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flibitijibibo
July 14th, 2008, 03:36 PM
M$:
15: Demos of games we've already seen. (Fallout 3, RE5, and GoW 2)
30: "LOOK HOW MUCH MONEY WE MAKE! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
30: Movies, music, and pictures, and how they are clearly what everyone has a 360 for. Cue introduction to dashboard and miis, I mean avatars.
15: A Mix of shit they stole from Nintendo and Sony, followed by Guitar Hero/Rock Band. The GH/RB sections are 1 of 2 good parts in the whole conference. List of stuff stolen:
- Mii
- Eyetoy (They didn't even give it a name)
- Karaoke Revolution (Lips?)
- Scene it (something they did last year too)
- Channels
5: Square Enix discussing 3 games we've already heard of, then suddenly, FFXIII, which is the second of two good parts. Only reason its good is because it's the only new-new game announcement.

Nintendo:
10: Showing people what the fuck they're doing with the Wii/DS. Oh, cool, there's a legitimate purpose to their library.
5: Animal Crossing for Wii. Rather than wasting time showing what's already been done, they show new things that are available and why they did it. Oh, and they made a new peripheral. A mic? Took them long enough...
15: Some Wii games that they're releasing. Mostly casual, but that's what they said they'd be doing.
15: DS games, stuff about... wait, wtf? How the fuck... at a baseball stadium? Damn, they've made software for everything. Mostly kind of useless, but you have to give them credit, it is new after all...
10: Wii Sports Resort with the motion attachment. Oh, so THAT'S what it does. Hey, after over 9000 years, they made a swordfight game!
15: Wiimote drum solo? Oh, cool. Wii Music. New stuff, new stuff... It took them a while to do this, but damn it actually looks interesting.
5: They quietly admit to being a bit gimmicky. Knowing this, they promise to make gimmicks that are less shit.

Sony:
Intro with a movie full of games, old and new.
5: "Yay bluray and cell processors!" Wait, is he talking about family? While talking about "kickass games"?
5: Well, hm, it seems the 2 games they've released in the last year have been really good. Oh, wait, there are games for this thing?
15: Woah, are those full length demos of games? Never thought I'd see the day. Resistance 2 stuff here.
10: User content and Little Big Planet. Damn, you have to admit, using a game's content editor as a business presentation is impressive. Shows lots of room for creativity.
5: Dear god, they're keeping the PS2 alive?? Oh, come on, you're putting Force Unleashed on it too? Isn't that bottlenecking their room to develop a next-gen game?
3: PSN. Migration to PS3 is easier and it's now on PC. Not bad. It seems like PSN is damn good at content, keeping movies and other media secondary like it should be. Who'dve thought, a game console with media abilities that still focuses on games.
2: Ratchet and Clank. Again, full demo of the game so far.
2: More games. Maybe this IS the year of the PS3.
3: GTTV. Basically, car/racing channels for PSN.
2: The media discussion begins with PSH. Here we go with personal avatars again. Though, the way they're used is pretty interesting.
8: Movies, movies, blahblah... PS3/PSP part is cool though.
10: Intro to PSP, then Resistance for PSP. More PSP games, lots of them sequels/sports games.
5: Merging PS3 with Google and SOE. SOE's demo of DC Universe online.
10: No price lowering, but double the drive space. Cue developers agreeing that PS3 hardware is now appropriate for its time.
5: A bunch of PS3 exclusives, old and new. God of War 3 and Infamous get spotlights.
5: Massive Action Game. 256 Players, holy shit. Looks like a MMOFPS.

I have to admit... Sony put on a damn good conference. While not giving quite as much, Nintendo put on a good show too. M$, however, gave us two truly new things over a 90 minute conference, neither of which were 100% new. The tables seem to have turned this year.

Could one of the mods change the thread title to "E3 Conferences in a Nutshell"? Or am I able to do that and can't see where...

Bossniak
July 14th, 2008, 03:43 PM
First 15 minutes was the only shit I cared about.

Saggy
July 14th, 2008, 03:44 PM
Right on the dot, although was it really necessary to make a thread for this?

thehoodedsmack
July 14th, 2008, 04:10 PM
Ugh... If Xbox Live wants to add customizable avatars, at least make sure they don't look so rediculous. I'd better be able to trick out mine with MJOLNIR armour...

flibitijibibo
July 14th, 2008, 05:08 PM
There will be more of a point when I add Nintendo and Sony in a nutshell tomorrow.

jngrow
July 14th, 2008, 09:44 PM
You kinda forgot the massive dashboard update. Oh, and watching movies with friends seems pretty cool. Besides avatars, what did they steal from Nintendo?

Heathen
July 14th, 2008, 10:04 PM
Besides guys....all this is going to change 30 times before fall.

flibitijibibo
July 14th, 2008, 10:58 PM
Massive dashboard update is a mix of the mii ripoff and Nintendo/Sony stuff. As for what they stole, its in the first post now.

Heathen
July 14th, 2008, 11:05 PM
Cue introduction to miis, I mean avatars.
A Mix of shit they stole from Nintendo and Sony

Massive dashboard update is a mix of the mii ripoff and Nintendo/Sony stuff. As for what they stole, go here (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10799)

This includes things that were already invented, and were called brand new.

- Mii
- Eyetoy (They didn't even give it a name)
- Karaoke Revolution (Lips?)
- Scene it (something they did last year too)
- FFXIII. It's not exactly the kind of stealing you see above, but damn.

About halfway through I was expecting motion sensor bars/six axis.

EDIT- http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/e32008/articles/0714-nxe.htm
360 Degrees of Entertainment: The New Game Show:
"The new Xbox LIVE channel Xbox LIVE Primetime..."
Guess we can put that one on the list too.

Yeah. In fact, new thread: List of things the 360 has stolen this year.

http://modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=275986#post275986


Look at my list of overly stated ideals.




Nothing against you, but come on....sheesh.

flibitijibibo
July 14th, 2008, 11:39 PM
From various threads though. It's not like I'm dumping them all in the same place. Most of them are responses, so it's not like each of those were just me saying something when nobody asked. Kind of like this post. And, come on, two of those quotes are from one post. So... 2 thread posts, then two responses to direct people to the other thread? I mean, overstating would be like, spamming it incessantly. I understand though. Maybe Nintendo/Sony will do the same thing and I can dispose of this stuff. E- Nope, Nintendo's actually kicked ass. That leaves Sony.

EDIT- Okay, I put the stealing thread into this one. Now my rage is only in this thread.

Heathen
July 15th, 2008, 12:00 AM
Ok, yeah. Your right. I did cheat a bit on that one. My only deal is (and not on you) but theirs been about 5 threads pop up about how MS is bogarting peoples stuf, or how their fucking up the xbox. Theirs about 3 E3 threads. People are just repeating them selves. People constantly hacking away at MS for no reason. If McDonalds had a burger and BK made one similar (as is most often the fashion) people dont shit blood all over BK's name for it. Clever marketing is no reason to be at their throats. Nintendo and Sony were successful with something, made many good games and other things, and now MS wants to broaden that said game type (motion sensing games for example) and people are bashing them. But I shouldn't have geared that towards you, so I appologise.

Longshot
July 15th, 2008, 02:06 AM
You kinda forgot the massive dashboard update. Oh, and watching movies with friends seems pretty cool. Besides avatars, what did they steal from Nintendo?
I tend to agree, Sony have ripped quite a bit from MS - hard drive (they actually said this was a bad idea if I'm not mistaken), achievements, trophies.


Massive dashboard update is a mix of the mii ripoff and Nintendo/Sony stuff. As for what they stole, go here (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10799)
But I also agree with this, the new update looks ugly. I hope we can keep the old dashboard to a degree.

OmegaDragon
July 15th, 2008, 03:16 AM
So i hurd Sony got royally burned today :3

jngrow
July 15th, 2008, 03:29 AM
So i hurd Sony got royally burned today :3
Pretty much.

Limited
July 15th, 2008, 08:54 AM
After first 15 minutes, it went downhill fast. I enjoyed last years fully, this years was shit. Maybe because I hate most of what they have announced or I was expecting something ultra cool and it didnt happen.

Heathen
July 15th, 2008, 09:30 AM
I hated last years....nothing cool. I am actually very excited about this year. Apparently I am alone. Anyways....its starts again after Xplay so I shall return in a few hours.

flibitijibibo
July 15th, 2008, 10:31 AM
I liked last year's for actually including PC games.

EDIT- Could one of the mods change the thread title to "E3 Conferences in a Nutshell"? Or am I able to do that and can't see where...

FireDragon04
July 15th, 2008, 04:37 PM
Sony's conference had its ups and downs...its main 'UP' was the very end with MAG (Massive Action Game) 256 players...WOW looked good.