AWKWARD ZOMBIE

It looks really funny, I kinda cringed anytime they mentioned mobile games (wtf, Elder Scrolls Hearthstone?) but Fallout Shelter has potential. Shame it's only on iOS right now, hoping for an Android port.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L., V.A.T.S., an even more robust Pip-Boy, a full suite of base-building and weapon-crafting tools, JETPACK POWER ARMOR. I do believe that along with Doom and Dishonored 2, this conference is going to be hard to beat.

Super Mario Maker (which was played at the Nintendo World Championships with its new name) looks hype as fuck for just being a level creator
I saw 8-Bit Boos, which means NO LIMITS

Also Hungrybox owned Reggie in Smash and Cosmo got shown up in Super Mario Maker by John Numbers, who was crowned the Champion

i wonder if the new dishonored will have a better stealth system than skyrim

Uh, everything has a better stealth system than Skyrim.



on that note





HOLY SHIT, DISHONORED TWO
THIS IS EXCITING I AM EXCITE


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i think you may have missed the implied point that dishonored had a worse stealth system than skyrim

I'm implying that your implied point is incorrect

it's not, but okay

on the note of actually good games getting sequels, doom looks fun. hell looks like it's bodaciously made out of shit though? like actually constructed of feces. it's all brown and yellow and like, goopy looking. it looks nice but it seems kinda different from how they made hell look in the past. maybe just that one area though, with the rest of it being more varied.

Are you really that salty about Dishonored? What's your beef on that?


I'm not being snide about that either, I'm genuinely asking you why you don't like it

other than it feeling really uninspired and bland the whole way through with a terrible story, uninteresting setting, the worst lore, and nothing to endear me to any part of the world at all, the stealth system was not fleshed out enough. they made an FPS, complete with a bunch of killing tools of death making, and then threw in some stealth mechanics for funsies, and then made it so if you did anything but the stealth you were punished with a bad ending. so what ended up happening was this really bad stealth system was the main focus of the game, with this big emphasis on "if you don't want a bad ending you gotta do non-lethal take downs", but then gave you this massive arsenal and made you into a killing machine and didn't really flesh out the stealth at all.

compare it even to skyrim. skyrim had a poor stealth system. dishonored and skyrim bodaciously have the same stealth mechanic. but skyrim didn't try and bullshit you and say it's a stealth game about not killing people while it gave you the tools to kill people. it was a game about murdering dudes and stealth was just one way to do it. even if you were super stealth mcgee the invisible, you could still hold your own in a proper fight, and you weren't expected to use a tacked-on system. there was no bad ending for not using stealth, and there was no good ending for using it.

and then compare it to something like metal gear solid 3, where the stealth is the most important part. you can't hold your own in a fight, you have to stealth and find creative ways around enemies. you can't just fuckin' teleport away behind someone, you gotta think it out, and the game gives you the tools for it. and then for the situations where you fuck up, the game gives you what you need to escape and go back to stealth. killing people is just another way to get around them, and it presents it's own unique challenges, incentives, and downsides. it also gives you the environment to play around with. out of bullets? throw a live fucking snake at a guy and watch him freak out and use that time to get past. it was all about manipulation of everything around you to create a solution, not just "hey just avoid these really short lines of sight."

and the worst part is it was extremely easy either way. dishonored wasn't challenging in the slighest. once you got the blink the stealth didn't matter, and it barely mattered in the first place. i couldn't even be bothered to finish the game because i just did not care. it presented nothing to me. i didn't care about the story, i didn't care about the world, i didn't care about the stealth, it was just a consistent waste of my time.

Single player doom looked awful.

I think Microsoft did a solid job with their conference.
-Halo 5 looks really good. WarZone looks like a blast. Red vs. Blue on a giant battlefield with tons of AI enemies to contend with.
-Backwards compatibility with 360, finally. It seems like what they wanted to do is make sure that the 360 games worked well with the apps on Xbox One, like their Upload Game DVR system and the Twitch app. The Backwards compatibility also includes XBLA games.
-Fallout 4 on Xbox One will come with a digital 360 version and will support proletariats just like the PC version.
-Xbox One will have an Early Access program, but it will have a free trial period so you don't have to buy the game if it's at a crappy build stage. They seem to have chosen some solid heavy-hitters to start off with, such as Elite Dangerous and DayZ.
-Speaking of which, Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ, announced some odd game called "Ion" for Xbox One and PC.
-Gigantic looks fun. It's a MOBA, 5v5, highly stylized, and you fight alongside giant monsters who I'm guessing are also the objective you have to defend.
-Cuphead looks utterly stellar.
-Tomb Raider looks like it may be fun. I wish they had shown off a less scripted portion of the game though.
-Gears 4 adds some interesting new creatures to the mix. They have a public beta for their HD collection of Gears 1-3 out now.
-Rare has a brand new IP called Sea of Thieves coming out. You play as a pirate with a bunch of other pirates who are real people. Sail the seas, collect treasure, make fellow crew walk the plank if you have to, fight skeleton pirates, have ship to ship duels against other players' crews.

Whelp. I know what I won't be buying before it's finished (if ever) and reviewed...

Also, HNNNNGH! Mirrors Edge Catalyst

Too much SPOOOOOORTS. God dammit EA!

Mirror's Edge Catalyst looked good though.

Battlefront looked pretty good despite it running on a potato.

Might have to pick up this game then. We'll see closer to launch.