Skip to main content

E3 2018 Press Conference: EA

It's that time of the year again! E3 is upon us!

E3 kicked off yesterday with the first press conference held by EA. This time I'm gonna make this a little bit different from previous years, by presenting you with a full list of games shown (or announced) and then writing a few sentences about the games I'm personally interested in.

Here are the games in order of appearance:
  • Battlefield V
  • FIFA 19
  • Origin Access Premier (well, not a game, but an announcement)
  • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
  • Star Wars Battlefront II
  • Unravel two
  • Sea of Solitude
  • Madden NFL 19
  • Command & Conquer Rivals
  • Anthem
So let's talk about the last 2.

C&C Rivals will be a mobile real time strategy game. Most likely free-to-play, but hopefully not pay-to-win (we know how free-to-play games look at EA - remember Need for Speed No Limits?). It's interesting to see an RTS game on mobile - a curious attempt to make a game in a genre which desperately needs to be played with a mouse - without a mouse. Reminds me a little bit of Halo Wars... Unfortunately the Android pre-alpha is not available in my country, so I wasn't able to try out the game for myself. Well, as long as it's not riddled with microtransactions, I'm down.

The second game is of course the most anticipated game from last year's E3: Anthem. Judging simply by the looks, it's "Destiny with jetpacks in the jungle". But hopefully it will be much more than that. Apparently EA learned from their mistakes, as it was stated in the press conference: Anthem will have no loot boxes and you can't buy gameplay advantage - only cosmetics. Hell yes! Check out some gameplay here:


The rest of the press conference was pretty much uninteresting for me, since it was only the same rehashes as every year (FIFA 19, Madden NFL 19) and I still don't care for Battlefield or Star Wars. EA CEO Andrew Wilson came on stage a few times and we could even hear a faint "apology" for last years MTX debacle. Well, he never actually apologized, but at least he said that they "listened to the players". Even the Design Director of Star Wars Battlefront II came on stage and apologized. Hopefully this will mean a step in the right direction.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Making a game for the PlayStation 2

Actually, not really for the PS2 - not natively at least. Rather making a game for YaBasic which can be played on the PS2. I started my geek life when I was 11 years old and got my first computer (486). A few years later I found some games written in QBasic on a gaming magazine's CD. That was the first time I came in contact with programming. I didn't understand much back then, because I wasn't taught before and I didn't speak any English (it's my 3rd language...) so I was just trying to figure out how the games worked by modifying stuff. These games were simple text adventures, where you had to make choices and the game would progress that way. There were no commands like "go left" or "pick up". The game presented you all the options and you had to input the number of the option you chose. And instead of "if-else" there were GOTOs everywhere. This was how I made my first game, a multiple-choice quiz with 10 questions. Since I didn...
1 comment
Read more

Copyright needs to die

In latest gaming news: Mafia was released on GOG! Yay! That's great news, because it means that you can get the game DRM-free and guaranteed to work with your Win7 or Win10 installation! (And it's a real classic.) But wait! What's that? You're sitting in a car. Waiting for that famous tune everybody associates with Mafia . You don't know the title or the artist, but you immediately know that song. It plays on the radio. At least: it used to play on the radio. It's silent now. The radio is broken. No sound. Enjoy the view while driving... The game released on GOG all right. Unfortunately due to copywrong it was released without it's original soundtrack. No licensed music. No Django Reinhardt playing Belleville (that's the song you were looking for ;)). All this because copyshit still "protects" music (more like "extorts" people) after over 75 years! Yes, Belleville was first released in 1942. I mean I would get it if co...
Post a Comment
Read more

Nintendo: Hey, listen!

This is a plea for Nintendo, I hope that somebody there will read it. A few days ago you announced the next "Mini" console in your attempt to make even more money of some 25+ year old games, released for the hundredth time. Please. Stop. Or at the very least change your business practices. I hope that I speak for a majority in the gaming community, when I say that we've just about had enough of yet another Nintendo console (or accessory...) which won't be available at launch because you simply can't (or won't?) make enough. We've had enough of the scalpers who pre-order all stock before we even get a chance to look the device up. Enough of the scalpers who then continue to sell those consoles on eBay for double or triple the price. Isn't it bad for your business? Let's talk about a hypothetical scenario: you could sell 1 million of the SNES Mini. But you produce only 500k. That makes 500k of your potential fans/customers angry, because...
Post a Comment
Read more