Andrew POE!

I picked up my PS4 copy from Best Buy yesterday. It's already the best looking game I've ever seen. Although I sorta think the M rating is a bit of a misnomer. It's no more violent thus far than Arkham City. I still want to Platinum Arkham Asylum, City, Origins and Blackgate Vita & PS3 before this though. Yes I'm nuts.

Am I the only one who loved that game? It wasn't quite Virtua Tennis, but it was a super fun game. Rockstar Table Tennis 2 with GTAV's engine...HOLY SHIT day freakin' 1.

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen isn't too bad but extremely lengthy and kind of a weird game. I got one trophy left from a Platinum in Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Getting Batman: Arkham Knight Tuesday.

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I found this year's E3 to be incredible in terms of what's coming in the next few years but also great in what's coming this year and next. Just Cause 3 is coming out this year -- Fallout 4 is coming out this year (which utterly surprised me), Rise of the Tomb Raider has a release date this year, Mass Effect Andromeda and The Division are coming next year, Horizon: Zero Dawn gets announced, Dark Souls 3 is coming next year....and so forth. Even if you take away TLG/FFVII Remake/Shenmue 3 announcements, it is still a great E3. I just hope the strategy next year isn't to do announcements like this when the games won't be ready anytime soon; but I have a feeling that Sony (and Microsoft) are going to start doing this -- it wouldn't surprise me if Sony announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a PS4 exclusive and Microsoft announces Crimson Skies. Although I wondered why we hadn't heard anything about Scalebound or Phantom Dust (I personally think Phantom Dust is dead). The only thing disappointing was Nintendo and you can tell they are ramping up their "Nintendo NX" console.

Part of me hopes that Microsoft is at least open to the idea of unlocking regions for Xbox 360 in backwards compatibility on the Xbox One since (please correct me) the Xbox One is region free. Can't wait to see people play Tetris The Grandmaster, Japanese idol games, and Cave shmups and other shmups on Xbox One.

It beats the hell outta SimCity (2013), so yes.

If Andromeda follows the events of Mass Effect 3, I think the story would be along the lines of this: Well?

If Sony can announce The Last Guardian, FF7 HD Remake AND Shenmue 3 for PS4, then they can revive Beyond Good & Evil 2 and (for the hell of it) Psychonauts 2 at next year's E3. If they get Gabe Newell to announce Half-Life 3 for PS4 next year, it's over for Microsoft this gen.

My haul during this Steam sale is relatively small compared to years past. I almost got Endless Legend & Civ Beyond Earth but I decided to wait too late on this. I got Danmaku Unlimited 2, Van Helsing 3, Developer Alliance bundle, Humble Bundle - Retroism, This War of Mine, and The Guild Collection and that's it. I'm thinking of getting Ryse and Dead Rising 3 since I don't have a Xbox One.

That is total bullshit. In these games, I look forward just as much to winning friends and influencing people as I do to blowing things up. I am a charismatic coalition builder and a deadly warrior. PARAGON~! What I mean is I want it to be more of a 'space western' where the elements are just as likely to kill people in the game as much as the enemies. The first Mass Effect actually did this but the later games strayed a bit. I also don't want my main character to be "Space Human Jesus" like Shepard was in the main trilogy. I want him/her to just try to survive and hope everyone on his/her ship doesn't try to stab their commander in the back so they can get their cut. Sure, the character will have loyalty to others but it's more of his loyalty than their loyalty. Who knows, they won't do any of this.

