Both Hours: It’s our Gamer Tuesday with Correspondent Grayson Hamilton. Up for discussion this week is the E3 Convention!
Radio Show topics (6.10.2014)
E3 2014 EDITION!!!
- Microsoft Keeps it Simple: GAMES
a. No hardware, no accessories, no mention of Kinect, just game after game after game
b. Halo: Master Chief Collection, Halo 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Evolve, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Sunset Overdrive, Fable: Legends,
c. Indie’s also get some spotlightà Ori and the Blind Forest, Inside, Scalebound
d. Surprise announcement: A re-imagining of cult classic PHANTOM DUST
e. Ends conference with new Crackdown coming 2015
f. final grade: A-
2. Sony’s Best of Times, Sony’s Worst of Times
a. Bungie’s Destiny coming to PS4 first, narrated by Peter Dinklage, and A white PS4 Bundle inbound for the holidays!
b. Some big hitters this year: The Order 1886, LittleBigPlanet 3, Bloodborne (Check out the gruesome trailer!), Far Cry 4, Dead Island 2, No Man’s Sky, GTA 5 for the PS4, Last of Us Remastered, Batman: Arkham Knight
c. yet again, Indie’s are bringing the creative energy: Abzu, Entwined (which you can buy right NOW),
d. Surprise announcement: A remastering of GRIM FANDANGO by Tim Schafer!!
e. New SCEA CEO Shawn Layden throws a bunch of numbers and stats at us, destroys pacing and brings the show to a slow and boring stutter
f. Quick mention of project Morpheus, though no footage; Vita gets a small mention, but nothing major to support it
g. Playstation TV?! What is this POWERS that you speak of??
h. Dropped the mic with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
i. Final Grade: B-
3. Nintendo: Quality of Quantity
a. Not a live conference, just another Nintendo Direct video…
b. …but Reggie and Miyamoto FIGHT!! And some genuinely funny Robot Chicken skits
c. Majority of time spent with Super Smash Bros., new maps, customizable mii fighters, new characters, new story modes, etc.
d. What in the heck are these Amiibos…?
e. New pokemon footage, debut of Yoshi Wooly World, Mario Maker, Toad’s Treasure Tracker, Kirby: Rainbow Curse
f. An OPEN-WORLD ZELDA game?!?
g. Surprise announcement: Splatoon, mulit-player action shooter
h. New Star Fox announced, but not during the show and no footage shown… why?
i. Final Grade: B+
4. EA, Ubisoft Were There Too!
a. Assasin’s Creed Unity boasting 4-player story co-op
b. EA teases Star Wars: Battlefront behind the scenes, but almost no game footage anywhere
c. commitment to sports games with NHL 2015, Fifa 15, and Bruce Lee in a UFC game?
d. Bioware exploring new ideas with Mass Effect 4, but where can the story go from here?
So… DO WE HAVE A WINNER???