Jun 152015
Even though I like quite a few EA games, I wasn’t thrilled with last year’s press conference. With Mass Effect 4 in development, though, I was hopeful this year would be different. As for Ubisoft, I wasn’t very confident.
Like last year, the two conferences were short enough that I’ve covered them in a single post, although you can navigate to the Ubisoft section separately. (EDIT: As was pointed out to me in the commments, their press conferences weren’t short. They just had fewer things that I was interested in.)
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EA’s E3 2015 Press Conference
I have to say, EA got its E3 press conference off to a good start. First of all, “Ghost Riders in the Sky” was playing. I like that song. You might remember it from my discussion of the Wild Hunt. But then it got even better, because it was playing for my most-anticipated EA game!
Yes, we have our first trailer for the next game in the Mass Effect series, Mass Effect: Andromeda. Not much else was revealed, which disappointed me (but at least we got to see more than last year). I’m not sure why “Ghost Riders in the Sky” was picked as its music, but I approve.
Need for Speed was next, but I’m not a racing fan, so I don’t have much to say about it. After that, it was Star Wars time, with the announcement of a new expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And what an expansion it is!
Knights of the Fallen Empire, while not exactly the Knights of the Old Republic 3 I’d love to see, is a story-driven expansion from BioWare that focuses on the individual player’s choices and companions. It sounds more or less like a tiny slice of what KotOR 3 could be, and its trailer was really cool.
Despite my love of Star Wars and BioWare’s RPGs, I’ve never gotten into The Old Republic because I don’t like MMORPGs. This, however, could just be the expansion that convinces me to give it a try.
After that, EA showed a brand new, adorable game called Unravel. It’s a puzzle-platformer in which you play as a little yarn creature. Yarn games seem to be getting popular…
Unravel was the last highlight for me. They showed more Garden Warfare. I’m interested in it, but I saw enough earlier this afternoon. Then it was time for sports games, a new mobile Star Wars game called Galaxy of Heroes, a mobile game called Minions Paradise, and more sports.
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst looks pretty cool, though I should probably play Mirror’s Edge eventually to see if I like it. Then it was time for another sports game, and they concluded with one of those games everyone but me is excited for, Star Wars: Battlefront. I love Star Wars, and I tried the original Battlefront, but I just couldn’t get into it.
Despite my lack of enthusiasm, EA definitely beat Ubisoft, so check out the adorable trailer for Unravel before we move on.
Ubisoft’s E3 2015 Press Conference
I’m just not an Ubisoft fan. I’ll get that out of the way first. If you’re reading this and you are an Ubisoft fan, give us a positive perspective in the comments to balance out my Ubisoft apathy.
The show started with a new South Park game, The Fractured but Whole. I’m not a fan of South Park. The next trailer got me excited, because it was full of knights and sword battles, things I love. However, Ubisoft’s new IP For Honor is a 4-vs-4 multiplayer game. As much as I enjoyed the trailer, the competitive multiplayer just doesn’t appeal to me.
After that, it was a stream of games I didn’t care about. The Crew: Wild Run, Trials Fusion: Awesome Level Max, more of Tom Clancy’s The Division which we saw earlier, a city-building RTS called Anno 2205, Just Dance 2016, more of Rainbow Six Siege, and TrackMania Turbo.
I’m not a fan of Assassin’s Creed, but the trailer for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate was at least somewhat interesting.
They closed with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, an open world game that probably would have been more interesting to me if I was a fan of either Ghost Recon or open world.
So, it ended on a less-than-stellar note… but Sony’s press conference is just over an hour away, and I’m excited!
…So do we agree that Johnny Cash cameo was the best part of EA’s conference?
Also would like to note:
“Like last year, the two conferences were short enough that I’ve covered them in a single post, although you can navigate to the Ubisoft section separately.”
Microsoft’s was 90 minutes. EA’s was 90 minutes, and Ubisoft’s was 80.
Oh. …I guess I mean the interesting parts to me were short. XD
Yeah. ’cause bad conferences.
And genres I just don’t care for.