E3 Bullshit Schedule + Schild Spam Thread

[Phildo]

I don't know why I thought I would be able to just read this thread.  I've had to google all two of the vaguely interesting things being discussed.

[Velorath]

Heh, so.. they're ripping off Payday? What the fuck is this mess?

YOU HAVE THE LOOT.

But... it's 32 player Payday. I'm sure it will be kinda fun when they finally get it working 6 months after launch.

[Yegolev]

What are the two interesting things?

[Velorath]

What are the two interesting things?

Was just about to ask that. I've been here for the whole thing and now I feel like I missed something.

[Phildo]

Phantom Dust and, um... Madden?  I don't know, I have a short attention span.

[Yegolev]

I put Phantom Dust in the Infuriating bin.

[Rasix]

OHHH GOD.  He pulls the parachute like 5' from the ground.   

[Mithas]

When I was a kid/teenager/college age I saw all these games I wanted to buy but never had the funds to do it. Now I have a decent paying job and enough money to buy every game and I don't see any that I want to buy. Why does God hate me?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Look, I'm just happy they aren't doing more "army man shooter#45545"

[schild]

Look, I'm just happy they aren't doing more "army man shooter#45545"

You must've missed the 10 minutes they spent on Halo.

[Rokal]

What are the two interesting things?

Tomb Raider sequel and Inside both looked pretty good from the MS conference. EA conference was a wash, for my tastes at least.

[schild]

Inside looked like shitty Limbo.

[Fabricated]

idg who this game is for; just make it a military shootmans again if the heist part is just perfunctory CTF

Like Payday 2 works because you can do it like a movie heist; you can stealth and there's hostages and a plan and everything

this is just CTF with cops and robbers

[Fabricated]

how does a team of not very good coders like Overkill crank out a more entertaining cops vs robbers heist FPS than a combination of two teams that are capable of making amazing games AND a $Texas budget?

[Yegolev]

Missing ingredient: Love.

[Fabricated]

Just FYI this is going down in LA -RIGHT NOW-.

http://abc7.com/live/

There's a standoff with a crazy dude with a rifle who was running from the cops. Hardline ARG???

[Goreschach]

How many times has he been shot with rocket launchers?

[Merusk]

Why does God hate me?

Because you touch yourself at night, Kent.

We know what we like, and we have a well defined bullshit filter.  It's hard to be surprised or excited anymore.   Plus, we're not the dude-bro Madden/Halo/CoD gamer.  At least most of us aren't.

Well all that goes in to Age, yes?  Also in to age; "I know what I like and nobody's making it anymore."  TBS/ TBT were always my favs.  Turn-based is 'too slow' and so out the door. /sigh.

[tmp]

There's a standoff with a crazy dude with a rifle who was running from the cops. Hardline ARG???

Are there cranes and skyscrapers getting torn down?

[Rasix]

Well all that goes in to Age, yes?  Also in to age; "I know what I like and nobody's making it anymore."  TBS/ TBT were always my favs.  Turn-based is 'too slow' and so out the door. /sigh.

True.  I have no idea what point I was trying to make anymore.  I'll attribute that to age as well.  

I just want to see what BethSoft is doing.  Fallout or Elderscrolls would both make me happy, althought Fallout more so.  Rest of this shit I've heard of, was expecting anyways, or don't have a new console to play it on.  There's very little, outside of an exclusive Shadow Hearts reboot, that would get me running to a store for a console at the moment.  

[Hoax]

Why does God hate me?

Because you touch yourself at night, Kent.

We know what we like, and we have a well defined bullshit filter.  It's hard to be surprised or excited anymore.   Plus, we're not the dude-bro Madden/Halo/CoD gamer.  At least most of us aren't.

Well all that goes in to Age, yes?  Also in to age; "I know what I like and nobody's making it anymore."  TBS/ TBT were always my favs.  Turn-based is 'too slow' and so out the door. /sigh.

