E3 Day Two, Wrap Ups and More

Bungie's Destiny worldwide gameplay reveal

E3 Day Two has been underway and more exciting details have been released about many of the games we heard about during the kickoff press conferences on Monday and Tuesday.  Most notably was the worldwide gameplay reveal of Bungie's console-mmo Destiny.  While I knew Bungie was talented and ambitious enough to pull it off, I was still impressed by the detailed environment and play style inherent in their newest title.  If I had to put words to how the game looks and feels, I'd say its a combination of Mass Effect, Halo and Borderlands with a Fallout type artistry touch.  Very cool game that I look forward to playing in the future.

Also newsworthy was Sqaure Enix's announcement that both Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy XV will be available on Xbox One.  If you scroll down through my notes on Sony's press conference, they highlighted the fact that these titles would be exclusively on the PlayStation 4.  This apparently is not so and was announced during Square Enix's press conference yesterday.  After discussing with my friend (who is a diehard Kingdom Hearts fan) this decision changes his entire outlook on which console to buy in the Fall.  He originally was sold on the newest PlayStation just because of these two blockbuster titles.  He is currently re-evaluating his decision.

Speaking of the newest console war, the internet has been a battleground the past few days.  PlayStation and Xbox fans alike have been trading back and forth blows with one another in some sort of feeble game to determine which console is better.  While Station 1621 doesn't condone flame wars, operating systems here have been firing at maximum capacity the past couple days trying to bring some civility to the gaming forums on the internet.  This battle has been determined to be quite an inefficient use of system operations.  In all seriousness, a post is coming about who stands on top after E3  between Microsoft and Sony (sorry Nintendo, I just couldn't make it through the Nintendo Direct conference when the system lagged like crazy trying to run games).  My interpretation will be based on the sentiments from each console community and how they feel their respective console fared during their E3 conference.  Hopefully we can avoid a flame war here!

Station 1621 will be continue its Mass Effect playthrough tonight.  I'll put a post up with the link later today.

See you starside.

-1621