sonic Generations. It's such a small adjustment to make! Besides that, I'm getting the feeling that the level design has many automated parts, like Sonic CD, which I dislike. I'm interested in the game, but cautiously. While I don't have many hopes for the MGS3 Remake, I'm glad Konami will finally release an updated HD collection. As they are calling this one "Vol. 1", and it already has every game up to MGS3, I think we will finally see a port of MGS4 in the next volume, so I might finally play it. I'm betting on Vol. 2 being Peace Walker, MGS4, MGS5 and Rising, with *maybe* Portable Ops as an extra; if we are REALLY lucky, they might also throw the Acid games in there too, but I doubt it. |
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Post by centipede on Jun 23, 2023 4:19:42 GMT
Who Defeatz: Super Mario Bros. Wonder vs Sonic Superstars?
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