Now that the dust has settled, it's time to look at the week's biggest winners and losers.
Club Fight is available now for Meta Quest 3S, but this isn't a VR experience worth fighting for.
CCG writes - "Despite my complaints about the music, graphics, and inspection mechanics, I had a lot of fun with Pawnbroker Simulator. It scratches the itch of running a store and making money buying and selling all sorts of interesting things. While I personally prefer the mechanics available in something like Supermarket Simulator more, I still think Pawnbroker Simulator has a lot of good going for it. The game is still being actively worked on, with console ports also on the way. If store management simulator games are something you enjoy, there's enough different here from the competition to make it worth your while."
The Outerhaven writes: A hands-on preview for Supermassive Games' latest horror adventure, Directive 8020. The preview left me feeling both excited to play more and apprehensive about its launch.
Really loved the preview, and enjoyed seeing what you had to say about it as well!
On another note, the article mentions posting the video once you are allowed to—were you given a different embargo date for it? We were simply told the article and video footage were restricted until 8:00 AM Central Time.
Microsoft has the best conference, overall, however that is just in terms of presentation. In terms of games, this year's E3 just kinda came and went and I'm not rushing to Youtube to rewatch trailers or constantly refreshing gaming sites to look for new info. It came and went, there were some cool announcements and some nice in depth looks at Smash and the titles from Sony. Nintendo pretty much advertised 2019 E3 with all the missing titles this year and I'm expecting Sony to show off more of their core titles as Gamescon. Microsoft is clearly in a rebuilding the brand phase and that is commendable.
I think Bethesda did really well.
Since I only watched the MS, Sony and Nintendo my opinion will be based on those three.
Nintendo had some good games but it seemed like it was over before it started. I was really hoping to see some more from them as I have always enjoyed their approach to presentations for E3 in the past few years. But this year was underwhelming, the Mech game and Smash were stand outs but I was really hoping for some surprises like Mother 3 (finally). Unfortunately their presentation lacked and I heard that they will have some more announcements over the next three days...hopefully.
Sony's presentation was also a strange one and even though it was good it wasn't exciting. I've said in the past that games should be shown with actual gameplay at these events, unfortunately the games Sony showed all had a common theme that doesn't make for great watching, sneak, hide, sneak, hide, walk, sneak. With the exception of Spider-Man this is pretty much how a lot of Sony's game played out during the presentation. Ghosts was also underwhelming, the graphics looked great but for me being a sci-fi/fantasy guy there just wasn't anything too appealing other than the violence. But, Spider-Man on the other side was fantastic that was definitely a game I would get 1st day.
Microsoft hands down took E3 this year. They had the most to prove with the over whelming criticisms they received. They addressed all their problems on stage, acquiring more first party studios and announcing another console was in development. The games they showed off were much more impressive with their presentation too, Dying Light 2 and Cyberpunk instantly comes to mind. Their ID@Xbox game montage was very good, Gears 5 looked really good and Gears Tactics was incredible (even if only for PC), and there's a skate board game which was surprising since I had forgotten this use to be a thing, plus Battletoads, finally. MS pretty much nailed the format down this year.
Lots of games to be excited about. Most of which are multi-platform. Shadows Die Twice and Kingdom Hearts were my favorites of all shown. Really like the direction Assassins Creed is heading too. Doesn't feel like an AC game, maybe more of an RPG but I think this is good. That series needs a shakeup.
sony had far better games %70 of the games microsoft showed i can play on my ps4
None were great, Sony did that lil bit better, Ninty only had smash and Xbox had a ok E3