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[E3 2009 MEGATHREAD] E3 OVER - GO HOME
EvilBadmanDO NOT TRUST THIS MANRegistered Userregular
Much like Godzilla coming forth from the waters to destroy Tokyo, E3 has risen from its self-imposed press only slumber to simultaneously cause fanboy rage and drool.
Gaze in amazement as forumers fight over who had the best conference!
Keep a tally of how many pants were jizzed in! (Reminder, wear condoms)
Mercilessly mock the carefully crafted robots and their misadventures in public speaking!
All this for the low, low cost of a couple of mornings wasted waiting for Gamespot to buffer their goddamn stream!
Microsoft - Summation in spoiler below, videos on LIVE.
Spoiler:
Microsoft shot out the gate with lots of videos and demos, with an emphasis on no charts.
Rock Band Beatles Package (9.9.09): Vocal tracks have up to three part harmonies. Abbey Road first full Album DLC, All You Need is Love (360 exclusive)
Tony Hawk Ride: Featuring the bastard child of a skateboard and the Wii balance board, can the peripheral based game sell well enough to dethrone Skate? Game itself looks very solid graphically regardless.
Modern Warfare 2 Live Demo (11.10.09): Trouncing around in a blizzard, the gun is has a sort of sonar screen on it, showing enemy blips. Pretty cool little scene after jumping across and latching into a nearby wall. Protagonist Roach dispatches white clad enemies in a snowstorm, at least it's not brown. Let's ride snowmobiles and shoot dudes, woop woop! Modern Warfare to have two Xbox360 timed exclusive map packs.
Final Fantasy 13 (Spring 2010): Showed the Giant Mech boss battle previously released, with the addition of an Odin summon. Fighting had a ranking afterward. Demo on 360 only, outside Japan?
Shadow Complex (EPIC GAMES): A Controidvania sidescroller due out for XBLA this summer.
Joyride (Winter 09): Goofy Avatar based kart racer that will be free to play with microtransactions for Tracks, Karts, etc.
Crackdown 2: City be Dark now, not much else from the trailer.
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 (Nov 17):Videos. Watch this one and the ones that auto plays after. Kill zombies in sunny Faux Orleans. Out of incendiary ammunition for your silenced uzi? Melee weapons like a chainsaw and frying pan borrow a page from Dead Rising. 360 and PC exclusive.
Splinter Cell Conviction: Sam got a goddamn haircut. Cutscenes and objectives projected on the walls ingame when information is provided is pretty neat. Dispatching of dudes looks fucking awesome. Game taking a Metal Gear approach where you can be less stealthy and not be fucked entirely.
Forza Motrosports 3 (October): Microsoft bringing the fight the Gran Tourismo 5. Dash cam has fully functional side and rearview mirrors. Car super customization is back, and looks easier than ever. Video editor, if as good as the video shows, will be damned cool.
Halo 3: ODST (9.22.09) First person drop into New Mombasa guided by the Superintendant. Two new sound suppressed weapons and a visor. The Rookie stumbles across items triggering flashbacks from other characters points of view. Co-Op mode
Halo Reach (2010): Tells the story of the Covenant destruction of Reach, prior to the first Halo game. ODST will include an entry into the Reach Multiplayer Beta.
Alan Wake (Spring 2010): Max Payne's makers turn their attention from narrated noir to a narrated suspense game. Enemies shiny goofy during combat, dunno what's up with that, but damn this is pretty. Bullet time is also showcased.
Last.fm: Streaming music available to Gold members for free later this year.
Netflix: Mess with your queue without having to hit up your PC.
Sky TV: Euros get Sky channel for telly watching of futbol.
Zune Video: Renaming of the Video service for Xbox live. 1080p, "instant on" movies and tv shows, 18 countries supported.
Live Party Shared Experience: Remember the thing that they advertised last year with watching stuff together of Live? That again, for reals.
Facebook (Fall 009): The virus spreads.
Twitter (Fall 09): Shit on 360 and Twit about it, you twat.
Metal Gear Solid Rising: Microsoft gets a Metal Gear game, but with Raiden.
