Not-E3 2024 Thread - A place to discuss the whole week's worth of video game broadcasts and announcement

Judge Dredd said:
The problem they're running into is that differences aren't allowed any more. Consoles have never been more homogeneous, but at the same time companies have been nerfing their games since at least the PS4, so that people who play on PS3 don't feel like they're getting a lesser version. Cue $150 collectors editions. Even the minor differences of GC-PS2-Xbox aren't allowed.
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It feels like Microsoft and Sony sat down and decided that mobile is where the majority of players will flee to because their consoles are shite, so they've colluded to bring games to one another's consoles and PC to protect themselves.
Nintendo has taken the handheld market so they're happy and know, when people flock to mobile, they'll be safe.

Super tin-foily, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft want to crash the industry, as they have a habit of destroying what they can't control.
Judge Dredd said:
I keep hearing that, but it's hard to judge. On the one hand, seeing people claim Indiana Jones is going to fix Indiana Jones, I see the black pill. But as games like Suicide Squad, and the collapse of the entire Star Wars and Marvel movie franchises prove, there isn't enough cattle to keep things going forever.
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Bots and shills run rampant, more than they ever have, across the message boards, YT, tiktok etc. These games must be given great coverage, with downvotes and negative criticism either removed entirely or downplayed as to not give the game away. Woke, whether accidental or manufactured, has given the industry the perfect out. "This game is only unpopular because racists and homophobes don't like it. You're not a racist, homophobe, are you?"
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I'm of the opinion that we're already in a crash. I won't beat that dead horse, but in short, mass layoffs, ESG money drying up, games being dumped in goodwill and discount resellers.
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Yea I suppose that's true, I don't even play most AAA games anymore so I only really notice when big things happen like that Sweet Baby Inc crap a few weeks ago. I've definetly noticed some mass layoffs and some controversial shutdowns.

It's all so bleak and I hope it gets better but I don't think there's any hope, so I just hope these big companies bankrupt themselves on shitty games and devs who actually give a shit take their place. It will probably only make things good for about a decade or so till we repeat this again, but it would be nice!

Though from what I can tell a lot of the big indie devs/publishers are also incredibly pozzed now, and every big indie game is a fucking metroidvania or roguelike so maybe it won't even get better, just shift.

I wonder what it would take for shit to get better...

For now I'll just enjoy my low budget indie crap no one talks about but me and two of my friends and retro games on my retro handhelds and steam deck

Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed said:
Visions of Mana is being released on August 29, for anyone interested.
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Mann this game looks like a great time, definetly gonna grab it on sale at some point. Square is the one of the few studios I check stuff from but it's always like their lower budget titles like this and SaGa Emerald Beyond, it's sad that when they inevitably kill themselves with awful Final Fantasy titles some of the good studios and franchises will go down with it most likely.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
Yeah, Xbox won not E3 this year.
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No one "won" anything. We all lost. Gaming is dead, has been for a while. The only two things remotely interesting were Doom and Gears. Everything else is fucking terrible. Everything is going to be on Game Pass, so I don't have to spend a penny other than the regular subscription, which I'm not likely going to spend ANY money on due to Microsoft Rewards (forever how long that's going to continue). I just do enough searches and get my points every day and do the bare minimum just to get the monthly Game Pass Ultimate sub.
 
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Gravityqueen4life said:
Dosent every game have Denovo at this point? This is why the pirate scene is so dead.
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Live games use it to protect their microtransaction economy.

And I guess I can sort of see why very high profile AAA releases might want it to deter piracy.

Mana is an extremely niche JRPG series though, no fucking idea why it would ever have Denovo.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
People would rather play/pirate VoM that the AAA slop that releases.
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Idk I mean the audience for this is so small how many pirate/torrent sites are even going to bother uploading this?

The kind of nerds that would buy a niche title like this are also the kind of people that would refuse to buy a game with DRM.

Those lost sales would be way worse than the what maybe 10 people who would leech this from a torrent?
 
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SiccDicc said:
Wait, why does it have anti-cheat? What the fuck kind of DLC are they gonna be peddling?
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PCGamingwiki only mentions Denuvo, I dunno where is that anti-cheat protection considering the game is single-player only anyway.
Trials of Mana on PC previously had Denuvo too (for 4 months) and it's quite frequent to see the big Japanese third-parties (Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco and Square-Enix) make use of the anti-piracy DRM. Can't exactly trust the 害人.
 
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Has there been a single title worth caring about announced during all this? I found zero over the last few years and somehow I'm not optimistic about this year either.
 
Blitzsneed said:
I never thought I'd see a new Gears of War that potentially isn't a complete steaming pile of shit. Aside from that, the Xbox showcase was a bit better than SGF. It's still a very low bar, but Keighley should be fucking ashamed of himself.
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They will find a way to insert a butch side shave haircut black lesbian into it as a new character who will be there the whole time and end up saving everyone just you wait.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
Has there been a single title worth caring about announced during all this? I found zero over the last few years and somehow I'm not optimistic about this year either.
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I haven't seen a single one. This is one of those years where I'm focused on just one new game (Visions of Mana), and I'm hoping for deep discounts and bundles on other ones I'd never try otherwise.
 
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IsaACKRepentance said:
Though from what I can tell a lot of the big indie devs/publishers are also incredibly pozzed now, and every big indie game is a fucking metroidvania or roguelike so maybe it won't even get better, just shift.
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This is something I keep hearing over and over again but I don't see it. Maybe I just follow different indie games than others, but I doubt it.

30+GameOvers said:
Has there been a single title worth caring about announced during all this? I found zero over the last few years and somehow I'm not optimistic about this year either.
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Zero games at all, or just zero at E3?
 
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