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Sony E3 2017 Conference Thread [Over]

Just more games in general, a stronger focus on indie stuff. More games that I wasn't expecting coming in. More variety than I'd normally expect out of them, as they are usually very Gears/Halo-heavy.

Neither show really knocked my socks off, but I thought MS had a stronger presentation. I came out of that show looking forward to more games than I did going in, but no real change for me on the Sony front. It was good to see Spiderman gameplay, though. I saw what I wanted to see from it, for sure.

They were all third parties though and an a few small indie timed exclusives. I know it's your opinion and all but outside of Scorpio, MS showed nothing original. This E3 was pretty bad for everyone. It was just weak
 
That one had the most applause from what I recall, but it still seemed underwhelming considering how much of a flagship IP it is to Sony. Everything else felt like people giving obligatory claps in golf game, at least on the stream's end. It didn't help that whoever coordinated the camera crew kept focusing on journalists trying to write notes and looking at their phones.

seemed to me that everyone gave an enthusiastic response to most games? the crowd might have been intentionally drowned out.
 
The weird thing is that Sony could have easily had the best conference but whoever planned and arranged the order of everything completely failed, if you move the VR block to the preshow and replace it with Hidden Agenda, Matterfall, and Ni No Kuni the conference would flown way smoother. Also they should've had Shadow of the Colossus or Monster Hunter end the conference and had spiderman in the middle
 
got exactly what I wanted out of the conference. Days Gone has my attention going forward. GoW and Spider-Man had saying "holy shit" numerous times. Uncharted LL will be a day 1 buy for me. then i'll have Destiny 2, COD, Battlefront etc this fall to keep me busy till next year when the big exclusives start dropping
 
Not "everyone" thought it was a fair criticism. There were plenty of people on the side of "Yeah, Sony reveals games too early but all the other companies do it too!"

This conference was pretty much the chickens coming home to roost. They announced a bunch of stuff way early at E3/PSX, so now everybody is disappointed that there were no new projects to show off. Hype would be off the charts if they had revealed TLOU2 for the first time here, rather than at PSX.

that i agree with. psx is also supposed to be for smaller devs too. it was kind of crummy to open and close with new naughty dog projects to be honest.
 
seemed to me that everyone gave an enthusiastic response to most games? the crowd might have been intentionally drowned out.

One thing I thought Sony did particularly poorly was showing a group of the audience that looked pretty unenthusiastic about whatever was just shown.

I mean, I thought most of Sony's stuff wasn't great either, but they just kept focusing on portions of the crowd that looked indifferent about whatever trailer was just shown. I felt that they did a really poor job of showing me that people were excited.
 
It's true it was a bit soulless for me too, but the games shown seem good (some of them rather epic), but somehow the conference lacked passion.

Still, it was probably the best conference this year, thanks to the sheer amount of time spent showing games.

As for first party, GOW, Spiderman and Detroit are looking jaw dropping, Days Gone looks a bit meh, (except maybe the part where he unleashes the horde of zombies) but they deserve the time as this is their first AAA title.

I never thought I'll say this, but I actually missed the indies montage.

All in all, Imo this was a solid show, but nowhere as epic as the last two.
 
Instead of being too incredulous of how people could call Sony's showing terrible, let me just list the games I want to buy from the show and pre-show. This is from the top of my head

Pre:
Undertale (announcement)
Everybodys Golf
Hidden Agenda (announcement)
Ni No Kuni II
Crash Bandicoot Collection
Possibly GT Sport (previously unconvinced, never played a GT)

Conference:
Uncharted
Days Gone (previously unconvinced)
God of War (will be my first)
Shadow of the Colossus Remake! (announcement)
Detroit
Spiderman
Possibly Destiny 2

And a couple of VR games if I ever get that. That's a lot! From MS and EA I got 2-3 games a piece. And it was only a hour long.

Awesome press conference for me. Don't know what else to say.
 
They were all third parties though and an a few small indie timed exclusives. I know it's your opinion and all but outside of Scorpio, MS showed nothing original. This E3 was pretty bad for everyone. It was just weak

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Super Lucky's Tale
Forza 7
Sea of Thieves
Crackdown 3
Ori 2
Cuphead
State of Decay 2
 
This conference is what happens when you announce all your games five years out... Eventually you hit the moment when you have nothing to announce
 
E3 this year has been kind of weird in general. Sony blew its load with the E3 of Dreams and all that prior which in some ways did impact this year quite a bit. Stuff that was shown last E3 showed up again this E3 and is still going to be unreleased until sometime 2018 and this E3 they really skipped showing off any hint of the next wave of software.

E3 this year has taken on a very Nintendo like approach to title presentation across many companies. Not really a bad thing per say but it is very different for most of the companies than how they have usually handled E3.
 
Seems like a waste to rent that theatre and get all those people in there just for a trailer playlist; might as well do what Nintendo does and make it all digital.

Also, nothing new from this conference (except maybe the SotC remake), only elaborations on previously announced stuff. They barely bothered to show up this year, and it seemed like their stuff won't make it this year either.

