Multiple Nerdgasm at E3 2017

welcome to the multiple nerdgasm E3 wrap-up episode I'm your host Jenna and I'm joined by Matt we did it I know we did it we went to E3 we did I had a good time so did I I know a lot of people didn't we'll talk about that later but I definitely did it was our first year there and it's something that I have always wanted to do mhm yep did it live up to your high expectations in some ways it did in some ways it didn't yeah actually I suppose that Echoes my feelings so but I did have a really great time and I feel like every other convention will now pale in comparison yeah yeah just just for sheer volume of stuff I think the others have a lot to to keep up with mhm well since this is our first time at E3 maybe we should do a little history of e3 and uh

what is E3 very very well because I think a lot of people don't really get it I've noticed that yeah E3 is not a typical convention or um like a Gaming Expo like everybody thinks it is it's more of a trade show it's a business show yeah so yes there are definitely flashy booths and they spend millions and millions of dollars um all the AAA companies yeah uh to display here but that is really for the media to Hype it up yeah and to sell the games to other businesses so I guess in the past it wouldn't be uncommon to see people there in business suits right whereas this year it was kind of a mix of that um because they sold tickets to the public for the first time it was a mix of people in business suits and people in

video game shirts and cosplay in some cases and cosplay yeah yeah I mean I got nothing against cosplay it was just a weird venue for it this is like going to a home show yeah right in Cosplay dressing as a builder yeah yeah no I uh like I said we haven't been before uh however I've followed E3 since I was like 15 years old the very first one happened when I was 15 so I was very familiar with what it is and so I was a little I was surprised to see that that there this year because I knew that you know it's a it's a professional exhibition for professionals to do professional things right which I was actually looking forward to because we have plenty of conventions absolutely yeah Pax is like off the hook as far as

all that other stuff is concerned MH I just said off the hook yeah do you want to you want to do it again no that can stay in it's fine off off the chain of the chain well I'm off the reservation let's go on go on go on hit me with some hit me with some knowledge about the history of e3 E3 stands for the Electronic Entertainment Expo um it's presented by the esa the entertainment software Association previously games were shown at the CES the Consumer Electronics Show but with the growth of the video game industry in the '90s E3 was created mhm the CES was a show that encompassed all consumer electronics mhm so video games was a very small part of that and a lot of companies complained that they were shoved in the back room one year Sega was displaying the Genesis

system and they complained that they were put in a tent where it was pouring rain and leaking on top of the Genesis so uh the companies kind of got upset about that decided they wanted to Branch off and start their own show which took off yeah people didn't think video games were going to be a big deal I guess back back a little while ago when they were wrong yeah definitely it's a huge industry now it's actually I think last year it made over $30 billion the industry itself yeah wow the first event was held in um May of 1995 at the Los Angeles Convention Center where this one this year was held mhm uh with 40,000 attendees Sega displayed the Saturn Sony displayed the PlayStation wow um and Atari displayed the Jaguar VR huh which I find interesting because VR is still a

thing today that people are trying to get consumers to pick up on yeah like it's only kind of just coming in to mainstream Atari was always like a little bit ahead of the game I like I think like the lynx was the most powerful handheld at the time and then they had the Jag jagar which is the first 64-bit console I think and uh yeah but then they just couldn't follow through on it and they were too expensive so anyway I digress they were always a little bit ahead well well we just received news today that Atari is making a new console so hopefully they'll they'll come in and surpass everyone yeah cuz I was thinking oh it'll be like some retro thing nope it's to compete with Microsoft and Sony so all right cool look forward to that next

E3 yeah hopefully other companies at the 95 E3 was were Atari Nintendo and a claim M among others oh wow I remember claim wow um 2005 was the first year that it was aired on television on G4 if you remember that I was a big fan of that and kind of miss that it's on it's not around anymore it wasn't it was not easy to watch in Australia uh I can tell you that but I knew of its existence because everyone else was talking about it and I couldn't have it so um a lot of current day hosts in the video game industry started there right in 2007 and 2018 the exhibitors felt like the public attendees uh not really public but with all the bloggers and that kind of media that was coming in it felt like it diluted their ability to reach their target audience which is retailers and

journalists yeah and a lot of exhibitors were prepared to pull out a e3 did you say this was in the past or that was this year not going on this was 10 years ago so um in 2007 they renamed it they rebranded to the E3 media and business Summit and they capped attendance at 10,000 it was moved to a different venue a smaller venue and it was very very exclusive in the business and journalists right that were invited it was invite only um the next year only 5,000 people attended which I can imagine when you're spending millions of dollars on your big flashy advertisements yeah uh yeah it's not really doing it no you want you want more eyeballs on them than that because the esa couldn't win uh the exhibitors

now complained that they weren't reaching any audience that there was not enough media coverage so the show was rebranded again back to E3 which is what it is now yep and it was moved permanently to the LA Convention Center with a cap of 45,000 close to the public right usually attendance now is about 40 to 50,000 this year was 68,000 wow because for the first year ever E3 was open to the public they sold 15,000 tickets um the first 1,000 were sold at $150 and the rest were sold at$ 250 mhm um which a lot of the public complained about the high prices but ah it's a tough one really yeah well because you yeah because it is an industry event and it's not really meant

for the public which I'm not saying the public shouldn't be there I'm just saying I think they were expecting a bit more than what was there right they previously haven't had vendors where this year there were uh at least four or five because they're not selling to Media professionals or industry professionals they also didn't really have events or things to do besides showcasing the games and I think the public that put so much money into these tickets were kind of expecting that yeah because of PS I guess and these other I guess more fan-based conventions you know like at PS when you're in line you have line entertainment people like if there's enforcers there that Entertain You And there's right things going on in giveaways and and you know the cookie

Brigade and all that stuff whereas E3 was about serious business like and I don't mean that to sound patronizing I just mean like it literally was was a a business meeting like it wasn't right it wasn't about having fun right it's for networking mhm yeah and I don't think E3 was really prepared for the caliber of of people like the the line control wasn't really there um there were people pushing in line yeah and again we're not saying that the general public shouldn't be allowed in because you know this is the kind of I you know I always wanted to go to it I understand why people want to go to it but I think they need to rethink how they structure it and organize it if they are going to do that because that's right two different things right and the

public that bought tickets were expecting it to be like a big convention right and the people who have gone to E3 in the past the industry professionals were expecting it to be a a trade show yeah um which is what it's always been but it really it didn't do well being a mix of those two things this year because the industry professionals weren't able to do their jobs right um because the lines for games were so long we even had trouble the first day like they had to open the doors 15 minutes early because it was a fire with the amount of people standing in the entryway mhm and if you got into the Hall about 10 minutes after it was supposed to open the lines were already two or three hours long yeah and people missed appointments that's right yeah

it's uh it's tough yeah a lot of sites uh are now saying in future it's going to be easier for them to just do all this stuff from home or from the office or wherever because you they stream all of the presentations should say the press conferences aren't even part of e3 anymore they're like separate events that's right that the uh that the the company has to invite you to like Microsoft or Bethesda or Ubisoft Sony they're all completely separate things you have to be invited to them and so it's easier to if you're going to be the first you know you want to post all this stuff you want to post uh feedback uh you want to be the first to to talk about this stuff on the internet it's it's harder to do it if you're there

it's easier it's easier to sit at home in your Wi-Fi and exactly and then and you can edit together a video in like you know the next 10 minutes or whatever instead of having to to you know run back to the hotel or or a meeting room or what however the hell you're going to manage that from from the convention and not only that it's better for the companies like say Microsoft Microsoft announced a bunch of new this this E3 it's better for them if the audience at that press conference is a bunch of screaming fans because it looks better than a bunch of very serious you know like media people making notes and nodding and oh yes very interesting like they want people who are excited the fans right so right and I did read some articles that there were some

journalists that said they would show up to one of the um I think the Microsoft one in particular uh all of the media were way way back like in the nose Leed section because right up front were the people had who had won tickets or been giving tickets and makes sense like going crazy you want them on camera looking excited right right yeah yeah so I can see why they because really the whole thing it has always been about marketing it's just now the the way marketing works is very different so I I I can see why the fans are confused because they don't know like CU E3 is figuring out what it wants to do and they they're not used to it the media is confused yeah the media is confused because they're used to the way it used to be and so everybody's just kind of a

