Alex has been on deck for Live blogging duties this year, but I’m coming out of retirement for ONE… LAST… JOB.
Oh man, I love liveblogs. I love you all. LET’S DO THIS SHIT.
(Oh and you can watch the livestream here!
7.40am It’s 7.40am and I’m getting this thing up early so I can go make porridge. I’ll probably be back around 10 to 1030. In the meantime let’s have a round-up of expectations, hopes and dreams.
Expectations: smugness, jokes, Last Of Us 2.
Hopes: Bloodborne 2, a this year release date for God of War
Dreams: PlayStation All-Stars 2 (jks, no-one really wants that game)
Now you go! I’ll be back post-porridge.
10.02 Hello, I am back. I have eaten the porridge. It was very delicious thank you.
So worth checking out the livestream post. They’re streaming in 4k which is pretty wild. Also — I was just informed the show will be 90 minutes. That’s good news I think. Don’t want this shit to drag out cause I enjoy eating lunch at a reasonable hour.
After a pretty underwhelming Xbox conference, I’m hoping Sony really surprise us with something like BAM. They typically do because they’re far more comfortable showing off games that won’t come out for FUCKING YEARS. I’m fine with that because at least E3 can be exciting for a while.
Come onnnnnnn BLOODBORNE 2.
10.07 Also, don’t know about you, but I’m still thinking about this guy…
Love you Bruz.
10.20 I really can’t wait to tell my kid he can’t play the new Spiderman game cause he’s too young. Really looking forward to tasting those tears.
Hey man don’t judge me. I’ve waited a long time for this. Motherfucker snapped my Splatoon disc in two.
10.48 Just heard Superhot VR is coming to PSVR. That is good news. I want that game real bad. Also, I need an excuse to care about VR again.
10.53 There’s actually a lot of interesting Sony games that we already know about that I want to see real bad. Mainly God of War to be honest. Cause that looked fucking immense. Not too hyped on The Last Of Us 2 for some reason. I know I’m alone on this.
10.57 Crazy thing is, Sony could cruise control this conference and it wouldn’t matter. Been a very flat E3 so far in my humble opinion. I don’t expect an insane showing today. I expect a decent showing that still satisfies most fans of Sony.
11.01 [Taps watch]
11.05
Music AND water? Man, Sony spoiling us with that good shit.
Wait it’s the new Uncharted thing featuring the all-time best Uncharted character Chloe. I will play this game for sure. Real talk this game features the two coolest female characters in the series. I am down for this for sure.
11.08 Ah jesus christ I love Horizon so much. Okay moving on.
11.10 Days Gone is here. Can’t say I’m too into this one. We have The Last Of Us 2 coming. This might be a bit too similar for me. I mean it looks fantastic.
Time to Zombies. 5 mins? Surprised it took that long tbh.
I would like to request a five year moratorium on all post-apocalyptic media.
— Kat Bailey✨E3 (@The_Katbot) June 13, 2017
Solid tweet.
Scale is the one thing this game has going for it. The scale is Dead Rising in scope, but visually still looks unreal. Not too sure how it’ll all hang together as a fun video game though.
Also: bears. But all games have bears nowadays.
please, come in, try the wine pic.twitter.com/4pCZ6WVqLK
— Luke Plunkett (@LukePlunkett) June 13, 2017
11.17 Ah… pocket square. Good choice. Proof you have chosen to wear the suit. Powerful statement.
Pocket square.
Where’s the pocket circle, pocket X and pocket Triangle?
— Serrels (@Serrels) June 13, 2017
I’m here all night folks.
Also: that was fucking weird.
Well, that’s different Sony. #E32017 #SonyE32017 pic.twitter.com/xU31YCQAKQ
— Kotaku Australia (@KotakuAU) June 13, 2017
11.22
Ah Jesus Christ, you just know a very specific group of Sony fans are exploding at that Monster Hunter announcment. Monster Hunter Worlds. Looked pretty rad actually, although a bit weird how that dude just casually walked away from an enraged T-Rex.