I feel like a see a ton more turn based then I used to. But I only pay attention to pc games.

To illustrate:
Transistor
Fallen Enchantress
The southpark game
New X-com
New Wasteland
Banner Saga
That Divinity project
Civ obviously

I haven't felt a lack of turn based games that looked like they might be worth playing.

[Fabricated]

just a reminder:

[Merusk]

FE was NOT worth playing, even after I got it for free. It still used the shitty engine from the prior game which had all kinds of nonsense about how the game played in it.  Couldn't stand the slow-ass pace combined with the terrible research and city building methods.  The Turn-based combat was the only decent thing and even that was too easy to cheese.

Many of those I didn't realize were TBS, so now I need to check them out.

[Yegolev]

just a reminder:

[Falconeer]

FE was NOT worth playing, even after I got it for free. It still used the shitty engine from the prior game which had all kinds of nonsense about how the game played in it.  Couldn't stand the slow-ass pace combined with the terrible research and city building methods.  The Turn-based combat was the only decent thing and even that was too easy to cheese.

Many of those I didn't realize were TBS, so now I need to check them out.

I vouch for the new Wasteland being really cool (but not out yet).
And a Jagged Alliance reboot is on its way.

[schild]

Every time I look at the stream it says YOU HAVE THE LOOT

I see nothing interesting enough to dedicate like 20 minutes to. Looks like shitty counterstrike.

[Phildo]

I put Phantom Dust in the Infuriating bin.

See, that's my point.  All I got out of the page it was mentioned on was "new Phantom Dust" and I had to Google why people seemed upset by that.

[schild]

I wasn't upset by a new Phantom Dust. I was upset that I had to own an XBone to play it.

Which will never happen. Because I'm not an idiot.

[Stormwaltz]

Dawngate had been out for a while, yea?

It's been in beta for a year now, with a new block of features coming in every 2-3 months. Today the Living Lore feature went online.

[schild]

Does it... have players? Because honestly, it looks like LoL at launch. And not in a good way.

[Stormwaltz]

All I can really say to that is "yes." It managed to impress Total Biscuit, for whatever that's worth.

They're not trying to push it to a huge audience yet because it's still being built and tweaked.

[Rasix]

I'm not sure there's much of an audience to chase that isn't already enamored with DOTA2 or LoL.    It's like trying to compete with WoW and WoW's more popular brother. Good luck.

[schild]

It managed to impress Total Biscuit, for whatever that's worth.

Nothing.

They're not trying to push it to a huge audience yet because it's still being built and tweaked.

Are they really, really not? Because fuck me is it being covered a lot on Twitch.

[Stormwaltz]

Are they really, really not? Because fuck me is it being covered a lot on Twitch.

They're really not. The Community Manager (ex-Paragon, ex-Mythic) has organized a network of featured Twitch streamers, and they've drawn in a few streamers with a big audience.

But it's all word-of-mouth driven. The marketing budget has been accurately described as "a rounding error."

[Rokal]

Does it... have players? Because honestly, it looks like LoL at launch. And not in a good way.

I've been playing Dawngate pretty regularly for the past 2 months. Queues are always near-instant, so I'm assuming it has a decent player pool.

I like it. The client has a very polished look, gameplay feels more responsive than other MOBAs, and having the 2 lanes with 5 players set up means you don't end up with the same stale lane combinations over and over. You don't just see support + ADC as the only duo lane, and always bot, because some combination of two characters will have to duo the top lane as well. Characters do fall into certain roles that they are stronger at, but the Role system does let you do some unconventional stuff if you want to. Not uncommon to see very offensive characters playing as support (tactician) and making it work, or a mage jungling, etc.

I got so sick of the same stale meta in current MOBAs that it's been very refreshing to play a game where each lane doesn't feel like the same thing every match. I'll frequently see games with 2 ADCs on the same team, or an ADC and a mage in a lane instead of a conventional support character, etc.