E3

[Redgore]

So what are your thoughts on E3 so far. Last night was Microsofts press conference where they unveiled some nice "exclusive" (most were mentioned as xbox exclusive but are actuially on PC too).

Alan Wake is looking very polished, the TV show style presentation looks neat. Splinter Cell Conviction is gritty looking and very very violent, am liking how objectives are shone onto the world surface rather than having mission brief style screens.

The major unveil of the show however was Project Natal, the motion sensing camera technology. While some may put it as a rip off of the sony eyetool I think it is going to be something far more. I like the Minority Report style hand gestures that will be making it into the dashboard. I am semi sceptical about Milo which is the tech that Lionhead has been developing for its showcase, it seemed a bit too acted for me.

So what are your thoughts ? The show starts properly today and Nintendo are holding their conference this evening (UK time)

[Crazy Shane]

Now that 2 more halos are comin maybe H3 will come out for us Pc gamers

[Deadpool]

I didn't even know it was time for E3 yet.
I hope Nintendo brings out something groundbreaking. I am getting sick of the let's hold hands games.

[STEELIX]

I'm still waiting for the keynotes, I hope nintendo makes a new super mario brothers 2

[Redgore]

They are now all done. Nintendo announced 2 new games. Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario Bros wii which can have upto 4 players at a time doing a co-op and competitive cross mode. They also have a vitality sensor which they announced. Everything else in their conference was just beefing up stuff announced already, such as motion plus and wii fit plus.

Sony announced what was expected and a few other things. PSP Go and their new online infrastructure for the PSN. Unchartered 2 had some gameplay shown along with some first person shooter which can have something rediculous like 256 players on the same map ( wether this will happen in the real world who knows). There was some new FF XIII footage and some new God Of War 3 footage.
Semi exclusive wise they have FF XIV which willl be online and also available on PC (unsurprisingly this wasnt mentioned by the Sony guy). Exclusive wise a new MGS was announced for the PSP, a new gran tourismo for the PSP and a motion controller wand which works with the eye toy. This motion sensing stuff was overshadowed because of Microsoft announcing theirs first.

Overall nothing to take me away from the xbox 360.

[The Genie]

I was pretty much stunned by the trailer of Project Natal.

[Redgore]

Originally Posted by The Genie

I was pretty much stunned by the trailer of Project Natal.

I was too, until I thought about it a bit. Its going to be interesting to see how well the tech works and gets used by third parties when it goes public.

[Deadpool]

Sounds pretty good.
But dang it, Nintendo get going already!
I am intrigued by the Mario Bros. Wii game though. Mario Bros. is usually always good. They need to make another game for Luigi.

[STEELIX]

Natal seems interesting, but a bit too radical
the ps3 thing looks weird...ball of light on the end rofl
and im a bit upset at galaxy 2, as i would hope for an entirely different experience as opposed to more levels of the same

[Deadpool]

I agree there Steelix.

The Mario francise needs to be revamped.

[Some1]

I was shocked at first about Final Fantasy XIV already being developed, but then I remembered they did the same thing before with XII and XIII. I'm not very thrilled about it being an online game though. I've never played XI but I've never seen Final Fantasy as an Online game. The last Final Fantasy that was "good" was X. The last one that was "Great" was IX. I really hope XIII can bring back some of the edge the older games had.

Also some news that had me jumping for joy was the MGS game for the Xbox 360. Apparently, you play as Raiden. And another note, this was the game that was thought to be the PSP Go MGS game.

[Deadpool]

That sounds very tight Some1.
I have wanted to see what they can do with a MGS game on 360. This should be pretty good.

[Some1]

Also, I heard some more news on FFXIII. The X360 version will come with multiple discs according to a Square developer.

[Redgore]

Originally Posted by Some1

Also, I heard some more news on FFXIII. The X360 version will come with multiple discs according to a Square developer.

Not a massive surprise. With Blu-Ray having such large capacity and it being the lead development platform they will have pushed it to the limit data wise. Expect about 4 DVDs full. The xbox is more than capable of hot swapping the DVDs as is shown by Lost odyssey's 4 discs.

[Deadpool]

Nice. Personally, I don't mind having more than one disc. It makes you feel like you have more to the game.