E3 '11

[Velorath]

The start of E3 is just hours away, with MS, EA, Ubisoft, and Sony all scheduled for their press conferences today.

MS starts first at around 9 - 9:30am PST, then EA at around 12:30, Ubisoft at 2:30, and Sony at 5.  Nintendo doesn't do their press conference until tomorrow at 9am.

[Lucas]

This year, for me it's all about SWTOR, Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur.

[lamaros]

You're in for a shit year.

[Malakili]

I'm fairly interested to see more about how Skyrim is coming along.

[MournelitheCalix]

I'm fairly interested to see more about how Skyrim is coming along.

So am I, after Alice I think Skyrim will be the next game I purchase.  I am hoping that they release a little more intuitive and robust editor to go along with Skyrim.

[Sky]

If Skyrim continues the spiral of Bethsoft, I'll be disappointed and they'll pretty much be relegated to bin purchases from me. Especially since they did decent with FO3.

TOR release date, PLEASE. Even if it disappoints on a mechanics level (I don't like WoW), there should be enough story to make it more than worth the box + a few months.

ME3! 'Nuff said.

So really, I'm looking forward to TOR and ME3. Sci Fi year!

[Mrbloodworth]

XCOM!!!



As a shooter? Didn't we try this before??? 

[Paelos]

Hopefully people boo Ubisoft. Lord knows I would.

[HaemishM]

I'm morbidly fascinated by what whacked out shit Nintendo will try to sell as its next console, if only so I can stand back and LAUGH. I would also like to see Sony's press conference be filled with people wearing Guy Fawkes' masks.

[Lucas]

Of course I didn't mention DX: HR because, even though it will be present at E3, release is just around the corner, so it doesn't count. But especially after messing around with the preview, I simply can't wait for it :). Maybe after I'll manage to beat the second, I'll actually start to be excited about Mass Effect 3 too :P

[01101010]

I would also like to see Sony's press conference be filled with people wearing Guy Fawkes' masks.

Had a good laugh at work - thanks. Of course having to explain it to one of my coworkers was a little painful.

[Velorath]

Spike TV is supposed to be showing the MS conference I believe.  Gametrailers has a livestream here.

[luckton]

Spike TV is supposed to be showing the MS conference I believe.  Gametrailers has a livestream here.

Watching it right now.  They've got the new Tomb Raider on.  Looks like some people learned a thing or two from the Uncharted series 

[luckton]

BTW, shouldn't we move this to the Game Conference forum?

[luckton]

ME3 is on.  Kinect voice commands are demoed.

  for voice dialogue options.

  for combat action commands.

[luckton]

Ghost Recon Kinect is just sick.

Edit 1: Roman Kinect game looked sick.

Edit 2: Oh fuck...on-rails Fable?  GTFO Peter.

Edit 3: The Disney World game looks more impressive than half the stuff I've seen at this conference so far.

Edit 4: On-rails Star Wars...pass.

Edit 5: TIM SHAEFER!  SAVE US!!!  Damn, now I have to get an Xbox for my kid.

Edit 6: The Kinect Me Avatar maker; Because F- you Nintendo with your 3DS

Edit 7: Someone explain to me how the Kinect Sport Football game can properly simulate movement forward when Fable and Star Wars have to resort to on-rails?

[Rendakor]

You could just edit your post instead of posting 4 times in a row.

[tmp]

Hopefully there's a option for a frustrated "quit dying you stupid motherfuckers" and "keep the asses behind cover ffs" in ME, otherwise there's just no point.

[Velorath]

It's a good thing I've learned to have low expectations for these press conferences.  So far three franchises I don't care about, kinect support for ME3, and voice commands, youtube, and Bing for XBL...  don't really care.

Edit: Now they're doing all the 360 exclusive stuff starting with Gears 3.

Edit 2: Aside from the odd Roman Kinect game, typical MS franchises.  Halo 1 remake, decent trailer for Forza 4, and now a new Fable (kinect) game.

Edit 3: Kinect enabled Minecraft on 360.

[Paelos]

Ugh, why so much Kinect stuff?

More games, less gimmicks plz.

[KallDrexx]

Holy shit the graphics on that Star wars game was bad....

[Mrbloodworth]

Holy shit the graphics on that Star wars game was bad....

So were the controls. That was really stiff.

EDIT: FINGER TRACKING!!!   

[MournelitheCalix]

Is there any actual game play with this kinect stuff?  Looks to me to be entirely scripted.

[01101010]

Edit 3: Kinect enabled Minecraft on 360.

Wat? 

[Mrbloodworth]

Body scanning, Object scanning, Finger tracking.

They know where the next paycheck is coming from.

[luckton]

Sony might actually have a chance to do better with their conference.   Here's a preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcO4MMzdYE8

Edit: Here's the thing...most non-hardcore people (read: the people not reading these forums, or even IGN/GameSpot) will but this stuff up like hotcakes.  They'll play with it for a few weeks, and then it'll all go away.

[Margalis]

The less said about the MS press conference the better.

[jakonovski]

Armored Core V trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeP8xOwoxHU

Good lord. The games are mediocre these days, but holy crap the CGI animations are incredible. I want a movie like that.

[Mrbloodworth]

Fable!

On rails..... 

[fuser]

I hate there was zero news on Forza4. The same trailer was out 2-3 weeks ago with no definite info (eg: weather, time changes, etc).

[tmp]

EDIT: FINGER TRACKING!!!   

Kinect: now you can take the pictures of your genitals and add drawn semen... in 3d!

[luckton]

MS conference in brief, courtesy of Keen:


EDIT 1: Watching bits of the conference again...Tim Schaffer was about the best part of the show, who sounded like if he was reading from a script, it was one he wrote.  "Unleash the simulated family!"

[Velorath]

Watching some Batman: Arkham City footage on Spike showing off Catwoman gameplay.

[MuffinMan]

MS conference in brief, courtesy of Keen:

That middle image is just asking for a Katamari game.

[Pringles]

With that new item scanning you can scan your hamster and roll in the ball.