Hmmmm, not sure what to think. I'll get the negative out of the way first. Is this the first time Sony has shown more shooter's than Microsoft? It seems they really want to secure the console to have if you want to play a shooter crown.
Congrats Sony on spending more money to secure timed exclusives as well as exclusive DLC. That's a real congrats, BTW. As little as 2 years ago, they wouldn't have been able to justify the cost of this many paid timed exclusives, as the console division wasn't doing so great. Now that they are, they can actually spend some cash to boost the Playstation brand. And that was needed as...
It was almost all timed exclusives due to the lack of first or third party exclusives. I probably wouldn't have noticed it as much if I hadn't watched the other conference first.
And TV stuff... And too much talking...
Anyway, on to the good stuff.
WTF? The Last Guardian, might, actually be a thing? This is assuming that it isn't being shown and then thrown into the closet for the next 5 years. Looks dated, and lots of questions about the gameplay, but at least it's a thing still. I can't say I'm as excited about it as I was when it was shown the first 2 years, but I'm excited that it still exists.
Horizon looks good, but uh...what? Hunting indigenous
wildlife robots that are grazing on plants? With giant T-Rex robots as herders/guardians? That's got to be one interesting backstory to explain why the wildlife are robots.
But crazyness aside graphics look decent.
FF VII remake. Better have turned based or phased turned based combat or I'm going to riot. If it's some real time shit, I'm going to blow a fuse. If it's got a real FF7 combat system, this will be fantastic news. If it's got a real time combat system, they can go F. themselves.
Shenmue Kickstarter. Didn't see that coming in so many ways. Sony pandering a kickstarter for one. Shenmue might be a thing is another. Shenmue having a successful Kickstarter, no surprise. If there's a secret big name publisher that wasn't mentioned as part of the Kickstarter, be prepared for a mini-shizzle storm on the internet as people blow up over the fact that there is a major publisher behind it. It's happened with some Kickstarter projects in the past. Still, it always makes me happy to see a game receive successful funding from fans who have been dying to see more of it. I myself have backed sequels to games from my past or just to reward developer's of games from my past.
Uncharted 4 graphics look great, but Assassin's Creed Unity isn't far off. Multiplatform really showing their strength. Battlefront maybe the best looking game shown at E3 so far.
Agreed. I think this is the first time I'm truly impressed by Uncharted's graphics. It looks good with great view distances. Although the demo was still quite linear while giving the illusion of having freedom to go where you want. For example, everytime the APC crashed back into view there was a convenient "alternate" path to take. Only it wasn't really an "alternate" path as opposed to a path you have to take, because not taking it means following the APC which would kill you. But often the illusion is more important than the reality. Although who knows maybe you really do have a lot more freedom. And that little niggle aside it really does look good.
Also, agreed, that so far Star Wars Battlefront is the best looking game shown thus far for E3. Interesting that none of the exclusives is nearly as good looking.
MM's Dreams didn't even seemed to be a game.
This seemed more like an interactive movie creator than a game creator. Looked really nice though. And even if it is only an interactive movie maker, it'd be amazing to see what people's imaginations could come up with. Perhaps at Paris they'll show something that hints at how it can be used to actually create a game.
One last thing I noticed is how there wasn't as much attention paid to indie developers as there was in the past.
Overall I have to agree that this is probably one of Sony's best conferences (a lot of talking but not as much worthless boring talking as in previous years). Although I really expected to see more real exclusives. It probably hurts that some of them have been delayed. Also, definitely not going to win best E3 conference of 2015. Now to wait for the other conferences.
Regards,
SB
