It's E3 week

[Zeph]

Popped up really quickly this year for me. Didn't realize it until I saw the news this morning and Nintendo had already started showing off some WiiU stuff. Instead of working up a list on my own, I'll just nab the one from Crydev.


Hey people!

E3 2012 is around the corner and I noticed there's no thread for it on CryDev, so here it is. Apart from important dates and times, I don't have much to add so let's get the discussions going!

What are you guys looking forward to?

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Press Conferences at the expo, dates and times:

Microsoft: Monday June 4th:
18:30 CET | 09:30 PDT

Watch at:
» E3Companion (http://www.e3companion.com/)
» Gamespot (http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/microsoft-e3/)

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EA: Monday June 4th:
22.00 CET | 13:00 PDT

Watch at:
» EA (http://www.ea.com/e3)
» Gamespot (http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/ea-e3/)

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Ubisoft: Tuesday June 5th (Europe) | Monday June 4th (United States):
00.00 CET | 15:00 PDT

Watch at:
» Ubisoft's YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/ubisoft)
» Gamespot (http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/ubisoft-e3/)

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Sony: Tuesday June 5th (Europe) | Monday June 4th (United States):
03:00 CET | 18:00 PDT

Watch at:
» Playstation.com (http://us.playstation.com/e3-2012/)
» Gamespot (http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/sony-e3/)

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Nintendo: Tuesday June 5th:
18:00 CET | 09:00 PDT

Watch at:
» Nintendo.com (http://e3.nintendo.com/)
» Gamespot (http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/nintendo-e3/)

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Other Live Stream sites (same link for all conferences):
» IGN (http://www.ign.com/events/e3/2012/live-video)
» Gametrailers (http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/pressconferences/)


See you all in irc.gamesurge.net #modacity for the regular streamchat.

[MXC]

Fingers crossed for a new F-Zero.

[Hotrod]

You can also watch the Microsoft Press Conference on your Xbox 360, just a heads up.

[Kornman00]

Just Cause 3, with Co-op, go.

Also, l2format your text. Fucking noob.

[Zeph]

Just Cause 3, with Co-op, go.

Also, l2format your text. Fucking noob.

l2read you fucking noob.
its not my text

[PlasbianX]

Is it just me, or is the live player on the xbox EXTREMELY quiet.

[Amit]

Gamespot has the most uninterrupted stream. Btw, Halo 4 was wtf. And the new Splinter Cell Blacklist looks like a mix of Rainbox Six, Assassin's Creed, and Splinter Cell.

[Zeph]

Yeah, that just confirmed all suspicion that 343 was going to make a shitheap.

[t3h m00kz]

h4 looks sick

[InnerGoat]

I missed the halo 4. welp at least theres more sports and car games

[InnerGoat]

oh man that smart glass sure looks like a gimmick

[Kornman00]

l2read you fucking noob.
its not my text
Did I say "zeph you're a fucking noob", no. But now you are.

[Limited]

I was having a street party, missed the H4 stuff. Was it good?

[Amit]

Not particularly. BlOps 2 footage is on right now. Looks like the same shit as usual, but the new setting looks pretty cool.

[PlasbianX]

I kinda liked the halo footage.. i thought something seemed off with it tho. Cant quiet tell what.

[Hotrod]

I was having a street party, missed the H4 stuff. Was it good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSBOrG5RW8&feature=youtu.be

I absolutely loved it, the game looks fucking amazing.

[Limited]

So basically they've been playing too much Crysis 2 and its rubbed off onto the game? Sound effects are horrible, HUD is pretty poor, enemies although they look badass don't fit the game.

Only shining thing is the visual effects look amazing.

[Amit]

Visuals are only thing that look good. Everything else screams "Not Halo!" The creatures look like something out of Lost Planet.

I can't wait to see what comes out of the EA Press Conference. *crosses fingers* Mirror's Edge 2 *crosses fingers*

[Cortexian]

Halo Tron Metroid 43.

Still, looks cool. Loving how they're touching on Cortanas rampancy after 7 years.

[Amit]

Anyone else bothered by the fact that Microsoft claims that Call of Duty started out on the XBOX? It makes me want to bash their heads in because of that ludicrous claim and because of what they have pushed a great game to become.

[Nero]

I played everything, apart of ODST. Sadly I don't think I will be playing this either...
They should have made Halo Wars 2 instead. Heh. Nono, in fact, they should have let Ensemble make it.

Loved the spaceships though.

