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Sony E3 Conference 2015
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Melchiah
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+ Horizon
+ Uncharted 4
+ The Last Guardian
+ FFVII remake
+ Firewatch (I've been wishing it would come to consoles)
+ Dreams (seems intriguing, and the smoke effects looked great)
+ Arkham Knight (Scarecrow trailer looked positively nightmarish)
+ Media player update
- No Quantic Dream
- No GOW4
- No Man's Sky presentation failed to impress me as much as the previous ones.
- Rigs doesn't seem like my kind of game.
- While it's great Sony is helping Shenmue 3 to become reality, it really doesn't do anything for me, considering I've never played the previous ones.
Horizon and Uncharted 4 were definitely the stars of the show for me. Both looked absolutely jaw-dropping. It's kinda funny how different approach ND took with the presented gameplay material compared to that of Tomb Raider.
It is to me. I had the 60GB PS3, and I only played three old games with it, one of them was from the PS2 era. I'd rather play noticeably improved remasters, if I'm going to revisit old games again, which is something I very rarily do. And I much rather spend my time playing new games, than old ones.
That being said, BC on the PS4 would be appreciated, as the PS3 is annoyingly slow to use compared to it, but I doubt I would have much of use for the feature.
+ Uncharted 4
+ The Last Guardian
+ FFVII remake
+ Firewatch (I've been wishing it would come to consoles)
+ Dreams (seems intriguing, and the smoke effects looked great)
+ Arkham Knight (Scarecrow trailer looked positively nightmarish)
+ Media player update
- No Quantic Dream
- No GOW4
- No Man's Sky presentation failed to impress me as much as the previous ones.
- Rigs doesn't seem like my kind of game.
- While it's great Sony is helping Shenmue 3 to become reality, it really doesn't do anything for me, considering I've never played the previous ones.
Horizon and Uncharted 4 were definitely the stars of the show for me. Both looked absolutely jaw-dropping. It's kinda funny how different approach ND took with the presented gameplay material compared to that of Tomb Raider.
It is to me. I had the 60GB PS3, and I only played three old games with it, one of them was from the PS2 era. I'd rather play noticeably improved remasters, if I'm going to revisit old games again, which is something I very rarily do. And I much rather spend my time playing new games, than old ones.
That being said, BC on the PS4 would be appreciated, as the PS3 is annoyingly slow to use compared to it, but I doubt I would have much of use for the feature.
Hmmm. You may have articulated why I was disappointed by the conference. They didn't show anything I'm interested in that will be arriving any time soon. I've been trying to reconcile my apathy with all the gushing praise people are giving the conference and I reckon that's largely it. All I really took from it is that Shenmue 3 is now on Kickstarter.
BlackBuzzard
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No Paris game week if anywhere. To try and kill some of the XB1's momentum from Halo 5.
Omnistalgic
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Post like this is why "salt" is brought up. You realize everyone doesn't play 10-15 AAA games a year right? Think of the practical aspect of what MS is even doing. They are releasing forza halo TR and fable within what weeks of each other? How many are going to be busy with Fallout? Or battlefront which looks amazing, or Deatiny or Call of Duty? Why do we even want a ton of first party games for the end of the year? It does not make any sense, and if you ppl would get off the concept of it being a good thing to release a bunch of games in one quarter of the year, you'd see how foolish this notion is of PS4 not having anything for 2015.
Mama Robotnik
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I've had a day to digest it.
Sony's 2015 E3 Conference was the greatest conference - from any game company - ever.
The improbable/impossible barrage of The Last Guardian / Final Fantasy VII / Shenmue III will never be forgotten. Its a conference that made history. In years to come, people will still be talking about it.
Absolute magnificent bastards, the lot of them.
Sony's 2015 E3 Conference was the greatest conference - from any game company - ever.
The improbable/impossible barrage of The Last Guardian / Final Fantasy VII / Shenmue III will never be forgotten. Its a conference that made history. In years to come, people will still be talking about it.
