WEBVTT - Jonathan's E3 2017 Adventure 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.200 Get in text with technology with tech Stuff from half 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:13.960 stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.479 I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm a senior writer with 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.080 how stuff works dot com and today I'm flying by 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.680 the seat of my pants, which is, you know, not 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.000 nearly as efficient as flying on a seven fifty seven, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.960 which I did recently, as I have returned from Los Angeles, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.559 the city of Angels where I attended the two thousand 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:41.400 seventeen E three conference formerly known as the Electronic Entertainment Expo, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.960 and E three, for those who do not know, is 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.960 all about video games and computer games in all their forms, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:55.440 whether they are console, PC based, handheld VR. All shapes 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.760 and sizes of games are represented there and typically A 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.120 three as a place where various game studios will get 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.480 together and show off games that are in development. Typically 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.280 they tend to be pretty close to going live, going 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:16.440 gold as they say, and giving industry industry folks and 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.399 and media people a quick early look so that they 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.520 can get an appreciation for it and then hype up 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:28.039 the games. It becomes a big marketing push for these companies. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:34.520 UH this year was a little different, had a bit 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.080 of a change and that the organization that throws E 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.200 three decided that for the first time in many years, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.640 it would open up the conference to the general public. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.400 Now you had to purchase a ticket to go, but 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.440 for the first time in ages, the general public was 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.040 allowed to buy tickets to attend E three, and obviously 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.600 a lot of people were very eager to do because 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.560 it meant getting that head start on everybody else on 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.560 the coolest games and gear that we're right around the corner. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:14.960 As a result, E three was crazy busy, y'all. I mean, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:21.960 they had sixty eight thousand, four hundred attendees. So let 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.880 me describe what a typical E three is like, and 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.120 then try to describe what E three is like. A 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:34.919 typical E three is crazy, busy, super crowded, partly because 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.800 I think some of the people who are attending there 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:44.320 as industry attendees. Our industry attendees only if you stretch 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.399 your imagination pretty far, like their job descriptions and their 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.440 job there were duties and responsibilities may only tangentially be 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:00.160 related to video games and computer games. So as one 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.560 from the media who is there to try and cover 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.080 the event, it was always challenging because you had a 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.880 lot of people in a limited amount of space. It 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.880 takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.840 a quite large building, but still a limited space, and 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.480 you would have to wait, even as media for a 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.079 while to get one on one time with various game titles, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.800 new pieces of equipment. If you wanted to talk to 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.560 a developer or someone in marketing, it might take a 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.720 little while because they're just a lot of people there. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.240 Opening it up to the public meant that there were 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.200 even more people this year. And I don't want you 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.040 to think that this is just Jonathan complaining that there 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.680 were a bunch of commoners all around me as I 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.840 regally stride through the Los Angeles Convention Center. I don't 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.240 mean to say that at all. They had paid for 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.000 that privilege and they had every right to be there. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.440 It did make my job more challenging, but at the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.080 same time, I was glad that so many people got 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.880 to experience something that excited them and brought them happiness. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.360 People who are very avid gamers got that chance to 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.520 do something that we in the media can do fairly frequently, 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.640 and to me, that is a valuable experience. So I 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.320 don't want to take anything away from it, I think 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.960 that they had every right to be there based upon 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.080 the rules. I don't know if the rules were necessarily 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.080 the most intelligent thing to do. If you it depends 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.200 on what the goal is for your conference. If the 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:41.640 goal is to allow these various outlets, these various media 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.200 outlets access to video game studios, it makes it more difficult. