Too much VR for me, not to mention I lack a fat wallet. :B
Sony went ham w their orchestra and Kojima reveal, if you're into those kinds of games it's a good time for you. Alas I'm just a simple Nintendo fan so I'm only excited for Zelda, which looks amazing btw.
I mean, I'm kinda excited for PKMN Sun/Moon but I need to see cooler Pokemon reveals... Not impressed with dog and koala 'Mon. :b Color Splash looks okay...but what they've shown in the past reminds me too much of Sticker Star which I hope will not be the case. I guess we'll see in the future.
Hey Reggie, I'm still waiting on that MOTHER 3 localization yo.
Sony always goes ham. Last year they had an outdoor stadium show. But they have the wallet and the corporate approval for it....it's the only part of Sony that's actually MAKING money (aside from battery tech and medical imaging) and is pretty much buying lunch for the rest of Sony corp so they get do do whatever the heck they want to do, and it's hard to deny for an entertainment company, their conferences are certainly an entertainment show :) Orchestra was an awesome touch. It's not going to make me buy $500 cyborg goggles, but it was a fun 2 hours :P
Kojima....amusing...hammy....and I imagine one needs to be on a LOT of LSD for that mess of a trailer to make any sense at all....but the giant middle finger to Konami that it was....there was some joy in there even for us Nintendo fans...if not especially for Nintendo fans. ;)
I'm paying attention to the VR stuff, not so much for the VR itself (I have a PS4...I could buy into their goggles....I'm not going to. They're promoting it because they're the only console with it...They seem to have low confidence in it, but they want to make sure to be cemented in it in case it DOES take off. I think it's 3D TV all over again - for now.) but because of the rumors that NX may have been delayed to add VR. Remember, if Nintendo does it, it'll be in the box at least in the premium package. I don't think they'd redo the full goggle experience, so maybe sunglasses style? And it would carry the 3DS 3d tradition on. Maybe half-VR. Immersive 3DS-style 3D overlayed in sunglasses or something. Remember that it COULD mean that Zelda: BotW....will be in VR ;) At first I didn't want Nintendo to go VR. But seeing the industry gimmick it is, and how poorly it's implemented. And Miyamoto's former obsession with VR before deciding he hated the isolation of it only to bring back 3D on 3DS....I can't rule out he might have begged and pleaded to add it. After all, he's the reason we have Super Stable 3D on N3DS ("If we don't use this (eye tracking tech), there's no reason to make the N3DS!". Before seeing Zelda I didn't care. But the thought of that game in VR....has me more interested. I don't want NX to have VR specifically, but if it does now, my red body is ready:
We'll get a better look at Color Splash in a little while. Supposedly it's sticker-star-ish. But I hope they fixed the trial & error gameplay of the "things" big stickers. That was really the only reason it went downhill, aside from the fan dislike for the level design/mission structure.
I'm going off the games that I've played. Having never played an Elder Scroll game, I wouldn't know how they compare. But the whole aesthetic of a vast open environment with many different biomes, steep cliffs overlooking it all, underground areas with a much more sleek, futuristic design... it reminds me of the first Halo, albeit with real-er monsters and more medieval-ish ruins in the overworld. I did kinda get a Xenoblade X vibe as well, though again I haven't played it so I can't say how true the comparison is.
From what I heard, the Ubisoft conference was some kind of bizarre. I think I may have seen a little bit of it, I'm not sure (was that the one with the South Park game?). Gotta admit, it's a bit sad and a bit hilarious that the first confirmed 3rd-party NX game is a damn dancing one. There's your 3rd-party support, people, take it or leave it, but it ain't gonna do a god damn thing to save your console. XÞ
I'd probably be more invested in Sony's conference if I were a Playstation fanboy growing up. Even if I had a PS4 already, I'd be at a loss as to what games I should get. Knowing me I'd probably just buckle down and get whatever games my friends have, which thus limits me to Battlefield One, maybe Infinite Warfare (much like with Color Splash I'd probably just get it to spite the haters), and Injustice 2. Not that I'd complain, since those do tickle my fancy, but I'd hate to be limited to just piggybacking off of my friends' interests.
