The E3 2021 Thread

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There's still more great AAA games coming out each year than I have actual time to play, so I'm not sure I get the complaint? My backlog of just AAA titles is ridiculous and that's not even counting all the PS4 exclusives I didn't play because I haven't had a PS since the PS3 60GB.
 
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I think the complaint is justifiable but at the same time the bs pipeline is okay. We as consumers accept it - not the small online forums per say, but the masses in general.
 
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was busy during the day but just watched the xbox stuff, blew me away. 30 games shown, 27 will be on GamePass. Forza Horizon 5 releasing THIS YEAR. Insane! Its the greatest value in gaming in history, and Microsoft is really hopefully starting to deliver on the hopes people have built up on their acquisitions and deals. Getting 1 top tier game every 3 months for a sub fee plus 5-10 random ass games a month is crazy.

Its completely changed the way I buy games, if I don't plan on playing the same day I just don't buy a game anymore. Who cares about sales, maybe it'll show up on gamepass is the $0 sale.
 
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I saw this thread and thought about why I don't really care all that much about E3 2021.

I feel like over the last ~5 years I've gotten so jaded by the same AAA games being done over and over it's hard to get interested in another round of the same game I've seen before. I couldn't get through Witcher 3 and got an hour into Breath of the Wild just because they are the same incredible open world game I've played literally dozens of time before, them being better just isn't enough. I didn't even bother getting Cyberpunk.

Sure, I'll probably buy and play Starfield. It's probably going to be great game made by hundreds of people over years. But I can't help but feel I'll put fewer hours into it than I put into the current game I'm playing, Starsector, which was done by like, one guy and a few others helping him, just because it's different enough to be engaging.
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I'm in the same boat. I've got Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima. I can't get into a single one of them, even though all four of them seem like amazing games. Things are just too samey across the genre at this point. Hard to find anything new that actually holds my attention and isn't by From Software.
 
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Forza Horizon 5 releasing THIS YEAR.
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Loved this presentation. "Look at how we modeled even the little cactus spines (that you are never going to see while playing anyway)"
 
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I'm in the same boat. I've got Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima. I can't get into a single one of them, even though all four of them seem like amazing games. Things are just too samey across the genre at this point. Hard to find anything new that actually holds my attention and isn't by From Software.
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Witcher 3 gameplay is very basic and easy. But the story and quests are good.

Horizon Zero dawn has terrible writing and dialogue. Aloy's attitude and VA has made me come to hate Ashly Burch. The story is okay. Once you've killed your first Thunderjaw you've seen all the gameplay that it has to offer... for me that was like 1/3 way through the game.
 
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Horizon Zero dawn has terrible writing and dialogue. Aloy's attitude and VA has made me come to hate Ashly Burch. The story is okay. Once you've killed your first Thunderjaw you've seen all the gameplay that it has to offer... for me that was like 1/3 way through the game.
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The writing, VA and dialogue gets way better in the DLC, looking forward to the next game. I feel like they didn't know what they were doing when they first built out the main stretch of the base game, basically everything between Meridian and Sunfall, then went back and developed and recorded the beginning portion with Rost which had more emotional weight.
 
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Rajaah said:
I'm in the same boat. I've got Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima. I can't get into a single one of them, even though all four of them seem like amazing games. Things are just too samey across the genre at this point. Hard to find anything new that actually holds my attention and isn't by From Software.
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Go play Disco Elysium.
 
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Witcher 3 gameplay is very basic and easy. But the story and quests are good.

Horizon Zero dawn has terrible writing and dialogue. Aloy's attitude and VA has made me come to hate Ashly Burch. The story is okay. Once you've killed your first Thunderjaw you've seen all the gameplay that it has to offer... for me that was like 1/3 way through the game.
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Horizon sure does look good, at least. It's absolutely stunning. So is Ghost. W3 too to an extent. Not so much BOTW because I don't love what I see in that one. It's got this washed-out color palette and I couldn't even get into it visually unlike the others. I put that one down after like five minutes. And I'm historically a huge Zelda fan. Even got it at Switch launch when half the people I know were playing it and raving about it. Maybe I'm a contrarian?

I love Horizon's DLC (then again I'm a huge fan of videogame frozen terrains, same goes for MHW's Iceborne) and I'm looking forward to that more than the main game.

Speaking of MHW...that's the kind of stuff I really get into now. Monster Hunters and Soulsbornes. Also beginning to get into CRPGs because they're something new for me and have the likes of Warcraft 3, Pillars of Eternity, and Planescape Torment on the shortlist.

Just feels weird buying these AAA open world adventures and not being able to get into any of them because the genre is so played-out. Meanwhile I can make time for the dull-as-a-rock AC Valhalla, for some reason.

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Go play Disco Elysium.
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I didn't even know this one existed, just looked it up and it looks like it'll fit right into my CRPG collection.
 
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So this year is pretty bad. Can you imagine being a person who spent $1,000+ on a 3080/3090 and close to 2/3rds of the games at E3 are pixel graphics?

Elden Ring looks OK and it's From Software so you want to be hopeful but then again.... Cyberpunk 2077.

