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We discuss E3 2017 and hand out silly awards.

• 0:00 – EA
• 10:35 – Microsoft
• 40:16 – Devolver Digital
• 41:55 – Bethesda
• 48:16 – PC
• 52:21 – Ubisoft
• 1:19:10 – Sony
• 1:53:45 – Nintendo
• 2:22:02 – Silly E3 Awards

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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:49 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone. Happy E3

6:54 PMeathdemon​amazon took the next step in becoming the 1 true megacorp lol

6:59 PMeathdemon​I was more joking, but it should be clear why they are doing it

7:00 PMGFY AH​I don’t know anything about that

7:00 PMWarren Lewis​Hi all!

7:00 PMGFY AH​Hi everyone

7:00 PM13Ucube​it’s really bright in san diego

7:01 PM13Ucube​san diegons

7:02 PMeathdemon​well skip ea nother to talk about there

7:06 PMeathdemon​mh worlds, on everything, but switch

7:07 PMeathdemon​it has online, but its force splitscreen

7:07 PMLyricallyC​hello all

7:07 PMeathdemon​its prison break the game

7:08 PMLyricallyC​I think language will give it a M rated for A Way’s Out

7:09 PMLyricallyC​rating i meant

7:09 PM13Ucube​I’ve had more platinum points expire in my.nintendo than points i’ve spent

7:09 PMNightmare Ninja​are we talking about EA or?

7:09 PMNightmare Ninja​Oh wait

7:11 PMLyricallyC​what was with the two sport guys and that miss hand slap

7:11 PMNightmare Ninja​I can’t remember what happened in EA

7:11 PMWarren Lewis​Hey guys

7:11 PMNightmare Ninja​Yo

7:13 PMLyricallyC​Need For Speed Payback did seem interesting

7:14 PMNightmare Ninja​games on the PC too

7:14 PMeathdemon​there are a few switch games. the pc gamming show had sevral that are also coming out on switch

7:14 PMLyricallyC​I think since Nintendo did their indie direct earlier this year, they may have decided to focus more on bigger switch games

7:14 PMNightmare Ninja​good point

7:15 PM13Ucube​i’m dyslexic and i kept calling it the xbox one box x

7:15 PMNightmare Ninja​not buying it as I can get these games on PC

7:16 PMGFY AH​Do you think they’ll make another Golden Sun game?

7:16 PMNightmare Ninja​dunno

7:16 PMeathdemon​yup I own a high end pc, no reasson to buy a console

7:16 PMLyricallyC​I’m calling it O.X.

7:16 PMNightmare Ninja​PC and Switch for me

7:17 PMLyricallyC​Scorpio was just fine

7:17 PMGFY AH​Just PC for me

7:17 PMNightmare Ninja​that’s cool

7:17 PMeathdemon​those prices will drop even more in the next year or so

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​foe the new X-box?

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​or games?

7:18 PMeathdemon​that being said as a pc gammer, I dont care for 4k. I am using 1080p/144hz monitor

7:18 PMNightmare Ninja​same

7:18 PMScottyJayMan​This isn’t like going from CRT to plasma/LCD. That was a massive shift

7:18 PMLyricallyC​I want to see install times on the system

7:19 PMGasKanOnFire​I hear you Scotty. I went from a rear projector to a LCD.

7:20 PMNightmare Ninja​I still have my DVDs

7:21 PMNightmare Ninja​who uses the DVD player feature on their PS system?

7:21 PMeathdemon​xbox one x isnt ether, but it will be alot closer

7:21 PMLyricallyC​how many times did microsoft say “exclusive” at the conference?

7:21 PMNightmare Ninja​alot

7:22 PMGasKanOnFire​they did fix the name X Box One X = XBOX

7:22 PMeathdemon​who uses a dvd/bluray player anymore? I stream everything

7:22 PMNightmare Ninja​i love having DVD boxes

7:22 PMScottyJayMan​Maybe the Xbox x would be cheaper without the Ultrahd blu ray drive.

