VIDEO Gaming on a Sunday Afternoon: E3 2018

At least we know that Halo Infinity will have Split Screen again since 343 confirmed the next game would bring it back after the backlash of it not being in 5. I still don't know how they thought that was a good idea.

If this is indeed Halo 6 I hope that the story is good this time around too. The end of Halo 4 was quite emotional with Cortana's death but then 5 pretty much ruined it with her coming back as the main antagonist with no real explanation.

I sound negative but I really enjoy the series so I just hope this one lives up to it's potential like 5 could have done.

 

Andrew WK is totally what comes to mind when I think Bethesda.

 

Embracing the Skyrim memes beautifully.

 

Wow.

The Bethesda conference was a bit of a roller-coaster.

 

How rude of these companies to release so many awesome-looking games in the coming months. I want these games, but I’d also like to buy food, rent, and gas. Such a tough choice.

 

I'm in a similar position. I never played it myself, but my younger brother did, and I associate a lot of the in-game music to a simpler time, hearing the soundtrack coming from my brother's room. As such I'm nostalgic for a game I never actually played.

 

Will you all please just play Tales of Symphonia?

Not the sequel, though, avoid that like the plague.

 

My most anticipated games of 2018 are Dragon Quest XI, which I'm hoping will be basically the same as nine other games I've played, Valkyria Chronicles IV, which I'm hoping will be basically the same as two other games I've played, Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, which we already know plays basically the same as six other games I've played, and Tales of Vesperia, which I've literally played. Truly, it is a magical time to enjoy things I already enjoy.

 

Oh my, there's a just released trailer. Have to watch that.

All they need to sell is the tagline "From the mad bastards that brought you Yakuza...."

I have to second this, the sequel's awful.

 

The funny part is in Japan it wasn't even marketed as a sequel, they have a much more robust tradition of Tales of gaiden games and it fell under that umbrella. Which is probably right considering 1. it's absolute garbage and 2. by the end of the game the original ending status quo gets reset anyway.

 

Never made it to that point due to a double boss fight where, no matter how many levels of superiority, it makes no damn difference - as the boss' moves ignore all of it.

 

My roommate and I got really good at cheesing the combat in co-op, or we would've probably quit then. Dawn of the New World then went on to be a household way of calling something garbage for the next year. "Can you take out the Dawn of the New World? It's getting kind of full" and so on.

 

Yeah, I think it was a spin-off more than sequel (compared to say Xillia or Destiny). Though it had a few decent moments, in terms of continuity with Phantasia. Actually, I'm not sure Tales bothers with those spin-offs as much anymore

Ah, I remember those old Gamecube discs (two of them in the case). I think I even picked up the strategy guide for the heck of it, way back when (no idea where it is by now).

 

Lol like a fascist bootlicker like TheLocalGod would know cyberpunk if it clubbed him over the head.

Cyberpunk: "Our anarcho-communist protagonists battle against corporate dystopia in manners that inherently queer our relationship to our physical, ethnically diverse bodies."
Reactionary gamers, very steeped in the genre tropes: "Ah yes, I agree with these things."

 

Sony is actively hobbling their otherwise good-looking offerings this year with this bizarre format. This is fascinating in the wrong way.

Like I'm not saying Mr. Caffeine has been supplanted by banjos and bamboo flutes yet, but...

 

Last of Us looks good, no surprise. The music is always good, I remember watching the performance on Spike's Video Game Awards (I think that was it?) when they first debut the Last of Us music. And cheers for the RE2 remake (though I'm not a fan of that franchise).

So Pirates of the Caribbean is confirmed for KH3. Nice to get a somewhat different KH trailer than yesterday's. Funny that even Square-Enix's own conference didn't have much new footage (instead leaving it to the Microsoft and Sony conferences). And a special KH PS4 Pro, that will sell well.

And now the bizarre Death Stranding. Still hard to tell what this is about.

 

It's a delivery simulator, obviously.

 

Double post but it really needs repeating: I am amazed at how poorly executed parts of that conference were. They mostly pulled it out at the end (although why was one trailer technically in the post-show?!) but that was an astonishingly rough opening. I really hope they dial it back to a more standard presentation format next year.

 

Yeah, that was not a good conference. The games look nice enough, but with the weird start in that place then the move to the regular theater, and well, yeah. So far I'd actually rank Microsoft's conference as better, as at least they were more orthodox and focused on the games and decent presentation (Bethesda has probably had the best so far). Sony was somewhat light on content. I know the Vita is dead and the PS4 is starting to wind down (with Bethesda already kind of talking about PS5 games), but still, not a good conference.

Well, guess its up to Nintendo to wow us with something. Well, Smash alone should be able to carry them, and I expect they'll have a few more things aside from Smash.