Xbox Motion Controller - Project Natal: Full motion sensor, and voice recognition boasting controller free games and entertainment. Showed off navigating the NXE dashboard with motion control swiping and facial recognition to log in. Ricochet, 3-D player controlled breakout. There's a Body Paint game where you can change colors by voice and throw them on a canvas. Unusually hilarious forum backlash against this. Peter Molineux showcases a strange Seaman homage with lots of British accents.
See also:
Spoiler:
Electronic Arts - Junior Yank's take in spoiler.
Spoiler:
Electronic Arts stuck to their guns, showing off 12 games but nothing major groundbreaking or surprising.
Dante's Inferno - God Of War clone!
Littlest Pet Shop - Three variations (city, beach, and... I don't know... country?)
Charm Girls Club - EA Girls! Speed hair teasing, etc.
Need For Speed - Doesn't look as good as Forza 3, but not every game can be the definitive racing game of the generation.
Dragon Age: Origins - I missed most of Bioware's presentation, since I was getting my clothes out of the washing machine.
Mass Effect 2 - For 360/PC.
Fight Night Round 4 (June 25) - 60 fps and advanced physics engine supposedly leads to more fluid gameplay and realism.
EA Sports: MMA - Coming 2010, from EA Tiburon.
Madden 2010 - Online Franchise!
EA Sports Active - It can change your life! 600,000 shipped (or sold?) already.
Grand Slam Tennis - Wii Motion Plus enabled! Though they didn't do a good job of showing how it takes advantage of M+.
Brutal Legend (Rocktober 13) - From Tim Schafer / Double Fine. Featuring the voices of Rob Halford, Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, Ozzy Osbourne, and Jack Black.
Crysis 2 - Coming to 360/PS3/PC.
The Saboteur - Tactical stealth action game, set in Nazi-occupied Paris. Mostly in black & white, but your resistance literally brings color back to the city.
APB - Sandbox game from Realtime Worlds. Be a cop or a criminal.
Star Wars: The Old Republic - First fully-voiced MMO. No gameplay shown, but a pretty badass CGI trailer featuring a massive Jedi vs Sith fracas and Booba Fett.
UbiSoft - In a world where movies are spoken about for 30 minutes, one man, Joel McHale must salvage a Wii-loaded presser where everything that can go wrong did.
Spoiler:
Ubisoft took a page from Nintendo 2008 by making people trudge through the sand for 40 years before bestowing them with milk and honey.
Director James Cameron took 14 years to ramble on about Avatar without any goddamn footage behind him or even after.
Red Steel 2: Wii Motion+ may save the franchise's Samurai Western inspired foray.
Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage: More Wii balance board tricking.
Academy of Champions: Pele's Hogwart's of Soccer.
Splinter Cell Conviction: Copy and paste whatever I said about Splinter Cell during Microsoft here because that's what Ubi did with a couple variations like the new Last Known Position, a representation of where the enemies saw you last and are concentrating their search.
Ruse: Pretty looking RTS. Because there's not enough of those.
Imagine Whatever: FUCK ALL YA'LL I GOT EDYN
Your Shape = Wiifit + USB Camera - Balance Board.
Rabbids Go Home: An adventure game wherein the Rabbids utilize shopping carts to build a tower of junk to the moon.
TMNT Smash UP: Kung Fu Chaos or Smash Bros with the Turtles crew.
Assassin's Creed 2 (November 17): Bringing a gun to a knife fight in 15th Century Italy.
CarbonFire's take:
Spoiler:
Nintendo - Tuesday, June 2nd, 9AM PST
Conviently scheduled early enough that the neglected hardcore crowd is still asleep, but late enough that Cammie can attend after dropping her kids off at school. While you were reading this, 300k Wiis and 400k DSes were sold.
Spoiler:
FyreWulff's sentence fragments ahoy.
MOTIONPLUS ETC
Mario Galaxy 2
4 Player Co-Op New Super Mario Bros for Wii
Metroid: Other M, a 'dark, edgy' Metroid being made by Team Ninja
Iwata dislikes the invisible wall being built up between 'hardcore' and 'non-gamers'
Mario vs Donkey Kong coming to WiiWare
Vitals sensor add-on for Wiimote
Wii Fit Plus in both game only and balance board bundles
Sony - Tuesday, June 2nd, 11AM PST
Will God of War 3 get a release date, and what's the haps with the PSP GO and slimline PS3. Is there ever going to be a price cut?
