handful of industry watchers share their reactions to the news from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
The E3 Media and Business Summit kicked off with press conferences from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each dropping their own salvo of bombs (be they poorly told jokes or big announcements).
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.
Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.
resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword
Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2
Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.
There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.
Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence
The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
even though he does have a point but it could go either way with the warranty news. Fixing the problem is what MS should be doing. we seen signs of a fix but, not sure if the fix have been confirmed. A price-cut will still come,I think at the right time.
Like I said, Sony sill haven't convinced me to buy a PS3. Neither have gamers on this site. Games that were most talked about were FPS's.(who would of thought eh.) (KZ2, Haze, COD4, UT3) With the Exception of KZ2, which won't even be in the mix come this holiday season, they all will be on the Xbox 360 much sooner than later.
The wii, showed some games I'll probably get, since it's been a while I played my wii, SSSB,Mario Kart and Mario galaxy for me. Nintendo is showing there is more to this gamers market than hardcore gamers, and it will appeal to those while doing just that.
-The Wii needs more 3rd-party.
-Microsoft has got and showed plenty
-Sony's first-party is still the real deal.
Thats it from E3.
I think the Wii's conference was the best, even though I don't own one, but I will now after seeing Wii Fit, THAT will sell, playing games and losing weight, f!ck yah. I'm actually hoping the Wii comes in first that way there won't be that bitterness between sony and ms fanboys.
i think sony won e3. wii is jus gettin lame now. we need proper gaming which the 360 and in the near future, the ps3 will supply. sony stole the show for these reasons. little big planet, metal gear solid 4, killzone 2, hevenly sword. drakes fortune, unreal tournment exclusive announcement and a not so big announcement of psp slim. what did people get excited about over wii? yep, wii fit. jeez why do people like the wii. honestly.
No one cares that it had Wii Fit which will sell to fat people. Killzone 2 or MGS4 would probably outsell it. GT5, Halo 3 and GTA4 definitely will.
Sony's first party is so far ahead of Nintendo's now it's not funny. Good job on turning your back on fans. Did you guys know Animal Crossing isn't even announced. Neither is Pikmin. And TP? Yeah, that might be the ONLY Zelda on Wii ever. (Check Miyamoto interviews on IGN)
Enjoy your non-games Wii fans. Oh, and those 3 titles coming this year which will be totally overshadowed by PS360 games.
you know, i'd rather do yoga on real mat with real people and a real intsructor rather than on a video game mat. it's just not that appealing to me. as an exercise buff, i can say that exercising in real time will be more beneficial than using Wii fit.