E3 2019 - Press Conferences and News

[Medicine Man]

Well the increasingly shrinking big event is only a week away so I thought I might as well chuck together a rough itinerary for all the fun times ahead.



Feel free to contribute as you see fit with predictions/expectations from each of the below etc.

EA Play - June 7-9
Xbox - June 9 - 2100
Bethesda - June 10 - 0130
Devolver - June 10 - 0300
PC Gaming Show - June 10 - 1800
Ubisoft - June 10 - 2100
Square Enix - June 11 - 0200
Nintendo - June 11 - 1700

https://www.e3expo.com/

I'll try to pap in more specific direct links to streams as they become available nearer the time, but I'm sure we can make do with a couple of general ones in the meantime...



https://www.youtube.com/user/E3

[Achtung Englander]

thanks

I am so glad I am not going this year, I just don't have the energy

[The Jackal]

Yay, the potential for Bethesda to fuck up my next-Monday.

[Lee]

Well only if they toss in cash shops into Wolfenstein and Doom Eternal, like they did RAGE 2. The other titles won't be shown this year I read but I reckon they will toss in some information if the reception isn't going well. But will they be daft enough to reveal something more with Fallout 76.

Maybe they will reveal the bags that collectors were meant to get? It's been what 4-6 months since they said people would get them



Only one I will definitely catch will be Devolver's show and I hope they hire that actress for every year.

[Animalmother]

Yeah looks like the 10th of June is the only day worth watching.

[Medicine Man]

Some Namco Bandai leaks...

https://gematsu.com/2019/06/bandai-namc ... remastered

Tales of Arise for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, From Software’s Elden Ring for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch for Switch / Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered for PlayStation 4 and PC.

Elden Ring, developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set within a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki—creator of the influential Dark Souls video game series; and George R.R. Martin—author of The New York Times best-selling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire.

[Raid]

Nintendo have been my highlight of E3 for the last few years, but with them broadcasting a Direct for the new Pokemon game (probably their biggest release of 2019) earlier in the week, you have to wonder what they're going to be showing off. I think there's a good chance we'll see at least one of the new hardware revisions that have been rumoured for months, but I'm really hoping for something from Metroid Prime 4.

[Medicine Man]

EA Play is a-go...

https://www.ea.com/eaplay2019

Here’s the schedule for the live streams (all times PDT):

9:15 am: Countdown to EA PLAY
9:30am: Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order™
Hosted by online personality Greg Miller
10:00am: Apex Legends
Hosted by commentator Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
10:30am: Battlefield V
Hosted by online personality Julia Hardy and EA’s Adam Freeman
11:00am: EA SPORTS FIFA
Hosted by Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
11:30am: EA SPORTS Madden NFL
Hosted by NFL Network’s Adam Rank
12:00pm: The Sims 4
Hosted by Greg Miller

[Medicine Man]

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order gameplay in case you missed it...

[Raid]

It looks pretty damned good to me. The chat portion of the livestream is still happening, and one of the terms they're throwing around is "thoughtful combat", and they're insisting that the gameplay shown off was performed by a very good player. That's exactly what I'm after; you can do some cool things, but not with just single button presses. They claim that it's not just canned animation, and that the "pull target towards you and stab him" move isn't just one action (though it does happen twice in exactly the same manner during that video).

There are minor things I hope they change; the lightsaber blade doesn't look right, and there's no incidental damage to the environment (ie: when the run animation makes the saber blade clip through a wall) like you got back in the Jedi Outcast days, but really this looks like the first big Star Wars title I've been excited for in a very long time.

[Strudel]

It does look pretty good, though I'm a bit concerned that a spider can take four smacks to the face with a lightsaber and still be going; I hope gets fixed.

[Medicine Man]

New Apec character...



New BFV maps...

[DjchunKfunK]

I'm surprised people thought that Fallen Order demo looked good. The combat looked terrible, with AI that seems to be incredibly dumb, only attacked one at a time and taking a few shots before pausing for five seconds. The only time it looked halfway decent was right at the end when you fought a large group of enemies. The powers looked cool but when the combat is that dull it doesn't matter how good they are. Other than that it looked like a generic third person game, take the Star Wars motif away and people wouldn't be giving it a second glance. I came away pretty disappointed, I think it really showed that Respawn had never made a third person game before.

[Medicine Man]

Agreed. I thought it was a pretty mediocre showing. Force Unleashed 3 in all but name.

Anyway next up or technically first up is Microsoft at 9pm...

https://mixer.com/Xbox?vod=105264996

[Lee]

I'm surprised people thought that Fallen Order demo looked good. The combat looked terrible, with AI that seems to be incredibly dumb, only attacked one at a time and taking a few shots before pausing for five seconds. The only time it looked halfway decent was right at the end when you fought a large group of enemies. The powers looked cool but when the combat is that dull it doesn't matter how good they are. Other than that it looked like a generic third person game, take the Star Wars motif away and people wouldn't be giving it a second glance. I came away pretty disappointed, I think it really showed that Respawn had never made a third person game before.

And it was all so slow the combat, including the baster rifle fire without even using the slow mo ability. Are they going for a lower rating as what's up with the lack of dismemberment when using the light saber. Also noticed it wouldn't mark walls and stuff when it clipped into them like it did in the previous Jedit Knight games.