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xyzzysqrlAs noted, after last year I'm very cautious about Bethesda's E3 presser. I'm not sure I'll really believe anything much they say and I -am- pretty sure after last year they won't have much to show off. Still, I've been wrong before.
What could get me to pop? I know Doom Eternal will. An Arkane Studio game or... mmh. I dunno, closure of the Skyrim Creation Club?
Bethesda starts off by celebrating the players, who keep them in check and are there to tell them how they feel. ... I respect that they're humble about it.
...Transitioning straight into a loud hiphop song about SAYING HOW HIGH WHEN WE TELL YOU TO JUMP. Uh, mixed messages, Bethesda.
Pete Hines stands up out of the crowd to walk on stage. No fatalities.
"You take the worlds we create and you make them yours." Except on mobile. "This year we're giving special recognition to the community." Huh. Mod showcase maybe?
Tonight we'll be stopping frequently to hear from the fandom. Uh, okay.
Several new game announcements and a "deep dive" on Doom Eternal.
...oh shit Todd "Theodore" Howard DOES IN FACT CLIP ONSTAGE at E3. Okay sure, I thought he was staying home.
"We've had a VERY exciting year at Bethesda Studios. ... Given some of that excitement I'm impressed so many of you are here."
Todd is still Todd.
Fallout 76 still... somehow gets a big cheer. "We got a LOT of well-deserved criticism. But the team kept working on it. And you've kept playing it... with one of the best communities we've ever seen. We made a post-apoc multiplayer game... and everyone's NICE to each other. They leave food and water for the newbies... it gives me hope."
Elder Scrolls Blades logo on screen. That gets a cheer too? Wow. I heard this was a supreme letdown. Project Leader and Art Director for Blades come out to talk about their new updates. A new Dragon-based questline, because dragons are the universal saving throw for all Bethesda games.
Elder Scrolls Blades for Switch. Switchblades. ... sighface.
...to get THIS MANY CHEERS for a mobile/Switch F2P game half the crowd must be Bethesda employees or something, geez.
Fallout 76 update from "Jeff" and "Tom". Expansion or update called "Wastelanders", supposed to be a major overhaul of the game... Oh hey, they're adding NPCs.
"Human NPCs return! Choices and consequences! FREE"
This is the "win back the crowd" part of the evening. Someone just screamed "THANK YOUUU" when the dialog trees popped up.
Free week-long trial of 76, starts tomorrow. June 10-17.
Also, some kind of ... wacky death battle mode. .. Oh god they're doing Fallout Battle Royale.
52-player Battle Royale mode. Yep. Wild cheering for this. I'm befuddled.
"FUCK YEAH WE PUT A BATTLE ROYALE IN FALLOUT 76" ... Why are you proud of doing the thing people joked would be the laziest possible ... oh hell, whatever.
Todd comes back to remind us that everything they've shown today so far is free. And yes they're still working on all their big-ticket items like Starfield and ES6.
"Thank you for believing in us."
pfft sure thing todd
Shinji Mikami appears! Uhhh... do... do Bethesda own Shinji Mikami now?
He's announcing "Ghostwire Tokyo". I briefly mishear this as Ghostwriter Tokyo.
"Rid a city of supernatural evil."
Ikumi Nakamura, extremely cute and slightly beetle-like Japanese girl, appears. She is awkward and nervous and wants us to know "IS SPOOKIE! BUT NOT SURVIVAL HORROR!"
"You will need to ask yourself... is it normal? Is it paranormal? ...I ask myself this question every time I go into the office..."
Trailer of Shibuya where people just... suddenly vanish, others become weirdly deformed... You got your creepy stringy-haired ghost girls, you got some youkai... This looks like the Secret World: Tokyo Special Edition and I'm kinda into it.
Random Fan: "Don't ever stop adding dragons to your games. Add dragons to Fallout. To Rage. Cybermechadragons." I LIKE THE CUT OF THIS FAN'S GIB. GET HIM A CREATIVE DIRECTOR POSITION.
ESO head shows up and people howl for him.
"I just wanna say to Greg, the fan in that previous video? Greg? The Elder Scrolls Online has dragons now."
(why aren't i playing eso actually)
...someone in the audience is just GROWLING "YEAAAAAAAAH" every time this man opens his mouth.
I think there may be a dragon in the audience right now.
World Premere of ... some trailer involving ... ESO stuff? I forget what we're doing here, I got too hype about dragons.
Cat fights dragon. Necromancer fights dragon.
... I think they just really wanted to show the intro movie to Elsweyr? ... Oh, DLC. "Dragonhold". Become a dragonfighter professionally I guess.
Also a dungeon DLC — "YEAHHHHHHHHH" ... I would complain about "YEAH" guy but he's basically me for PSO2.
