The E3 Conferences: What did you think about all of them?

[Plinglebob]

I have probably seen too many of these conferences and keynotes to get excited about anything being shown.

Good points:
The games shown. The Sony conference has finally put the PS3 on my "To Buy" list but its still behind a new TV and would still need the price to drop by at least £50. The Microsoft conference had a couple of games I wouldn't mind getting, but nothing I would queue up for on release day. Nintendo had the only must buys for me with the 2 Mario games because I have yet to play a Mario platformer that wasn't a lot of fun.

Bad Points:
Motion Control, motion control and more motion control. The Nintendo conference annoyed me with the Wii Motion + as we're paying for something that the console was supposed to do anyway (will probably end up getting 2 though for when family want to play) and after
Nintendo's previous promises fell short, I'm not going to get excited about this. However, I realise I'm not MS/Sony's target audience with this so I don't mind much as even they do everything they say it will, I still wouldn't buy it. I do think that they are trying to jump onto a train that has already left the station because if they are going for the same audience Nintendo reached, I doubt that audience would buy more then 1 console especially at MS/Sony prices.

 

[scotth266]

Silly me, I forgot to mention the FXIII trailer set during the Sony conference. Fixed!

EDIT: I've also begun to add trailers, so folks won't have to Youtube hunt for them. Thank me later.

 

[scotth266]

Got a lot of trailers in, but the Square conference starts at 11, so now I must find a link. If anyone finds one before me, I'd be grateful if you posted it.

EDIT: Found one, though it won't be up till later: http://e3.g4tv.com/e32009/pressconferences/

DOUBLE EDIT:...Damn. It seems like there is no live stream of this for some reason? That's odd, considering that they had one for Ubisoft, of all people.

It seems I must resubmit my plea for a live stream, if anyone can find one.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Really you thought Sony won? I believe Xbox had the best conference, entertaining and no goddamn graphs.

 

[scotth266]

Really you thought Sony won? I believe Xbox had the best conference, entertaining and no goddamn graphs.

Granted, the amount of numbers and PSP stuff was irritating, but the rest of the conference was more than solid: it was awesome. The stuff they showed MIGHT just be enough for me to finally invest in a PS3... if they bring back BC. No BC, no sale: I've said it time and time again.

 

[scnj]

Where does it say there's no Square/Konami live stream?

 

[Crash486]

Really you thought Sony won? I believe Xbox had the best conference, entertaining and no goddamn graphs.

Meh, I also felt sony won this round. First off, alot of the games microsoft showed at their presentation were multiplatform titles, which are great and all... but why announce them at your confrence. Modern warfare 2 looked pretty generic to me sadly.

Of their exclusives Alan wake looked the most intriguing, and they barely gave any explanation as to what was going on. It was poorly explained to say the least.

Halo ODST... seriously? It's the same game... again. Only this time instead of playing master chief, you play someone who looks exactly like master chief ONLY THIS TIME YOU HAVE LIGHTS IN YOUR HELMET! I'm just curious... why the fuck don't spartans have lights in their helmets? Why is that an ODST exclusive peice of equipment?

Halo: Reach, once again almost no information on this title, all teaser.

Metal Gear announcement? Do people who own xbox actually care about the MGS franchise or is all that bashing just a means of justification for not having the franchise on that system? Also... not to rain on anyone's parade but Raiden is probably the most obnoxious character in the metal gear universe. I understand he played a large role in 2 and then somehow became a robot between 2 and 4, but underneath he was still all emo and obnoxious. I'm not sure I could take an entire game revolving around him.

Natal, I was... somehow underwhelmed with Natal. I guess... I just really like having a tangible controller. Alot of the applications they gave for natal looked really dumb. "YOU CAN DRIVE A CAR HUR HUR" I wonder if they ever gave thought that your arms might get tired if you hold them out in front of you for too long. Or they had that one kid jumping around doing karate... who knows karate? Part of the fun of playing a video game is being able to do things you can't do in real life.

Sony announcements!

Uncharted 2 looked amazing. Uncharted 1 was great, I don't see any reason why 2 won't be just as good.

PSP Announcements, I'll admit these went on a tad longer than they should have, but in their defense they are competing with the DS. I really like the idea of a full digital download with no cartridge media, also... live video streaming on your psp via psn? That's just awesome.

Kojima's PSP announcement. Well I'm kind of disappointed the sequel to MGS3 is going to be a handheld game, but the trailer was great.

FFXIII trailer - great... but its multiplatform so I'm not sure why they showed this at their confrence.

FFXIV trailer - ... seriously? Why is square releasing trailers to sequels of games they haven't even released yet. This was ridiculous.

