GET YER E3 BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE

[Segoris]

I love how right after he says there is no catch he explains the catch.

Not surprising at this point for the XBox180

[jakonovski]

The DRM setup was so comical I have to wonder who came up with it. There were literally no benefits to their model.

[Soulflame]

snidelywhiplash.jpg ?

Just a guess.

[Soln]

It's getting to the point where I can near instantly spot a "genuine" Microsoft plant than an improvised, marketing plant. 

"this feature is near and dear to me"
" I truly felt it would have helped"
"The premise is simple and elegant"
"Anyone who you deem" 

who you deem? 

First is family sharing, this feature is near and dear to me and I truly felt it would have helped the industry grow and make both gamers and developers happy.  The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library.  Anyone who you deem to be family ...

[sickrubik]

What am I missing with "deem"?

[Bzalthek]

Soln learned a new word today.  Everyone clap.

[Venkman]

Geez people and the parenting shit. My philosophy is you don't give parenting advice at all. Other people's kids are other people's problem. I've got two. We're barely expert enough on them. We're certainly not going to spew noise about other's kids.

You have no idea what those other kids' or parents' home life is like. You could offend based on principal, religion, political belief, culture, ethnicity, or dozens of other vectors. And for what? So you can feel right?

Keep that shit to the gaming forums. You'll feel better about life.

More than half of the top 15 best selling Wii games used "traditional" controls via the Wiimote/nunchuck, with motion control as a non-optimal afterthought (Mariokart, Galaxy, Smash Bros, etc.). I don't think that counts as being 'all in' on motion controls. It was very similar to what the Xbone will be.

It's true that Microsoft didn't produce many Xbox 360 titles with motion controls, but they produce a fraction of the games that Nintendo does. They're much more likely to have other publishers/developers do the work for them.

I never played Smash Bros, but we must have played a different Mario Kart and Galaxy if you weren't using the motion control in it. Unless you consider wiimote/nunchuck combo analogous to a dual shock or X360 controller. If that's the case, that's a big difference from how I'm thinking about the controllers.

And I don't mean MS produced games. They really don't do that many. I mean messaging at all.

The big publishers port between consoles when they can, because that's a profitable way to ammortize one-time costly development (and there's other benefits like IP and company brand pushing and others). That also means though lowest-common-denominator thinking, what works across all three platforms with minimum effort.

There's no Kinect on the PS3 or Wii U. There isn't even an analogy to it. If MS expected third parties to get excited by Kinect features for the XBone, they'd have had very different marketing messaging than context switching and knowing where players are. Meanwhile, their biggest showings were all the traditional games you'd expect, with the biggest surprises being how much they borked the messaging, following by a floating ball instead of a halo ring and some mechs.

[Velorath]

Geez people and the parenting shit. My philosophy is you don't give parenting advice at all. Other people's kids are other people's problem.

If only that were true. A poorly raised kid is potentially everybody's problem.

[Nayr]

Only things about E3 that appealed to me were the Dragon Age: Inquisition teaser and the "How to Share Used Games on PS4" tutorial. One was awesome and the other hilarious.

Geez people and the parenting shit. My philosophy is you don't give parenting advice at all. Other people's kids are other people's problem.

If only that were true. A poorly raised kid is potentially everybody's problem.

They do say it takes a village to raise a child. :p

On the other hand, game developers and console developers shouldn't have to take the negligence of parents into consideration. The ESRB puts ratings on games for a reason and the stores are required to check IDs on M-Rated games. It's not like nothing is done to prevent kids from playing mature games.

[Venkman]

I wish I found that DA teaser intriguing. I didn't hate DA2, even though I consider it less a sequel than a game parallel to the first. But given all that's coming, it's gonna take a lot more interesting stuff coming from them for me to care about DA3.

Geez people and the parenting shit. My philosophy is you don't give parenting advice at all. Other people's kids are other people's problem.

If only that were true. A poorly raised kid is potentially everybody's problem.

Yes. I was specifically focusing on giving or receiving advice from behind the veil of an anonymous avatar that in no way telegraphs anything about your real self and even if it does nobody needs to believe you I don't want this to branch into Politics, so I'll just say this: if you see something obviously wrong in the physical world and you say something to the parent, you're taking a chance because all you're seeing is the snapshot and making a snap judgement on it. That can work well in a narrow set of circumstances. But the kind of sociopathic behavior that does become a societal problem are generally not the "don't let them play Gears of War duuurrr" stuff mentioned here.

[Nonentity]

http://i.imgur.com/uP4KpSg.jpg

someone pointed out that the new dual shock 4 looks like two uncircumcised dicks and now i can't unsee it

"dual cock 4" indeed

but having tried both of them, i'm super happy with the size of the DS4

[Bzalthek]

And once again, an avatar perfectly matches the content of the post.

[Merusk]

There's another joke begging for use but it's so cliche I feel bad.

It's not the size of the controller but how you use it!

[sickrubik]

Mattrick leaves XBox for Zynga.



"FUCK IT, I'M OUT."

