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.

Season 5 Premiere Foreshadows/Spoils What Happens Later In The Season/Series

If you haven't seen all 9 episodes of season 5 yet, don't read on. I will also not say/imply any comic spoilers.

Yes, it's true. Lets start off with some obvious ones.

Rick says there's a red-handed machete that he'll use to kill Gareth with. Which he eventually does in episode 3. Not that impressive right?

How about this, in the same shot where Gareth has Bob at knife-point, Bob looks like he's dead. As we know, he's dead. Now it's getting interesting.

Gareth also tells Bob "Can't go back, Bob." Okay, who cares right?

Well, in the mid-season finale... "I think you broke my back." Officer Bob Lamson says after Rick hits him with his own police car.

Officer Bob Lamson, back broken.

Martin, a Terminus guy.

Martin, the guy Tyreese and Carol tied up in the cabin, told Tyreese right to his face that he and Judith are going to die.

Now Judith apparently has to die now.

Also, there was no Beth in the episode. She isn't around anymore.

Things that have yet to happen:

Carol acted like a walker to get into Terminus. Will she become one later in the season/series?

Glenn almost gets hit twice with a baseball bat. He also picked one up and the camera showed it a lot in the mid-season premiere. Is a serious injury coming up for him?

Remember this guy? He took over Terminus in a flashback and then was let out of a box car by Glenn, only to be killed after he yelled "We're all the same!"

I delayed posting this one because I did't know what it means, but he has face tattoos in the present, unlike the flashback where he took over. In the midseason premiere set in Noah's old neighborhood, walkers have the letter W carved onto their forehead, and later there's graffiti on the wall saying "Wolves are coming". It's been stated that his backstory "may" be explored.

Best (and Worst) New Shows of 2014

Best:

True Detective

The 8-episode HBO crime miniseries starring Matt and Woody. The first season was a very good character drama, as well as an intriguing mystery. Every season will be a different story and cast so hopefully it's great again.

Fargo

The sequel-but-not-really to the mid-90s movie, Fargo is set in 2006 and stars Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton. This is actually the show that made me a fan of Freeman. If you're a fan of the movie, you'll like the show, same tone, humor, kind of crime. It's 10 episodes, with season 2 set in 1979 and being a different story.

Silicon Valley

A show about nerds making an app. Raunchy, nerd and sex humor. Some great comedy actors in it, TJ Miller obviously, and some random ones you've seen in random stuff such as Martin Starr (the bearded one) and Kumail Nanjiani. The red-hoodied one makes a super sweet app that Hooli (a made-up company making fun of Apple) tries to buy. Season 2 starts April 2015.



The Leftovers

3% of the entire population disappear at the exact same time. The show is the aftermath of that happening. Nobody knows why. Coming from one of the two main writers of Lost.

Disappointments:

Crisis

A terrorist organization takes a bus-load of important kids hostage. It tries to be intense and have a complicated plot. I only made it through 5 episodes, and then was cancelled.

Believe

This one was a bit better, and it came from Alfonso Cuaron (the famous movie director), and some things he did good, such as the main character, but the rest was just them running around, and not getting to know the characters to care. Only watched 5 episodes as well.

Has Potential:

Helix

Season 1 starts out with a bad biological virus starting in Antarctica and the CDC trying to contain it. The show started out good, then went down to kinda-good around episode 6. If it was less cheesy, and more gory, it'd be a much better show. Season 2 starts January 16, 2015.

The 100

This is mostly for season 1, since season 2 (and even at the end of season 1) already righted it's wrongs.

The Strain

A vampire virus is spreading around New York but we didn't feel the danger we should have. Also, some of the characters thought stupidly, especially for CDC scientists. Season 2, starting July 2015, will hopefully course-correct.

What Shows I'm Trying Out This Fall

These are all about new shows, not returning ones.

Updates to whether I watched/continued with them are in red, written on October 25.

Gotham, drama.

This is a prequel to the Christopher Nolan-Christian Bale-Batman movie series but this is focused around Jim Gordon before he became Commissioner. It also shows the origin stories of classic Batman villains such as Penguin, Riddler and the Joker. 

The first episode will be Bruce Wayne's parents dying I'm pretty sure, so it's basically all the flashbacks in Batman Begins but expanded to 16 episodes this season.

I'll try it out. The trailer didn't jump out at me much. Starts Sept 22. 

Tried it out, liked it, will continue.

A to Z, comedy.

