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E3 2017 dreams and reactions
dosboot:
E3 is next week! And some conferences are being streamed this Saturday and Sunday! Crazy.
We should have a thread for E3 news and reactions. How about we share some hopes/dreams in the meantime?
You can't have E3 without fun longshot pipedreams, and I will go all in on one this year: New Metroid. For these things, you have to believe it is coming, and I'm feeling it for Metroid this year despite no evidence and some evidence to the contrary (e.g. we heard no mainline Metroid game was in development in 2015, when Federation Force interviews/reports were going on).
As for the "realistic" games that would be interesting to see: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Evil Within 2, the new Star Wars IP, God of War, and Super Mario Odyssey. I also know there are a number of studios such as Retro, From Soft and Mistwalker who are known to be working on new projects that I'd surely be excited to see.
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Does anyone else agree that seeing trailers debut live on the big stage has the effect of creating hype that wouldn't be there? Like, at a more sober time of the year I'd be fine letting a lot of these AAA trains coast by with far less attention. Especially looking back at this past year, I know that I'm going to be playing on a tiny handful of "new" games, but I also know that if I hop on the E3 ride it will be a fun time.
Sect:
This year I continue to hold out hope for a Lunar 3.
the old guy:
Hopes and Dreams:
New Metroid that ignores the events of Other M.
Mario Oddyssey is to Mario as Breath of the Wild was to Zelda.
Dishonored 2 DLC (TBH it looks like Bethesda gave up on this franchise and I hope I'm wrong about this.)
Fallout: New New Orleans, or something.
TES 6, debuting a new Bethesda engine that isn't shitty and buggy for once.
Beyond Good and Evil 2, but i highly doubt that game is actually still a thing, it's probably been canned for good.
Drake:
m e t r o i d
Moogs Parfait:
I feel like Nintendo misses the mark with Metroid to their own detriment because of the concerns of marketing. I doubt I'm alone in this thought but I'll express my reasons here because I've had some rum.
Metroid is a sci-fi shooter and popular wisdom in marketing is to make it a multiplayer FPS competitive thing. This makes sense from that viewpoint but not much from Metroid's actual genre, which is lovecraftian horror except you shoot those horrors in the face. I feel like Prime 1 handled this best, the sense of solitude, the post apocalyptic and later timely logs of the Chozo on Samus's actions; it was a great narrative on the last warrior of the Chozo.
I also feel like Other M tried and failed to do this because it was simply the wrong point in the timeline. Like it absolutely makes sense to have Samus have PTSD triggered by Ridley suddenly showing up, but it is something that should be in her first few games, not later (I forget what sequence number Other M is.) Other M had other problems but I won't focus on them here. Also her having daddy issues is BS when for what we know she had loving Chozo guardians. I feel like the shift to human-centric things in Metroid is a big mistake.
I want a better writer for Metroid. Someone who can accurately write Samus as a woman out of place with humans, chozo, and metroids. Someone who can do so in a show-don't-tell manner with logs and scan data and a little bit of Samus's comments. I think if the proper focus on lonely hero was given to the series, Metroid could simultaneously be popular as a piece of art and a least common denominator "person struggling alone against great trials." Surely the protagonist being the last beacon of justice in a universe gone mad is a good marketing ploy?