Zenimax Online -new project reveal-... This oughta be interesting.
"And now for something completely different: Imagine a Saturday morning cartoon in mobile game form!"
It's Commander Keen mobile.
Two Keen twins having wacky adventures. Oh my god what are they doing.
iOS/Android.
"If you're hearing about Commander Keen for the first time..." then you're too fucking young. *grump*
"A modern take on this classic game." Billy and Billie Blaze. It's... basically looking like Incredible Machine.
...
I'm not sure I can get hype about this. I ... I really really cannot get hype about this. This hurts.
"At Bethesda, we, like you, love mobile games." i just made the sound of a dying giraffe
"...hey guys Elder Scrolls Legends still exists hey play Elder Scrolls Legends please guys? please?"
Too-long live action trailer where some kid uses Elder Scrolls Legends to summon a dragon outside a McDonalds. If ESL could do that I would be surgically grafted to that game.
(One dude claps for this trailer.)
Goofy cheat code stuff for Rage 2 and vehicles and stuff. All free, presumably.
Wolfenstein time. It's time to kill Nazi scum in two new games. VR game "Cyberpilot", where you use Nazi mecha to kill Nazis, and "Youngblood", the game where you play as BJ's twin daughters.
"More weapons and upgrades, more ways to customize your playstyle, and more Nazis to kill. And you can kill Nazis with a friend."
They're making this their main focal point and I'm still pretty okay with it.
Youngblood looks astoundingly violent and slick. Very good work there.
Arkane Studios employees coming up on stage now. They helped with the Wolfenstein, I hope they had time to put something together for themselves.
"Along with partnering with Machine Games for Wolfenstein, we've been working on some things ourselves. A stylish action game, different than anything we've done before..."
Two main characters who... might be trapped in a time loop on an island called Black Reef. Keep waking up after they've killed each other. Called "Deathloop", looks very grindhouse. ... Not what I expect from Arkane, but could be interesting.
They do promise that whole... Dark Messiah/Prey/Dishonored level design. I'm good with that.
ID guys out on stage to tell us about "new technology" that will change games forever. Uhm.
"We are the inventors of the first-person shooter." MIDI MAZE MOTHERFUCKER.
"Cutting edge technology" yeah? "developed for game streaming" ... oh.
Orion, which is based on optimizing game engines for cloud streaming. ... I... I kinda super don't care guys can you bring Wolfenstein back?
...I mean if you say this works it's great but... is this really E3 material?
"With any new technology, one must ask: Can it play Doom?" Okay we're refocusing back on the good stuff.
Blurry-ass camera footage of someone playing Doom 2016 on a NVIDIA Shield.
...
*goes and gets a drink*
...oops wait no Doom Eternal.
Heaven seems pissed at Doom Slayer for Slaying too many Dooms. Humanity is supposed to be doing penance, he is not supposed to be killing all the demons.
Doom Guy does not seem moved by this request to stop doing the thing he does.
Doom Guy is Mario now. He swims, walljumps, swings, pushes blocks, collects 1UPs...
"If you're in the room tonight... you'll have a chance to play Doom Eternal right after the show." You lucky bastards.
I'm real prepared to play this. I've seen plenty, just hand me the controls. I wanna plasma gun spam like crazy. I mean you're still in an arena, fighting some bad guys. That has not changed. But you're a ridiculous parkour master fighting some demons in an arena and that looks great.
Ends on a Cyberdemon vs. BFG fight about to happen, of course.
Bethsoft Man: "When do we get to play Doom Eternal at our home? You don't have to wait too much longer."
Guy in Crowd: "TOMORROW?"
Bethsoft Man: "...Not tomorrow."
November 22nd. Yeah okay.
"We've got one more thing we know you want to hear about. Multiplayer."
*mouth noises*
2 v 1: Two demons versus 1 Doomguy. Calls it a kind of fighting game. Quakecon for more details, but they'll show a little bit now.
Looks overcomplicated.
25 years of Dooms means they'll be doing a lot this summer... AT QUAKECON LOL
PLZ LOOK FORWARD TO IT
BYEEEEE
...and that's it. ... uh. Mmh.
Heavy focus on mobile games and updating the stuff they already put out, plus reenforcing last year's announcements. Really... It's a good thing I went in with measured expectations, huh.
HOPES: Doom Eternal in November yeahhhh.
EXPECTATIONS: 90% of Bethesda's E3 was "We're gonna make the bad things better, honey, don't leave."
HYPE LEVEL: commander keen why uh I mean... I dunno, 4/10 seems right.
What could get me to pop? I know Doom Eternal will. An Arkane Studio game or... mmh. I dunno, closure of the Skyrim Creation Club?
Bethesda starts off by celebrating the players, who keep them in check and are there to tell them how they feel. ... I respect that they're humble about it.
