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We're one week out from Bethesda kicking off E3 with their press conference. Publisher's and websites E3 schedules are rapidly becoming fleshed out and I will update this post as needed:


All times listed in Pacific. All press conferences are being streamed on Twitch and YouTube. I believe IGN is streaming them also.

Press Conferences:

Sun. June 14th

Bethesda - 7pm

Mon. June 15th

Microsoft - 9:30am
EA - 1pm
Ubisoft - 3pm
Sony - 6pm

Tues. June 16th

Nintendo - 9am
Square-Enix - 10am
PC Gaming Show (co-sponsored by MS) - 5pm


Listed as participants for the PC Gaming Show:



Bethesda also has a schedule of events at their booth for the week. They will not be streaming these events.



Nintendo has announced a handful of events as well:



What each major publisher is confirmed to be showing so far:



Gamespot's schedule. (http://www.gamespot.com/e3/live/) They once again will be having two stages that they will be streaming from for most of E3.

Giantbomb's Schedule:

Made it easier.

Ubisoft is still trying to pass off the Division as a game coming out? /LMAO.... k

Last month they announced it was delayed until early 2016, but it is supposed to be playable at E3. I'm expecting it to be severely scaled back in ambition from what they've shown previously of course.

Yeah that makes me cry.  I really wanted Division to be awesome.

I am interested and looking forward to 'Confused Trash.'

Too lazy to do it, but let's call Fortnight "Tentative Trash."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/08/fortnite-would-be-a-fun-game-if-it-werent-so-complex/

I had completely forgotten about The Division. They must've seen Destiny and started getting second thoughts or something.

That actually sounds interesting, despite how whiny the article is. What seems "too deep" during a few hour press demo sounds like a reason to keep playing later.

At least we get another year of Aisha Tyler doing an incredibly awkward and cringe-filled Ubisoft presentation.  Lets see if we can up the French Canadian count this year.

Ubisoft are the ones who had Mr. Caffeine host a few years ago. Aisha Tyler's stuff is cringe-worthy (not entirely her fault), but it's nowhere near as bad.

(http://i.imgur.com/CD1I9GJ.gif)

+1.  That guy's whining actually makes me want to play it.

Bethesda conference starting up in a few minutes.

After expected showings of Doom and Battlecry, Arkane announces Dishonored 2.

And following some talk about Elder Scrolls online, Bethesda also announces The Elder Scrolls: Legends on PC and iPad. F2P strategy card game.

Fallout Shelter iPhone game looks awesome.

Edit: And it's launching tonight no less.

November 10th release date for Fallout 4.

This is certainly an opinion.

fallout 4 looks awesome

From what I've played of it so far it's pretty good. You could probably come up with your own opinion given that it's available and free.

Not a huge Doom fan, but overall Bethesda is going to be a pretty hard press conference to top and I can see why they felt this would be good time to do their first E3 presser. For me personally, it's going to take a Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement or a really good Mass Effect 4 reveal to top the Fallout stuff (at this point even if Last Guardian gets shown, I can't be bothered to give a shit).

I hate pretty much every mobile game so I guess I just don't get it. Honestly they all look the same to me - I'm mobile game racist.

Doom 4 - seems ok I guess? There doesn't seem to be much going on from a mechanics perspective - you strafe around, you can jump (and double jump? Or maybe just ledge grab?) and you can do melee executions, just like in every other shooter. Will live or die based on the pacing, level design, enemy AI, etc. These aren't areas Id has excelled at in the past 15 years though.

Battlecry looked like a game that should have been cancelled already. Looked janky (the animation was terrible) and it's in a genre that is going to be pretty crowded. Maybe it's super fun and they have faith in the gameplay, but I'd be very nervous if I were them.

Fallout 4 looked good. I mean, it seems like the kind of game people who like Fallout would like.

Dishonored 2 was already known so the only surprise to me was the card game which I don't care about. That said it was a good press conference - lot of gameplay footage without being boring, not a lot of fat. Was a good idea to use videos and not do the dumb thing where a guy comes out on stage with a controller and pretends to play a prerecorded video while blabbing over it.

In terms of content I'm not really into shooters so it didn't excite me, but it was a well put together event.

Edit:

Announcing a game with a release date coming soon is something I hope becomes a trend. Ultimately I think it's better both for consumers and developers.

I've been hearing from pretty reliable sources that Square has  :nda: they'll be announcing that I'm very interested in seeing peoples' reactions to.

FFVII remake?

