E3 2017 Round up

This year's E3 felt like going to the most famous restaurant in the city. You enter and see how amazing everything looks: the decor, the people working, you get the perfect table. You sit down and order the special. Ohh the special, everyone is talking about the special, you should go and order the special. The order comes and the waiter with a smug face unveils the meal. And it's your usual daily lunch.

EA

What can you expect from EA? Sports games, shooters that are after COD, and milking the Star Wars IP as much as possible. The most notable addition to EA conference was the new IP from Bioware. The game takes a striking resemblance to Bungie’s Destiny mixed with Mass effect. The game is set in what seemed like a colony surrounded by huge walls. You get into an exoskeleton suit and venture to explore the planet and take some friends along the way. My only issue with Anthem is the impression I got from the dialogue. The characters seem to “Videogame speak”. When someone gets a rifle they will announce the rifle's name, or that they gained “XP” from killing something.

Ubisoft

Ubisoft had sort of a good E3. They jumped the gun with Farcry releasing a trailer a couple of days before E3 started. The game looked awesome and got many white supremacists mad because you shoot white people.

A new Assassin's Creed was announced after skipping two years. The settings look awesome as it's set in Egypt, but I won't be convinced till I see actual gameplay.

After so many years of waiting for another CG trailer for Beyond good and Evil 2 was shown. So it would probably take another 5 years for us to see it in action.

By far the most interesting looking game from Ubisoft was Mario + Rabbids in a tactical cover shooter akin to XCOM.

Bethesda

Only two games were worthwhile from Bethesda. The new Wolfenstein where the Nazis occupy 60s USA. And The Evil Within 2 got a CG trailer. It looked pretty interesting but I'm not in till I see gameplay, but knowing that Shinji Mikami is working on it make me have to give it another chance since I felt the first one was a bit outdated.

Microsoft

A new system yet not many new and interesting games. It seems MS took the wrong direction which was driven from how they were basically beaten by game critics with almost every 3rd party game release on the Xbox one and ps4. Every game was reviewed as running poorer on the Xbox one. So the new Xbox one x is all about how powerful it is and how it can run games on 4K, but it will set you back 500$.

Other than that, a new Metro game and a new Ori were announced, but nothing else caught my attention.

Sony

Sony learned how to steal the show for the past couple of years, but how they stole it is starting to catch with them. For the past year, they had great showing but most of the games had no release date, with some games being at least 2 years away. So this year all those games are being shown again.

What's is sad about most of those games is how Uncharted like all of them look. The protagonist talk to himself, the games are filled with QTE, and all of them try to achieve realism. And that Detroit game looks awful.

Nintendo

It seems that Nintendo still somehow didn't fuck up anything till today. They also didn't have that big of a showing, but the new Mario Odyssey looks nice. But the most interesting announcement was Metroid Prime 4, which was just a logo subtitled as “Now development started on Metroid Prime 4”. Also, another 2D Metroid game was announced. A remake of the second Metroid which was released on the classic Gameboy. The game is being developed by the makers of the new age Castlevania games, which weren't all that great. But still it's​ a Metroid game so I'm excited.