E3 2016 Gamers' Hangout Discussion

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

 

June 14-16, 2016, at the Los Angeles Convention Center

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Neowin topics

 

E3 2016 Microsoft Press Conference Discussion
E3 2016 Nintendo Treehouse Live Discussion
E3 2016 Sony Press Conference Discussion

 

 

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Briefing times
 

EA

Sunday 12th June

US PDT 13:00PM

BST 21:00PM

AEST 06:00AM (Monday 13th June)

 

Bethesda

Sunday 12th June

US PDT 19:00PM

BST 03:00AM

AEST 12:00PM (Monday 13th June)

 

PC Gamer Show

Monday 13th June

US PDT 11:30AM

BST 19:30AM

AEST 04:30AM (Tuesday 14th June)

 

Ubisoft

Monday 13th June

US PDT 13:00PM

BST 21:00PM

AEST 06:00AM (Tuesday 14th June)

 

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Twitch Stream Schedule & Twitch streams

http://www.twitch.tv/event/e3

 

 

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Exhibitors

Full list:
http://uk.ign.com/wikis/e3/E3_2016_Exhibitor_List

 

 

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What was shown:

 

EA:

• Titanfall 2 (beta signup at Titanfall.com)
• Madden NFL '17
• New focus on eSports
• Mass Effect Andromeda, powered by Frostbite
• New program 'Play To Give' announced. Rewarding charities by challenging players in games. https://t.co/WakRAZE6uY
• Fifa 17, also powered by Frostbite. New story mode
• EA Originals announced (indie program)
• First EA Originals game shown, Fe, by Zoink based in Sweden
• New SW Battlefront, Galaxies and TOR content releasing this year
• New DICE and Motive Battlefront game in 2017. Content from new films included
• Visceral Games releasing new SW title in 2018
• Respawn's SW title is 3rd person action game
• Battlefield 1, focus on destruction, dynamic weather, airships and battleships
• Battlefield 1 open beta for Insiders later this summer

 

Bethesda:

 

• Dishonored 2
• Prey (reboot)
• Quake Champions (PC exclusive arena shooter)
• Skyrim Special Edition (free upgrade for current PC owners of game+DLC or Legendary edt). Releasing October '16
• DOOM updates inc FFA mode. Changes handled in-house by id. Demo launched of the first level
• Fallout 4 DLC news and Vive VR mode announced
• Fallout Shelter for PC
• The Elder Scrolls Online updates, Dark Brotherhood DLC and new level system
• The Elder Scrolls Legends available on mobile devices

 

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Games

 

Full list:
http://uk.ign.com/wikis/e3/Games_at_E3_2016
 

 

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Live streams

 

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/

https://gaming.youtube.com/e3
http://www.ign.com/events/e3
http://www.spike.com

https://www.twitch.tv/event/E3

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

 

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

EA conf about to start. Wishlist is Skate and SSX, doubt either will happen though.

 

Anyone else watching?

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

Watching but waiting for it to start...already running late

 

Waiting for more Titanfall news

 

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Far too much time wasted on Fifa

[George P Global Moderator]

Hate it or love it Fifa is a big seller for EA, they're going to push it hard, specially this year.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

EA's sounded terrible, glad I skipped.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

1 minute ago, Audioboxer said:

EA's sounded terrible, glad I skipped.

you can read my handy little bulletpoint list in OP and thank me later you didn't have to suffer the stream

[George P Global Moderator]

They have a bunch of Star Wars games coming, if you're big on those should make you happy.  I'm only interested in new Mass Effect at this point.

[Jose_49]

Seriously, wth with these leaks? After seeing EA's presentation I felt they gave up. It was uninspiring, as if they were presenting a PPT at college. All the delight they wanted to save for us was killed by the uncontrolled amount of leaks! 

 

This sucks. There is no reason to watch E3 if there are no special surprises coming up.  Where is the delight?! Even if I try to refrain myself from spoilers all the news site, including Gamespot have the leaked version of the new Microsoft console. 

 

/rant. 

 

 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

8 minutes ago, Jose_49 said:

Seriously, wth with these leaks? After seeing EA's presentation I felt they gave up. It was uninspiring, as if they were presenting a PPT at college. All the delight they wanted to save for us was killed by the uncontrolled amount of leaks! 

 

This sucks. There is no reason to watch E3 if there are no special surprises coming up.  Where is the delight?! Even if I try to refrain myself from spoilers all the news site, including Gamespot have the leaked version of the new Microsoft console. 

 

/rant. 

/shrug.

 

Maybe the companies should do a better job at controlling their "secrets".

 

Heard from a friend that Microsoft, Apple and Elon Musk are partnering up and will announce a revolutionary product..."game changer" doesn't even describe it accurately.  Believe that will be on the 16th.  

[spaceelf]

Frankly I don't know why anyone cares about E3, haven't for years.  Sometimes you'll see something cool but a lot of the big reveals are at other events now.

[Melfster]

There is no point E3 anymore it better for companies to announce there product when they are ready to ship rather then years before hand.  Also retailers who are the show was originally designed for are that important.  I think long run E3 will die.  Better to do seperate events for individual companies.

 

[Jose_49]

I loved to see all the emotion and every game that was going to come up so I could start building some hype. It was about expecting the next cool game. 

[Vandalsquad]

Watching Bethesda stream now, QUAKE. Finally.

[soniqstylz]

 

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Quote

Quake Champions features a roster of unique characters, each with their own distinctive abilities, allowing you to fight the way you want.

Way to ###### on a franchise Bethesda.

 

 

[vcfan]

the doom demo is out on xb1

[George P Global Moderator]

New Pray sounds/looks interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on that one.

[trag3dy]

All in all a fairly underwhelming showing.

 

Maybe I just missed it but did they say anything about the Skyrim remaster on pc? Are we getting the upgraded engine too? And if so are they going force us to buy it again? Because to me this should be a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the game.

[George P Global Moderator]

49 minutes ago, trag3dy said:

All in all a fairly underwhelming showing.

 

Maybe I just missed it but did they say anything about the Skyrim remaster on pc? Are we getting the upgraded engine too? And if so are they going force us to buy it again? Because to me this should be a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the game.

I think PC was/is listed as well, so it's not console only.  As far as buying it again, I'd say odds are you probably have to, I don't know.  I'm not interested in the game though so I haven't been keeping up with it too much, my info could be off.

[spaceelf]

7 hours ago, Jose_49 said:

I loved to see all the emotion and every game that was going to come up so I could start building some hype. It was about expecting the next cool game. 

last time I remember being impressed with an event was all the reveals at the Video Game Awards.  And I'm not even sure if I watched it, heh.

 

E3 used to be the thing, but now it's between E3, PAX, TGS, VGA, Gamescom, and some dev specific events.

[Skiver Veteran]

I agree, not sure if this has been happening more and more recently but this year I've at least noticed that there seems to be videos and articles about whats happening at E3 to the point there seems to be very little reason to actually follow it.

[Vandalsquad]

1 hour ago, trag3dy said:

All in all a fairly underwhelming showing.

 

Maybe I just missed it but did they say anything about the Skyrim remaster on pc? Are we getting the upgraded engine too? And if so are they going force us to buy it again? Because to me this should be a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the game.

 

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

Ha with you there, I made the same comment in one of the E3 topics. 

 

Yes it may not hold the same excitement it did years back, but there's not denying that there are still a large number of announcements made and footage released. I started watching the EA one last night and after seeing they didn't really show anything new on Titanfall besides that leaked trailer I switched off.