7:23 PMNightmare Ninja​i still use my dvd/bluray player

7:23 PMGFY AH​I still use DVDs my self

7:24 PMLyricallyC​I think the Metro Exodus Trailer wasn’t actual game play. Some people believe it was

7:24 PMNightmare Ninja​agree

7:24 PMNightmare Ninja​I don’t think it is either

7:24 PMMixtape Troy​As a person who doesn’t enjoy FPS’, Metro is the best I’ve ever played.

7:24 PMeathdemon​past metro games have been in a rusian subways

7:25 PMMixtape Troy​Angry bears and pirates!

7:25 PMeathdemon​oh and bullets are money in the metro games

7:26 PMMixtape Troy​Yo Andrew – you ready to FUCK this car?

7:26 PMScottyJayMan​Unless the car can dodge a blue shell, I don’t care

7:26 PMNightmare Ninja​lol

7:27 PMeathdemon​thge issue with forza games is its a forza game nothing to show

7:27 PMLyricallyC​its sad the BMW in mario kart 8 was better than this

7:27 PMGasKanOnFire​DUDE did you not see how round those wheals were?

7:29 PMGasKanOnFire​Drone Hawks confirmed.

7:29 PMMixtape Troy​There weren’t mini maps back then.

7:30 PMLyricallyC​I feel like ACO is a non-tom clancy open world game

7:30 PMGFY AH​Do they’ll still have mini maps?

7:30 PMLyricallyC​like Ghost Recon WIldlands and Watchdogs 2

7:30 PMeathdemon​not in egypt ezk

7:31 PMScottyJayMan​It would be better then what Trump does to 

7:31 PMeathdemon​cats were worshiped

7:34 PMeathdemon​pubg has sold over 3m aint just some battle royal game lol

7:35 PMLyricallyC​The last night looks really good

7:36 PMeathdemon​code vein is anime dark souls

7:36 PMRFCshows​And they expect me to preorder LUL

7:37 PM13Ucube​Some of these press conferences were too uninteresting to even make a molehill out of

7:37 PMLyricallyC​I hope Black Desert melee is more combo heavy in its controls (think DMC or Bayonetta)

7:37 PMGFY AH​That game looks great

7:38 PMGFY AH​Cuphead

7:38 PMNightmare Ninja​i liked some of the games some of press conferences showed, not all.

7:39 PMeathdemon​ubisoft and its a 5v5 game

7:40 PMeathdemon​dont you have that with sid mirs pirates?

7:41 PMeathdemon​well ori is a very sad game

7:41 PMScottyJayMan​Minecraft will have cross play. Except Sony

7:42 PMeathdemon​^^^^^

7:42 PMeathdemon​rocket legue will have cross play too

7:42 PMLyricallyC​what about original Xbox games coming this fall?

7:42 PMLyricallyC​from the first gen

7:43 PMeathdemon​it was very adult swim

7:43 PMGFY AH​That would be cool if the original Xbox games work

7:45 PMScottyJayMan​Nope, you Americans cannot complain. The Nintendo event was 2am in Australia!

7:46 PMLyricallyC​the evil withing 2 and wolfenstein II trailer is good to watch

7:47 PMGFY AH​very sad

7:48 PMLyricallyC​they charged full price for the ps4 and xbox one remastered edition that came out last year

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7:50 PMLyricallyC​andrian? how did you feel about Bethesda doing a direct style showing?

7:51 PMScottyJayMan​By 2 Stools, you mean chairs……right?

7:51 PMGasKanOnFire​New expansion for Xcom = mario + rabbids

7:51 PMNightmare Ninja​yea

7:52 PMeathdemon​xcom 2 xpack and a advance wars style game

7:55 PMeathdemon​if it aint broke dont fix it, if it works for xcom dont change it

7:56 PMGasKanOnFire​Talk about a 180 turn around on perception on mario + rabbids

7:57 PMGasKanOnFire​most people were $h1itting on that game, at least now people sound like they are going to give it a fair shot.

7:58 PMScottyJayMan​The Servbots from Megaman Legends are the best

8:05 PM13Ucube​I thought that one looked really cool. i’d buy that game

8:06 PMScottyJayMan​Just dance 18 is coming out for the Wii!

