Tuesday, June 14, 2016

E3 2016: Sony Conference

I apologize for any typos and mistakes I've made.  This my fifth blog today and it's approaching midnight.  I'm dead tired.  

Sony's conference starts with an orchestra and some omen sounding music.  I'm guessing this is a lead into God of War.  This is going on way too long.  Don't these companies know there are literally hours upon hours of people showing off their wares?  Let's get things moving people! Finally! A game is being shown.  A boy is given a knife by a man.  And this man is Kratos.  A bearded Kratos.  FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP!  Jesus Christ...  They're running in the forest now, hunting for food.  They come across some monsters and now Kratos pulls out his ax and starts fighting them.  After a bridge breaks, a giant troll attacks them and Kratos is fighting while the boy is trying to distract it.  I don't know... there's something off about this game.  It's missing the excitement of the opening set piece of God of War 3. Now I know what's bothering me.  They're trying to turn it into the Last of Us.  Wander around, enjoy the scenery, have a narrative with an NPC.  I'm bored of this.  Skipping the rest.

More damn orchestra.  Shawn Layden comes out thanking the orchestra for boring people (will, he didn't say that. I did).  And then he takes a moment to talk about the Orlando tragedy.  So sad... There's something about Layden that I don't like.  Maybe its his way of talking but it's annoying and tiring at the same time.  He has that William Shattner cadence as well. 

A trailer is being shown from Bend Studios.  It shows a post apocalyptic world.  It's for a game called Days Gone.  Thanks for not showing any gameplay for it Sony! (Ed. note: Later learned they saved it for the end of the show)

Next up is a trailer for what looks like... THE LAST GUARDIAN!  So... so beautiful!  I'm getting those feels again! They show a few other monsters and a DATE!  OCTOBER 25th! Oh Sony, you tease!  Show me more!

The next trailer shows some gameplay footage for Horizon Zero Dawn.  This looks like one of Sony's best exclusives to date.  The world is so vast and beautiful.  The enemy designs are so unique.  Prehistoric meets robotic.  She's met another character, and it looks like there will be dialogue options during interactions.  She has to make it to the village, but it's very far away so she needs to get a mount.  She finds one, takes it down and starts riding it.  It's like a mechanical bull.  Then, as she passes into a clearing, there are all sorts of bizarre mechanized wildlife.  Then a giant enemy confronts her and she scans it to learn it's weak to fire.  She uses her bow and shoots an explosive canister in front of it.  Oh wow, this battle is crazy!  She whistles for her mount and is now attacking it while riding.  THIS is what you start the show off with, Sony!  THIS is your flagship title, not that God of War shit.  

The next trailer shows a guy flipping a coin in an elevator, walking down a hallway with a woman pleading to save her little girl, but then realizes its an android.  I think this is the new David Cage game.  He's sent in to negotiate a hostage taking, but it went bad.  The trailer shows that you can make different decisions to affect the game.  Detroit: Become Human is the game.  I can't wait for this one.  I love David Cage's games, even though they're not really games.  

A trailer is shown tagged with Full PS VR Experience.  A guy has woken up with a phone ringing.  The woman on the other end says, "If you don't get out, they will kill you.  Get out now."  Some idiots are whistling as the player sees a naked female mannequin.  The game is dark, only a flashlight illuminating it.  The game looks very spooky.  As he explores the house, a figure crosses on the other side of the doorway.  He opens a door only to be met with static from a TV.  A tape is found, and he puts it in the player.  There's a lot of horrific things happening on the tape.  Then, the trailer ends with some music, and the game is titled, "Resident EVII: Biohazard"  Holy shit.. will it veer away from the action heavy direction V and VI took it?  Will it actually try to be scary again? January 24th, 2017.  

Here comes the orchestra!  Here comes the boring guy Layden.  He says REVII will be fully playable in VR.  As in the Ubisoft conference, I'm not on board with VR.  Its releases October 13th at 399.  NOPE.  A video of PS VR titles plays.  The first is a space game called Farpoint.  Star Wars noise is being made and we have a space fighter game.  Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission.  Then there's a trailer that's narrated by what sounds like Mark Hamill's Joker.  Yup, it's a Batman game.  Arkham VR.  

A trailer for FFXV plays showing off chocob riding, the trial of Titan that we saw in the MS conference, and a few other gameplay scenes.  I think I even saw Ramuh for a second.  Now, they're fighting a behemoth.  Crap, and then I just realized this all for VR.  Final Fantasy XV VR Experience.  