...Transitioning straight into a loud hiphop song about SAYING HOW HIGH WHEN WE TELL YOU TO JUMP. Uh, mixed messages, Bethesda.
Pete Hines stands up out of the crowd to walk on stage. No fatalities.
"You take the worlds we create and you make them yours." Except on mobile. "This year we're giving special recognition to the community." Huh. Mod showcase maybe?
Tonight we'll be stopping frequently to hear from the fandom. Uh, okay.
Several new game announcements and a "deep dive" on Doom Eternal.
...oh shit Todd "Theodore" Howard DOES IN FACT CLIP ONSTAGE at E3. Okay sure, I thought he was staying home.
"We've had a VERY exciting year at Bethesda Studios. ... Given some of that excitement I'm impressed so many of you are here."
Todd is still Todd.
Fallout 76 still... somehow gets a big cheer. "We got a LOT of well-deserved criticism. But the team kept working on it. And you've kept playing it... with one of the best communities we've ever seen. We made a post-apoc multiplayer game... and everyone's NICE to each other. They leave food and water for the newbies... it gives me hope."
Elder Scrolls Blades logo on screen. That gets a cheer too? Wow. I heard this was a supreme letdown. Project Leader and Art Director for Blades come out to talk about their new updates. A new Dragon-based questline, because dragons are the universal saving throw for all Bethesda games.
Elder Scrolls Blades for Switch. Switchblades. ... sighface.
...to get THIS MANY CHEERS for a mobile/Switch F2P game half the crowd must be Bethesda employees or something, geez.
Fallout 76 update from "Jeff" and "Tom". Expansion or update called "Wastelanders", supposed to be a major overhaul of the game... Oh hey, they're adding NPCs.
"Human NPCs return! Choices and consequences! FREE"
This is the "win back the crowd" part of the evening. Someone just screamed "THANK YOUUU" when the dialog trees popped up.
Free week-long trial of 76, starts tomorrow. June 10-17.
Also, some kind of ... wacky death battle mode. .. Oh god they're doing Fallout Battle Royale.
52-player Battle Royale mode. Yep. Wild cheering for this. I'm befuddled.
"FUCK YEAH WE PUT A BATTLE ROYALE IN FALLOUT 76" ... Why are you proud of doing the thing people joked would be the laziest possible ... oh hell, whatever.
Todd comes back to remind us that everything they've shown today so far is free. And yes they're still working on all their big-ticket items like Starfield and ES6.
"Thank you for believing in us."
pfft sure thing todd
Shinji Mikami appears! Uhhh... do... do Bethesda own Shinji Mikami now?
He's announcing "Ghostwire Tokyo". I briefly mishear this as Ghostwriter Tokyo.
"Rid a city of supernatural evil."
Ikumi Nakamura, extremely cute and slightly beetle-like Japanese girl, appears. She is awkward and nervous and wants us to know "IS SPOOKIE! BUT NOT SURVIVAL HORROR!"
"You will need to ask yourself... is it normal? Is it paranormal? ...I ask myself this question every time I go into the office..."
Trailer of Shibuya where people just... suddenly vanish, others become weirdly deformed... You got your creepy stringy-haired ghost girls, you got some youkai... This looks like the Secret World: Tokyo Special Edition and I'm kinda into it.
Random Fan: "Don't ever stop adding dragons to your games. Add dragons to Fallout. To Rage. Cybermechadragons." I LIKE THE CUT OF THIS FAN'S GIB. GET HIM A CREATIVE DIRECTOR POSITION.
ESO head shows up and people howl for him.
"I just wanna say to Greg, the fan in that previous video? Greg? The Elder Scrolls Online has dragons now."
(why aren't i playing eso actually)
...someone in the audience is just GROWLING "YEAAAAAAAAH" every time this man opens his mouth.
I think there may be a dragon in the audience right now.
World Premere of ... some trailer involving ... ESO stuff? I forget what we're doing here, I got too hype about dragons.
Cat fights dragon. Necromancer fights dragon.
... I think they just really wanted to show the intro movie to Elsweyr? ... Oh, DLC. "Dragonhold". Become a dragonfighter professionally I guess.
Also a dungeon DLC — "YEAHHHHHHHHH" ... I would complain about "YEAH" guy but he's basically me for PSO2.
Zenimax Online -new project reveal-... This oughta be interesting.
"And now for something completely different: Imagine a Saturday morning cartoon in mobile game form!"
It's Commander Keen mobile.
Two Keen twins having wacky adventures. Oh my god what are they doing.
iOS/Android.
"If you're hearing about Commander Keen for the first time..." then you're too fucking young. *grump*
"A modern take on this classic game." Billy and Billie Blaze. It's... basically looking like Incredible Machine.
...