Spoiler:
More of Fyre's impressions as I collect myself.
Showed off MAG
Gran Turismo PSP finally coming out Oct 1
showed off a kart racer in the vein of LBP
God of War demo'd, brutal as fuck
Revealed new motion controller that has 1:1 position sensing
not clear if the eyetoy is optional yet
but the camera picks up where the wand is by looking for colored lights
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker revealed for PSP it's "next game in main line of series, not a spinoff" takes place in 1970s
PSP Go is 249$and 249 euro
Final Fantasy 14 revealed and FMV shown PS3 exclusive it's subtitle is 'online' so it appears to be a sequel to FF11
SQUARE ENIX - Wednesday, June 3rd, 11AM PST STREAM IN G4TV.COM (not G4TV)
Konami/Kojima - Wednesday, June 3rd, 3PM PST STREAM IN G4TV.COM (not G4TV)
Secret Big Hidden Boss of the Press Conferences, this one has hype for days.
Spoiler:
![Space Reserved for Bullet Points from Press Conference]
Undead ScottsmanPuts his name on his helicoptor....so everyone knows it's his.Registered Userregular
This might be the year Sony actually does better than the other two; they have two big things to show off, or at least talk about (PSP Go! and the PS3 slim), and so long as they don't fuck up, which is a tall order I admit, they could eclipse what we know so far from Nintendo and Microsoft. (Though it's always the unknown stuff that is most important.) Granted it would be a victory due to sucking the least, but that still counts.
This might be the year Sony actually does better than the other two; they have two big things to show off, or at least talk about (PSP Go! and the PS3 slim), and so long as they don't fuck up, which is a tall order I admit, they could eclipse what we know so far from Nintendo and Microsoft. (Though it's always the unknown stuff that is most important.) Granted it would be a victory due to sucking the least, but that still counts.
I'm gonna remember this post in case MS and Nintendo somehow drop megatons that outdo Sony.
I can't quite see that happening. PSP Go looks like a plastic piece of shite and PS3 Slim will no doubt come with all sorts of brokenness (loss of memory, backwards compability, etc).
Shouldn't there be seperate threads for each conference, like there usually is around E3 time? Shit's going to be a mess in this thread when everyone's talking about different shit.
As far as I remember, last year there was a thread that was supposed to be for one of the conferences, but ended up having stuff for the other ones in it too.
Really? Can't remember that, though I wasn't as hyped for E3 as usual so that could've been a reason.
Kelor: That's usually the case in SE+ but from my memory, there's never really been a co-ordinated effort in G&T.
As for your time zone, our times are pretty shit too but nowhere near as bad. Microsoft's starts at 5:25am, Nintendo's at 4am and Sony's at 7am. I'll wake up around 6am both mornings, catch half of Microsoft and all of Sony's. Nintendo's probably won't be worth waking up for, so I'm not bothering with it.
This might be the year Sony actually does better than the other two; they have two big things to show off, or at least talk about (PSP Go! and the PS3 slim), and so long as they don't fuck up, which is a tall order I admit, they could eclipse what we know so far from Nintendo and Microsoft. (Though it's always the unknown stuff that is most important.) Granted it would be a victory due to sucking the least, but that still counts.
I'm gonna remember this post in case MS and Nintendo somehow drop megatons that outdo Sony.
Go ahead, but I don't know why you would bother. I already mentioned that that stuff that's yet to be revealed will probably outwieght what we already know. IMO, out of the announced stuff, Sony's is potentially the most interesting to us geeks (new iterations of both their hardware vs a MS hardware gimmick and new Wii Fit malarky), but yeah, it's unknown stuff that makes the biggest impact.
Also, I said this COULD be the year; not that this WOULD be the year. Nobody in their right mind would say that.
If anything rather than a straight up price drop I would expect them to do another model switch and roll them all down a bracket again while discontinuing the lowest model.
