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Bethesda E3 2019 conference live report – Eurogamer.net

00:51

Well good evening everyone.

By Martin Robinson

00:52

Or is it good morning? Gawd E3 really messes with your head when you’re on the home team.

By Martin Robinson

00:52

Anyway, I’m just heading down to Easy Hours for a quick beer run before Bethesda kicks off in just over 30 minutes.

By Martin Robinson

00:52

Does anyone want anything?

By Martin Robinson

01:19

I feel your pain. This beer possibly isn’t helping.

By Martin Robinson

01:22

What to expect from Bethesda’s show?

By Martin Robinson

01:23

Well, lord knows.

By Martin Robinson

01:23

They announced everything last year.

By Martin Robinson

01:23

Maybe they can announce Elder Scrolls 7 this time out?

By Martin Robinson

01:23

Fallout 5 and 6 and 7.

By Martin Robinson

01:23

And Wet 2, obviously.

By Martin Robinson

01:25

Disappointed that none of you have mentioned Rogue Warrior yet.

By Martin Robinson

01:26

Also what celebrity cameo would you like, in the wake of Keanu’s appearance at Microsoft?

By Martin Robinson

01:27

Oh yes please.

By Martin Robinson

01:27

Richard Briers too?

By Martin Robinson

01:27

Oh shit, he dead.

By Martin Robinson

01:29

I liked Brink!

By Martin Robinson

01:29

So much potential there, and a lot of it wasted, but I still had a fun time with it.

By Martin Robinson

01:30

Oh, we’ve started.

By Martin Robinson

01:31

Totally here for Brink 2 btw.

By Martin Robinson

01:32

We’re starting with *feelings* and a celebration of all of us as gamers.

By Martin Robinson

01:32

I, too, hate this.

By Martin Robinson

01:33

This vapid shite is certifiably worse than Brink. We can all agree on that right?

By Martin Robinson

01:33

We stand together on that simple fact. This intro vid is shite. #betogether

By Martin Robinson

01:34

Right, so what really to expect. A new Arkane project?

By Martin Robinson

01:34

Er, Rage 2 DLC?

By Martin Robinson

01:34

Oh, more on Doom Eternal and Wolfenstein: The Young Ones.

By Martin Robinson

01:34

Oh look Pete Hines walks out from the crowd because he’s just one of us!

By Martin Robinson

01:35

That jacket Pete Hines is wearing is very similar to the one Phil Spencer wore at the MS conference.

By Martin Robinson

01:36

It’s the latest line in exec chic – the bomber jacket that says they’re just regular joes.

By Martin Robinson

01:37

We’re getting customer feedback piled in through the show, though, which could be lolz.

By Martin Robinson

01:38

We’re are also getting Todd Howard’s regrettable stand-up routine, which is fast becoming an E3 tradition now.

By Martin Robinson

01:39

Fallout 76 is up for discussion! It got a lot of deserved criticism, admits Todd.

By Martin Robinson

01:39

The community is lovely, apparently.

By Martin Robinson

01:39

Also the pre-orders for Todd Howard Live at the Apollo DVD are going live round about now.

By Martin Robinson

01:40

We’re getting a look at Elder Scrolls Blades, which you might have played already on mobile.

By Martin Robinson

01:40

It’s not very good!

By Martin Robinson

01:41

But wait! Elder Scrolls is coming to Switch!

By Martin Robinson

01:41

The slightly underwhelming mobile game that is.

By Martin Robinson

01:42

Bethesda’s E3 conferences are so weird. In a good way I think?

By Martin Robinson

01:42

But they could have let us know so much of this in an email rather than hiring out a theatre in LA.

By Martin Robinson

01:44

Fallout 76 update now, from two lads who look like they kept their coathangers in their shirts as their arms hang stiffly by their sides.

By Martin Robinson

01:44

Anyway, there’s an update coming to Fallout 76. And it introduces NPCs!

By Martin Robinson

01:45

Wastelanders 76 is the free update, coming this autumn.

By Martin Robinson

01:46

As weak as this is, I do really appreciate the announcement of dialogue trees being given a rousing applause.

By Martin Robinson

01:47

And here’s a Battle Royale mode for Fallout 76.

By Martin Robinson

01:47

There it is.

By Martin Robinson

01:49

52-player battle royale, an update called Nuclear Winter and it’s coming on June 10th.

By Martin Robinson

01:49

Oh that’s today!

By Martin Robinson

01:50

People are cheering executives as they announce a battle royale for a game they admit they knew was less than brilliant when they first started asking for money for it.

By Martin Robinson

01:50

What even is this world.

By Martin Robinson

01:50

Anyway here’s Todd come tell us a joke son.

By Martin Robinson

01:51

Also of note, Todd Howard is wearing his own spin on the exec bomber jacket.

By Martin Robinson

01:51

Thank the lord, then for Shinji Mikami, who comes on wearing a hoodie.

By Martin Robinson

01:51

As he gets ready to unveil God Hand 2.

By Martin Robinson

01:51

It’s a new IP!

By Martin Robinson

01:52

So not God Hand 2. But it’s Ghostwire Tokyo!

By Martin Robinson

01:52

Let’s see it in action please.

By Martin Robinson

01:53

Creative director Ikumi Nakamura is here to take us through the demo, and she’s brilliantly enthusiastic about it all.

