People who think it's cool to call a platform Indiestation and complain about them showing up on an E3 stage. Yes these people exist and they are even here on GAF which is baffling.
Got to say thank god MS arnt wasting thier time on this. Got to say i wish Sony didnt waste thier time on this and focus on exclusives.
You must be really pissed CoD is gonna be at the MS show.
I wish Sony didnt waste thier time on this and focus on exclusives. Hope we dont get any 3rd party games demod at each companies presser. Cant stand when COD gets demod at MS conference ,annoys me to no end.
Not enough info = WHYYYYYYYDamn man, why is a lot of GAF hating on this game lately?
Damn man, why is a lot of GAF hating on this game lately?
As they should. It's the biggest game releasing this fall, and they have a marketing partnership for it.
COD will take up a similar amount time in Microsofts press conference.
Well, how long could they possibly go for? Gametrailers has Sony's conference pegged for 90 minutes this year on Monday night.
I really want to see more of Destiny to know what the overall plan is. Would be nice to see some Xbox One footage as well, just to calm the fans a bit.
No buy if notLet's hope it's 1080P
Well, how long could they possibly go for? Gametrailers has Sony's conference pegged for 90 minutes this year on Monday night.
I expect AW to have a demo at the MS presser but it probably won't be as long as any potential Destiny demo.
MS only have 90mins after all and Sony aren't restricted by live TV schedules.
Not enough info = WHYYYYYYY
More info = WHYYYYYYYYYY
AAA backlash.
It's a good sign tbh, given the forums track record it means it's gonna sell an absolute ton.
I personally think it wont be, huge open world with lots of players/huge battles ..
Great summary of how things are going now. If you want to be surprised or something new look into smaller games (those are the soooo much hated Indies) or stop playing video games.
Let me tell you right now you won't see that version. The first time you'll see it is when the beta on that platform starts.
Sony is running this live in movie theaters. Theirs won't be longer than 90 minutes either.
The free theater event is scheduled for 2 hours. In NYC, at least.Doesn't Sony usually take about 2 hours?
People who think it's cool to call a platform Indiestation and complain about them showing up on an E3 stage. Yes these people exist and they are even here on GAF which is baffling.
AAA backlash.
It's a good sign tbh, given the forums track record it means it's gonna sell an absolute ton.
Sony is running this live in movie theaters. Theirs won't be longer than 90 minutes either.
#RealityCheckRE: "Does Sony have nothing else?"
Dudes, welcome to the New Normal. It's not Sony. It's everyone. It takes more people to make fewer games than ever. Publishers are more reliant on iterative sequels than ever. Risk-adversity to a major publisher means betting the whole bank on a megaton title you think can sell 10+ million and then betting the production budget over again in marketing. It means 800 pre-order SKUs, microtransactions, DLC and season passes, items, or whatever else they can do. It means games as a service. We've been saying this for years. The middle is gone. The licensed market is gone. Handheld support is an afterthought.
EA and Ubisoft are the largest third-party publishers in console gaming, and incidentally the only ones who still have E3 stage performances.
EA has cut their game count at least in half, probably more, over the last 5-6 years. You want to know what they're going to show? FIFA, Madden (incl/ NCAA Football), they'll skip NHL because it's niche, UFC, they might show NBA, they might show golf. That's sports. Now onto mainstream console games: Annualized Battlefield, annualized BioWare RPG (Mass Effect / Dragon Age; although don't be surprised if one of BioWare's side teams is working on some other IP, maybe something with Star Wars); speaking of, get ready for an annualized Star Wars game, starting with Battlefront; annualized Maxis/Redwood Shores Game (this year: The Sims 4); annualized racing game (whether or not it's called Need for Speed). I just spoiled EA's next five E3 conferences, sorry to drop the bomb here. They've basically sunsetted their external publishing efforts, but I guess Titanfall worked well enough that we'll have one of those, so expect DLC or a sequel announcement too.
Ubisoft is now up to pretty near a thousand people working on a flagship game. This year we'll get two Assassin's Creed games, Far Cry 4, Watch_Dogs' DLC, The Division, some other Tom Clancy nonsense, probably some other Splinter Cell game (although Blacklist tanked so maybe not), Just Dance until that gets nuked, Rocksteady until that gets nuked.
