Focus Home Interactive has unveiled its exciting E3 2018 line-up. The publisher will show for the first time Farming Simulator 19, will present a 30-minutes video for The Surge 2 as well as a gameplay video for A Plague Tale: Innocence, and will show Call of Cthulhu.
Here is the full list of titles showcased at the Focus Home Interactive booth, West-Hall #4512, June 12-14
Insurgency: Sandstorm: play the sequel to the multi-million selling FPS Insurgency with the developers from New World Interactive, in a dedicated multiplayer session!
Farming Simulator 19: Shown for the very first time, see the newest entry in the farming phenomenon from GIANTS Software – including an exciting surprise to be announced at E3!
The Surge 2: Check out 30 minutes of never-before-seen gameplay of the hardcore Action-RPG from Deck13, with an ambitious level design and combat more brutal than ever.
A Plague Tale: Innocence: Meet orphan siblings Amicia and Hugo – as well as the hordes of rats hunting them – in a new gameplay walkthrough by developers from Asobo Studio.
Call of Cthulhu: Lovecraft’s twisted universe comes alive in an exclusive walkthrough guided by the developers from Cyanide.
GreedFall: Dive into the latest RPG from Spiders to discover a unique world shaped by the player’s political diplomacy, character relationships and critical choices.
Space Hulk: Tactics will be playable for the first time in face-to-face sessions with Cyanide developers in the Public Area, alongside hands-off sessions of Necromunda: Underhive Wars with developers Rogue Factor detailing all the new features. Developers from Vostok Games, the studio behind Fear the Wolves, will also attend E3 this year to answer questions.
Finally, you’ll be able to get your hands on some of the company’s most recent and imminent releases – playable stations will be available for both journalists and the public to try out Vampyr (DONTNOD Entertainment), The Surge – Complete Edition (Deck13), and Spintires: MudRunner (Saber Interactive).
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“Call of Cthulhu: Lovecraft’s twisted universe comes alive in an exclusive walkthrough guided by the developers from Cyanide.”
“Space Hulk: Tactics will be playable for the first time in face-to-face sessions with Cyanide developers in the Public Area”
But wait, didn’t Big Ben Interactive buy Cyanide? Why are they still working with Focus?
They are still bound by their contract since they were developing that game before the acquisition.
“GreedFall: Dive into the latest RPG from Spiders ”
No need it will play exactly like mars war logs, bound by flame and the technomancer.
No Battlefleet Ghotic Armada 2?
Damn shame
I can’t wait to get my hands on more Surge!!
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thats the problem . a lot of game i will skip this year ….
the standard are so low because ppl will but what ever ……
GG …..
I’ve been pretty disappointed too this year. The only really good games released for me were Battletech and Pillars Of Eternity II. I’m waiting for the beta of Battlefield V, and hoping to hell that the Call Of Cthulhu game doesn’t suck. Insurgency will be awesome, and I’ll “acquire” the surge 2 if its out this year.
Nah your standarts are just too high.
I mean sucks to be you really 😀 I truly had fun with RPGs from Spiders and The Surge. So hell yeah I’m looking to Greedfall and Surge 2.
Looking forward to Plague Tale and Call of Cthulhu as well.
Like for real dude it sucks you can only enjoy best of the best games and nothing else.
What you even play inbetween those few games each year? I’m gonna guess multiplayer games? See I don’t play those at all. I just’ really enjoy singleplayer games even b-grade ones. It’s different story and gameplay each time.
Wow you know me so well . Wow mutch IQ wery smart sutch intelignece wow .
Yeah . . . . It sucks to be me . . . That i dont eat every s**t game what comes out . . . .
Ppl eat so mutch s**t they get use to it and buy even more . Thats why there is call of duty 14 . Battlefiled 54 and assassin creed 96 . . . .
Ppl forgot what is good the standards are so low publishers will do anything just to get more money . They dont care about the product or the gamers . . . .thats why there is battlerolyal everwhere + lootboxes .
Wat i play ? I play game where i am in full coontroll .not like god pf war a button smashing movie .games where i create my own playstile my fun my experience . BUT you know me well . You know what i play . . . . . . . . .