Someone at NeoGaf was checking in for E3, and according to him, Nintendo's booth was hidden from public and guarded by security guards. Typical Nintendo paranoia, I guess. He did, however, see huge banner for Sin & Punishment 2, so it will definitely be on the floor.
Someone at NeoGaf was checking in for E3, and according to him, Nintendo's booth was hidden from public and guarded by security guards. Typical Nintendo paranoia, I guess. He did, however, see huge banner for Sin & Punishment 2, so it will definitely be on the floor.
I wouldn't call it paranoia. That ensures that the news drops as it is meant to, without leaks. I hope Nintendo didn't have to hire the guards themselves. I think all booths should be guarded in such a way until things get going officially.
Someone at NeoGaf was checking in for E3, and according to him, Nintendo's booth was hidden from public and guarded by security guards. Typical Nintendo paranoia, I guess. He did, however, see huge banner for Sin & Punishment 2, so it will definitely be on the floor.
They've said in the past that after Brawl they would prefer to keep things low key and mostly announce/promote them 3-4 months before release, rather than have them suffer from the overhype and backlash that other games have had.
Man I love the big press conferences. If only for the scramble and community fun of them. Collectively jeering at them made even the disastrous Nintendo conference last year fun.
Speaking of which, is there an IRC channel we can use for these? I recall one last year, and it tends to work a little better than the delayed reaction of forum posting.
They've said in the past that after Brawl they would prefer to keep things low key and mostly announce/promote them 3-4 months before release, rather than have them suffer from the overhype and backlash that other games have had.
Yeah. I guess that S&P 2 will be either july or august game. Probably july, as august is reserved for Metroid Prime Trilogy.
Why must you be the screendoor to my submarine, Scottsman?
Because the government buys from the lowest bidder?
I promise to understand this joke by the time I wake up.
Uh, it wasn't that great of a joke to be honest. I was poking fun at idea of a submarine with a screen door, implying that such a poorly designed piece of hardware could only come about due to government contracting.
KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
I don't understand how the PSP GO and the PS3 slim are going to "win" anything.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I don't understand how the PSP GO and the PS3 slim are going to "win" anything.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I think it's a matter of winning in terms of most desired news, or most groundbreaking. Long run though, winning isn't an option.
Man I love the big press conferences. If only for the scramble and community fun of them. Collectively jeering at them made even the disastrous Nintendo conference last year fun.
Speaking of which, is there an IRC channel we can use for these? I recall one last year, and it tends to work a little better than the delayed reaction of forum posting.
The conference threads are always great fun to participate in for how fast we burn through pages. I think either the 2006 Nintendo one or the one where we got the time mixed up and "Iwata bows" was born would have to be my favourites though.
Edit: I would get a laugh if it was a repeat of last year and Mike and Jerry stick up the same comic as last year again.
I don't understand how the PSP GO and the PS3 slim are going to "win" anything.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I think it's a matter of winning in terms of most desired news, or most groundbreaking. Long run though, winning isn't an option.
For the past couple of years now it's been a "tie" anyway, with Nintendo the worst off.
Ninty however doesn't care when it's lying on its bed of money while smoking money cigars with money lighters and wearing money underwear.
I don't understand how the PSP GO and the PS3 slim are going to "win" anything.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I think it's a matter of winning in terms of most desired news, or most groundbreaking. Long run though, winning isn't an option.
You are saying "We made the console smaller but it still costs the same" is groundbreaking and desired news? Or am I reading this wrong?
Odds on so called expert analysts predicting Wii HD and then backtracking and saying it'll be announced at a later date after it isn't announced at the Nintendo press conference?
I don't understand how the PSP GO and the PS3 slim are going to "win" anything.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I think it's a matter of winning in terms of most desired news, or most groundbreaking. Long run though, winning isn't an option.
You are saying "We made the console smaller but it still costs the same" is groundbreaking and desired news? Or am I reading this wrong?
It isn't really, but so far it's the most amazing thing. The unknown stuff is what matters though, as has been said.
What was the year when Miyamoto cosplayed as Link? That one was awesome.
I think that was 2004.
'06 was when they actually showed off the Wii and some of its new titles. And there were the videos of gigantic fucking queues all over the place to try it out.
They had Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata up with some guy out of the audience playing tennis together and we all realized just how huge it was going to be.
