LightOfTruth
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Brandon isnt going to be on stream for any conference, correct?
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Scrotum Phillips
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In the last year I've bought Mass Effect, Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1 and NHL 17 and I've been happy w/all of those...with that said, just nothing at all moved the needle for me significantly during this conference. MAYBE Anthem might be that tomorrow, but today, it's a whole lot of nothing. As someone who just likes but not loves Star Wars, 30 minutes of Star Wars that features dev interviews and a full MP match honestly did just about zero for me and nothing "wowed" me. Just seemed like a sequel to Battlefront, a game I thought was just ok.
Need For Speed seemed fine, but that's never been my game, and also knowing about it in advance robbed some of the "hype" away from that reveal.
Story mode in Madden seemed slightly interesting, but I doubt I'm purchasing a Madden game any time soon.
Things I liked: Battlefield 1 maps and the inevitable stream of Huber/Brad playing A Way Out (almost definitely won't purchase myself).
So yeah, nothing really excited me here considering a future EZA stream and some DLC were my personal main two pluses from this conference. With that said, certainly much better than last year. I'm happy for y'all that found something for you in this conference, just nothing did it for me.
THINGS I WANTED FROM EA:
-My dream revival, NCAA Football
-Mass Effect news
-Titanfall news
- Skate 4
-NHL 18 news
-Probably not their fault, but EA Access on PS4
-Amy Hennig Star Wars game news
-Just some new IP's announced. Like I said, Anthem might be cool, but today it means nothing to me. I just wanted some new stuff (NFS and NBA Live aren't that). Even if Ubisoft mostly isn't for me, love how they bring a massive AAA unannounced game to E3 each year.
Blackleg-sanji1
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I'm not gonna lie I was a bit surprised when Ian knew who Kendrick was during the live trailer lol caught me off guard a bit
Mikey Jr.
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Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think Bosman ever promoted eza on Geoff youtube channel. Not sure if he could.
Ok, I've watched highlights of live reactions on the EA conference at a few other outlets in the meantime and I must really compliment the Allies for finding the right balance between talking and listening during a conference. You can actually get the little E3 moments like the unique personalities of the presenters here while others just talk over them, missing the jokes they might make or the information they provide. Really well done!
Last year he had "Easy Allies" under his name graphic iirc
Primethius
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Finally caught up to the EZA conference. Really surprised by the high scores on the main desk. I was waiting for someone to chime in with an opinion similar to mine and I'm glad that Brad delivered on that front.
EA was a fun watch with the Allies. But boy, still a dreadfully boring conference. The quality can only go up from here.
EA was a fun watch with the Allies. But boy, still a dreadfully boring conference. The quality can only go up from here.
Mikey Jr.
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Ohh, gotcha.
I think the thing with me is that EA has sports, and I literally could not care less about sports. So whenever they bring it up, my brain literally shuts off.
No other conference has sports, so yeah, EA conference will always be the worst. I kind of wish that EA split the conference up into 2 parts. Tune in at 3:00 to watch the sports segment. Tune in at 3:30 to watch the rest. Wish they did it like that. If you love the sports games, that half hour will be heaven for you. If you don't, the other half hour will be heaven.
Bonus question: how was their twitch numbers this year? I think they hit 8k I believe? Had to bounce a little early, but was that more than last year?
TheDarkKnight774
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Yea it's hype as hell and I'm not a super big KH fan.
And once again Huber keeps getting the games he wants. He has a gift
PepperedHam
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Sort of works out since we get to hear other allies' memories rather than the regular Friend Code panel.
IdreamofHIME
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Beautiful KH trailer, hope they show it and talk about it for a while tonight. They have a gap to fill between shows, so here's hoping.
reptilescorpio
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This is the first year in a while they've split up the sports stuff as previously the sports half would get a ton of people tuning out.
I thought they paced it really well, best they've done in as long as I can remember. Like you said, they have a big portfolio of sports titles so they are kinda stuck being this kind of conference.
All in all much better than expected, which is disappointing as an entertaining train wreck is more interesting to me than a solid well done 7/10 effort with this kind of lineup.
I wonder how Ubisoft will fare. I loved Aisha so her absence will likely be felt, I was reminder of that by Janina Gavankar today. She fucking nailed it and having someone else run Ubisoft is going to be tough.
lowhighkang_LHK
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That youtube gaming stuff is still going?
I remember Geoff doing a weekly episode with it late last year with Kyle having a segment on it, but the viewership was next to abysmal on it and it stopped.
Figured they'd put a nail on that. Or is this something else, just an E3 thing?
Bloodworth
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The weekly show isn't currently going, but YouTube Gaming is a much bigger thing. It's a subset of YouTube that kind of filters things toward gaming-centric creators, and they do have special event coverage, featured content, etc. from time to time.
Brad and Huber already getting treats, KHIII and Evil Within 2.
EA conference was a snoozefest as always, a way out was the only real wow moment from me, while BF2 looked ok but i wanted the campaign, and Anthem reveal was lame.
The only way they could have saved themselves was to announce Skate 4 or Visceral's SW, so... nope!
EA conference was a snoozefest as always, a way out was the only real wow moment from me, while BF2 looked ok but i wanted the campaign, and Anthem reveal was lame.
The only way they could have saved themselves was to announce Skate 4 or Visceral's SW, so... nope!
