E3 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is the thread for E3, links to live streams, rumours, announcements, pics of the 3DS etc

Anyone going?

I guess I'm most curious to see the 3DS and learn exactly what that's going to be.

Then, are the 360-slim redesign / price-cut rumors true? Is there any compelling software announced that would make Microsoft or Sony motion control peripherals worth plunking down the big money for?

Also, if all goes to plan, I should be down there on Thursday, which should be fun.

i am gonna pretend this is real for just a little bit longer

http://imgur.com/15AZZ.jpg

yeh can't wait to see what the 3DS is, especially after all the ridiculous rumours (3G! 360esque graphics!)
expect to see a smaller 360, maybe with natal built in? software showings for natal & move are going to be very telling about their respective chances of success.
software-wise i'm hoping to be surprised, nothing announced so far has particularly grabbed me. (BG&E2 plzplzplz)

and how are they going to demo the 3DS onstage anyway???

ooh one more thing to look forward to.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/215395/e3-games-2010/

looks like details of the xbox slim have leaked

250gb + includes Wifi? hmmmmm

anybody willing to buy the new rock band stuff? I might be willing to try out a keyboard if it teaches me to play.

horrible looking
xp

does your family have to look aryan to play with M$ kinect?

also dnw a bunch of wii knock-offs from rare

It's weird - is kinect a better name than natal (both horrible names imo)? games look like the games you can already play via the stupid 360 camera. this input method just seems really limiting in the type of games you can do - only the most limited wii-lites apparently. seems like it's going to be a hard sell to rope in that casual audience they're going after, i.e. the wii audience who either might not feel like basically buying and playing the same types of games again or have wiis they bought a year or two collecting dust in their closet & won't feel like buying the same thing again knowing after a few days they'll never touch it again. Also, living in a second floor apartment, games that require jumping aren't really something I coould play - also wouldn't want to have to move my coffee table away from in front of my couch every time I turn on the 360.

Still - curious what'll come out of the full conference today & price for more laughs.

i think kinect is better than natal. not hugely. but better.

agreed, the association with the word "natal" makes no sense, at least "kinect" sounds like bland crappy microsoft jargonism

i think you nailed it, jeff - the whole natal/move thing feels like they've so completely missed the boat on this trend, too bad it took them years to develop it - and who wants to get a second Wii? nothing shown so far shows the same kind of wow factor the Wii did when it came out, it looks pretty much the same (tired). might as well develop a brand new musical instrument game now for the same effect

I'm still trying to keep an open mind, as at first I remember being pretty turned off by the Wii controller too, but now I rather like it (for the most part). Mario was a much bigger selling point for me though than Wii Sports (which I remain indifferent to).

I hope Kinect is great, not so much because I have a 360 but because I'm planning on getting a Wii finally, & I reckon good competition will get Nintendo working hard to differentiate the Wii (& thus presumably innovating again).

Kinect sounds marginally better than Natal to me because stupid marketing-y spelling aside, "connect" at least kinda sorta tells you what the thing actually does. And I always heard people pronouncing it "na-TAHL," which was weird. It's already a word! You don't get to make up a new pronounciation for it!

Right now I'm waiting with bated breath for the inevitably disappointing Valve "surprise" and cursing the Joystiq update that broke the site on my Blackberry.

I went to this last year and it was boooooooooooring. All the good demos are behind closed doors and you have to have a beefed up credential and the will to wait in long lines. The games on the floor are mostly things that are pretty close to release. Only remarkable things I saw last year was playable arkham asylum (good!) and a aliens v. predator demo (looked good, but the game was shitty).

But I did get some free batteries out of it which was pretty cool..

http://www.youtube.com/E3

so far they've shown gears 3, mgs rising, fable 3, some crytek bullshit, and reach

I kinda like the look of the dancing game lol

new xbox is shipping today (impressive) at the same price (not so much)

watched most of the conference...