Edit: Purple, I think whatshisname already predicted that. But he's wrong all the time anyway.
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I'd say we're pretty good as far as that goes. Sometimes there's a break out but overall any ribbing is mostly good natured.
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Wouldn't the sequel be titled Money Charts Forever or something?
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PUT THIS IN YOUR ACCESSORY SLOT AND SMOKE IT
I'm gonna remember this post in case MS and Nintendo somehow drop megatons that outdo Sony.
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Really? Can't remember that, though I wasn't as hyped for E3 as usual so that could've been a reason.
Kelor: That's usually the case in SE+ but from my memory, there's never really been a co-ordinated effort in G&T.
As for your time zone, our times are pretty shit too but nowhere near as bad. Microsoft's starts at 5:25am, Nintendo's at 4am and Sony's at 7am. I'll wake up around 6am both mornings, catch half of Microsoft and all of Sony's. Nintendo's probably won't be worth waking up for, so I'm not bothering with it.
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Go ahead, but I don't know why you would bother. I already mentioned that that stuff that's yet to be revealed will probably outwieght what we already know. IMO, out of the announced stuff, Sony's is potentially the most interesting to us geeks (new iterations of both their hardware vs a MS hardware gimmick and new Wii Fit malarky), but yeah, it's unknown stuff that makes the biggest impact.
Also, I said this COULD be the year; not that this WOULD be the year.
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If anything rather than a straight up price drop I would expect them to do another model switch and roll them all down a bracket again while discontinuing the lowest model.
I wouldn't call it paranoia. That ensures that the news drops as it is meant to, without leaks. I hope Nintendo didn't have to hire the guards themselves. I think all booths should be guarded in such a way until things get going officially.
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Because the government buys from the lowest bidder?
Please, don't spew that "actual gamer" bullshit.
I promise to understand this joke by the time I wake up.
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They've said in the past that after Brawl they would prefer to keep things low key and mostly announce/promote them 3-4 months before release, rather than have them suffer from the overhype and backlash that other games have had.
Watch me.
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Speaking of which, is there an IRC channel we can use for these? I recall one last year, and it tends to work a little better than the delayed reaction of forum posting.
Yeah. I guess that S&P 2 will be either july or august game. Probably july, as august is reserved for Metroid Prime Trilogy.
Uh, it wasn't that great of a joke to be honest. I was poking fun at idea of a submarine with a screen door, implying that such a poorly designed piece of hardware could only come about due to government contracting.
I don't care about them making a console slimmer or quieter or less power consuming because i would need to BUY A NEW CONSOLE to take advantage of that.
I want them to show GAMES. Games that I can actually play on my current console, no matter if it's fat or slim.
Edit to quell fanboys: Same thing for 360 slim or (lol) Wii slim.
I think it's a matter of winning in terms of most desired news, or most groundbreaking. Long run though, winning isn't an option.
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The conference threads are always great fun to participate in for how fast we burn through pages. I think either the 2006 Nintendo one or the one where we got the time mixed up and "Iwata bows" was born would have to be my favourites though.
Edit: I would get a laugh if it was a repeat of last year and Mike and Jerry stick up the same comic as last year again.
For the past couple of years now it's been a "tie" anyway, with Nintendo the worst off.
Ninty however doesn't care when it's lying on its bed of money while smoking money cigars with money lighters and wearing money underwear.
Money.
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You are saying "We made the console smaller but it still costs the same" is groundbreaking and desired news? Or am I reading this wrong?
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It isn't really, but so far it's the most amazing thing. The unknown stuff is what matters though, as has been said.
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It sounds like you are 13 years old.
I think that was 2004.
'06 was when they actually showed off the Wii and some of its new titles. And there were the videos of gigantic fucking queues all over the place to try it out.
They had Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata up with some guy out of the audience playing tennis together and we all realized just how huge it was going to be.
Edit: Purple, I think whatshisname already predicted that. But he's wrong all the time anyway.
Then afterwards people wrote about how embarassing it is that a big crowd of adults are amazed by a game for children.
It sounds like somebody who is rather bored of Nintendo.
Saying that my DS is fun! ^_^