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.640 But if your goal is to drum up excitement in 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.360 general for video games, it definitely did that. So while 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.320 there were negative aspects in the sense that it was 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.839 harder to get access to the people thing and games 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.600 that I wanted to uh, on the flip side, people 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.840 are having a good time, so I can't really complain 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:11.200 too much. Also, there was way more programming at this 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.400 year's E three than you typically would see. Normally, when 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.520 you go to the E three conference, you have press 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:23.160 events that precede the show floor being open. That's when 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:29.640 big companies like e A, Bethesda, Microsoft, Sony, Ubi Soft, Nintendo, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:35.640 they'll hold these enormous events to announce gear and video 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:42.360 games and various news items to the press. Following those 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 press days, you then have the exhibit floor open, and 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.920 that's where you get to have the hands on time 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.520 with the various demos that are available, and not every 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.240 game has a demo available. Sometimes all you get to 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.640 see is a cinematic that gives you an idea of 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.240 what the game is about and what it's game play 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.840 might be like, but in many cases there are demos 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.480 available for you to try out. Uh this year they 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:13.359 also had the E three Colosseum, where there was ongoing 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.080 panel discussions about game development, the rise of VR, how 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.599 augmented reality is poised to make a big impact on 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.960 the gaming world, where four K resolution is becoming a 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.360 bigger deal. So it's a lot more information going on 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.159 around the conference than you would typically see. On top 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.880 of that, you had a lot of media outlets that 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:42.680 had a consistent presence on the show floor itself. Game Spot, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.479 for example, had their own stage, I g N had 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.960 their own stage. YouTube had a stage, and they were 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:55.320 presenting content pretty much throughout the entire conference, with specific 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.640 interviews and hands on time with lots of different titles, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.760 so there was no shortage of information and for the 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.640 larger outlets, it probably wasn't that much more difficult than 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.320 a normal E three, except if you had to go 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.080 do a tour of a specific booth. You then had 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.960 to try and move through these masses of people that 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:22.280 UH didn't move particularly quickly and were challenging to get around. UH. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.640 If you were the lucky type of person who was 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.800 at a stage and people came to you, life was awesome. I, however, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.440 was on my own. I didn't have a crew with me, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.920 so I was just one little person walking around big 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.480 rooms filled with lots of other people, both little and 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.760 much bigger than I am. And UH, it was impressive. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.440 It's always an impressive experience. There are a lot of 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.160 studios that end up making very elaborate booths to draw 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.120 you in. UH. One of the big titles that was 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:58.040 on display was Shadow of War, which is the sequel 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.920 to Shadow of More Door. And I'm a huge Lord 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.840 of the Rings fan. I have a Lord of the 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.280 Rings tattoo on me for goodness sakes, and I was 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.160 drawn to it anyway, but I was extra drawn to 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.840 it when I saw they had an enormous dragon sculpture 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.920 outside and they were allowing people to get on a 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.120 saddle and have their picture taken on the back of 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.760 the dragon. And while I did not stand in line 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.400 to play all the different demos, I did stand in 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.640 line to get my picture taken on a dragon. That 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.720 tells you where my priorities are. I'm not a proud man, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.200 so I would argue I'm just a boy. But I 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.240 was a boy on a dragon and it was awesome. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.280 So let's talk about some of the stuff that came 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.560 out at E three and some of the things I 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.000 did while I was there, the stuff I was specifically 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.440 checking out. One of the big stories was that Microsoft 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:57.680 announced the Xbox one X console. The one X console 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.640 is the most powerful console on the market, at least 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.320 according to Microsoft. It is uh This was the one 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:12.320 that had been codenamed Project Scorpio, and it has some 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:17.760 pretty hefty specs. It is largely designed to be a 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:22.600 four K gaming machine. Four K meaning four K resolution. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.880 This is ultra high definition resolution. This is both cool 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:34.920 and somewhat perplexing. Maybe not perplexing, but problematic, and that is, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.240 you cannot take advantage of four K resolution unless you 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.840 have a four K television set. If you have a 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.720 regular HD TV set ten a D resolution, you're not 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.800 gonna see the benefit of four K streaming because your 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.679 television is physically incapable of displaying an image at that resolution, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.360 you would have to go out and buy a four 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.520 K television set, which, to p upon the brand and 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.800 the size, could get pretty expensive. We're talking more than 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:09.319 a thousand dollars in some cases, So there's that you 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.520 would have to buy that set in order for you 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.640 to be able to take advantage of these consoles. Right now, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.240 there's not a huge amount of ultra high definition content. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.760 So if you're buying a TV just for playing four 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.120 K games and you've got the cash to do it, 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.920 that's awesome. You can go out buy a four K 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.600 set and buy the Xbox one X. By the way, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.480 the one S also does ultra high definition, it's just 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.640 not optimized for it the way the four X is 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.960 or the one X. I should say, Also, Microsoft, what's 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.439 with the naming convention? We have the Xbox, the Xbox 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.120 three sixty, the Xbox one, the Xbox one S, and 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.120 then the Xbox one X, which I argue looks like 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.960 the Xbox one ten with ten as a Roman numeral. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.400 I know that you have trouble unting because Windows went 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.640 from Windows eight to Windows ten, but let's get a 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.400 handle on that, shall we. And I'm saying this is 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.880 an Xbox fan Anyway, the one X is really geared 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:18.559 for this four K gaming experience. If you don't have 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.040 the four K television, there's not a huge number of 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.600 compelling reasons to get the Xbox one X. And my 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:31.000 question is, doesn't make sense to go ahead and buy 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.160 an Xbox one X, which is going to be sold 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:40.360 for about fos starting November seven. Does it make sense 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.880 to buy one of those and then either buy a 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.320 four KSE television or wait until you're ready to replace 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.920 your existing TV and then buy a four K television 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:55.800 and considerate future proofing, or by the time we see 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.760 gamers start to have four K television sets as their default. 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.359 Because most of us aren't replacing our TVs that frequently, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.160 it's an expensive thing to do. If you're like most 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.520 people and you're not replacing your TV regularly, does it 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.360 make more sense to just skip the Xbox one X 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.160 until four K TVs become the new default, just like 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.280 h D t V is the default. Now wait until 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.679 four K becomes the new default. By then it could 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.960 be possible that Microsoft will have another generation of console out, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.040 So in other words, the one X might be a 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.839 stop gap and that you would buy it and it 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.880 would only be the newest, hottest thing for a couple 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:45.360 of years before the next true generational change and Xbox happens. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:52.520 Or are we approaching peak console performance and therefore the 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.440 one X is just as good a purchase as anything 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.319 else because we're not likely to see an enormous leap 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.600 in technologgy beyond what the one X is capable of doing. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.559 These are difficult questions to answer. The one X will 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.080 also support some VR stuff potentially in the future, so 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.199 that's really cool. And uh, you know, I'm not against 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:19.000 the Xbox one X, but I'm not. I'm not completely 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:25.600 sold on it being the be all, end all of gaming. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.840 So Microsoft's press release where they're talking about the one X, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.560 I I thought it was neat, but I don't know 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.760 that I'm going to jump out and just buy it immediately. Uh. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.280 It does have some pretty impressive specs, not as impressive 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.640 as a dedicated gaming rig. If you look at the 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:52.960 Xbox one X, it's got an eight custom core micro processor. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.760 It's based off the X eight six architecture that Intel creates. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.960 It's clocked at two point three giga hurts. That's fast. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.160 It's not as fast as what you will find in 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.400 premium gaming rigs. On the PC side, it's faster than 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:13.520 the PlayStation PlayStation has eight Jaguar core processor at two 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.880 point one giga hurts um, and it has it has 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.960 a a GPU that's clocked at uh one tho seventy 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.280 two mega hurts as opposed to nine hundred eleven mega 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.360 hurts on the PlayStation four Pro. It's got twelve gigabytes 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.960 of g d d R five RAM, again compared to 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.840 the PlayStation four Pro that has eight gigabytes of g 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.160 d d R RAM, and it's got a memory bandwidth 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.000 of three hundred and twenty six gigabytes per second, which 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.480 is pretty impressive. It's also got a one terabyte hard 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.200 drive and it can play four K u h D 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:55.960 Blu Ray video. So it's definitely the most powerful console 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.040 available right now, but that may not be a it 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.000 it can claim for very long. There's always going to 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.480 be other people working on the next big console. My 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.200 other question for people would be, doesn't make sense to 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.800 invest in a four K television set when there's not 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.440 much other content for four K out there. You can 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.480 get four K for Netflix. You can get some four 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.600 K YouTube content, assuming that you have a fast enough 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 Internet connection to pull that four K content in onto 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.720 your screen. There are only a few four K optical 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.560 discs out there, so that if you wanted to buy 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.480 physical media and watch it in four K, there are 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.280 a few examples of that, but it's not widespread at 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.040 the moment. So if there's very little content out there, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.080 does it make sense to make that investment or would 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.560 it make more sense to just go ahead and invest 