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So assuming I can find my E3 badge and that LA isn't destroyed by an earthquake in the next 24 hours I should be at E3 tomorrow. Anyone want me to look at anything in particular?

Last year I wrote up some impressions of what I saw on the show floor and looking back I think I pretty much nailed it, everything I said looked good ended up being good, everything I was iffy on ended up being not so hot. So you can trust me far more than any professional website!

Of course I'll check out whatever MMOs are there at least a little. Other than that I'm planning on spending most of my time playing sequels to shooters and Nintendo-game knockoffs, since that's apparently all the video game industry makes.  :oh_i_see:

I am interested in Portal 2 and the new Rock Band thing with a million buttons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYtH28esTg&feature=player_embedded

Highlight of E3!

I don't think Portal 2 is going to be on the show floor, seeing that the event for it was cancelled. If the new Rock Band is there I will definitely check it out given that I can play bass and a little piano...although last I heard there was no pro-mode bass guitar, just normal guitar.

I think our taste in games differs too much for me to have any specific recommendations though.

Maybe if there's anything special being shown off at E3 for FFXIV though?

Posting here because it doesn't deserve it's own thread. So apparently Kinect is some sort of device you use when you want to carefully mimic the motions of a video game character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_y1-xAXv4g&feature=player_embedded

That is one hell of a fail demo. They could have at least had the guy rehearse until it wasn't so blatantly obvious that the character was moving first.

Oh, and on the subject of E3, the first day of press conferences is over and schild hasn't even posted since the 12th let alone made any E3 threads.  It feels like someone canceled Christmas.   :heartbreak:

They just showed the MS360 demo on tv including that SW game demo. That guy wasn't part of it. That video is probably fake.

That was the pre-E3 (like a day or so prior) 'sneak preview'.
Oh, and Bullet Storm is Game of the Show.  :drill:

Let me know if you get into TGS.

:why_so_serious:

For those interested in games being shown, here is a list (posted May 5th so some changes surely occurred) (http://games.ign.com/articles/108/1086456p1.html). If anyone has a better one, I'd be interested in seeing that for updates/changes since this one still shows Portal 2 for Valve.

So far, I'm interested in the FF14 info, the Trion Worlds games, Wahammer 40K MMO, whatever Valve has up their sleeve, SW:TOR. I'm kind of interested in Yakuza 4, Monkey Island 2, Crysis 2, Bulletstorm.

Though it definitely feels weird having that many MMOs I'm interested in seeing more from.

I'm most interested in Ubi's Maniaplanet (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-maniaplanet/101448), though it'll invariably be saddled with their crap DRM.   :awesome_for_real:

I'll be on the show floor as well. I'm checking out 8 FPSes, 4 MMOs, and Rock Band 3 as my must-see titles. Go figure.

Maybe you guys on the floor can check out new Marvel vs. Capcom & Civ V? Or maybe the Warhammer 40k MMO. I wouldn't mind some updates on those.

Is Valkyria Chronicles II only going to be available on PSP?  :cry:

Most likely. The only thing I've seen stating any hope of a console version is from Wikipedia:

Any information on Civ V, SWTOR, Puzzle Quest 2, or Lionheart: Kings Crusade would be cool.

Pics of really hot chicks in limited clothing, kthx.

GW2 info.  Thanks.

Ask the Civ V people when Fall From Heaven 3 will be released  :grin: (to clarify: I'm serious!)

Nobody excited for Mafia 2? The first was pretty wicked.

I'd like to hear a Gothic 4 vs Risen comparison, if anyone has played Risen.

Paradox isn't demoing Magicka? Boo.

NCsoft doesn't have an E3 booth this year, so no go on that front.

I'll see what I can do about checking out the other stuff. The first Five Hour Energy has been consumed, and I'm one of those bums charging all my electronic devices at the last minute in the hallway.

3DS?  Any hands on the floor with it?

How well does the 3D work?

Go check the Bioware booth. For obvious reasons. Hope the rumors are true.

And what rumors are those?

I'm going to guess hawt bitches are involved.

Think there were rumors that Mass Effect 3 might make an appearance.

If they are actually showing any real info on the WH40K MMO, that would be nice.

