Not-E3 2026 - If anything good is actually announced we riot

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Professor Donger said:
Something I've noticed that modern games suffer from, why the fuck does Krato's dead wife not think to herself? She always just talks out loud, instead of thinking. They could have easily just added an echo effect to denote that she's thinking but instead she talks verbally to the audience, going "GE WILIKERS I HAVE TO FIND THE MASK!"
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There's probably a lot of reasons that could cause this, but if I had a gun to my head and was forced to pick one, I'd say it's due to the often repeated advice to avoid narration whenever possible.

Narration is often seen as or thought to lead writers to be "lazy" or "overly expository" when not done for a stylistic reason like Scorsese or something, as narrating could lead to more "telling" rather than "showing." Which to an extent is true, and there's plenty of example one could find where writers simply have characters explain what they're feeling or thinking.

The problem I believe is that writers like these think they should avoid it altogether and just have the character talk to themselves since that's more "relatable" or "realistic" and therefore circumvents the Narration Bad™ rule, because ultimately, they  want the audience to hear what the character(s) thinking.

What they fail to understand (in my hypothetical reality at least) is that narration is perfectly fine if it reveals something that would otherwise not be revealed through the visuals or actions of the characters alone, thus leading to unnecessary and awkward dialogue directed toward the audience.
 
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Slimy Time said:
That sounds stupid and somewhat pointless. No doubt is an excuse for the mishmash of different cultures. Though if this all ends up being a Purgatory which proves God as the one true God, what might be a bit based.
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The point is they want to make a new God of War game but consistently do not have the balls to actually move on from Kratos (even though they've been signposting Artreus as the new protag for like a decade now) so this takes places in a spacetime away from Kratos but where if it does badly they can just go back to Kratos again.
 
Yesterday, before the Sony presentation, there was the "Summer Game Fest: Black Voices in Gaming Showcase" aka the Dorito Pope nigga showcase for ESG points.


I skimmed through it was and surprised that most of these games don't even feature black characters to begin with, and some of them actually look good. Yeah, the premises is black devs, but I'd assume they'd be focusing on uniquely black games..

One of the games was actually interesting, a Castlevania clone with some great pixel art, featuring pale-white vampires and no nigga in sight.
I looked up the "black" developer and turns out she is a "white-passing", indigenous and black descendant woman from Brazil. You couldn't make me believe she's a nigga no matter how hard you tried.

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Is the black-developed game market this grim that they have to fall back on 5%-black people?
I wonder for how many years they'll keep this farce of a presentation going before they quietly pull the plug.
 
Wesker said:
Was Goy of War ever good? It looks like they've shit out the same thing over and over for years now.
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The original PS2/PS3 trilogy is solid and a lot of fun. It's incredibly cheesy and ham-fisted but in a good way IMO. The setting being ancient Greece is stunning, and if you can find the HD release of GoW1-2 and the ps3 GOW3 for cheap, you'll have a good weekend. There's lots of bare-breasted ladies, there's a sex mini game, you can rip the heads off of certain enemies and the puzzles and secrets are decent for the fact that it's an action RPG.
However if you are expecting a 1:1 faithful rendition of ancient Greece and the mythology being 100% accurate, you'll be disappointed.

I haven't personally played any of the prequel/spinoff/sequels for other consoles like the PSP games but I have heard they are closer in spirit to the original trilogy than Dad of War.
 
PetiteFeet said:
The original PS2/PS3 trilogy is solid and a lot of fun. It's incredibly cheesy and ham-fisted but in a good way IMO. The setting being ancient Greece is stunning, and if you can find the HD release of GoW1-2 and the ps3 GOW3 for cheap, you'll have a good weekend. There's lots of bare-breasted ladies, there's a sex mini game, you can rip the heads off of certain enemies and the puzzles and secrets are decent for the fact that it's an action RPG.
However if you are expecting a 1:1 faithful rendition of ancient Greece and the mythology being 100% accurate, you'll be disappointed.

I haven't personally played any of the prequel/spinoff/sequels for other consoles like the PSP games but I have heard they are closer in spirit to the original trilogy than Dad of War.
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Chains of Olympus was decent. I hear the sequel was better.
 
The Noose King said:
There's probably a lot of reasons that could cause this, but if I had a gun to my head and was forced to pick one, I'd say it's due to the often repeated advice to avoid narration whenever possible.
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It's also to avoid environmental storytelling which is a lost art these days.
 
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Terror Sandwich said:
Yesterday, before the Sony presentation, there was the "Summer Game Fest: Black Voices in Gaming Showcase" aka the Dorito Pope nigga showcase for ESG points.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_RXz02yDyCc
I skimmed through it was and surprised that most of these games don't even feature black characters to begin with, and some of them actually look good. Yeah, the premises is black devs, but I'd assume they'd be focusing on uniquely black games..

One of the games was actually interesting, a Castlevania clone with some great pixel art, featuring pale-white vampires and no nigga in sight.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_NJnHZ1oYjMI looked up the "black" developer and turns out she is a "white-passing", indigenous and black descendant woman from Brazil. You couldn't make me believe she's a nigga no matter how hard you tried.

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Is the black-developed game market this grim that they have to fall back on 5%-black people?
I wonder for how many years they'll keep this farce of a presentation going before they quietly pull the plug.
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I was watching this with 4chan /v/(glad to say there's still a fun community centered around suffering through a second monitor not-e3 show).
This presentation made us all triple racist. To put it simply there's at least 40 minutes dedicated to random retards with webcam mics talking endlessly about themselves. There's
>some fatty talking about his shitty 3d anime fighter
>some guy who is the combat designer for God of War 2018 spending a decade talking about his martial arts experience(he watched a bunch of 80's martial arts films and was inspired).
>some zesty nigger from belgium talking about his bullshit artsy fartsy game. My favorite quote from that was "I put the names of People of Color™ who were shot by the police in Belgium on chairs around a campfire, because I like to imagine sitting around with them in a campfire and hearing what they have to say"

The rest of the show was so-so. I think Bathory, Rogue Eclipse(roguelite space dogfighting game) and Diesel Knights(Not-Titanfall) looked interesting.
 
Realistically, the only thing I'm even slightly interested in so far is Control 2, just cause I liked the first game a decent amount. But I'm not exactly head over heels trying to see trailers or whatever for it. If it's good I'll eventually get it on sale. Remedy has been showing itself to be a mixed bag with how they recast chars or do questionable casting in general, or wasting dev time making a shitty FPS games sponsored by sketchy Chinese payrolling companies.

That and they are really trying to insert live action into everything, as well as focus on huge budgets they barely make back if that, meaning they make retarded deals to make projects not collapse under monetary mismanagement.

I'll likely never even play Alan Wake 2 because of the epic store exclusivity.
 
Rumors got it Nintendo is planning a direct next week on Tuesday, should be interesting to see what they can scrape from the bottom of the barrel.
 
If there's anything I think we could see at a direct... mario maker 3 is a big one, the first smash game not directed by sakurai.... but if I'm being honest? What I expect is a trailer for the zelda movie followed by the oot remake, ala starfox 64 remake direct.
 
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