Did you land any good interviews for RPGSite? Who should we expect to see?
Edit: Also, any time with Project Morpheus? Castle demo? Future of gaming - yay or nay?
You can expect to see interviews over on RPG Site for...
- Tales of Xillia 2
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- The Witcher III
- Fable Legends
- Kingdom Hearts II.5
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
...and a few other surprises.
I did get to play Morpheus. I loved it, but in my eyes it's clearly a bit behind where Oculus is - I played the Rift again at the show and was frankly pretty bloody blown away yet again by how far it's come. It's truly a magnificent device. However, Sony do have one thing Oculus doesn't have, which is some interesting control options with PS Move. That needs some work, but felt pretty good. It'd be incredibly interested how that could be combined with a device where you don't need to hold some plastic, like Kinect-like devices. I do overall think VR is the future, but I think it's going to take time to get there. I think the people to take it there are Oculus, too, Facebook or no; I think the wider and more open environment on PC is basically the best hope for the wide iteration that is needed to make it a real thing.
How is it going to E3 overall? I mean, you have gone to various events, I'd just like to know how is it to go to the biggest gaming convention. How's your daily schedule, and the feeling, things like that. Must be great.
In my entire time on the show floor (21 hours total), I had two hours of free time without bookings. I spend my entire show moving from appointment to appointment. I don't walk around the show floor, because it's an ugly, smelly, awful clusterfuck. Long story short, I genuinely wouldn't want to go to E3 if I wasn't 'connected' enough to be able to get private appointments for the things I wanted to see. It's a very fun show - especially Monday, the press conferences - but it's very busy and it's near impossible to see things. To see thirty minutes of Dragon Age, for instance - hands-off - it was a 3 hour wait at some points. Even 4. Even if you were lucky, it'd be an hour. For Smash Bros, you'd wait at least half an hour despite all of Nintendo's booth being Smash stations. That stuff I simply don't find enjoyable... it's nuts. E3 ultimately is a lot of stress, and while I'm there I actually usually hate it, but when I leave, I always think fondly of it.
That said, the atmosphere is always electric and stuff, and I enjoy that aspect of it. I also enjoy seeing PR people, journalists and the like who I don't often get to see - these people are friends.
Did anyone ask about FFXV or did nobody really care?
I don't know about
@Kagari, but I feel it's pretty much pointless, plus we have a fairly good feeling (that we can't talk about) of why it was absent anyway. It was mentioned in passing in some conversations, but not anything of any interest.
I think Nintendo's showing at E3 shows a strong commitment to the Wii U through 2015 at least. I think that was an incredible showing, and if you asked me which booth at E3 I had the most fun at, the answer would be Nintendo. Smash is fantastic, well-made and silky smooth. Toad's new game is amazing fun, and incredibly silly. Kirby and Yoshi both look utterly gorgeous and have some very cool gameplay ideas. Mario Maker seems great. Splatoon... that is my surprise of the show. An utterly amazing little thing. Enjoyed it to no end.
Region lock's definitely gonna stay as far as Nintendo stuff goes.
Regarding Square's dates, anything they've said to us is already public!