It’s Monster Hunter World, launching early next year #E32017 #SonyE32017 pic.twitter.com/55ET9ltynM
— Kotaku Australia (@KotakuAU) June 13, 2017
11.24 Holy shit, are Sony straight up remaking Shadow of the Colossus? That seems like an extremely good idea to me tbh.
11.26 Obligatory “MAHVEL BABY”. Looks sick actually — makes use of all the newer characters in both universes. Fuck it, why not.
11.27 Man, this really is fast paced. I can’t keep up with this shit. They’re showing new COD which is definitely COD but I’m done taking the piss out of that game, because it’ll probably be very good.
Christ I really need a pee at this point. Can we show something shit, or talk about an online service for a while?
Skyrim is the new Doom.
‘THEY PUT SKYRIM ON YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CALCULATOR’
— Serrels (@Serrels) June 13, 2017
11.32 Really glad Sony is making a 2D platformer for PSVR. That shit works amazingly well on VR — honestly. You can’t get it until you’ve tried it.
11.34 Yasssssss… fucking Final Fantasy fishing. The TRUE Final Fantasy. MY Final Fantasy. I actually don’t know what that is — can anyone fill me in please?
Is this a good time to talk about how underwhelming this has been so far?
11.37
“It’s a mouse… but it has a GREEN GLOVE”
[rapturous applause]
— Serrels (@Serrels) June 13, 2017
So fucking down for this mouse with the green glove.
11.42
I am very keen for a new God of War. That looked good, but last year’s showing felt more… rebooty? This feels more like traditional God of War? Either way I think this game will be very good and I want to play it.
Waiting for the @Serrels comment on Kratos rock climbing
— Nick Johnson (@Nick__Johnson) June 13, 2017
And yes, don’t worry, I’ll have plenty to say about that!
Also: very cool GIF
Anyone for God of War? #E32017 #SonyE32017 pic.twitter.com/B50UbAFg0O
— Kotaku Australia (@KotakuAU) June 13, 2017
11.45
Ah fuck it, I’ll play another David Cage game. Assuming that’s what this is. Can’t wait for that terrible dialogue and weird shit that makes no sense. So down for that.
Nah really! I kinda am.
I don’t know what this game is or what it’s gonna be like. The writing sounds terrible though.
11.51
Destiny stuff happened. We all know about Destiny. I’m still really desperate for a pee. Come on mate ease up a bit.
11.55 Okay so Spiderman looks very much like Batman: Arkham whatever. This is good news. Just faster and slicker and faster. I’m down with this. This game actually looks super good. Ah shit he just ran up a wall, fuck yes.
Spiderman: Arkham Asylum #SonyE32017 #E32017 pic.twitter.com/Z52tngI41Z
— Kotaku Australia (@KotakuAU) June 13, 2017
12.00
Seriously, this demo is fantastic. Slick, playable fast paced, explosions and shit. I feel like I’m getting how this game will be played and I actually want to play it. A lot.
12.02 Okay, I guess that’s it? Damn. E3 is a bit of a bust this year, huh? No-one showing their hand really. Sony properly reeling it in. Literally just a supercut of trailers and a (admittedly awesome) Spider-man demo. No surprises really.
Still, can’t fuck with this:
I’d be happy if I could skip around a whole city and do this to enemies #SpiderManHomecoming #SonyE32017 #E32017 pic.twitter.com/kYRzClEJCn
— Kotaku Australia (@KotakuAU) June 13, 2017
Well my Bloodborne 2 dreams have been dashed. I’m going for a long, disappointed pee.
Comments
53 responses to “The Sony E3 Conference Liveblog!”
They were teasing one or more Japanese game announcements and Ni no Kuni 2 got dated earlier but still no real look into it, so maybe we’ll see some of that.
I think we’ll see the FF7 Remake again, probably along with a requisite segment for FFXV DLC or something.
Bloodborne 2 seems very likely. I’ve seen rumors about a sequel to Bully but I don’t know, I think we’ll see Red Dead Redemption 2 though. We also haven’t seen anything for the in-development Tomb Raider game, maybe this time Sony’s got the announcement exclusive since Rise being a timed Xbox exclusive backfired badly.
It’s probably about time that Deep Down resurfaces if it’s actually even still in development.
