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For those who were missing out on the Limited Run presentation
Corpse Killer is being remastered; coming July 30th 2019
Double Switch is also getting a limited physical PS4 release on July 19th 2019, quantities end on August 2019
realMyst coming to Nintendo Switch as a physical release

EDIT: Limitied Run exclusive distributor for PS4 version of Shenmue 3, 400 limited edition copies for PS4 and 100 limited edition copies for PC version
Guess we'll have something to put back into the grave E.T. was buried in.
 
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I had the fortune of watching that stream live! :p
I was hoping for a Castlevania announcement, and instead got that post-modern masterpiece of a conference.

I also watched the Sony conference where they announced the price of the PS3, with giant crabs and lots of "Ridge Racer!" in the mix.
I believe it was the only Sony conference I ever watched. It was awesome (for all the wrong reasons)!
 

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There's also the kinda funny showcase in about 2 hours where they're supposedly showcasing 60 indie games.

Yeah, I think I'll skip it. I spent the last hours trying to get a refund for my Shenmue III backing.
I don't know if my heart can handle more emotion in one day. :p
 
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FunktionJCB It was epic. They also ended up looping it for hours and hours instead of taking it down too. i have the stream i saved on a disk somewhere. I was on the Eurogamer and Gaf threads and it was insane. There would be people asking why the thread was still active so we'd send them the link, they'd watch it and come back to discuss it. Then you'd see the ex-confused people posting the link to new people asking why the thread was active. It was glorious.


The full glorious show.

Yeah, E3 2006 Ps3 announcement was gold. I remember when E3 was mainly powerpoint slides with some games now and then. Now they were boring E3 shows!
 
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I don't understand a lot about how those Mixer giveaways work (I never used it, so I'm pretty much clueless), but when Outer Wilds was announced as an EGS exclusive, I saw plenty of people mentioning "that game from the MS Mixer giveaway", or asking if they were still getting it for free, so that's probably where you got your free copy.
This UBI show was abysmal to me, and I like/love UBI. Everything was Tom Clancy or Competitive. And for fuck's sake UBI, hire decent writers, everything stinks. Your plots and dialogs are a joke, and when you try to joke it hurts. Hurr durr, I can play an old lady, lolz she is a retired assassin, lmfao.
Too say nothing of the supermarket level hosts but eh, at this point we got bigger issues to fix.
 

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FunktionJCB It was epic. They also ended up looping it for hours and hours instead of taking it down too. i have the stream i saved on a disk somewhere. I was on the Eurogamer and Gaf threads and it was insane. There would be people asking why the thread was still active so we'd send them the link, they'd watch it and come back to discuss it. Then you'd see the ex-confused people posting the link to new people asking why the thread was active. It was glorious.


The full glorious show.
Tak Fujii was soooooooooo awesome!

"Love you guys"
"If you just press X X Y Y you will be sucked"
"It's no hack and slash title. It's an EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME. EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME hack and slash title".

I was just following the stream, not checking the forums, but I was having dinner, and I spit my food and drink numerous times. :grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:
That DDR segment. That Wrestling segment. Presenters expecting the audience to clap, and everyone was just staring back at them. :LOL:

I miss conferences like that.
Now, it's all so polished, sterile, and unfunny.

If you are going to bomb your conference (I'm looking at you, Bethesda), do it with style, Konami-style! ;)
 

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Trashy conference. Gods & Monster releases in February and they couldn't be arsed to show any gameplay? The Far Cry 2 (my most hated game ever) designer leading WatchDogesBrexit and it being filled with annoying as fuck banter that makes WD2 look ubersmart? All of Ubi's big IPs blending more and more together? Okay I'll download Rollerchampions but there really wasn't much for me there.
 

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Downunder.
Watching a little of the PC gaming show re-run. As always, the indie showreel is the highlight. Age of Wonders 4 looks great, and this sci-fi horror thing looks interesting.


Also, my heart goes out to you Shenmue backers, the "best distribution platform" in the last sentence of that email was truly the coup de grâce.
 

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biggest surprise for me during the Ubi's show was just dance still releasing on the Wii, which is more alive then the Wii U somehow :face-with-tears-of-joy:
 

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Funny, I always assumed the reason why I usually don't really feel like playing anything during E3 was all the new and exciting games being announced. But this year there hasn't been a single one yet and I still don't feel like playing anything lol.

There's like 4 hours to kill until the Squeenix thing, though, so I might as well fire up Okami...
 

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The subscription future is going to kill this industry so fast.
Pop will eat itself.
Or, in this case, the gaming industry will eat itself.

I'm getting really tired of this "hobby". I can no longer support a crowdfunding campaign, because developers keep spitting me in the face.
I pre-order games directly from the developers well in advance, to support their efforts (like Rune), I get spit in the face.
I buy games on day one to support small indie developers, and a few weeks or a couple of months later, they release the same games on Switch or PS4, with added content, and plenty of times this never gets ported to the PC.