A new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is exciting but then again... Cyberpunk 2077.

What's this - Gabe coming in to save the day?? Oh... he's talking about game demos....
 
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I'm in the same boat. I've got Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost of Tsushima. I can't get into a single one of them, even though all four of them seem like amazing games. Things are just too samey across the genre at this point. Hard to find anything new that actually holds my attention and isn't by From Software.
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you just need to pick a single game and play it to completion. Any of those 4 or RDR2 would be fine. I was sorta the same way but then I knocked out BOTW, then HZD, then RDR2, then Ghost recently and realized I really, really, really do enjoy games more if I just stick to 1 at a time and finish it instead of fucking around with 10 different games barely getting anywhere in any of them. Variety also helps a LOT, i try to switch genres up a lot so I'm not just playing open world, open world, open world, open world.

I also take months long break between games and just go hardcore into streaming shows and hobbies (shooting, hiking), after a while I'm antsy to play a game again.



its hard to keep paying $70 for new games with GamePass, i plat'd R&C and feel kinda ripped off paying $70 for a 12 hour game while I am fucking around with 3-4 GamePass games and it feels like I am getting insane value on my xbox.
 
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kinadin said:
So this year is pretty bad. Can you imagine being a person who spent $1,000+ on a 3080/3090 and close to 2/3rds of the games at E3 are pixel graphics?

Elden Ring looks OK and it's From Software so you want to be hopeful but then again.... Cyberpunk 2077.

A new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is exciting but then again... Cyberpunk 2077.

What's this - Gabe coming in to save the day?? Oh... he's talking about game demos....
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Metro: Exodus set the bar pretty high, but I'm hoping for something good from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
 
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you just need to pick a single game and play it to completion. Any of those 4 or RDR2 would be fine. I was sorta the same way but then I knocked out BOTW, then HZD, then RDR2, then Ghost recently and realized I really, really, really do enjoy games more if I just stick to 1 at a time and finish it instead of fucking around with 10 different games barely getting anywhere in any of them. Variety also helps a LOT, i try to switch genres up a lot so I'm not just playing open world, open world, open world, open world.

I also take months long break between games and just go hardcore into streaming shows and hobbies (shooting, hiking), after a while I'm antsy to play a game again.



its hard to keep paying $70 for new games with GamePass, i plat'd R&C and feel kinda ripped off paying $70 for a 12 hour game while I am fucking around with 3-4 GamePass games and it feels like I am getting insane value on my xbox.
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Yeah, I'd say picking one and seeing it through is the way to go. For decades I never had a backlog, and would play through things as I got them. Was easier when I was poor and got one game every 3 months. Now I've got 40-60 games piled up, to the point that as of April I stopped buying things for the most part. If I want something new I have to clear out at least 3 of the existing games first, that sort of thing.

My "shortlist" is like a mile long, and that's just the "high-priority" stuff that I really want to get to soon:

Resident Evil 8
Jedi Fallen Order
Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga
Control
Uncharted 4
Pillars of Eternity + PoE2: Deadfire
Deus Ex Human Revolution + Mankind Divided
Dragon Quest V and VI (the recent phone remakes)
Tales of Berseria
Spirit Tracks (my last DS game)
Skyward Sword HD
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Horizon
God of War (2018)
Dishonored 1+2
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Ys VIII
Nioh 1+2

...the rest of my backlog, the "lower priority" stuff, is like 3x as long as this. I mean, good luck, me. I almost miss all the decades when I didn't have such a backlog. Back in 2007 I started to have one for the first time, and I distinctly remember having 4-5 things to get to at any given time from 2007 to like 2011. And even that was too much to bounce around with. It just got worse from there.

Anyway back to E3, where they talk about games I should probably ignore and play what I already have. Except Elden Ring, that's day one fo sho
 
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Dude. I don't know if you have played other YS games but YS8 is fucking phenomenal. The best YS in decades easy. The soundtrack is literally one of the best of the series, gameplay is great, the story actually had me engaged until the end. I cannot say enough good things about it. Having played half of the things on that list of backlog I'd move up to the top ASAP. Maybe after RE8.
 
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Dude. I don't know if you have played other YS games but YS8 is fucking phenomenal. The best YS in decades easy. The soundtrack is literally one of the best of the series, gameplay is great, the story actually had me engaged until the end. I cannot say enough good things about it.
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Yeah bruh, I've played all of 'em from Ys 6 onward, except Celceta and 8. I'm really excited about 8. I didn't like 9 unfortunately, but it looks like 8 doesn't have any of 9's quirks that I didn't like (big boring town, getting lost all the time, recurring prison dungeon).

Also played the remakes of Ys 1-3. So really the only other Ys games I haven't played are the first five in their retro forms (like, TG16 and whatnot). Celceta and Ys 8 are on the shortlist, while Ys 1-5 OG are on the "long list" if you will.

I like Ys so much. Very, very few series' would I bother to go out of my way to play all of.

Once I finish up with the FF7 DLC (it's huge if you 100% it) I should roll a die to randomly pick one thing out of the above list (except the ones that aren't out yet) and just plow it.
 
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