8:06 PMLyricallyC​she’s a new pop artist. She has some hits on the radio

8:07 PM13Ucube​AM radio

8:08 PM13Ucube​Here’s a question: What is it that makes Amiibo successful where the toys to life fail??

8:10 PMLyricallyC​It would be cool to have a the Spike’s ship from Cowboy Bebop for the game

8:10 PMMixtape Troy​The characters are interesting @13Ucube

8:13 PM13Ucube​its a cult

8:13 PM13Ucube​its like that red state movie that john goodman was in

8:14 PMBella theDancer​Hi

8:15 PMGasKanOnFire​I don’t think that those crazy red necks would have those millennial hair cuts.

8:16 PM13Ucube​i hate to say, i don’t even know what systems the original beyond game was on

8:17 PMAndrew Eisen​Gamecube, Xbox and PS2.

8:17 PMGasKanOnFire​yup

8:18 PM13Ucube​since we evolved from grappling space monkeys, we learned how to say m effrs less

8:18 PMGasKanOnFire​I have it in my GC collection. I guess I will need to replay it.

8:25 PMMixtape Troy​What game are they talking about?

8:27 PMeathdemon​mh worlds not coming to switch, but coming to ps4,xb1 and pc

8:27 PMeathdemon​so losing the switch is a far trade

8:27 PMeathdemon​its also a full open world too

8:29 PMGasKanOnFire​capcom still quite on localization of Monster Hunter double cross for switch.

8:31 PMLyricallyC​why not just buy the japanese version (which I think some will)

8:32 PMeathdemon​also mh world is being localized by 8-4

8:35 PMeathdemon​would rather have a sequal

8:37 PMLyricallyC​so much hate for MvC Infinite

8:38 PMAndrew Eisen​Why the hate?

8:41 PMGasKanOnFire​Thanks for shout out. I don’t remember them announcing this previously, but they are localizing Monster Hunter Stories.

8:41 PMLyricallyC​because of missing marvel characters and the art style of Capcom character eyes.

8:41 PM13Ucube​You can’t catch a North American Virtual Console release

8:45 PMLyricallyC​Hope the add some Neverending story vibes in this game

8:45 PMLyricallyC​for god of war

8:46 PM13Ucube​After Detroit presentation ended: I remembered thinking “This reveal could have gone differently”

8:48 PM13Ucube​You play the rest of the game feeling guilty

8:50 PM13Ucube​Are we really TWO HOURS in without evening bringing up Nintendo

8:51 PMeathdemon​spiderman has too many qtes for my taste

8:55 PM13Ucube​not in 2017

8:55 PM13Ucube​you will emotionally scar an adult gamer

8:56 PM13Ucube​we know the big reveal is: Andrew isn’t excited

8:56 PMTrilink​hey! Nintendo time !

8:58 PMMixtape Troy​I noticed it too, Andrew

8:58 PMMixtape Troy​It looks pretty terrible.

8:58 PMGFY AH​Kirby looks good but i still love Kirby super star on the snes

8:59 PMMixtape Troy​Very slow combat and a very weird mechanic with the driver stuff.

8:59 PMTrilink​have you read the latest Takashi (Monolith CEO and director of the game) interview? he made an off hand comment, (sounded jokingly) that hhe was worriied that he wouldn’t meet the worldwide release

9:01 PMMikalah Cornejo​hey

9:01 PMGasKanOnFire​HHHHHEEEEYYYYYYYY

9:02 PMMixtape Troy​Hate to be pessimistic, but I was quite dissapointed that Yoshi and Kirby looks so samey.

9:02 PMGasKanOnFire​Blew my mind that Nintendo is using the unreal 4 for their own games.

9:03 PMeathdemon​that was a reaction to the direct

9:03 PMeathdemon​its also, not retro making it……

9:04 PMGotDemNoscopez​YOU ARE A NERD ANDREW

9:04 PMScottyJayMan​ENGAGE RIDLEY MITHER F**KER

9:04 PMeathdemon​sadly most likely another dk game

9:04 PMGasKanOnFire​Did the purple goop in zelda BOTW remind them of the phazon in the other prime games?

