Nintendo E3 Direct 2018, Nintendo Treehouse 2018, Nintendo Invitationals 2018, and Other Platform E3 Nonsense (God Bless)

To be fair, Jas, we didn't apply. I'm definitely gonna try to blag my way into TGS off the back of gintendo and Monster Mash

That would be quality! Also I'm sure folk with much worse content than yourself have blagged passes for loads of events.

I definitely blagged my way into Rezzed, and I think that's how me and Mas got into EGX although i may be misremembering.

No it's from quality content.

I think the first time we got in because we were new but not sure about how I got in the second time but not beyond.

From what I've seen, I think getting in to E3 or Gamescom wouldn't be that difficult it's just getting there is the issue. TGS might be different as I always get the impression from western press they're not liked at the show and only get allowed to go because likes of Namco, Square want to reach a global audience. That I've got no idea how you'd get on trying to get in.

My sheer charm and good looks.

Square Enix is having a conference, 6 pm Monday the 11th baybay

We could see TWEWY, Octopath, Final Fantasy XV Year 2 content, XIV expansion, Shadows of the Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest XI, Kingdom Hearts 3, Avengers, Life is Strange Season 2, Left Alive, Final Fantasy VII Remake.

I wouldn't be shocked to see & I think I even said it in my predictions a few years ago Final Fantasy XVI as I think Square has to have something big to show which could be Avengers, they could go big on KHIII and announce the date, and who knows what's happening with VII but XVI would bigger than them all,.

I think the biggest beneficiary of that is likely to be Cappa, as all the JRPGs get put in that instead of the Nintendo showing.

Anyway Bravely Third please.

It's actually not a conference but more like a Nintendo Direct or what Nintendo does at E3.

Nah Nintendo are going to have NIS instead show a bunch of things of.

That's NIS-e to hear.

I reckon Square will go big on FFVI:R this year. I can envisage a proper gameplay demo and a release date of what will depressingly be part one of the game.

For VI, doubt it 😁 and can't see it for VII either as we've heard it's changed devs along with plan's etc

Would XIV really be that big though? Square have proven after the XV fiasco that they can't even finish their games after a decade in the workshed now, and even after releasing a "definitive edition" the game feels like it's barely sixty percent done.

I hate to sound like a hater but Square haven't been the premier JRPG devs to watch for a very long while now. As a publisher they're still great, Nier Automata is reputedly excellent (really need to stop mucking around and give that game a play, got six PS4 games just sitting on the shelf collecting dust. Curse you Fire Emblem Heroes and DBZ Dokkan Battle addictions!) and the Bravely duo were fantastic, but as far as their major in-house productions go they've dropped the ball in a major way. They seem to lack any sense of cohesive vision, and it's harming their games badly.

Same goes for the VII remake. It should be an extremely simple project (comparatively speaking, I'm not saying big budget development is simple), but because of the lack of a cohesive vision they've seemingly made little to no progress despite announcing it three(? My perception of time is shoddy nowadays) years ago.

And honestly considering how often Square Enix announces productions that are half a decade away at least I wonder when people are simply going to stop getting excited by their announcements.

I think XV sold well in the end and we don't know what the likes of Silicon (Bravely Team) are doing, would Square get them to do XVI for instance.

Who we backing for SMASH?
MkLeo
ZeRo
Armada
Abadango
Plup
Mr. R
Lucky
Mang0

The PC Gaming Show will be 11pm on Monday the 11th, if you care for that.

Zero's entering!?

Oh, ZeRo. Er, no idea. No Brits. I'll probably support anyone who has the guts to try out a new character, rather than sticking with Marth/Fox/whoever.

masofdas wrote:

Who we backing for SMASH?
MkLeo
ZeRo
Armada
Abadango
Plup
Mr. R
Lucky
Mang0

I know all these names!

I like Armada, humble yet dominant Swede, so he's my guy.

I know a grand total of none of those names.

Okay I fib, I've heard them around, but to say I know who they belong to beyond "some blokes who play Smash at the competitive level" would be a bit of a stretch.

As for Squenix. I would hope not, Silicon have better things to do tbh.  Like Bravely Third with Ringabel as the leading man.  

Yasssss. Also some TWEWYmix stuff ideally.

Yeah I'm thinking about getting behind Armada or MangO.

The Bravely guys are doing Octopath anyway, remembered that this morning.

Some news Splatoon is getting an announcement on the 9th of June which is before the championships but what it is, I have no idea but I'm going to guess Battle Royale mode.

Then we have

Walmart Canada with preorders that have been the big internet news:

Well they should stop doing Octopath.

I don't know what Sony is doing as we first heard today that would only be showing 4 games in a similar way to PSX then PS Blog put a post saying the 4 first party games will be shown along with 3rd party and indies plus a few surprises but no time, place or if it would a recording or what, now we've just found that there will be an audience.

Under a month to go! I officially feel less guilty about this being a thread now.

Yeah only 25 days till EA and my holiday.

04:00 am June 11th will be the big fancy press conference from Devolver Digital.

I doubt I'll catch any of this live but I'll watch the Devolver Digital presentation at some point, always a good laugh that lot.