E3 2014: The Official ELECTRONIC ARTS Thread

Congrats to @vincentvendetta and this classy Mirror's Edge banner, which also might be the only banner that references this being the 20th E3. He narrowly beat out alcor741's Battlefield banner. And aurahack's VHS banner was not far behind in 3rd place.

The Official E3 2014 Electronic Arts Press Conference Discussion

It's officially E3 time, duders! If you haven't experienced the insanity of E3 before, the show starts off with press conferences from each of the three console makers as well as a few of the largest publishers in the industry. These presentations are prime real estate for game announcements, debut trailers, live gameplay demonstrations, and meme origins.

In an attempt to keep the E3 shenanigans organized, the mods institute these official discussion threads for each conference so that everybody has a go-to place to discuss them before, during, and after the show.

Keep Discussions On Topic

This thread is exclusively for the general discussion of the Electronic Arts press conference. Only discussion of the EA press conference is allowed. Discussion involving the other company's conferences should be taken to their respective threads (once they're posted). And don't even think about going off-topic or derailing the thread with arguments over how much it costs to rent the Staples Center.

Specific Announcements

E3 is THE place for announcing never before seen games. It's exciting, fast-paced stuff and we're all enthusiastic to start talking about all the new toys. But, please keep in-depth discussions about specific games in their respective forums. For more information about how to help us keep things organized, go check out the E3 2014 and You! thread.

To help you get where you need to go to talk about anything announced or shown during this press conference, we have created a list of them right here:

• Battlefield Hardline
• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• EA Sports PGA Tour 15
• EA Sports UFC
• FIFA 15
• Madden NFL 15
• Mirror's Edge
• NHL 15
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Untitled Criterion Racing Game

Despite the insanity of E3, keep in mind that the general site rules still apply. So, don't be a dick. If you need a refresher on to conduct yourself like an upstanding citizen of the Giant Bomb community, check out the FAQ.

Where Can I Watch?

If you know of any others, let me know!

• Giant Bomb Chat
• EA.com
• E3 Insider.com
• TwitchTV
• SpikeTV

That's a pretty banner =D Nice work @vincentvendetta

How much sports are we talking about today EA? I'm guessing 20 minutes as a whole.

Just make this an hour about Dragon Age and were set. Nothing else matters.

@demoskinos: Don't want any Mass Effect news?

I will be completely satisfied if I just see a mass effect teaser. Also, more Mirror's Edge please.

@nightriff: I don't like Mass Effect.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age is all I'm expecting. I actually really want new Mass Effect information.

Sure, I'll get excited for a new Mass Effect game.

I hope the new Mirror's Edge is cool. I wanted to love the first game so much. EA's conference tends to be super boring if you're not into sports.

Mass Effect hype! My favorite franchise from last gen, very interested to see who the protagonist is.

Mass Effect HD Thingymo - The inventory is improved and the Mako is less wonky.

I'm just waiting for The New Mass Effect... hell just called it that New Mass Effect when ships use eezo for FTL travel the light trail is green!...

Also Dragon Age Inquisition, that looks pretty good.

AN FTL GAME SET IN THE MASS EFFECT UNIVERSE

What the fuck is the point of a chat room if you can only send a message every 10 minutes?

So you can say something stupid followed by "see you in 10 minutes".

Swedish people!

Fucking fuck

ALL THE FEELZZ!!!!

God I'm getting excited for DA3 and that scares me

Dat Mass Effect 1 music.

=( Well that BioWare thing said nothing.

Bioware. "We're making a game, it has environments and storytelling and stuff."

How many of the GB crew will die in the sims?

Is this sex?

Ea sports guyz!

Play the game - Criterion games

Edit: Man, that was some early stuff.

Was that Pelican playing in the background of the Criterion thing?

Can we get a list of the 6 new games they are announcing?

The tackling animations in Madden still don't look great. They don't flow well.

"Combat"

>_>

Sports Sports Spoorrss SPorrrs Pooorstst Spooojuuurhhhts

Cool, another game where I shoot dudes.

OMG I can't believe that guy said that about watching game.

Eh...

Well, that was garbage. Vague concept art and sports...

Well, that was garbage. So boring. The only things I cared about were all in conceptual stages.

Looks like I can go the rest of 2014 without giving EA any money.

Yay, we're comment twinsies :D

Yeah, that's weird XD

Supremely underwhelming. Really a shame, too.

That was fairly boring to be honest.

Best part of EA was Mass Effect music sooooo...

That was utterly predictable.

Are EA's conferences the same every year? That was just blah. Not terrible but not interesting or entertaining or exciting.

Well...that sucked. Even as excited as I am about Mirror's Edge 2, they somehow made that game look painfully boring. Yeah, I get it, it's still clearly early in development and they probably don't have a lot to show, but that trailer from last year was infinitely more exciting.

Well, got my code for the Hardline beta and Origin tells me it's been used.

That was so boring. Every game I was somewhat interested in got the "we can't actually show anything yet" treatment, so it was just a shitload of sports games and Battlefield. Yawn.

Grabbed this gem while their stream froze. Sweet face, Andrew Wilson.