A weak conference compared to the ones shown this year so far.
 
Since when do people want to see games that aren't coming out for another three years?

Since when didn't they?
People like new announcements as can be seen in this thread, not everyone might like it.
As I said can't please everyone, that's just how it is.
 
I always check gaf the morning after a Sony conference to see what was announced. This time, after seeing the first page of the general gaming forum I was like "wait, Sony had a conference right?". How was it?
 
Couldn't give less of a shit about Uncharted so opening with it did very little for me. Shadow of the Colossus looks lovely but it is a remake, nothing necessarily *new* in the traditional sense of the word. Days Gone looks painfully derivative and just plain boring. God of War continues to look beautiful and a refreshing change of course for the series. VR continues to be something I'm glad Sony supports despite not being able to afford it. Spiderman looks incredible despite the quick time events.

No fucking Bloodborne II.

Ehh.
 
Lost Legacy, Days Gone, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Detroit, Spider-Man. All highlights for me. All big time exclusives. Boy I could talk about each of these forever. Each one delighted me so much! (and NNK2 in the pre-show).

I don't think the press conf. was as good as the past two years, but boy it was still fantastic! Best conference so far this E3.
 
Kind of exciting that FromSoft's next ARPG will be even more of a significant change than I thought, with another year being taken off. Looking forward to the day they reveal what they've been working hard on!
 
Since when didn't they?
People like new announcements as can be seen in this thread, not everyone might like it.
As I said can't please everyone, that's just how it is.

They like new stuff, but no one wants to see "coming in two or three years" on the screen.

I don't think that's the problem though. I think they edited their games to promote to a specific audience: those who like western, cinematic experiences of the Naughty Dog variety. We saw almost no Japanese games, even though I'm sure there are some interesting titles coming in the next year or two. It felt like a PS3-era keynote to me.
 
They were all third parties though and an a few small indie timed exclusives. I know it's your opinion and all but outside of Scorpio, MS showed nothing original. This E3 was pretty bad for everyone. It was just weak

Microsoft had original stuff. If you count "original" games as titles that were previously unannounced, I think they fared about as well or better than Sony.
 
Remember when I told you guys that Bloodborne 2 isn't a thing for months and that From isn't showing their ARPG this year and people argued with me forever about it.
Good times.
Can u do me a favor because You broke my heart. Do u know what the rumored setting is because if it's Mayan which people want I will literally way all the years for that because that would be so rad :)
 
This conference is what happens when you announce all your games five years out... Eventually you hit the moment when you have nothing to announce
Hypothetically, they could announce stuff they have in the pipeline. Deals are always getting signed, and there's always a game just starting production.

The risk you take with that is that after you announce, things fall apart. The game you pitched to people either changes entirely (BG&E2), gets delayed multiple times over (KH3), or gets outright cancelled (Scalebound). That's something to be avoided.


So at some point, Sony had to reign things in. Which leaves us with shows like tonight.
 
I think Ubisoft won this year by far.

I think Ubisoft showed off too much stuff that was in the way distant future. But kudos to them for keeping Mario x Rabbids mostly under wraps. It leaked, but even considering that it was still only a few months from reveal to release.
 
Hidden Agenda should have been on the main show. PS4 exclusive interactive, choice-based suspenseful detective game from the makers of Until Dawn that supports multiplayer group choices and it's coming this year. Wild.
 
Felt rehashed. Nice to see some more progress on the games but it's more of the same. After seeing Anthem, Destiny 2 seems lackluster but I'm still gonna put 1000 hours on it in the meantime.
 
They basically didn't show as many games, but spent a longer time with each game they did show.

If we include the preshow stuff, this was easily an A conference.

Just the conference alone and it goes down to a C+/B- minus though.
 
They basically didn't show as many games, but spent a longer time with each game they did show.

If we include the preshow stuff, this was easily an A conference.

Just the conference alone and it goes down to a C+/B- minus though.

I think that's fair. I would still lean more towards a B though.
 
I get the feeling Sony made some last minute changes and held some things back in response to Microsofts lacklustre conference. Saving the bombs for when they're needed.
 
I get the feeling Sony made some last minute changes and held some things back in response to Microsofts lacklustre conference. Saving the bombs for when they're needed.

Nah, the timing of the conference was too precise around 60 minutes for that. Just a quiet year for them after two wild shows.
 
Uncharted DOC is a buy for me.

Days Gone looked cool, but it threw me off that there are extremely deadly zombie hordes feeding and he's like "fuck it, I'm jumping down". So much different from the tension of TLOU.

Monster Hunter could be cool.

Detroit is on my buy list. Love the subject matter.
 
The weird thing is that Sony could have easily had the best conference but whoever planned and arranged the order of everything completely failed, if you move the VR block to the preshow and replace it with Hidden Agenda, Matterfall, and Ni No Kuni the conference would flown way smoother. Also they should've had Shadow of the Colossus or Monster Hunter end the conference and had spiderman in the middle
This.

Tastes aside (i'm one of those that are still not sold on Days Gone),. I found the order at which they presented the games a bit baffling.
 
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