shinra-bansho
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I don't think it seemed darker than 3, unless you mean in terms of the ambient lighting? It could just be the impact of less Hennig, more Straley.
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Sony E3 2014 Conference Thread
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Yup.
House should be the main figurehead like Jack. He can tell us how Sony is doing, and announcing a few megatons. This guy can speak Japanese for goodness sake. It is a win-win for Sony for House to be the figurehead for SCEA.
Then Adam can announce 3rd party games, and Shu on 1st/2nd party announcements.
Shawn Layden? Only when he learns to smile naturally, and be more charismatic.
It is funny how not having a charismatic person like Jack or Kaz can ruin a conference even if you show game, game, game.
Sony should have learned from MS's mistake with Don Mattrick at the stage.
Well, I guess if you'll only play Nintendo games every once in awhile that's probably the best for you.
If you want any semblance of third party support, then I guess you'll be missing out. It's not like you'll see Destiny, Battlefield, AC, CoD, Far Cry, Dragon Age, Evolve, and Mortal Kombat, just to name a few you'll miss out in 2014.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
They announced it last year at the PS4 launch event on Spike. 7 months on and they still have nothing to show for it than what may or may not be a target render using ingame engine, lets not forget how the graphics were downgraded in Uncharted 3 from E3 to Final build.
xiaxdragon
Banned
happy we got a great showing from Sony because EA's conference after microsofts games games, and games conference was such a drag. Ubisofts conference was decent but nothing that blew my mind like the last 2 years. Sony's was very nicely paced and I was actually happy with the youtube announcement for uploading videos finally. I am actually interested in the ratchet movie and powers TV that plus members will be getting for free. I thought the media sections would bore me, but actually was overall happy with it. But hot damn at arkham night..........that game just OMG! Also LBP3 and Uncharted 4 really took me away. But sucks to know that I can cross off the last guardian as dead.....because its not coming back, unless they really are saving the likes of FFXV, KH3, and TLG for TGS.
maybe not darker but at least far more depressing. the way they talk about one more score sounded like it they were agreeing to a suicide pact rather than looking forward to their final and greatest adventure. was more of a whimper when it should have been a bang.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Everybody wants to see gameplay, but they flip their shit when they see stuff that's kinda rough. Everybody wants a 30 minute demo, but they explode if the game is shown too many times before it releases. The sweet spot for when to reveal, how to reveal, and how much information to provide is a constantly moving target for the enthusiast crowd. I'd say just be happy we got anything.
aygomyownroad
Member
After that conference I'm glad I got an xbox one this year.
The exclusive games are grabbing my attention more than the ps4.
It's like how it panned out last gen, xbox had the better start in terms of good exclusives but ps had them over the course of the console.
Never got GTAV so happy it's coming this fall, but with so many games I may wait to get it, I don't like the idea of paying full money for a remastered type game.
Lack of vita news was a let down.
The exclusive games are grabbing my attention more than the ps4.
It's like how it panned out last gen, xbox had the better start in terms of good exclusives but ps had them over the course of the console.
Never got GTAV so happy it's coming this fall, but with so many games I may wait to get it, I don't like the idea of paying full money for a remastered type game.
Lack of vita news was a let down.
Just would have been nice without the TV stuff wasting 10 minutes.
Would of been good to replace that 10 mins with TLG. 5 mins of explaining to us why a game was delayed for so long and why they kept torturing us for all these years with rumors of being the game cancelled and then still in development. Last 5 mins of gameplay and release date would of been good.
Just saying to you Sony...would of been good but..yeh
Discotheque
Banned
Normally I'm with gaf on hype (like platinum) but I think I'm already over FROM software.
Angry Fork
Member
I may be remembering wrong but most of what I saw either had some form of gameplay demonstration, or the trailers themselves featured gameplay. I think too many of Sony's trailers were CGI which excites nobody as it means nothing. You might as well post concept art on a website, it looks really cool but the final game is usually nothing like it. I get that companies do that to build hype and show off what kind of vibe/tone they're going for, but it's not interesting to me personally.
Er? Do you know what the PlayStation TV is? Or are we thinking about different things here? Because a $99 PlayStation game streaming box seems like a pretty nice move for NA markets.
No they announced AN Uncharted game last year. Not Uncharted 4. This was the first time WD actually got a confrimation.
7 months.. Do you know what most developers have in 7 months? You're acting like its a year and a half.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i didnt have much interest in watching the xbox presentation past the call of duty trailer, which is sort of dumbfounding to me.
anyway, sat through the whole Sony video, it wasn't nearly as terrible as people were saying, but i can see the low points of it.
i thought overall it was fine, it wasn't really ridiculously entertaining, but they had a good game offering and i like what i saw. i'll probably get a PS4 when Metal Gear Solid comes to pass, and i'll get ground zeroes. No Man's Sky seems alright, though i might just get that on PC instead.
The Order seems okay. LBP3 is cool that it has all the previous levels, but its really not a game for me. Destiny looks pretty cool. Uncharted will be great, obviously. I can play Last of Us on PS4, also. GTA V might be a PC buy, but i dont know if i want to buy it again. Maybe down the line when there's extra story stuff?
anyway, sat through the whole Sony video, it wasn't nearly as terrible as people were saying, but i can see the low points of it.
i thought overall it was fine, it wasn't really ridiculously entertaining, but they had a good game offering and i like what i saw. i'll probably get a PS4 when Metal Gear Solid comes to pass, and i'll get ground zeroes. No Man's Sky seems alright, though i might just get that on PC instead.
The Order seems okay. LBP3 is cool that it has all the previous levels, but its really not a game for me. Destiny looks pretty cool. Uncharted will be great, obviously. I can play Last of Us on PS4, also. GTA V might be a PC buy, but i dont know if i want to buy it again. Maybe down the line when there's extra story stuff?
