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Boozy The Clown

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It's about games. Xbox got no games. 

 

Tomorrow should to put that to an end. We don't just want games, we want games to get excited about, games you itch to get back to when you can't. Games that become your favourite game. Games that you remember decades later.  Games that you still play decades later. I know it won't be an hour of games aimed at me. I'm way out the demographic that they are aiming for. If they want everyone to talk about this show for weeks to come and not be eclipsed by a tweet tomorrow from Sony with a GTA6 logo, it better have some big surprises. I know all the rumoured stuff but I want some crazy drop the motherfuckin' Mic surprises. I'm not saying I'm owed anything, I had a great generation (6 Forzas:lol:) I just know they can do much better. 

 

 

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I told my wife about this today. She then asked me if this was that dumb thing I get excited about every year, which gave me an in to explain about E3 being cancelled, how E3 went in 2013 and where that leaves us now, with both Sony and Microsoft seemingly waiting to see who blinks first in terms of their price announcement. I even blithered on about how Microsoft were going to have a monthly show but called last month’s off to make this one extra special.

 

She absolutely couldn’t care less if she tried, so me taking the time to bore her face off with all that tells you how excited I am right now.

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44 minutes ago, Boozy The Clown said:

It's about games. Xbox got no games. 

 

Tomorrow should to put that to an end. We don't just want games, we want games to get excited about, games you itch to get back to when you can't. Games that become your favourite game. Games that you remember decades later.  Games that you still play decades later. I know it won't be an hour of games aimed at me. I'm way out the demographic that they are aiming for. If they want everyone to talk about this show for weeks to come and not be eclipsed by a tweet tomorrow from Sony with a GTA6 logo, it better have some big surprises. I know all the rumoured stuff but I want some crazy drop the motherfuckin' Mic surprises. I'm not saying I'm owed anything, I had a great generation (6 Forzas:lol:) I just know they can do much better. 

 

 


What we’ll get in practice is “pyschonauts is multi platform, grounded doesn’t look as good as TLOU2 (despite different genre, small team, eighteen months), yawn forza, yawn halo, yawn upcycled gears”

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Mr. Gerbik

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Heh, I had a similar moment with my wife over dinner. She asked if that "game thing" was tomorrow. So I start explaining how exciting it all is because Microsoft was teasing pictures that make it look like the new Halo would be like the first Halo. And the first Halo was brilliant and my favourite and then I noticed she couldn't care less and was just listening to me to humor me. So I said "to sum up, yes, it's tomorrow" "Thank you, then I know you won't be joining us for dinner"

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I’m pretty damn excited. Looking forward to some titles from the studios that MS bought... including maybe WB Games. And hopefully this will lead to a more rounded portfolio than just shooting and driving, good though I expect Halo and Forza to look.

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30 minutes ago, Eighthours said:

I’m pretty damn excited. Looking forward to some titles from the studios that MS bought

 

Me too, I'm down for a new Halo but I would rather see new titles than a bunch of sequels and exhumed old IP. 

 

This will be a failure in my opinion if they only show things like State of Decay, Forza, Hellblade and Battletoads.

 

Less sequels, more originals, please. 

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2 minutes ago, mdn2 said:

Yeah, there's no way a purchase like WB would be kept under wraps. 

 

Or could be.

It's also a dodgy purchase: with any games entirely dependent on other people's licenced IP (DC, lego, harry potter etc.).

 

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48 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

I enjoyed Fable 1&2, but the world is incredibly generic and there’s very little depth to the RPG mechanics. If they really must use the franchise, I really hope they change it completely. 

I disagree with the first part - it feels like a python-esque version of England as an RPG - hardly "generic".

 

Actually I disagree with the whole thing... depth in mechanics?  Can we not have rpg-lite games? so they all have to have deep rich (boring) systems... From Fable I just want a simple system where I get more powerful with BIGGER spells that do more damage. Fable 2 was the perfect RPG-lite system to me.

 

 

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53 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

I enjoyed Fable 1&2, but the world is incredibly generic and there’s very little depth to the RPG mechanics. If they really must use the franchise, I really hope they change it completely. 

I've seen some people talking up the idea of turning Fable into a Witcher-like experience and that seems like a waste to me. They've never fully managed to realise the potential of the world reflecting your good and evil choices. I'd like to see them go back to what Lionhead were originally promising and try to deliver on that. 

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1 hour ago, djbhammer said:

It’s today! Happy Showcase day everyone! :omg::omg::omg:

 

Waits for MS to take a sawn off shotgun to both feet at 5pm and the inevitable "WTF have they been doing for the last few years?etc"

 

Sony had a pretty bad showing, so It would be nice to get a surprise this evening.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, bear said:

I've seen some people talking up the idea of turning Fable into a Witcher-like experience and that seems like a waste to me.

Agreed - why is there an obsession with distilling down game genre so that all games should aspire to be the same as some pre-determined "best" example of the genre. Oh they should make Zelda more "souls-like" - they should make "focused level based game" open world - RPGs should be more Witcher-like.

 

We lose so much variety in games by triangulating them to be like the "best" of a genre.

 

And if you gave me the choice I'd play Fable 2 over pretty much most RPGs including Witcher.

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26 minutes ago, footle said:

 

Or could be.

It's also a dodgy purchase: with any games entirely dependent on other people's licenced IP (DC, lego, harry potter etc.).

 

Buying a brand like that is buying the IP. No deal on the IP? It's just some offices and employees who could all jump ship. No sale. 

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people said the good/evil stuff was too simplistic but it gave you alot of latitude in terms of achieving goals. The dark side got incredibly dark as you tested there it seems Purin :D

 

So the story was focused but your personal character path was your own.

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I know there's a few dead certs and there have been plenty of rumours, but I'm surprised we haven't had any concrete leaks yet. They've done well to keep it all under wraps. It definitely makes it more exciting wondering what they might show.

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