E3 2019

Quote from Radu

On 5/8/2019 at 3:13 AM, Radu said: You know what'd make for a great open world game though? Predator. It would actually play into that fantasy pretty well having a large jungle area to go about hunting and using your gadgets. Story-wise could be something simple like a previous predator having been captured that you need to rescue and also destroy the tech that's been taken. You could throw in the aliens as a subplot, like destroying the hives before they can spread.

OMG I HAVEN'T SEEN THE PREDATOR IN AN HOUR, DIS GAME SUX

Quote from Radu

On 5/8/2019 at 2:13 AM, Radu said: You know what'd make for a great open world game though? Predator. It would actually play into that fantasy pretty well having a large jungle area to go about hunting and using your gadgets. Story-wise could be something simple like a previous predator having been captured that you need to rescue and also destroy the tech that's been taken. You could throw in the aliens as a subplot, like destroying the hives before they can spread.

No shut up, now here is my great idea, COOP 4 person horde shooter set in the Predator/Alien Universe. The aliens run at you and melee you, the predators have guns that shoot perhaps? IDK ill leave that to the geeks in gave development. You and 3 friends walk up to highlighted objects and stop and press e for about 30 seconds and then something will happen, do that about 30 times and you win, well have unlockable skins for the guns, have new epic alien types, ill also see about digging Sigourney Weaver from her crypt so she can voice the mission giver and record about 30 lines of dialogue total. Nolan North voices Troy Baker doing his best Nathan Drake impression for Playable Character #1, Playable Character #2 is a person of African decent, those are hip with the kids these days, they should also be voiced by Nolan North, Playable Character #3 is a gruff old man aged 40, voiced by Troy Baker, he smokes, thats his whole character. Playable Character #4 is of course a new female character who looks likes a rip off of Ripley from Alien but isnt actually Ripley but dont tell anyone or else they wont buy the game, she is also voice by Nolan North.

We are expecting to sell about 1 Billion units, if we dont, we will shut down this whole division and fire everyone, also you have 6 months to make this game.

Ubisoft not waiting E3 to unveil the new Ghost Recon

Quote from Radu

On 5/8/2019 at 12:13 AM, Radu said: You know what'd make for a great open world game though? Predator. It would actually play into that fantasy pretty well having a large jungle area to go about hunting and using your gadgets.

Quote from [HP]

3 hours ago, [HP] said:

Assymetric online experience? Where you can play as the monster against 4 other people? Why does this sound familiar? I hope they don't end up the same way as Evolve.

Looks cool though, but why not single player - come on

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5 hours ago, [HP] said:

WHAT!? @Radu can you please post some more game ideas because IT'S WORKING!

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Quote from FrieChamp

6 hours ago, FrieChamp said: WHAT!? @Radu can you please post some more game ideas because IT'S WORKING!

maybe we'll also see a 4 player coop Aliens game designed like Payday 2/L4D

Also,

Awesome, Can't wait! I wonder what Microsoft is cooking...

Btw 2 of the games I worked on / am still working on will "supposedly" have presentations this year, I heard

Microsoft

I think that from a console perspective, there is a chance that Microsoft might 'blow their wad' by accident and announce their next console.

Their back is up against the wall at the moment and, this makes people do silly things like: tell everyone you got a new console, when all you got is mock-ups and 'projected/target' benchmarks. I do recall the Xbox one on display one year was really a PC under the stand with windows 7 running on it.

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Sony

Contrary to this, Sony are not under any real pressure with announcing anything substantive, as the PS4 is doing great. That said, we could see some hints and projections, but probably more like 'look how awesome the PS4 is doing!' - that kind of thing. Probably talk about partnerships, indie games publishing, the PS Store, blah de blah.

In essence, Sony will be making PS4 owners sure that they are being catered for and not being forgotten about - especially if Microsoft 'blow their wad', as this will most certainly be seen as an aggressive move towards the people who bought the Xbox one and all of its runty children.

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Nintendo

Probably not much more that a few beatings of their drums about their games and online successes. Lots of talks about their back catalogue. Switch appears to be doing just fine in its own bracket...I doubt anything new on h/w fronts - maybe a reduction in price + some new back catalogue openings, at best.

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Broken promises

There is going to be a lot of back-pedalling from publishers and developers on what has transpired these last 12 months. I fully expect to see those who shall not be named making a series of excuses as to why their head should not be on the chopping block.

