[Mentalist]

Stadia thing is tomorrow at noon EST.

Supposed to be there: Bethesda games (Doom Eternal), Destiny 2, whatever exclusives
-rumoured spot for Baldur's Gate 3 reveal?
-Ubi is likely to be there, cuz they like to be first on new platforms
-Sega also likes to jump on new platforms, and rumour has it they're resurrecting some old IPs for this
-Capcom teased something for tomorrow as well.

Also, dismay I shall hop no more I'll be missing the Microsoft conference because I got an early game on Sunday at 5 pm, so one hour after the conference starts.

[Aptorian]

Monday is a holiday so I think I'm going to catch most of the conferences live or early morning.

When is this Stadia service expected to go live? Somehow I was still expecting 2020.

[Mentalist]

Google said "later this year". Not worldwide tho, iirc

[Mentalist]

Stadia expected to launch in 14 countries in the West in November

-Kotaku podcast talked about 2 new IPs from Ubi.
One of these, coded "Orpheus" is an action/adventure RPG from Ubi Quebec (the team behind AssCreeds Syndicate and Odysseus). Might see that on Mon.

-Baldur's Gate 3 is a thing. Made by Larian, using 5e ruleset and featuring the mind-flayer invasion. Probably turn-based, because Larian are exceptionally good with turn-based combat.

Capcom's tease was just some street fighter promo event thing, no new reveal.

If Microsoft can guarantee a big library with a a sub-model xCloud, it'll have a much higher success chance than Stadia, imho.

[Mentalist]

Lackluster Bachelorette, on 06 June 2019 - 10:54 PM, said:

Thefuckisstadia?

Streaming games store by Google.

Buy a game in their online store and stream it on any device that has a Chrome browser. In theory.

[Mentalist]

looks like peopel are leaking everything Microsoft's got to show.
Looks like a good time to do a media blackout, lol

[Malankazooie]

Any you guys watching EA's conference? (starting in about a 1/2 hour). Called EA Play?

Not a fan of EA myself and I've read most of what they are going to show is pretty much already known. In other words - sports ... blecky-poo, gross.

[Mentalist]

Malankazooie, on 08 June 2019 - 03:31 PM, said:

Any you guys watching EA's conference? (starting in about a 1/2 hour). Called EA Play?

Not a fan of EA myself and I've read most of what they are going to show is pretty much already known. In other words - sports ... blecky-poo, gross.

Oh shit, forgot about this. I meant to watch the beginning for the star wars panel

EDIT: for anyone interested: stream starts 12: 30 EST

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[Malankazooie]

Not a big Fart Warts fan myself (think it's for booger eaters).

But mildly interested in Battlefield. Don't play it, but it amuses me at times to see where they take it.

[Mentalist]

I mean, it's Respawn making a single player game. It's worth a look see.

they're like the only part of EA that still makes games I'm mildly interested in.

EDIT: ok, that looked nice. Double jumping, wall-running, climbing,swimming (unsure about diving), decent-looking combat.

Not sure how linear the levels are though. But it looks promising enough.

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[Malankazooie]

"Free the Wookies". Sounds like a pick-up line you would use at a biker bar.

[EDIT[ Finished watching that portion, looked pretty slick. Could it be described as 'Star Wars Uncharted'? or 'Star Wars Raider'?

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[Mentalist]

Malankazooie, on 08 June 2019 - 05:22 PM, said:

"Free the Wookies". Sounds like a pick-up line you would use at a biker bar.

[EDIT[ Finished watching that portion, looked pretty slick. Could it be described as 'Star Wars Uncharted'? or 'Star Wars Raider'?

Game Informer has the game as next month's cover story. According to them, the actual level design borrows more from Metroid, as there are various areas inaccessible until you unlock different Force powers. You get a ship that'll allow you to backtrack between planets. and reach new areas.

Also, obligatory "enemies respawn every time you use a save point", and "your droid's stim packs are limited and recharge when you use a save point". So yes, there are soulslike elements in Jedi Fallen Order as well. Le sigh.

I mean, it looks all right, but it's gonna come down to game length and size to ecide whether I'll be buying this close to launch for 80 CAD. The Fall lineup isn't super-impressive right now, but it'll be competing with the Black Friday sales at that point.

[Aptorian]

Forgot about it as well.

Just watched the Star Wars portion. Looks fine. I'm not a fan of the robot on the back, it's distracting. But the gameplay looks solid enough though the whole thing looked a bit manufactured for lack of a better word. Like the section was made for a game presentation.

Still, it has promise. You can see the Souls inspiration in the Fighting. Not sure about the difficulty. The enemies seemed like pure fodder. Even the Jedi killers seem to be cheese able with that time freeze ability. Looking at the Mana/stamina bar it looked like the Jedi abilities aren't expensive, so either they were playing on easiest difficulty or later on you'll be fighting swarms of baddies.