They already announced the new Deus Ex game, so I'm not sure what else they could announce that I'd care about. That Duke Nukem Forever Final Fantasy XV will actually release sometime this console generation (after they've released some more focus tests demos)? That despite dropping the ball with FFXV, Nomura will totally get Kingdom Hearts III out in a reasonable amount of time? Will they cave and announce an FFVII remake, finally acknowledging that people would rather play a near twenty year old game than any of the crap they put out these days?

Obviously the FFVII remake seems the most likely. I wonder how many people really give a shit about a nostalgia wank though.

 :rock_hard:

Enough people to justify remaking it, is my guess.  I would also buy a remake of IX and XII.  I know a lot of you guys like to shit on FFVII, but I think the masses prefer it over all the others.

I love FFVII, but I don't trust Squeenix to do it right. If they turn it into a fully voiced, linear as hell cutscene fest like XIII then I'm not interested. The great thing about it (and the older FFs in general) is the gradually opening world with that sense of "I see a place I can't get to yet but eventually I'll have a boat/submarine/airship/gold chocobo..."

I don't think it's a matter of shitting on the game, but like I said, almost it's 20 years old now.  You can talk about the masses, but a good chunk of the audience at this point has never even played it, and the things that made it impressive at the time like the cutscenes, aren't impressive anymore. A remake is going to have to rely on the strength of the characters and story, and I really don't think either of those were a high point for the series.

Square should announce a sequel/remake of Chrono series.  :drill:

What do you mean, turn it into a linear as hell cutscene fest. That's what it always was.

FFIV/VI completely remade would be better. But I'm not watching their show because it's trash.

Just like everything else that wasn't Fallout 4. My schedule remains accurate.

So we have Doom 2015: The QuickTime-Ing, which while pretty did absolutely nothing for me.

Dishonored 2 was just cutscenes, and I haven't played the first one even though I own it and think I'll like it.

Fallout 4 looked like much sweetness, though.

Twitch's pre-show is painful.

Watching the presentation of Halo 5 and I am literally fighting not to fall asleep.

(Microsoft Presentation is live if you are bored and want to get more bored http://www.twitch.tv/xbox )

YouTube stream is not bad

XB1 backward compatibility with 360. The might be cool if I had an XB1 and had any 360 games I still felt like playing. Good on them for doing it though.

HOT NEW MASS EFFECT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Hmm, might actually consider the new controller for PC use.

Getting a bit of a Bioshock: Infinite vibe from Fallout 4, not digging it. That game was way too far up its own ass.

Really? EA Access shit?

So bad. Looks and sounds like a mock presentation.

And their biggest title is Garden Warfare 2.

DARK SOULS 3 TRAILER!

Early 2016. Didn't see any mention of exclusivity.

Chrono Trigger sequel or something, yeah.

Cuphead looking pretty good.

Ashen, too. Supposedly they are all Xbox exclusive.

Early Access for Xbone. We are all doomed.

Wow, new Dean Rocket Hall game. And it looks amazing. Some sort of astronaut survival...

At least they're offering free trials for all their early access stuff.

"Hey, remember when Rare was good?"

This holographic thing smells like scam, but it certainly looks amazing.

That table holo was pretty cool... But I too feel it a bit scammy.

Lots of Xbox AND WIN10 stuff. They promoted WIN10 as much as Xbox. Makes me wonder why you would purchase an Xbox if you already have a decent PC.

More sequels and more "remastered" old games.

Yeah, I think I'll be getting the holographic thing because the old lady loved it. And she isn't into tech or gaming. But she thought the idea of watching minecraft like that is awesome.

Doesn't look playable as a 3d holograph yet, though. So squarely in the gimmick category.

The support for the Oculus Rift is cool, though. Hopefully that tech blossoms.

EA kicks things off with Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Edit: And by kick off with, I mean they showed a short trailer and then started talking about other stuff.

Need for Speed seems a little lifeless. Old Republic expansion sounds ok. They always have good CG trailers at least. Unravel looks very charming.

Meh. Let's show the least interesting parts of all 3 games (mako and planetary exploration) and then cutscenes about combat with an unknown force for an unknown reason.

After the last game, they're going to need to come more correct than that.

Sports, Sports, Mobile...

Edit: Pelé rambling on and on. I guess whatever keeps the audience from having to think about FIFA as an organization.

New Mirror's Edge game looks good. Feb. release date.

Edit: And here comes Star Wars Battlefront...

Between this, Pele, and Need For Speed, EA has given a lot of people who aren't native English speakers a lot of time to stand up on stage and talk rather than showing more of the games they're supposed to be introducing.

Fucking Battlefront. 

New South Park game. Superheros this time instead of Fantasy.

Edit: Ubisoft San Francisco? Guess no Obsidian this time?

