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Giant Bomb @ E3 2017: <>

I gave up on the Giant Bomb stream. Technical issues made it a disaster, but far worse was their "we're too cool for all this snark". It's not amusing, it's annoying.
 
I dunno, Jason dancing on tables after the Monster Hunter announcement probably made my E3. I hope he put his clothes back on by now.
 
I mean, this seems like the natural flip side to the amazing year of releases we're having. All of the A tier developers have shit that they've announced in the last few years and now it's releasing in one of the best years of games ever. So there's not gonna be a ton of new stuff to announce. Whatever, this E3 has been fine. Every conference had at least 1 game I want to play that I didn't before
 
EA: Can't even remember what happened/10
Microsoft: I remember like two things and some games looked nice/10
Bethesda: Why did they even have a conference/10
Ubisoft: Why is this the best one/10
Sony: Extremely understated for a Sony conference, I can't really think of any standout moment/10

Bethesda had Game of the Show tho
 
I enjoyed the Sony conference. Fun seeing gameplay of stuff they announced. Everyone knew they were announcing stuff way in advance the last two years, it was them setting their stall out, now they are delivering. Within the next year anyway!

It's clear they have an "exclusive" advantage over Microsoft and they are leveraging it.

Ubisoft still the best conference for me.
 
I've been pretty cool on all the conference, so far this year. Sony had some nice looking stuff, but only Monster Hunter really got me excited.

Hopefully GB will have their tech (or hotel Internet) straightened-out before the night time shows start.
 
My entire thoughts on the conference.

That was a very OK conference. Biggest surprise was Monster Hunter, the rest we pretty much knew about or game we played before. Where was Sucker Punch? RE Remake 2? Dreams? TLOU2? and a bunch of other games? Also, everything is 2018 lol. Jesus, UBISOFT had the best conference in terms of surprises, games, tightness and vibes. I almost forgot, what the fuck was with them hanging bodies? Normally Sony is the one to bring the new IPs.
 
Outside of EA, all the conferences were pretty good about shutting up and just showing games. Very little fat. And the stuff I'm not personally interested in, were presented in an interesting way at least.
 
Boy, sounds like I missed something. Guess I'll find out what that was once I check GB's commentary in a bit.

I mean, this seems like the natural flip side to the amazing year of releases we're having. All of the A tier developers have shit that they've announced in the last few years and now it's releasing in one of the best years of games ever. So there's not gonna be a ton of new stuff to announce. Whatever, this E3 has been fine. Every conference had at least 1 game I want to play that I didn't before

That sounds about right.

Bethesda had Game of the Show tho

The DBZ fighting game was at Microsoft, though.
 
I gave up on the Giant Bomb stream. Technical issues made it a disaster, but far worse was their "we're too cool for all this snark". It's not amusing, it's annoying.

Hot take #312301301313213131

My hot take:

Bethesda and Ubisoft had the best conferences. Beth just because Wolfenstein was Game/Trailer of the Show.
 
Honestly the thing I preferred from Sony's conference over the others is that it was really just games. Yeah the artists and musicians were a bit silly (though the start was really pretty, I felt), but they didn't have that annoying "park" thing that Bethesda did or people going on and on, or showing off a dumb car.

I'll take the games with minimal talking any day.
 
Guys... I think Devolver knew... fuck press conferences

TIER LIST DONT @ ME H8TERS

1 (IN OUR HEARTS). FUCKING DEVOLVER

REAL NUMBER 1. MICROSOFT

2. UBISOFT

3. BETHESDA

4. SONY

5. EA - WHO COULD HAVE UPLOADED A TRAILER FOR THAT ONE GAME ON TWITTER AND HAVE SAVED A BUNCH OF MONEY
 
All in all it was a boring year but if Nintendo says they're bringing the Radiant Fire Emblem games to the switch, i'll be happy.

The old games are the good games
 
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