This isn't even the worst deleted tweet a game company has done so far - in a race to the bottom, a Quantic Dream co-founder name-dropped his Black-power-iconography-appropriating CYOA game, Detroit: Become Human at the end of his pithy solidarity statement.
Which, given their headass PR record, seems par for the course.
It would be just like the E3 that happened after the Pulse shooting.
There would be a bunch of lapel pins and brief statements about just how sad this all is before showing off Battlefield: Hardline 2 or some equally tone deaf shit.
this is kicking off in about 30 minutes, streams are live already with a placeholder splash screen. an update to the announcement blog apparently recommends watching with headphones to get a feel for Sony's new audio tech.
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Includes a drop down menu showing the known conferences and when they're happening, and a grid of all the trailers available. You can filter by platform, release date, and even which conference the videos are from. Kinda neat way to keep track of the mess that is... whatever e3 is this year.
Includes a drop down menu showing the known conferences and when they're happening, and a grid of all the trailers available. You can filter by platform, release date, and even which conference the videos are from. Kinda neat way to keep track of the mess that is... whatever e3 is this year.
Xbox naming their May event "20/20" is pretty hysterical.
If you're like me and wanted to log into Uplay to get the free copy of Watch Dogs 2 offered during the Ubi conference, looks like right now their login is down so we're out of luck.
What are the odds they just give everybody the free unlockable items? You have to watch 40 minutes of the show logged in to get a Valhalla axe, and the presentation is only like 45 minutes long.
What are the odds they just give everybody the free unlockable items? You have to watch 40 minutes of the show logged in to get a Valhalla axe, and the presentation is only like 45 minutes long.
I can't find a Watch_Dogs thread, but I remain disappointed at the tone/direction of Legion. Like, being able to recruit people and to play as them is cool. Surfing on a giant drone in order to escape cyberpolice? Completely jumping the shark.
If it was its own IP I wouldn't mind so much, but part of the appeal of the series for me is that it's essentially modern day, with a single sci-fi caveat (ctOS).
I'm pretty sure people have already been experimenting with ridable drone platforms. Like that might honestly be something that exists in reasonable functioning order in the next 5-10 years.
I'm pretty sure people have already been experimenting with ridable drone platforms. Like that might honestly be something that exists in reasonable functioning order in the next 5-10 years.
They have, but none of them have gone anywhere because:
1. Liability
2. Are you really going to trust the average person to fly one of them?
Keep in mind, this is in relation to what are essentially air taxis... enclosed quadrotor vehicles. The trailer showed our not-Wrench (character from Watch_Dogs 2 that Ubisoft decided should be the basis for Legion's general aesthetic) standing on top of something like a slightly futuristic DJI Phantom while getting shot at, and somehow surfing on it through traffic while then doing a radical jump-flip on top of a bus when it crashes into something.
I can't find a Watch_Dogs thread, but I remain disappointed at the tone/direction of Legion. Like, being able to recruit people and to play as them is cool. Surfing on a giant drone in order to escape cyberpolice? Completely jumping the shark.
If it was its own IP I wouldn't mind so much, but part of the appeal of the series for me is that it's essentially modern day, with a single sci-fi caveat (ctOS).
Yeah I don't know how they went from Watch Dogs 2 to....this. The entire tone of it seems completely off, and I have serious doubts they're going to be able to pull off "Play as literally anyone" and have a coherent story.
And their stupid movie before the actual gameplay appropriated the First They Came poem from the Holocaust and it was extremely gross.
Ya as somebody who really enjoyed Watch Dogs 2, I have zero interest in Legion.
The best part of 2 was the characters that made up your Dedsec cell and getting to know them and see what happens to them as the story progresses.
The whole "you can recruit and play as anybody" sounds interesting, but I can't actually see myself getting as invested in a random NPC that is slotted in to one of a handful of personality types compared to a bespoke character who was created and designed for a specific story.
I really enjoyed Marcus. Having his followup be random grandmas and construction workers, while maybe funny, feels like a let down.
Watch dogs as a franchise hasn't had any consistency. As someone who actually liked the first game, the second was a huge departure from that, and now the third is even further. No biggie, Ubisoft games as I joked above are pretty much similar with different paint.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Finding out "you can recruit anyone" but then it turns out every NPC basically falls into a limited number of fighter classes kinda makes that feature less and less interesting by the day. And logistically, how many voices and lines of dialogue can they have?
Finding out "you can recruit anyone" but then it turns out every NPC basically falls into a limited number of fighter classes kinda makes that feature less and less interesting by the day. And logistically, how many voices and lines of dialogue can they have?
I didn't mind the first one. It wasn't great - it was laughably grim with the most generic protagonist - but it wasn't bad.
I loved 2. The Dedsec cell, all of them, were great. I'd be down for more adventures with them.
Legion feels like the Watch_Dogs version of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Instead of a grounded modern day/near future adventure with a single conceit (ctOS/underground parkour couriers), it's now pure cyberpunk for no real reason.
Like, I can't see the San Francisco Dedsec cell living in the world Legion portrays. It might as well (and probably should) be its own thing.