My concerns with E3: 1) No showing of Zelda Wii U whatsoever. The rumor going around is Nintendo is preparing the game for the Nintendo NX/Next and the Wii U may be the first Nintendo console without a mainline Zelda game. 2) Although Sony had a better conference, most of their highlights are not for games releasing in 2015. They have a very thin line. Not as thin as Microsoft's, but pretty close. 3) Microsoft's Rare Repeat is a "FU" to Rare fans. We don't want to play Knight Lore on Xbox One -- we want to play an original, new Rare game that takes advantage of the Xbox One. Sea of Thieves didn't really impress me and looks like a F2P MMO. I guess that's the problem with Microsoft -- they have executives looking at their phones when developers do presentations for them, not actual gamers. 4) As a Xbox 360 owner, I'm not very happy with backwards compatibility on Xbox One. Hopefully this won't speed up the process for Microsoft's Xbox 360 service to shut down. Maybe it won't and hopefully backwards compatibility is full compatibility (including multiplayer). 5) Rise of the Tomb Raider looks amazing and I can't wait to see it on PS4 in 2016 or 2017 (if at all). 6) Games that I wished were there: Dead Island 2, Sunset Overdrive 2, Quantic Dreams' new project, Mafia III, Aszu, Below, Homefront The Revolution, and some others. I was thoroughly impressed with Horizon: Zero Dawn. It looks to tap that Dragon's Dogma/Dark Souls itch....it felt like a Japanese game, but it was made by Guerrilla Games.

People said the same about Yakuza 5 US release, Shenmue 3, FFVII remake and The Last Guardian. It would be completely in Sony's playbook (no pun intended) to do it at this point. Microsoft throws millions of dollars at the NFL, Sony makes fanboys rush out day 1 to buy a game.

I hope Mass Effect Andromeda is more of a Firefly to Mass Effect Trilogy's Star Trek. Basically no amount of goodwill and helping other alien races will help you.

What I noticed about Sony's conference is there were fewer games for 2015 and more for 2016 and beyond. Not really good, but they are relying on third party support which for the rest of the year is OK. The only thing disappointing is no confirmation of a U.S. release date for Persona 5. Since Sony has the 'big whales' captured -- they need to revive Agent, fund a Psychonauts 2, get Ubisoft to release Rainbow Six Patriots as a PS4 exclusive, and get Mega Man Legends 3 on PS4. Oh, and they probably could publish Crackdown 3 and Black Tusk/The Coalition's abandoned original IP while we're at it. They are seriously in Microsoft's position from last gen.

The Last Freakin' Guardian. Shenmue 3 kickstarter. FFVII remake. Uncharted 4 gameplay. Someone at Microsoft is running around yelling "Game over man!"

I wasn't really that jazzed by the new Doom. It sorta seems like they have the enemies give you stuff like a pinata after they die. Which isn't the point of Doom. Hopefully, they were playing on Easy/Normal and the harder difficulties is the true Doom experience. The original Doom reboot I was more excited about -- it felt like Killzone and Resistance with the enemies of Doom. This, it's trying too much to be like Halo. The Forge/level editor looks incredible though -- I can foresee someone recreating the original Doom using the level editor with the new engine, which will be great. Dishonored II will be great and I can't wait. I was somewhat surprised that Machinegames or Tango Gameworks didn't have anything to announce. Too soon after Wolfenstein: TNO/TOB and The Evil Within?

It's rumored to be done by the same team as Legend of Korra, so Platinum's C-team. Still, the cel-shaded look is just SICK.

Craig H, I got my knife and fork ready for crow. OH MY GOD.

The leaks are happening but it seems more like "OK here's the information you wanted anyway." It's not quite as massive where schedules were online a week before E3. It's rumored that Sony will be unveiling a PS Move 2 controller and "Project Morpheus" has a new name of PlayStation RealEyes. Still, all this starts tonight with Bethesda. I'm hoping that the Doom game gets a release date.

I'm genuinely excited that Tearaway Unfolded, Tales of Zestiria and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture got release dates.

IGN posted a leaked image of Dark Souls III. I'll be there day 1 no matter what (I still need to Platinum Bloodborne, Dark Souls 1 & 2 and Dark Souls II PS4....)

Andrew_POE! reporting in.

Platinum'ed Resistance: Burning Skies on PSVita over the weekend. Well, it's slightly better than Resistance: Retribution. Very easy Platinum.

When would I ever say I knew what was going to happen? I'm just surprised that Bethesda hasn't announced the Remaster treatment yet. I mean they're doing a friggin' remaster of Arcania: The Complete Tale on PS4 and NO ONE bought that on PS3. Still, if Fallout 4 comes out this year, WHOA.