S2E22 - E3 2017 - “Who doesn’t want to be a dinosaur?!”

Talking Points:


E3 2017. Not comprehensive. Not VGNN.  Only talking
about things we think are interesting enough to talk about.
 You have video game news sites for the rest :)

We’re talking about Press Conferences, if more news comes out
throughout the rest of the week it won’t be here because we’re
recording on Tuesday night!

http://e3recap.com/ has been my friend

Overall trends



Esports being forced onto games that aren’t even out yet

“Influencers” being put front and center



BJ: torn on the current “influencer” boom. Feels like
a bubble that’s totally disingenuous



Shorter press conferences with less big game
announcements

Really hard to tell what is actually exclusive



Microsoft “Console Launch Exclusive”



Most of these press conferences would have been better
pre-recorded as just a series of trailers instead of having a
stage show, honestly.

Updates on games we already knew existed.  This is
what we get for so many years of announcing games way ahead
of time.  It finally caught up to the platform holders.



The UPSIDE of this is that most of the games in the
conferences will be out within the next 12 months.
 That has never really been the case before.



Skyrim being announced for Switch with motion controls
and for VR.  Can we just let Skyrim die already?



BJ: I think it’s cool to be for the Switch, but I
agree. I’d rather a new Elder Scrolls game than yet
another rehash of Skyrim. I’m not playing it again.





EA



Battlefront 2 (Star Wars)



All Saga Movie timelines? Prequels, Original, and New
trilogies

New class system and points for vehicles/heroes

Single Player Story Campaign





Microsoft



Scorpio “Xbox One X” $499



It’s kind of amazing how much I DON’T care about PS4
Pro or Scorpio



A bunch of survival games?  I’m not super into that
genre

A bunch of games we already knew about or have seen
before

Sea of Thieves (first actual exclusive? But it’s on
Windows 10 too, so whatever)



BJ: it’s an adventure game! #yawn



Crackdown 3



Jumping was fun in 1. 2 was a letdown

BJ: Terry Crews!