All this crap is seriously killing my love of gaming. More then ever, I'm channelling my disposable income to other things, and soon, I'll "live off" my backlog, and stop buying games altogether.

Apparently, it's too much to ask for some decency, and not to be fucking "disrespected" as a customer.
And then many wonder why people stop buying their games.
 
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I spent the last hours trying to get a refund for my Shenmue III backing.
please, please, PLEASE let me know when you figure it out

The subscription future is going to kill this industry so fast.
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Pop will eat itself.
Or, in this case, the gaming industry will eat itself.

I'm getting really tired of this "hobby". I can no longer support a crowdfunding campaign, because developers keep spitting me in the face.
I pre-order games directly from the developers well in advance, to support their efforts (like Rune), I get spit in the face.
I buy games on day one to support small indie developers, and a few weeks or a couple of months later, they release the same games on Switch or PS4, with added content, and plenty of times this never gets ported to the PC.

All this crap is seriously killing my love of gaming. More then ever, I'm channelling my disposable income to other things, and soon, I'll "live off" my backlog, and stop buying games altogether.

Apparently, it's too much to ask for some decency, and not to be fucking "disrespected" as a customer.
And then many wonder why people stop buying their games.
so, so, SO VERY MUCH same ... 100%
 

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Caught up with the Bethesda conference from yesterday..

And wow at the ESO segment..



How do these fools in the crowd not get lifetime bans for this dumb yelling. It gets worse and worse every year.

Overall an okay conference. Todd kinda apologizing for 76 was a good thing. He better learn from this shit when he showcases Starfield next year.

The tango game looked very interesting. Hopefully its very story driven.

Arkane working on what looks to be some weird non rpg shooter of some kind is disappointing. Its probably multiplayer or GaaS of some kind.

This is punishment because of everyone out there who didn't buy the masterpiece known as Prey.
 

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This UBI show was abysmal to me, and I like/love UBI. Everything was Tom Clancy or Competitive. And for fuck's sake UBI, hire decent writers, everything stinks. Your plots and dialogs are a joke, and when you try to joke it hurts. Hurr durr, I can play an old lady, lolz she is a retired assassin, lmfao.
Too say nothing of the supermarket level hosts but eh, at this point we got bigger issues to fix.
Ubi keeps pushing on with the same type of games, they had one big scare when they nearly burnt AC to the ground. They don't realise that their others IP's are getting into that type of situation.

On top of that they believe people will pay 15€ for a monthly subscription where 70% of the games are shooters with macho men.
 
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Downunder.
All this crap is seriously killing my love of gaming. More then ever, I'm channelling my disposable income to other things, and soon, I'll "live off" my backlog, and stop buying games altogether.
Don't be discouraged though. There's still plenty to love about PC gaming. There is always plenty to look forward to, both in the past and future titles. For the past titles, modding scene is still rapidly growing. Emulation scene is healthy. No subscription service can change that. And not every single publisher will go for Sweeney's Sweet Swindle. And Unreal Engine is not the only engine worth developing on. I'm optimistic that their shop will crash and burn and forgotten. Perhaps not anytime soon, but I have faith, however small it may be.
 

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Mt. Whatever
And nothing of value was lost it seems.

I think the only notable JP EGS grab was Shenmue 3, but I never got invested in the series to begin with so that's big "meh" to me. I'm more upset about the fact that people who backed it were promised Steam copies and now that can't happen. That shit should be illegal.
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I think FFVIIR will come to PC after the typical 1-year exclusivity that SE has been practicing lately. Though whether it comes to Steam or not... oof. I really don't know.

I'm hopeful that SE doesn't go to the darkside here, but their increasing reliance on UE4 just might be the big push. :face-with-cold-sweat: Worse still, SE is the one dev I can't blacklist. I love SE games too damn much. Not enough to get me on EGS of course, but yeah... I'd suffer the year-long exclusivity and still buy it. Literally no one else in the industry is making AAA-budget JRPG's.
 
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All this crap is seriously killing my love of gaming. More then ever, I'm channelling my disposable income to other things, and soon, I'll "live off" my backlog, and stop buying games altogether.
Gaming got a lot more enjoyable lately when I basically stopped caring about 99% of mainstream games and buying 99% of my games on heavy discounts.

This industry and most discussions surrounding it can go fuck themselves. I'll just play my backlog, my anime games, my pervy games, some notable indies and the occasional AAA game that isn't rotten.
 

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The Wii brought a ton of people to gaming who never moved on or they use phones and tablets now.
Grandkids buying it to play with Gran, sports and social clubs and people who just play it at parties and buy each year's one. That's what i assume anyway.
That’s exactly what happened.

