The 5 E3 2014 Conferences From Worst to Best
2. Sony
“Wow.” That’s probably what a lot of people think after Sony’s press conference. Destiny, The Order 1886 gameplay, standalone inFamous expansions and a retroactive LittleBigPlanet 3 all made it onstage in the first few minutes. It rolled on with Bloodborne, the Playstation 4 Dark Souls, but also actual gameplay for Far Cry 4, which will have unprecedented single-copy multiplayer. Why didn’t Ubisoft plug that?
There’s too much to recap all of it, but a million great indie games also got ample screen time, as well as a remake for Grim Fandango and Journey developers’ new Abzu adventure. None were as impressive as No Man’s Sky though, casually spawning an entire universe in its short demo.
Unfortunately, the second hour of the program goes for Sony’s license pitches with TV series, streaming content and trying to pass off “connections” as a prime consumer request. Two words: Twitter fridges. It even uses Nirvana to sell rehashed content. That’s not cool. Then again, it also unveils a ton of free games, a blip of handheld content and more blockbusters like Metal Gear Solid, GTA V and Batman Arkham Knight, even if those didn’t impress. After jabbing at EA, the show concludes strongly with a new Uncharted.
The Good:• Not enough fingers to count all these games.
• Standalone inFamous: Second Son DLC.
• Bloodborne is Dark Souls, but even more impressive.
• Makes Far Cry 4 look good for Ubisoft and has single-copy multiplayer.
• So much indie support gets screen time on stage.
• No Man’s Sky, the endless adventure into Instagram space.
• Tons of Free-to-Play games planned.
The Bad:
• Loses crowd to boring, lengthy TV and media focus.
• Keeps implying players’ biggest demand is connectivity when it’s absolutely not.
• Directly dissing competitors is the line between a joke and being snide.
• You don’t promote capitalism with anti-establishment music.
Antonio is kinda original, at least they can go to COMPLETELY different games. And no, giants, swap force, and trap team aren't different games.
Actually Skylanders copied off of U.B. Funkies. (It drives me crazy when people say Skylanders was original. And if you don't know what U.B. Funkeys is just google it.)
agreed