With E3 just around the corner, I wanted to talk about what surprises you are hoping for.
Everyone knows there will be a Call of Duty gameplay reveal, Ubisoft will show off the new Assassin’s Creed, and stuff that’s mostly standard fair.
So let’s talk about those unexpected wild moments that we’re hoping for! Or let’s talk about our favourite surprises from past E3’s. I’ll do one of each.
Past surprise: The Battlefield Hardline “And it’s available to play now!” Moment from a few E3’s back, while not wholly surprising, was nonetheless amazing. Mainly because of the ‘pyro’ that accompanied the phrase. It was fantastic for all the wrong reasons.
Surprise I’m hoping for: I want another “and it’s available now!” For the Phantom Dust remake. If Phil Spencer gives me that, I will be overjoyed!
Fallout Shelter was a nice surprise two years ago, even though I fell off of it very quickly.
My socks would be proper rocked off if there was a Kingdom Hearts 3 demo made available immediately after the announcement. I dont like saying that we as consumers “deserve” anything, but with the rollercoaster rides square takes us on during their development cycles, a demo for KH3 in the vein of episode duscae would be a nice little treat and would do a fine job of quenching some kind of thirst the fans have.
I sort of hope we hear something about the new Crackdown that was announced a few E3s back. Some of the cloud stuff they mentioned sounded interesting and it would be interesting to see if they follow through with it or not.
Out of everything people have mentioned so far, I think this one is the closest to being a lock. I fully expect Crackdown to be the showpiece game MS used to flaunt Scorpio.
Spider-Man for PS4 and specifically, what the story is going to be. Because from the first trailer a year ago, those guys in mask looks like Hammerhead’s henchmen. Also, would appreciate Chameleon or Mysterio being in this game. Probably won’t but who knows.
I’m hoping for Hollow Knight’s switch port to get this treatment. I’m optimistic it’ll get a showing at Nintendo’s E3 equivalent at least, but best case it gets a surprise release. Maybe alongside a bunch of other small Switch games, that’d be nice.
I want to say I saw an article going around that said something about Kingdom Hearts 3 being on track for release within the next year. Haven’t been able to track it down since, though, so I don’t know about the validity of it.
