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Plus, what's the best crisp and was Yoda a ghost or not?.
This week's Off The Record crew is Tamoor, Chris and Joe, who get together to eat loudly into the mic, talk about whether or not Yoda was a ghost, the possibility of multiplayer in Zelda, whether or not DICE will screw up Mirror's Edge 2 with combat and Kocmo (Koei Tecmo).

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My first demo at E3 this year was Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. I loved it. The smooth gameplay, the open world, the graphics and the hilarity of the Fulton Recovery System put it on pace to be one of my favorite games of the week. It held on to that claim, by the way. The Phantom Pain stands with the likes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Dying Light, The Legend of Zelda for Wii U, Rainbow Six Siege, Batman: Arkham Knight andhellip; wait a minutehellip; do you guys feel that? Right, it’s the slow drag of 2014. All of the games I just rattled off? They were at E3 in at least one form or another and they wound up generating a lot of justified hype. The problem? They aren’t coming out until 2015. 2014, Good God Ya’ll, What Is It Good For? I’m not trying to suggest that 2014 is going to be a doldrum for gaming. That’s simply not the case. We have the likes of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Super Smash Bros., Far Cry 4 and Alien: Isolation to look forward to. But, man, remember like four months ago when so much more was stacked for this annum? Heck, there are three games from my list above that slipped out of 2014 and into 2015 alone! As I look back on my schedule from E3, in fact, I’m noticing that so much of my time going hands or eyes-on with games this year was done with titles that won’t be dropping until next. I may very well be playing a huge chunk of this year’s E3 games at next year’s E3 before they release! 2014 will undoubtedly be a good year for video games. A solid year, perhaps, but it won’t be a tremendous one. We’ll have some big names drop between now and year’s end, but I think next year is going to be stupid good. I Blame It On The New Consoles I place the blame for this whole thing squarely on the shoulders of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Except in the case of Nintendo, of course. Nintendo’s a company that’s both finding its way with stuff like amiibo and whatever quality of life product they’re working on, and one that’s struggling to get out from below a rocky start for the Wii U. I’m not surprised that the things I’m most excited for from them won’t be coming out for another year. I look at Yoshi’s Wooly World, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and the new Legend of Zelda for examples of their slow recovery. For Sony and Microsoft? I imagine developers are basically now passing their first year with the consoles in their possession. The games that we’ve seen so far have either been short first party forays or ports from the last generation to this one. This generational straddlers seem like, mostly, "HD" touch-ups. The Master Chief Collection, The Last of Us Remastered and this year’s Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition all serve as evidence of this point. We have developers and publishers working with two and three year dev-cycles for their software. Of course the stuff that we’re seeing now is either simplistic or little more than a port. Ports are great ways for companies to learn the ins and outs of coding for new hardware, and they yield relatively easy scratch. That just means that we gamers are going to wait two or three years after launch until we see the real new generation of video games. 2014, especially after E3, seems like the heart of that waiting period. As DICE figures out Battlefront and Mirror’s Edge, as Naughty Dog works on Uncharted and as CD Projekt RED builds The Witcher 3, we’ll be waiting. If E3 2014 showed me anything, it’s that 2015 is going to be one hell of a year.

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While the new Mirror's Edge appeared briefly at the Electronic Arts E3 2014 press conference (in the video above), we were left wanting for more details about the game's open-world though we did get to see the main character, Faith, take down some enemies from the first-person perspective.

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Battlefield fans have been getting a lot of attention from EA and DICE. With the shelving of Medal of Honor, Battlefield has become EAs only go-to military shooter. Still, theres a fan request that has gone unanswered.

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Series sub-brand could yet return, but isn't currently on the cards.
DICE has moved to explain the absence of a third Battlefield Bad Company game, despite repeated requests for one from certain sections of the community.

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DICE has revealed Battlefield: Bad Company 3 hasn't been made yet as the studio can't isolate what it was that made the originals popular.

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The boss of DICE says the studio has been given plenty of creative freedom when it comes to making the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront game.

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"No-one can really put their finger on what it is people love.".
The year is 2314. The last android butler has now expired after a protracted proxy war with the Saucer People, who have been chased back to their capital planet in the Horsehead Nebula. Human skin is now stored in freezers overnight to slow the ageing process. Kitchen cupboards contain wormholes that allow you to take foodstuffs directly from the hands of sentient raccoon slaves, toiling in the granola mines of Mercury. And DICE still hasn't made a third Battlefield: Bad Company game, though it continues to broach the topic at intervals just to annoy people.