I’m not exactly a writer so this post won’t be perfect, full of mistakes and whatever but I have proof read it so hopefully it wont be too bad. I’ve also put a recap at the bottom of the post incase you don’t want to read it all.
EA
Starts off with typical EA yearly releases, Madden, Need for Speed, FIFA and NBA, nothing to be excited about. Showed a new co-op game called A Way Out which looks really cool, a split screen game this generation was badly needing and I’m glad someone took a risk to make one. Teaser trailer for Anthem, which we will get to later, and DLC for Battlefield. Finished with Battlefront 2 gameplay, although I was disappointed to not have Galactic Conquest we did get Skirmish and new class system which is more like the old Battlefront games. Amazing looking game and something to look forward too!
Microsoft (xbox)
Xbox One X (not exactly the best name but who really cares, the same was said when the One was released) announced at £450/$499 which I think is a reasonable price and will be buying one for that sweet true 4k graphics! Forza 7 shown and a Porsche appears on stage and no-one is surprised/seemed to care, myself included. New Assassins Creed is shown and is set in Egypt which I think is a fantastic setting and is hopefully a breath of fresh air since they took a year extra for more development time. Gameplay of a really interesting game is displayed for us to find out its a new Metro game, I haven’t played any of them before but that trailer made me want to check them out. Battlegrounds coming to the xbox, feel like this is a big deal but as I haven’t played it on the PC I don’t know why. State of Decay 2 made me remember that I no longer care for zombie games. The Darwin Project starts off with ESports commentary to let us know that they want this game to be an ESport (I don’t see that happening). 2D DBZ game announced and looks great but not something I want to pick up. The annual indie game montage showed some promising games that will probably end up being free in the games with gold program. Sea of Thieves gameplay really surprised me, something that I think I would love to play with some friends. Crackdown 3 announces Terry Crews is a part of the game which is basically an instant sell because who the fuck doesn’t love Terry Crews?! Super Lucky’s Tale is announced which looks like a children’s platformer, got to target that demographic I guess. Shadow of War gameplay is given to us and it looks really good, nemesis system is awesome and they made the game better by adding a strategic approach to attacking strongholds which I think is really cool. Now we are shown gameplay for Anthem. What is this fucking game? Did the devs just pick and choose things from every game and just throw it in their own? Titanfall/Destiny vibes too it, fly like Iron Man in an exo suit that reminds me of Fallout power armour and the game looks like it has the same setting as Evolve/Horizon. That being said it’s probably the most exciting looking game of the whole show and I want it now because I fucking love loot shooters. Finally end the show with the news that Xbox Original games will be coming to the backwards compatibility program which is cool I guess but I think I only ever played Halo on it I’m probably biased towards Xbox but I do think that they put on the best show this year.
Bethesda
Why even bother with a conference if you are just going to have a pre rendered video introduce everything? They showed VR for games that have been out for ages and DLC for Dishonoured 2. Paid mods are back, I’m sure that will go down well. A couple of sequels,The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein 2 announced which almost saved the terrible conference. Wolfenstein 2 looking the better of the two and seem like it has a compelling story. They close their show by letting us know that Quake still exists. Terrible showing from such a good company, shame.
Ubisoft
No Aisha Tyler!?! well ok. The first 15 mins of the show is all about Mario and Rabbids for the Switch, seems a bit boring to me but its Mario so it well sell millions. More Assassins Creed stuff that didn’t feel like they showed anything different from the Microsoft show. The Crew 2 and Skull and Bones are announced which look cool I guess. Even more South Park trailers, I honestly thought it was out already. A new IP called Starlink is announced and looks like a skylanders/amiibo thing. Gameplay trailer for Farcry 5 looked really good, 10/10 for the dog that brings you guns. They finished by announcing Beyond Good and Evil 2 which I’m guessing is a big deal, I never played the PS2 game but that trailer looked fun. Kinda boring show all round for Ubisoft, they spent a lot of time not very exciting games.
Sony
What the fuck Sony? You usually put on the best E3 show and you didn’t seem to care that much this year. They opened with the final trailer for the Crash Bandicoot remake which made me very nostalgic but not really hyped for a game I’ll probably get. I said before that I’m bored of zombie games but I think Day’s Gone looks like it can give them one last chance. Monster Hunter Wold was shown and that got me happy, I’ve always wanted to play them on console rather than a handheld. Shadow of the Colossus remaster is shown and I personally think looks incredible, 100% something I want to pick up. Gameplay trailer for COD: WW2 which to me just felt like a bunch of planes falling out of the sky and not much else, looks pretty though. DLC for Horizon was announced which I might get because that game is amazing! More trailers for God of War 4 and Destiny 2, the latter of which still has year long timed exclusives which is just ridiculous. Something about a new Gran Turismo game but I didn’t really pay attention because I haven’t played a racing game for a long time. They closed with some Spiderman gameplay which looks awesome! There was loads of cool things shown but the presentation of it felt really strange, like there was no-one to hype everything up.
Nintendo
Nintendo always do good at E3, they don’t need to have a huge conference to put on a fun show. Xenoblade 2 trailer shown and Metroid Prime 4 announced which is cool! Kirby and Yoshi games for the Switch which is increasing the likelihood of me buying a Switch. They very lowkey announce a main Pokemon game like its nothing, fucking what?! ok 100% buying a Switch now. Super Mario Odyssey is given loads of time to show off gameplay and I think it looks brilliant! Nintendo are boosting the need for a Switch in their show and its worked for me at least!
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So pros and cons of this years show? Aka TL;DR
Cons- Well I think there is maybe one game that I’m desperate to know more about, Bethesdas full show, there was too much VR. There were more boring shows compared to ones that were really gripping and there were very little AAA new IP’s.