I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for this one. I really like both actors, the guy is from Mad Men and the girl is from How I Met Your Mother. There's some definite cringey parts in the trailer, but so did the Brooklyn-99 trailer and that was one of the best new shows to come out last year.

Here's the trailer. Starts Oct 2.

Tried it out, liked it, will continue.

Constantine, drama.

It's dark, based on a comic book, and he's Scottish/Irish/whatever and seems like a cool tough guy. It's a dark fantasy show about him fighting some supernatural threat. I'm intrigued and will try it out.

Trailer is here. Starts Oct 24.

Gracepoint, drama.

This is a remake of a British show, but starring the same actor David Tennant and Skyler White AKA Anna Gunn. It looks like an intense 10-episode murder mystery and I'll check it out after seeing this cool trailer.

Starts Oct 2.

Didn't end up trying it.

Stalker, drama.

I'm a fan of Dylan McDermott and stalking is a creepy-but-interesting topic. I'm expecting this to be a "stalker-of-the-week" type show so I'll likely not stick with the show unless there is an ongoing story, which I doubt.

Trailer. Starts Oct 1.

Tried it out, liked it, won't continue because it's stalker of the week each episode.

Marry Me, comedy.

Changing it up with some comedy. A happy couple gets bad signs that they shouldn't be together, and signs they should. I don't know, I like both actors so I'll try it out, here's the trailer.

Starts Oct 14.

Didn't end up trying it.

Utopia, reality.

15 people go onto some land and do whatever they want. Build a house, make stuff, and just live together on a 3-acre land. Seems interesting, and it airs 2 nights a week, Tuesday and Friday. The trailer uses footage from the UK version but the people being interviewed are for this version I'm pretty sure.

Starts Sept 7. There's also a live stream up that I've been listening to (and sometimes watching) for a few days, it's really cool. There's 2 streams (camera angles) for free, then 2 more that you have to pay for.

Tried it out, liked it, will continue.

There we are! All the new shows I'm trying out this fall. In early January I'll have another post about new shows starting then.

Final Guesses

Here are my final guesses for the shows on the chart that is Bubble or lower. Anything above Bubble (possibly Suburgatory and The 100) that was cancelled will be added as well. Updates will be in red.

NBC (decisions on May 12)
Dracula - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.
Crisis -  Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Believe - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Parenthood - Renewed for final season. Renewed for final season on May 11.
Revolution - Renewed. Cancelled on May 9.
Community - Renewed for final season. Cancelled on May 9.
Hannibal - Renewed. Renewed on May 9.

If Revolution is renewed, it's basically getting a fourth season as well. Unless it's a 13-episode order. Parenthood is likely to end next season but it could be cancelled. Dracula may get another 10 episodes because it's an international co-production like Hannibal (it's very cheap to make and cheap for NBC to air) so it may get more but it doesn't have the fan-base or critic-love that Hannibal has so I'm putting Cancelled.

Fox (decisions on May 12)
Dads - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 7.
Surviving Jack - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 7.
Almost Human - Cancelled. Cancelled on April 29.

I'm personally hoping for an Almost Human renewal but realistically it won't. Nothing else to see here, really.

ABC (decisions on May 13)
Betrayal - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Super Fun Night - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Killer Women - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Mixology - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 8.
The Neighbors - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 9.
Trophy Wife - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 8.
Nashville - Renewed. Renewed on May 9.
The Goldbergs - Renewed. Renewed on May 8.
Suburgatory was cancelled.

Nashville may get 13 episodes or could be a full season, I don't know, but if renewed, a fourth season is to come too unless ratings get even lower. The Goldbergs may be a "schedule filler" order for a new show coming this fall that gets cancelled and it needs its timeslot filled. Of Trophy Wife, Neighbors and Mixology, one of those three may get another season.

CBS (decisions on May 14)
Hostages - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.
Intelligence - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.
The Mentalist - Cancelled. Renewed on May 10.
Crazy Ones - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.
Friends with Better Lives - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.
Bad Teacher - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 10.

The Crazy Ones has the best chance of getting another season out of all those because of Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar but I still vote cancelled.

The CW (decisions on May 15)
Carrie Diaries - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 8.
Beauty and the Beast - Cancelled. Renewed on May 8.
Star-Crossed - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 8.
Tomorrow People - Cancelled. Cancelled on May 8.

Tomorrow People may squeak by with another season, but we'll see. With 1 pilot a sure-thing (The Flash) and previous renewals (Arrow, Originals, Vampire Diaries, Reign and Supernatural) and with Hart of Dixie most likely getting another season, the CW doesn't have much room in it's schedule for any more.

24/28 I got right.