Absolute magnificent bastards, the lot of them.
ajim
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I agree... It's unreal. Still pinching myself
I expect it at the Paris event. Alongside whatever Quantic Dream is working on, a closer look at Dreams, and I'm not convinced that Guerrilla Cambridge has only been working on a Morpheus arena shooter.
Triggerhappytel
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Sigh. The "PS4 has no games" thing won't go away, and it's still bullshit.
July:
GOW3 Remastered
August:
Until Dawn
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Volume
September:
Tearaway Unfolded
SOMA
October:
Uncharted Collection
Tales of Zestiria
Dragon Quest Heroes
Others likely for 2015 but not confirmed include Persona 5, Bloodborne DLC, Rime, Shadow of the Beast, The Tomorrow Children and probably others.
KillerSloth
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Lol. You realize outside halo none of ms exclusives ate going to sell consoles right? Ms doesn't have anything the rest of the year... you also know when someone gets a new console they can buy anything from the library right? Multiples will dominate the fall as will sony world wide. The fall list war is the most embarassing thing I've seen.
Why does only fall matter to some posters?
Newtype-001
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The day will go down in history.
That and Sony have a new found tendency to deliver on fan service.
Still, I think in years to come, you may look back on this as being above and beyond most conferences. Purely in terms of announcements. Unless you're anti-sony in some unfathomable way. Which I don't think you are.
The four Omega symbols at the end of the GoW3 HD trailer signify if we see a fourth entry it will be announced alongside/through a secret ending of that.
That's at the end of October. I would think they would start announcing holiday promotions sooner than that.
I personally prefer the slow year long burn of Sony's approach rather than the stacked as hell Microsoft fall with a literal drought for the other 9 months.
KillerSloth
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Why? Last year they waited about a week before black Friday
Arjen
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That's how I feel. I mean I get people being excited over stuff they wanted for so long I do.
But it's not for me, and there's not really anything coming out for me this year for the PS4, so yeah I'm disapointed. Hope there will be some news about the Bloodborne expansion soon.
SocksAndShoes
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THIS JUST HAPPENED
I forgot about this. That's the greatest name of all time.
Don't waste your time. He's already made up his mind. Using facts won't help. Sony is going into the next 6 months with absolutely nothing and the marketing deals for the biggest 3rd party games don't matter.
Acquiescence
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This is absolute hyperbolic bollocks.
And this reads like a "I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert)..." parody.
KillerSloth
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It's embarassing what it is. Holiday list war, let's ignore the entire year and library and multiplatform. Silly.
Haloid1177
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Persona 5 doesn't stand a chance of releasing this year. We haven't even seen gameplay. And I don't think it's PS4 having no games, more so that Xbox has Halo and Tomb Raider, while Sony really has nothing of that caliber.
KnightHart
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Yeah, it's definitely a pretty big press conference in the grand scheme of things. Like, I'm pretty sure it was their plan, but we'll be talking about this press conferences for fucking YEARS.
Also because the whole "SONY IS FUCKED THIS HOLIDAY" thing is so obviously not going to happen. Not sure what people were expecting when House said it himself a few weeks ago. They're betting on 3rd-party support this holiday and it's totally gonna work out for them because it has for the past 2 years. PS4 is gonna keep chugging along fine it's the XBOne and especially Wii U with backs against the wall if anything.
I'm actually more worried that Sony's gonna enter a comfort zone now. There are 2 sides of this coin. Sony playing it really relaxed and just going with the motion with the same usual franchises and 3rd-party exclusive stuff, and on the opposite side is Sony funding outrageous impossible shit like Grim Fandango.
sony's entire plan right now seems to be bathe in praise for announcements, kick the details into the long grass and when the final product drops, make sure they have another announcement lined up to distract everyone from the disappointment. it's a sales pitch, but they seem far more concerned with making forum headlines than giving me reasons to buy their console.
atleast bloodborne came through.