New game, For Honor. Showing 4v4 multiplayer. Knights, Samurai, and Vikings. Looks like it has potential.

Edit: Now showing an expansion for The Crew. Time to go make myself something to eat.

March release for the Division, supposedly.

LOL. The Division - March 2016. Wonder how much got cut out of it.

Also looks like griefing is allowed and promoted. Fuck that...

edit: omg this is just hard to watch... so awkward.

Only in certain areas I think which is what they were showing off.

Yeah, dark zones. Basically Null-Sec.

Rainbow Six: Siege. AKA the game that has to go against Halo 5, CoD, and Star Wars Battlefront this holiday season.

Video footage of For Honor (http://blog.ubi.com/for-honor-deep-dive/?utm_source=Twitter_owned&utm_medium=Social?utm_term=For_Honor?utm_type=Features&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=E3_2015)

Although it looks good, and might be interesting 4x4 combat wise, it seemed too much like Dynasty Warriors (infinite incarnations) and something likely to be boring and/or repetitive. The pants on head retarded finishing move holding the blade of the sword and bashing/impaling with the pommel made me actually facepalm.

New Ghost Recon game looked real good.

Holding the blade and striking with the pommel was a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordhau

I laughed, that is something I would totally do to my friends.   :awesome_for_real:

Guys...the hololens is super fake.

Come on. MS couldn't get Kinect to work after two iterations, you think they can get this thing that is hand tracking and voice commands and an AR display to work? There have been hands-on impressions of Hololens, it's nothing like what they showed at the conf.

Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me three times?

Sony leading off with Last Guardian.

Edit: I'm going to get annoyed with the sound of the kid calling the animal pretty quickly if I ever play this game.

Supposed 2016 release.

Guerrilla Games new IP Horizon looking very impressive.

asad qisilbash

well a strunk flugget to you sir

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Dinobots?

We might actually get to find out what the hell you actually do in No Man's Sky?

That was pretty cool.

No Man's Sky
Video game
No Man's Sky is an upcoming adventure video game developed and published by British studio Hello Games. Wikipedia
Initial release date: 2015
Developer: Hello Games
Designer: Gareth Bourn
Publisher: Hello Games
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows

k

No Man's Sky looks sick if they can pull it off...

And Horizons looks nice but has a FFXIII vibe to it.

edit: Dreams just sold a shit ton of copies to all the college pot heads, if they can remember it.

What the hell was that?

media molecule is xyz

liek dis if u cry everytiem

Sketchpad XL

destiny is already dated

damn bungie sucks

OHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT'S WHAT DESTINY REMINDS ME OF

Advent Rising

shit sucks

wait, that's not it, what's that other shitty diablo clone that was mired with lawsuits and shit and was suppsoed to be a trilogy

Too Human!

Fuck Destiny.

Assassin's Creed: Steamlarp

ffvi next you motherfuckers

His fucking suit coat is a travesty.

Surprised they've been talking about games this long. Expecting a bunch of shit like Morpheus and Powers season 2.

FFVII Remake and Shenmue III. Sony going hard after people who can't let go of the past.

Shenmue 3!!*

*if it meets its fucking kickstarter goal

gaming is dead

seriously, kickstarter is dead now

it has literally just been publicly taken over by the gaming industry and turned into their own pre-order tool. Like not just has-been devs and jilted devs who escaped the system, but the system itself.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

someone email kickstarter and get their campaign pulled because Kickstarter's own TOS says that it's not a pre-order tool.

Not sure why Sony is announcing a kickstarter at their E3 conference. If they are that excited about it why don't they fund the damn thing?


Edit: Also Call of Duty. I was genuinely more interested in the TV stuff they were talking about that preceded this.

CoD is still popular? Figured they would give Batman a bit more time and show some gameplay. Nah, let's go with generic FPS game version 10.1.23.

 sorry twee pixel-art indie people, your game about lesbian eskimos will have to wait- EA is using its immense media presence to push their SSX reboot kickstarter and they require $10 million in fake pre-orders to deem it worthy of production

i thoguht uncharted was done

goddamnit get outta here

this uncharted is basically a TERRIBLE run of Splinter Cell

literally a bad jackie chan movie at this point with no kung fu

Uncharted has sucked since the first game.

color commentators for gaming are literally hitler

Nice crash there Naughty Dog.

Shenmue III over half a million already.

It broke KickStarter.

Some good stuff in there. I had hoped for a price drop and/or a new hardware config. Ah well.

I think between Sony and Nintendo this E3 may have killed nostalgia.

what bullshit trash did nintendo announce?

super mario we have no good ideas left?

