E3 2013

Kicks off tomorrow, key conferences are

Microsoft, 9.30am PT (5.30pm BST)
EA, 1pm PT (9pm BST)
Ubisoft, 3pm PT (11pm BST)
Sony, 6pm PT (2am Tuesday BST)
Nintendo Diect, 7am PT Tuesday (3pm BST).

Irritatingly I'm going to be on a plane during the first four of those but on the upside, it's a plane to LA, I'll be at the show from Tuesday. So, E3 ILG FAP anyone?

ooh jealous, are you press or developer side?
the terribly named Murdered: Soul Suspect has been the most interesting thing shown so far, wall clipping as a gameplay mechanic! http://youtu.be/IwyKqjM9Whg

Oh I'm retail. So it's probably going to be a kinda bittersweet week really heh.

I'll be mainly watching this thru Giant Bomb's coverage/nightly video casts. Sitting thru daily pressers seems like hell, tho.

i admit, i cracked up when Patrick Warburton showed up at the end of that Murdered trailer

almost time

MS stream: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hub

that's not working for me, try http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/live.html

metal gear: teats

Glad to see them copy PS+ for xbox gold.

press Y to Yawn

Can someone bump this thread when MS show actual gameplay footage rather than prerendered cutscenes?

Ryse: crytek on-rails QTE game that copies saving private ryan and god of war. "exclusive at launch" meaning not exclusive
Killer Instinct: now there's a good teaser! 1 minute long, all gameplay
Sunset Overdrive: colorful shooting game, interesting
Forza 5: cloud processing cloud processing power of the cloud SAY MCLAREN cloud cloud cloud

god of war/qte shit = http://uzimacommunityblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/simonextreme.png

supposedly Ryse started as a Kinect game. it shows.

Minecraft: who cares
Quantum Break: all cutscenes, still no idea what this game is
an episodic mystery game from the deadly premonition team that left no impression
Project Spark: obviously scripted kinect gameplay demo

so this is mostly just shooting games so far? + forza?

for the first time I'm starting to hope for the steam box b/c maybe I'm just getting too old for console gaming circa 2013

some smartglass device integration thing that no one will use
kinect dvr demo that was obviously fake
Crimson Dragon: panzer dragoon type game, not much shown
Dead Rising 3: looks good. no loading times, open world. somewhat dodgy framerate.
Witcher 3: mostly cutscenes. pretty.
Battlefield 4: a/v snafus were more interesting than this entire series

wait what hold up, "panzer dragoon type game"?

Minecraft: who cares

Oh wow, a game that I've been able to play on my PC for the last two and a half years.

that halo trailer was super funny/ret*rd*d

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Dragon

Crimson Dragon requires the Kinect sensor to play okay never mind

Below: indie-looking game with not much shown
black tusk studios teaser with nothing shown
prerendered teaser for a halo game, announcement that it's 60fps, that's it
$499, dead on arrival

that awkward pause after the price reveal was p funny

$499

Wait, when did MS suddenly become Sony?

Titanfall: how can a game with jetpacks and mechas look so boring

£429 in UK. PS3 launched at £425, and we know how well that went.

Well what a surprise, we get shafted again in the UK. Especially as most of the TV features won't work outside the US.

429 HA! good luck microdaft

#500lollars should be trending right now

Solid Snake ‏@SolidFNSnake 14m

Did you enjoy the $499 worth of light beams, DRM and shooting not-Caucasians that was the #XboxE3 conference?

when does sony announce?

xp :D

i will definitely look forward to playing Below on my ipad

See also

List of dragon video games

oh wikipedia... never change.

