E3 (but not really) 2022

[Tor Lugosi]

well, I guess I'm glad Persona 5 is coming to the PC, and I'm a RPG simp so I'll undoubtedly play Starfield eventually... but other than that... well...

necking myself would probably give me the same entertainment as most of these games

 

[trent]

I know everyone here is cynical, or trolls, and we've yet to see Sony, Nintendo, and Capcom but COVID really borked just about all of gaming. It also sucks about the rumor that Microsoft is lackadaisical in how they manage their studios, meaning the studios have to manage themselves. Meaning i.e., no Fable, Perfect Dark, Avowed apparently being rebooted, Everwild rebooted too. I'm stuck with Xbox (for the foreseeable future) and they'll have a killer year some year but COVID plus their no-management makes gaming rough. Not swearing gets hard, y'know. Sometimes they're on the tip of my tongue.

There's plenty of games being shown. They just all look boring and are re-skins of the same 5 or 6 things.

You can't blame covid for devs being creatively bankrupt.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

jfc the black girl is LeVar Burton's daughter, talk about nepotism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mica_Burton

also lol
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yeah, so is every woke girl on the planet

She was on Rooster Teeth's The Know before getting run off because she was treated like shit.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

She was on Rooster Teeth's The Know before getting run off because she was treated like shit.

she's just sucks at her job
at least she's more tolerable than Fiona

 

[I don't swear]

There's plenty of games being shown. They just all look boring and are re-skins of the same 5 or 6 things.

You can't blame covid for devs being creatively bankrupt.

I mean the things worth playing. There's always going to niche games, which just about every game that's been shown so far. We all might as well go asleep now and wake up next Summer because that's when the main course(s) will be ready. Everything else is just the appetizers.

 

[CIS White Droid]

There's plenty of games being shown. They just all look boring and are re-skins of the same 5 or 6 things.

You can't blame covid for devs being creatively bankrupt.

No amount of additional development time due to what was lost during covid would salvage most of these shit heaps.

I mean the things worth playing. There's always going to niche games, which just about every game that's been shown so far. We all might as well go asleep now and wake up next Summer because that's when the main course(s) will be ready. Everything else is just the appetizers.

If you genuinely believe this you are delusional.

 

[Marissa Moira]

So now you're moving the goalposts?

I'm not moving goal posts but rather trying to explain the entire mass in general.

I mean it can kind of come off like the analogy of trying to describe an elephant in a dark room since each part is going to be different. But at the end of the day these things exist to get funneled into spread sheets and then the data get put into slides in order to ask a bunch of individuals in another room for more money.

 

[Titos]

I'm going to be more upset if they show Banjo, Perfect Dark and/or Fable (or anything good) at this thing since they wasted my fucking time today.

It's going to be another 60 minutes of sweet sweet Todd lies.

 

[Love Machine]

There's still the "extended" Xbox/Bethesda showcase on Tuesday. It's only over temporarily.
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only really give a shit about capcom now

 

[CIS White Droid]

only really give a shit about capcom now

You'll be back. They always come back.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

I'm not moving goal posts but rather trying to explain the entire mass in general.

I mean it can kind of come off like the analogy of trying to describe an elephant in a dark room. But at the end of the day these things exist to get funneled into spread sheets and then the data get put into slides to ask a bunch of individuals in another room for more money.

You said it was for investors, I said it was for retailers and journalists.

Your claim is that these shows are this way because of investors, because eventually they get the data from the retailers and journalists. In that case the shows are actually for us since we eventually get the games.

You're using hillbilly logic to try and prove a point you were wrong about. You're better than that.

 

[Point Man]

Well the PC gaming show was probably the worst one so far, worse than the Wholesome Games Direct too I'd say. At least with that one there was a lot more to make fun of... Well back to watching Breaking Bad extras and shit. See you fags tomorrow for Capcom.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Also, the demo for Agent 64 is fucking rough.

It relies too much on Goldeneye, having a (as far as I can tell) mandatory auto aim even though this is on PC as well as optional CRT and "fuzzy" filters.

But then you shoot a barrel, and it is your run of the mill Unity explosion and it takes you completely out of it. There's absolutely no heart or character to any of the animations like there were for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

I dunno. Go all the way or don't. Don't go half assed so little things take me out of the experience.

 

[Marissa Moira]

You said it was for investors, I said it was for retailers and journalists.

Your claim is that these shows are this way because of investors, because eventually they get the data from the retailers and journalists. In that case the shows are actually for us since we eventually get the games.

You're using hillbilly logic to try and prove a point you were wrong about. You're better than that.

I sent you a PM about it, I think we're approaching it from two different perspectives.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

So is the ghost like her aborted child or something? It's voice is really annoying.

I think it’s supposed to be apeing the dynamic of Guts and Shierke.

 

[Point Man]

But then you shoot a barrel, and it is your run of the mill Unity explosion and it takes you completely out of it. There's absolutely no heart or character to any of the animations like there were for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

It reminds me of the Xbox 360 HD version of Perfect Dark but just from some Xbox Live Indie Game dev, not a good first impression.

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On a side note, Guerilla Games is having another stream around 1 PM PT tomorrow too.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Scorn, The Alters, Laysara Summit Kingdoms and Immortality all looked good in that two hour show. System Shock was okay, but I don't have any attachment to the game, the Alyx mod looked cool but I don't have VR so... Yeah.

 

[trent]

There was a guy in the youtube chat who had a great comment about how most of the games being shown feel like they are generated by an AI that is being fed buzzwords.

It's all so fucking soulless.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

It reminds me of the Xbox 360 HD version of Perfect Dark but just from some Xbox Live Indie Game dev, not a good first impression.

The problem is that the XBLA Perfect Dark still had the heart/sould/character of perfect dark.

Agent 64 doesn't even have a crouch as far as I can tell. How much they charge for this will really be the deciding factor for me, anything over than 10 dollar will be way too much.

There's the start of something here, but not enough for a demo to promote an upcoming release. This still feels like a very early alpha build to me. I'm also a bit suspicious of some of their sound effects.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Can any pc people educate me?

Wouldn't having an overclocked CPU put you at more risk of fucking up your PC?

Depends entirely on how you do it. If you have a really good fan/heatsink or some flavor of liquid cooling it’s generally a non-issue, but ibuypower is shit tier company.