E3 Conferences Thread - Sony & MS, Mon. 6/6

[A Black Falcon]

Monday - Microsoft is 9:30am PST (12:30pm EST), Sony 5pm PST (8 pm EST).

Tuesday - Nintendo is 9am PST (noon EST).

I'm excited, particularly for Nintendo's conference... I'm really looking forward to see what they announce!

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm really excited about Sony's conference. Can they possibly bottom last year's?

[A Black Falcon]

Oh, EA and Ubisoft are tomorrow too, in between the MS and Sony conference. With Konami's "conference" being so boringly bland this year, basically the exact opposite of last year's, hopefully someone can make up for it... Ubisoft, I'm looking at you, your conference last year was pretty amusing. Will it be the same way again?

As for Sony and MS, yeah, I want to watch them too, will they be as dull as last year? I expect MS to be even more focused on Kinect this time than they were last year, it'll be a pretty dull conference probably... and as for Sony their conferences are almost always boring, so yeah, sure I wonder if they'll be the same again. I expect so.

[A Black Falcon]

Minecraft X360 For Kinect
Gears of War 3
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (remake)
Tomb Raider
Ghost Recon Kinect (also, all future X360 Tom Clancy games will have Kinect support)
Star Wars Kinect
Disneyland Adventures for Kinect
Mass Effect3 with Kinect support
Fable: The Journey for Kinect (on-rails shooter)
Youtube on Kinect
UFC on Kinect (not the games)
TV on Kinect
etc etc etc, Kinect Kinect Kinect... zzzzzzzz

[A Black Falcon]

I want to play Star Wars Kinect, but with a gamepad... :(

[A Black Falcon]

Forza 4
Ryse - hack and slash Kinect game set in ancient Rome
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, from Double Fine, for Kinect
Kinect Sports 2
Dance Central 2 (Kinect)
Halo 4 (late 2012, start of a new trilogy, from 343 Studios)

And that's about it. Long (hour and a half) and boring conference, almost entirely focused on Kinect. Why has this thing sold 10 million units... sure it does some interesting things, but because you can't move around and because there are no buttons control is limited in as many or more ways as it is opened up.

[Dark Jaguar]

Oprah promoted it. There's your answer.

[Dark Jaguar]

Sony's conference the last two years was less boring and more hilariously confusing.

[A Black Falcon]

EA conference starts in just under an hour and a half... I wonder if it'll be any good.

Also, the object/body scanning into Kinect could be interesting, though I wonder if they have any way at all of avoiding endless amounts of adult content from getting scanned in, if there's any way of using that stuff in open online games or something...

[Dark Jaguar]

Not according to Penny Arcade.

[A Black Falcon]

How so?

EA conference -
ME3 (again)
Need for Speed: The Run - Black Box NFS title, so it's from the people behind some of the bad Underground-line titles, not Criterion (Hot Pursuit last year, the best NFS game in quite a while). It's NFS... with QTE-based on-foot sections as well! Wow, what a great innovation! Wait, no, that's not exactly something I want to play...
Star Wars: The Old Republic - I'm hoping this is good, for an MMO... it has good trailers, hopefully the final game is as good.

[A Black Falcon]

SSX - Looks pretty good! I want to play this one...

[A Black Falcon]

EA Sports, zzz.

Battlefield 3 - Looks like more modern-day Battlefield. I won't be playing, but looks fine for what it is.

the game from Curt Schiling's studio (I forget the name, Amalur something?) - Looks like a solid action-RPG... this is from Big Huge Games I think, and I have been loosely following it for some time, and it looks like it might be good.

Overstrike - new game from Insomniac. It's too bad that it's another shooter, but at least it looks like an interesting one -- it's sci-fi ish, but with some comedy. It clearly doesn't entirely take itself seriously, which is good. Looked like it might be fun, and it's got a decent art style too.

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Ubisoft is on now.

Rayman looks awesome, of course.
Driver: San Francisco... um I have hopes, but it's also kind of odd. We'll see.
Far Cry 3 - new announcement. Looks like Far Cry indeed. Jungles, shooting, etc.
Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 - new announcement, WWII game made by Gearbox. Squad of four guys kill Nazis. They like killing Nazis. Looks quite over-the-top, not exactly realistic. Could be amusing, who knows.
new Ghost Recon game. Is this the same one from last year or a different one?

[A Black Falcon]

Tintin The Game - Connected to the upcoming movie of course. Variety of genres here, I see beat 'em up, sidescroller, shooting, driving, etc. Who knows if it'll be good.
Just Dance 3, Rocksmith, Your Shape Fitness - Some people will care but I don't.
Assassin's Creed Revelations - Looks like more Assassin's Creed indeed...

Ubisoft's conference is alright. The host guy is really annoying, but oh well, someone had to have an annoying host. :) The overall show is solid.