I still have yet to open my collectors edition of XCX. I got as far as cutting open the box seal one day when Splatoon was down for maintenance. I didn't open the shrinkwrap on the gamebox yet and the servers came back up so I never got back to it. I SERIOUSLY need to find a way to give up on Splatoon and get to these other game :P
I can see where you're coming from with Halo. I didn't make the connections right away, but yeah I can see what you're seeing about it. I think the link to Bethesda games is a lot more strong. If you've never played one, imagine this: It's exactly what you saw in the zelda overworld, except with far, far, clunkier combat, far more useless items, when you kill a Bulbin they might end up with a ragdoll hovering about 5 feet in the air and interesecting with a tree which may or may not block the entrance to the (non-puzzle) dungeon next to it. Trying to enter the dungeon will cause the game to freeze. After rebooting your console you reload your save from 20 minutes ago. Now YOU have intersected with the ground brush and can see through the water. You realize you need to roll back to a save from an hour ago to fix the problem. There's not much going in in the world around you anyway, but you spend another 200 hours in it and eagerly beg the devs for the next installment and praise it for it's mature, adult oriented gameplay with limitless freedom. :p
Put another way, it's like a Ubisoft game, except more broken, but somehow more character, yet still seems to play better :)
I believe Aonuma mentioned something about having "looked at" Skyrim while making this game...so there's a deliberate sense of "oh, so this is how Westerner's like to play adventure games." Personally I never liked Skyrim. Morrowind was revolutionary (but empty) Oblivion was a beautiful, amazing game that balanced the good and the bad well. Skyrim was an empty open "sandbox" with as much of a "wasteland" as Fallout.. I'm hoping Zelda's a little more Oblivion than Skyrim.
Of course Ubisoft is bizarre...it's Ubisoft :) When looking for "incomprehensibly bizarre" you get two choices, Japan and France. Occasionally Russia as well. Nobody does "WTF did I just see?" like those places. ;) Which is probably why Ubi traditionally does very well in the Nintendo fanbase. (Except the WiiU era.) Only the intro was bizzarre though. Ok, the whole 80's WWF thing was another odd moment that would have made a lot more sense if they did it AFTER the trailer. But the rest was pretty good. Southpark's segment was great, The Trek VR thing was actually good (anything with LeVar as a guest is going to be good!), and the open world snowboarding thing actually looks unique. Ghost recon looks good, but it doesn't look as good as it did last year. Watch_Dogs 2....looks like DLC for Watch_Dogs1....that's not a good sign. Just Dance...well...we got our NX confirm. At least it tells us NX still has motion controls somehow. That's more info than we got from Nintendo :P One thing I noticed is from both Ubi and a lot of other companies a lot of major releases seem to be March instead of holiday now. NX tie ins? I don't know. I almost don't want NX to be a powerful "can run PS4 games" machine. I like the hybrid idea myself. Nintendo NEEDS the hybrid idea. Though I would accept a pocket WiiU = NX.
Sony's fanbase is weird. I was all-Nintendo + Sega as a kid, switched to PC during the N64 & GC eras. I only then really paid attention to that "playstation thing" But around the PS3 era there was this schism that Playstation became PC and abandoned what was cool about PS1 & 2. I suspect those that grew up with PS 1 had something almost as magical (almost!) as us NES/SNES kids. But while Nintendo is mostly still the same magic as the NES, Sony moved on to being something different and they left the magic behind for theatrics and graphics which the new audience mistakes for magic. Most of their games, like XBox seem like wannabe movies, and general button mashers. GoW, MOAR zombie games, etc. Detroit looks new and different (at least if you've never played Ace Attorney?), but so much Sony charm is missing these days. There are a few studios in that world that are intriguing though. Every now and then between the generic sameyness, something truly imaginative happens. Even if it falls on its face, it's at least creative.