Don't worry though, they showed off at least three shooters!
Mirror's Edge Catalyst on PS4 looks worse than the original Mirror's Edge back when I was running it on my 9800GTX. Prerendered cutscenes were pretty, though.
EA spent more money hiring famous people to promote Battlefield 1 than they did developing the game.
It was seriously the worst conference I can remember off the top of my head taken at face value... but honestly... did anyone expect anything better from EA? It's like getting disappointed that a toddler couldn't do 5th grade math homework; of course they were going to fail.
Can someone explain why they spend absurds amount of time on the sports titles? Who are they trying to appeal to? The people who buy Madden/Fifa would buy it every year regardless of whether you not it was ever advertised anywhere. They don't care what you add or remove, as long as it exists their $60 will be plopped in front of the cashier on release day.
Oblivion's leveling system and scaling were so horribly implemented that they dragged the entire game down. Of the three "modern" games it's easily the worst.
Shorter than the N64 game, garbage controls, dead console.
Hopefully they'll clear house and fire the current "journalists."
To be fair, you should just be able to customize your character completely. In the end no one gave a shit about Aiden and I guarantee no one will give a shit about this new guy. Ubisoft hasn't made a likable lead since Assassins Creed's Ezio, whom they milked has hard as possible, and had lead character issues even prior to Ezio.
It's dull because the rewards for doing any side activity are basically non-existent. You'll have all the traversal upgrades unlocked by the time you meet the mission requirement (and apart from the zipline and fan-hacking they should have been available from the start) and everything else is literally junk that can't be used without using a separate website or app, and only for other players to see, not yourself.
To me, the unlockables are completely trash. Who in their right mind thought: "Hey, let's make them go to our website or download a shitty app in order to access 70% of the unlockables!" was a good idea? Fire that man. Even if you are using the website or app, all the unlocks are pointless garbage stickers that only show up when you hack one of the handful of billboards, or a shadow that you'll never personally see... that's it!
They couldn't thin...
I gave zero fucks about this game until you posted that. Now am extremely interested, thanks for the heads up.
I just want some release dates ending in "2016."
Is this why they stripped the multiplayer functionality out of the console release? Scumbags.
I'd say it works less with narrative-focus stuff, actually. If most episodic developers had a decent release schedule of -at most- every two weeks, it could work. But they never do. Trying to remember intricate details of a narrative-driven game when every episode release is over a month apart is not good story-telling and furthermore, not very fun.
Yeah, after playing the first episode of Life is Strange, I decided to just up and wait for the entire thing to release. Lo and behold it took like a year; I would have been pissed had I tried to remember each intricate plot point between each release and it would have soured my experience with the game entirely. Episodic needs to go.
No GTA for the PS2 era? I guess Japan must really not care about the series because it otherwise defined the entire generation of games.
You know just as I was beginning to think that maybe Square Enix learned their lesson on why announcing a dozen titles before even one of them drops is a bad thing, they go and continue to do stuff like this. Maybe it's being handled by a outside party and this won't be an issue, but it seems like they have a dozen games announced being developed by their internal studios and nary a one has released in quite a while.
Please God no simplistic "HD" Skyrim re-release. Let it be something like Daggerfall or Morrowind, or even combining Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim into one massive game with refined mechanics.