Jim & Grimcast E3 2015 Press Conferences Part 2

MAN THAT'S A LONG TITLE FOR A PODCAST.

This is part 2 of our Press Conference coverage, talking about the fabled Sony, and the other press conferences we were incredibly excited for. Plenty of good stuff there, and we do end up spending about an hour talking about Sony proper.

Then Jim's brain dies and Grim does a LOT of talking, so if you've ever wanted to know how Grim feels about certain things, THIS IS THE PODCAST TO FIND OUT!

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Sony

• THE LAST GUARDIAN
• IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS
• GAMEPLAY SHOWN
• I have no interest in this game but HOLY SHIT IT’S NOT DEAD WOW
• 2016
• Horizon: Zero Down
• Cave Paintings, old ones.. hyper post apocalyptic.. world has been reclaimed by nature and people are back to hunting spears and makeshift bows
• Stealth killed a robot raptor with a spear, picked up her arrows
• “Loot” prompt
• Showed arrow selection
• Roping a giant robot T-REX into the ground, blew off it’s turret and shot it with it
• I’m fucking sold day fucking one
• Hitman
• New hitman game, just called “hitman”
• Console & PC digital release
• Beta only on playstation
• Pre-order required
• Exclusive contracts for Playstation
• Street Fighter V
• Exclusive Beta for playstation
• No Man’s Sky
• Finally show shooting and combat
• Planet scanning while in orbit, revealed “points of interest” skyrim style
• Everything fully destructible, showed laser gun destroying environemnt
• “Sentinels” protect the environment from explorers
• Swimming underwater, fish
• Beacon found on planet, some minor combat
• Dreams
• New IP from MediaMolecule
• Motion control using the Dual Shock, “painting” environment
• Seems to be a media creation tool..? Not quite sure what it is
• FIREWATCH
• Trailer shown, still looks damn good
• Destiny
• Expansion trailer shown
• New subclasses revealed, they look pretty fucking cool
• Expansion hits 9/15/15
• Exclusive DLC for Playstation
• Assassin’s Creed
• Play as male or female
• guess they increased their budget and team by 1000!
• World of Final Fantasy
• Chibi characters
• Non-chibified characters look like KH characters
• PS4 and Vita 2016
• FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE
• is this real life, or is this just final fantasy
• looks fucking beautiful
• is this really happening holy fuck AAAAA
• Devolver Indie Showcase
• Hey look Eitr, that’s a cool game check it out
• Shenmue 3
• WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
• KICKSTART THIS GAME IF YOU LIKE SHENMUE
• THE 3RD MYTHICAL BEAST REVEALED WHAT THE FUCK
• WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON OH MY GOD
• Batman
• Cop trips LSD, starts shooting into a crowded coffee shop
• Joker gets cremated
• PS4 gets exclusive missions
• Mediabox Talk
• Playstation View lets you subscribe to individual channels (TV)
• PS+ members get a discount
• CALL OF DUTY
• WHAT?? WHAT??? WHAT??????
• Black OPS 3
• Sony getting to show COD INSTEAD OF MS WHAT??
• Looks pretty cool
• PS4 gets multiplayer Beta
• Likely getting exclusive maps
• Starwars Battlefront
• Battlefront shown again
• FINALLY SHOWED A INTERESTING LEVEL
• DESERTS ARE COOL FUCK YOU
• SOLO OR CO-OP YES YES YES
• FUCKING HYPED BUYING THIS
• Uncharted reveal
• I still think it’s secretly the bloodborne dlc
• It’s uncharted

