E3 2015 schedule

[Velorath]

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. They once again will be having two stages that they will be streaming from for most of E3.

Giantbomb's Schedule:

[schild]

Made it easier.

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
7PM: Fallout 4 & Trash

Mon. June 15th
9:30AM: Trash
1PM: Trash
3PM: Trash
6PM: Trash & a reminder The Last Guardian will never come out

Tues. June 16th
9AM: Trash for kids
10AM: Cutscenes
5PM: Jokes about PCMR, but mostly trash


Listed as participants for the PC Gaming Show:

[01101010]

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

[Velorath]

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.

[Evildrider]

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

[Ironwood]

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

[schild]

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/

[Fabricated]

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

[Rendakor]

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/

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.

[Rasix]

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.

[Velorath]

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.

[Rasix]

[Samwise]

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/

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.

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

[Velorath]

Bethesda conference starting up in a few minutes.

[Velorath]

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.

[Velorath]

Fallout Shelter iPhone game looks awesome.

Edit: And it's launching tonight no less.

[Velorath]

November 10th release date for Fallout 4.

[Margalis]

Fallout Shelter iPhone game looks awesome.

This is certainly an opinion.

[schild]

fallout 4 looks awesome

[Velorath]

Fallout Shelter iPhone game looks awesome.

This is certainly an opinion.

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).

[Margalis]

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.

[koro]

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

[Rendakor]

FFVII remake?

[Velorath]

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.

[Cyrrex]

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.

 

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.

[Rendakor]

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..."

[Velorath]

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.

 

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 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.

[satael]

Square should announce a sequel/remake of Chrono series. 

[tmp]

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.

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

[schild]

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.

[HaemishM]

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.

[Velorath]

Twitch's pre-show is painful.

[Falconeer]

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 )

[01101010]

YouTube stream is not bad

[Velorath]

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.