Why is Destiny being flogged everywhere? Because it's one of like 5 games Activision is putting out, so they all need to be billion dollar games. Call of Duty. Destiny. Skylanders. Annualized Transformers and Spider-Man. Blizzard's latest expansions or next game. That's the whole company now. They'll eventually revive Guitar Hero and maybe eventually Tony Hawk. Literally five games from the Activision side, all aiming for hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of revenue each. That's the New Normal. Destiny is a half-billion dollar minimum targeted game, and it's intended to be a multi-billion dollar franchise.
The same is true for all the first party publishers. More people making fewer games, experiments are kept small, full sized games need to be guaranteed smash successes. Games take at least two years to make now, so you basically have the option to announce one E3, demo a near-final next E3, release that fall (which you do if it's a once every two year franchise)... or do announce the same year you're releasing (which you do if you have two teams doing odd/even years of a franchise).
If this news is surprising or depressing, then the correct thing to do is to start paying less attention to video games, because then the annual sequels will at least surprise and impress you. If you check the news every day, you already know what most teams are doing (or if not, at least what stage in their game's development they're in), so you won't be blown away. You also don't need to watch E3 live. It's a lot easier to be happy when you catch a five minute recap the next morning with the highlights then when you get angry at Sony for wasting your time on Wonderbook because how dare they.
By "pushing it" if you mean, co-marketing then look at Watch_Dogs.If Sony is pushing it it will be 1080p, I even think PlanetSide 2 will be 1080p. Also Destiny doesn't look amazing technically, it's more about art style for this game, so it should be 1080p.
Doesn't Sony usually take about 2 hours?
I dont understand how that's relevant here.
Destiny is an ambitious new IP.
It's genuinely trying new things and attempting to drive the genre forward, and it's doing that on an unprecedented scale.
It sounds like you're penalising it for having a big budget.
Makes no sense to me at all.
I wish Sony didnt waste thier time on this and focus on exclusives. Hope we dont get any 3rd party games demod at each companies presser. Cant stand when COD gets demod at MS conference ,annoys me to no end.
Is 90mins confirmed? That's a big departure from past years. I like it, always felt their pressers were far too bloated and poorly paced.
Anyway, with that new info in mind, I don't expect either demo to last more than 10mins.
Sony always runs over, expect a 1:45 to 2 hour show. They don't have to worry about tv ads, etc like the others.
#RealityCheck
By "pushing it" if you mean, co-marketing then look at Watch_Dogs.
This is different and you know it. Besides, we know what they have shown is 1080p on PS4, it could change, but I doubt it.
Indiestation has a nice ring to it.
Anyway, that's rather depressing. How can anyone hate indies when they are essentially the new mid tier developer.
Gaming would certainly be far less interesting and more boring without them.
It is pretty ambitious game, so they could be dropping things to keep performance up. I will be very surprised if they keep the 1080p and the scale intact.
MS will likely have just as much, if not more, third party stuff present. This is nothing new.I don't care for indie games. There is not a single indie game out there where I think 'damn, I'm really missing out'. The reason why I'm interested in the PS4 is for the blockbuster exclusives. So far, Sony's exclusive output has been very disappointing. It's even more disappointing that Sony is devoting their conference slots to third party games.
EA: Battlefield Hardline
Activision: Destiny
Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed Unity?
90m is always the time that Sony gives for their conferences. It just never runs that length.
The current Alpha F&F is still 1080p.
I don't care for indie games. There is not a single indie game out there where I think 'damn, I'm really missing out'. The reason why I'm interested in the PS4 is for the blockbuster exclusives. So far, Sony's exclusive output has been very disappointing. It's even more disappointing that Sony is devoting their conference slots to third party games.
EA: Battlefield Hardline
Activision: Destiny
Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed Unity?
Didn't Bungie's Twitter say almost a week ago that this would be the case?
I don't care for indie games. There is not a single indie game out there where I think 'damn, I'm really missing out'. The reason why I'm interested in the PS4 is for the blockbuster exclusives. So far, Sony's exclusive output has been very disappointing. It's even more disappointing that Sony is devoting their conference slots to third party games.
EA: Battlefield Hardline
Activision: Destiny
Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed Unity?