Ok, so I'm just catching up here.  Why the fuck is there a Kickstarter announcement at E3.

so

let's be sane here

Shenmue 3 belongs on Kickstarter

It is not the crime charging for Skyrim mods was

Just read that the Elite controller MS announced is going to be $150. Wasn't going to buy one anyway, but fuck that.

still worse than a dual shock, I'm sure.

Nintendo just released an AAA game where children turn into squids and shoot paint at each other, so let's make fun of them for making another Mario game.

It belongs on there in that it comes from a guy who hasn't made a good game in at least a couple decades. Sega sure as hell isn't go to throw money at Yu Suzuki to make this game (they already got burned with that once trying to do Shenmue Online).

I'd maybe support a Space Harrier remake, but personally I thought Shenmue was dull as shit. Mostly I just think announcing a Kickstarter at Sony's E3 press conference was maybe a bit wrong.

What part about that is appealing or worth throwing AAA money at?

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Velorath, I am with you, Shenmue is trash. The most overrated trash ever.

That's about on par with other 'pro gaming' controllers like SCUF's products (https://scufgaming.com/).  I'll probably bite once it becomes available, since I can spend AmEx points on Amazon.  I have a hard time figuring out what the flat disc d-pad will be good for, tho.

I was waffling on spending $250 on a custom Ducky Shine 4 with laser printed keys and here you are talking about spending $150 on a fucking controller.

I'm like wat

Fair enough - mostly, I just want the back side buttons/levers and sturdier/adjustable internals.

As someone who has been pretty active on KS over the last few years and knows a bunch of very small (single person) businesses that primarily release new stuff funded by KS...the system is fine. The lesbian eskimos are not going unfunded because Sonysoft decides to utilize the most visible crowdfunding platform.

In fact, I'd say the wads of cash the big project push through KS/Stripe is helping a lot of smaller projects piggyback on improvements to the backend.

And complaining about it being a pre-order store is lulz, bro. Don't like it, don't pledge. Plenty of folks getting some sweet shwag with the 'pre-order' style projects (Zombicide, for instance)

Don't do it the larger keys (space bar, shift, etc.) suck.

I'm already on a Das Keyboard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do the large keys on that keyboard suck as well?

No, so I'm not sure what sucks means. I think I'm the only ex-Model M user that even likes the Das Keyboard. Possibly in the world.

Suck in the case of the Ducky Shine is the horizontal "stabilizer" bars they use in their larger keys have a teeny tiny sweet spots.

The few things I am caring for so far:

- The Division
- Dark Souls 3
- Dean Hall's Ion.
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Mass Effect 4
- Last Guardian
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- No Man's Sky

and of course Fallout 4.

I'm only really interested in Fallout 4 so far since I've pretty much given up on being excited about anything that isn't being released this year.  :oh_i_see:

Well, Shenmue 3 got its 2 million bucks pledged overnight.

That promo video was abominable.

I thought Fallout 4, Uncharted, Unravel, Doom all looked great.  I had low expectations for Doom but I'm very very happy they aren't going the horror route and going back to the original roots.

Eye of the storm - Mad Max looks like it has potential. 

Horizon looked meh.  No Man's Sky again gave an impressive demo and yet still fails to explain if it has any actual gameplay at all. 

I really want to play X-Com 2 with the Hololens on my kitchen island.  That would be so fucking awesome.

That's about what I got from E3.

Nintendo leading off with muppets/furries.  :oh_i_see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0neOi2y1k

Basically nothing new at the SquareEnix presser. Given Sony got the FF7 trailer, if there was another big reveal, I missed it.

If you excuse me I'm going to watch more Fallout 4 footage now.

Nope, that was it.

Also, WTF is Nintendo even doing anymore?

Selling amiibos.

So many amiibros.

All this E3 taught me is I'm just not willing to spend $60 on video games anymore.

Video games not called Diablo, (new gen) Fallout, Demon's Souls, or Magic/Hex, sure.

Nintendo seems quite content to sit at the kids table... and keep towing that anime line. They didn't even have a presentation - they literally put on a puppet show and uploaded it to a server to show on screens.

the doom 4 trailer should have just been absolute pure carnage then suddenly the marine stops, looks at a health pack on the floor, there's a quiet pause, he squints at it, turns around, walks into it backwards, gibs the thing that appeared right the direction he was facing, then he flips back around forwards and the rock music re-engages and it's carnage again until the close title

(http://i.imgur.com/JQSzOHT.jpg)

Who else is doing it? Seems like they are filling a space in the market.


When it is the only thing they are releasing between Smash Brothers, Mario party, and games for the DS, it's pretty much the only thing they are throwing money at. It's a shooter for kids. Great for parents who don't want to buy violent games for their young ones.

