June 13, 2020 – E3 2020 Day 2 / PC Gaming Show Announcements
Summary Over 50+ games announced at PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show - Lots of "more of the same" titles - Survival/crafting, farming/life simulators, retro shooters Want to play: Persona 4 Golden (out now!), Carto, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy, Potionomics, Paradise Killer, Haven, Weird West, Twin Mirror Interesting: In Sound Mind, Icarus, Rogue Lords, Blightbound Especially bad: Amazon's New World (see cover image) Day 2 of E3's online shindig was the "PC Gaming Show". After watching God-knows-how-many-trailers during this two-hour show, I'm here...but not all here. My theme for this show, and PC gaming in general, was "more of the same". I'm not sure if I'm just an old, jaded gamer but it felt like the majority of games announced here were - kind of like the movie industry - "safe" bets that were essentially clones of existing games with a new mechanic or different art style. The survival/crafting clones. The farming/life simulator clones. The retro shooter clones. Also: EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE... To start with, I appreciated host Day[9] and co-host Frankie Ward's heroic efforts on the stream to keep things upbeat, interesting and professional. I would've mentally checked out twenty minutes in. Day[9]'s interview questions at least weren't the typical talking head stuff. Since the scale of today's event is way bigger than the E3 Day 1 PS5 game announcements (we're talking 50+ games here, which was repeatedly emphasized), I won't be posting a bunch of trailers, but instead just writing my impressions on what I saw, good or bad. Want to Play PERSONA 4 GOLDEN - Not a huge surprise given the leaks, but anything Persona for me now is a guaranteed buy. I just hope that Persona 5 Royal's PC release doesn't come at the start of the NEXT console generation.…