E3

E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, is a trade fair where the video game industry shows off and/or reveals their newest games once a year for 4 days in June.

These are the ones I'm interested in. I will try to show gameplay trailer/videos whenever possible.

The stars mean chance of purchase, with 1 star being less likely buying, 5 stars being yes will absolutely buy.

Mafia III

I'm currently playing through Mafia II on PC, and it is surprisingly good. Coincidentally enough, Mafia III is coming out and is set roughly 20 years after, in 1968.

This will not be a day one purchase for me, I will wait for reviews and around the 30-dollar range.

Genre: Open world, action
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: October 7, 2016.

Agents of Mayhem

After watching the cinematic trailer (not linked above), I was excited, but then I saw the gameplay (linked above) and thought it was just... okay.

It's from the creators of Saints Row and looks to have it mashed up with Overwatch, with each playable character having their own ability. I wish it was co-op rather than single-player only.

I am keeping this on my radar until release though.

Genre: Open world, action, shooter
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: 2017

Titanfall 2

I don't typically go for multiplayer team-based-but-not-really shooters (last Call of Duty I own is Black Ops 2 and hardly play it, same with Battlefield 4), but this seems really cool for the single-player alone, something the first was very much lacking, which was too bad because Titanfall has a really interesting universe.  That, plus the multiplayer will keep the game alive longer than the first one for sure.

As I've mentioned, I will wait for reviews before jumping in.

Genre: First-person shooter, action
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: October 28, 2016

Dead Rising 4

Dead Rising 4 would be my first step into the franchise. I own none of them, and have only played about an hour across all the previous ones combined on various consoles.

Stupid but fun combos, zombie killing and just plain old fun are what I like. Buuuut, Dead Rising 3 had a terrible PC port which still runs poorly to this day AND I still need to beat Dying Light: The Following, and Dead Island: Definitive Edition before I can focus attention on this, which thankfully releases a long ways away.

Genre: Open world, survival horror, beat-em-up
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: December 6, 2016

Halo Wars 2

Halo on PC! Kinda. It's a real-time-strategy game. I'm very selective about what I like for RTS and this seems intriguing. Apparently buying Ultimate Edition includes the first one.

The game is currently in beta for Xbox One and PC so I will keep an eye on it.

This is not a day one or even week one purchase for me though.

Genre: Real-time-strategy
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: February 21, 2017

ReCore

ReCore, the platforming game about a girl and her robot-dog in a post-apocalypse with machines that have taken over. Gameplay seems a bit rough considering it's releasing this September, but I still have it in my sights.

Genre: Platforming, adventure
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: September 13, 2016

Sea of Thieves

This game looks great with friends. Not by yourself I imagine. Good thing it's crossplay between PC and Xbox which is a very good move by Microsoft.

You be a pirate, work the boat, drink rum and it's basically a Jack Sparrow simulator. If some friends get it, or it has a healthy online population, I will get it, for the right price of course, which is rumored to be 40 bucks Canadian.

Genre: Open world, adventure
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: Spring 2017

Death Stranding

Hideo Kojima's first game since being fired from Konami. He is best known for the influential and popular Metal Gear series. Now that he's free from the constraints he's able to do what he wants with his creative mind, which is the trailer above.

There is no gameplay in it, but still a really cool trailer. Nothing else is known of it except that it has Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), and that it will be a timed PS4 exclusive.

Genre: Spooky
Platforms: PS4, PC
Release: 2017

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Do you remember Star Wars Republic Commando? Where you order around 3 other computer players? There hasn't really been anything like that until this game. Of course, there's 4-player online co-op now, but it's also single-player which is really nice. 

It doesn't have "The Division" MMO-thing to it at all, nor is it cover-based shooter-like (that game has lost 93% of it's playerbase and has 55% ratings by the way). 

The trailer dialogue is cringe but funny. Wildlands is a huge open world with missions that can be done in any order, single-player or with friends/randoms.

Genre: Open world, tactical, third-person shooter
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4
Release: March 7, 2017

Grow Up

Yes. I'm serious. This is a sequel to Grow Home, a VERY under-rated cute single-player game. It's 9 bucks on PC and PS4, and very short, took me 8 hours to 100% complete it.

The red robot, BUD, is trying to get back to his spaceship where his boss MOM is, and has to collect things and grow the plant to get home (Grow home! Get it!).

In the expanded sequel (Xbox One is included this time), the world is bigger, more ways to traverse the area and fly, and more things to collect. Apparently MOM and the spaceship have disappeared, and BUD must make his way from the planet to the moon.

I will of course wait for reviews (hoping for co-op but not betting on it), then likely buy it. This is a day two purchase for me.

Genre: Open world, platforming
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: August 2016

BONUS: GAMES I WILL NEVER GET BUT SEEM COOL

"Wait, you like the games but you won't get them?!?!?" you may ask. That's because they're console-exclusive. And buying a console just for a few games is never a good idea.

Detroit: Become Human

LA Noire 3000 amirite. Choices change your story and character interactions which is always interesting. The player plays Connor, an android whose job it is to hunt down a newfound-sentient android Kara, whom you also play. Characters may survive or die depending on your choices.

So it's like Until Dawn and LA Noire mashed up.

If it were on PC

Genre: Thriller

Platforms: PS4

Release: 2017

Horizon Zero Dawn

Interesting world of an Earth inhabited by robots who were left by the majority of the humans. It's set 1,000 years in the future. The main character, Aloy, is a human-robot hybrid I'm predicting.

If it were on PC

Genre: Action, RPG
Platforms: PS4
Release: February 28, 2017

Spider-Man

The last Spider-Man I bought and played was Spider-Man 2: The Game way back in 2004 for the original Xbox. My balloon!

Obviously it's a huge upgrade from what I last played and it's too bad it is PS4-exclusive, I would have loved to try it out.

If it were on PC

Genre: Action, beat-em-up
Platforms: PS4
Release: 2017 (likely June up to mid-July because Marvel Spider-Man movie comes out July 7, 2017)

Wrap up

Well, that was quite a few videos, if you got this far, thanks for looking and reading. A few things:

• Where was the Red Dead 3 announcement? Rockstar likes to announce whenever they like, I bet they'll announce in November.
• Halo Master Chief Collection and Halo 5 on PC. It's coming. Halo 6 will definitely come to PC.
• Good for Bethesda to give Skyrim Special Edition free for anyone that has all DLC/Legendary edition. Also 64-bit engine will be amazing for modding.
• Watch Dogs 2 looks to be MUCH better than the first.
• Gun to my head, if I had to choose Battlefield 1 or Infinite Warfare, I'd do Battlefield 1.
• Days Gone (PS4 exclusive) was actually cut from the Bonus part. The amount of zombies on-screen was unbelievable (should skip to 3:10).
• Good on Microsoft for finally combining Xbox One and Windows. It was competing with itself before which was idiotic. 
• There's been whispers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 being remade and I would love that, as well a third one being released.

Thanks for reading! I'm not a great writer.