The Last of Us 2 and God of War seem very likely to make an appearance, as is that shit looking zombie game from last year that had the way too long gameplay sequence, unless that came out and I was too busy yawning to notice? I’d also be surprised if they didn’t spend some time on that upcoming Uncharted 4 stand-alone expansion thing since they need it to actually sell copies.
Will be interesting to see how much time, if any, is devoted to PSVR. Will it be like the Vita the E3 after its launch where they didn’t even want to admit it existed?
…I want all stars 2. Minding its whole lvl design & UI isn’t as bland as shit like the first one. Kotaku you punk.
lol I am sorry for being a punk!
Hopes: Live orchestral score for Team Ico’s new game to kick off the show, Alex gets some sleep now, we see Mark lose it when Bloodborne 2: The Borne Identity is revealed and anything Hideo Kojima related occurs
I just want more live orchestras in my conferences. Deliver me, Sony.
Nooooooooooo!!!!
Mark goes down in a hail of bullets.
Men-DOH-ZAAAAAAAHH!
Mark was only 4 days short of retirement 🙁
Was this before or after Hitler shot him through a telephone?
Wishlist: The ability to change my GODDAMN USERNAME
Stretch Goal: Vita 2
Couldn’t give a hoot about the games – I’m fairly satisfied that I don’t need to see more footage of something that’s already announced (Destiny, Red Dead).
SHENMUE 3
I’m having my porridge now.
How does everyone else have their porridge, with or sans fruit?
Brown sugar? Golden Syrup? Plain rolled oats and water?
I don’t do water, milk all the way.
Oats, milk, salt.
Brown sugar to serve.
I’m half scots, so I’ll fight every last one of you over my choices!
My lactose intolerance shits all over your choices.
Just plane for me. Maybe with raw sugar, depends on how I am in the morning.
Even tried to make porridge in Breath of the Wild using the same recipe as I do in real life.
Wound up finding where Calamity Ganon really came from and still no porridge.
Stage Lights dim
Voiceover: It’s john Q Sony, Sony spokesman!
“We’ve listened to our customers, and are announcing…
REBOOTS OF ALL OUR OLD IPs!
THE GETAWAY! PRIMAL! MEDIEVIL! CRASH TEAM RACING! JAK AND DAXTER!”
*drops mic, moonwalks off stage*
Jak and Daxter are getting HD remasters of all games except the Lost Frontier so you’re close. Primal reboot would be awesome too.
Oh, I’d take reboots of all of those things I listed in a heartbeat. Especially Primal, as you and I appear to be among the like four people who actually played it
Praying (to lord Chanka) for Warhawk/Starhawk 2, MAG 2 and some more KH3.
Bring on Destiny 2 news.
Rub that Spiderman salt in his infantile eyes Serrels.
That Splatoon move is retribution waiting to happen.
Don’t tell me that Mark didn’t have the EB disc protection?!
Rookie gamer parent error there.
Seriously? (I have a baby on the way)
I don’t know, I don’t have kids 😛 But when I questioned the value of that disc protection here a week or two back, I had several parents indicate that it is useful for them.
Consider yourself warned – might be best to just go all-digital 😛
Lost Legacy looks like what I wanted the Tomb Raider movie to be.
Uncharted looks AMAZING.
Stop tapping your watch, I need comments!
This needs a language filter. Hehe.
I wish I brought a smaller sword…
Really wasn’t expecting Monster Hunter.
Holy sheet. I had forgotten about Shadow of the Colossus.
I’m definitely in for that.
I’ve never played a COD game, but WWII looks amazing.
Yay, VR fishing!!!
In all honesty though, Inpatient is something I’d by PSVR for, I’ve been waiting for a horror-ish title in VR.
Resident Evil VII?
I’m feeling underwhelmed reading this live blog but it was hard to tell the vibe without seeing it live (stuck at work). I have Tweet notifications on for EB Games, who seem to be a little “too” excited for this presser.
Skyrim VR… I don’t care if the game is old, I need to find a way to automatically sustain my physical body while I permanently move to Tamriel.
I’m actually stoked with it so far, nothing but trailers for upcoming games, nearly all of which look really great.
