E3 (but not really) 2022

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It seemed easier to search for "Marissa Marcel" than the generic word "Immortality" to find a page about the game. Turns out it's a real actress!
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Pretty much all of the "indie" games that have been shown during this entire 3 day ordeal have been dogshit outside of The Plucky Squire and Skate Story. Oh, I guess Anger Foot might be fun even if the vaping and zoomie dancing was cringe. I swear half the shit shown was some variant of a tiny pixelart witch gardening or something, and there's already a game about that which came out like 3 weeks ago called Little Witch In The Woods which will probably turn out better than any of this shit.
 
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Cruelty Squad 2 would be a nice surprise. You pay $29.99 USD for the game and when you open it, it is just the first game. Except every texture is replaced with the words "fuck you" and the enemies are all immortal.

Ah who am I kidding. Cruelty Squad would never be at E3. It isn't safe and it makes most other developers look really amateur.
 
Speaking of Gungrave, something somewhat similar kinda got a new trailer which nobody seems to have seen. Wanted: Dead. Looks like dumb fun.
I missed it. This is the one game that would get me actually hyped. Hope we'll see real gameplay tomorrow.
Right from the steam page:
>Wanted: Dead a new hybrid slasher/shooter from the makers of Ninja Gaiden[...]
Very bold statement. Please let this be true if it's actually comparable to that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1981610/Wanted_Dead/
 
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Speaking of Gungrave, something somewhat similar kinda got a new trailer which nobody seems to have seen. Wanted: Dead. Looks like dumb fun.
Gives me a flashback to that oatmeal cookie(ninja gaiden guy) game. Where you play a bald muscled dude and shoot people. It ended up being "gears of war but you can katana" so I'm not gonna hold my breath for this even if I think "Aloy from RoboDino game but female" looks cute.
 
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Did anyone keep a tally of how many farming/crafting games there were where you play as a witch, or a cat or frog or some shit? It must have been at least 5 of each. I know they might as well make liberal, farthuffing indie devs in a factory but goddamn.

The only solace i gained from it was the youtube chat absolutely shitting all over every single game that had these things in it.

No one who actually likes games gives a shit about most of the utter fucking garbage that has been shown over the past few days and it's eventually going to run out of road as regards funding.

The entire industry could benefit from a crash right now. Both ends of it are just making clones and re-skins of stuff and people need to stop buying into this shit.
 
Cruelty Squad 2 would be a nice surprise. You pay $29.99 USD for the game and when you open it, it is just the first game. Except every texture is replaced with the words "fuck you" and the enemies are all immortal.

Ah who am I kidding. Cruelty Squad would never be at E3. It isn't safe and it makes most other developers look really amateur.
Eh, it's not like anyone found the hidden swastikas yet so they could show it now that it gained popularity.
Also the dev is making some sort of shmup.
 
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Here's the irony of it all. People were genuinely excited for E3's "death" because in their minds it meant the publishers/developers would release their own short showcases and that would be it. It would do away with all the dumb cringy presentations and just get to the games, which is what (almost) everyone gives a shit about.

But somehow, SOMEHOW, this is MUCH worse. Now you have indie publishers/devs doing their own thing ontop of the big AAA ones, and it really highlights and brings to the table just how bad the gaming scene has been infiltrated by troons and SJWs. Everything looks generic, everything looks samey, half the time they're ripping off each other, and all of it has sprinkles of progressive politics added to it. Everyone thought it was dumb when companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Sony were promoting things like Pride Month and Black Lives Matter, but now we know exactly how deep this goes. When you have two nightmare-fueled v-tubers as hosts, a troon with cat ears talking about it's game, trigger warnings, and "BLACK BLACK BLACK" as your main selling point, you've lost the fucking plot.

All of this is so tiresome, and so mentally draining, its no wonder nobody looks forward to this shit show. At least in past E3's in the 2010's you could riff it along with a bunch of pals, but this shit stopped being funny a long time ago... it's just fucking depressing.
 
In fairness Harvest Moon has been shit for years
There is a reason for this. The game you know now as Harvest Moon is actually a shambling zombie corpse and it is not the Harvest Moon you remember from a decade ago or earlier.
  • Marvelous made Bokujō Monogatari and Natsume published those games in the English speaking world as Harvest Moon.
  • Marvelous shifted the release of Bokujō Monogatari to Xseed Games in 2015, which was known as Story of Seasons.
  • Why? This was because Natsume owned the "Harvest Moon" name, not Marvelous. A bit of an oversight.
  • Natsume has continued releasing Harvest Moon games since 2015 but with different developers creating the product with a familiar name.
  • Marvelous still releases Bokujō Monogatari via Xseed Games under the name Story of Seasons, which is still developed by the same entity that made your favorite Harvest Moon games.
  • Harvest Moon is a shambling zombie corpse. Story of Seasons is Bokujō Monogatari, the series you know and love.
And that is the simplest way I can explain it.

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Pretty much all of the "indie" games that have been shown during this entire 3 day ordeal have been dogshit outside of The Plucky Squire and Skate Story. Oh, I guess Anger Foot might be fun even if the vaping and zoomie dancing was cringe. I swear half the shit shown was some variant of a tiny pixelart witch gardening or something, and there's already a game about that which came out like 3 weeks ago called Little Witch In The Woods which will probably turn out better than any of this shit.
steam next fest starts next week, you'll probably see them there again. no point in watching those reveals when you can play the demo outright, which is why I can't shit too much on pixelart indies, there were are a few good games each time (little witch in the woods was actually featured one or two next fests ago) not hampered by shit console specs and policies unless it's multiplat.

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The only solace i gained from it was the youtube chat absolutely shitting all over every single game that had these things in it.

No one who actually likes games gives a shit about most of the utter fucking garbage that has been shown over the past few days and it's eventually going to run out of road as regards funding.
never judge a book by it's cover as they say. there's a reason indies can only do certain genres with a certain graphical fidelity, and there are not many options for "cute character going on cute adventures/doing comfy farm stuff". of course this is highly subjective, but I rather play another fun, short and sweet indie that doesn't overstay it's welcome than some other $70 AAA "product" that becomes a chore 5 hours in and wants to milk me with season passes and MTX.
 
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Gives me a flashback to that oatmeal cookie(ninja gaiden guy) game. Where you play a bald muscled dude and shoot people. It ended up being "gears of war but you can katana" so I'm not gonna hold my breath for this even if I think "Aloy from RoboDino game but female" looks cute.
It's basically being made by the guys who made Devils Third. Although I think Devils third gets unfair criticisms. It was supposed to be a pretty different game for the 360, then everything went to hell. To kinda give a picture of what happened. Publisher goes bankrupt -> Game has to swap engines since it was running on the Darksiders 2 engine originally -> Game gets another publisher -> that one goes bankrupt too -> Nintendo picks up the game so now they not only need to get a new engine they now need to port it to the fucking WiiU -> Nintendo shafts the game by not highlighting the multiplayer at all, which was the main focus of development -> Nintendo sends the game to die -> Itagaki fucks off to Rome for some reason to breed dogs

Here's what the game originally looked like.
 
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