A gameplay trailer starts playing, a futuristic title on a space ship.  A guy gets into a ship and then launches out of a hanger.  The gameplay looks pretty crazy.  Lots of fighting, and he crashes and now he's on foot fighting on giant ships.  I just realized what this is.  It's Call of Duty in space.  I know those gun sights anywhere.   Call of Duty Infinite Warfare November 4th. 

The next trailer shows some marines in combat.  Oh, Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered.  *yawns*

Layden comes back out to bore me again.  Oh, he's announcing Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2 and Warped to be remastered from the ground up for PlayStation 4.  A trailer for the new Skylanders game is shown, where Crash is a part of.  You know, I'm actually looking forward to playing Crash again.  

The orchestra of boredom plays some Star Wars music and then a video plays to show off Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  Can't wait for this game as I love the Lego games. It looks like so much fun!

Andrew House is introduced with the Boredom Orchestra to accompany him.  I thought he was going to talk about something, but instead all he does is introduce Hideo Kojima AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!  He's showing off his new game.  It shows a trail of dead crabs, hand prints and then a naked man with handcuffs stirring to find a baby and this man looks like Norman Reedus.  What is this?  The music that's playing is getting me pumped too.  Such a mysterious game.  Death Stranding is the title.  I WANT TO LEARN MORE!  The graphics looked amazing and were said to be all in game.  

The next trailer is by insomniac.  AND IT'S A SPIDER MAN GAME!  A MOTHER FUCKING SPIDER MAN GAME BY INSOMNIAC AND NOT BEENOX!  Omg... this is going to be fucking amazing!  Ok, that just woke me the fuck up! *standing ovation* My god, we might finally have a Spider-Man that isn't complete shit!

Shattner ...er... I mean, Layden comes out again to talk about games and gameplay and thanking everyone for being part of the PlayStation experience.  He now shows a demo for Days Gone. The character is on his bike, riding down the mountains where he comes across a gate.  He slips past it and enters a bunker looking for someone or something.  This has a Last of Us feel to it.  He opened a jeep and pulled an oil filter out and screwed it on his gun to make a silencer.  He just fought off a creepy looking monster and now he's on a rooftop and the ground is swarming with them.  He finds the person he's looking for, they have a tussle and they've fallen off the building  The main character leaves the guy for dead and is now running.  They're chasing after him like a living wave.  Man, they just won't stop coming!  He's in some kind of barn now, shooting into them every chance he gets, throwing a molotov and is now on the roof still running.  The demo ends with the character cornered on the top of a silo.  It has potential.  

The show closes with a montage of upcoming games.  

I'll say this much.  As much as the opening of the show bored me, as much as Shawn Layden annoyed me, as much indifference as I have towards VR, Sony's conference was actually pretty solid, aside from that boring ass God of War. You know what, before I go any further, let me just go into a rant about how pissed off that game made me.  The style of the game is completely changed.  It looks more like a Last of Us with occasional God of War fighting segments thrown in.  We don't need the walking around, enjoying the scenery and having a dialogue shit in God of War.  Leave that to other games!  God of War is GOD OF WAR! NOT TEACHING A BOY HOW TO HUNT!  The emotional direction of this game is WRONG.  Does not fit.  Is everyone trying to be Naughty Dog or something? /rant

I'm also really ticked off at Sony for showing very little of The Last Guardian.  Thank god we have a release date but for a game that's supposedly coming out in just a few months, you only give us a couple minutes of footage, and not even a demo?  You had a demo for us last year, so why not this year?  YOU FUCKING TEASE!  Anyway, thanks for giving us a release date.  Now keep it! 

Games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone look really, really good.  I'm looking forward to learning more about them.  For me, though, the biggest surprise and the game that has me most excited (aside from the Last Guardian) is the insomniac developed Spider-Man.  I have been waiting so long for a Spider-Man game that wasn't developed by Beenox, and after playing and loving Sunset Overdrive, insomniac is the PERFECT fit for the Web-Head.  

Overall, I've have to say that Sony has had the best conference so far.  They pretty much just showed one game after another, not padding their conferences with costumed dancers and long drawn out talks with Levar Burton and showing off competitive gamers no one gives enough fucks about to remember their names, just game after game after game.  Well, aside from that damned orchestra.  

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