Talking Points: E3 2017. Not comprehensive. Not VGNN.  Only talking about things we think are interesting enough to talk about.  You have video game news sites for the rest :) We’re talking about Press Conferences, if more news comes out throughout the rest of the week it won’t be here because we’re recording on Tuesday night! http://e3recap.com/ has been my friend Overall trends Esports being forced onto games that aren’t even out yet “Influencers” being put front and center BJ: torn on the current “influencer” boom. Feels like a bubble that’s totally disingenuous Shorter press conferences with less big game announcements Really hard to tell what is actually exclusive Microsoft “Console Launch Exclusive” Most of these press conferences would have been better pre-recorded as just a series of trailers instead of having a stage show, honestly. Updates on games we already knew existed.  This is what we get for so many years of announcing games way ahead of time.  It finally caught up to the platform holders. The UPSIDE of this is that most of the games in the conferences will be out within the next 12 months.  That has never really been the case before. Skyrim being announced for Switch with motion controls and for VR.  Can we just let Skyrim die already? BJ: I think it’s cool to be for the Switch, but I agree. I’d rather a new Elder Scrolls game than yet another rehash of Skyrim. I’m not playing it again. EA Battlefront 2 (Star Wars) All Saga Movie timelines? Prequels, Original, and New trilogies New class system and points for vehicles/heroes Single Player Story Campaign Microsoft Scorpio “Xbox One X” $499 It’s kind of amazing how much I DON’T care about PS4 Pro or Scorpio A bunch of survival games?  I’m not super into that genre A bunch of games we already knew about or have seen before Sea of Thieves (first actual exclusive? But it’s on Windows 10 too, so whatever) BJ: it’s an adventure game! #yawn Crackdown 3 Jumping was fun in 1. 2 was a letdown BJ: Terry Crews! <3 Terry Crews. That’s enough to make me want to play it Bethesda More Mod support for existing games “Creation Club” Some Zelda stuff and optional motion controls in Switch Skyrim BJ: I played Skyrim with Zelda stuff. It was called Breath of the Wild. And it was better than Skyrim. Fallout 4 VR in October, Doom VR later Dishonored Death of the Outsider Stand Alone adventure Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus BJ: I don’t want Nazis in my video games. Escapism, plz. PC Battletech (also) Very similar to the original tabletop game Facing, armor, line of sight   Ubisoft AC Origins "It's a huge world. Basically, we took the size of Black Flag's Caribbean, but on the ground, so a lot of locations to travel that will allow us to show how rich ancient Egypt was” This is why I love AC. Exploring really cool ancient places. Main character is in his mid-30s (I love this) Control a personal eagle for scouting and marking More RPG-ish Old games were action-adventure and this one is action-rpg Gear, progression, and story Graph similar to sphere grid from FFX Quests instead of missions (approach whenever you want, but they have recommended levels) BJ: gimme. If it’s for PC, most definitely. Most most most definitely. If not, I don’t have a system for it. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle SRPG set in the Mushroom Kingdom, with Rabbids and Mario characters Nintendo is finally branching out and loosening up with their beloved characters! BJ: I could totally see myself loving this. Skull & Bones Looks like they took the pirate part of AC 4: Black Flag and turned it into a full game Awesome BJ: This looks like a big ole bag of “meh” Starlink: Battle for Atlas Physical spaceship building game? Weird but interesting Open-worldish but hand crafted star system.  Kinda a No Man’s Sky vibe, but hand crafted instead of procedural.  Looks interesting. Toys to life continues BJ: I love toys to life, but thi