bit Topsy Turvy so there's been a lot of negative feedback yeah um EA has actually pulled out of of e3 MH um last year and have decided to do their own EA play uh a more fan-based um Expo y yeah well again like that's that that works better for him these days I think yeah yeah clearly I mean EA knows knows the business of video games that's one thing they definitely know but overall uh we had a lot of fun and absolutely yeah and so while we can understand certain groups of people were a bit disappointed we would we were not because I guess we we we were new and we we knew that this was all going on and I guess we you know content to just experience it as it is well I think that

we should get into what everybody really wants to hear yep fair fair enough our time at Disney no I'm joking um the games yes and the hardware yes yeah there were a few few announcements this year it wasn't a huge year it feels like it was it does I mean there definitely were a lot of announcements a lot of them were sequels that's true actually yeah or just the same game again right well we'll start with EA um as we said they have pulled out of e3 they hold their own convention um a public event which is still in Los Angeles um the weekend before mhm so their press conference I believe was on Saturday the day day before Microsoft and Bethesda started up with E3 right their big Spotlight was on Star Wars Battlefront 2

yes they've been very uh Playstation Centric on that uh for some reason but it's not an exclusive or anything like that so it's coming out on all platforms mhm it is a sequel to Star Wars Battlefront which was very popular for a little while and then unfortunately only a little while because it was quite fun but then it just kind of died down and it was exclusively multiplayer so there wasn't really anything you could do right if no one else was playing yeah there was a one point where I tried to play it I mean and this was a few months after uh and I just it took forever to find a game uh and I mean certain game modes continued for longer but but there was others that were just they just died like almost instantly people just lost interest so what everybody really wanted

out of Battlefront 2 was a single player campaign MH and you got it so that's going to be awesome hopefully I mean they didn't show any of it so they I mean they showed like a little video that had short snippet of it but uh it's probably not going to be mindblowing as far as gameplay goes but um but it is Star Wars and it is Battlefront so yep you get to play as the heroes right that is fun what I find interesting about Battlefront 2 um is that it includes the prequels yes it does so I I wasn't sure because for a long time it seemed like Disney was kind of trying to avoid that being Canon yeah they're being selective with it I think for sure um and I mean there are people who like it and actually while we were watching the uh the trailer they show

some of the the you know the clone troopers versus the battle droids on nabo and I was like you know what this is actually pretty cool like it's all it's all creative and it's interesting it's just that the film didn't have a very good plot so so I think maybe it can still be good including prequel stuff as long as we just try and forget the films right it does mean that there are new people to play as uh you can play as Darth Maul which is kind of cool yep and new ships to fly yes the uh the Droid ships and the uh what are the little the little Naboo Fighters i f what they the little yellow ones yeah they're pretty cool those things I always thought they were cool yeah and uh also Ray is playable uh Han is playable again and there's one other that escapes me Boba

Fett yeah so they're the four initial ones uh and then there'll be more later apparently oh and all the DLC is going to be free this time which is a nice touch released ofc but had to it a l of people bought it not only did you have to pay for it it was kind of when it was dying down right so I didn't want to put money into something that I might not even get to play exactly the Rogue one DLC looked interesting but why would you buy it if no one's playing the game like it's a risk that hopefully they can avoid this time yep so that game comes out on November 17th this year mhm uh most games actually October and November are going to be a busy time in the video game industry um another game that they showed they

didn't actually show any of the gameplay for this they just showed the trailer for Anthem yes um which is bioware's new game and it will come out in Fall of 2018 Microsoft actually went into this further in their press conference um but it did debut at EA yeah so they demoed a bit more at Microsoft and I guess so we can just discuss that when we talk about the Microsoft conference speaking of the Microsoft press conference something big was announced this year project Scorpio was unveiled yes the uh the official title of project Scorpio the xbonex X bonx Xbox x Xbox and x xoan x yes the Xbox One

X it's clunky man that's real clunky what are they doing it is because they also they also have the Xbox One S yeah which sounds very similar to Xbox One X I just I don't know what why can't they just name things like in a in a intuitive manner like I don't know I don't know why they going to do this well even the Xbox One is a weird name because where do you go from there the Xbox 2 yeah well the Xbox 360 was a weird name the only one that made any sense was the Xbox and I mean even that didn't make that much sense and unless you know that it was like the direct Xbox right exactly when you know that you go oh but why right well they dropped the direct and just Nam at the Xbox which is fine like it's a good name

yes um and it's a good logo yes but yeah the Xbox 360 I guess because I it did a little 360 from the yeah fine with the Xbox one yeah well that just confused everybody cuz I got an Xbox which one is it Xbox One the first Xbox no no the the Third Xbox the Xbox One well I it's kind of similar to what I feel like apple did with the iPads yeah I I think that's stupid as well so except now they just call them iPad and it's like fine yeah but how do you tell the difference between them oh they have a year model it's stupid yeah right well the Xbox One X was announced the price in the specs actually are what what were um showcased at this PR confidence it will be released November 7th of this

year just in time to play all of the new games that are coming out yep it's backwards compatible um as far as Xbox yeah like all the way back original Xbox so that's cool yeah it is cool but then at the same time uh even when they announced that the Xbox one was backwards compatible I feel like I can't play the three 6 games anymore yeah some of them hold up some of them do not yeah there are games um original Xbox games that I have on my iPad now like nice to the Old Republic so yeah they don't hold up that well no and I think a lot of the better ones they have uh re republished yeah remastered yeah so but hey that's cool people wanted it people are very happy about it it's a

it's a different type of upgrade this time as well it's not it's not a whole new console you don't have to buy whole new games it's kind of like a PC upgrade almost it just does better it's the same thing you used to it's just better now so this was to compete with the PlayStation 4 Pro um both are 4K compatible mhm which is great if you've got a 4K TV yes or VR they can both do VR although they didn't mention VR at the Xbox One at all they didn't mention it which is weird but yeah unless you well I think it'll still have some benefit to a normal HD set in that you'll get probably better frame rates and you'll get they can probably put higher rise Textures in but I think to get the most out of it you're going

to need a fancy big 4K TV and it looks real good yeah it does um it's got a better processor mhm uh better memory yeah faster hard drive even it's just yeah everything's everything's better um the price though is a little bit steep well see it is and then it isn't so it's going for $4.99 mhm mhm which is I if you were to upgrade a PC that would be about the price so I guess in that sense if you because my frame of reference obviously is Australia and it's going for I believe 6.49 in Australia that's huge well actually compared to the Xbox 360 it's not when the Xbox 360 came out it was $850 are you serious yeah cuz I went and bought one and so then when they

announce so now whenever they announce the price of a new console and it's not $850 I'm like woohoo and now I get because I'm here in America it's only 500 so I I mean I thought the price was good until everyone started saying Rich deep and I was like oh is it I didn't realize I think it is quite high it's especially for um just being an upgrade of of a console and not like a new generation of console well it kind of is a new generation I guess it just depends on if this is how it's going to be from now on like like maybe we maybe we're done with Generations kind of it's it's going to be more flowy than that now I would think I mean because it should have been cuz that's how PCS work do you think we'll ever get to a point where we can upgrade

our own systems a console mhm well see CU then it would just be a PC so that's right a PC box PC box well like the steam boxes in that I guess yeah are the equivalent so yeah but then you fragment your your user base I don't think they would want to do that with a console because you got a game coming out and it's like well which one of the three Xboxes that we just released do you have like which processor have you got which one you know y you end up splintering it all paying the ass well with the price uh Phil Spencer Head of Xbox I read an article where he said there is actually no profit um with the system all of their profit is from the games I think it's been like that with most of them at first yeah because of the amount of time and Hardware that's

going into it they don't actually make anything off of it I think the exception to that rule is Nintendo because they put inside a box and sell it to people for $300 yeah well that's people may be laughing but I'm I'm I'm serious like they're the only ones making any money off the consoles that's just cuz they're overpriced for what they are I love Nintendo but yeah I don't think that they are doing so well on the console war no I agree not only did Microsoft announce a new system they announced new avatars for that system yeah so there's like an overhaul to the yeah it's coming in Fall 2017 um the avatars actually look really awesome yeah look cool and are more inclusive um there are now uh people in wheelchairs amputees different colors um

