The E3 Thread

[marshmallow]

The only game I was interested in was Doom 4. I was cautiously optimistic when I heard they wanted to go away from the Doom 3 realistic horror style and return to the roots. Fast, lots of enemies, huge guts, etc.

Not sure if I’ve ever been so deflated over a simple video game trailer. It’s like they did everything wrong on purpose.

Clearly the modern gaming industry has left me in the dust. I just thought if there was one FPS that would buck all the terrible modern conventions this might be it. Nope.

I was looking around to see other people’s reactions. There’s a sizable old school contingent complaining and pointing out the obvious, which made me feel a little better. But there was a surprising amount of hype about it. And a lot of people saying they like it because it’s similar to Doom 3. There were even people complaining it was too action-y and they wanted more horror elements. The mind boggles.

[Unpronounceable]

@Jophiel

She didn’t say it was sexist. She did say that she was disappointed that there wasn’t an exclusively female protagonist. I suppose there’s an argument there that, if you want equality, you should be happier with both male and female options rather than being upset that you’re not forced into a female option.

She also complained about the excessive violence in DOOM and that Fallout 4’s crafting system was used almost exclusively to make guns so I guess there’s plenty of material if you wanted to roll your eyes at her anyway.

You’re right - that’s what I get for paraphrasing a tweet I’d seen a day or so previous. I agree that her “you’re not a feminist if you’re not a pacifist” schtick is also a bit weird.

Anyway, back to games: a PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn is stupidly pretty. Who wants to go bow-hunting robot dinosaurs in long-post-apocolypsia?

[Kinthalis]

@Unpronounceable

Anyway, back to games: a PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn is stupidly pretty. Who wants to go bow-hunting robot dinosaurs in long-post-apocolypsia?

That game is probably the only thing that peaked my interest coming out of Sony. Looks so good.

[MyFootsZZZ]

Nintendo’s conference was weak this year, however next year’s should be interesting, (Nintendo’s Universal Studio’s plans, Nintendo NX, Mobile integration.)

‘Super Mario Maker’ looks superb! I simply can’t wait for it.

‘Star Fox 0’ looks great, but there’s nothing extremely unique.

The Zelda game for 3DS looks great, but I hope single player mode is meaty enough, since it may be hard for me to find.

I’m really happy to be a Wii U owner, even though I was disappointed at first to have received it as a gift.

[borschevsky]

Yeah, the Nintendo thing was pretty flat. I wonder why they did the Smash stuff and the Earthbound announcement separately. Those seem like good fits for their main event.

[Jragon]

That Earthbound Beginnings thing was such a great, probably accidental troll, everyone for a brief second thought we were getting Mother 3.

[The_Hamster_King]

I’m on the floor to support Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Fat Princess Adventures, both of which I was involved in making. Stuff I’ve seen I liked:

Cuphead
Gang Beasts
The new Rainbow Six

[The_Hamster_King]

Oh, and Thumper. Thumper totally rocks.