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E3 2018 Press Conference: PC Gaming Show

Acutally, it's not a press conference, but somehow it has been tradition for the last 4 years to have a PC Gaming Show, so also added it to my list. There's been quite a lot of announcements:
  • Satisfactory
  • neo cab
  • Mavericks: Proving Grounds
  • The Forgotten City
  • Star Control: Origins
  • Hunt Showdown
  • Archangel: Hellfire
  • The Sinking City
  • Warframe: The Sacrifice + TennoCon/TennoLive
  • Sega (coming soon to PC and world premiere announcements):
    • Shenmue I + II
    • Shining Resonance - Refrain
    • Yakuza Kiwami
    • Valkyria Chronicles 4
    • Yakuza Zero
  • Killing Floor 2 - The Summer Sideshow: Treacherous Skies (the 2nd of 4 major updates in 2018)
  • Road Redemption
  • Maneater
  • Untitled Publisher:
    • Bravery Network Online
    • Morning Star
    • Overwhelm
  • Jurassic World: Evolution
  • Stormland
  • Night Call
  • Sable
  • Star Citizen Alpha 3.2
  • Acer Predator (this was basically an ad break) 
  • Genesis Alpha One
  • Don't Starve: Hamlet
  • Just Cause 4 and the Apex Engine
  • Overkill's The Walking Dead
  • Telltale's The Walking Dead - The Final Season
  • Noita
  • Two Point Hospital
  • Realm Royale
  • Ooblets
  • Anno 1800
  • Rapture Rejects
  • Hitman 2
Whoa, that's a big list. Well, the show was over 2 hours long (including the cringy pre-show quiz). So many games, yet so little interest... While there were a few interesting games, the show overall was pretty disappointing for me. Lots of early access games (I HATE early access, but that would fill another blog post), quite a few battle royale games (what did you expect? it's the current hype!) and generally genres which I don't like.


All in all I was only excited about 2 games. The first one is probably a game I'll never get to play: Stormland. Of course it's a VR game (did I tell you about my love for VR? :P), unfortunately it's an Oculus exclusive and I only have a PlayStation VR. The footage looked absolutely gorgeous and overall it sounded like a really solid game with a good idea behind it. I'm crossing my fingers, that it'll be only a timed exclusive and that the game will also come for Vive and PSVR sometime later.

The other game is from one of my favorite franchises: Overkill's The Walking Dead. While I like the Telltale Walking Dead Series, I definitely love realistic graphics and first person games a lot more. This one is right up my alley. I just hope that it won't turn out a disaster like that AMC Walking Dead game. Remember that one? Probably not, because it was removed from all stores and everybody involved hopes that that game is forgotten forever.

That's it for the PC Gaming Show. I still have 2 shows to go: Sony and Nintendo, they'll follow tomorrow and the day after.

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