Sony’s conference has just finished, it’s 3:16 am and I’ve
had loads of sugar. This blog may be nonsense.
Holy fricking Spider-Man!!!
That looked gorgeous and fluid, like a cross between the Batman titles and
Uncharted which could be a blooming lovely combo. Swinging and quipping, that
is definitely a Spider-Man game and I want it right now.
Ok, calm down Joe… Let’s talk about the rest of the show.
It’s a tricky one to describe. In many ways it was a lot better for me than the
Xbox conference but then it also happened to be disappointing. Which it
shouldn’t have been, as I literally blogged a few days ago how I predicted few
surprises as they had a lot to show for what was already announced. That’s
exactly what this was. It felt like part two of last year’s show, an update on
the big surprises from then but lacking in any new reveals to get me excited.
Last year they announced God of War, Days Gone and
Spider-Man with all three getting extended looks this time. As noted above,
Spidey was my favourite and easily the best showing of this e3 for me. God of War also looked epic. I was
never in to the series and barely played any of them for more than an hour but
this looked different. Brutal and lush, it’s definitely a technical showcase
but I’m hoping it’s fun to play too.
Days Gone looked
ok but it didn’t offer anything new. More open world, more zombies. I feel like
I’ve played it already. Uncharted Lost Legacy was a brilliant opener and after
4 thrilled me I’m all set for more. I’m letting that one off for lacking originality
because its going to be faster paced and shorter and because I just like it,
dammit. Let me contradict myself. Horizon DLC is another thing I’ll buy but I
haven’t even finished the main game yet.
Surprises? Hmm... Monster
Hunter World is technically a big one but I’ve never been a fan of that series.
Still a good reveal of course, it’s a popular series and it’s returning to a non-Nintendo
console. Being a Nintendo fan my first thought was about Nintendo losing a
third party exclusive as opposed to the game itself (although I know there’s
more to it, looks like two different Monster Hunter series?) Same thing
happened when I saw Skyrim VR,
that’ll take the wind out of the portable versions sails a bit.
VR had a big section which is nice for VR owners. That doesn’t
include me so I got bored here, but hey it’s doing well and Sony want to sell
more. I shouldn’t really complain. Call
of Duty and Destiny were other
boring bits but again that says more about my tastes since I’m not interested
in what will be the biggest two games still to come this year.
That feeling seems to be the main one here. This wasn’t a
bad show at all, it just had a lot that wasn’t for me personally. At the same time
it had games which are exactly what I want, big exclusive single player titles.
I was unimpressed by Xbox because they had nothing like this but yet here I am
being down on Sony for only showing like five exclusives I want and not announcing
five more. I’ve just got greedy, but that’s their fault for putting on such a
good show last year. This stuck to what I’ll be playing in the next 18 months
and I should be pleased with that. A sensible E3 for a man who should have had
more tea and less sugar.
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