I was impressed by the XB1X specs, but the games coming that I want to play seem to be 90% on Sony.
That’s fair enough. Stick with what you love. I’m not quite the opposite – everything I want to play is just the AAA cross platform stuff so I’m sticking with Xbox because I prefer the service.
I see Major Nelson throwing some shade on Twitter during the Monster Hunter presentation … “Can’t wait to play it on Xbox One” … *wince*
I have an XB1, but nothing coming made me interested in getting an XB1X.
Great write-up here on Kotaku that confirms just that. If anything it suggests that most folks will be just fine running games on the One S. I’m still on OG Xbox though, and I’m petty, I want things to work quicker. 😛
DETROIT!!!
I like the look of Metal Gear Spiderman.
Started off kind of weak, but actually got better – probably one of the better shows so far. Detroit looked pretty interesting, and they had a surprisingly decent VR showing (Skyrim in VR? Hope that comes to other platforms too!). And COD WWII looked kind of cool for a COD game (going back to its roots I guess).
Honestly E3 has been pretty disappointing so far, but Sony’s presentation was probably the least disappointing I guess.
Spider-man looks pretty cool… But I’ve been hurt so many times before. Be still, my beating heart.
So I guess Mr Negative is the big bad guy for Spider-man?
I’m pretty happy, Sony has more games coming than I can afford to play in the next 12 months, and it looks like some reasons to look at the PSVR.Nothing else I really wanted to see other than Red Dead 🙂
Ummmm…did Sony straight up forget how to E3?? This is dismal. 🙁
I agree, spiderman looked sweet and MAYBE god of war but the rest was a big pile of crap. 1 Standard game announced after another etc.
More games, less talk. To me that is how to do E3.
‘I’m going for a long disappointed pee’ is probably the best reaction possible for E3 this year. Not sure if it’s just a dud year or if companies are starting to change their approach overall.
Are the big players starting to parse out their announcements between E3 and the other big cons like PAX or Gamescon? Cause it sure feels that way. MS was terrible, in terms of unannounced exclusive AAA all we got was Forza 7. Sony had a better line up but almost all the exclusive stuff we already knew about right? (excluding the VR I guess).
Mainly Im just sad there was no big reveal from Bethesda (Wolf and Evil Within 2 were basically open secrets, and Evil Within wasn’t that good to start with), and no new Fromsoft – either Bloodborne 2 or the new IP they are apparently working on – would much prefer BB 2.
It seems to make sense – announce something good at E3 and it can get lost in the noise of all the other announcements.
Ironically, that has left a vacuum – if anyone had brought something – anything – mind blowing, they could have “won” E3 by default.
It was an awesome line up for the most part, but such a short show this year. Was hoping to maybe see a little glimpse of the Last of Us 2 or even some Red Dead 2. It was good to see so many games over the usual chit-chat that has happened in the past.
So happy to see Monster Hunter coming to PS4… Detroit looks amazing… Destiny 2 continues to look good (but looks like we have to wait until tomorrow for a beta announcement)… Kinda concerned about Spiderman – the general moment-to-moment gameplay looks pretty fun, but that were a lot of QTEs in that reveal… Moss looked interesting, but everything else they showed for VR looked nausea-inducing as hell…
Other than that, I’ve gotta say I was more impressed by Microsoft’s showing this year…
Or not… D2 Beta apparently starts on 18/07 for pre-orders… listed as “early access to the beta” so I guess they’re going to open it up to everyone a few days later.
So far Anthem and Days Gone (and the HZD DLC…) are my favourites of this E3. Was hopeful to see Starfield or The Last of Us 2, but no matter.
Find myself in the strange territory of enjoying UBI’s conference the most.
Mario + Rabbids has surprised the heck out of me in going from care factor 0 to a probable day 1 purchase, plus they hs South Park & Beyond G&E2? I very nearly didn’t watch their show either as i find their games generally too ‘same same’.
Only other things to have caught my attention are Crackdown (which didn’t excite me like i thought it would – possibly due to MP focus), Horizon DLC, Spiderman & a few of the Indies.
Agree 100%. I’ll pick up God of War 4, but nothing else interests me as opposed to me picking up Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Ori 2 on X1.