of skin of hair uh different clothing gender neutral clothing um there's a lot to it and they look pretty cool hopefully I can get a realistic beard cuz the the Beards looked awful before I know that's hopefully I can get my two-toned hair yeah I know which our minority groups are just not represented bright red hair please yeah my very specific shaped beard but no it actually um I joke but it actually does look like you can make it quite custom which could be a pain in the butt or it could be awesome so they didn't actually show much about how it works they just kind of showed the end product so it'll be interesting to see how that how it all works and if you're going to have to pay for all the clothes and stuff remember they you used to have to buy

yeah yeah so I don't know we'll see I also wonder who is going to see these avatars because you don't anymore with the new UI yeah it's a good point so but I liked it I liked the old one where you could see you and your friends playing together yeah yeah hopefully they can find a way to to tie because on the one hand I'm playing video games I don't need to see them but then on the other hand if they look cool then it's nice to appreciate them so yeah and if you put into it yeah yeah I think right now the only way you can see them is to go into their profile yeah yeah that's right like to view their achievements which I don't often do no because I see Luke's and I just I'm like why do I bother mhm they've also

announced uh more customization in the Design Lab M yeah like metallic paint and and other cool things yeah rubberized grips and more colors yeah cool uh it's also now available in more European countries which it wasn't before oh nice yeah we got a couple of custom controllers and they're nice they they look really good so maybe I have to play with the new lab and see if we can get some more ah you can make some really ugly things in it and it's great yeah nice what I would like to see though and I'm surprised that this isn't happening is the elite controllers in the Design Lab yeah that's interesting and also um somebody asked Major Nelson about why doesn't the Xbox One X come with an elite controller because apparently some people were expecting

that there wasn't they just didn't show many anything to do with them like they're kind of just staying as they are I guess no and that is that is a first party controller isn't it the elite yeah yeah they're like it's an actual Microsoft product yeah right like I've I've never oh I mean I've used one like at a convention I've never I've I don't own one like I don't I don't yeah I'm not fussed about it to be honest but people tell me it's good you know I'm just surprised that it's not as it's not part of the Design Lab because there definitely are um alternate colors that you can get it in it's not just black right yeah well I guess the cost maybe is prohibitive yeah because well they're expensive anyway yeah the well the elites are they're

like what 200 bucks and the The Design Lab controllers I think are around 100 they're about 80 yeah so uh yeah it would probably be maybe they like people would be angry about the price if they did right well let's talk about the games cool we had mentioned Anthem before do you want to tell us a little bit about that game yeah they they used the anthem to kind of demo the uh the group the capabilities of the uh Xbox One X and Anthem yeah it's the new game by BioWare like the core BioWare team um the the ones that made the original Mass Effect games um it's a new thing it you're kind of uh sci-fi seems like explorers or it seems like Destiny uh mixed with the division basically a lot of people are making

that comparison and that really is a pretty good way to describe it like you you put on a suit of armor that's kind of like an Iron Man thing where you can fly around and seemingly like destiny you fly out of the city and Into the Wilderness and uh I mean the plot wasn't really revealed but you you shoot enemies and it seems like it's a persistent world where there's you know your friends can join you it I didn't really it wasn't clear whether it's instanced or whether everybody's just you know in a shared World um it there seemed to be some kind of loot system like they kill a bunch of bad guys and then she picks up a you know an named rifle that she gets excited about it looks beautiful like graphically it

looks beautiful I can see why they chose it to to show off um and it looks interesting I think it's something that I'm going to want to play yeah but uh well it looks like what they wanted Mass Effect 3 to be yeah yeah well and and like I said no story details were revealed really I we saw that there was there's like very impressive stor STM effects there's some kind of storm that comes uh while they're out adventuring and they have to tr kind of get out of the storm and that looks that really impressive uh oh you can go under water you can like you fly and then just splash into water and explore down there it's it's impressive definitely impressive so it just remains to be seen

what the game is so to speak right well there were a lot like that that we we just saw a trailer but not the actual gamep playay right yeah um another one of those was life is strange yes uh before the storm mhm we didn't actually see any of the game play during the Microsoft press conference but we did make an appointment with Square Enix to see some um in their own little presentation yeah they kept it behind the scenes for some reason maybe they weren't ready to show the public I don't know yeah I think it's not it's not playable yet it's not finished they're still polishing it up I don't think they were ready to show the public yet so it was media only um we did get to play well as a

group we got to play a little section of it um and then they showed us a few other um clips from later in the game where you see how your choices influence the story yeah um if you've played life is strange it is very similar to that y um if you haven't uh you follow in the original game you follow Max um who is a high school student and a photographer who finds that she has the ability to rewind time the game displays all of the ways in which your choices affect your future um how you speak to people if you help them out uh things like that just the way that you treat people and how that influences them in the future mhm the new game follows Chloe price one of the characters from um the original

life of strange mhm and takes place three years before the events of the original now when I saw the trailer for this I questioned it because Chloe was in the original game how does she suddenly have a power that she just never mentioned to Max mhm well she doesn't yeah so I guess that people were speculating that she doesn't and she doesn't right the game was presented by the creative director who told us that based on feedback um he removed the powers and made it a more choice-based system yeah he said that people connected with the the uh the story and the characters yeah the kind of relatable real world story and and and reactions and things and so it it's just more about that than uh

than Powers right I don't know how this will affect the game well clearly it'll be different because I I didn't play it I saw you playing a bit and you know you can you can rewind time and stuff and in this you can't so it's obviously going to change it quite a lot because I saw you selecting dialogue options and then rewinding to choose other dialogue options right and unlocking things because you learned something from a person and then you can go back in time that's right so you could you could talk to somebody you could get in a fight you could yell at them and then find out secrets and then rewind and then rewind and say oh hey I'm sorry about your mom and they're like oh I didn't even know you knew about her yeah well that's all

not going to be in this I guess right right so I guess your choices have more impact in this game right because they're locked MH yeah yeah I mean the the presentation we saw reminded me a lot of The Telltale Games it did yeah um yeah like more straightforward than I than I have been led to believe that the original life of Stranges yeah I'm not sure I'm not sure how I like that but I mean I will definitely play it uh because I really liked the original yeah um it comes out August 31st of this year so very soon yeah but yeah I I still question that oh we'll see that was um that game is actually made by the company don't nod mhm um we saw another game by them this wasn't part of the Microsoft press conference but I do feel like it's worth

mentioning yes yes very much so so we saw another presentation uh on the game vampire yes vampire is a sort of uh roleplaying uh action game where you play a vampire obviously someone who is just been transformed into a vampire and I it looks really really cool I'm like super impressed with so it's a similar game where your choices influence the world around you and there multiple possible endings but you it's like a role playing game but normally in a role playing game you gain experience by killing things uh and that is sort of similar in this except because you're a vampire you have to kill people and the world is populated by specific people

there aren't just kind of random no-name enemy like people for you to kill everybody in the world has a purpose and a story and a family and a role and they all have different level different XP levels that you can get from them and you have to decide who you're going to kill because once you once you kill someone they are gone from the game and it will affect the world like it will change it will affect other people in the world it will affect areas it will affect any number of things and so you have to be very very careful about your decisions if you're going to if you're going to try and level up because you do need to level up to progress in the game and so the example they showed is you

can uh follow uh a guy around you discover that maybe he's he's killed some people uh but you don't want to be rash because you want to know find out what's going on so you you speak to him you investigate further you you find out he's you know he's got some stuff going on with his mother and all that kind of stuff and then you find out all these clues about these various people and at the end of it you're left with kind of this family tree of people with varying levels of experience that you'll get from them like you can see like oh if one if one of them is very healthy you'll get more XP from them but they might also be very influential and killing them will could cause problems so uh it's it's fantastic like it seems

