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E3 2018 Press Conference: Bethesda

Today I have been really productive (*taps on shoulder*) and have 2 posts for you, so let's jump right in!

Bethesda really outdid themselves by showing quite a few games in the first half of their press conference, then showing basically only 2 more in the second half. Here's the complete list of announcements:
  • Rage 2
  • The Elder Scrolls: Legends
  • The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset
  • DOOM Eternal
  • Quake Champions
  • Prey Mooncrash & Typhon Hunter
  • Wolfenstein II for Nintendo Switch
  • Wolfenstein Young Blood
  • Wolfenstein Cyberpilot
  • Skyrim Very Special Edition
  • Fallout 76
  • Fallout Shelter for PS4 and Nintendo Switch
  • The Elder Scrolls: Blades
  • Starfield
  • The Elder Scrolls VI

The show kicked off with a bang: Andrew W. K. on stage, performing live to "introduce" Rage 2. I have to say, I didn't really like the original Rage. It wasn't a bad game and maybe it was my mistake to rush through the storyline instead of exploring, but it didn't really feel like an open world game and the weapons didn't feel "right" somehow. I can't really put my finger on it. Here's hoping that with Avalanche Studios (who made the beautiful open world of Mad Max) Rage 2 will be better. The gameplay certainly looked great!

After some TES games (which I'll simply skip) we've got a teaser of DOOM Eternal. "Hell on Earth". And that's it. What is it? A DLC? A new game? They didn't tell. Some sites say that it'll be a new game, but we won't know for sure until QuakeCon in August.


Prey also got 2 major updates. The first (free!) update went live during the press conference and is called Mooncrash. Looks like a pretty fun game mode: escape the moon, but every time you die the "level" will be different (enemy placement and environmental dangers shift around). The second update is called Typhon Hunter and will feature VR! Hell yeah!

Next, a bunch of Wolfenstein announcements to "fuck Nazis on every platform possible". Wolfenstein II - The New Colossus is coming to the Switch, B.J.'s twins will get their own (co-op) game called Wolfenstein Young Blood and another VR game: Wolfenstein Cyberpilot. Damn Bethesda, leave some crumbs for the other publishers as well

Skyrim will also be available for Amazon Alexa... Oh, wait. :D It's good to see that Bethesda can joke about themselves and that they finally realized, that the should move forward instead of milking Skyrim even more. But thanks for the laugh.

This was about half time. And with that for me the interesting part ended. Fallout 76 got a good 30 minutes of detailed presentation, Fallout Shelter was announced for PS4 and Switch and well... we got another "Skyrim" called The Elder Scrolls: Blades. I have to mention this one, not because I care about TES, but because the platform the game will be available on: basically EVERY. FUCKING. PLATFORM. Cross-platform multiplayer. A PC gamer with a VR headset playing against somebody using their mobile phone. This is insane! I really hope that the concept works and that we will see more cross-platform games like this one in the future.

Okay, there was another announcement, which got my attention: Starfield. Even though basically nothing was shown it got the attention of the audience and I'll be keeping an eye out for what this game will be.

Last, but not least TES fans got their long awaited wish fulfilled: The Elder Scrolls VI is confirmed. What it will be? Well, they didn't say. The announcement wasn't more than last year's announcement of Metroid Prime 4. A logo (and some landscape)...

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