The Agency, hands on playtime of SWTOR, whatever Cryptic's new MMO is, Fallout Vegas...

Oh yes, Clone Wars.

Find Kevin Butler. Hug him.

The new PS3 mocap shit looks pretty sweet, I don't care if its a kid game, I want to play sorcery.

Gran Turismo 5 in 3d may push us into buying a bigass DLP TV too, holy fuck will that be awesome.

Find Paul Barnett and kick him square in the nuts and tell him he lied to me. He'll know.

Oh god i don't care about e3 this year make it all stop.

Seriously.

Just stop.

Motion controls for everyone!   :uhrr:

The pricing is a bit steep for both of the HD consoles' solutions as well.

Portal 2 bit on g4 right now.

Please try and stay away from the dancing people.

Warhammer 40k mmo is called WH40k: Dark Millenium Online. A one minute trailer is all we get. No idea what game is like, other then yo there are health bars and you shoot people.

That Nexon game Vindictus is pretty neat. Click to attack. I threw a box at a worm. Might be neat?

I played Medal of Honor muliplayer. It is Modern Warfare 2, as imagined by dice.

Tera Online is actually pretty damn cool. The combat feels quite solid. This is the one I'll talk about most later.

Paul Barnett is currently screaming on the EA stage. Time to run.

what is PB screaming about?  what's he peddling?

Is he still sporting those stupid sunglasses?

Sodomy?

He was on stage in EA's booth during the Sims 3 for consoles hypefest.

Nothing terribly exciting in the west hall that there isn't a line for (3DS, Twisted Metal, Killzone 3) - everything I've wanted to check out so far has been line free, or by press appointment only (Brink, Rage, Deus Ex).

The graphical filtery thing for Kane and Lynch 2 looks pretty neat. Pretty standard other than that.

Bunch of fangirls in the Squeenix booth, pretty hilarious.

I got a temporary tattoo at the booth for that luchador game.

It's definitely a smaller show overall, with what was Kentia Hall essentially being shoved into the sides of the two main halls.

DCUO and verify if the animations are as choppy as the trailers make them look.

At home now. Show floor closed for today an hour and a half ago.

I'll try to peg up more of it after I relax for a bit.

That game... I dunno. Nothing jumped out at me, other then the fact that they were demoing on PC and PS3 side by side, in the same PvP match. They were doing Heroes vs. Villains, and oh my goodness. Some of the animations were pretty bad. Someone was playing an archer character with gold wings, and he was standing right on top of a turret shooting at it, and it had to be one of the clunkiest animations I'd seen.

Looks friggin' awful. Right click anchors your mouse, and then you move it around like an analog stick to move the camera. Incredibly slow-paced combat. The only difference I could tell between FFXIV and FFXI were that you had little timer bars to tell when you were going to attack again in FFXIV.

Maybe it was just because most of the other decent MMOs that I saw there were all click-to-attack, and MUCH faster paced, but this felt glacially slow. Lots of text dialog for back and forth talking.

The Agency had a trailer. Hooray. I'm sure it's online somewhere already. It looks like they stole Modern Warfare 2's weapon customization, so that's nice at least.

I didn't see Cryptic anywhere.

SW:TOR was by press appointment only.

Fallout: New Vegas was by press appointment only, as was Brink, Rage and Hunted: The whateverwhatever.

They did have this on display, and while I didn't actually bother to stop and play it, I watched over some shoulders for a few minutes.

The lightsaber combat seems to be a simon-says series of arrow key presses that you have to do in a certain window of time, and then the animation plays out. I watched someone do a little starfighter combat, and that seems to be point your mouse to fly around, and click on stuff to shoot it. All quite nice looking - it seems they plugged in some extra features to the FreeRealms engine.

Lego MMO? The videos we saw looked awesome and there were playable things going on.

Has anyone at E3 tried out the Nintendo 3DS or the new Zelda title? If so, any feedback?

So hows the Battlestar MMO look?   :why_so_serious:

From most accounts there's a specific distance and angle for the 3DS. If you move out of either it looks like shit.