Well I know now that you are very passive aggressive if nothing else 😀 . That is why I asked! Ton of people seemingly only play few of the biggest releases each year and fill rest of the time with multiplayer games. Sorry I assumed you are one of them!
I get your hate for huge AAA games and batle royale games. Thou I don’t see games published by Focus to be that. Studios under them are small and their games are often b-grade at best but gosh darn it those people are just trying so hard and their games totally have heart if you ask me and I can respect that.
? A Plague Tale: Innocence.
? Call of Cthulhu, GreedFall.
? Insurgency: Sandstorm, Farming Simulator 19, The Surge 2.
Agreed, great entry into the Dark Souls genre.
?????Awesome? Are you sure that’s the word you meant?
The fact that a few or many agree with you doesn’t mean what you say it’s right, people need objectivity.
But the again if you’re one of those who think dark souls is a masterpiece or even a great game, the conversation could end here for all i care.
I’ll answer here for both posts
Dark souls games are highly overrated games, i recently played the first’s remaster, trying to be as objective as possible, and i couldn’t help it but say that’s a mediocre to say the best videogame, there’s literally nothing even good about the game, well maybe some character and some design choice regarding places, but gameplay, and technical level is low, the story is very generic besides what fanboy see in it, looking for some depth that isn’t there, and praising a rather basic combat, only based on trial and error mechanics and skinned-down to the bone rpg component, the atmosphere is flat there’s no hint of anything, the game has no soul besides it being called dark souls, more like no souls, the hype behind it is so huge that from a 4/10 game, it became a 8/10 game if not higher. The only thing i’m not sure about is thr OST, because i basically played with no music. An overall unpolished game with no soul.
About objectivity…it’s something you acquire with time playing and watching many videogames on many platform, which is something 80% of the videogame users don’t have nowadays, they’re just casual players needing some amusement and not really appreciating to the very core the stuff they play, meaning not being able to have experience and noticing particulars that might enrich the title, that’s why you can’t trust general opinion these days
If i want to be subjective i’d say it’s fkin s**t, but i’m not doing that, that’s why i’m being objective, going over the things you don’t personally like is being objective, there’re many game i don’t like but i really think they’re good titles, but I DON’T like them, that won’t make me be less objective. If it had an atmosphere i would’ve felt that! Even if i didn’t like that, that atmosphere people talk about is just generated in their head, they convinced themselves it has some kind of special atmosphere that isn’t there, nothing more. I got far enough to understand how the game worked (end of undead burg), since it’s basically all the same from the beginning to the end, and i saw others play it, and talked about the game with people i know, and they all confirmed what i felt in those 4 chapters, and that’s not deep mechanic, not even close, mobas and rts’ have deep mechanics, hell even arena fps have deeper mechanics than this which is trial and error, so basically the most basic stuff ever. I repeat, the fact i didn’t like movements and the pace of the game isn’t included in my analysis, at all, that’s why i didn’t include such stuff, i didn’t have big problems in terms of difficulty, even if sometimes i had to re do different parts because i didn’t expect a particular move or reaction from an enemy, besides i rage quit when one of the toughest enemies you encounter in the beginning, those black tall warriors you challenge to get some drop, hit me through a fkin wall, level design is pretty normal, nothing you talk about, actually some parts didn’t even look ok, and the choice of using the same bonfire multiple times, just using another way to access it, sounds very money and time saving focused, other than quality focused.
And i can tell it wasn’t on a high budget, i really can see that! The surrounding and the atmosphere is just something that many fans elaborated into their head and thought that was what the developer had in mind. F*k IGN and cod and bf but at least these two have nothing to show anymore, so who buys them and who tries them, have low expectations at this point regardless of how their respective software houses advertise these products, with this, hearing everyone on the internet, i felt like i was going to face some kind of great title, which clearly isn’t, at least to someone who has a little bit more experience and knowledge than average. I could maybe get my personal vote to 5, just because it was made on a tight budget, but that doesn’t make it in any way better, it remains a highly overrated and over hyped game, like many others in the last 10 years.
But we were talking about the surge, which is another meh game, just like DS, and sometimes for the same reasons.