By Martin Robinson

01:55

A cinematic trailer is what we’re getting, showing a gritty take on Tokyo where the paranormal juts up against the ‘normal’.

By Martin Robinson

01:56

Well, I have no idea after that.

By Martin Robinson

01:56

Still, new IP from Tango Gameworks, and there’s a nice edge to its vision.

By Martin Robinson

01:58

Right, there was a quick montage about pepole who like Bethesda games, here’s an update on Elder Scrolls Online, I’m going to the fridge.

By Martin Robinson

02:00

But also yeah I’m an absolute embarassment to myself and all who know me.

By Martin Robinson

02:00

Quite appreciate the applause really. It is quite a walk!

By Martin Robinson

02:02

Hi I’m back did I miss anything.

By Martin Robinson

02:02

Another prerendered trailer, you say?

By Martin Robinson

02:04

Anyway I’m ignoring the fact that a cat is killing a dragon, which is something.

By Martin Robinson

02:04

It looked like the cat might be hurt but the cat’s okay, we’ll find out more about the cat in the expansion.

By Martin Robinson

02:05

People are out of their seats in the front row, screaming at every sentence that comes out of the presenter’s face.

By Martin Robinson

02:05

So much screaming.

By Martin Robinson

02:05

The screaming gets louder.

By Martin Robinson

02:05

It gets more aggressive.

By Martin Robinson

02:06

‘We’re humbled by your enthusiasm’ he says as the screams ring out, louder, more desperate.

By Martin Robinson

02:06

That’s not enthusiasm.

By Martin Robinson

02:06

It’s horror. Despair. An emptiness in the pit of the stomach that can only be expressed by opening your mouth as wide as it goes and letting out a low, guttral noise.

By Martin Robinson

02:07

Anyway here’s a new game it’s a free-to-play mobile Commander Keen game thanks.

By Martin Robinson

02:07

So yeah, Commander Keen is back. But…

By Martin Robinson

02:10

Also I don’t know what’s going on but you can go helmet to helmet apparently I don’t know if this is even real anymore.

By Martin Robinson

02:11

Someone just let a fox into the auditorium then stood on its tail and now I think it’s just dead there.

By Martin Robinson

02:11

It let out this horrible yelp and now its corpse is just there, lying in one of the aisles, maybe even blocking one of the fire exits I hope they see to it soon.

By Martin Robinson

02:11

That poor fox.

By Martin Robinson

02:13

It sounds like another fox just got its tail stamped on. The poor things.

By Martin Robinson

02:14

In amidst all that, there was something on Elder Scrolls Legends and now here’s an update on Rage 2.

By Martin Robinson

02:16

Right, all that’s done, let’s have a good look at Wolfenstein.

By Martin Robinson

02:18

Wolfenstein Youngblood will have more weapons than before, more Nazis to kill.

By Martin Robinson

02:21

It looks fun and energetic going from that trailer but good lord stop with the 80s schtick.

By Martin Robinson

02:21

Also I’m a fan of this lad sticking with the trad exec outfit of t-shirt, jeans and blazer.

By Martin Robinson

02:22

Because bomber jacket chic is back as Arkane Lyon take to the stage.

By Martin Robinson

02:22

It’s an all-nw Arkane game, which I’m very much behind.

By Martin Robinson

02:24

A 70s vibe, which is a bit different, and it’s about two assassins but this is another cinematic trailer so honestly I have no idea.

By Martin Robinson

02:25

It’s Deathloop – proving that time loops are the new big thing in games after 12 Minutes and Outer Worlds.

By Martin Robinson

02:25

It’s Spy v Spy?

By Martin Robinson

02:25

‘It’s really fucking cool’ they say.

By Martin Robinson

02:25

‘Swearing isn’t cool’ I say. Pricks.

By Martin Robinson

02:26

So, Deathloop – an all-new game from Arkane Lyon, and something to very much look forward to.

By Martin Robinson

02:30

Here’s a look at all-new technology, dubbed Orion – I believe it’s centred around streaming.

By Martin Robinson

02:30

It optimises performance for streaming games and I’m not sure this is the time for this lads.

By Martin Robinson

02:33

Here’s Doom Etarenal, I hope to end this sorry show.

By Martin Robinson

02:35

Doom Eternal! It looks bloody brilliant.

By Martin Robinson

02:37

At last! A look at a video game in action, what feels like a first this E3.

By Martin Robinson

02:38

A goddamn wonderful looking video game too. A lot more environmental stuff in there than Doom 2016, and I like how intricate it all looks.

By Martin Robinson

02:41

Apologies for the radio silence – I’m kind of lost in reverie as Doom Eternal fills my sleep-deprived mind with all sorts of garish, gorey brilliance.

By Martin Robinson

02:44

I shouldn’t really complain about this press conference. It’s all the weirdness and awkwardness that I missed in MS’s slick presentation earlier on, bundled together.

By Martin Robinson

02:44

And we get a Doom Eternal release date thrown in for good measure too – it’s out on November 22nd.

By Martin Robinson

02:46

The one weakside to Doom 2016 – the multiplayer – is being addressed now as they talk about Battlemode.

By Martin Robinson

02:46

We’re also going to get a proper look at Doom Eternal’s multiplayer in motion – and there’ll be plenty more details at Quakecon later this year.

By Martin Robinson

02:49

And that was Bethesda’s show. Kind of awful in places, but I’m still grateful for it all. Thanks Bethesda!

By Martin Robinson

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