[schild]

Mattrick leaves XBox for Zynga.



"FUCK IT, I'M OUT."

Not even a reasonable assumption.

More like:

Microsoft: "Get your uncharismatic-can't-deliver-a-message-generic-white-ass out of here."
Zynga: "GET OVER HERE, WE LOVE UNCHARISMATIC-CAN'T-DELIVER-A-MESSAGE WHITE PEOPLE"

[sickrubik]

Oh, I know. Your summation is much more accurate. I just like saying fuck.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft moves swift and uses this opportunity to fix things a little more. Not seeing a price cut in the works, but wondering if we see a value add, like a free year of Live.

[HaemishM]

That dickhead goes to a company full of dickheads?

Maybe they can send Ballmer out there to get people excited about the Bone. Nothing works up the gamer crowd like balding flop sweat.

[OcellotJenkins]

Glad to see that douche nugget flushed.  Get Ballmer out and I'll consider taking a look at Microsoft again around Winders 10.  The past couple of years have been down right comical.  Group think disasters or just shit-tastic leadership?  Who knows.

[Bann]

My big E3 takeaway was: to finally get around to boxing up and trading in a bunch of old games in for amazon credit while this is still a possibility. Nice conference, morons.

[Surlyboi]

That dickhead goes to a company full of dickheads?

Maybe they can send Ballmer out there to get people excited about the Bone. Nothing works up the gamer crowd like balding flop sweat.

Please. Never use the phrases, "Balmer", "excited about the Bone" and "Flop sweat" in the same universe again.

[MrHat]

Are we still using this for E3ish games?

Here's an extended Destiny playthrough.  (Some of it is repeat, as usual, worst part of gaming is other people).

[Surlyboi]

"This is my rocket launcher, it was raised by wolves." 

[HaemishM]

Guild Wars 3: The Mass Effected Dudebro Shooting Edition? 

[Father mike]

Could have sworn that this was going to be on the PC, but the pre-order page lists only PS3, PS4, 360, and XB1.

Damnit.

[Kageru]

They backtracked and then said PC gamers should sign a petition if they are interested... 

[Surlyboi]

Guild Wars 3: The Mass Effected Dudebro Shooting Edition? 

As breauxtastic as Halo DM was/is, the coop gameplay tended to be fun. This doesn't look all that different. I guess time will tell.

[Stormwaltz]

They backtracked and then said PC gamers should sign a petition if they are interested...

I'm not interested.

I watched 10 minutes of gameplay footage, during which nothing particularly cool or technically impressive occurred. This would have been impressive if it had been announced before Planetside 2, Defiance, and Dust 514 came out. But it wasn't.

The best I can say is that it's about as pretty as Skyrim. But by the time it's out, I'm sure Fallout 4 will look even better.

[Falconeer]

I was interested, before watching the E3 demo. I was expecting something revolutionary, something really groundbreaking multiplayer-wise, but this seems to be (based on what I picked up) more of the same.

[Surlyboi]

What exactly constitutes "groundbreaking" these days?

[Sir T]

The only truly groundbreaking and unusual thing I've seen in the last few years is an indie fantasy-horror game called The Void. And that's only a singleplayer game.

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-VOID/the-void

And maybe AI Wars, which was a good twist on an RTS.

Everything else has basically been a rehash.

[Fabricated]

ahahahahah

Xbox One advertising will integrate with Kinect

Weird since this image below is a SONY patent I believe.

[Morat20]

Yeah, let me just state that if I was hypothetically willing to pay 599 AND a gold subscription? FUCK ADS IN THE ASS.

Just the mere fucking EXISTANCE of non-game ads (I don't mind the upcoming game ads that much, since it's at least USEFUL advertising) on my Xbox pisses me off.

Having to goddamn interact with them? The kinect and xbox would be on Ebay within 30 seconds.

[Sir T]

Ads on the Xbox One will be integrated into the dashboard, much like native advertising on the Xbox 360. These kinds of ads reportedly have much more engagement than standard banner advertising presented apart from actual content.

"The only difference is that the advertisement we have is quite small and not disruptive so people are not aware of clicking on the banners because they know this is a part of the whole experience on the dash,” a senior digital art director/UX designer told StickTwiddlers.

Hi for your convenience we are designing our interface so that you will accidentally click on our advertising banners!!

While advertising was "more of an afterthought" on the Xbox 360, the Xbox One "is going to have advertising in mind," according to a technical account manager StickTwiddlers talked to. "So a lot of the limitations that we have now, hopefully the release of the boundaries will be widened so the opportunities will be a lot greater.”

XBONE!! Designed to advertise!

This thing just went from "don't want one" to "Don't want to be in the same house as one"

Microsoft really REALLY needs to shut the fuck up at this point. This isn't helping

[Morat20]

Since it's apparent real people aren't going to buy it, Microsoft needs income from somewhere.

[angry.bob]

Microsoft really REALLY needs to shut the fuck up at this point. This isn't helping

I like the way they're playing this as a huge value-added selling point for their customers.