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[E3] EA is JUST STAR WARS NOW, and I cover that [E3]
Greetings, loved ones. As I slept last night I dreamed of fighting off waves of endless vampires hungry to drag my soul from my body and tear it into thousands of pieces to share among them.
Let's start covering E3.
Now, we know what EA's schedule looks like already, they're openly showing that schedule on the stream preview, and I'm gonna be honest here and admit: I'm gonna watch the Star Wars reveal, cut out for several hours, and maybe check in for The Sims 4. I don't care about anything else on the menu and they're VERY clear that they will not be showing anything unexpected.
Beardyman makes a big point out of how they're doing "something different" by showing "six entire shows". He cuts to a different but nearly identical beardyman... and then a third! We have so many beardymen! Four beardymen and a posh british lady!
Makes a big point of how we can watch anything or nothing, because we have choices. It's good to know Bioware's spirit isn't entirely dead. We can make hard choices here at EA's thing.
This is when I decide I don't care about Apelegs or BattleV or foots balling. Maybe care about The Sims 4. I'll add an addendum to this post if I go back for Sims 4, but this is currently a Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order only watchblog.
(That's a cumbersome title. Can't we make it more cumbersome? Star Wars Dark Forces V Jedi Knight IV Jedi Outcast III Jedi Academy II Jedi Fallen Order Origins? C'mon EA go all out here.)
Beardyman just BELLOWING at the top of his lungs on stage. Give this man a larger microphone so he can rest his throat.
Getting the devs out to talk early. Beardyman instantly starts hugging them.
Throws away the script cards instantly. Oh good, improv comedy at E3. *stare wryly at camera*
"For someone watching right now, they're just a FIFA fan, they don't know anything..." Nice burn, why am I here?
Slave wookiees are exploited by the Empire, etc... okay, game footage.
Our hero has a droid backpack, likes to stand with his arm conspciously extended like he's holding an invisible lightsaber at all times. Also has a puffy beestung-looking face. Prince of Persia wallrunning.
"Did you hear that? He said he needs my help! :D" very endearing, this doof of a main character.
Using his lightsaber as a flashlight now.
Very cinematic, very linear. Lightsaber combat looks... okay. Good use of Force powers to bounce objects into enemies. Seeing a lot of stormtroopers try to stand up and fight with shock-sticks. The main character keeps using slow-motion to circle them and attack.
There's what seems to be a midboss with a double-ended shockstick. Lots of the main character whiffing and getting punished hard for it, they seem to want to make the point that you don't commit to an attack unless you're SURE you can make it. Finishing him off with a Luke-style big boot.
Uncharted/Tomb Raider climbing. I admit I always love clambering up walls.
Blocking stuff is NOT a passive ability. Way to get shot, Jedi hero.
And we fight some giant spiders because It's Video Games. You can listen to the last moments of a stormtrooper who got ambushed by a spider and died. Right afterward, the dude playing gets ambushed by a spider and nearly dies. Claps all around.
Couple of Stormtroopers talk about having the high ground, die at once. [It is a meme reference.]
So this is very much not the Invincible Badass Combat of Force Unleashed. He enters a room with a bunch of stormtroopers and a miniboss and has to circle around carefully clearing them out one at a time instead of just (Darth) mauling them.
And the obligitory montage of game shots at the end. Nothing much to say there.
"The lightsaber looks like it has real weight to it!" ... isn't part of the point of lightsabers that they don't have a lot of weight to them?
I respect that they're not doing canned animations, though. It's not "push L1 to quick grab-and-stab", you'll combine powers kind of on the fly. There will obviously be Good Combos but you'll get to play as you like. Maybe it's slightly less scripted than I thought.
Backpack Droid is called "BD1" which feels a little on the nose. Does Metroid Prime scanning, maps, lore, etc. Injects stimpacks, you're helpless while doing that. (I'm trying not to mention Dark Souls here because this really isn't anything much like Dark Souls, but I know in my heart this is going to go up as "THE STAR WARS DARK SOULS" on game websites.)
Apparently the main character is "Cal". In my head, his last name is "Zone". ... I'm kinda hungry.
"We've been talking about this for like ten years." Yeah this has been baking a long time.
No light/dark choices. Cal is fixed alignment because he is canon, you cannot personalize him at all. Ah, the tyranny of canon.
More to come at Microsoft's show tomorrow.
Well... everyone at EA Play seems to be cheering hard, but I think it looks very sterile and safe, in the sense that they made Uncharted but it's a Jedi version. I'm not saying I won't play it, but I will probably play it when it's on discount.
I'm real glad people are hype though.
...and Apex Legends is starting, so I'm gonna tune out and get food. See y'all.
EDIT:
The Sims 4 announcement was for Island Living, which allows you to swim, fish, date a mermaid, and have LBGT pride. They also mentioned this fall's expansion will be called "The Realm of Magic", so please begin looking forward to woohooing as many dragons as you can kite into your house.
Not a bad announcement if you're still playing the Sims 4. Myself, I have not yet STARTED playing The Sims 4.
Anyway, that was EA at E3!
HOPES: Unmet.
EXPECTATIONS: Unmet.
HYPE LEVEL: Why does EA come to these things again?
Let's start covering E3.