really really cool and it's possible he said to create a situation where you ruin basically ruin everything like you screw up the whole you screw up everything for everybody and you can still win but you'll just get a really shitty ending yeah I'm really excited about it yep yeah me too is uh like I said don't nod made a great game with life is strange so I'm excited to play this one yeah and so as you kill people you drink their blood and then you can rest and use the XP that you gain from them to level up and purchase new abilities and that stuff's more straightforward like you you gain your abilities and that enables you to fight more powerful

enemies and progress further in the game um but yeah just the whole aspect of of having to coexist with with these people and uh make judgments on them is yeah it's it's very cool I I I when he when he explained it I was like I can't believe no one's done this before it's so cool and what we saw was very early so none of the menu screens really finished yet right it was placeholder text and stuff but but I mean it was visually very good and uh it's very compelling but look out for that game yeah it's G to be good I'm sure of it yes uh one of the biggest games that Microsoft announced this year Microsoft and Ubisoft uh but this was at the Microsoft press conference was the new Assassin's Creed Origins yes so Ubisoft took a year off um I like how last year they actually

had to announce that they weren't making any Assassin's Creed games and that was a big announcement in itself it's got they did make two peripherals but not a major game right mobile games and stuff yeah yeah the new one takes place in Egypt uh you play as Bak who is protecting Egypt from threats um it's a more open world game than the previous ones it uh has more RPG elements leveling and crafting yeah like loot like uh special like it seemed like he was picking up new weapons and stuff that's interesting yeah yep there is a bigger open world map and there are new things in this like underwater exploration uh in previous ones you could swim but this one actually has stuff like underw that you can explore

and uh have fights and you have an eagle in this game uh called senu who is a scout uh it's kind of like the mechanic from Tom Clancy wildlands yeah it reminded me that of that a lot yeah with the Drone in a good way in a good oh yeah totally so I think there are less things to climb but you can send up your scout Eagle yeah to to pick up enemies and to plan your attacks so this could be kind of cool because I was kind of disenfranchised with Assassin's Creed yeah we've done the parkour stuff we've seen all that so to do something different I think is is smart it's yeah it looks cool I I'm I'm cautiously optimistic about it yeah and they did take a year off to do this yeah so hopefully they've put a lot of work into it hopefully people's faces won't

disappear oh that in in all of the previews they are very well rendered yeah yeah it looks it I mean on the the the Xbox One X it looks beautiful so mhm um there are a couple more that I can kind of blow through a little bit yeah yeah they announced a lot like 40 something games at Microsoft like and and I mean some some of them I'm sure will reveal themselves to be more interesting but a lot of them were just kind of quick trailers so uh we've got SE of Thieves by Rare which is an open world MMO with pirates I need to apologize to them because I think I said on one of the Recaps during the week that it didn't really test the power of the Xbox One X I was mistaken when I actually saw up close the game the water

in Sea of Thieves looks amazing mhm so while it's cartoony uh and I guess I didn't appreciate the details uh when you when you see it up close it actually visually is is quite impressive it was also cool it was also cool to see a team of four Co-op this game um oh man it looks like so much fun this is your captain speaking uh can everybody get starboard for the yeah great it looks it looks like it's going to be fun yeah the only Pro only concern I have about it is uh I don't know how much game there is right that's my only concern because we've I we saw them yep you sail then you get to an island then you go down into a cave Sol a puzzle get the treasure come back up there's some skeletons that aren't very hard to kill and then you get back

on the boat like all right what else happens we've got Middle Earth shadow of war that comes out October 10th 2017 um we've got State of Decay 2 coming out in 2018 yeah we've got the last night um by the company odd Tales which looks like a really awesome Blade runner-esque game yeah we didn't really see much gameplay but it looks amazing like visually amazing and we've got the game that Microsoft announced that I personally am most excited for um ory and the will of the Wisps yeah which is a followup to or and the Forest which is a metroidvania Style game um where you play as a little light being um this looks it's such an emotional game the first one and already

from the trailer this one follows suit so very excited about that cool it's a great game but it is incredibly frustrating at times that's I mean that kind of wraps up Microsoft's press conference m in a way like I said they announced about 40 games we can't go through them here but you can find lists of them online yep if we skipped something uh comment or messages podcast multiple.com let us know and we'll try and discuss it you know in in the near future just let us know yep or you can find all of these press conferences online actually um they're all about an hourish in length you know we we kind of just highlighted the ones that we think people would be excited to play and that we're excited to play the Bethesda conference followed the Microsoft conference on Sunday I

really liked their introduction it was very cute the it's like very family Centric with all of the um the children of the developers and the writers talking about what their parents do yeah it was cute incorrectly was very cute yeah um and I think actually Bethesda killed it at this press conference um they created Bethesda land which was a um an amusement art with little sections from all their games um so there was a doom area which gave out cocktails in a little skull head glass um they had fall Outland which um had a big ferris wheel uh they had I think they had um another of the diner from Wolfenstein yeah yeah um yeah it looked very cool

and their t-shirts were awesome and I want one Bethesda land ones yeah yeah they've CED a bit of criticism though for for their announcements well to be fair they didn't really announce much they did but it's all it's either sequels or it's the same game that they've announced several times in the past few years like how many times can they announce Skyrim oh we'll see we'll see every year untility like the game that just keeps getting announced yeah yeah now on Nintendo switch they did reann their games on VR yes and this caught my attention immediately because I knew that they were doing Fallout VR they the first thing that they announced was the Doom it's called Doom VFR mhm and uh as you

listeners will probably know I loved the new Doom like so much it was my favorite game last year and so when I saw this I was like oh my God it's going to be so cool but then the video made me go wait a minute and I was a bit skeptical because it looked like in order to move you have to kind of point to a spot and then you teleport to it and you you do do that but apparently you can also move normally and Dash from side to side quickly and stuff so I don't know I'm still I'm cautiously optimistic about it but I'm that makes it sound like a like a VR point and click exactly so I'm still not sure about it how everyone's saying it it is the best of the Bethesda VR games so un fortunately we didn't get to play any um man the the lines were

enormous was crazy yeah we get to watch some oh yeah yeah they were all in just glass booths so you could watch people making a fool of themselves yeah it's my favorite thing about conventions these days I don't really like playing VR at conventions because it totally like hear anyone around you you can't see anyone you kind of forget that you're in the middle of a convention hall yeah and I can't imagine like playing Doom that's a scary game well that's that's why I'm I'm wondering because the the whole point of Doom is that you're running around really fast and you have to keep moving and it's like it's very fast-paced and intense and then just I don't know looking at the way it

was being controlled I I'm skeptical about it I'm I'm like I said people saying it's good and it's the better of them so I'm optimistic but I don't know it looks clunky to me I'm worried that it's not going to have the same I'm not going to like it as much as I did the original uh and then they they also showed a clip of Fallout in VR during the presentation and it it functions how you would expect you can look down at your pit boy and you can shoot stuff and then apparently you can walk by pushing forward and looking in the direction you want to go um and apparently it's fine except the controls are really really clunky and it comes out very soon so right so they're going to continue to be clunky that's the concern yeah okay apparently in

particular when you try and use the pit boy or the menus because you know the pit boy you know you're not familiar before you don't like them you've played it before though right mhm you know the pit boy is like your inventory and your health and your map and all of that apparently that's all very very clunky it comes out in October uh and and doom VFR comes out this year but there's not a firm date set so we get them both this year then two they showed there was there was another one but that was shown during the Sony presentation so we'll wait for that I guess um they've also announced the creation Club we've had mods forever um in the world of Skyrim um only recently have they moved to consoles yes and now Bethesda has

announced the creation Club m mhm yes the creation Club is apparently uh kind of curated collections of mods uh that you can purchase I believe you have to purchase them that will add content to the game and I guess the idea is that they will still be compatible with your save games like they'll guarantee that because sometimes when you still a mod it just everything up and and and it breaks the game they're going to guarantee that these won't uh and you'll save games will still work and you can still get achievements with these ones installed because on a console if you install a mod achievements are disabled right uh for that save game yeah but they didn't announce what they are they

