So a week's gone by and now that all the dust has settled, what do we have to show for it? Maybe a winner or loser? I don't know, but we definitely have some pretty fucking awesome games!
So I was lucky enough to attend E3 this year. The stars aligned and I was able to take a few days off to trek up to LA with my girlfriend and see what the industry had to offer for the coming year. The big deals this year, of course, were the next-gen consoles that Sony and Microsoft had announced earlier this year. Snarky comments and memes aside, both had very impressive line-ups and at least one thing that I was interested in. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of negatives to go around but we can get into that later. Onward to the sweet pictures!
I know E3 is normally about games and I just implied I would be talking about games so starting with action figures is definitely a bait and switch, but these prototypes are so awesome that I had to start with them. Play Arts, a Square Enix brand, has really upped their game with the quality of figures recently. They've done high detail figures for common Square IPs like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts but they also design products for other companies like Konami. They were showing off some new designs for Raiden (MGS2 version) and Liquid Snake (MGS1). And If they end up anywhere near the quality of the recent figures, I'm really looking forward to picking up some more junk to clutter my desk T_T.
I initially ventured over to the Sony booth because I wanted to try out their PS Vita games but got distracted by a little game called Transistor. Holy crap Supergiant Games is a crazy talented group of people. These are guys behind Bastion and with the success of that title, they've begun and seem to be pretty far along on their next game Transistor.
On the surface, it looks similar to Bastion. Isometric, action RPG. Ok, cool. I guess you guys have found your calling. But after playing it, you realize just how different the game is. While you can just go around smacking enemies like any other 3rd person action game, the real game is how you strategically set up your enemies so that you can pause the gameplay and then queue up actions. A seemingly beat'em up game suddenly becomes a strategy and tactical game. I'm really excited to see how this game turns out and will probably be supporting them when it does.
Initially, I hadn't felt very compelled to look into or care about Destiny. I haven't been big on shooters in the last few years and the last shooter that I really got into was probably Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on the PS3. As I write this out, I'm realizing I still don't really care about the usual shooter and what actually gets me going about this game are the RPG and multiplayer elements. I love picking a class at the start of a game and being able to customize them so they feel like they're mine. And then what makes almost any game infinitely better? Making it multiplayer. The demo they had at the Sony Press conference was crazy. Even though it started out a bit slow and felt like we had just been blind sided by a tech demo, once the world boss came into the picture and other parties started pouring in, I was hooked. You can check out the video here.
I'll be honest, video gaming hasn't been that interesting to me in a while. As we crept towards the end of the generation, I felt everything was becoming more and more stale. It didn't help that I had become so preoccupied with Magic but, big picture level, I don't know if actually made that big of difference. With these two new systems slated for this year and the sheer potential they both have, I'm super pumped to get back into console gaming.
This weekend, a few co-workers and I will be heading to Las Vegas for the Grand Prix. It's going to be so disgusting how much card playing is going to happen this weekend. I'll be back next week with musings and pretty pictures to accompany them. See ya :D
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