Pros- Star Wars looks amazing, the Xbox One X release was very exciting. Sea of Thieves looks like it has potential, Anthem looks so promising, Shadow of War looks like a good sequel and they were not all remasters! And there was Loads of content for the Switch including a main Pokemon game!
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Marquise Goodwin, linebacker Eli Harold, defensive lineman Arik Armstead, cornerback K’Waun Williams, safety Eric Reid and defensive back Adrian Colbert all took a knee as they continued to protest police brutality against African Americans. One inactive player took a knee with his teammates.
The rest of the 49ers all stood during the anthem before Sunday’s game against the Washington Redskins.
A mockery was made of the national anthem all right.
But it wasn’t by the San Francisco 49ers.
Vice President Mike Pence turned the anthem into a prop Sunday, co-opting it for a stunt that served no other purpose than to sow division, further enrage the administration’s conservative base and try to cow NFL owners. That it likely deflected attention from yet more neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville was all the better.
Please, though, tell me again how it’s the players who are so disrespectful.
Pence was so incensed by the sight of several 49ers kneeling during the anthem at Lucas Oil Stadium that he left immediately afterward. Not so incensed that he wasn’t right there with a carefully crafted statement to let the world know of his outrage, however.
You say The price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay You cry As you kneel for the flag ‘cause the cops won’t stop shooting you guys Why so sad Remember we made an arrangement when you came as slaves Now you’re making me mad Remember despite our estrangement I’m The Man
You’ll stand up, soon you’ll see You’ll remember you truly owe me You’ll stand up, time will tell You’ll remember we gave you jobs as well
Oceans rise Empire’s Fall We’ve abused your people through it all
And when push comes to shove We will kill your friends and family To remind you to show your love
Okay, so I was raised to be ‘color blind’ - to treat everyone with the same level of respect and love that I would treat anyone else.
And that, on its face, sounds really fantastic. Yay! ALL lives matter!
But, that view point hides that different races have different experiences than my own. From my (white) perspective, everyone is treated equally based on their merits. Maybe less so if you’re poor or you’re ugly, but for the most part if I don’t do something racist to someone, then racism isn’t active anymore. I and a lot of my suburbanite friends can recall when we realized that 'oh, wow, racism is still really real’. For me, I can 'not see race’ and thus, tada racism isn’t an issue.
But for a person of color - [I’m doing some assuming here because all I can base this on is listening to others experiences, if any of my friends of color want to chime in I would greatly appreciate it] - they are a direct recipient of racism, particularly systemic racism every day. So if as a friend of theirs who is white I pretends that race doesn’t exist, I’m not helping to curb the racism that exists all around us that I’m not subject to.
For a person of color, if they try to be 'color blind’ they’re still hit with their resumes not being responded to because they have a black or middle eastern sounding name or they still have getting pulled over randomly and feeling fearful. They still have getting followed around in the store. They still have to send their children out terrified that they may not come home - not just because of a car accident like white people, but because they might curse under their breath at a cop, or they might walk through the wrong neighborhood, or sit in a park. They still have the police being SUPER ready to shoot them at any moment. Racism doesn’t go away when someone is 'color blind’ if they’re a person of color.
So, being colorblind is the essence of white privilege. It lets me pretend racism doesn’t exist, while helping hide the racism that minorities are dealing with every day.
Saying 'All Lives Matter’ and trying to be color blind isn’t fighting racism, it’s hiding it and pretending it doesn’t exist. And that doesn’t work for any problems, much less huge, vast societal problems rooted in hundreds of years of slavery and oppression.
I do see color. I see my friends of color, and they matter.
❛ My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ❜
❛ What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? ❜
❛ What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? ❜
❛ What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? ❜
❛ What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey? ❜
❛ I am done with this creed of corruption. ❜
❛ Now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. ❜
❛ I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. ❜
❛ I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ❜
❛ I am. I think. I will. ❜
❛ The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. ❜
❛ I do not grant my love without reason. ❜
❛ I honour men with my love. But honour is a thing to be earned. ❜
❛ Centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. ❜
❛ Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. ❜
❛ I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. ❜
❛ But what is freedom? Freedom from what? ❜
❛ The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. ❜
❛ We must know that we may know. ❜
❛ It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. ❜
❛ If danger threatens you, I shall face it also. If it be death, I shall die with you. ❜
❛ I have followed you and I shall follow you wherever you go. ❜
❛ Do as you please with me, but do not send me away from you. ❜
❛ It is a sin to say this. ❜
❛ I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them. ❜
❛ My dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. ❜
❛ You are damned, and I wish to share your damnation. ❜
❛ There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. ❜
❛ For the first time this day, I remembered that I am the damned. I remembered it, and I laughed. ❜
❛ My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ❜
❛ What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? ❜
❛ What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? ❜
❛ What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? ❜
❛ What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey? ❜
❛ I am done with this creed of corruption. ❜
❛ Now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. ❜
❛ I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. ❜
❛ I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ❜
❛ I am. I think. I will. ❜
❛ The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. ❜
❛ I do not grant my love without reason. ❜
❛ I honour men with my love. But honour is a thing to be earned. ❜
❛ Centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. ❜
❛ Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. ❜
❛ I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. ❜
❛ But what is freedom? Freedom from what? ❜
❛ The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. ❜
❛ We must know that we may know. ❜
❛ It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. ❜
❛ If danger threatens you, I shall face it also. If it be death, I shall die with you. ❜
❛ I have followed you and I shall follow you wherever you go. ❜
❛ Do as you please with me, but do not send me away from you. ❜
❛ It is a sin to say this. ❜
❛ I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them. ❜
❛ My dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. ❜
❛ You are damned, and I wish to share your damnation. ❜
❛ There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. ❜
❛ For the first time this day, I remembered that I am the damned. I remembered it, and I laughed. ❜
