For anyone unfamiliar: Bongo is a bingo card I make for E3 every year for the Facepunch forums. I just spelled it wrong once and decided to role with it. I've done one every year for E3, and last year I did The Game Awards as well.
There are always prizes that are given out (mostly shitty games no one has heard of, let's be real) and usually everyone hops in Discord and spams the E3 threads with their randomly-generated cards despite being asked not to.
This year, the fifth anniversary, will be the final year. I've been struggling with life for a while now, mostly being unemployed and borderline homeless. There have also been fewer people joining in the last couple of years, and now the forums are on the Brink™ (2011) of shutdown I can't imagine many more will join in.
But I still want a big send-off, so I'm doubling the Bongo. Video games are very polarizing, there are people who can only see the games industry in a negative light while there are people who try to see the good in it. So the theme for this year reflects that.
One side for the good,
one for the bad. The seven blanks return, this time being virtues, and the checklist of things that aren't very cash money returns to counter it (although smaller because this card is already massive).
Here's what I have so far:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/797/8d2b886c-7f25-4d3a-afb6-6d9d3bcd3051/bongo_2019_wip.png
I always ask for some ideas from here, so figure I might as well for this one since I'm basically out of my own.
Keep in mind:
Green = glorified free space, yellow = likely, orange = maybe, red = unlikely (there are no open red spaces)
Sony will NOT be at E3 this year, so don't recommend anything that would be exclusive to Sony (meaning no Death Stranding you nerds).
While I know EA will not have a conference, they will be holding multiple live streams during E3 that will count towards bongo. For this reason, they're on here. Also I'm not bothering with sports.
I need more "general" spaces that could be anywhere.
Also join the gaming events Discord: https://discord.gg/6aCua8y
Optimism: Red Dead Redemption 2 PC announced
Pessimism: it's a EGC exclusive
dead island 2 , they've already made dying light, no way they'll make DI2
Banjo & Kazooie, I wish people stopped pretending this will ever be a thing. Unless nintendo buys the IP, Rare has been dead since MS bought it.
Those are the two virtually impossible things on there tbh.
A no mans sky announcement though could be added. It's possible though semi-unlikely, making it perfect
New Elder Scrolls / Starfaps (whatever their their new IP is) announcement
New VR IP
https://youtu.be/AWFaj4IQ4ro
Been announced, it's on there because after it was announced they never talked about it again.
Personal suggestions for bongo:
Saints Row
Star Fox
Smash DLC
SNES games on Switch
Square Enix's Avengers Project
People Can Fly's new shooter
Rocksteady's next game
Maybe some sort of God of War announcement and gameplay of Halo Infinite?
Why is Mirror's Edge Catalyst sequel in pessimism and Destiny in optimism?
Bungie broke off from ActiBlizz, so we have a -small- chance Bungie could rise to its late 90's position
For optimism:
More than 1 Smash DLC announced (because 1 is bound to happen)
Luigi's Mansion
Catalyst sucked huge ass
Also give me pessimism ideas
beloved franchise/ip gets a shitty mobile game?
Cause catalyst was already half-baked. I enjoyed it but I only paid $20 for it, it's not $60 material.
You could probably make a 'Halo Reach PC drops today' panel for optimism.
hold your horses they haven't even started flighting
Current version, getting closer send nudes ideas
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/797/1de17627-e112-4c9d-b72e-e155b38acc87/bongo_2019.png
Pessimism ideas:
Another Call of Duty/Assassin's Creed
"Early Access"
Remaster of a game that's not even 10 years old
Ubisoft "gamer talk" in gameplay trailer
Well if it's over 10 years old, then you can hardly remaster it anymore, it should be a remake. And that would be a good thin
Since Square Enix are gonna have their own conference, maybe add Deus Ex or Thief there?
I would add “Microsoft IP on Switch” due to all the rumors going about as well as the fact they recently put Cuphead on Switch.
There's also the rumor of Persona 5 being ported over to Switch. Maybe make a spot that encompasses all forms of "so-and-so's IP coming to the Switch"?
That was when people thought Persona 5 S was going to be "Persona 5 Switch", instead it's a Muso game no one asked for call Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers.
From this point on, only post pessimism.
Because optimism is locked in
Streaming only console announced.
REmake3 for the Positive side?
Here's a few pessimist ones:
"Devs praise Epic"
"Class-based shooter, late to the party"
"Game announced, needs crowd-funding"
"Jab at Steam/Valve"
Brink 2 being pessimistic is maximum gay, Splash Damage did good with Dirty Bomb and I'm sure Beth wouldn't fuck them too badly with a Brink sequel given how the recent ID and Arkane titles have turned out, so it should be a positive
especially since Brink has fucking sweet lore and aesthetics and shit bruv
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/821/f0b461ef-84da-4e51-a3eb-ed3299042ae6/image.png
Here's the conference list. I'd put a "Limited Run has MIDIs" square/rectangle in to cover the bases.
It's tradition to have Brink 2 on the checklist.
"UploadVR has the worst conference" would be an easy pessimism square/checkbox, that along with my Limited Run suggestion would cover every single conference.
Another pessimism square for nintendo could be "Doug Bowser doesn't appear in the Nintendo direct".
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