This is what I don't understand from many of you, lol. It's obvious many poster on GAF are out of touch with the modern gaming landscape. Yeah, those 3 games are significant for enthusiasts who frequent gaming sites and message boards, but for the gaming landscape at large?
Younger gamers probably don't give much of a fuck about Shenmue 3 and FF VII. TLG is borderline, but Ueda games resonate for a niche portion of gamers to begin with. In fact, most people who joined the gaming landscape in the last few years don't have much of an attachment for eastern made game like those of us who grew up with older consoles like the Playstation, Genesis, Saturn, NES, SNES and N64. It's why you have enthusiasts screaming MEGATON when Nintendo announce Mother 1 for the Wii U VC while everyone else in the gaming world goes ?
Sony didn't "win" anything with this conference and I'm sure Shenmue 3 and TLG would / will be niche sellers at best. FF VII remake will fare better, but in 2015 you have wrpg like Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 which will move over 10+ million copies each (Fallout 4 might be another 20+ million seller for Bethesda) along with significant critical praise.
KillerSloth
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A few months later they have uc4. TR will get decimated this fall...they have a ps4. Sony had nothing to worry about
Melchiah
Member
I missed that. Still, I would have liked to see some material about GOW4.
People also overlook the fact, that there's a plenty of 3rd party multiplatform titles coming this year. There isn't a lack of games to play for those, who own only a single system.
The Albatross
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So far, this generation has not been a long burn... It's been a few embers that we're all sitting around blowing on waiting for the major titles to drop.
These are my reactions to the conference - for what they are worth. I am not listing every game here, just what I wanted to comment on.
The Last Guardian - Excited to see this. It looked solid - not amazing, but I am completely down with an 'Ico 2' where you have a bird dog friend.
Horizon - Probably the highlight of the Sony show for me and one of the best new IP shown at E3 thus far. I was hoping for more first party reveals, especially since they won't be at Gamescom (right?).
FF7 Remake - This could be cool, but for me to be they would have to revamp the game mechanics as well as the graphics. Also the lack of any kind of game play or release time frame makes me think this is far off.
Shenmue 3 Kickstarter - It felt wrong to me that they put this on their stage. It is like they wanted to be associated with the property, but didn't want to invest in it. I am really happy for people who want this game that it was there, but I hope this doesn't become something that happens often. I enjoyed the originals when they came out, but I can't imagine I would want to play a new Shenmue game now. The old ones didn't age well for me. Hope I am wrong.
Firewatch - Very excited for this game. Seen enough, just want a release date.
No Mans Sky - Very excited for this as well. Also, just need a release date.
Uncharted 4 demo - Really solid gameplay demo. Interesting that they chose a car driving scene, but it worked really well.
Overall, a really solid conference. Didn't blow me away as it did many others, but a lot of the big hitting long awaited fan requests didn't make a huge impact on me. Also the lack of anything coming out in the foreseeable future is a bit of a downer. Would have loved to see some of the Witness.
The Last Guardian - Excited to see this. It looked solid - not amazing, but I am completely down with an 'Ico 2' where you have a bird dog friend.
Horizon - Probably the highlight of the Sony show for me and one of the best new IP shown at E3 thus far. I was hoping for more first party reveals, especially since they won't be at Gamescom (right?).
FF7 Remake - This could be cool, but for me to be they would have to revamp the game mechanics as well as the graphics. Also the lack of any kind of game play or release time frame makes me think this is far off.
Shenmue 3 Kickstarter - It felt wrong to me that they put this on their stage. It is like they wanted to be associated with the property, but didn't want to invest in it. I am really happy for people who want this game that it was there, but I hope this doesn't become something that happens often. I enjoyed the originals when they came out, but I can't imagine I would want to play a new Shenmue game now. The old ones didn't age well for me. Hope I am wrong.
Firewatch - Very excited for this game. Seen enough, just want a release date.
No Mans Sky - Very excited for this as well. Also, just need a release date.
