E3 is off to a rough start. On the other hand, we weren’t expecting anything different from EA’s press conference.
0:15 – We discuss EA’s tepid E3 press conference
1:02:41 – Valve is not interested in quality control or curation for Steam
1:28:04 – We discuss the cool movie trailers we saw this week
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Chat Transcript:
6:52 PMHello Everyone.
6:58 PMEA gonna get another shit trophy this year
6:59 PMEA was awesome though. Anthem, Battlefield 5, one day Titanfall 3. 😃
6:59 PMi heard Disney XD channel will have E3 programing saturday and sunday
7:00 PMlol yeah one day
7:00 PMCrackdown 3 has been delayed to 2019 WHY!!!!?????
7:00 PMthey did reveal a starwars game title lol
7:01 PMI thought we’d see a Respawn Entertainment title revealed but I guess that’s literally what we got. Just a “title” LOL
7:01 PMI did ask, I said they did thats why I put the lol at the end
7:02 PMit was dull/booring
7:02 PMthough not as bad as last year
7:03 PMthe real confrences start tmw
7:03 PMThe cheers were authentic. At least I thought so.
7:03 PMI was excited by it. 😞
7:04 PMI mean a br with battlefeild gunplay could be good
7:04 PMPeople have been asking EA (or any AAA developer) to make a game in that sub-genre, which is why I feel the CoD BR will do okay-ish
7:05 PMYeah a BR with the usual Battlefield bells and whistles will be great
7:05 PMcod and bf play very very difrent though. cod uses hitscan, bf uses buttlet modeling
7:06 PMlol
7:06 PMIsn’t Half-Life 3 the new Duke Nukem Forever? 😀
7:07 PMI for one am glad that I will no longer have to pay $120 to get the full battlefield experience.
7:07 PMI stopped buying BF DLC after Battlefield 3 for that very reason
7:08 PMwhich version of Anthem did they show (as in platform)…
7:08 PMProbably PC?
7:08 PMmakes sense Ram
7:08 PMThat’s true. The only thing VALVe has said they are actively working on is three(3) VR games. For all we know one of those could be HL3 😛
7:10 PMProbably hardcore FIFA fans lol
7:12 PMits just there version of xbox games pass. you get new games, not just old games
7:13 PMZampella 😛
7:13 PMits 100 buck a year lets you play all EA games day and date of release, that is what it is
7:13 PMI’m applying at Respawn for a QA job *fingers crossed*
7:15 PMyup
7:16 PMI can only think of Battlefield and Titanfall lol
7:16 PMnot unless you like sports nope
7:16 PMwow Andrew was stummped?…
7:16 PMthose are my big 2 EA games
7:16 PMI dont like sports, so int for me
7:16 PMwell they don’t only have EA games on there I believe they have more than that
7:19 PMthe Star Wars license should not be exclusive to one company…
7:21 PMthat’s like saying Marvel should not be exclusive to Disney
7:21 PMthat’s kinda what the point is, so that no one else can make a competing product
7:21 PMwhen star wars games wasnt exclusive there was more star wars games
7:21 PMwell the xmen and spiderman are different
7:21 PM😀
7:22 PMLucas Arts
7:23 PMIt’s funny because I used to dream of DICE getting their hands on the Star Wars Battlefront series, but then EA took control of everything so the 2015 game had less features than the 2005 game. 😀
7:23 PMlol Ram good point
7:26 PMClapClapClap
7:26 PMother than microsoft who else is on tomorow?…
7:27 PMMicrosoft, Bethesda and Devolver Digital.
7:28 PMreminds me of Papo & Yo
7:28 PMthank you Darth Andrew Lord of the E3 reviews…
7:29 PM2017’s best e3 confrence for me was Devolver Digital, and yes I know it was a joke confrence
7:29 PMKinda agree. Looking forward to this year’s.
7:30 PMYeah this year’s E3 actually has me excited for once
7:31 PMMaybe because I’m interested in seeing how “unique” tripleA developers can take the Battle Royale genre.
7:32 PMi think Indie developers have better luck with original ideas…
7:33 PMmakes sense Andrew
7:34 PMinteresting Devolver Digital tweeted people should watch robocop before their show tmw
NEW SPONSOR!Welcome Ramstein!
7:34 PM😲
7:34 PM😀
7:35 PMHey Ram, are you going on tour soon?…
7:35 PMlol
7:35 PMIt’s a YouTube subscription thing like how Twitch does
7:35 PM$5/month
7:38 PMTelltale Games
7:38 PMthere should be reality show series on Indie devolopers trying to win money to get thier games published on a bigger stage
7:38 PMoh right my mistake haha
7:38 PMStacking! I love stacking
7:38 PMea conference was pretty bad :\ not thatni was expecting anything different but this was just underwhelming
7:39 PMI remember that one video u made about how you made a dating profile from match or something and they rejected it lol.
7:40 PMOh wow
7:40 PMgood to know
7:41 PMlol
7:41 PMthe problem was that we already knew their game list, there was no durorise at all, and if you wanna consider the star wars game from respawn a surprise welll that also was underwhelming no footage.