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.160 in a true gaming rig where you're building a gaming 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.760 rig from scratch which can already play at four K 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.360 resolutions depending upon the monitor, the display you have and 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.280 can bed are ready, and also they're customizable. You can 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.840 choose which options you want for your gaming rig. You 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.480 just have to make sure that you're making that you're 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.320 picking everything that's compatible with each other, because not all 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.720 processors are compatible with all motherboards, for example. But as 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.920 long as you're being careful and you're picking all the 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.040 right components, you can build a really incredible gaming rig 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.840 and potentially end up spending about the same amount of 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.760 money you would if you were buying an Xbox one 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.640 X plus a four K television set. So it just 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.920 ends up creating questions about where are your priorities as 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:44.480 far as UH games are concerned. That being said, I 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.840 thought that the games that were playing on the Xbox 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.280 one X looked very pretty. I didn't get a chance 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.640 to get a lot of hands on experience with them, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.120 and I'm also wondering what some of the games are 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:01.120 actually about. Like there's BioWare's game Anthem was shown off 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.960 a little bit with a couple of videos, but we 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.320 didn't really get to learn very much about it. It 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.199 does look kind of neat, and it looks like you're 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.840 gonna be able to play as sort of a super 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.880 human like character wearing a power suit. The power suit 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:19.000 is what appears to give you extra abilities, and it 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.680 does look pretty, but I don't know much about it. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:27.160 I'm excited about the Player Unknowns battleground sport that's coming 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.080 to the Xbox one X. So for those who don't 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.520 know what Player Unknowns Battlegrounds is, it's like the movie 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.000 Battle Royal or if you prefer hunger games, where as 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.879 a player, you are put into an environment with up 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.199 to an other players and your goal is to be 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.600 the last survivor out of all one hundred and you 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:55.040 run around looking for weapons and equipment on a map 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.919 where you get an increasingly smaller amount of area to 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.160 play in. The area gets restricted over time, and if 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.800 you don't get to the safe zone, then you start 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.800 taking damage until you die. Well, this has been out 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.000 in an early build for PCs for a while. It's 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.640 not a fully finished game yet, but it's been available 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.280 on PCs for a while. Now, it's going to be 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.200 available for the Xbox One, and um that will work 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.080 not just on the Xbox one X but the other 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.880 Xbox One consoles as well, So I'll probably try it. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.119 I'll be one of the bullet sponges that dies like 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.159 I'm sure i'll be in the first ten percent to 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.119 die on any given day. If I don't die in 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.400 that first ten percent, it will only be because I 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.840 lucked out and landed in an area that did not 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.240 have other players in it, and I was still pretty 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.679 close to the safe zone. That's the only way I 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.800 can imagine not almost instantaneously dying in this game. However, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.280 I'm still gonna play it. One of the stories I 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.720 thought that was hilarious was that Minecraft is getting a 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.600 four K upgrade, And if you've ever played Minecraft, you 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.840 know that it's a blocky game, and to think of 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.800 a super duper graphics pack giving four K capability so 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:13.440 that you get very high resolution blocky games is somewhat hilarious, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.520 but it does mean the textures and the reflections from water, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.440 those sort of effects are gonna be much more interesting. Uh. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.880 There are some other cool games that were shown off 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.359 at the Microsoft conference. Crackdown three was looking good. See 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.840 if Thieves looks good, especially if you like pirates like 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.359 I do. Um, And then you know, we saw some 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:38.560 other stuff that's again not not exclusive to Xbox, like 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.640 Assassin's Creed Origins. I'm not a huge Assassin's Creed fan. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.840 I think that the art is amazing. I think the 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:49.120 gameplay is fun, but the games are so long that 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.359 the gameplay gets really repetitive. And this is true for 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.960 every single version of Assassin's Creed. The only one I 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.320 played from start to end without taking a break was 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.280 Black Flag because it was a pirate game, and as 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.680 I've already asked made made clear I love pirates. So 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.040 Black Flag was the only one I ever played all 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.159 the way through. Origins looks pretty, but I don't I 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.280 don't think that will be one that sells me on 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.679 the Xbox one X. I don't think seeing it uh 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.520 in that that style is definitely gonna get me on 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.400 board Shadow of War, maybe because I do like the 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:29.160 Shadow of more door games. Sony. Meanwhile, their press conference 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.760 was a lot different from Microsoft's. Microsoft was traditional where 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.879 people come out, they talk about games, they show a clip, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.000 maybe they show a second clip. Some other people come out, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.159 they talk about games, so on and so forth. Throughout 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:47.840 the press conference. Sony's was essentially an hour long series 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.840 of trailers for different games. Uh. They did have a 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.359 couple of different surprises in there's, including the fact that 0:20:55.440 --> 0:21:01.480 they were going to have, um a a sequel two 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.400 or not a sequel, I'm sorry, A reboot of Shadow 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.880 of the Colossus, a very popular game for the PS two. 