Uncharted 4 demo - Really solid gameplay demo. Interesting that they chose a car driving scene, but it worked really well.
Overall, a really solid conference. Didn't blow me away as it did many others, but a lot of the big hitting long awaited fan requests didn't make a huge impact on me. Also the lack of anything coming out in the foreseeable future is a bit of a downer. Would have loved to see some of the Witness.
Duxxy3
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It's all about personal tastes. If I had my choice between that entire list of games or Tomb Raider, I would take Tomb Raider.
mckmas8808
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I thought it looked cute.
KillerSloth
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I like how you ignore impressive uc4, Horizon showings compared to ms showings.
I don't think TR is going to do much. It's a traditionally PlayStation franchise that sells really well in regions that Microsoft has no hope of competing in. Everyone will (rightfully) just wait for the PS4 port.
And as a guy that wants in on the Halo excitement, I've been convinced that the wait and see approach is best. What problems will we have at launch and how long will they take to fix (MCC is still broken, I hear)?
Well, you don't have to. You can have both since TR will hit PS4 in 6 months anyway.
But I also don't believe you
KillerSloth
Banned
Yeah but that different for everyone. No point arguing taste, point is saying ps4 has no games is idiotic. TR looked poor to me.
boclfon479
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Tomb Raider comes out the same day as Fallout 4 right? I mean, i hope they didnt know about that beforehand because if they think Tomb Raider can compete with fallout 4 they might be insane...
Fallout 4 might be one of the most impressive things i have seen so far
THIS JUST HAPPENED
Thats a badass name. He was a pretty good talker as well
Yeah, I can see they pulled some clever strings and objectively they pleased a lot of people. I guess I'm just not in tune with the average PS4 owner and their desires. I've barely reason to turn mine on so far this year and I was hoping E3 would change that.
It really does feel like that at the moment. It's working though.
I didn't even care about Bloodborne so I've been on a streak of disappointment since just after TLoU Remastered. Ah well, it's not like my PS4 ate my other platforms or anything.
MatrixMan.EXE
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This needs to be quoted more. It's an outright lie that PS4 is lacking exclusives this holiday. Whether they fall under the genre's you like is irrelevant, but lets not act like Microsoft is somehow offering far more content just because they have more blockbusters.
There's no evidence on my part. Only that I am holding off on buying a PS4 until the price drops, so the sooner it becomes $350 the sooner I get one. Which I want NOW!
You seem to have some very limited and focused gaming preferences.
I have owned a PS1, PS2, PS3, Vita and I think the same. Besides a couple of games nothing else appeal to me to buy the PS4 right now. Like other poster said: Sony just sold me a PS4... in 2016-17.
I already played GOW3, Uncharted 1,2,3 and Tearaway a lot. Fantastic games but I already own them and have invested hundreds of hours into them. Also i'm tired of indies after playing dozens the last months.
Why should any gamer give rats ass about any 3rd party marketing deal? The only one who wins that is the 3rd party. The gamer gets nothing out of it. Sony has nothing for exclusives this fall it was a failure of the Sony management. They were depending on 1 game Uncharted 4 and it got delayed and now there is a giant hole in the line up. Hopefully next year Sony gets its act together and can actually deliver more AAA exclusives.
TheOctodad
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What games have you enjoyed this past year?
I've noticed there have been some genuinely angry people at Sony in regards to yesterday (Brad from GB, the above post, Cheech, etc.) and now that I've slept on it, I do understand it more. If you came in with the unrealistic expectation of having more first party games announced for the fall, it didn't do that whatsoever. Not only did it not do that, but it was one of the most insane press conferences ever made, one that will be talked about for years to come.
I don't like Final Fantasy, I've never played Shenmue, I probably won't get Last Guardian, but hell if that wasn't the most amazing press conference I've ever seen.
Tomb Raider, that in their infinite wisdom, decided to release the same day as Fallout 4. Those marketing degrees really pay for themselves.
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