No price announcement for Kinect must mean it's pretty pricey. Don't really care, because I didn't really see anything interesting. Thought the best looking thing for it was the Ubisoft exercise game, which I would never do anyway. Five minutes to show you can "walk" around a car in the next Forza project / app? The redesigned 360 appeared surprisingly ugly - kind of shocked they would go that direction visually (dark & harsh/broken angles) while supposedly trying to appeal to a more mainstream audience. At least it's smaller and maybe quieter. Not even a token price cut makes it seem like it's not exactly going to fly off the shelves. The ESPN thing sounds good, especially if you can watch most games on demand in HD (since I don't have a DVR) & no extra charge (beyond gold)?

some crytek bullshit

was about to say yaaaay but then i looked up who ACTUALLY made far cry 2

No price announcement for Kinect must mean it's pretty pricey

Maybe, but it could also mean that they're waiting to see how much Sony charge for Move before they commit to a price. In which case both could end up pretty cheap.

But yeah, that conference was about 0.002% as exciting as the iphone 4 one last week.

Like, this time last year they showed natal and there was a general feeling of "woah, that thing has UNTAPPED POTENTIAL". But a year later and none of it's been tapped yet? Meh.

The new console doesn't look too impressive, though it is nice it got a token HD bump and the wifi inclusion. It may sound minor but the wifi thing actually does make a big difference to me. But probably not enough of a difference to completely get over my MS suspicions built up over the years, and no price cut is not helping.

and so nice and blatant of them to give a free one to everyone who attended that press conference lol

X-com fps is coming

Medal of Honor multiplayer trailer - from DICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaz7r2r_Fik

Child of Eden - i.e. REZ 2 fr ps3 / xbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jMTB5KQ9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBGvAJ6-SsY&feature=player_embedded

is that actually REZ2?!

medal of honor looks dece; cod crossed with bfbc basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYtH28esTg

ok now i officially love that meme

yeah that one really works :)

lol
http://www.cracked.com/article_18608_the-day-gaming-industry-died-impressions-from-e3-2010.html

okay cannot stop loling at GTGWE

so the new xbox slim, have they finally moved the GPU from above the fucking CPU or w/e the deal was behind the RROD?

hopefully new case, smaller design, new power and more air flow means its fixed, but i guess we'll know a few months from now

cracked really became the new seanbaby in the last few years didn't it

yeah tbh probably the only reason for me not getting an Xbox in the past 4 years is knowing that the probability of having to send it in for a RROD was asymptotical to 100%

I'm claiming credit for this btw

yes because THAT is the HD remaster everyone has been clamoring for on PS3. of course!

team ico collection is a gimmie by this point!

or did u mean battle arena toshinden collection cs if so my bad

xp I wish they'd have let me finish selling SOTC on ebay before leaking that rumour... here's hoping my prospective bidders don't see it.

can't wait for this, coming this summer!
http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/might-and-magic-clash-of-heroes-comes-to-consoles

also lol europeans are getting hosed on the vita

http://i.imgur.com/sjugZ.jpg

P drunk tbh

Mr caffeine could be yr life

at the standard tim shafer is so fucked up

Talked with evan wells from naughty dog ultimate bro

mario kart 3ds looks exactly like every previous mario kart

you can kill the pipe plants in mario 3d by jumping on their heads. that's just wrong.

WiiU is the stupidest name ever but after that video I'm'a buy it SO HARD

Somebody on Kotaku suggested calling it the 'PSV' which I shall henceforth do

that new controller is wild

this explains why they need the 3d gimmick; something to set aside a handheld so they don't cannibalize their own business?

so they totally ripped off Pac-Man Vs. with Miis to demo on the showroom floor? I approve of this.

also that controller's going to work REALLY well for Detective Vision in Arkham City (ditto for Eagle Vision in ACR)

i'm confused i thought the WiiU was just the new controller for the Wii, but EA just went on about a new console and he said the new controller was for the WiiU

no Wii games announced, one new 3DS game. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

(ok more than 3DS game, but still...)

