For those who are not familiar, E3 is a yearly video game event that takes place in Los Angeles. It's a video game industry meeting where businesses make deals and come to show off their wares. Over the years it's grown to become the biggest video game publicity event of the year. Several of the biggest hardware makers and publishers do conferences in the days before the event start and it's pretty much the biggest news generator that sets the stage for most of the next years big releases.
E3 2018 starts on June 12th this summer and in the days before the conferences will start. Typically in the days, weeks and even months up to E3 we're going to be seeing announcements, teasers and trailers coming out. Things will start to leak, rumors will abound and hype will be had.
So what are you guys looking forward to? Do you have any predictions? Who will "win" E3 this year?
The thing that continues to be my biggest interest is Microsoft's struggle. I think they have the greatest services but they continue to lack the suit of games needed to turn public sentiment around. From the latest announcements, it sounds like Microsoft are opening new game studios and investing in big games again, but I still think we're a year or two away from Microsoft being able to compete with Sony's line up.
I doubt we'll hear about any big hardware announcements this year. Sony is still selling plenty of Playstation's despite how powerful the X-box One X is. I doubt Nintendo is doing any iterations on the Switch yet. We might see a Playstion VR 2 announcement I guess?
In terms of games I am hoping to hear announced this year, I am looking out for Shadow of the Tomb Raider (which has already leaked is getting a full reveal soon).
I hope Bethesda finally reveals something about those two projects Bethesda Softworks have been working on since releasing Fallout 4. The stuff about one game supposedly being "space elder scrolls" is very sexy. I could also see them doing a Doom 2 (5) teaser
EA has delayed Anthem to next year, but I imagine we will see 20 minutes of gameplay during E3. They cancelled visceral's Star Wars project (still sour about that) but maybe we will see Respawn's Star Wars game? Or Titanfall 3? Hell they might even tease that Open World action game they mention years ago that is meant to compete with Ubisoft and Take Two's open world franchises. Maybe a Dragon Age 4 teaser?
Activision I have no idea about. They have their franchises but I feel like they need to grow something new on the vine. Something to replace Skylanders, Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero. Crash Bandicoot collection did amazingly well so we're bound to get a sequel there. There's also rumors of a Spyro collection, so basically we might be seeing an era where Activision starts digging out old IPs from their
Ubisoft has a great line-up for 2018 already but from the rumors we are about to see a Splinter Cell announcement. And of course there is the question of whether Watch_Dogs is now on a 2 year cycle switching with Assassin's Creed... or do we see a AC:Brotherhood like AC release this year?
Outside the big publsher's I'm hoping for news about Borderlands 3, Darksiders 3 and Bioshock 4 and Cyberpunk.
This post has been edited by Alternative Goose: 17 March 2018 - 07:48 PM