To back this up, I strongly suspect they will reword and rephrase stuff they 'said at the time' and attempt to turn these broken promises into (like politicians do the morning after election results come in) a series of vapid statements. They then will then use phraseology like 'the team is committed to excellence' and 'we are working hard to address these concerns' and probably 'we fully understand why people said x, y, z about this that and the other'. The language being used is essentially the verbal equivalent of Ne0 in The Matrix, dodging bullets in slow motion - because all developers want to be The One.

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Political correctness

Without going into detail - I suspect there are going to be lots of capitulation towards 'SJW's' (if that term is even used any more?) and the whole topic about what is and is not being done to 'combat' any of these subjective points of view. No one wants to be seen as not being at the very least 'aware' of these concerns, and no doubt will spin a line here and there about it. More female characters...more females working at our company than anyone else...doing our part of the 'insert community here' community...blah de blah...lots of stats, figures, numbers, percentages, photos of staff wearing rainbow tee-shirts on a company picnic...

I have no views on this, other than it is a fine line to walk between being genuine, and pandering to the masses - which in turn insults the people you are pandering to and shines a big spotlight on your hypocritical nature. There will be no winners on this topic, as it is tooooooo contentious, and impossible to actually show concern versus showing that you are saying something just to either figuratively protect your read end, or get people to get their wallets out.

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Celebrities

I really should have that in quotations:). C-Z (no A's or B's) people who have got some sort of following somewhere for some reason. Probably a few sports personalities talking about how they 'really connect with people' who play the game they happen to be in, yet, don't play the game as they are too busy driving their Ferrari, or living it large in their Penthouse apartments.

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Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Yup. No joke. It's time. Valve have got their back against the wall with Steam and companies using other platforms for distribution digitally...so, it would make complete and total and utter sense for them to release games of their own again. IF they do - they get to keep all of the money from sales, versus giving another company 70% of the revenue, they can have 100%. it really is that simple: 100% versus 30%.

Even if it is a bad game, everyone here knows it will sell a gazillion units.

I also would like to think there is a chance that Valve would use a satirical message along the lines of 'metoo' movement, but instead of studio executives, it could be gamers that have been subjected to the psychological torture over a decade of not being able to play HL2:Ep3...a long and drawn out relationship with Valve. I think that would be very funny, with some short films of gamers describing the emotional torment of not playing the final episode

They might call it the "Me3 movement" .

I find it beyond shocking to realise that all Valve have to do to make $1billion, would be to have Gabe Newall walk on stage with a crow-bar held high, and just stand there in the middle of the stage...he wouldn't even have to say anything!

@MikeGon Well for Nintendo there was rumor they were going to release a cheap version of the Switch, like other products before. Sony is not going to E3 at all…

Square Enix is taking the Sony presentation slot and will (should) unveil the Avengers game. Hype for that brand couldn’t be higher now.

I couldn't even watch the new Pokemon trailer. I cannot play an single player game at 24 fps with no AA. They are jumping their own hardware and are probably better off switching back to orthographic games if they want quality graphics and frame rates. Don't tell me "its not that bad when you play it". I literally could not even start playing botw because the frame rate turned me off. Just pc things I guess. I even emulated botw with double framerate (which means animations are twice as fast) and it felt more "cinematic". What am I saying, the human eye can't see over 24 fps anyway!

Don’t think I’m buying anything XBOX related anytime soon, that Halo preview was balls

Quote from blackdog

On 6/8/2019 at 5:04 AM, blackdog said: @MikeGon Well for Nintendo there was rumor they were going to release a cheap version of the Switch, like other products before. Sony is not going to E3 at all…

Square Enix is taking the Sony presentation slot and will (should) unveil the Avengers game. Hype for that brand couldn’t be higher now.

Yeah totally, it's coming at the right time I guess.

I have no idea what they're going to show... admittedly I am a bit nervous but I know this is in good hands

Quote from Interfearance

On 6/8/2019 at 5:32 AM, Interfearance said: I couldn't even watch the new Pokemon trailer. I cannot play an single player game at 24 fps with no AA. They are jumping their own hardware and are probably better off switching back to orthographic games if they want quality graphics and frame rates. Don't tell me "its not that bad when you play it". I literally could not even start playing botw because the frame rate turned me off. Just pc things I guess. I even emulated botw with double framerate (which means animations are twice as fast) and it felt more "cinematic".

I'm the same. Feels like as soon as I tasted the sweet fruit of stable high fps that most games have nowadays, I couldn't go back anymore!