If you think games like doom or serious game are somewhat deep in terms of combat, i don’t really know what to tell you, doom is a great game, no doubt, the gameplay is meant to do exactly what developers meant and it plays just good, there’s nothing that calculative behind it, or if there is, it’s something you do without breaking a sweat, it comes natural, you don’t even need to think about it.
Man again if you think games like doom have some kind of depth mechanics in terms of combat, i really think you have low standards for that, again, i’m not saying it’s bad, but there’s nothing as basic as doom in combat mechanics, but that’s what’s good about it, it’s meant to be like that, and it does the job very good, doom is probably one of the games i have appreciated most in these last 10 years, surely in my top 10.
The surge is a mediocre game, has nothing really good in it, but at least commands were ok, and it was decently optimized and ran fine even on my old gtx580, a thing is sure tho, i felt the existence of an atmosphere there more than i did on DS, maybe i’ll try the second one, hoping they’ll give some kind of meaning at the whole game, because the first had none.
I never said that, you probably misunderstood me, i’m not talking about how deep or hard is the development, i’m talking about how deep is the mechanic when you play the game. “2×2” isn’t deep mechanic, those are simple things. You make no sense, i never said simple mechanics are dump, what are you talking about, i’m saying they’re just not deep, no matter how hard or calculated was the development, you don’t base a depth based on how hard or calculated the development was. because what comes out later is seen (in this case, played) from another perspective,
League of legends is probably one of the simplest moba there is, it has few mechanics, and not even hard to comprehend, surely not simple to master. Dota 2 is a much deeper game for example, that’s why it hasn’t got as close as LoL playerbase, because people can’t bother when playing videogames becomes mentally heavy or stressful, and i can see why, though i don’t agree with that type of mentality, playing videogame shouldn’t only be a way to relax and basically let the game play itself, but should also be something challenging and mind training.
I’ve replayed doom 3 lately, and it was as linear and “simple” as the 2016 one in terms of gameplay.
No i didn’t watch any video, i’ll probably, but that won’t surely tell me much of anything, and honestly i don’t think i need some kind of teaching from this Mark Brown.
I watched the video, and he didn’t say anything special and particular, and even anything that says i’m wrong, for what it’s worth, the fact you have to learn timings and attack patterns doesn’t make it deep, it’s something you find in pretty much every game, maybe in another form, with another pace, but it’s there, nothing special.
I did watch it, but it doesn’t matter that batman is that simple and DS isn’t, the 2 games are just way too different, you couldn’t use batman combat style on dark souls, and not even vice versa, the fact you have animation time, hit, and recovery time, is something very old, that dark souls used because it was fit for the style of the game it was intended to create, it was fit for the game because it’s a slow paced game in pretty much every aspect, but they really haven’t invented anything new or deep or particularly well realized, but you’re ofc free to think otherwise, the same goes pretty much for the surge. Both action games with a little bit more punishing or “hard” combat style which really has nothing deep or special or new behind, with no soul no story and poor overall gameplay with dubious level design quality.
Such great games!
So why label it such a great game when it actually isn’t i wonder…
Stop with these people, i don’t care what they say, they’re worthless to me, and should be to you too, you’re talking about them like they’re omniscent, and please stop with this bs they invented you go around parroting like it’s some kind of absolute truth.
Man you just looking for fights looking at it like this 😀 when you see someone say that something is good or something is bad you need see it as opinion of said person. Cause it always is just that.
These are just comments on internet, not reviews. Not everything everyone says is review. Most people just say how they feel about things.
Thou I would lie if you were only person who thinks like you. It’s because of people like you that I always end my comments on internet with “imho” , but why should I need to do that at all? Just see everything as opinion in first place and have peace!
Whatever, i honestly think certain opinions are sharable and look like something very objective because, it’s like me saying “look, the colour of my text is black” and you counter with “no, it’s not black, it’s gray!”, it’s not like it’s a matter of opinions here, well that is pretty much how everything is, there’s always who’s got a better understanding and vision and will give a more appropriate, correct and objective opinion than others.
Well ok but dude said “game is awesome” obviously saying that he played it and that he enjoyed it. Does not matter if game is good or bad. He had fun and it was awesome for him. Nothing more than that.
Well and more people share the sentiment hence those 7 upvotes.