[Amit]

Ensemble is now broken into Robot Entertainment, Zynga Dallas, Windstorm Studios, and Zynga With Friends. None of which appear to be doing much on the large scale.

[Nero]

Ensemble is now broken into Robot Entertainment, Zynga Dallas, Windstorm Studios, and Zynga With Friends. None of which appear to be doing much on the large scale.

Ik, another reason I believe microsoft are dipshits.
I still have hope in Robot Entertainment.... The last game was fun. :)

[Higuy]

Well, im definetly not getting Halo 4.

- Forerunner "AI" dont look like robots nor look like Forerunners, nor do they even look remotely assciated with Halo universe

- May just be demo but it leads me to believe that Halo 4 is going for a more "COD" cinematic type of approach to their gameplay, unlike the classic Halo gameplay style we all love

- Cortana looks like some asian emo chick, not what she use to look like at all (you can say she went through varations in 1-2-3, but they all looked similar)

- HUD. Nothing else to say...

- Everything was great up until the giant ball warping thing.

- Overall, the visuals look fantastic. But so much does not fit in with Halo at all and I believe 343 is just slapping off Halo's name onto the product to ride off of Bungies succes with the game.

[Limited]

http://h11.abload.de/img/untitled-2nyjrc.gif

[MXC]

http://i.imgur.com/qEyPK.png

[Amit]

Hhohohohahahahaha. EA just gave a big Fuck You to Activision by giving shout outs to Vince Zampella and Jason West in the EA crowd haha.

[Rainbow Dash]

surprise

it's all shit!

[Rainbow Dash]

also I really like how they spend almost as much time talking about the ways they're gonna make money off it, as they do about the actual game

[TVTyrant]

also I really like how they spend almost as much time talking about the ways they're gonna make money off it, as they do about the actual game
lol, I'm not watching it for this reason

There isn't a single game coming out this year aside from NCAA Football that I'm interested in

The industry is a pile of shit

[Cortexian]

I'll probably play MoH Warfighter just to take names as JTF2 sadly. Will see what all they can actually do.

[MXC]

Autolog 2.0 aside, I'm still pumped as hell for Most Wanted's singleplayer. Running from the cops in a truck? Hell yes.

[Kornman00]

Did they just decide to showcase that new Splinter Cell crap at the last minute or something? "Oh yeah look at this"..."yep, coming out Sprint 2013, ttyl!". Wait, WTF, 4th Echelon? Sam Fisher sans Michael Ironside? Sam Fisher with fancy pants tech but young looking? GET YOUR ASS BACK OUT HERE AND EXPLAIN YOURSELVES!

Also, agreeing that H4 doesn't feel like a Halo game. Interesting still, but I get the feeling that this is 343i trying to get people to stop thinking of Bungie's Halo. Cold turkey.

Also also, is it just me or did the crowd seem to not give a flying fuck about the ESPN bullshit ("oh, is it time to clap again?")? I mean, I don't blame them. Fucking shit was one of the reasons XBL "needed" to cost 10$ more.

Ensemble is now broken into Robot Entertainment, Zynga Dallas, Windstorm Studios, and Zynga With Friends. None of which appear to be doing much on the large scale.
Funny thing is, Robot has the rights to use the engine still. Not sure if Bonfire retained/gained those rights and/or kept them when they were bought by Zynga.

Robot's CEO was interviewed in one of the recent GI issues. He mentioned how Robot is about creating smaller scale games. They're not trying to relive the 3-year game development cycles of the Ensemble days.

[ODX]

"Our game is best. Now listen to me talk in a very fake enthusiastic voice as I read my lines and try to make shitty jokes."

"Did I mention we're innovating and our game is best? Because our game is best game, our graphix are best graphix, buy game, coming out [insert date here]."

-E3 in a nutshell

[Pooky]

Anyone else bothered by the fact that Microsoft claims that Call of Duty started out on the XBOX?

Wait, did they really say that?

[Amit]

Wait, did they really say that?

No. I was going to check earlier and edit my post, but I forgot it. I just went back and checked and he said this: "A game that's found its home on XBOX." So that was my bad, but still, he disregards that there were two CoD games that were firmly established on PC before XBOX even got a taste of CoD. The biggest community for an FPS was CoD's at that time, still. Well, I guess it has had a new home now for a while.

[Cortexian]

Frag Dolls (http://fragdolls.com/) teaser in the end of the Watch Dogs game play demo:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2857/fragdollsinwatchdogsbet.jpg

And the Frag Dolls retweeted me about it when I posted:
https://twitter.com/#!/fragdolls

Really excited for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Watch Dogs, and of course; Assassin's Creed 3.