A ton of older folk still have them; people with lower income who don’t care to or have means to spend on new consoles; hand-me-down owners (kids) that got it as their first consoles; middle aged parents (lots of moms and Wii Fit in my anecdotal experience). Etc.

It’s also notably a crowd that I don’t think is going to be reached with all those subscription services and all that streaming tech. So I dunno WTF these companies are doing.
 

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Don't be discouraged though. There's still plenty to love about PC gaming. There is always plenty to look forward to, both in the past and future titles. For the past titles, modding scene is still rapidly growing. Emulation scene is healthy. No subscription service can change that. And not every single publisher will go for Sweeney's Sweet Swindle. And Unreal Engine is not the only engine worth developing on. I'm optimistic that their shop will crash and burn and forgotten. Perhaps not anytime soon, but I have faith, however small it may be.
Yeah, I'm getting rather old, and tired, to deal with stuff like that.
I love cinema, especially "cult" cinema (italian 70's horror, 50's sci-fi, exploitation, slasher movies, westerns, and plenty more), and just recently I subscribed to a package from the great guys at Vinegar Syndrome that gets me a box of Blu-Ray movies every month, from now until the end of the year.

After working 6-7 day weeks, like I sometimes do, and working 12-16 hours a day, instead of dealing with pre-order bonuses, retail exclusives, platform exclusives, delayed launches, microtransactions, and now all this EGS crap, I can simply relax, kick back, and watch a "crappy", over-the-top low budget 70's/80's production, with a bucket of popcorn, and chill out.

Tell me, what do you think I'm finding more and more enticing? :giggle:

I mean, I won't stop buying games. I still have my point & click and FMV adventure games, and shmups.
Apparently, none of these genres are worthy of being money-bagged by Epic.

And one of these days, I'll bother Schnitzelfee again in order to have a kickass, working, MAME machine with old arcade titles. ;)
 

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That’s exactly what happened.

A ton of older folk still have them; people with lower income who don’t care to or have means to spend on new consoles; hand-me-down owners (kids) that got it as their first consoles; middle aged parents (lots of moms and Wii Fit in my anecdotal experience). Etc.

It’s also notably a crowd that I don’t think is going to be reached with all those subscription services and all that streaming tech. So I dunno WTF these companies are doing.
They want to imitate Netflix and HBO, get their hands on that monthly flow of income and call it a day :p

'If Google is offering a subscription service, we must do the same... They can't be wrong, right? It's Google'

It's silly but it's not the first time they have showed their incompetence at reading their environment.
 

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Can't stress enough how refreshing it is that Cyberpunk offers exactly one edition for digital preorders. One. There'll be DLC later for sure but it reminds me of simpler times.

And SM3 release date on Steam page changed to 'Coming Soon'. Hmm, still coming?
 
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Trying the Cristales demo out, this game is so cute what the heck
So Illusion (dev) fans, this just launched on Steam to absolutely no fanfare lol.


It's the censored version but a patch to uncensor it exists here: 'Koikatsu Party' introduction page
(Beware NSFW developer and Website I imagine.)

Patch also restores Story mode, I'm not sure why that was cut from Steam version but whatever.
I can't believe I have lived to see the day a "proper" Illusion game hit Steam.
 

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They want to imitate Netflix and HBO, get their hands on that monthly flow of income and call it a day :p

'If Google is offering a subscription service, we must do the same... They can't be wrong, right? It's Google'

It's silly but it's not the first time they have showed their incompetence at reading their environment.
I said this in the Ubi thread, but if they're trying to imitate Netflix, they're doing it in the totally wrong way!

The right thing to do would be for developers to congregate on one or two services (Like Netflix and Amazon Prime at one point) to piggyback as a Trojan Horse. Get everyone used to paying for game streaming subs, make everyone think these one or two services are the one-stop-shops, and wait while the platform holders develop the tech to make it cheaper, and get paid for putting your games on their services.

This way is so backwards. The tech isn't really there yet. People haven't become accustomed to the concept like we have with movies and TV. And instead of these services slowly coming out like they did in that industry, we're just getting a flood of them in like the span of six months.

It's dumb as shit, and they're going to end up burning each other and themselves, worse than what's going to happen in the movie industry.
 
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well the chat for the Kinda Funny Showcase is open now ... apparently they're going to show 60 indie games ... so there's a good chance 2 or 3 of them will actually end up on steam ... jump in the chat if you want to hang out ... i'll be there

 

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well the chat for the Kinda Funny Showcase is open now ... apparently they're going to show 60 indie games ... so there's a good chance 2 or 3 of them will actually end up on steam ... jump in the chat if you want to hang out ... i'll be there

These are the games that weren't worthy of being shown in the Epic Gamer show, so I'm hopeful for this one actually.
 
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