I’m hopped up on allergy medication and Ativan and a large coffee, so I’m all sorts of weird right now. This is as good a time as any, then, to get excited about things that I’d like to see at E3, none of which will probably turn out to be true, which will make it that much easier for me to be disappointed like everybody else when it’s all over.
A caveat: since I obviously can’t predict new IP to get excited about, this is mostly a list of stuff based on existing IP. Which is perhaps not as inherently exciting as new IP, but – again – I’m in a brain fog.
1. Red Dead Redemption 2 for PS4/XBO. Surely this is in the works, right? I mean, come on. (Rockstar typically doesn’t attend E3, and Take Two is only holding private meetings.)
2. Steam Box with specs comparable to PS4/XBO for under $500. And which I could hook up to my PC monitor, if need be. Sometimes I forget that I can use Big Picture Mode; man, what a great UI. (Valve will not be exhibiting at E3 this year, either.)
3. Speaking of Valve (and ignoring, again, that Valve won’t be at E3), I’ve given up hoping for Half Life 3 news, but I’d love to see something Portal related. I don’t even know what I’d want it to be, just that it’s continuing to exist.
4. Criterion Games backtracking and saying, nah, just kidding, we’re totally making a new, next-gen Burnout.
5. Grim Fandango HD. And while we’re at it, how about all of those classic LucasArts adventure games getting HD remakes for iOS? Get on it, Disney. I’d even take a LucasArts kart racer at this point.
6. Someone (maybe Bioware’s post-Mass Effect team?) to turn Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels, or even just the universe, into a game. Special Circumstances is basically SCREAMING for some sort of third-person action adaptation. I’d do it myself if I knew anything about anything.
7. I’d like to hear a lot more concrete info about those Oddworld HD remakes.
8. Fallout 4 with iD Tech 5 graphics. (That’s what Rage was sorta going for, but it can be done so much better.)
9. Rock Band: U2. (I know, I know. I’d just like one more reason to use my plastic instruments before the kid makes us run out of storage space.)
10. Finally, I would lose my goddamned mind if Skies of Arcadia came back for a next-gen sequel. The original SoA was my very first JRPG experience, and it set the bar ridiculously high in doing so.
Shouts From The Couch 