just said that that's that they're going to be curated collections MH um they also showcased morrowwind um The Elder Scrolls Online y that looks cool um that's kind of the reason I bought the Elder Scrolls online cuz I knew this was coming out so so I guess I got to buy it um and they had the evil within two yes this game is produced by Shinji Mami of Resident Evil Fame yes um he wrote the original Evil Within but I think he is uh not not as prominent on this one okay which I mean could be a good thing because The Evil Within was not a great game yes but the evil within two follows the

story of Sebastian Castellanos from the first game mhm um he is searching for the daughter who he presumed dead at the end of The Evil Within right he once again has to re-enter stem to find her right stem is the collective mind thing from the first game uh which influences everyone's Minds right they had a an exhibit on an experience no gamep playay unfortunately actually not much to it other than just the trailer yeah this game comes out Friday the 13th of October this year so it's not that far in the future mhm um but yeah there it was one of those um like a horror maze but

without much of it it had screens that had the game on them but I didn't realize that that was all it was and so I didn't really stop to look at them and then by the time we got to the end and I realized oh this is it I'd already passed them and then it was too late when you say by the time it sounds like like a considerable amount of time had passed it was just a couple of hallways yeah you can actually see we did do a full walk through um you can see it on our Instagram uh multiple orgasm but yeah you can see the whole thing yeah I was expecting a little bit more to that fortunately it was not a very long line that's true well comparatively it was still about half an hour yeah yeah um I think the longest line we did wait in though was for

bethesda's biggest announcement was Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus yes uh this game comes out October 27th this year M and it follows the story of BJ Blitz blaskowitz blaskowitz yeah Blas BJ blaskowitz just call BJ yeah after World War II when the Nazis won yep and they took over America yeah this game's pretty fun we got to play about 20 minutes of it um I found I their choice of uh of demo curious so did I I don't know why they chose to let us play a section where the main character is in a wheelchair and fairly difficult to to maneuver mhm like and that that was the that was the extent of the game play like we didn't

get to unless that's the whole game like yeah I don't know it was weird and it was also very difficult yeah they said that they're going to address that uh and that that's that was a complaint at the expo at because I I didn't play on like I think I played on not not normal but maybe one above it yeah I just went for the whatever the default is hurt me plenty it is yeah yeah there like five levels of difficulty so whatever like the center one was mhm is what I played on and it was tough yeah well he's just he's in a wheelchair it's hard to maneuver right like and and because when he's shooting he's only using one hand on the Wheel to to move so he's slowed down and I mean it all makes sense it's just very I don't know it's just tricky and a bit

clunky and I don't know like I get it it's it's realistic but is it fun question mark that cuz when you look at the trailer for the game the game looks more like it plays like Doom he's running around he's shooting the not zombies Nazis and they're you know he very fast-paced and he's doing the glory kills on them and and it it looks more like doom and then when we played it it's very different that that particular level was very different Wolfenstein is actually a prequel to Doom yeah it's the same family it's a descendant of BJ that you play as in Doom yeah some of the demons are the same right it's fun fact for you yeah it sounds like I'm I'm ragging on it but I'm not I actually really enjoyed it I just thought it was a really curious section to show but

then maybe that was the point right is that it was fairly unique in in sequence cuz you go end up on a conveyor belt and then there's section where you fall out of the wheelchair and so you can't to drag yourself back over to it yeah and so I don't know it was neat it was just like I said it just wasn't what I was expecting from the trailer that they had on the screens I was expecting to me running around shooting Nazis and I was instead I was careful rolling around shooting Nazis but Bethesda set up a really awesome booth for that yeah it was sick which looks like Papa Joe's Diner yeah and you got a milkshake it was really awesome they were handing out strawberry milkshakes it was good it was fun I I had a good time definitely it was worth waiting in line for I think

yeah yeah one of the few that was I think MH no offense to the other vendors it's just that was a very long wait so you had to do something special to make it worthwhile that's right if it was just to play a game that is coming out in four months yeah I I don't know I can just stand behind people and watch them play it Y and then move on to the next one but this this was more of an experience and that was cool yeah well we can move on to Ubisoft they've got the crew to they've got that's a game the highly anticipated Just Dance 2018 we've got another pirate game Skull and Bones yeah that looks really pretty but then I like when it first came on I was like oh wow that looks cool and then I don't know as they explained it I was

like oh okay it's not for me I'm not saying it's not going to be a good game it's just not for me it's a multiplayer uh kind of Co-op thing similar to um to similar to Sea of Thieves except more serious it's not it's not cartoony and it it seems like more strategy and battle Centric than individual goofy fun Centric I'm sure I'm sure it'll be good just not for me right we've also got starlink battle for Atlas which is a figurine collectible cashing in on the Amigo Amigo what Amigo hey amigo cashing in on amiibos uh I don't see that this is going to take off it's weird right like such a weird thing to

announce after Disney just closed down their whole Studio CU Infinity failed right it's another like figurine collectible you build ships and then can play them in the game yeah you like Bolt the weapons onto the ship like you've got a physical toy of a ship and you can change the weapons on it and then it changes in the game to match I mean that's cool but it's not that cool they didn't really convince me that it was anything no I don't think they tried too hard either no I was like oh here's a thing I was like ah cool here's a new figurine thing sorry sorry if like somebody was really proud of that sorry to your parents wallets crushing their dreams make someone else that be soft cry speaking of crushing someone's dreams my favorite moment of E3 this

year he was happy he wasn't crushed adorable he was overwhelmed with joy Mario and Rabbids Kingdom battle was announced at the Ubisoft press conference and it's something that people tore into the Rabbids are like the minions yeah um from Rayman yeah who got popular have their own franchise from Rayman or from um I thought you me the minions from what's that Despicable Me yeah yeah I mean Rabbids are from Rayman oh but they they are the equivalent of the minions from dis wi yeah these irritating Little Creatures you can't speak and communicate and screams yep and have now infiltrated Mario I was like what the hell is this and why does it exist and then when they

showed the gameplay I was like oh it's like XCOM oh it looks really fun but then still why does this exist right like why isn't it just a Mario game well a lot of people took issue with this so weird and then um I think it it was somebody on Twitter who said before you all tear into this game have a look at the developer who was crying during the press conference because he's so proud of what he's created he's so adorable he's adorable his name is deid soani from Ubisoft Milan he was a fanboy of mamoto a that's why of course way way back he had waited outside his hotel or something like that to meet him and wanted to ask for his autograph and now he was got a chance to present his game

idea to him we got name dropped as well by m Mur mention exactly and it's just it's the cutest moment just please like just find this video he's adorable adorable and look I think this game looks pretty fun I it's I don't know why it exists it's weird I think maybe it's just that Nintendo wouldn't really make a game like this and so like it took Ubisoft to to make it happen it's weird whatever it looks cool right I don't have a switch I'm probably not going to get one so we retweeted a tweet from him where he he got back home to Italy and the Ubisoft team gave him a shirt with a picture of him crying on it and the hasht don't cry Ubisoft man yeah so cute so good I love this guy I want to play this game just for this guy because it's

so adorable you have to buy a switch then so leani buy me a switch say nice things about your game if you well actually no let's not set a precedent for that yep when our opinions are not for sale we've also got Far Cry 5 yeah which comes out February 27th 2018 yeah this looks cool I got kind of bored with Far Cry but this uh this one looks interesting and for the same reasons that some people don't like it I like it it's it's set in a fictional Montana town where a radical preacher named Joseph seed has formed doomsday cult and you play as the main protagonist with some guns for hire y um that try to take him down I'm a bit confused as to why you're trapped in a town in Montana like it it's I mean they say that you can't leave at least they

said in the presentation I don't know what the PL is I don't know how they handle that in the plot but you mean you got a guy with a plane helping you right maybe it's because of the cult yeah I I mean maybe it's just because you can't leave because you've got to complete the mission which is fine it just I'm I was just confused about why can't he physically leave I don't know but it does look pretty cool um good yeah it's a pretty good concept I think which a lot of people don't think because it's caught a lot of FL for Americans being the terrorists yeah people are upset because they're like well our own people wouldn't do that well they do do that and they have done that yeah that's why they made a game about it yep it's it's

