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