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.840 This one's gonna be a re re remastered version of 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.560 Shadow of Colossus. So if you really like that game 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.560 on the PS two, good news. It's gonna be available 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:22.600 on the PSU four Pro and it's gonna looks super pretty. Um. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.480 You know, we saw some other stuff like a God 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.240 of War game, which kind of falls in that same categories. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.080 Assassin's Creed. In my mind, it's a game that is 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:36.119 fun initially but tends to get really repetitive. Um, that's 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.639 maybe that's just me. Maybe it's just that the action 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.000 games don't have enough variety in them for to keep 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.240 my attention, but they tend to be pretty linear levels 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:49.160 with pretty repetitive gameplay. We saw some more about PlayStation 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.520 VR games VR in general at E three was a 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.840 big big deal. There are a lot of different companies 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:59.960 showing off VR experiences. Bethesda, for example, showed off VR 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.080 experiences for Fallout four as well as for Doom, and 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.400 both of those looked really cool. I wish I could 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.720 have had a chance to get into the Fallout four 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:14.080 VR demo because I love the Fallout series and the 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:18.080 VR part looked pretty neat. But PlayStation's VR is probably 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:23.240 the the bargain entry way of getting into virtual reality. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.520 So many people already have a PlayStation four that that 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:30.480 part's not terribly expensive. The uh, you know, it's still 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.000 costs quite a bit to get all the VR components, 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.880 but it's less expensive than buying a gaming rig capable 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.440 of running VR plus all the peripherals you would need, 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.320 like an HTC Vibe or an Oculus Rift. Uh. The 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:50.040 question is has the PSVR experience improved enough so that 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.040 it doesn't seem quite as jankie. Because out of all 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:57.680 the VR dedicated VR sets that I've heard about, the 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.840 most common complaint I hear about PSVR, it's just that 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:06.720 the actual experience of playing it can be a little rough. 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:11.200 The tracking is not as accurate as on other systems. 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.040 I do hear that it's more comfortable to wear than 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.640 a lot of other systems are, but that's less accurate, 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:22.280 and that's problematic from anything that's a virtual reality game. Uh. 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.880 We saw a PlayStation for exclusive that I actually think 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:29.200 is interesting enough to possibly make me buy a p 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.760 S four, which is called Detroit Become Human. This one 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:36.639 I like because it follows a plot that I find 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:41.240 very interesting, the idea of an android based revolution. Androids 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:44.000 that feel that they have been mistreated and they have 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:49.600 no representation are rebelling against their human creators. This is 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:51.919 a theme we see throughout science fiction. I mean, you 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.520 can watch the movie Blade Runner and you can get 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.520 a feel for this kind of thing. But it looks 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.880 really nice. I don't know how it plays, didn't get 0:23:59.920 --> 0:24:03.359 my hands on it. And spider Man. Spider Man for 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.639 the PlayStation four looks amazing and I'm I say that 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:11.159 as someone who cautions people against licensed games, because often 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:16.000 those games tend to be not great. Like we get 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:20.560 some good ones. The Batman Arkham series is legitimately a 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.760 lot of fun. Most of the Lego series are legitimately 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.240 a lot of fun, at least for a while. But 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.640 for all of those, you get nine versions of Superman 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:32.639 sixty four, which is legitimately the least fun a person 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:36.119 can have while playing a console, except for maybe if 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.320 they're playing ET, which was also a licensed property and 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:44.680 was terrible. So that was Microsoft and Sony. I got 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:47.320 more to say about E three, but before I jump 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:49.679 into all of that, let's take a quick break to 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:59.320 thank our sponsor. None of that covered Microsoft and Sony. 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:02.120 Let's talk about some of the developers that were out 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.640 there and some of the stuff they showed off. So 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:07.119 one of the big ones would be UBI Soft, and 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:08.720 I've talked a little bit about some of the stuff 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.679 Ubi Soft showed off because they were also featured in 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:16.119 the other press releases. But one of the moments of 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:19.879