based on the real world events that happen sometimes yeah and the developers of this game actually researched quite heavily and met with cult experts um cult cult Sports uh to make sure that they got everything right that there would be like the main guy who's very relatable very very personable but also kind of psychotic charismatic psych yeah and then like H the other people that work for him so they tried to make sure that they got all of that correct I hope he's like a Charlie Manson type that would be entertaining um I've actually I've read some articles about the Jonestown Jonestown jonesb which one Jonestown the Kool-Aid yeah was that Jonestown yeah yeah about the Jonestown cult and it sounds very similar to that

um Jim Jones it seems like Joseph seed is is a a Jim Jones character where he is like a great guy and really nice and very welcoming but kind of crazy crazy yeah Jonestown if you don't know like Matt said drink the Kool-Aid like he would call over the loudspeaker like they're coming to attack us everybody quickly we have to all like kill our elv before they get us cuz they will torture us and they'll do all his horrible things and would do fake outs like he would give them all cyi laced Kool-Aid which they would be surprised they didn't die and then he'd say no I got you but now I know that you're on my side so we're all good until one day he actually did that and

killed like almost a thousand people kids included crazy mother yeah yeah it happens unfortunately it does so I guess I don't really see why people are upset about this game uh I do and I don't I guess they just don't want to think about it they would you know you play video games to escape into a you know and the other thing too the other complaint I've heard is you know Far Cry has been set in the jungle traditionally but I don't know I'm I'm less concerned about that I think the concept is still sound it's like an open world where you go around and you've got you know kind of these bad guys to tackle it's I I don't see that it has to be in a jungle specifically right I think it looks good and uh yeah I'm I'm Keen to play it oh we've also got Beyond Good and Evil 2

which is a prequel to The 2003 game the graphics on this look amazing well see it was a kind of pre-rendered thing which is disappointing because it means is that what the game's going to look like right right or because you know they do this to us these game developers they do this they make a movie and then you don't actually get to play the movie exactly I haven't played the first one I have to admit neither have I it's a game that everybody keeps talking about how it's one of their favorite games and when I say I haven't played it they're like and then I'm I'm ashamed but I still haven't still haven't gotten around to it so I might have to do that because we have the uh remastered version I think on the Xbox so I'll have to do that and then we have my most

anticipated Game of the Year y uh this game was actually delayed it should have been out already but is now coming out in October South Park the fractured but ho so good it looks The Stick of Truth Good was such a great game and this game is going to be great I don't even like the Final Fantasy style games and I liked stick of truth because it was just funny enough and and this is even this is different it's like the combat's different like it's a god it just looks so funny and I just can't wait to play I I didn't even care if the game play sucks like it's going to be good anyway it's an interactive episode of South Park yeah it's going to be good but hopefully the gameplay will be good

they've also announced phone Destroyer which is coming out uh sometime in 2017 but they haven't announced when it looks like a competitor to Hearthstone and uh Elder Scrolls Legends actually they demoed Elder Scrolls Legend at Bethesda did I don't know why it's already out but uh it looks like a competitor to those yeah it's a card collection game PVP except it's probably a million times funnier than the others oh yes almost certainly that was a that was a good surprise because I've been excited about the fractured butth hole for a while and now we get two yeah in one year excellent so that kind of wraps it up for the Ubisoft panel we've got Sony now which I have to say I don't really know much about I've never been I've never been uh on the PlayStation side of the

console war no I've been Microsoft I've had I had an original PlayStation I had PlayStation 2 I bought a PlayStation 3 fairly late on to play some of the exclusives um but I've yeah no my primary console for a long time has been an Xbox so uh I I don't know that I some of these games look good but none of them look good enough for me to buy another console right uh except for one uh and so maybe we just move through them and I mean people probably probably know what I'm going to say if they listen to our show but but um uh what don't we work our way through them and then I'll out we've got Call of Duty World War II which I think is kind of cool um because I liked the original Call of Duty 1 and two which were set

during World War II yeah and then when it became these fictional Wars I just wasn't quite as into that but I do get it we do have plenty of real life war games yeah probably a solid shooter I just I don't really care about it that much we've also got God of War which takes katos into Norse mythology rather than the Greek that it was previously in he killed all those Gods like a soft reboot for the the franchise yeah uh I mean it looks beautiful I played one and I played a bit of two and I liked them but I didn't finish them so I don't know this looks good I don't know that I would you know drop the money on a new console for it something that I thought was cool is that is composed by bear mccre oh yeah who did the music for Battle Star Galactica which I did not

like but I do like his music yeah he's a quality composer he's real good he does uh Agents of Shield and he does uh The Walking Dead and a bunch of other stuff he's very good we've got Final Fantasy storm blood yes they actually had a blood donation van there so that was neat yeah it was cool um Final Fantasy 15 Monsters of the deep yeah they did a whole segment on VR stuff this is one of the VR games this looks weird as hell yeah totally I don't I don't understand I could just go fishing I don't need to go VR fishing in case in case you haven't seen this it's like it's the whatever the Final Fantasy game was it 15 right with the it's got you know those guys the gothy looking dudes and then you go fishing with them and it's a fishing game and someone told me it's

fun like to my face someone said no no no I know it looks stupid but it's actually fun so I mean all right I'm not going to call him a liar so apparently it's fun I just I looked I was like what the hell is that like all right cool it's a fishing game um and then we've got Detroit become human which is David Cage's new game from Quantic dream it is inspired by uh The Singularity is near by Ray cwell where the machines take like become human right um and set in Detroit which was chosen because of the economic decline that the area faced so there are some places that are really nice and then some that are just abandon which we saw when we visited Detroit last year

yeah it's amazing it's like bizar the the transitions between the two areas so sudden this game went from like holy this looks great to I don't know if I like the gameplay to oh it's a David cage game yeah it was like a roller coaster I was like ooh ooh ooh ooh uh uh when I saw like how that section of the game was played I was like oh no he's just like it's just like Choose Your Own Adventure right and then as and then it was like oh Quantic dream oh okay so there probably is more to it hopefully just yeah so uh yeah I don't know it'll because it's Quantic dream it's probably going to be a PlayStation exclusive that one might have to be a skip unless I buy another PS4 at some point Quantic dream if you don't know is the uh company that

made heavy rain and Beyond Two Souls yes and and uh fahrenheit as well which is a classic weird game they do they're cool games very story-driven games with odd interesting stories yeah and then I don't I don't know if this was actually showcased at the Sony press conference but it is a Sony and PC exclusive um it is Cliff linsky's new game boss key Studios law Breakers which we actually got to play it's out August 8th it's kind of like I think it I mean it's very very similar to Unreal Tournament yeah people comparing it to OverWatch I've only played a little bit of OverWatch uh I don't think it is to be honest I don't think it's that similar to OverWatch no and he actually said OverWatch this is

way better I don't yeah I don't think so at all it's I don't know it's super fastpaced it's kind of like uh the what we played was the uh was capture the ball or something capture the flag with the ball yeah yeah any I mean it was fun I had a lot of fun with it yeah I'm terrible at it and I have no idea how to use a PlayStation controller and it actually took me about 3 minutes just to figure out how to put the thing in invert but once I did and get the got the hang of it it was better yeah it was a fun game I um if it was on Xbox I'd probably I'd probably play it so plus I love Cliffy B yeah Cliffy B is cool he's cool dude he makes cool games mhm so he made the Gears of War Games yep Jazz Jack rabbit unreal the original unreal yep yeah which is why I think this is so

much like it he used to wear really cool shiny suits sorry Cliffy if you're listening to this we love you I remember you from something awful smarty Man game developer Survivor Island that's an obscure reference if any of our listeners know what that is um they showed some other cool stuff uh in VR uh like Skyrim they showed in VR but apparently it's not very good that the other the Bethesda one that that got announced and it made me go ooh ooh ooh but apparently it's yeah it's nowhere near complete it's clunky it doesn't look very good on the VR headset like it does doesn't hold up um and it was really disappointing for those who got to play it so that's a shame did they announce that during Sony uh yeah they showed it as part of

