E3 2017 Highlights

Hello and welcome back! Here are my personal highlights of E3 2017.

A Way Out

An online or couch split-screen action game starting in a prison and trying to get out. It's from the same makers as Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons but more AA than that.

It's a really cool idea, and I'll be keeping my eye on it.

Release date: Q1/Q2 2018.
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

The 3-episode prequel series to hold us over until the "real" season 2 hits, most likely end of February 2018.

It is set 3 years before the first game, with playable character being Chloe, and her relationship with Rachel Amber, the one who is missing in the original Life is Strange.

Release date: First episode is August 31, 2017.
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and PS4.

Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves, an open-world co-op optional pirate game, Windows 10 and Xbox One crossplay. Wanna explore? Drink rum? Do story missions? Fight other players? You can do that all in this game.

Release date: Early 2018
Platforms: PC and Xbox One.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

After an extremely successful crowd-funding in 2014, it is now ready to be shown and played. Basically it's The Witcher 3 without magic spells or supernatural monsters, completely realistic.

Release date: February 13, 2018.

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and PS4.

Special Mentions:

Anthem, a Destiny 2-like game from Electronic Arts. PC, Xbox One and PS4.

Crackdown 3, a destruction simulator for Xbox One and Windows 10.

Days Gone, think of Last Of Us, but zombies and open-world. PS4 exclusive.

Detroit Become Human, a game with multiple playable characters where your conversation and action choices matter. PS4 exclusive unfortunately.

A few more things...

- Bethesda is bad for making paid mods a thing.
- Bethesda is too obsessed with Doom, Skyrim and Fallout VR.
- Microsoft had no Halo announcement of any kind? Weird.
- Microsoft's E3 2018 will be much much better.
- State of Decay 2, Spider-Man, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, The Last Night and Agents of Mayhem were cut from the list above.
- I'll be keeping an eye out for Beyond Good & Evil 2, I'd like to see gameplay first.
- Cuphead has a nice art-style, but the gameplay will make it flop.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released mid-November 2018 on PC.
- Bethesda had the worst conference, while Sony had the best. Everyone else was in the middle.
- Xbox One X won't get 4k 60 FPS on even 50% of the games released for it. It'll be the new big 1080p 60 FPS machine.