Chapter 567: Project Titan

Los Angeles, United States.

The annual E3 gaming show has arrived, bringing a huge flow of visitors to the city.

Unlike hundreds of years ago, E3 was only open to industry insiders, such as game producers, game journalists (media), and more.

The reason for this is that the exhibition is too hot.

If it is completely open, the huge flow of people will not be able to accommodate it at all.

However, in order to attract more game enthusiasts and expand the influence of E3 Game Show, this tradition was abandoned more than 100 years ago and the ticket system was changed.

At the same time, in order to accommodate more people, the venue was rebuilt, and the area was expanded by more than 10 times.

As an essential seasoning for many young people's lives, games in this era have long been more influential than they once were, and they are the most influential entertainment industry.

With the improvement of virtual equipment, this era is a prosperous era of virtual games.

In this new era, no parent will feel that it is an unreasonable thing for their children to like to play games, because they are also a generation that has experienced the baptism of games, so they understand their children's thoughts very well.

These parents were also crazy about games when they were young, and even stayed up late to watch e-sports competitions and so on......

It can be said that this generation of parents understands their children very well and also has a common language.

As long as it does not affect academics, playing games is the spice of life in the eyes of parents, and it is also an indispensable chat between children and their peers in social interactions, and will not be regarded as a "flood beast".

Many parents even play games with their children and lead them to explore the wonderful world of the game.

It will also become very easy to educate children based on interest, which is also the good side of games that many parents feel.

For many reasons, the rise of the gaming industry is unstoppable.

And this year's E3 Game Show is such a grand event in the game industry.

At this moment, the crowd outside the E3 exhibition hall is already surging.

These visitors come from all over the world, but one thing is the same, they all love the game.

I am also looking forward to the confrontation of "flagship games" between major game manufacturers in this E3 Game Show, and finally find a favorite game to meet future needs.

Even in this era of games, players are still hungry for good games, and this game show is a place for these players to find good games.

In anticipation of the players, the opening time of the exhibition has arrived.

As the doors of the exhibition hall opened, players waiting outside flocked to the showroom.

At this moment, Lu Wu led Xiao Beili and also mixed in the crowd.

As the boss behind the battle for this game, Lu Wu felt that there seemed to be a murderous aura around him at this time.

Because around him, Quante is a conquest player.

As for why Lu Wu knew that these people were battle players, it was not the artifact detection, but their dress.

There are NPC shapes in the cos battle, there are also weapons and props made by Xiao Beili in the game, and there are also clothes printed with the LOGO of "Conquer the first in the world".

There is no need for artifact support at all, and the identity of the conquest player is already written on their faces.

And Lu Wu could see at a glance that these conquest players had bad intentions.

Because he had vaguely heard the "cruel" words mentioned by these conquest players in their small talk.

Words such as hammer explosion, abuse, slashing, rubbing on the ground, etc., naturally refer to the official battle dog: Lu Wu.

To this end, these conquest players have also prepared a batch of special items.

Due to the strict security system in the game hall, all controlled weapons such as knives are not allowed inside.

There is one exception, however, and that is the weapons known as "cos".

Campaign players have taken advantage of this wisely, bringing in in-game Store-style weapons.

Looking at the players' posture, it didn't look like they were joking at all, which made Lu Wu very embarrassed.

Even he just heard the cute girl on the side say to his companion, wait a minute, if you see the dog official, you will use the "staff" in your hand to hammer his head.

Listen, that's what people say!

Obviously so cute, how can he say such murderous words.

In Lu Wu's opinion, this is obviously because the players have too many soul coins and are underexploited.

Grudge +1!

Lu Wu has seen a lot of such conquest players along the way, and many of them have come in groups.

Even Lu Wu saw a group of masked players, they were wearing T-shirts printed with the logo of the evil god, and counted, exactly 50 people. This made Lu Wu instantly think of the middle two players who were recruiting troops on the forum at that time, saying that they would kidnap him in exchange for god costumes.

This group of dog players is becoming more and more presumptuous, and they are really underexploited, and they will be suppressed when I go back!

Hold a grudge +2!

Moving forward along the queue, Xiaobei was holding Lu Wu's hand, and his eyes were always focused on the snacks in the hands of other players in the queue, and he was about to leave saliva.

The nature of a foodie was exposed, which made Lu Wu very helpless.

After about half an hour of waiting, Lu Wu finally came to the ticket gate.

took out his mobile phone to confirm, and after passing the security check, Lu Wu entered it smoothly.

As he walked along the sign passage to enter the exhibition, Lu Wu found that the expressions of the players around him seemed to be getting more and more hideous.

Especially those masked guys, although they couldn't see their expressions, Lu Wu vaguely felt that they exuded murderous aura, and waved the big knife in his hand from time to time.

