E3 2015: Square Enix Press Conference

I am almost done with my E3 "coverage" for this year. Good. Need to play some games now.
Square starts with a Just Cause 3 trailer. Nice one.

Stream crashed for me, now it’s back. I get back, and a guy is on the stage talking about Kratos? What the…ooooh, creators.  And my browser crashed. Come on -.-

Back to Just Cause 3. Ok, so they've upgraded the grapple features. Nice. Game launches December 1st (or was it 3rd?) 2015. Busy time. I doubt they are doing themselves many favors there. Story trailer now. Some small time dictator wants globals domination. Ok, it’s Just Cause, I excuse it. Combat and grapple looks cool. Lots of shit blowing up, even riding a rocket. Sweet.
Couple of cool arcade modes with online highscores. Fair enough, but is there a cooperative multiplayer? No? Bummer.

Next game. Early footage. Oooh, Platinum. Some post-apocalyptic world. NieR flashing up on the screen. Boobs falling from the Sky. More Information coming Fall 2015. No wait, more information now: New Nier game for the PS4. A smiling moon takes the stage. It can talk. But nothing of interest has been said.

Tomb Raider. Behind the scene stuff. Lots of “ooh, look at that shiny Lara we made. It’s like real life and not torture porn at all”

Mobile talk now. Tomb Raider gets a Hitman Go style game. Looks Interesting. Lara Croft Go…

Kingdom Hearts now? Sorry Square, my Japanese is a bit rusty. Could you repeat what you just said? The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer again. Is this were we find out, that Square was trolling the internet again? No, still sticking to it. No more information however. They still plan on releasing the PC version of FF7 in the winter. It’s also coming to mobile.

And now it’s time for Kingdom Hearts. Some guy in the audience is losing his shit aaaaand it’s a mobile thing. I believe he’s rioting now. Looks like a decent mobile game, but I feel for the guy who was really losing it a minute ago. The game is called Unchained and links into Kingdom Hearts 3. Talking about Kingdom Hearts 3, we finally get to it now. The guy is losing his shit again. Again riots, as we only see 2 people sitting in a room talking PR speak. But nooow…back to talking. Ok, now, no, no, still not. One guy from the video is here, so he gets a cheer. Now? Maybe? Yes. We see Kingdom Hearts 3
It’s a chess game. Ok, looked sweet. But no idea about the Story. Can’t remember a thing about the first one, and don’t get me started on 2. They have a real mess to sort out.

World of Final Fantasy, the Vita and PS4 game we’ve seen at Sony’s press conference. It takes place in a completely new universe? Wow, that’s a first for the Final Fantasy franchise …not!
They believe that people aren’t interested in Final Fantasy anymore because it’s been such a long running series? Square really doesn’t get it.

IO Interactive takes the stage, so it’s Hitman time. December sees a digital release. So no retail? Interesting. It’s based on one time challenges, were your targets can escape for good, with no chance of repeating the mission? Interesting indeed. So no real story? Ok, maybe some story. Some spy faction that recruits fashion advocates? Ah, so only some targets appear one time. And contract mode from Absolution is getting a bigger focus. December 8th. Square Enix is making life hard for themselves. Just Cause 3 and Hitman only days apart in a season that’s already busy as hell.

A new Star Ocean. Fine with me. Integrity and Faithlessness. What a stupid subtitle. PS4 release announced. Why didn’t Sony show that at their E3? People complain about them not having many exclusives to show. There would be one. Ok, now I know. The trailer is bad. Like really bad. Like extremely bad. Coming to North America and Europe in 2016. This is a mess.

Deus Ex! Did she really just say Illuminati? Ok, best not to listen.
In-game trailer now! Yeah! More like cutscene trailer. Looks good though. Visually speaking Some aliasing issues maybe. 30fps at best “confirmed”. Looked quite stuttery, unless this was a Youtube compression issue. Playable at E3, coming early 2016.

Final Fantasy Portal App. Yawn.

A new RPG project by a new studio. Studio is called Tokyo RPG Factory. Guess we’ll only see JRPGs from them. Games working title: Project Setsuna.

I love it when Japanese people who don’t speak English get on stage and read from a teleprompter. You need to have some balls to do that.
That’s all folks!

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