Nintendo

• Star Fox
• Transforming vehicles
• Fox exited vehicle to collect something
• tethered to the vehicle while collecting
• Holiday 2015 release
• Looks pretty solid
• Gyro controls on Wii u to control it, aim at the screen with the gamepad
• Second screen like a cockpit view
• Miyamoto: “The R wing transformation makes sense”
• showed tank driving off terrain and transforming into a jet
• Being developed by Platinum games
• Skylanders
• Donkey Kong & Bowser are characters in Skylanders
• Toggled on the bottom of them to switch them from Skylanders to Amiibo
• Zelda Triforce Heroes
• Multiplayer game zelda game, similar to four swords
• New outfits for the characters, & they grant new abilities
• Link and 2 “dolls”
• Fashion savvy world~
• Collect items to create new outfits and buy them at the shop
• Online multiplayer
• Fall 2015
• Hyrule Warriors Legends
• All DLC characters included
• 2 new characters added
• Can change between characters on the map using the bottom screen
• 1st quarter 2016
• Metroid Prime Federation Force
• 3DS 4player co-op game
• First person shooter
• Includes Metroid Prime fastball
• 3V3 competitive game  
• 2016  
• Fire Emblem FATES
• Localized name is now FATES, not IF  
• 2016  
• FEXSMT
• Trailer shown, definitely looks like Persona cosplaying fire emblem alright  
• Xenoblade Chronicles X
• Trailer had a few quotes, interesting information
• Earth has been destroyed
• Marooned on a distant planet
• Mankind faces a new challenge
• To survive
• It’s time to suit up
• Dec 4, 2015
• Showed the mech suits, and some more action-based gameplay for the western audience
• Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer
• Amiibo cards adding villagers, furniture
• Sept. 25, 2015
• Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival
• Wii U party game
• Amiibo unlock characters to play in the game
• Holiday 2015
• Yarn Yoshi
• Challenge comes from collecting everything in the level
• Interested faded so fast I started playing with the hype meter again
• You can use amiibo to transform yoshi into a skin of that amiibo
• It looks fucking horrifying
• Oct. 16, 2015
• Yokai Watch
• Pokemons successor
• Overtaking Pokemons popularity among the youth in JP
• Holiday 2015
• Mario Maker
• You can stack enemies ontop of eachother
• Powerups wherever you want
• Amiibo grant you a cosmetic change
• Gigantic 8bit amiibo shown
• Enemies can go wherever, even normal enemies underwater
• Sept. 11, 2015

Square Enix

• Just Cause 3
• Looks fucking insane
• Grappling hook shoots in 2 directions
• you can control the tension
• grappling 3 helicopters together
• Unlimited C4
• 400 square miles of map
• Fully destructible buildings (it seems)
• Fuck it i’m sold
• Dec. 1, 2015
• NIER
• PLATINUM GAMES WHAT
• More info fall 2015
• Tomb Raider
• Showing the exact same trailer as Microsoft E3 Presser
• During fights she’ll get covered in blood, & sweat
• Snow will accumulate on her
• “Putting tombs back into tomb raider” (about fucking time)
• Lara Croft GO
• Based on the success of the Hitman GO games
• Looks pretty
• I’ll probably buy it
• Mobile game
• Kingdom Hearts 3
• Looks like a huge open world now
• Incredible graphical overhaul
• Sora returns
• Hitman
• Dec. 8, 2015
• Digital only
• Guy keeps talking without actually saying anything
• NEW TRAILER WOO~
• Freedom to complete the missions as you choose
• “Sandbox elements”
• Showed costumes and infiltration, direct assassionation
• Also showed poisoning the target disguised as a bartender
• USING A KATANA TO CUT A DUDE DOWN
• SOOOOOOOLD
• Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness
• Combat looks incredibly solid
• Party size seems HUGE (8 characters?)
• Controlling multiple different characters, not just the “main character”
• Mages look incredibly fun to play
• North America & Europe 2016
• Finished game aiming for 60FPS
• Deus Ex
• Jensen part of “Task Force 29”
• Secretly working as a covert double agent in the task force itself
• Illuminati are controlling things, working with hacker activists to “bring them down”
• Nanoblades now used as projectiles
• “Choices you make not only change how the game is played, but also the story”
• Pretty sure we’ve heard that line before
• Different ammo types
• See through walls, can see enemies weapons and the like
• Project SETSUNA
• “A NEW RPG”
• “TOKYO RPG FACTORY”
• WAIT FUCK
• HERE’S SOME SCREENSHOTS
• Sad music, mostly concept art shown
• Completely new series
• 2016 Release

PC PRESS CONFERENCE

• Killing Floor 2
• Very open to modding
• Early access, but progress not wiped
• revealed Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
• Deus Ex
• Jensen went invisible
• Shot stun darts out of his arm
• “Jumped” up to a balcony
• Misc Info Dump
• Killer Instinct coming to PC
• Gears of War Ultimate edition coming to PC
• American Truck Simulator
• Planet Coaster
• Rollercoaster Tycoon series
• Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part I
• Higher Lv Cap
• New Abilities
• New Companions
• Soulbound Weapons
• Day Z
• Adding singleplayer
• Singleplayer will allow mods