but excitebike! will u never be happy?

lego city stories had me interested but no footage

zero interest in Kid Icarus but Mario 3DS looks super fun (pipe-plant stomping aside)

also I'll definitely be buying Link's Awakening tonight

kind of funny that Nintendos conference had the least amount of motion control out of the big 3

wii erd

ok just going to go ahead and straight up say that WiiU thing looks dumb as hell

wow all of the "fun" of playing tilt control games on an iPad, but without doing all the other things an iPad does yay

lol it does a bit more than that

i laughed when reggie said "it will change the way you interact with your family" and then the first big selling point of the clip they showed was that if someone in your family wants to watch baseball you don't have to watch it with them

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

- played Dark Souls for about 5 minutes before dying; I'd like to blame this on the fact that I couldn't invert the fkn look but a more honest & accurate appraisal is probably just, y'know, YOU DIED (or in the confusing parlance of the new game, YOU HOLLOWED). game owns, though; any fears about whether it's good enough to carry Demon Souls' jock can be safely allayed.

- the Nintendo part was SLAMMED; most of these were for people trying to go hands-on with the WiiU but there was also a hell of a line for all the major 3DS games on display too. I'm going back tomorrow pretty much specifically so that I can get some sweet one-on-one time with Paper Mario 3DS. in the meantime I did get to play the Wii port of Itadaki Street for a good long while (not that I was expecting there to be a line for some weird-ass board game) and it was pretty good! wish it had netplay since I am a resolute shut-in but w/e, it's a decent, quiet little game. my folks from work were all making fun of me for going to E3 and playing a board game but FUK THEM

- speaking of 3DS, I got like 50 streetpasses today~ (including one from some dude already playing OoT?!)

- Anarchy Reigns (the new online beat-em-up from Platinum Software) is a must-play; it reminded me of the Power Stone games a LOT which is a v. good thing. I'll be interested to see how the final game turns out since I need to see (a) how well that kind of gameplay holds up without big setpieces, (b) whether the final stages have more destructable shit, and (c) the depth to which the movesets can be customized before I can say whether it's actually good or not, but they definitely got a lot of the fundamental stuff like the speed and the collision detection and the general feel of the controls right (and the booth dudes kept pointing out that it's got a long way to go before its release next year) so my hopes are pretty high. oh and when I was playing it I looked over and realized that I was playing (and getting my ass beat by) Suda51.

- the Sega booth was also showing off the Shinobi game for 3DS made by Griptonite Software (makers of a Spyro the Dragon GBA game which I shit you not ranks among the best action games on that platform as well as some commendable licensed brawlers for the DS) and it's REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY good, like if-you-have-a-3DS-earmark-$40-for-it-in-September good.

- played some Uncharted 3 multiplayer and got a rude awakening of how bad I am at competitive games where you have to run around and shoot people. it felt like more of the same in the best way, though, so w/e.

- noticed a new Pixeljunk game being demoed ("Pixeljunk Sidescroller") and the booth for Twisted Metal but got dragged away before I could play, planning on hitting them both up later in the week too.

- a lot of people are saying the new Sonic game is good; I can confidently say that these people are not your friend. they got the speed right but the jumping all wrong; it feels like LBP.

- the line for Arkham Asylum was nuts so I didn't get to see it. ditto for the new SSX and the NGP.

- the best freebie I saw being given out was the box-shaped Creeper masks promoting Minecraft on (curiously) Xperia Play. most shameless was the bikini carwash offered by Saints Row 3.

