Episode 4: The E3 Special 2017

"Fuck Off! Sorry. Am I allowed to swear? I didn't ask beforehand." - Alice O.

> *"And then afterwards, you know, we stole everything on their bodies that we wanted, jumped back in the Batmobile and it's fucking lads on tour. Again, just rolling away over the horizon. Lads, lads, lads..."*―Alice O'Connor.
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## Description

Adam is on tour on the city of angels, so this marks the first episode of the The Pip Era with  Alice O. don't let the fact that she's on a cave distract you.

## Synopsis

We take on the tidal wave of news from E3 to talk about Beyond Good and Evil 2, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Anthem, Sea of Thieves, Wolfenstein 2 and much more. We've so much news that we need our news editor Alice to come on and help us in this extra-long special episode.

We also (somehow) had time to play battle royale murder sim PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, arcadey sci-fi dogfighter Everspace, and Football Manager 2017.

Links:

Life Is Strange: Before the Storm trailer: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/life-is-strange-2-release-date

Life Is Strange voice actor changed because of strike: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/life-is-strange-before-the-storm-different-chloe-voice-actor

Beyond Good and Evil 2 announcement trailer: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beyond-good-and-evil-2-is-online-world-of-space-pirates

Sea of Thieves co-op trailer: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/sea-of-thieves-storms-skeletons-and-treasure-hunting

Sailing the Northwest Passage in a sailing sim: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/northwest-passages-sailing-into-terror-bay

BioWare’s new online sci-fi game Anthem: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anthem-e3-2017-reveal-trailer

XCOM: War of the Chosen trailer: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen

The Evil Within 2 trailer is pure dad schlock: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-evil-within-2-gameplay-trailer

The tension and elation of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-tension-elation-of-playerunknowns-battlegrounds

Football Manager pass and save diary, part one: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/football-manager-2017-lets-play

Everspace early access review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/everspace-review-early-access

Every PC game announced or trailered at E3: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/e3-2017-pc-games

## Sections

* Actually talkking about e3 now
* Beyond good and Evil 2
* The origin fo the name "E3"
* Sea of Thieves
* BioWare's Anthem
* Alice's proper thoughts
* PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
* Everspace
* Football Manager 2017
* Reader's questions

## Notable Quotes

* *"Fuck Off! Sorry. Am I allowed to swear? I didn't ask beforehand."*- Alice O.
* *"And then afterwards, you know, we stole everything on their bodies that we wanted jumped back in the Batmobile and it's fucking lads on tour. Again, just rolling away over the horizon. LA lads, lads, lads"* - Alice O
* *"What do you do for the site and which biscuit are you?"* - Pip, tipping her toes on the self improvement genre
* *"You know he, got off the plane at lax with his dreams and his cardigan "* - Alice O. on Adam Smith
* *"That's great. It's almost nice to, uh, have a little uncertainty of your place in the universe."* - Alice O.
* *"In their defense. Most non-human PRI never learn a form of language beyond rudimentary sign language. If it took them 14 years to teach a chimpanzee to swear. And also you can't see anyone, uh, like constantly reinforcing his behavior going good, safe a well done. Here's a treat like he's just doing it of his own accord at this point. It's really impressive."* - Alice O.
* *"Can you get like a text to speech Adam?"* -Alice O.
* *"Yeah. Old people are weird"* -Alice O.
* *"They just went with it, you know, I mean, you know, there was no harm in it. It didn't didn't do anyone, any damage and you know, caught on to hashtag now "* -Pip about anything that has ever seem harmless.
* *"Brendan! You've eaten all the salt!"* - Brendan's pirate life
* *"what's the name of the questions section? Ask RPS! Reader response! Level Ep Questions Zone! The question master!"*-Alice O. going wild
* "*The problem is that while many people find ASMR sensations pleasant, in reality, ASMR is like a needle through the brain. It's horrifying. It's disgusting. I, the videos deeply unnerving. And yet the internet seems full of them. They seem very popular and genuinely, they make me feel physically sick.*" -Alice O and i fully agree with this sentiment
* "*Hey gang. Thanks for listen to the RPS rock paper, pod, pod, pod shot cast. <laugh> slam this one. Repeat, remember to like favorite and subscribe and come back through your latest, hot RPS contents. See you. Same time next week.*"-Alice O. trying to mock podcaster but actually excelling over the actual host.
* "*The whole podcast so far has been complete horse. We don't know anything, again.*"-Brendan, in a burst of on air clarity

## Reader's Questions

* Top five picks from each of you for the best E3 announcements that actually came through?