the VR set of the Sony presentation uh there was one VR thing that Sony announced that looked cool it was called the impatient uh it's where you're you're a me mental Asylum patient who's with amnesia and you get checked in and you have to figure out what's going on and why you're there uh and apparently it is a prequel to the game until dawn that everyone freaking loved that also I didn't get to play because it was PS exclusive um so I'm sure that's exciting for people who who played until dawn uh then asked the new Uncharted that uh that's not a Nathan Drake game it's a it's a it's a new one with a lady protagonist uh it looked cool L like Uncharted fair enough it's kind of like Tomb Raider yeah more like Tomb Raider than Uncharted did before and I mean

that's what they're basically the same game Uncharted with a lady is Tomb Raider so yeah yep fair enough uh the remas of Shadow of the Colossus um and the oh Destiny 2 which will excite uh Dary listen to Dary he's going to be super into Destiny 2 I like Destiny it's fun so um just need to look interesting I guess more the same but the game that I'm actually interested in on PS4 Spiderman when they showed that I was like a I'm GNA have to buy one because it looks like Arkham Knight with Spider-Man basically to me it looks really good so um yeah hopefully hopefully I'll get released on the platforms probably not though cuz it

will be a good seller I think for the PlayStation yeah but yeah it looks the controls look really cool and uh the you know the his Spider-Man uh related activities seemed really authentic and captured the essence of the character really well from from the demo they showed got me really excited because the Spider-Man games traditionally have been a bit so this one looks like a really good one I I played the old ones any anyway they were just not very good I led them Nintendo had the last press conference of the event I think their biggest announcement they showed absolutely nothing for and that was Metroid 4 yeah they just made everybody freak out and then just showed us a picture of the logo yep that would make

me want to buy a switch Metroid for I have to see the game cuz you never know the Metroid for the um 3DS was not great oh was it the 3DS or the DS actually I think of the DS maybe but uh yeah so I don't know wait and see well we know literally nothing about it exactly other than the name and that it's coming mhm we know that there is a new Pokemon tournament Deluxe game coming out uh which will be followed by another Pokemon core RPG yeah for the switch that seemed like inevitable well people thought they were going to announce that the other week as part of the Nintendo director sorry not the Pokémon company I think does their own announcements and people thought they were going to announce switch game freak right they thought they were going to announce one

for switch but they didn't they announced uh stuff about a new 3DS game only and so everyone's kind of like freaking out like what are they doing why isn't there a switch game and so I this kind of felt like throwing the fans a bone and saying yeah we're making one it's just we have literally nothing to show you um an interesting point uh Nintendo doesn't actually do a press conference anymore right um I think last year uh and from then on they've decided that it's they'd prefer to do a pre-recorded one yeah Nintendo Direct guess it saves a huge amount of money y I'm sure it does yeah just and they actually did this uh the Nintendo press conference was the first day of e3 so it was only like an hour or two before it that we were all watching this only like half an

hour long conference um they showed Splatoon 2 yes people love that game yeah the the paintball shooter it looks cool I have to check it out it's coming out in July July 21st of this year uh two games for 2018 Kirby and Yoshi I like how they don't have a full name it's just Kirby it's it's kind of like we promise when making games for the switch we promise that's right yeah don't give up on it we we promise there's games coming uh we've got Fire Emblem Warriors mhm yeah fire emblem's fun it's like a turn-based combat game like kind of like a simpler version of the kind of XCOM thing we were talking about Fire Emblem games are good and

they're very popular there's a mobile one actually on on iPhone I think at the moment that's really popular mhm uh we've got some DLC for breath of the wild the Zelda game um have they ever had DLC for a Zelda game before no yeah I didn't think so so should be interesting to see how they handle it no I mean we've had Zelda DLC for other games right like uh Mario Kart um right right no I don't think that there has ever been DLC for a Zelda game yeah they haven't done well Nintendo hasn't done a huge amount of DLC before so right as far as I'm aware podcast multi nasm.com telling you I'm wrong they also o announced that there will be if you um if you scan your amiibos into your switch while playing Skyrim you get some Legends of Zelda stuff I was really excited about Skyrim

on the switch but then when we were watching the presentation and I saw the you know the the stuff with the Zelda add-on you know the Master Sword and the shield and and all that all that the tunic yeah and I was paying attention to the game I don't know whether it was just the stream was poor quality or what but it it occurred to me that the switch is about as far as I'm aware about the the power of an Xbox 360 and Skyrim on the Xbox 360 looks terrible it didn't look terrible it wasn't it's certainly not the you know the the what do they call it the the special edition that we get on the Xbox one it's not going to have the mods and all that stuff I would

think on on the switch so I kind of had this reality check that they probably didn't intend like it had the reverse effect instead of making me excited it actually made me go wait a minute this is probably a shitty version of a game I already have that maybe I don't want anymore yeah so remains to be seen I think maybe I just maybe I just want to play Skyrim on my Xbox or my PC um well Nintendo's biggest announcement is Super Mario Odyssey mhm that comes out October 27th 2017 where you play is Mario it's another game with exploration based levels like Mario 64 was which is awesome yeah where you try to rescue Peach from Bowser who is intending to marry her people are going to be complaining about the plot I'm sure well people are

always complaining there is a new feature um two new features actually one is local two player that's cool yep really cool I wish that Mario 64 had that and the other new feature is Cappy yeah uh Mario's hat who can be the soul stealing hat yes a soul stealing hat which can be thrown onto people or objects to possess them for a short time mhm a lot of the levels were based on real world places like uh New York City for instance in the game is new donk city which Nintendo built not the best name I know but Nintendo built new do city um at E3 and there was a huge display really really cool have some pictures up so you can check it out on our Instagram at multiple nerdgasm um it was very cool yeah it was it was a fun setup it's very

strange to watch this game where the little cartoon Mario is running around in what is essentially real life New York City with people in business suits yeah it's s really jarring not jarring it's just it looks weird like to have the I mean cuz cuz they're not even super realistic looking people but they're like normalized and they've got suits and you know 50 style suits and and fedors and stuff on it looks weird but uh but I mean the game looks fun so it does looks very cool and they have announced some new amiibos to accompany that game and some others um there is another there's a new um Wedding Peach Mario and Bowser uh they've also announced some breath of

the wild amiibos of course and some Metroid ones oh God the Metroid the met the actual Metroid one is so cool I will post a picture of it it looks really really awesome that's so cool I'm G to have to buy it um I don't know the release date of those but I believe it's this year later this year delicious that kind of does it for the press conferences some companies didn't have a press conference the size of the others a you know a lot of stuff got announced kind of behind the scenes and just online during E3 so and some were there but didn't have press conferences they just showed their games at some of the other pressers like say Activision showed uh Call of Duty and

Destiny at the Sony one mhm yeah Capcom was there yep there was a the new Call Of cthulu game um which was Focus had uh I think they had some press stuff there for it um but it wasn't on display but they released a trailer during E3 which you should definitely check out it's the new Cola cthulu game looks awesome uh and there's probably a ton of stuff that we missed because like we said it's actually pretty tough keeping on top of it all while you're there compared to to and even at home I'm sure it's tough but the you know phone reception is not great in the convention hall so if something gets announced like we didn't know about it until later that's right you kind of need somebody there and somebody who was at home following along with it exactly but uh it wasn't just

games and consoles there were there were some vendors and other things there too there were like we said this is the first year that they had vendors um so there were some that were just selling video game stuff like t-shirts and whatever but then there were also some which they have had in previous years because there weren't vendors as such they were more trying to Market their brand um to Distributors yeah people trying to sell stuff to stores to sell kind of thing like like for Game Spot to stock and that kind of thing GameStop to to stock not Gamespot but uh one thing that we saw uh that actually really appealed to us was these wall mounts from hideit company's called hideit mounts and uh and these things are really cool

well if you have a TV mounted High very very often I've seen the the cables hanging and there's nowhere to put your consoles if you're a gamer you just have a bunch of C like HDMI cables and power cables running down the wall right looks awful so they make these uh wall brackets that you can screw up just behind the TV which will slide your console into it um and then you can hide all the cables it's really beautiful yeah and they were very nice and they gave us a couple of brackets for our controllers yeah I mean check them out go to hide at mounts.com uh you can you can like you can mount them behind the TV you can mount them to the side uh and they make them individually for each console so you get like a switch specific one or a Xbox specific One MH

