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Photos from gamescom 2016

Marjo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:14:14 GMT

Hi guys! I was on a short holiday last week and went to gamescom in Cologne like I do (almost) every August. I took a huge load of photos and will post some here.

By the way...

345k visitors from 97 countries attended (I witnessed this when trying to queue for the games! Some had over 3 hours queue... I didn't have the patience for that. haha)
gamescom week attracted over 500k visitors to Cologne (there were loads of tourists around in the town)
gamescom had a new record this year: 877 companies from 54 countries were present.

There are quite many different games in the photos I took below - let me know which ones you recognise and are excited about!

Even on the press day there was a huge queue - and this was not even the main entrance yet:

The Blizzard area was my favourite! Made me want to re-install World of Warcraft. Do any of you still play it?

People waiting in a long queue for Destiny (I swear I saw this one last year already)

I didn't see that many cosplayers this time but here's a couple of zombies I managed to catch:

Mandatory car images!

Can't go anywhere it seems without seeing some Pokemon stuff.

This one I tried - it was quite cool and pretty similar to Hearthstone actually:

The new Final Fantasy seemed GREAT. Makes me want to buy PS4 just for this game... they were playing a trailer on this screen on a loop. Every time I saw it, it looked better and better.

Not sure if you can see properly as it was dark, but here's a queue for PlayStation VR. There were loads of different stands for VR stuff. It's definitely growing in popularity. I walked past a woman who was playing some climbing VR game and kept hitting passers-by as she climbed.

Heard of Robinson: The Journey? Also VR. Graphics looked super crisp!

I can imagine @Toby might like these two below?

Does this remind you of anything?

If I post more photos I think it's going to make the thread explode.

I'd love to hear if there's any specific game here that you're excited about?

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Chris_K — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:37:20 GMT

Looked like a fun-filled event Marjo, I'm well jelly!

Did you see much from the Xbox area? (Xbox die-hard!)

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Marjo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:44:00 GMT

@Chris_K wrote:

Looked like a fun-filled event Marjo, I'm well jelly!

Did you see much from the Xbox area? (Xbox die-hard!)

I didn't hang out in the Xbox area as much (PC die-hard!) but got a couple of photos. I don't play Halo or any Xbox games really, but I confess the Halo Wars 2 looked pretty neat! As did Forza.

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Marjo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:48:28 GMT

@Daddydoink check out this LEGO construction they had at gamescom! Took a photo for you.

Do you know what building it is?

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Daddydoink — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:55:06 GMT

Not a sausage! Is it the cathedral in Cologne?

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Marjo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:02:58 GMT

@Daddydoink wrote:
Not a sausage! Is it the cathedral in Cologne?

Yep, that's it! I wonder how long it took to build and how many people were involved. (the LEGO version, I mean)

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

ComaChameleon — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:32:55 GMT

@Marjo wrote:

@Daddydoink check out this LEGO construction they had at gamescom! Took a photo for you.

Do you know what building it is?

D'r Dom! ❤️

De jrößte Bahnhofskapell' vun d'r Welt!

(That's Kölsch, the language of Cologne... Means 'The biggest trainstation-chapel of the world')

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Toby — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:35:15 GMT

Some amazing pictures here @Marjo!

How did you find the reveals guys? Any that were a surprise? For me, Resident Evil 7 grabbed with this fantastic trailer.

Warning: Not for the fainted hearted!

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

gmarkj — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:47:57 GMT

looks really good.
not played and resi evil games since the ps2, so a little behind.
on a (slightly) related note, have you seen the trailer for the latest film? looks like it could be an interesting finale...

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Toby — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:19:28 GMT

No I've not seen that yet @gmarkj but I'll check it out. Have you enjoyed them? The first one was great.

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Cleoriff — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:01:13 GMT

@Toby wrote:

Some amazing pictures here @Marjo!

How did you find the reveals guys? Any that were a surprise? For me, Resident Evil 7 grabbed with this fantastic trailer.

Warning: Not for the fainted hearted!

And I still can't bring myself to watch this @Toby. I am worried I might jump and send the laptop flying... Just answer this....does something flash/jump as a close up at the end?

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

jonsie — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:05:02 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

@Toby wrote:

Some amazing pictures here @Marjo!

How did you find the reveals guys? Any that were a surprise? For me, Resident Evil 7 grabbed with this fantastic trailer.

Warning: Not for the fainted hearted!

And I still can't bring myself to watch this @Toby. I am worried I might jump and send the laptop flying... Just answer this....does something flash/jump as a close up at the end?

No.....

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

gmarkj — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:09:08 GMT

They are not the most intellectual film, and the correlation to the games is getting more tenuous as they stray from them but they are entertaining enough.

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Cleoriff — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:10:34 GMT

You liar @jonsie. I bet you never watched it to the very end....

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Toby — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:41:03 GMT

Cleoriff wrote:

And I still can't bring myself to watch this @Toby. I am worried I might jump and send the laptop flying... Just answer this....does something flash/jump as a close up at the end?

Why would I want to ruin the surprise?

Re: Photos from gamescom 2016

Cleoriff — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:57:17 GMT

Well I watched it. It was all ok till the very last shot.....