Don't really know the purpose or understand the whole Valve bait-and-switch thing prior to the Portal 2 announcement/demoreel but I can largely ignore bizarre attempts at reverse-hype when the actual footage/gameplay they've shown breaks my fucking brain with awesome. Here's a link (http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/109/1098378p1.html) to a preview from IGN's E3 coverage.

Loving the old locations taken back by nature aesthetic, one of my very favourite things.

Holy crap, Portal 2 looks awesome.

^ THIS TIMES A MILLION. ^

My penis is erect for more GladOS, you monster.

Oh my, steam on the PS3, with portal 2 to boot.

(http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c71692/media/image/201006/phpmkMlOs_thumb_image.jpeg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSo1k2Y1Uk

I think that's Portal 2 with Steam Cloud/Steamworks support - things like automatic updates, etc.  Steam on a console would be quite nice though.

Did you miss the gigantic PS3 logos all over that display?

Yea, my main excitement is steam on PS3. My friend is going to be happy he can get portal 2 on his shiny new PS3. I wonder if tis is related to the removial of the other OS boot... Perhaps its been removed for users...so developers can easy port....

/ponders

I know that Portal 2 will be on PS3 - I'm just not sure how far they're going.  From the conference, I got the impression that Portal 2 will be on PS3 with Steamworks/Steam Cloud features.  If they go full-on 'Steam on PS3', I'm definitely keen on that, though.

I hadn't heard that yet and was wondering if there was something stupid like this about it, thanks.

As for Steam on PS3...  :Love_Letters:

I can't envision Sony allowing Steam on the PS3 as a distribution mechanism, because it'd be in competition with their own online store.  Simply using its multiplayer and community features for some games seems much more likely.

Yeah, it wasn't an announcement of Steam on PS3, it was just just that Portal 2 on the PS3 has Steamworks support.

Ok, I guess I mis-understood your comments.

So was that the surprise, or was there cake at the event?   :grin:

(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/649/footinthedoor703355.jpg)

Wait, hasn't Gabe basically bitched and bitched and bitched about how bad the PS3 was? Wow, how much did Sony pony up?

I guess i got the terminology wrong then, I take it it will be everything but the store system. Because this is steamworks (http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/gameservices.php). Many sites are simply saying "Steam" though.

But I think we can put our differences behind us.
For science.
You monster.


SQUEEEE!

I think I may have soiled myself.

Yeah, but with having an OpenGL render path in Source now, there's no reason not to port it to the PS3 for some more bux.

Those were some very sexy videos. Valve games just ooze style and character and they can basically take the gameplay elements from all the "physics puzzle" games and put them in immersive first person.

Extending steam store to the PS3 is fairly pointless since the manufacturer has their own equivalent. However making it so that a steam game can be easily ported to or from the consoles is an interesting tactical move. Valve/Steam gains a lot more form having a uniform and widespread environment as opposed to the console owners whose interests are to wall off their garden. Maybe based on an assumption that as games become more expensive and the consoles more powerful generic cross-platform games will be the way to recoup the money.

Uh, question. Was I hallucinating, or did that Konami...event really happen?

One that doesn't really seem like a technological possibility.

If you say so... an Xbox just looks like a low-end PC to me, and there's more than enough Xbox/PS3 games that I'm sure people have worked out models that allow the easiest porting.

That said I was thinking more in terms of using the same API for access to steam services.

Speaking of PB - he's weaseled his way onto the Bombcast tonight. Harrumph.

that's his thing -- social animal

in all fairness, if that's what EA pays him for now, then that makes sense, in EA-land, being a con-cling-on.

Should have asked about The Agency: still due out "soon"?

Don't think they've said anything about the release date.  Looks like they showed off some pvp stuff and that's about it (you can see a some videos up on gametrailers).

I'm not looking forward to The Agency much, but find it amusing that SOE is still listing it as a title to get excited about despite the length of time since it was first announced (and due out) in 2007.

Yeah, but when it comes down to it, that's pretty typically in an MMO timeframe.

I will do a good writeup at some point soon, been busy.

On the show floor The Agency was only in video form. If it never came out I wouldn't be surprised.

So I assume no Planetside 2 in the SOE both.   :oh_i_see: