The E3 2011 thread

[DakAttack]

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After sitting in front of a 23-inch 16:9 computer monitor I can't bear to play games on anything smaller. I bought this monitor for $150. No fucking way am I paying $500 for a 22-inch monitor that does 3D.

3D gaming is a bane to developers. It's money spent on a pointless gimmick that could have gone to better use elsewhere. At this point, I'm sure most gimmicky games have been partially funded by Sony and MS just to push their hardware, but they wont do that forever. Once they stop, the hardware dies, and we see it for what it was this entire time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimmick

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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The problem for 3D is that without the TVs having it as a standard and the hardware being built for 3D, it makes developing 3D hard and underutilized.

3DS has neither of those problems and the 3D can be turned off, so everyone wins there.

[Kailea]

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did they say anything about TV-out for the Vita? I really liked that in the PSP, I had to leave the room for a little, and not sure if I missed it or not.

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oh sweet Cole will be in SF X T

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Street Fighter X Tekken for Vita w/ Cole from inFAMOUS o.o

And Ono talked up a 3DS version, too.

So Capcom wants me to have three copies, heh.

[Malacite]

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WTF @ The twitter comments & shit... jesus christ some people are really ignorant and racist.



OOOOOO Tenchu


O-o WTF UK gets fucked. 249 USD and 249 Euro? That's bullshit.

[Kailea]

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250 for wifi version hell yeah!


.....well hell only 300 for 3G model..... might get it after all

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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So they matched 3DS's price with Wifi model. Good enough for me.

Meanwhile, Nintendo laughs and does a $50 price drop.

They said nothing about the battery life, though, which probably means its not any better than 3DS in that regard.

[Malacite]

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Okay, yeah B- or C+ for Sony as well. That was some serious bullshit.

Lame exclusive deals for some of the games like Bioshock & BF3, no huge bomb @ the end of the show... at least MS closed with Halo 4, which was awesome. I is disappoint.


Well, it's Nintendo's to lose at this point. Sony needed to show some more big exclusives, and have someone like Epic Games or Bungie come out and announce something but it didn't happen.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Eh, I don't think it was that bad. I would have done Vita as a starting point rather than an ending point.

Overall, what I've heard before and after Sony's conference puts them in a safer place than MS. Sony's already put Move where Nintendo is likely to put Wiimotes into Cafe - its something that should be there as an option. Though I still have to laugh at Ken Lavine and his statements about Move.

Dude's apparently not played Metroid Prime Trilogy before. Given Bioshock is kind of in that same area of "first person adventure" he should look into it. MPT didn't lose its hardcore edge for having motion controls.

[Icemage]

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My quick impressions:

Microsoft:
Nice focus on games, BUT a little heavy-handed on Kinect. Halo 4 is an expected thing, will be interesting to see if 343 can keep the loyalty of the fanbase. Surprised not to see any mention of Child of Eden, amongst all the Kinect hype, since it comes out next week.

Mostly solid presentations (except that once-again-terrible Kinect Star Wars game), but very little actually exclusive content that wasn't Kinect-based.

Overall for Microsoft: B+

Sony:
Didn't catch the whole show but seemed more uneven than Microsoft's presentation.

Good apology at the start for PSN going down. Lots of exclusive games being shown off, though almost no surprise announcements. Dust 514 will be an interesting experiment; I'd be more cynical but betting against CCP is not a smart thing to do. inFamous 2, Resistance 3, Sly 4, yadda yadda.

Most pleasant to see such a large library of varied games being worked on for PS Vita, and of course the excellent price tag. I was really expecting them to launch at $400 or so. $250 is really brilliant if they can pull it off, especially considering how the 3DS is struggling. That's not to say PS Vita will automatically do well at the exact same price point, but for pure gamers, it's a much closer call than NDS vs PSP, and that alone is a small win for Sony.

Overall for Sony: B-

Will be interesting to see where Nintendo goes with their new hardware.


Icemage

[Kailea]

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Most pleasant to see such a large library of varied games being worked on for PS Vita, and of course the excellent price tag. I was really expecting them to launch at $400 or so. $250 is really brilliant if they can pull it off, especially considering how the 3DS is struggling. That's not to say PS Vita will automatically do well at the exact same price point, but for pure gamers, it's a much closer call than NDS vs PSP, and that alone is a small win for Sony.

well I do not know about other people, but like the DS, my PSVita will be playing my PSP stuff from PSN for a good 2 months after I get it ;p

[Malacite]

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IMO, it's Nintendo's to lose at this point.

I for one, am really hoping for HD Metroid footage. Sony's conference would have been an A for me if they had gotten to NGP sooner, and if the bulk of their content hadn't already been leaked or previewed weeks beforehand. The lack of really awesome surprises is what killed it.

Also WTF nothing from SE this year, and no KB? What really cheesed me off was Battlefield 3 and Bioshock 3's exclusives.

Oh yeah, an old game bundled with both of them that I've already played and don't want. Thanks, Jack. You had me going when you mentioned extra space on Blu Ray, just to drop the failbomb of Battlefield 1943. For a split second I actually thought he was going to say that the PS3 version would be graphically superior for once, and take full advantage of the hardware.


Still waiting for Devs to use PS3's capabilities to the maximum. I liken it to playing a game on PC with SLI/Cross-fire set up on my rig, only every damn game you own doesn't support it.

[Raydeus]

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You know what would make the PS3 beyond awesome? 1GB+ RAM.

[DakAttack]

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For once I agree with you, but that's completely unheard of in the land of consoles!!!

I watched the MW3 footage, and it was boring. The reload animation was boring, the death animations were boring, the action scenes were boring. The sounds of the guns were also pretty boring, and that's something important to do right. The reload animation looked like it was only half there. The player character would tilt the gun up and reveal an empty receiver, as if a magazine had been missing all along. Then he'd pull a magazine out of mid air and calmly slide it into his gun. It was devoid of character. I never did play it for the campaign, though, so we'll see how they do when it comes to multiplayer.

[Kailea]

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now that is funny, I never play MW for the online, I play the story, loved it, and can not wait to see what happens next