Finding out "you can recruit anyone" but then it turns out every NPC basically falls into a limited number of fighter classes kinda makes that feature less and less interesting by the day. And logistically, how many voices and lines of dialogue can they have?
The Giant Bomb staff said they asked during the demo, but the demo person was a professional demoer and not someone who actually worked on the game, so they said they didn't know the answer.
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The only way I can reckon the whole “play as anyone” is that you got some kind of Syndicate style persuasion ray. Which doesn’t seem like the type of thing good guys would have.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I don't understand why they never did the assassin's creed brotherhood thing of recruiting individuals again. I assume legion won't be that since saving people from instances of violence won't make sense for the ones that are embedded in those organizations, plus if they are being recruited for their skills they won't need from the ground up training.
It's just weird. I liked the idea when I first heard it, but not if all the people just boil down to different variations of generic archetypes.
as I get older, I just want my media to offer me a little bit of hope. it doesn't have to be upbeat or happy or even hopeful, just give me SOMETHING goddammit. 'people are shit and there's no point to anything' is something i get enough of in my day-to-day, thank you very much
It seems like 2020 has done its best to spread the misery evenly that's for sure.
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Wasn't even that long ago.
I completely forgot that my youngest daughter had surgery in January. I would have bet my life that it was last year. January feels so long ago.
Oh, hmm, the tweet is gone. I wonder why?
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This isn't even the worst deleted tweet a game company has done so far - in a race to the bottom, a Quantic Dream co-founder name-dropped his Black-power-iconography-appropriating CYOA game, Detroit: Become Human at the end of his pithy solidarity statement.
Which, given their headass PR record, seems par for the course.
Could you imagine if E3 hadn't been canceled.
It would be just like the E3 that happened after the Pulse shooting.
There would be a bunch of lapel pins and brief statements about just how sad this all is before showing off Battlefield: Hardline 2 or some equally tone deaf shit.
this is kicking off in about 30 minutes, streams are live already with a placeholder splash screen. an update to the announcement blog apparently recommends watching with headphones to get a feel for Sony's new audio tech.
Includes a drop down menu showing the known conferences and when they're happening, and a grid of all the trailers available. You can filter by platform, release date, and even which conference the videos are from. Kinda neat way to keep track of the mess that is... whatever e3 is this year.
Xbox naming their May event "20/20" is pretty hysterical.
Devolver did their thing yesterday, and it was a hoot as always. They made a game about themselves.
What are the odds they just give everybody the free unlockable items? You have to watch 40 minutes of the show logged in to get a Valhalla axe, and the presentation is only like 45 minutes long.
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The odds are in fact 100%
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If it was its own IP I wouldn't mind so much, but part of the appeal of the series for me is that it's essentially modern day, with a single sci-fi caveat (ctOS).
They have, but none of them have gone anywhere because:
1. Liability
2. Are you really going to trust the average person to fly one of them?
Keep in mind, this is in relation to what are essentially air taxis... enclosed quadrotor vehicles. The trailer showed our not-Wrench (character from Watch_Dogs 2 that Ubisoft decided should be the basis for Legion's general aesthetic) standing on top of something like a slightly futuristic DJI Phantom while getting shot at, and somehow surfing on it through traffic while then doing a radical jump-flip on top of a bus when it crashes into something.
It was dumb.
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Yeah I don't know how they went from Watch Dogs 2 to....this. The entire tone of it seems completely off, and I have serious doubts they're going to be able to pull off "Play as literally anyone" and have a coherent story.
And their stupid movie before the actual gameplay appropriated the First They Came poem from the Holocaust and it was extremely gross.
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The best part of 2 was the characters that made up your Dedsec cell and getting to know them and see what happens to them as the story progresses.
The whole "you can recruit and play as anybody" sounds interesting, but I can't actually see myself getting as invested in a random NPC that is slotted in to one of a handful of personality types compared to a bespoke character who was created and designed for a specific story.
I really enjoyed Marcus. Having his followup be random grandmas and construction workers, while maybe funny, feels like a let down.
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According to Ars Technica, not all that many
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Yeah they're functionally just different classes.
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I didn't mind the first one. It wasn't great - it was laughably grim with the most generic protagonist - but it wasn't bad.
I loved 2. The Dedsec cell, all of them, were great. I'd be down for more adventures with them.
Legion feels like the Watch_Dogs version of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Instead of a grounded modern day/near future adventure with a single conceit (ctOS/underground parkour couriers), it's now pure cyberpunk for no real reason.
Like, I can't see the San Francisco Dedsec cell living in the world Legion portrays. It might as well (and probably should) be its own thing.
The Giant Bomb staff said they asked during the demo, but the demo person was a professional demoer and not someone who actually worked on the game, so they said they didn't know the answer.
But "not many" sounds about right.
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It's just weird. I liked the idea when I first heard it, but not if all the people just boil down to different variations of generic archetypes.
It seems like 2020 has done its best to spread the misery evenly that's for sure.
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https://www.techradar.com/news/gamescom-opening-night-live-2020-live-blog
Not a lot of brand-new announcements, but there's a lot of new trailers.
Between that and Pikmin 3, it's looking like holiday 2020 Nintendo is a world of ports. Oh, and Super Mario battle royale, and real-life Mario Kart.