I'm not sure I can get hype about this. I ... I really really cannot get hype about this. This hurts.
"At Bethesda, we, like you, love mobile games." i just made the sound of a dying giraffe
"...hey guys Elder Scrolls Legends still exists hey play Elder Scrolls Legends please guys? please?"
Too-long live action trailer where some kid uses Elder Scrolls Legends to summon a dragon outside a McDonalds. If ESL could do that I would be surgically grafted to that game.
(One dude claps for this trailer.)
Goofy cheat code stuff for Rage 2 and vehicles and stuff. All free, presumably.
Wolfenstein time. It's time to kill Nazi scum in two new games. VR game "Cyberpilot", where you use Nazi mecha to kill Nazis, and "Youngblood", the game where you play as BJ's twin daughters.
"More weapons and upgrades, more ways to customize your playstyle, and more Nazis to kill. And you can kill Nazis with a friend."
They're making this their main focal point and I'm still pretty okay with it.
Youngblood looks astoundingly violent and slick. Very good work there.
Arkane Studios employees coming up on stage now. They helped with the Wolfenstein, I hope they had time to put something together for themselves.
"Along with partnering with Machine Games for Wolfenstein, we've been working on some things ourselves. A stylish action game, different than anything we've done before..."
Two main characters who... might be trapped in a time loop on an island called Black Reef. Keep waking up after they've killed each other. Called "Deathloop", looks very grindhouse. ... Not what I expect from Arkane, but could be interesting.
They do promise that whole... Dark Messiah/Prey/Dishonored level design. I'm good with that.
ID guys out on stage to tell us about "new technology" that will change games forever. Uhm.
"We are the inventors of the first-person shooter." MIDI MAZE MOTHERFUCKER.
"Cutting edge technology" yeah? "developed for game streaming" ... oh.
Orion, which is based on optimizing game engines for cloud streaming. ... I... I kinda super don't care guys can you bring Wolfenstein back?
...I mean if you say this works it's great but... is this really E3 material?
"With any new technology, one must ask: Can it play Doom?" Okay we're refocusing back on the good stuff.
Blurry-ass camera footage of someone playing Doom 2016 on a NVIDIA Shield.
...
*goes and gets a drink*
...oops wait no Doom Eternal.
Heaven seems pissed at Doom Slayer for Slaying too many Dooms. Humanity is supposed to be doing penance, he is not supposed to be killing all the demons.
Doom Guy does not seem moved by this request to stop doing the thing he does.
Doom Guy is Mario now. He swims, walljumps, swings, pushes blocks, collects 1UPs...
"If you're in the room tonight... you'll have a chance to play Doom Eternal right after the show." You lucky bastards.
I'm real prepared to play this. I've seen plenty, just hand me the controls. I wanna plasma gun spam like crazy. I mean you're still in an arena, fighting some bad guys. That has not changed. But you're a ridiculous parkour master fighting some demons in an arena and that looks great.
Ends on a Cyberdemon vs. BFG fight about to happen, of course.
Bethsoft Man: "When do we get to play Doom Eternal at our home? You don't have to wait too much longer."
Guy in Crowd: "TOMORROW?"
Bethsoft Man: "...Not tomorrow."
November 22nd. Yeah okay.
"We've got one more thing we know you want to hear about. Multiplayer."
*mouth noises*
2 v 1: Two demons versus 1 Doomguy. Calls it a kind of fighting game. Quakecon for more details, but they'll show a little bit now.
Looks overcomplicated.
25 years of Dooms means they'll be doing a lot this summer... AT QUAKECON LOL
PLZ LOOK FORWARD TO IT
BYEEEEE
...and that's it. ... uh. Mmh.
Heavy focus on mobile games and updating the stuff they already put out, plus reenforcing last year's announcements. Really... It's a good thing I went in with measured expectations, huh.
HOPES: Doom Eternal in November yeahhhh.
EXPECTATIONS: 90% of Bethesda's E3 was "We're gonna make the bad things better, honey, don't leave."
HYPE LEVEL: commander keen why uh I mean... I dunno, 4/10 seems right.
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Date: 2019-06-10 02:24 pm (UTC)I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing what would become of Commander Keen. I don't care if they make mobile games, I just don't understand why they're making a Keen mobile game or why they think anyone should care.
I don't know HOW, since I still haven't played it, but Fallout76 apparently killed any remaining capacity for hype I might have had for anything ever and until a game is actually in my sticky little hands it doesn't exist and I feel nothing. Ultimately, probably a net positive.
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Date: 2019-06-10 02:26 pm (UTC)Fallout 76 ... I think I recognize any pangs I feel of "Hey, this could still be interesting!" are explicitly BECAUSE I haven't played it. Maybe adding NPCs back in will be the hot fresh start the game needs to finally get it going in its second year of life.