June 18, 2015

Sony's E3 also killed it, but differently and not quite as much

Again, skipping over the bits I don't care about, or where the most I could think is "looks cool, but let's wait to see a bit more:"

Opening goddamn STRONG with The Last Guardian fucking FINALLY and dear sweet baby Jesus please don't let it become vaporware again. It looks amazing, and if the long-ass delay was just a matter of what they wanted to do running into "we could start over on the PS4" then it looks pretty worth the wait.
Horizon: Zero Dawn looks really cool, despite having maybe the stupidest name of anything announced this year. Definitely a departure from Killzone, they are definitely leaving the comfort of that particular style behind, and I can't wait to see how it turns out. I like that their post-apocalypse world has humans actually falling back to pre-industrial habits rather than the usual "the world looks wrecked, but at least we still have all our modern guns and electricity and houses and shit."
I've always enjoyed the Hitman series, so I want to be excited for the new one. But when they talk about a digital release that will grow and evolve, and say they're doing a beta, I'm concerned that we're gonna get some weird online multiplayer focused version of a Hitman game.
I would like No Man's Sky now please. All in for a space game focused on exploring and discovering new shit instead of "BLAST EVERYTHING WITH LASERS."
Dreams looks like the coolest thing Media Molecule has done yet, and everything they've done has already been super fucking cool.
I want Syndicate but frankly Unity pretty much made up my mind on "no more Assassin's Creed games at launch." I do appreciate that Ubisoft seems to have learned that diversity is in fact something that matters and that they should work on that.
Final Fantasy VII remake making heads explode, although chill the fuck out people acting like it's a proof of God's existence religious experience. I'm glad they don't plan to just do the same game with better graphics, too. Maybe we can get a good translation, hopefully flesh out the story a bit, maybe make the story actually good instead of a passable stack of cliches. I wouldn't be surprised if they made Vincent and Yuffie not optional since they've made them a pretty set part of everything FF7 now. And while I don't want it to play like XIII, I won't mind at all if they have some ways in mind to update the systems.
The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter is kinda some gross bullshit. "Give us your money or else you won't be able to give us the rest of your money." I know they aren't the first game to use crowdfunding for just a small part of the budget to be able to show proof of interest to investors who will actually fund the entire game (like Bloodstained!). But they aren't being open about what the real budget will be, or what the intent is to secure the rest of the funding, or even how involved Sony actually is. Also, Shenmue isn't new IP, okay? We have had pretty solid proof of fan's interest in Shenmue 3 for a long-ass time. The idea that years of tweets or statuses or blogs or letters or videos or whatever the fuck else people have done to show their love for Shenmue and their desire for Shenmue 3 don't show that there's interest so they have to ask the fans for monetary proof is kinda garbage. AND since it fuckin' worked, we can probably expect to see this shit more and more in the future. Sarcastic yay.
And we've got Sony now running with Microsoft's timed exclusive content for multiplatform games baton, which is still the same level of bullshit it was when Microsoft did it. That shit needs to die, the sooner the better.
Overall, nice job Sony. It was good, but I can't A+ it in my mind. Not a whole lot of things we'll see this year, a whole lot of 2016 or beyond. And I personally don't care about a couple of their big things, Street Fighter V, Black Ops 3 timed DLC, Disney Infinity pulling another Sony exclusive figure...and I never got into Uncharted, so their big closer did absolutely nothing for me.  High B+

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