Now, we know what EA's schedule looks like already, they're openly showing that schedule on the stream preview, and I'm gonna be honest here and admit: I'm gonna watch the Star Wars reveal, cut out for several hours, and maybe check in for The Sims 4. I don't care about anything else on the menu and they're VERY clear that they will not be showing anything unexpected.
Beardyman makes a big point out of how they're doing "something different" by showing "six entire shows". He cuts to a different but nearly identical beardyman... and then a third! We have so many beardymen! Four beardymen and a posh british lady!
Makes a big point of how we can watch anything or nothing, because we have choices. It's good to know Bioware's spirit isn't entirely dead. We can make hard choices here at EA's thing.
This is when I decide I don't care about Apelegs or BattleV or foots balling. Maybe care about The Sims 4. I'll add an addendum to this post if I go back for Sims 4, but this is currently a Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order only watchblog.
(That's a cumbersome title. Can't we make it more cumbersome? Star Wars Dark Forces V Jedi Knight IV Jedi Outcast III Jedi Academy II Jedi Fallen Order Origins? C'mon EA go all out here.)
Beardyman just BELLOWING at the top of his lungs on stage. Give this man a larger microphone so he can rest his throat.
Getting the devs out to talk early. Beardyman instantly starts hugging them.
Throws away the script cards instantly. Oh good, improv comedy at E3. *stare wryly at camera*
"For someone watching right now, they're just a FIFA fan, they don't know anything..." Nice burn, why am I here?
Slave wookiees are exploited by the Empire, etc... okay, game footage.
Our hero has a droid backpack, likes to stand with his arm conspciously extended like he's holding an invisible lightsaber at all times. Also has a puffy beestung-looking face. Prince of Persia wallrunning.
"Did you hear that? He said he needs my help! :D" very endearing, this doof of a main character.
Using his lightsaber as a flashlight now.
Very cinematic, very linear. Lightsaber combat looks... okay. Good use of Force powers to bounce objects into enemies. Seeing a lot of stormtroopers try to stand up and fight with shock-sticks. The main character keeps using slow-motion to circle them and attack.
There's what seems to be a midboss with a double-ended shockstick. Lots of the main character whiffing and getting punished hard for it, they seem to want to make the point that you don't commit to an attack unless you're SURE you can make it. Finishing him off with a Luke-style big boot.
Uncharted/Tomb Raider climbing. I admit I always love clambering up walls.
Blocking stuff is NOT a passive ability. Way to get shot, Jedi hero.
And we fight some giant spiders because It's Video Games. You can listen to the last moments of a stormtrooper who got ambushed by a spider and died. Right afterward, the dude playing gets ambushed by a spider and nearly dies. Claps all around.
Couple of Stormtroopers talk about having the high ground, die at once. [It is a meme reference.]
So this is very much not the Invincible Badass Combat of Force Unleashed. He enters a room with a bunch of stormtroopers and a miniboss and has to circle around carefully clearing them out one at a time instead of just (Darth) mauling them.
And the obligitory montage of game shots at the end. Nothing much to say there.
"The lightsaber looks like it has real weight to it!" ... isn't part of the point of lightsabers that they don't have a lot of weight to them?
I respect that they're not doing canned animations, though. It's not "push L1 to quick grab-and-stab", you'll combine powers kind of on the fly. There will obviously be Good Combos but you'll get to play as you like. Maybe it's slightly less scripted than I thought.
Backpack Droid is called "BD1" which feels a little on the nose. Does Metroid Prime scanning, maps, lore, etc. Injects stimpacks, you're helpless while doing that. (I'm trying not to mention Dark Souls here because this really isn't anything much like Dark Souls, but I know in my heart this is going to go up as "THE STAR WARS DARK SOULS" on game websites.)
Apparently the main character is "Cal". In my head, his last name is "Zone". ... I'm kinda hungry.
"We've been talking about this for like ten years." Yeah this has been baking a long time.
No light/dark choices. Cal is fixed alignment because he is canon, you cannot personalize him at all. Ah, the tyranny of canon.
More to come at Microsoft's show tomorrow.
Well... everyone at EA Play seems to be cheering hard, but I think it looks very sterile and safe, in the sense that they made Uncharted but it's a Jedi version. I'm not saying I won't play it, but I will probably play it when it's on discount.
I'm real glad people are hype though.
...and Apex Legends is starting, so I'm gonna tune out and get food. See y'all.
EDIT:
The Sims 4 announcement was for Island Living, which allows you to swim, fish, date a mermaid, and have LBGT pride. They also mentioned this fall's expansion will be called "The Realm of Magic", so please begin looking forward to woohooing as many dragons as you can kite into your house.
Not a bad announcement if you're still playing the Sims 4. Myself, I have not yet STARTED playing The Sims 4.
Anyway, that was EA at E3!
HOPES: Unmet.
EXPECTATIONS: Unmet.
HYPE LEVEL: Why does EA come to these things again?
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I don't really play Sims either but if I did it would be neat.
... Mmh yeah I got nothin'.
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I really don't know why EA bothered. Apparently people were getting shows of EA-published indie-developer titles but they were being shown only in private to press, which ... I guess that's what E3 is for technically but it feels like a bit of a waste.
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α I don't play the Sims, but, um, if I did… *c..c*
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Like, if anything could pull me in, it'd be that and/or playable furries.
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(there's no way that will actually happen.)
(...but what if.)
(but no. of course not.)
(but IT MIGHT)
(nah.)
(augh.)
(help i'm stuck.)