I am a fan of EA giving us can schedule for when they show content. Normally you sit through their conference and 60-70% is boring platitudes and sports stuff. Now I can just get to the Gooey innards!

[Malankazooie]

It's funny how that works, like you can actually go back and watch the parts of a stream? Even as it is happening?! Wow, the year 2019 is amazing and I've seen wondrous things that I never though possible!

Also, I had to:

This is not the Star Wars game you're looking for

[Mentalist]

PC GamePass is a thing that's sorta live right now, and oh boy, there's a lot of games.

Also, we should expect some more acquisition announcements @ the Xbox conference.

I will have to miss it, sadly, cuz I've got an early game today-guess I'll have to catch a replay sometime later.

[Aptorian]

Couple of hours to go for the Microsoft conference.

I'm tempering my expectations. Realistically, MS won't be doing a full next Xbox reveal but who knows. They're hungry. They want to beat the Playstation.

Logically they'll hold back this year like Sony but maybe they could show us a lot of stuff with a 2020 date.

We'll probably get a Gears 5 fall release date and gameplay + Gears spin-offs updates.

And a Halo Infinite reveal set for 2020.

Halo Masterchief Collection Bonanza with all games bundled, free with gamepass.

Fable reveal. No dates

Turn 10 probably has a Forza game though I could see then waiting a year.

We'll probably get a gameplay walkthrough of Outer Worlds and ... A fall release date?

I bet Cyberpunk either opens or closes the conference.

Bethesda's conference I think is probably going to be a garbage fire but who knows.

They need to apologise for Fallout 76.

They DEFINITELY need to show Starfield footage.

They need to reiterate Elder Scrolls is years and years away to stop speculation.

Other than that I expect they'll spread out Doom and Wolfenstein, so that one releases fal, one releases March. Doom will probably be a fall release tied into Stadias launch, since they've already feautered heavily in Stadias presentation.

I suspect we'll have 1 unexpected release coming this fall but I have no idea what they could have ready.

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Aptorian, on 09 June 2019 - 05:39 PM, said:

Couple of hours to go for the Microsoft conference.

I'm tempering my expectations. Realistically, MS won't be doing a full next Xbox reveal but who knows. They're hungry. They want to beat the Playstation.

Logically they'll hold back this year like Sony but maybe they could show us a lot of stuff with a 2020 date.

We'll probably get a Gears 5 fall release date and gameplay + Gears spin-offs updates.

And a Halo Infinite reveal set for 2020.

Halo Masterchief Collection Bonanza with all games bundled, free with gamepass.

Fable reveal. No dates

Turn 10 probably has a Forza game though I could see then waiting a year.

We'll probably get a gameplay walkthrough of Outer Worlds and ... A fall release date?

I bet Cyberpunk either opens or closes the conference.

Bethesda's conference I think is probably going to be a garbage fire but who knows.

They need to apologise for Fallout 76.

They DEFINITELY need to show Starfield footage.

They need to reiterate Elder Scrolls is years and years away to stop speculation.

Other than that I expect they'll spread out Doom and Wolfenstein, so that one releases fal, one releases March. Doom will probably be a fall release tied into Stadias launch, since they've already feautered heavily in Stadias presentation.

I suspect we'll have 1 unexpected release coming this fall but I have no idea what they could have ready.

Bethesda will NOT show anything Starfield. I am unconvinced they'll actually "apologize" for FO76- though they'll probably re-iterate how awesome the community is and how much stuff's yet to come (to be fair, unlike Bioware's Anthem, Bethesda has been updating the game diligently and in a timely manner)

Expect new game from Tango Gameworks. Shinji Mikami is in LA and he's been "rehearsing" something.

re: MS: Turn 10 isn't putting out new Forza this year, there'll be another Horizon expansion.

Wasteland 3 and the Outer Worlds will be there, there should be some new game announcements from Microsoft's studios.

Dunno about console specs, but Microsoft's making a big push with Gamepass on PC + games coming to Steam. Xcloud will probably be a thing as well--if they can offer a better library than Google and an affordable sub-based model, they'll kill Stadia before it gets a chance to take off.

[Aptorian]

Oh right, Bethesda owns the Evil Within developer.

I wonder if MS has the kind of Server infrastructure that allows them to compete head on with Stadia? It would be awesome if they do. I don't want a video game streaming Monopoly.

[Aptorian]

Well, aren't you just a bundle of joy.

[Mentalist]

Lackluster Bachelorette, on 09 June 2019 - 06:34 PM, said:

How much is this Stadia shit supposed to cost?

I’m interested I think.

$10/month for premium speeds, free for basic.

You still gotta buy the games though. That's why I think that Xcloud will kill it even if the image quality won't be 4k all the time- because Microsoft has a bigger library to offer.

And yeah, apparently Azure server network is even bigger than Google.