If they managed to make freaking Gamecube games run 60fps 15 years ago you would think that good framerate is a standard for them by now- not only because of the lowering hardware limitations but also the collective knowledge of our engineers that's always rising...

But on the flip-side it's understandable because in terms of specs the Switch is basically a mobile platform, not a console. Here's a read.

Quote from Interfearance

On 6/8/2019 at 5:32 AM, Interfearance said: What am I saying, the human eye can't see over 24 fps anyway!

Come on you're exaggerating... wasn't it 12 fps? Right but if you count both eyes 12+12=24. My bad, you're right!

Kinda knew it: Microsoft blew their wad, and even more so; I knew they had nothing but empty, vapid pronouncements.

So what they have effectively done is: kill off the xbox one and all of the iterations therein and said to Sony "You win, we suck".

No one to blame but Microsoft for the Xbox One failure against PS4. Their desire to 'take over' the living room and produce a media centre box for everything television related has been a long standing desire in the Microsoft camp. I remember an interview with Bill Gates in EDGE magazine in the (mid) 1990's talking about the living room as a family space for entertainment. He focused on television and incorporating Windows OS into the television even then...

Wish I kept that issue of EDGE, Just as I wish I took a photograph of me standing next to a 1990's Quake advert, 60 foot high

Back on topic...

So, the Xbox lost this round and Microsoft have bowed out - let the internet trolling begin. Fight!

What they should have done? I think it's no small wonder as to how they royally screwed up this round of console battles, but I'll chip in and state the obvious:

-DDR3 + SRAM. The big joke.

-SATA3. Didn't the launch have SATA2? Did they make it hard/difficult to upgrade to an SSD?

-Always internet connected. Connect or be disconnected!

-That camera always watching you...why?

-That microphone always listening to you...why?

-The utterly atrocious public relations feeds and twitter comments, with such fu-bars as telling people that 24 FPS is fine, as it's 'cinematic', or telling people they do not care about 'insert place here' if they cannot get access to the internet and therefore, cannot use the Xbox.

-The launch price - essentially telling people they need to pay for the camera/microphone and 'tough' if they do not want it. Later it was revealed they just had a tonne of left over stock from the camera/lens of the Xbox 360, and just wanted to shift the redundant stock...ouch!

-The design of it. Just looked like a sideways 'gamer' PC from Walmart. Nasty, cheap-looking shiny box. The inside of it looked like it had crashed into a PC Parts warehouse...backwards.

-No 4KUHD playback, initially - this did change with the 'S', and yes, the PS4 doesn't have this at all...but, IF the Xbox One had 4KUHD from the very beginning...I suspect this would have had a big impact to sales.

The list I got in my head goes on for several pages, so I'll save everyone's time!

PlayStation win again, Microsoft lose, again - and next round I doubt Microsoft will be anything but second/third/forth place - as I suspect a lot of the components in the current Xbox warehouse left over will be put into the next one, and consumers will end up paying for Microsoft's 'lack of vision'. AGAIN.

@Mitch Mitchell I don’t see the point of going over what/how Microsoft failed on the Xbox One front. They are doing a new machine and still committed. I just want to say that the always-on mike was necessary for the multimedia side of things, also smartphones are listening all the time with their assistants, so I don’t see any problem with… except MS being ahead of the game and pushing features not yet widely accepted. I would also speculate that the always-online requirement was to please publishers like Ubi and EA that have such restrictions in their games to maybe get some exclusives. If anything, what really infuriated people was the battle against used games – again another feature requested by big publishers!

The problem with MS is they have always had a culture of giving too many options and please everyone, which ends up annoying everyone.

Anyway I haven’t been up with the E3 stuff since I’m looking after my newborn, but the little I’ve seen (trailers for Gears 5 and Halo) are garbage and not enticing at all. And we are talking of two of the three most important killer apps. I’m curious to see what the new machine is offering but with the state of their first parties, they are gonna struggle keep their core audience!

I'd argue that MS knows that they lost this round and are gearing up for the next round with a proper lineup. They're making the next Halo a launch title for the next console, and something tells me there is going to be a surprise from Playground games as well.

Quote from Zarsky

1 hour ago, Zarsky said: I'd argue that MS knows that they lost this round and are gearing up for the next round with a proper lineup. They're making the next Halo a launch title for the next console, and something tells me there is going to be a surprise from Playground games as well.

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