Sony @ 6pm PT 9pm ET 2am UK

ps4 $498.99

lol

lol-sigh at them bringing back Killer Instinct. just kill Rare already

PS4 - no DRM but the case is made from crushed baby seals. That's why the teaser trailer looked the way it did, it wasn't blurry, it was furry.

lol "ryse"

http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/iHKKq7kMF8w/hqdefault.jpg

want some ryse

... and they just released an updated 360 that looks similar to the Xbox One. hmm

3rd person Plants vs zombies shooter o boy o boy just what i never could give to shits about come to life

... who thought this was a good idea

ea is showing off new ball dribbling technology

Meaning that anyone who buys an XBoxOne has to dribble on EA's balls.
Told you that you should have read the EULA...

ok DRAKE

drake is speaking about video games

drake loves fifa and plays alot of fifa

EA release more fifa and madden, who knew

Battlefront was the only interesting thing so far.

You couldn't make intelligent decisions in the previous games ? Man they must have sucked.

now there are meatheaded people on stage talking about how sacred the sport of fighting is "fighting's in our dna. ANYONE disagree with THAT??"

i love videogameconference day

videogame conferences and apple conference should be a national holiday in the usa

last time I looked our DNA was made up of nucleotides

i heard drake is the lead character in Dragon's Age 3 and it's called Drake's Age 3, confirm/deny?

lol ufc carny huckster man

god don't you guys just love it when they hand things off to yusuf mehdi and he just goes out there and crushes it

these motherfuckers just tried to sell me on preordering a DAY ONE XBOX ONE that has "DAY ONE" written on the controller and comes with an "exclusive achievement"
i feel so dirty

is that achievement called "A Fool And His Money..."?

"please welcome the CEO of wargaming, Victor Kisly" what a world we live in

http://abload.de/img/mgslol.gif47kr6.gif

that's a joke, right

ha ha

haha, and amazingly not a joke

Ubisoft show piece has been most interesting

Assassins Creed 4, The Crew, Watch Dogs, and The Division.
As well as Rayman of course.

awkward white people
all of them

"playstation 4 won't impose any restrictions on the use of previously owned games"
THE CROWD GOES WILD

omg, making so much hay on this point now
very funny that telling people that they own what they bought has the crowd acting like what we always had is a "feature"
"you're not required to check in online"
screams of HELL YEAH

man just going the other way entirely, this is fascinating

ps+ carries over to new system.
"it's all about games"
so why am i buying a new system exactly?

o snap, they saw the cod ghost backlash and decided to give realtime gameplay. good call.

Sony is like a monkey flinging shit at Microsoft. It's kind of amazing.

aaaaaand $400. Sony making big boy moves.

i mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYUGtI6guY

ass-whoopin'.

i'd be lying if i said Sony's tactics weren't kinda working on me right now

IF I don't go for a Steam box I'm going for a PS4. No hurry though.

This year though, I gotta say, at least Microsoft and Sony focused on games & real games at that - no long kinect segments - no mention of move or 3D televisions. Too bad not much really stood out about the games, but at least it seems like they finally figured out who is watching these shows and made shows that were more focused.

$399 is a very nice starting price and it's great Sony decided not to go with a horrible and confusing DRM scheme. It's too bad it looks like they're going to start charging for multiplayer, especially because it seems like this next generation of games seems even more multiplayer focused...

It's funny that the design of the ps4 ended up being almost the same as the xbone

http://xboxdone.com/

Jeff Gerstmann ‏@jeffgerstmann
Me and Vinny were up front and it was nuts up there. People jumping up and down like an old Nintendo press conference.

8:09 PM - 10 Jun 13 · Details

Ok, this is how you get my attention. Getting actual folks onstage showing actual gameplay vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMF9HVR7ZQo

this looks killer: http://galak-z.com/

if nothing else i love the gifs that come out of these events
http://i.imgur.com/yJD3et6.gif
http://i.imgur.com/YE0gEVM.gif

whoa, an actual MAD MAX game?

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/e3-2013-mad-max-hasn-t-had-a-game-in-a-long-long-t/2300-7527/

aw fuck, Giant Bomb got robbed tonight from their studio space.

Here's a visibly emotional Jeff doing a quick vid from his ipad while you can hear the other guys talking to LAPD(and eating Domino's) in the background.

