E3 2015

[Geostigma]

I enjoy Fallout, but I'm more of an Elder Scrolls guy myself. I just like the variety in settings and towns, while Fallout necessarily lacks quite a bit of variety. But one way that Skyrim disappointed me was that I was anticipating Fallout 3's extensive dialogue options to carry over and I was bummed that they didn't. So it will be fun to have those again.

Fallout 3 certainly missed the mark on varying townscapes but New Vegas did not imo.

How ever New Vegas was absolutely boring in between towns (bland desert after bland desert settings) while Fallout 3 did a good job of mixing it up and making the areas between cities varied and very explorable(sp?).

There is a mod out there that requires both FO3 and New Vegas to work but it combines both games into one and connects the world similarly to how Pokemon Silver/Gold combined the 2 regions. It's such a nice middle ground and brings it closer to that TES feel of landscape.


I think TES is that wonderful middleground between what FO3 and New Vegas were the towns in vanilla are usually really nice and there are plenty of things to do in between as well.

Skyrim is so hit and miss though when it comes to Vanilla. Don't get me wrong its a huge playground except all of the toys in said playground are extremely similar. It just gets a little tiring to discover an area and its just another draugr filled crypt template dungeon.



In any case I hope FO4 makes it easy to toggle off waypoints and map markers. I know the modern game design approach "requires" these features to make the game more approachable but there is something nice about being to truly discover an area without your map, your minimap and your way marker compass thing at the top of the screen all but screaming "THERE IS A SECRET CAVE HERE". I just want to be able to get lost in a world again without having to wait for a mod to make that possible

 

[Hisako]

Fallout smashes TES in the level design and NPC ballpark (Skyrim was particularly egregious), but I won't disagree that Fallout's aesthetic is extremely rough on the eyes. Still, I get far more excited by a Fallout game than I do an Elder Scrolls one, because there's only a handful of RPGs in that post-apocalypse genre compared to the massive amount of fantasy RPGs - and even fewer nail the aesthetic that Fallout does.

I'm definitely glad they're moving Fallout away from a wholly monochromatic palette.

 

[Geostigma]

Attention Twitch Broadcasters!

New this year, we’re encouraging you to “co-stream” all of the E3 content from twitch.tv/twitch. We’ve got all the content, now all it needs is your commentary and opinions. Make E3 your own and personalize it for your community.

*Note – When the time comes, please set your game to “E3 2015″ and only re-stream the official twitch.tv/twitch channel. Restreaming channels other than /twitch will be subject to DMCA as per usual.


Kind of cool maybe its something TLS can get in on.

 

[Flintlock]

For Square Enix, definitely!

 

[Cthulhu]

I'd mainly like it / the environment to be less depressing. I know, post-apocalypitc and shit, but in Fallout 3 or New Vegas there was

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a bit with green plants and shit somehwere. Which was moar specialer, but still, very small-scale

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Spoiler: Here is a hopeful comparison though

I did gather it takes place ten years after Fallout 3 though.

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Do I remember it correctly; wasn't there something about reversing some damage in Fallout 3's ending?

 

[Geostigma]

I'd mainly like it / the environment to be less depressing. I know, post-apocalypitc and shit, but in Fallout 3 or New Vegas there was

Spoiler

a bit with green plants and shit somehwere. Which was moar specialer, but still, very small-scale

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Spoiler: Here is a hopeful comparison though

I did gather it takes place ten years after Fallout 3 though.

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Do I remember it correctly; wasn't there something about reversing some damage in Fallout 3's ending?

Ahh yeah I remember that place

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i thin it was called Eden or something to that affect. Even then when they managed to bring in more color and make it aesthetically less depressing they still managed to make the lore and dialogue of the place depressing given the existence of the area and the Tree guy lol. I cant remember if I spared him or forced him to keep living lol.



Also yeah IIRC FO3's ending was about finding a way to bring clean water to the wasteland.

 

[Lex]

Attention Twitch Broadcasters!

New this year, we’re encouraging you to “co-stream” all of the E3 content from twitch.tv/twitch. We’ve got all the content, now all it needs is your commentary and opinions. Make E3 your own and personalize it for your community.