- SO MANY JORTS

ok just going to go ahead and straight up say that WiiU thing looks dumb as hell

― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow all of the "fun" of playing tilt control games on an iPad, but without doing all the other things an iPad does yay

― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

you are my boy but u rong. there will of course be an avalanche of stupid cash-ins but IMO this could lead to a lot of really subtle developments which make games a shitton better - HUDs can be streamlined, plays/tactics can be called/designed in secret, hopefully we never have to see another inventory screen again, etc. plus all the new possibilities for making existing shit generally more immersive are exciting - Detective Mode sounds like a great fit for the Shield Pose, can you imagine The Show with those fielding mechanics, sniping in (ALL SHOOTERS EVER) will be hell of fun, etc - especially since the new system can run current-gen games from the look of things.

of course in the end I guess it just comes down to how well Nintendo teaches developers to use the tools. the biggest mistake they made last generation was showing developers that you could get away with mapping a button press to a gesture.

w/e 3rd party ds developer does those type of games should do a E3-inspired fashion game w/ lots of khaki cargo shorts & jorts & tshirts w/ ironic phrases on them as a promotional tool during E3

"YOU HOLLOWED"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1563hgmh0uU

oh forgot to mention that I nearly bumped into the Regginator in the Nintendo part. dude has the biggest head ever.

also saw a bunch of folks doing the Haters Gonna Hate dance at some Kinect dance game demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1563hgmh0uU

goddammit where did that gif go

http://i.imgur.com/li3TJ.gif

Tim Schafer seems like a great guy to have a drink with

man, dark souls looks GREAT

yeh, preorder VINDICATED!

goin to a ladies in gaming party tomorrow

wish me luck

NOETS FRUM TODAEY

- Nintendo had literally every upcoming game out for demo EXCEPT for fucking Paper Mario 3DS (aka the only game I *really* wanted to play at the whole show). BOO. I did get some hands-on time with Starfox 3DS (sucked), Mario 3DS (owned), and Kirby Wii (owned), though.

- it does not please me to say this but the new Pixeljunk game is Not Fun :(

- Starhawk is INCREDIBLY good, and I didn't even get to go up into space.

- I didn't get to see it, but word on the skreet is that the new X-Com game isn't just not shitty, but may have been the game of the show outright, which is a major relief/surprise. ditto for Street Fighter vs. Tekken, which was one of like two fighting games I saw being demoed anywhere (the other being the HD remake of Third Strike).

- went back to the Sega booth and discovered their remake of Guardian Heroes which owned immensely. sadly it's 360-only right now, which especially sucks since the game is way less fun with the analogue stick than with a d-pad.

- the line for Battlefield 3 was INSANE, thank god I don't give a shit about those games.

- Deus Ex 3 is really really really not looking like a winner :( I'm holding out hope that it's just one of those games which sucks in a demo setting since loving Deus Ex requires digging into Deus Ex and trying things eleven thousand different ways, but there's a very real possibility that it's just not a good game.

- Twisted Metal: more like Twisted Meh-tal

- LOVED the trailer for the new Metro game set to Portishead's "Machine Gun", although unfortunately the game looks pretty boring.

- the best FPS I saw was definitely Rage, although as previously mentioned I don't give a fuck about FPSeseseses so I didn't stick around to investigate much

- after playing MGS 3DS I think I'm going to get the HD remaster instead; the controls are just too cramped to work for me, sadly. wish I could have played further if only to see whether the touchscreen was used intelligently but o well.

- I got 95 streetpasses in the last few days and could have gotten more if I cleared out my queue more regularly. of course, I also stood behind some Japanese dude in line with FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY SIX streetpasses so yeah.

oh and all the Saints Row people were running around with shirts reading "I LOVE RIM JOBS"

I heard that the new Elder Scrolls looks amazing.

party was ok, talked to some hookers, free food

Street Fighter vs. Tekken

waaaaaht

The one you want is Tekken vs Street Fighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_X_Street_Fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_X_Tekken

word on the skreet is that the new X-Com game isn't just not shitty, but may have been the game of the show outright

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xxp no 2d/3d engine mashup? fuhgeddabahtit.

james can i just say i love it when you write about games.

some of the xcom stills/promo videos I saw looked kinda shitty. I did like the art design tho.. wouldn't mind if the game ended up being dope. I loved x-com so hard as a young'n.

what he said.

dont believe a word cobo says