EA was alright. A Way Out and Need for Speed looked good, and the sports game trailers were well shot and edited, even though I'm not interested in them otherwise. I'm glad we saw some Battlefront 2, but I feel like showing a 30-minute match was the wrong way of going about it. It got stale after a little while. They also still had too much talking, and too little games, too, although Men in Blazers and the A Way Out guy were pretty entertaining as far as E3 presenters usually go.
Pretty much the only game in the EA conference that I actually might be interested enough to get myself is Need for Speed, but I need to see more of that. Did not like how often the demo seemed to take control out of the player's hands for crashes and cutscenes. Hopefully the full game won't be like that.
I'll give EA Play 2017... a 6.4. It was swimming around the in the high sixes and low sevens, but the way Battlefront 2 was presented dragged the score down a bit.
Pretty much the only game in the EA conference that I actually might be interested enough to get myself is Need for Speed, but I need to see more of that. Did not like how often the demo seemed to take control out of the player's hands for crashes and cutscenes. Hopefully the full game won't be like that.
I'll give EA Play 2017... a 6.4. It was swimming around the in the high sixes and low sevens, but the way Battlefront 2 was presented dragged the score down a bit.
Yeah I agree. I watched a bit of Kinda Funny and Giant Bomb (mainly to see their reactions to A Way Out) and I have to say EZA is really the right balance for me:
- Kinda Funny were eating and barely looking at the screen, don't know what they were thinking really.
- Giant Bomb are good but I feel they try too hard one upping each other and telling jokes about everything. I feel like I'm watching a bunch of friends watch The Room or something.
- EZA have some professionalism and take it seriously just enough, while still laughing and enjoying themselves. They way they reacted to NFS, saying how it was exactly what Huber wanted was really nice for instance.
Of course it's just an observation on the way everyone do things, I like all of them for different reasons and I get why people gravitate towards one or the other.
That massively sucks that EW2 has leaked like that, hopefully Huber avoids it.
In other news, cutscenes in KH3 look phenomenal. It's telling that we're still only seeing Hercules world though. I wonder if the new world reveal will be the Big Hero 6 world they talked about last year.
In other news, cutscenes in KH3 look phenomenal. It's telling that we're still only seeing Hercules world though. I wonder if the new world reveal will be the Big Hero 6 world they talked about last year.
Whatd he get this time? Havent watch any conference or stream yet
Edit: nvm. Its Evil Within 2
Nah, they talk leaks in the pre show. He'll know.
TheDarkKnight774
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And it's not a big leak really. We all pretty much knew it'd be there. There's a reason it was a betting special question. The biggest surprise is the game director and even that isn't really surprising.
Didn't know he worked with Geoff at E3 last year (or didn't notice lol.) Only seen Bosman at Geoff's Youtube Gaming show and the Game Awards.
He was there for one conference during E3 last year.
TheDarkKnight774
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Yea I think it was Microsoft
"Microsoft expert" Kyle Bosman
Itchy//Tasty
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Their full EA stream commentary vid isn't working?
WAR recon zero
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try another browser
Works for me on desktop. It doesn't seem to be viewable on mobile, though.
somecrazymember
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edit: never mind, i was ranting
Is Kyle gonna be at EZA for the Sony conference?
Is Kyle gonna be at EZA for the Sony conference?
IdreamofHIME
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Kinda Funny really dropped the ball. They couldn't get the stream to not stutter on full screen and then they just started eating. Not even looking at the footage, just unwrapping their food and focusing on that with silence.
ArkhamFantasy
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Yeah i was really shocked about that. Technical problems is one thing, but this was the only conference of the day and it was only an hour long....you couldnt eat before or after?
Itchy//Tasty
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Cheers lads, I tend to have ipad stuff on in the background whilst I browse on my PC, and yeah it's just the mobile version not working.
If it's not Big Hero 6, my guess would be Frozen
Brian_FETO
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Knowing EW2 exists and it's Mikami is super hype going into the conference
Especially since it's not like screenshots/synopsis leaked. And it won't be like last year where everyone wants to see that and Wolf and neither show up
This is our year friends
Especially since it's not like screenshots/synopsis leaked. And it won't be like last year where everyone wants to see that and Wolf and neither show up
This is our year friends
TheDarkKnight774
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$499 for Scorpio? I don't believe it. It feels like someone is getting played. But if true then Cold Blooded wins that bet.
Same, it feels too dumb to be true after thinking MS were going to be aggressive. It's dead outside the US with the currency conversion if true, even in the UK where we still buy the console.
TheDarkKnight774
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That's the other weird part. This is something Jason from Kotaku would post, not Geoff. It definitely ramped up my anticipation for the conference. I was warming up to the idea of an Xbox one upgrade at $399 this fall. But not $499.
brotkasten
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Perhaps it was done to soften the blow, so that the price won't be as shocking during the reveal at the conference.
Either way, $499 is mental and would make this DOA.
sleepwalkcapsules
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I'm so happy everything worked out fine.
No tech issues! Audio sync was perfect, video was on focus, the sync between their reactions and the videos was on point.
I was always a nitpicker for their tech issues, so I think its fair that I congratulate them for getting everything going smoothly for E3.
No tech issues! Audio sync was perfect, video was on focus, the sync between their reactions and the videos was on point.
I was always a nitpicker for their tech issues, so I think its fair that I congratulate them for getting everything going smoothly for E3.
Yep that could also be it, with all the 399$ rumors lately maybe they want to keep expectations in check.
Or like someone else said in the other thread, maybe there are 2 skus so the price is still amazing and Geoff keeps his reputation intact.
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