AC2 - this game looked great, the psp exclusive content sounds cool too but I don't really care so much about that.

Sony Mocap - I... think its hillarious that their mocap controller seems to blow the wiimote out of the water in terms of precision without mapping their entire console around it. I liked microsofts presentation as well... but I think in practice I would get more enjoyment out of having a tangible controller. So I'm going to give my fuzzy dice to the sony mocap presentation over Natal.



Finally the heavy hitters:

Gran Turismo 5, can't wait its the only racing game I buy.

Trico aka The Last Guardian looked absolutely beautiful, I can't wait for this game either, Ueda is just a genious.

God Of War 3 - this demo was absolutely spectacular, and they didn't even touch on the sentient AI levels the titans are going to serve as later on.

All and all, the press conferences were pretty close, but I'm going to say sony takes it by a hair because of their tripple threat exclusives closer.

 

[scotth266]

Where does it say there's no Square/Konami live stream?

I searched six times at various points in time for links to a live stream, and got nothing. So sorry, I can't cover those. I'm not at E3 after all... I can only cover what I can access.

 

[scnj]

Where does it say there's no Square/Konami live stream?

I searched six times at various points in time for links to a live stream, and got nothing. So sorry, I can't cover those. I'm not at E3 after all... I can only cover what I can access.

On the G4TV page here [http://e3.g4tv.com/e32009/pressconferences/], it says 'E3 2009 Live Press Conference Coverage - Upcoming' and has Square and Konami listed underneath.

 

[scotth266]

On the G4TV page here [http://e3.g4tv.com/e32009/pressconferences/], it says 'E3 2009 Live Press Conference Coverage - Upcoming' and has Square and Konami listed underneath.

Square's conference started at 11 this morning. So no, they're not live streaming these live (or the Square one at least), so until they post the footage we're stuck waiting.

The Konami one starts at three... so hopefully they'll stream that one. If not, well, I'll watch whatever they post and add stuff on that, provided that a video is uploaded at all.

 

[scnj]

On the G4TV page here [http://e3.g4tv.com/e32009/pressconferences/], it says 'E3 2009 Live Press Conference Coverage - Upcoming' and has Square and Konami listed underneath.

Square's conference started at 11 this morning. So no, they're not live streaming these live (or the Square one at least), so until they post the footage we're stuck waiting.

The Konami one starts at three... so hopefully they'll stream that one. If not, well, I'll watch whatever they post and add stuff on that, provided that a video is uploaded at all.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm in Britain, but I thought that 11 wasn't for another 20 minutes. Sony's conference yesterday was at 11am and it started at 7pm here. It's only 6:40 now.

 

[scotth266]

You'll have to excuse me, I'm in Britain, but I thought that 11 wasn't for another 20 minutes. Sony's conference yesterday was at 11am and it started at 7pm here. It's only 6:40 now.

That's true: they might have fucked up by not posting what time zone they are using... well, I'll refresh the page in a few minutes and see if it's going off your time zone then

 

[Kage Me]

Motion Capture is just a MotionPlus rip-off.

And they're somehow getting away with it, too.

 

[scnj]

Huh. So much for that then.

 

[scotth266]

Huh. So much for that then.

Apparently the reason for that is: no cameras allowed. I'm thinking that will also be the case for the Konami event(seeing as there isn't a TV spot for that either), so we're out of luck.

 

[scnj]

Huh. So much for that then.

Apparently the reason for that is: no cameras allowed. I'm thinking that will also be the case for the Konami event(seeing as there isn't a TV spot for that either), so we're out of luck.

Yeah, I just saw. Gamespot are live blogging it, so I might read along.

 

[scnj]

Square conference so far is all FFXIV. It can be played solo or as part of a group. Worldwide launch, four languages. They've got a year's worth of stuff for FFXI, and no plans to stop.

They want FFXIV to be the best FF so far and feel that an MMO is the best way to achieve that.

FFXI characters can't be ported to FFXIV.

 

[scotth266]

Snip.

Their conference is actually a FFXI Q&A! Sneaky. Well, I've been writing as the info pops up, just so people can have a summary if they want it.

 

[scnj]

Snip.

Their conference is actually a FFXI Q&A! Sneaky. Well, I've been writing as the info pops up, just so people can have a summary if they want it.

Which liveblog are you on?

 

[scotth266]

Snip.

Their conference is actually a FFXI Q&A! Sneaky. Well, I've been writing as the info pops up, just so people can have a summary if they want it.

Which liveblog are you on?

G4's. FFXIV will be the only game mentioned during this conference apparently, which is unfortunate for us wishing to hear more on other IMPORTANT THINGS like KH3 and FFXIII.