Thing is he had retired after 3 and did not want to get back in for Elena's sake.
The tone just lets you in that something bad has happened for him to take that last hunt.
MrCookiepants
Member
Well, that's the trouble. You can't please everyone. A friend passing by called LittleBigPlanet "retarded" as I was watching the conference earlier.
You need to be better than him and realize that Sony is trying to cater to a broad variety of tastes and isn't doing this for you and you alone.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
People are letting that bad bit taint their view of the whole thing.
Holy crap so many idiots with reading comprehension issues.
BoboBrazil
Member
Sony has to be able to put together a 30 second last guardian trailer and put it out there. Maybe they are saving it for TGS. They have to have some footage to show. Sony's mistake was not showing us anything from 2016. Microsoft showed 3 games from 2016 or later that people are hyped for now with cg trailers. Sony is still holding everything close. Also, where was stuff like the witness?
I think you maybe need some sleep or something ?
which isn't the sort of 'yeehaw video games!' note a conference should end on. it wasn't even like he was an honest cop with nothing left to lose. he just slowly gets up as this sad stuff plays in the background and he hobbles off into the forest. absolutely underwhelming.
i wonder if neil druckmann got his wish and killed off elena in the intervening years then. if so, there seems to be a pattern with him having fictional female characters murdered in his games.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
I never said they started it 7 months ago, they probably started it as the Last of Us was winding down 12+ months ago if not before.
I wasn't expecting a complete game but more than a target render using their engine running on PS4, they were trying to use it as a drop the mike moment but it went off with a whimper just like most of the conference did instead of a bang.
sublimit
Banned
With the possible exception of DA i don't give a damn for any of these games.
Unfortunately you do come across as an imbecile by assuming that because YOU or some people here on GAF want something, that automatically means that the majority of people want the same thing...
The average gamer doesn't know what Shenmue or Yakuza are..were not alive when FFVII or Crash were made..and doesn't give a shit about the Vita...
Adam was speaking to the average gamer...
Trailers for obscure games with cult followings that people assume anyone outside of 1% of gamers will actually like..
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Yet they somehow know about Grim Fandango?
sublimit
Banned
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
people dont like Tim Schaefer's games, you heard it here first, folks
also, the point of that segment was that they were "duped" into thinking that it was a real 10 year old girl requesting it. Double Fine games are very niche, so it fit in that segment. because things people ask for don't sell
Nope...and it will sell accordingly
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Bloodborne, and probably Let It Die
Almost every Xbox One exclusive was GC/No gameplay trailer.
There was gameplay just for Sunset Overdrive (second time) and little from Halo 2 multiplayer (10 years old game).
Gameplay presentation was mostly on third party products. And time exclusive indies like Ori и Inside.
GCs in Sony's conference was also a lot in numbers, but the balance was better. And of course - Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne. Both in terms of 'hype' just killed every interesting announcement that MS made - Platinum games title included.
sublimit
Banned
Xplatformer
Member
I hated the pace of Sony's conference, and I think Little Big Planet didn't warrant more than 5 minutes of coverage to announce additional characters. Live gameplay was a stupid waste of time on LBP considering how little they showed of Destiny actual gameplay.
The letters section was also poorly done.
I give Sony an A- for content.
I give them a D- for structure and pace.
Fricken can't believe they had such good content yet still came in behind Microsoft.
Who designs these shows for them?
The letters section was also poorly done.
I give Sony an A- for content.
I give them a D- for structure and pace.
Fricken can't believe they had such good content yet still came in behind Microsoft.
Who designs these shows for them?
You're also assuming lol
Bullshit. Adam's shout-out to gaming forums/sites completely undermine your
assumption that his segment was aimed entirely at the average consumer.
Like another poster mentioned, Grim fucking Fandango?!
boredandlazy
Member
Huh? The Tim Schafer bit was brilliant.
shinra-bansho
Member
I don't know, it seems like a natural progression.
Sully is older, a little wiser, probably isn't too keen on seeing his protege, who seems to have something of a deathwish, throw his life away on yet another scheme. It's been a while since I played 3, but I'm vaguely reminiscent of the idea that Sully had a hint of regret sometimes about bringing Nate into this world (although he's glad Nate was in his life), and by the end of it he wanted Nate to settle down with Elena. He doesn't want Nate to repeat his mistakes. Meanwhile, I think Marlowe was right in UC3 when she said that inside Nate is still the same runaway, looking for glory to validate his existence. And not really being as mindful of what it takes to get that glory, as he should.
Again, this could be completely off as it's been a while.
UnblessedSoul
Member
Pretty average conference, glad I didn't stay up for it U4 looks really good I give it 5/10
BoboBrazil
Member
Zombie games are popular and people love them. That's why they always do well. People exploded in my theater when Dead Island 2 came up. You guys should be more positive. It was refreshing watching this conference in the theater without all the negativity.
Neither one are confirmed as JRPG, I suppose there is a strong possibility Bloodborne is. I actually did not like what I saw of those two, they definitely crossed some sort of boundary in my head. Perhaps I'm just a baby, but Bloodborne made me avert my eyes due to the gore, and I didn't really have much of an opinion on Let It Die other than "that bat with all those nails sure looks like it would hurt".
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Deleted member 125677
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WHERE THE HELL WAS THE LAST GUARDIAN?
If you're talking about Playstation Now, then no. That will be a separate
subscription model.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
I don't get why people think Shenmue would do well. Whose gonna buy it?
BoboBrazil
Member
Also how come noone is talking about Far Cry? Your friends can play with you for free even if they don't have the game on PS4. That's awesome.