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I'm watching the VOD to catch up on all the trailers and stuff.

Street Fighter 6 looks really good, like a game I would actually play.

Gotham Knights looks like a corporate turd - I hate saying it because it's clear that a lot of work went into it, but when the guy said "each activity is like its own mini game mode" I was like "UGH IT SOUNDS SO TEDIOUS". Like I can and will sit down and systematically check off every activity in Saints Row the Third - that's just a game that does it for me. It's fun. I do that because I like the gameplay and systems. Same for Borderlands, which I'm literally playing right now on a second character playthrough and a seventh playthrough overall. Gotham Knights looks like a game I'd play for five hours with a former friend, not because I want to play it but because he doesn't want to play by himself and it's a prerequisite to us hanging out.

ZZZ looks really good! It's stylish and has a lot of character. idk if I'd enjoy the game that much, but I really liked that trailer.

Midnight Suns is another corporate turd.

Whats with the hate Ive been seeing against Gotham Knights?

Killmonger posted...

Whats with the hate Ive been seeing against Gotham Knights?

In my case, it looks very sterile. Like it clearly took a lot of people a lot of time to make, which I don't want to disparage. But it looks like Checklist: the Video Game. It looks like a total chore.

Some games can pull that off, like I mentioned. Nothing about Gotham Knights speaks to me in that way. Same bland superhero combat, same bland missions and combat encounters strung along in an open world environment. The open world looks incredible, I'd love to walk around and take it in, but the gameplay honestly repulses me. I don't like it.

I can't speak for anyone else, but Gotham Knights feels more like a product than a game to me. The story snippet they showed feels so generic and boring. I just don't like it.

That being said? I haven't played the Insomniac Spider-Man games, and they give me the exact same feeling based on what I've seen. I also haven't played the Arkham games outside of a few missions, which gave me the same feeling again. I'm just not into AAA superhero games - Injustice is okay, but even that has diminishing returns in the second game y'know. None of it rings true to me. It feels like a mindless chore to watch, let alone play.

idk, maybe I'm just growing out of superheroes or something.

I didn't like the look of One Piece Odyssey, though learning it was a JRPG did interest me. I wonder whether that signifies if it's turn-based or not, because I'm not interested in action RPGs.

Other than that, the pre-show trailers are finished and I'm about to watch the actual show.

You should watch the Devolver show instead

Smashingpmkns posted...

You should watch the Devolver show instead

Maybe I'll watch both.

Honestly, I just generally like game news. People get pissy about Nintendo Directs where they don't announce a new Mario or Zelda game, but I'm usually pretty whelmed by them. I like hearing about new stuff, and I like when new information comes out about released products. I'm an enthusiast, not a hypebeast.

That being said, I'd really like it if there was a new Nintendo Direct right around the corner. And I will say that last year's Game Awards were laughably bad, from Geoff's non-statement about industry harassment where he didn't name names due to the Awards being a corporate-sponsored advertising showcase to the tepid at best announcements to the Imagine Dragons performance.

Yeah, I'm not super into this show so far lol. Don't really care for horror stuff, so the Aliens game isn't really doing it for me and I don't really care about Callisto.

I also read in the comments that they announced a Dead Space remake. Again, ehh. I'll keep watching, but this does feel very much like an industry thing. All of these events are industry things, but when they're good, you don't really care. This is kinda distracting.

The event yesterday was god awful. I like watching press conferences and other stuff for games but wow was this one on par with Ubisoft's poop.

The Callisto guy they brought out is great. Big chunk of ham, reminds me of like every dad-like person I've ever known. He reminds me of my boss.

Gonna skip the Cock of Doody stuff. I don't care.

So I'm not a big fan of games like Out of this World or Flashback, but I think they're incredibly interesting to read about. Flashback getting a sequel is really interesting, and I want to know more about it. Is the guy who made the first one working on it? Is this going to be a narrative platformer, or is it going to be a full AAA experience? I saw a hoverbike race in the trailer, so it might have a bunch of different gameplay elements.

I'm not interested in Fort Solis, but I really enjoyed hearing Troy Baker and Roger Clark talk about the process of working on it.

I know what's bothering me about this show.

Almost every game is the same thing. Every game is trying to be Dead Space. Even a new fucking Dead Space apparently got announced, which is hilarious.

The one thing that's even remotely different was that Witchfire game. Visually it looked amazing, but I'm not really popping boners over the idea of a magic gunslinger game. That and Flashback 2 which I've talked about.

It's all gritty grimdark atmospheric setpieces games.

The Rock rambling about all sorts of crazy shit and shilling an energy drink, lmao. Then the first line of the Black Adam trailer is "I was a slave until I died".

I've officially turned on this show, this is hilarious.

The Rock part was the best part. Just absolutely chaotic nonsense.

The Outriders expansion looks good, and I kinda like the gist of Stormgate too.

Oh shit, it's an RTS made by ex-Blizzard devs? Hope it's none of the rapey ones, because otherwise the pedigree of this game is fantastic.

Ooh, water game. I like water games - Abzu is a gem, and while it wasn't wholly to my taste, I really dig the vibe of that Windbound game too. That's why I want that upcoming game based on New Caledonia to be good.

Highwater seems like a good game to vibe to.

New Goat Simulator, excellent.10/10 trailer, and calling it Goat Simulator 3 was the cherry on top.

Neon White won me over a little bit. I like how frenetic it is.

I liked the demo for Neon White so I've been looking forward to that, but June is too stacked for me.

I've seen two hours of this stuff and I'm done. I'm gonna look up what the other reveals were.

I said earlier that even Nintendo Directs that other people shit on are usually enough to whelm me. This showcase was underwhelming. It might be because I'm hungover and listless, but I just can't sit through any more of this dreck.