7:42 PMHello all
7:43 PMdid they say the mobile game would cost money or be F2P?
7:43 PMI think it’s because Android is more lax
7:43 PMyeah what he said
7:43 PMI’d give it a shot if it’s free, or at least try it
7:45 PMAh ok
7:45 PMProbably a throwback to all the old C&C games that had Full Motion Video segments/cutscenes
7:46 PMim more excited for tomorrow conference, square enix the most, and im also wondering what does Microsoft has under their sleeve , because so far xbox has no exclusives, nothing huge, oh deer!
7:46 PMKate Upton
7:46 PMI just want to see if Microsoft gives me a reason to turn on my Xbox(other than to update the console)
7:47 PMBut I’m most excited tomorrow for Bethesda. I love Survival Crafting games and that’s the rumor about Fallout 76
7:48 PMcade hudson went full bullshit on anthem lol
7:49 PMhaha
7:49 PMI bet it’ll be a Porsche 😛
7:49 PMcrackdown is rumored to be for 2019 hahaha, #incomingcar!
7:49 PMWas so disappointed in the Crackdown 3 delay, was the whole reason I bought my Xbox.
7:49 PMOh right, The Crew 2 just came out I believe(or is about to)
7:50 PMthere was a Neo Geo Mini presntation today but doubt it was part of E3…
7:51 PMI never played Destiny but Anthem looks great to me
7:52 PManthem made no sense in ea conference lol they shown nothing interesting about it, just more of the same 🙆
7:52 PMI’m a big fan of their work on Mass Effect, so hopefully they’ll bring that quality to Anthem
7:52 PMGoldenEye64 cheats are still a fond memory
7:52 PMbig head mode, paintball mode, etc.
7:55 PMi dont think they even know what they doing with anthem at this point, the game feels like destiny , infact my sister saw a bit of it on the tv and she thought it was halo lol.
7:56 PMYeah I did originally get an Iron Man vibe
7:56 PMexept you have the exosuits from the start, and not 40 hours in
7:57 PMits frostbite, it better look good
7:57 PMvisually speaking the game looks good, no doubt on that.
7:58 PMno way, no cole can run that game splitscreen
7:58 PMSadly all my friends have their own lives so I can’t rely on local multiplayer friends 😞
7:59 PMno console
8:00 PMthe performance budget isnt their ezk for splitscreen
8:00 PM😀
8:00 PMone thing that ea did delivered today was the cringe worthy moments 🙋
8:01 PMEA went exactly as expected.
8:01 PMI almost wish Konami was having a conference so we could get one big Cringefest 😀
8:02 PMlol Ram
8:02 PMthe red haired girl was trying to interact with this guy on the crowd but even him wasnt going with her Vibe so that felt awkward lol
8:03 PMDid all this start because of HunniePop being considered a “sex game?”
8:03 PMkonami is dead 🙁 poor Castlevania lol thank god for bloodstained.
8:03 PMcontext matters. what happend a week or so before this matters. they got backlash for almost taking down some games by lgbtq creators
8:04 PMthey backed off that
8:04 PMWasn’t the other one “School Shooter Simulator” or something like that?
8:05 PMmaybe Steam will accept a e harmony Andrew dating simulator game…
8:06 PMthink of the poor bigots 😢LOL
8:06 PMoh god I hate asset flips
8:07 PMIs a game like “Hatred” okay?
8:08 PMAside from it’s edgy theme/trailer it’s just a mediocre twin-stick-shooter lol
8:10 PMhonestly I like the valve idea from a few years ago that they never fallowed through on. let people create a custum store pages for a say 3% cut
8:11 PMI can see your gamertag being eharmonyreject420 lol
8:12 PMlol Evoh
8:13 PM😂
8:15 PMMy mom calls everything Nintendo. You’re becoming Dad mentality 😛
8:17 PMIf only they had tested more Xbox 360’s lol
8:19 PMlol too soon
8:20 PM5k games last year
8:20 PMRemember when Steam only had 5k games TOTAL? Those were the days. lol
8:21 PMYou can’t have a gun on the app icon for Apple games 🤦
8:26 PMYeah VALVe’s biggest problem is consistency.
8:27 PMlol
8:53 PMYou think they’ll show a Pokemon Switch trailer finally?
8:53 PMnot for Pokemon LetsGo, but the actual proper Pokemon game
8:54 PMWould be nice but doubtful.
8:54 PMI did I have over 100 Wii U games.
8:54 PMlol yeah I don’t really expect it 😞
8:55 PM50/50 on seeing Metroid
8:55 PMI’d LOVE a Metroid Prime 4 trailer but don’t have high hopes
8:58 PMthanks for the “reminder” youtube…
9:00 PMAfter Star Wars “fans” (quote unquote) bullied Kelly Marie Tran off of instagram I was watching the Bumblebee trailer thinking “Ok where’s the lead male star?” 😆
9:02 PMI did get a more “Iron Giant” vibe from Bumblebee so maybe that’s what they’re going for this time around
9:06 PMF
9:06 PM😞
9:07 PMLooking forward to it.
9:07 PMguess I’ll rewind lol
9:08 PMWas entertaining to tune in and hear you both, have a good night!
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