*Note – When the time comes, please set your game to “E3 2015″ and only re-stream the official twitch.tv/twitch channel. Restreaming channels other than /twitch will be subject to DMCA as per usual.


Kind of cool maybe its something TLS can get in on.

Let's do it.

 

[Geostigma]

Let's do it.

 

[Tetsujin]

Eh, what the hell. I'm in. xP

 

[Carlie]

Was the password for the TLS twitch channel recovered?

 

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, I managed to have that sorted out after contacting support. I blame myself for letting the old TLS gmail account get deleted and not being aware that that one was used for the TLS account on Twitch.

 

[Lex]

In fairness, the TLS twitch channel fell out of use shortly after we all got our own channels so...

OK so a re-stream with commentary. Are we hosting the official twitch channel? Who wants in? In contrast to the podcasts which we're polishing up, I think we should just have fun with this one. I plan to be there the majority of the time so if anyone wants to join over voice we can draw up a schedule, though people are free to come and go as they please.

I can stream if no one else can. I've got a good connection and the comp for it so I'm happy to do it

 

[Tetsujin]

I plan to be there the majority of the time so if anyone wants to join over voice we can draw up a schedule

I might actually try and dig up my barely used webcam mic.

 

[Carlie]

I'm in!

 

[Hisako]

I'll hopefully be on but I can't guarantee things now that I'm employed on weekdays x3

 

[Roger]

I'll be around for this.

 

[Hisako]

... I forgot about how I pulled an all-nighter to watch last year's conference with you guys ;n;

Bethesda June 15 - 12:00 Noon AEST
Microsoft June 16 - 2:30am AEST
EA June 16 - 6:00am AEST
Ubisoft June 16 - 8:00am AEST
Sony June 16 - 11:00am AEST
Nintendo June 17 - 2:00am AEST
Square Enix June 17 - 3:00am
PC Games Show June 17 - 10:00am AEST

argh you know what fuck it I'm taking the one day off for the main conferences. Going to work means I'd miss on Ubisoft (don't care, but ) and Sony's stage shows.

I can wrangle my sleep patterns to compensate, so I could probably get Nintendo's and Square Enix's under my belt without needing Wednesday off as well.

idk if you guys care that much about Bethesda's conference (I do, but not overtly hyped)

 

[Lex]

The conferences seem to be late on E3's schedule? Confuzzled. I thought it started on the 14th for some reason :/

 

[Hisako]

No, those are the equivalent AEST times converted from the PDT times.

 

[Ami]

Sadly going to have to give this a miss and probably catch up during weekday nights/weekend. This also means I'll have to avoid this thread and social media.

 

[Lex]

AEST

Why are there four letters in this time zone I do not understand 0_0

UK Times:

Bethesda TBA 15th June - 3am BST
Microsoft TBA 15th June - 5:30pm BST
EA TBA 15th June - 9pm BST
Ubisoft TBA 15th June - 11pm BST
Sony TBA 16th June - 2am BST
Nintendo TBA 16th June - 5pm BST
Square Enix 16th June - 6pm BST
PC Gaming Show 17th June - 1am BST

I am still a tiny bit confused but I guess it's just scheduling. Usually the big conferences are on the first day (which is the 14th) but I guess that's just not the case this year.

 

[Tetsujin]

The 15th is the first day though.

 

[Carlie]

Why are there four letters in this time zone I do not understand 0_0

It's the future Lex.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to make an article about the stream we'll be hosting some days before?

 

[Tetsujin]

I still get emails from the E3 press mailing list with indie devs begging for people to make appointments with them.

 

[Lex]

Me too XD. There's a gaming chair company that's particularly militant about it.

OK stream chat time. I haven't figured out how to do this re-streaming thing yet but I don't anticipate it'll be too difficult. I would rather avoid using Skype. Mumble offers free VOIP servers so that people with the address can join and chat using their mics. If people would prefer another program (like Skype or Google Hangouts), now is the time to sort it out since E3 is only a few days away.

Thoughts?