um I actually had trouble at like from a distance figuring out where how they were held up because they're they fit so nicely to the to the base of the console but like if you don't screw the console to the wall as such you screw the mount to the wall and the console sits on it you can still take it out and switch cables and do all that stuff with it um the console itself isn't stuck um but they are very uh well-designed and kind of invisible so yeah that's hide at mounts.com check them out really cool uh another game company that we spent some time with uh who didn't have they didn't do a press conference or anything like that and they actually weren't even showing any games um they they had meet and greet kind of things and and presentations where you could go and

kind of learn more about the company and that was Telltale mhm who who obviously made The Walking Dead games uh you know the Fable Wolf Among Us the new Guardians of the Galaxy game uh a lot of those you know story based games and we found them they were in off the the main Concourse in a in a smaller area um but they had throughout the day you could go and meet the various teams who work there they had like you know the engineers who do the the game mechanics itself they had the writers and the creative teams and they had like General meet and greets where you could meet the people and then they also had uh like Recruiters in that there because they're looking for new people um so that was really cool and interesting and they're really lovely lovely people yeah

and we saw really good talk about storytelling and how how they make their games like they don't want to give you a clear option and then some that you know are really bad are like very good for your character they want to give you some morally ambiguous things so you really have to make a decision and it's not a decision between like you know a a good and a bad thing like in Mass Effect it's weight is very gray it's it's yeah it's all a very gray area that you're like well neither of them are good things I just yeah and we played Dungeons and Dragons in IDM uh for for a number of games and I found it really interesting um the way there were talking about how if you ideally when the player is playing they're making choices and if it's if it's realistic

really like in real life you make choices and it's not super obvious that you know the choice is going to be a big drastic one but but in the game when the people play the games they kind of complain oh it didn't feel like my choices mattered if it's too transparent but which was I don't know it seemed weird to me because if you're doing it well the player shouldn't notice they just will get a different they'll just get the ending that's appropriate but they kind of have to do this Balancing Act where on the one hand the player needs to be making the choices and you want it to feel natural but on the other hand they want the player wants feedback so that they're aware that they could have done something different you know what I mean

yeah yeah it was it was interesting to hear how they how they handle that stuff and and make sure the player gets feedback to so that they know that they're making decisions and that they are effective the world was really cool yeah and they're lovely people um they were very generous with their time it was stupid stupid questions about all that stuff and uh yeah I know we went back a few times made some friends yeah it was a cool Booth was a little booth like partitioned off from everything else with a little door so it almost looked like you weren't meant to be in there yeah had a very uh behind the scenes kind of vibe was cool so that's all I guess that's all the specifics that we wanted to mention uh overall I got to say that the show

floor was pretty impressive certain areas were were very impressive there were a lot of displays that must have cost a lot of money um yeah I tried to find actually how much it costs um a company to display there not only that but just to build all the stuff like yeah exactly so like how much E3 costs a company right right got it's it's difficult to find obviously because they're all different sized like the Microsoft Booth was huge and then like the Capcom Booth was not quite as big but it does cost them something like $1,000 a day just for Internet um like it costs them buy the space uh per day it cost them to rent all the forklifts and the like the people to move it all in it costs hundreds of thousands to build the

elaborate designs like some of these were like massive dragons and things like so the stands where they have like the consoles right these are like constructed things that look like you would build them into a into a a house or a store like they would look like permanent fixtures they're just there for three days the Bethesda Booth the um Cafe the diner I mean right like like it's a diner real Diner yeah yeah overall um there's not a clear number but I think it's in the millions fire out it wouldn't that doesn't surprise me MH CU like some of them you know some of them it was like a you know like a stand with a console on it it was quite simple but others it was like way out of control MH like Nintendo I can't imagine how much that would have cost because they

took up half of the show floor yeah it was huge huge and very elaborate yeah so that aspect of it was really cool it actually reminded me of um when I first went to P Prime I mentioned this I think at the start of this that Prime I guess because of when it is in the year has a lot more games coming out and so the first one that I went to had a lot more elaborate displays than uh the other packes like packs East particularly this year was very packed with people and the displays weren't as elaborate and I wonder if it's just it is because of the time of year or if it's because they've found that they don't need to spend that much money on an elaborate display because the fans don't really give a they want the game anyway right that makes me wonder if E3 will be as

elaborate next year if that's the case cuz they don't need to impress the the fans are there and they they're not fuss you know MH and and actually a lot of them said that they're like they don't need all of that fancy stuff they just want to play the games so right but but I'll be a sad because it makes it special that's not really what they there for to begin with these big stands like that um they were so the media could come in and take pictures and really hype it up and the public like it would get displayed to the public via the media as this big elaborate thing that people just wanted to buy but I guess the media's changing I know Unfortunately they let like us in now yeah maybe fortunately then I really enjoyed E3 I would do it again I

will do it again we met some cool people there too we talked to Jeff Canada yeah who we have met in the past before at PX Australia um I talked to him about his old show totally rad show and found out that they were doing a reunion that day unfortunately it was a live stream that I cannot find any way to watch so if you guys can find me TRS from E3 I be very very happy they streamed it on caffeine we know that but uh because of because we're at E3 we weren't able to watch it so we also caught a little bit of kind of funny yeah uh which is Greg Miller's new show on um Gamespot and we saw them record IGN live on the last day of e3 which was awesome because I'm a big fan of Damon Hatfield yep yep no that was cool that was fun

they're nice guys actually like all of them all really cool yeah and we also got to see them shoot uh the Xbox daily yeah with Major Nelson that was that was cool as well you might be able to see us uh because we were at the front I didn't think of that until now yeah have a look for us just behind the stage yeah we should have a look see if wece over there um another add-on they had at E3 this is a this is a new thing that they did this year they haven't done before E3 was the Coliseum which was actually not at the convention center it was at the the novo which is a Microsoft theater um just nearby in Downtown LA and the panels all sounded really amazing and I was very keen to to go

until I saw how they were handled the line and letting people in mhm it's and not a huge theater it's SE what they say like 1600 people I think uh I think he said it seats about 2500 but or it the capacity is 2500 but if they are seated if they're chairs it drops it down to about 1,600 right and so they said they're going to start the line at what like 6:00 a.m. 7: a.m. or something like that and then the first panel was at 11:30 and I was like oh my god um so I I was like well I'm probably going to skip that because I don't like I want I got stuff to do I don't want to wait in line for five hours and that is something that we can stream online so yes yeah all those

talks are available we've yet to catch up on them all because we've been so busy but I mean they had one with Neil degrass Tyson uh James gun Randy Pitchford Randy Pitchford and and Kiki wolf kill from um 343 Studios so that panel uh it was called World Builders it sounds really interesting cuz they're all masters of The Craft so I'd be very interested to check that out any panel that Randy Pitchford is in just amazing yeah he's he's he's the man uh there's one Jack Black talking to um Tim Schaefer from uh from double fine uh they had a ton of good panels oh Dan tractenberg was there for one of the panels he's also in from TRS uh to the rad show uh and he directed 10 Cloverfield Lane he was there for a panel as well so they they

had a ton of great things it was just uh I knew that the lines were going to be bad and it was confirmed later on online when people were complaining that it's a shame but like they weren't you weren't allowed to take a camera or recording devices in and they were turning away people with like iPads and and I think the security just weren't well informed as to what constitutes you know a recording device that would telling people to go away for silly things like I said like tablet and things and then you had to go to the back of the line which right and not only that when the the theat set say around 1600 people and it was if you stayed in there you stay in there and and so unless someone leaves no one else can go in and right it's just I hopefully that's something

they can work on for next time because that just seems ludicrous not the rapper the the bad organization right we actually determined that we would get more out of that panel if we just waited and watched it online yeah absolutely because otherwise we would have spent our entire first day at D3 waiting in line for a panel yeah it's silly and then even then if we hadn't gotten there at 6: a.m. we still might not have gotten in would have been right would have been worth but you know would have been literally a waste of six hours so not worth it well that is our wrap-up of e3 2017 if you think that there is something we didn't really go into enough that you want to hear Let us know and we'll do some more research and we

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