It looks like it's leveling up and "killing".

What a hate, what a hate!

Grudge +3!

Following the team into the "A1" exhibition venue, the venue is playing soothing music, and the staff of the major booths are already ready to welcome visitors.

At this time, Lu Wu set his eyes on a huge monitor hanging in the center of the exhibition hall.

It is scrolling to display the location of the exhibition hall where the major game manufacturers are located and the specific booth information.

【Battle Online-A3-1】

After determining the booth where the battle was located, Lu Wu did not go directly.

Instead, he led Xiao Beili to wander around the A1 area first.

It's a rare time, and he naturally wants to see this year's flagship games from other manufacturers.

As for the "evil forces" who entered with Lu Wu, they had already flocked to the A3 exhibition hall with great momentum.

Even Lu Wu saw a guy with a "dagger" and muttered:

"I'm for backstabs!"

This made Lu Wu a little crying and laughing, but he didn't take it seriously.

But......

Hold a grudge +4!

……

Along the way, Lu Wu found that many of the games launched by major game manufacturers this year were the ones he was looking forward to very much, and even thought that they were triple-A masterpieces of the lifetime series.

For example, the flagship game "Cyberpunk 2377" launched by Polish Stupid Donkey this year.

Ubisoft launched Assassin's Creed: Future World, Far Cry 46 this year.

There are also Nintendo's "Zelda series", society's "Star Wars series", card's "Biochemical Sequel" and so on......

These works reminded Lu Wu of his childhood when he was obsessed with games.

However, among these games, the one that attracted Lu Wu's attention the most was the flagship game "Titan" launched by Activision Blizzard this year.

The game was also seen by many media as potentially the biggest rival of the day, and there was already news of it even before E3 began.

Seeing the Titan character model and virtual CG images on the EA booth, Lu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Because this game was also a game he was looking forward to very much at the beginning, but Lu Wu thought it was a lifetime series, and he didn't think he would be able to see the launch of "Titan" when he was alive.

The reason for this is because the "Titan Project" once hit Blizzard in its glory days.

Blizzard in its earliest days was undoubtedly a mythical presence in the hearts of players, and World of Warcraft, developed as an unsurpassed MMO (massively multiplayer online) game.

Even now, there are still too many games that have been influenced by World of Warcraft.

Many of the gameplay methods also emerged from World of Warcraft and were learned by other game manufacturers.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the first group of game developers, perhaps more than 80% of them were loyal Warcraft players, and basically played this game.

There is no doubt that Warcraft at its peak is mythology.

When Warcraft entered the Dragon Kingdom in 2005, it caused a large number of players to become addicted to it.

At the beginning, the stalk of "Thunderbolt King Yang Yongxin" was also because of Warcraft, and even CCTV criticized this game.

However, it is a fact that most of the R&D in the early major game manufacturers were die-hard fans of Warcraft players.

This game is a classic, both in the industry and among the player base.

And Blizzard's achievements are not limited to this, such as the "Diablo series", "StarCraft series", "war3" and so on......

At that time, there was a saying in the game circle: Blizzard must be a high-quality product.

But, after all, those were once.

Even game manufacturers like Activision Blizzard have declined.

This has something to do with Titan, the period game that is now being withdrawn.

When World of Warcraft, a classic MMO game, began to decline, Blizzard had a crazy plan to build a super game to succeed Warcraft.

It was around 2007, and for the production of this game, all the project teams under Blizzard joined it, including the entire team of World of Warcraft.

Because at that time, Blizzard wanted to create a game similar to the current "Conquest Online", covering all gameplay methods, and creating a world similar to the size of the earth.

There are countries, there are factions, there are strong social systems, and so on......

To this end, Blizzard has invested a lot of money, the initial investment is 100 million US dollars, and the follow-up investment has reached 700 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 4 billion yuan.

And it's more than 4 billion 300 years ago.

The production cost of a game reached this level, which many game manufacturers could not have imagined at the time.

However, it was because of this game that Blizzard was finally dragged down.

Due to the complexity of the game and the idea of Titan, the Titan project was ultimately aborted.

It can also be said that "Titan" should not have been a product of that era.

Since then, Blizzard has stepped down from the altar.

Although Project Titan "Legacy" created games such as "Overwatch" and "Heroes of the Storm", which were also popular, the subsequent Blizzard fatigue has been revealed.

Too much effort was spent on Titan, and Blizzard simply didn't have a new title to bridge the gap with the era when new games were constantly emerging.

Lu Wu has learned about this history of Blizzard, and when he saw the "Titan" CG on the EA booth at this moment, he really felt a little emotional.

That's the youth that I once lost!

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