[JackalStomper]

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

[Amit]

And the Frag Dolls retweeted me about it when I posted:
https://twitter.com/#!/fragdolls

So when are you gonna be able to meet them?

[Mr Buckshot]

When I saw Sam Fisher wearing his signature costume I had my hopes up.

Then I saw a shot of him taking over holding an unsilenced AK and gave up hope.

Looks like Splinter Cell really has lost its character.

[Pooky]

No. I was going to check earlier and edit my post, but I forgot it. I just went back and checked and he said this: "A game that's found its home on XBOX." So that was my bad, but still, he disregards that there were two CoD games that were firmly established on PC before XBOX even got a taste of CoD. The biggest community for an FPS was CoD's at that time, still. Well, I guess it has had a new home now for a while.

Well, technically there was CoD: Finest Hour on the Xbox before CoD 2 came out but yeah I see your point.

[Ifafudafi]

if nobody asks what happened to Michael Ironside in upcoming interviews I might have to choke a

Otherwise neat showing by Ubi, looking forward to seeing some Weeyoo tomorrow

[neuro]

halo4 is a metroid clone?

[TVTyrant]

halo4 is a metroid clone?
According to Pooky, yes.

[JackalStomper]

The hud and character design are similar.

http://i.imgur.com/bEZVd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GpgPB.jpg

Metroids hud is still better though

[Donut]

lol, those two pictures really threw me off for a second. i was like "wait a minute, halo 4 looks a lot like metroid". i guess that just proves your point even more

[ChemicalFizz]

One does not simply make Splinter Cell without Michael Ironside.

However, I loved Conviction. Sorry haters; I like the direction this game is headed.

Also, is that blonde chick in RE6 Ashley from RE4? You know... the President's daughter? The world has gone to shit so she decides to become a badass?

[Amit]

I wanted to make that comparison picture, but I was afraid Pooky would destroy me for it.

[MXC]

http://i.imgur.com/hqWQR.gif

[Hotrod]

So Assassin's Creed 3 looks pretty damn sick.

[Amit]

The E3 2012 press conference PC gamers deserve
(http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/05/the-e3-2012-press-conference-pc-gamers-deserve/)
My god, that has to be one of the most nostalgic things I've ever read. It for real actually brought a single tear to my left eye. Why have we been so abused by the gaming industry?

[Tnnaas]

The power of the PC is that it’s an open platform where anyone can make a game, where developers can constantly update and improve their games years after release, and where mods continue to keep our favourites filled with new, free content for years.
Truer words have never been spoken. This is why PC will always trump consoles.

[TVTyrant]

The E3 2012 press conference PC gamers deserve
(http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/05/the-e3-2012-press-conference-pc-gamers-deserve/)
My god, that has to be one of the most nostalgic things I've ever read. It for real actually brought a single tear to my left eye. Why have we been so abused by the gaming industry?
This made me feel like such a PC fag lol

[Rainbow Dash]

the first time the pc has even been spoken was in the nintendo conference, and they weren't talking about actually playing shit on it.

[TVTyrant]

the first time the pc has even been spoken was in the nintendo conference, and they weren't talking about actually playing shit on it.
They should just make a ROM archive

Thats all Nintendo is good for anyways~

[Pooky]

According to Pooky, yes.

What? Where the fuck did I say anything like that?

[TVTyrant]

What? Where the fuck did I say anything like that?
twas a joke

[Rainbow Dash]

They should just make a ROM archive

Thats all Nintendo is good for anyways~

it's true

[Cortexian]

the first time the pc has even been spoken was in the nintendo conference, and they weren't talking about actually playing shit on it.
Uh no? They definitely talking about Blacklist on the PC.

[JackalStomper]

More like pc on a blacklist

[Cortexian]

So when are you gonna be able to meet them?
Depends what events they go to that I'm planning to go to this year. I was gonna grab PAX Prime tickets this year and head down with a friend but they sold out pretty quickly before I could make a decision.

[Amit]

Man I fucking hate when tickets sell out so quick. I want to go to Coldplay's July show? Nope, tickets are marked up double since 2008. Okay, fine, I'll settle for Keane, I haven't seen them and I love them. Ticketmaster Toronto is sold out of their tickets literally within 15 seconds. WTF IS HAPPENING???

[Rainbow Dash]

More like pc on a blacklist

teehee

[Rainbow Dash]

http://benzaie.com.over-blog.com/article-e3-keynotes-re-enactment-106527677.html