More so “awesome” is such a broad statement 😀 it’s not even same as saying that it’s “good” now “good” sounds more like definitive statement.
Eh…I thought The Surge was awesome as well 😀 I can see why lot of other did not feel that way since game have problems but I just enjoyed it.
Well and only hope that this sequel will only be better.
So what you’re saying is basically i say x game is good, and it’s implied it’s my opinion, and at that point nobody should dare to judge my opinion, because well, it’s my opinion.
It just doesn’t work like that, i saw a statement, and i asked why such statement, i could understand if he was being more neutral by saying “The surge is alright” or “The surge isn’t a bad game at all” at that point i could even agree with him if i felt particularly generous in that moment, but “Awesome” man, i was so interested to understand why the use of such adjective, that’s how discussions on forums work.
I’ve got to say tho, i’m not native english speaker, so i might just not know the existence of different uses of the word “Awesome”.
Well you can defi judge his opinion but that is kinda mean if you ask me 😀 cause you know he says he enjoyed something and you just say “Well what you enjoyed was sh*t thou.” Why say that? Why don’t let people enjoy things? It’s not like it will change his mind. It will only make him sad or angry.
What you can do is say that you don’t feel that way and submit your reasons why you feel differently. That is valid response imho. Like I love hearing different opinons on things. Especially opinions that are different from my own. You know to learn why others may feel differently.
Ofc it never changes how I feel about it but it at least makes me understand opposite side. Thou mow when I’m thinking about it I guess that is what you wanted to hear in first place and what all this is about. Instead of just “it was awesome” which is fair enough.
Well for me reasons why I thought Surge was awesome.
You are playing as dude in wheelchair that gets exoskeleton bolted onto his body.
Takes place in corporate facility where everyone went insane because of nano-machines that got out of control.
You can slash off pieces of enemies and then use them on your own exoskeleton.
Well and on top of that I LOVE souls-like games like this. I know lot of people got bored by them by Dark Souls 3 but…not me! I really enjoy that style of combat and exploration.
All these things are awesome to me 😀 so it made game awesome for me. Were there issues? Sure, but I don’t feel need to go into them because those were not important to me and this is not a review. Just how I feel 🙂
I’m not saying he shouldn’t enjoy it, never said that, i’m just saying that people, not necessarily him, should learn to distinguish “something THEY liked” from “something good”, they can be related to the same thing, for example there are games that are undoubtedly good and people like, but there can be “something I like” but isn’t good, well, the good thing is if i realize that a certain game sucks but well i liked it! But at that point if someone comes to me saying, “Hey that game sucks” i wouldn’t blame them because i realize it sucks even if i like it, and the fact i like it shouldn’t allow me to sell how i feel about that certain game, like how everyone should feel about that same game, of course there’s also the opposite thing.
tl;dr People should learn to separate taste from quality, not everything i like is good, and not everything i dislike is bad, the trick, is just realizing when distinguish good from “what i like” and bad from “what i dislike”.
I hope you got my point, it’s not that easy for me to explain.
Very true! The way you said it now I’m 100% behind you on this one. It’s just I really see word “awesome” in same category as “cool” or “neat” just this very subjective view on something. Nothing like saying that something is objectively good.
I mean I get that awesome comes from “awe” – “a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder” which really only few things are that ofc but I see people using it to describe everything they personally like nowadays. I do as well actually. Thou english is not my first language neither.
Dude in exoskeleton fighting robots and using their body parts as weapons is awesome.
Dude in exoskeleton fighting robots and using their body parts as weapons is good does not even make sense if you ask me. Because again I feel like both words have different meaning. At least for me.
Either way good talk! It’s not everyday you can have talk with someone on the internet about opinions!
That’s why i said The surge i respect more than DS, because it at least follows some hint of a story, of a plot, it has some good ideas, like you said, that you use parts of enemies as enhancements for your character, and other tiny stuff, but it remains honestly a pretty anonymous and soulless game in the end.
Looking forward to see what CoC looks like…
Nah, combat and difficulty were really unbalanced ……..
It was a bit janky but it was a challenge compared to dark souls after 3 games. Very unique system on getting armor with having to chop of enemies limbs.