9:05 PMTrilink​still don’t believe they should of announced their working on pokemon or Metroid Prime 4 without any actual footage to show :\

9:05 PMeathdemon​the studio behind that made a bad 2d ccastlevania game on the ds, so……

9:05 PMMixtape Troy​Everyone hates Castlevania Mirror of Fate but me

9:06 PMeathdemon​and am2r seems to be a better version odf it

9:06 PMMixtape Troy​And of course, idiots STILL complain about no Melee HD and Animal Crossing

9:06 PMGasKanOnFire​I liked that 3ds castlevania game

9:07 PMMixtape Troy​Me too Andrew!

9:08 PMTrilink​true, I think they should of shown the 3ds metroid. Think that would of have been enough to tide over fans.

9:09 PMGasKanOnFire​heard Yoshi 2018 was made in Unreal 4.

9:11 PMGFY AH​Yoshi 64 lol

9:12 PMMixtape Troy​The HUD looks bland and beta too

9:13 PMTrilink​fire emblem is on paper is the best Nintendo candidate for a warriors game because its always been based on fighting actual bandits/wars across kingdoms

9:14 PMTrilink​although the most annoying thing is the devs were worried about including too many sword users and only proceeds to shown sword users in the game :\

9:15 PMMixtape Troy​A name and more plastic

9:16 PMGFY AH​lol

9:16 PMTrilink​BTW the new Samus/Metroid amiibo looks absolutly gorgeous

9:16 PMGasKanOnFire​bought it already.

9:18 PM13Ucube​the 2 pack is 29.99

9:18 PMGasKanOnFire​pee stand is back for erbose amiibo

9:18 PMeathdemon​I blame nintendo fans for amibos……

9:19 PMLyricallyC​ever oasis

9:19 PMGasKanOnFire​dont forget goomba and koopa for the remake of superstar.

9:19 PMeathdemon​rocket legue is cross plau with pc and xb1 as well, so sony is chosing to be the odd man out

9:20 PM13Ucube​The will show a number 4

9:20 PMGasKanOnFire​nintendo not odd man out for once WHAT!!!!

9:20 PMTrilink​I’m really hoping they include the bunny ears hat/mask from Majoras Mask in Rocket League

9:22 PMLyricallyC​the trailer music is fantastic

9:23 PMGasKanOnFire​hopefully those rocket cars will have the stache

9:25 PMeathdemon​nintendo seems to be on a dreamcast kick first with splatoon= jet set radio, and mario= sonic adventure

9:25 PMGasKanOnFire​but acronym is X.B.O.X.

9:26 PM13Ucube​The WTF award goes to EA

9:27 PMGFY AH​The i don’t care award xD

9:27 PMTrilink​Best Music Award = Nintendo – Super Mario Odyssey Theme Song

9:29 PMGasKanOnFire​dat cup head

9:29 PMSolsuna​Devolver Digital had a pretty nasty conference, they should get the WTF award

9:30 PMTrilink​Most Cringeworthy Presentation – E3

9:30 PMTrilink​*EA

9:30 PMGasKanOnFire​i saw that devolver confrence too.

9:31 PMGasKanOnFire​Man that was some bad acting.

9:32 PM13Ucube​The Toys to Death award.

9:33 PM13Ucube​Minecraft

9:33 PMGasKanOnFire​MOAR PIXLES

9:34 PMTrilink​Who Wore Mario’s Cap Best Award = T-Rex

9:35 PMGasKanOnFire​i vote rabbids

9:35 PM13Ucube​The Crowd will Cheer at anything award goes to Microsoft as well

9:36 PMTrilink​Best Brutal Perfomance In A Video Game Award – Mr Yubuki (Arms Producer) –

9:37 PMGasKanOnFire​Only if u can gut the fish.

9:37 PMGasKanOnFire​IN VR!

9:38 PMGasKanOnFire​calling it WII will sell the best.

9:39 PMGasKanOnFire​I got destroyed on the test punch..

9:40 PMTrilink​I would of thought the opposite Zachary? I always assumed game developers would be some of the best players at their own game.

9:41 PMGasKanOnFire​Wait. but you can use the amiibo in the regular game too

9:43 PMGFY AH​Re Tree Sawad everyone 

9:46 PMGasKanOnFire​GG