{"id":27360,"date":"2015-06-15T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27360"},"modified":"2018-06-29T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T07:07:12","slug":"hangout-ea-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27360","title":{"rendered":"Hangout: E3 Day Zero Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is doing their press conference today at 1PM Pacific Time. After that will be Ubisoft, and then some other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>We will be streaming the events and talking over them, giving our thoughts as things are revealed. Both the feed and the chat are embedded below. If those don&#8217;t work, then you can go here to see it on Twitch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/spoilerwarningshow\">twitch.tv\/spoilerwarningshow<\/a>. We&#8217;ll probably start streaming about ten minutes before the event begins.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/spoilerwarningshow\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"450\" width=\"750\"><\/iframe><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/spoilerwarningshow?tt_medium=live_embed&#038;tt_content=text_link\" style=\"padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px;text-decoration:underline;\">Watch live video from SpoilerWarningShow on www.twitch.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/spoilerwarningshow\/chat?popout=\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"500\" width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Also! If any of our normal friends showed up in the voice server: Josh and I were in a private channel because we don&#8217;t want too many voices in this and we don&#8217;t want too much cross-chatter clutter, or people hopping in and out. This does not mean you&#8217;re unwelcome to our normal hangouts. Sorry if you feel excluded. I really hope we don&#8217;t hurt anyone&#8217;s feelings. Next time we have a &#8220;Josh plays a game and we watch&#8221; type hangout you&#8217;re totally welcome and we&#8217;re happy to see you. It&#8217;s just that in a press conference we want to leave lots of room so the audience can hear the presenters. Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Off-the cuff commentary:<\/p>\n<p>The Electronic Arts show started very weak. Then they talked a lot about EA Sports titles. It&#8217;s totally reasonable and I&#8217;m not suggesting they shouldn&#8217;t have, but it kind of left us non-sports fans without much to get excited about. And then Twitch.tv DIED right at the end of the EA show, when we finally get to the end of a 70-minute deathmarch of EA Sports and not-ready-for-alpha AAA titles trying to pretend to be indies in the most insincere, shallow way possible. The moment Star Wars Battlefront came up, the whole site died and brought our show to an end. Not happy.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubisoft show started out amazingly well. For Honor is a new kind of PvP sword-based gameplay. It&#8217;s sort of like Chivalry meets&#8230; a MOBA? I guess? Really interesting. The Division looks like someone trying to build a co-op game for annonymous griefing assholes. The presentation was transparently staged, the tension was fake, and the conclusion sort of drove home what a terrible idea the game is. Rainbow Six looked interesting, like Counter Strike mixed with Payday. It&#8217;s not my thing, but I enjoyed the presentation and the gameplay felt like a genuine reflection of what the final product would be like. Then it ended with a yawn: More stupid Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Europe and some Ghost Recon that had a Far Cry vibe. <\/p>\n<p>And of course the whole thing had the coating of sadness as I realized that anything good will be pointlessly tied to UPlay on the PC. What a stupid, stupid waste.<\/p>\n<p>The big news at the Playstation event was Horizon, an out-of-nowhere post-apocalyptic open-world game where you&#8217;re a stone-age hunter fighting robot dinos. It looks gorgeous, it sounds crazy, and it feels totally new.   <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts is doing their press conference today at 1PM Pacific Time. After that will be Ubisoft, and then some other stuff. We will be streaming the events and talking over them, giving our thoughts as things are revealed. Both the feed and the chat are embedded below. 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