The problem is that they're starting to fail at even the staple stuff we come to know as high quality stuff. The latest Mario Party, while adding a fun Bowser mode with the Wii U Pad, has been watered down to practically nothing in terms of skillful play and interaction. Everything seems to be all about Amiibos and cheesy one-trick ponies, with the occasional smash hit.

They may have the monopoly on low-budget, kid friendly stuffs, but even kids reach a point where they can tell the difference between good and bad quality game play.

Nier 2?

Weird and bad feelings about this.

When you're complaining Mario Party isn't skill based enough you need to rethink your priorities.

Um, No? Bumper Balls doesn't need to be Mortal Combat X to have some fun player determination. I am told the new mini-games often come down to little more than rolls of the die. 

Mario Party is the high quality stuff?

Splatoon has gotten pretty good reviews. Mario Kart 8 and the Wii U Smash Bros. are both thought to be some of the best entries in the series. Not sure I see Nintendo failing all that much game-wise.

Just cause 3. https://youtu.be/ggKKCyJXHOA

Unlimited c4 :drill:

Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 1 announced at the PC show. Blizzard announced some free Starcraft II missions that act as a prologue to Legacy of the Void. Guild Wars 2 expansion now available for pre-order and special edition bonuses announced. Gears of War Ultimate Edition coming to PC, blah blah 4K, DX12, blah blah who gives a shit.

On Mario Party:  He is not wrong.  This has always been a game where random chance had an impact on the outcome, but now it is basically completely random chance.  Whatever small amounts of "skillful play" used to be involved are more or less completely gone.  Worse, the game boards themselves are completely linear and without much imagination.  MP games have always fallen a bit short of the mark, but it is becoming worse with every iteration. 

Genei Ibun Roku - Shin Megami Tensei vs Fire Emblem??! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkhJ1LvtkM)


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Ah yes, Fire Emblem, maybe the most overrated RPG series ever. Though Phantasy Star gives it a run for its money.

Paired with Megaten, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

on the Wii U

*hand wave*

it's gone

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/829607/daily/shred.png) 2D Boobs, my greatest weakness.

watched the metroid trailer

Fuck Nintendo.

more interested in the new persona personally

SMT x FE really has nothing to do with either series.

A better name would be "Persona x Idols"

The Hololens presentation has broken all of my bullshit detectors.

http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-hololens-round-2-why-cant-i-see-more-of-thi-1701500831

Keep in mind when reading that though, when everyone Demo'ed it in January everyone had an almost complete FOV.

So yeah, version 1 is probably gimped due to limitations of the portable headset and power usage but what's shown is real, it's just using a full FOV hololens over the camera.

As always, tech is better after v1.

(http://media.giphy.com/media/nNoVgYCOHmshO/giphy.gif)

The demo in January was not hands-on. It was a "live demo" on stage at the Windows 10 event. Even the demo at Build 2015 was not for the general public.

I consider it to be in the same state that most game demos are at E3 (as fake as the tits at a porn convention) until proven otherwise. If it's real - great. Right now it sounds too good to not be complete bullshit. Especially coming from Microsoft who usually overhype their visionary ideas (Microsoft Surface and Kinekt come to mind in recent memory)

Um no?  Many journalists and people were able to put it on and wear it, just not the portable device you are seeing.  They were using a plugged in device with a backpack that could power the full FOV on the prototype but it was fully functional, including Minecraft, the Mars NASA demonstration, and some others.

lmgtfy (https://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2015%2Ccd_max%3A2%2F1%2F2015&q=hololens+hands+on&oq=hololens+hands+on&gs_l=serp.3..0i67j0l5j0i20.1854.3377.0.3514.9.6.0.3.3.0.108.552.4j2.6.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.9.563.ONqoR2WaIvU)

Holy fuck that Battlefront footage is sexy. I know I know its been fluffed for E3 but still...

Hololens is a test to see how gullible people are.

I figured it was kinda like this, http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/24/tardis-ar-greg-kumparak/ (http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/24/tardis-ar-greg-kumparak/)

I'm sure in a few years someone will come out with a makermachine that can destroy and create in a flash that would do this for reals.

Have you seen how slow those goddamn makerbots are?  Gonna be more than a few years, and they're going to have to use something other than molten plastic.

Doesn't the 3DS already do that with it's AR Cards?

I feel like I did mention Nintendo already did what Microsoft is trying to do, but maybe I dreamt it or was just vague or forgot context again.  Doesn't everyone on this board have a 3DS?

My flying car was 10 years away in 1970...

Using this every time haters are hating.  :awesome_for_real:

(http://i.imgur.com/1ny7b8D.gif)