Who had the best E3-show?

Would like to see some more VR stuff from the show. As always I'm hyped for Halo 5, Mass Effect 4, and Battlefield. Would like to hear what happened to quantum break. I think this was the name of the game.

Writing this here for those who were either asleep when Bethesda held their first showcase, or wanted a recap.

DOOM

Release date: Spring 2016
id Software is making the next DOOM under the same mantra: Big Guns, Awesome Demons, and Fast-paced action. Two demos were provided, alongside one trailer for the arena (UT/Quake style) multiplayer. Because DOOM has one of the strongest modding communities to date, id Software is allowing EVERY player to become a map maker with their own easy-to-use, available-at-day-one mad editor called SnapMap.


SIMGLEPLAYER DEMO:


MULTIPLAYER TRAILER:



SECOND SINGLEPLAYER DEMO:


SNAPMAP TRAILER:


BATTLECRY
(LET THE CONFUSION BEGIN!)

Fall 2015
Created by the BattleCry Studios, BattleCry is a team-based action combat game. As of the time of the showcase, BattleCry was being tested to a select few in Australia and New Zealand. However, soon, a closed beta will come out where a select amount of people will be able to participate. Sign up by June 18 if you want in.


GAMEPLAY TRAILER:


DISHONORED 2

TBA
Dishonored 2 is a sequel to the original Dishonored (duh!), in which you are wrongfully accused of being an assassin. What's the best answer to that? To become an assassin. Most notably, it features two protagonists, both of them with different inhuman powers, the first one being the returning protagonist Corvo, and a new one named Emily. Corvo shares a lot of powers from his last appearance, while Emily appears to have a grapple hook, time-slowing power, and crossbow.

TRAILER:


ESO

Already released.
Over the next couple months, Bethesda plans to add the Imperial City (Oblivion nostalgia wooo) and Orsinium to the MMO. They also made a few comments about how the launch of Tamriel Unlimited went smoothly on the PS4 and Xbox One. Outside of that, nothing major.


ELDER SCROLLS LEGENDS
(didn't I cover this already?)

Fall 2015
Elder Scrolls Legends is a free-to-play card game available on the PC and iPad, not unlike Blizzard's Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. It's set in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and ESO:TU lore (no mentioning of prior Elder Scrolls), and lacks any real gameplay yet. It seems, at least to me, to be a competitor to Hearthstone, which is absolutely huge on Twitch and to a lesser extent, YouTube.


TRAILER:


That looks like about it... Wait why are you looking at me like that? Did I forget something? I already covered everything big, I mean, DOOM, BattleCry, everything Elder Scrolls, and... Now I see what I forgot.


FALLOUT SHELTER

Available now
Fallout Shelter is a game based on Fallout, and serves to provide a "Fallout Fix" to those who aren't patient enough to wait until the sometime-in-the-future release of Fallout 4. It's a type of resource management game which focuses on players running their own Vault, and they have to manage resources with their residents to guarantee maximum efficiency, and ultimately, their survival. Supposedly, the Idea of Fallout Shelter was first thought out way back when the iPhone was first released in 2007. 


GAMEPLAY:


OK, So that leaves one final thing. The one we've ALL been waiting for...


FALLOUT 4
(And it's a doozie)

11-10-15
Yep. After god-knows how many years, Fallout 4 is finally nearing us. It promises a very high amount of uniqueness, with much more thorough customization tools than any other Fallout to date. I mean, you can take the 50 basic weapons (yep. 50), and utilize 700 different parts to make countless different combinations to suit your purposes. Make a Fully Automatic Laser Rifle! Craft a Burst-Fire-Sniper Revolver! The possibilities are endless. Not only are the guns customizable, but your settlement(s) are as well. Scavenge resources to be able to build up your own place in the wilderness to call home. Some of these locations, Bethesda promises, will be genuinely massive to allow people to create massive constructs. As a town increases, NPCs can move in and offer you their services (no, not THOSE kinds of services, dirty people) and serve as merchants of endgame content. 

BTW, the Dog has a name. It's whatever you want to name it. Go wild internet. And NoDo.

INTRO TRAILER


GAMEPLAY TRAILER (which I rate 9001/10 for needs less epic)



... And that's all folks! Bethesda's showcase in a nutshell... and by nutshell, I mean TONS of videos. And Epicness. 

Rob, I am mostly the exact opposite (I played a little Doom), but I am completely enthralled by Fallout 4's features. Where as I am only minimally into shooters. I will say, it's good that Bethesda is giving a lot of people things they want. Fallout 4 has easily become my most desired game, with Rock Band 4 coming in second, after this presentation.

Some summary this is, doesn't even include Dishonored 2. What a N00B!

I also want to say that I'm really looking forward to Dishonored 2 purely on the merits of the first game which was utterly fantastic.

The E3 trailer meant nothing to me. It's just a bunch of cinematics that barely have anything to do with the final game.

I'm watching the Microsoft event and all it's really done is make me wish I could stay up for the Sony one. A lot of the games announced and showcased (Fallout 4, Dark Souls 3, The Division, Rainbow 6:Siege) are set to appear on both consoles, but you have to wonder how each company will handle it. Apparently Microsoft gets an exclusive beta for The Division which is pretty neat. Xbox's Fallout 4 will come with Fallout 3....but will the Playstation version?

Outside of specific games, Microsoft did a great thing by announcing backwards compatibility with 360 on the One. I seriously hope Sony has similar plans. The Xbox version of Steam's Early Access looks awesome too as I really wanted to try DayZ and Elite: Dangerous out. Other than that...the pro controller thing is pretty cool. I don't need/want one, but it's nice that they're giving people options.

I'm sure I'll have plenty more to ramble on about when I get up in the morning...

I had an original Xbox and had access to a 360. I played Halo 1, 2 and 3 and absolutely loved them and would love to play them again in the Master Chief Collection. I've been considering getting an Xbox One for it but I've been waiting for the day when something else was announced to seal the deal. This conference wasn't it. Even Halo 5 didn't do it.

There wasn't much first party stuff and what they did have (Halo 5, Forza, Gears) made me shrug my shoulders.

The indie games looked really cool though, especially that Blind Eyes (or whatever it's called) and Cuphead.

The most exciting thing for me though was that Rare Replay collection. A bunch of classic N64 and even older classics. I regret selling my N64 - what I consider to be the best console that ever existed - and this collection brings back at least 3 games that I adored from the mid 90s.

Rare's Pirate game looks cool too.

The rest of the conference showed games that are either coming to all platforms (I want Dark Souls 3 although I'm concerned From Software are just churning out Souls games every year now, like CoD or Assassin's Creed) or are timed exclusives.

A B- overall.