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/415443849

Just watched the Sony conference.
There was a short clip of Divekick in their opening montage.
Woman reading book is impressed by Vita player, but then it turns out she is imaginary.
Octodad: "Although historically accurate, this game does not contain giant enemy crabs"

XBoxPwned

at least Microsoft and Sony focused on games & real games at that - no long kinect segments - no mention of move or 3D televisions.

MS did kinda never let up on the smartglass thing though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

oh wait someone already posted that upthread but it didn't show up until now

just caught up, wow sony going ham. that lending video is some grade a trolling. vita p dead though, they didn't even show a full trailer.

As twitter pointed out, no Last Guardian, tho

seriously people have been waiting for a plants vs zombies sequel for 2 years and they make... a SHOOTER?!?!

they must've put all those resources into Peggle 2

tbh though, for those series i'd rather see them just move onto new IPs, even PvZ

they're also making plants vs zombies 2 which is regular pvz. anyway i'm all about peggle

nintendo thing in 5 minutes

new warioland coming in 2014

thank you and good night

Here's the Nintendo Direct show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1I5s236o

will buy a WiiU in late 2014 to play X. they'll be practically giving the thing away by then.

Wow, Sony really stole a march on this one huh? Lower price is excellent news, but really backwards compatibility is such a fucking stupid issue to be carrying the day; otm re: selling basic consumer rights back to us as a feature.

Still, as a 360 owner I'd been wondering how I was ever going to get to play The Last of Us, guess this Gaikai service solves that problem at least.

honestly, i think sony saw the opening and went for it; it's unlikely they were trying to "sell back game rights". all that stuff seems highly opportunistic. but yes. it's ridiculous but primarily because microsoft were acting ridiculous.

Oh yeah, no doubt, that's what I meant by stealing a march. I'm not sure to what extent that they're able to parachute in features or change up on the fly, but this definitely has the whiff of the big-wigs looking at the response to the xBone launch and scenting blood.

Well whichever, still a grosshund move imo. I've been an xBox guy for years, but I'm basically converted (provisionally at least).

never heard the phrase "stealing a march" before. brit thing?
at that price point, i'll likely wait awhile but could cave by next year

the ps+ element is such a great system seller... i have like ten vita games just waiting for a system. If they get that thing to 150 i'll kinda HAVE to buy it...

idk, is that a Brit thing? Just realised that post up there is littered with military language actually, been reading too much about Rome Total War 2.

Yeah, the price is still a bit high for me too tbh. never yet bought a console without more than a year passing from release date, the price drop is usually worth it.

agree with you forks; nothing at launch is making me jump to get it, but next year definitely possible, after we start seeing the various 2013 up-ports

i am english and 'steal a march on' is totally natural sounding to me, however it is in both the cambridge dictionary of idiom and the mcgraw-hill dictionary of american idiom

as far as I know there's nothing inherently British about the phrase "steal a march"

first time i've heard it; may be a wargame aficionado thing? Or else i'm just a nancyboy peacenik what doesn't play halo.

never heard it before either. how does one possess a march

"Steal a march" is an old phrase used to indicate when one does something before an opponent and thus gain a tactical advantage. Armies "would steal a march" by moving while the opponent slept.

getting an extra day's marching in by losing an entire night's sleep before a battle seems a bit risky to me - you end up 20 miles closer to people trying to kill you while you struggle to stay awake

plus what if somebody hacks your network and shuts it down

btw, this was what it looked like when they brung the ruckus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=SJ-To7WJyWs

the evil cackle at 1.22 is like the most ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED shit

if nothing else i love the gifs that come out of these events

this will forever be the greatest e3 generated gif of all time

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab239/Nerdkiller/KinectimalsShawnMichaels.gif

lol, that truly is the best!

so i don't want to get TOO excited about this, but the PS4 already has three 5-star customer reviews on bestbuy.com. i feel like it can't miss.

ok i laughed http://youtu.be/uEvi2vcarSA

hahaha excellent

sony killing it* this E3
http://imgur.com/a/zSN57

*by it I mean M$ obv

wait the ps4 is region-free? that is actually kind of neat!!

ok i didn't realise the ps3 was n/m

http://25.media.tumblr.com/982cf988db56d8a27f2010bf2c198b31/tumblr_mo7mjasw121qdx6gvo1_1280.png

wii fit trainer had me in stitches

ps3 is region free, but its up to developers if they want to enforce a lock - this happened with Persona 4 Arena recently

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/microsoft-e3-rape-joke/66092/

stay classy, Microsoft!

dig this, the LittleBigPlanet dudes are putting out a papercraft adventure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Szw_62e_gM

jesus fuck at that "let it happen" shit
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/microsoft-employee-rape-joke-e3-response/66132/
and the atlantic's followup is illustrated by rapememe.jpgs? stay classy atlantic i guess.

the article itself says they were trying to make it clear that the article writer wasn't making up the fact it was a rape reference, which is pretty sad in all respects

oh, microsoftpaws

Wow. That's a serious case of foot in mouth disease.

xp or, you know, buy a PS4

wow the Machinima ass kissing coverage is horrible to watch.

I've got to stop reading the comments from MS fanboys because it's giving me a rage headache.

I think the XBone makes some amount of sense if you don't actually care about gaming; I said on another thread that a good friend of mine is directly within their target demographic (he currently owns a PS3 that he uses exclusively as a Blu-Ray player, plus an Apple TV, and is the type of person with disposable income who would love to consolidate those two devices into one box).

That being said, after their stunning E3 performance I would be avoiding XBone even if it came with bags of money attached to it.

I get the feeling that the XBoxOne was designed to fit in with what non-gamers wanted 5-6 years ago. But now those features are either built into TVs, or are provided by the free boxes that people get with their cable/satellite sports subscription.

do people actually use SmartTV stuff tbh? (besides Netflix, which is available on every smart TV, console, and utility box at this point) I see AppleTV as an exception, let alone Roku/etc.

SmartTV features I have used:

- Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go
- Youtube
- music streaming
- ...

maybe xboner tv will be the killer app, webcamming with kinect integration & THE CLOUD

chatroulette so you can kinect with random boners via your xboner

http://cdn.pophangover.com/wp-content/uploads/12.jpg

I get the feeling that the XBoxOne was designed to fit in with what non-gamers wanted 5-6 years ago. But now those features are either built into TVs, or are provided by the free boxes that people get with their cable/satellite sports subscription.

like being able to watch tv tv tv watch tv tv tv tv tv watch tv tv sports tv tv tv tv sports sports sports

"Here's a box to plug into your TV that does what your TV already does!"

all I do with my tv is watch sports & play video games but the xbone doesn't help with either

you should get a 360

boned

After telling us that if we couldn't afford a fast enough internet connection we should buy a 360 instead, MS went on to insult our mothers.

You know who else has a 360?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuCV4-CXwOs

you've just been sitting on a moment to pop that out, haven't you.

naw, just a regular show fan
forks throws pottery (and maybe you do too?) - An ILX Ceramics Thread

I'm just mystified by microsoft, I've never seen anything like this. It's like a charlie sheen public meltdown....the mattrick quote came off so poorly & unlike when adam orth made those tweets it's not like they can pawn it off as an employee talking out of turn, he's president of IEB...sad thing is that he's very nice & comes off well irl, not a business school guy, founded the first canadian independent developer in his parents house as a teen

I'm somewhat mystified by the fact that there are actual Microsoft fanboys. I thought everyone hated them since at least the mid 90s.

quiet, oldster

I'm somewhat mystified by the fact that there are actual Microsoft fanboys. I thought everyone hated them since at least the mid 90s.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

many are astroturf

some of them write for gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/why-im-getting-the-xbox-one-not-the-ps4-ugh-512840127