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Discuss. I don't mind to much about The Beatles RB, Tony Hawk's new thing is just amoney gab too, but MW2 looked fucking epic. Loved every second of the demo they showed. + MW2 mappacks.

I'll post more when I finish watching.

FF13 = fucking win

Shadow Complex looks VERY promising.
L4D2 looks... idk.

The new Splinter cell is worth orgasming over.
I'm not usually a Halo fan, but ODST looks epic as well. I'm now excited for it.

Alan Wake has my interest, but I doubt I'ma get it.

MGS on the 360 = win as well.

Overall a very good watch, I loved it.
 

*sigh* Already made an E3 conference thread, but alright.

This is all copied directly from my blog @ http://blog.johannkwan.com/

Beatles Rockband - Huzzah? So a Rockband that'll be way easier than all the others? =) (I missed most of this, I was tuned out)

New Tony Hawk wireless deck/game - Not my thing, but interesting nonetheless. However, not gonna be getting another peripheral for my Xbox.

Modern Warfare 2 - The first MW was brilliant. This will be fab. Nuff' said.

Final Fantasy XIII - Sony must still be smarting over losing Final Fantasy's exclusivity in Europe and North America. That said, I will likely not be picking this up. Who gives a damn about JRPGs in a world of Mass Effect and other such brilliant RPGs?

Shadow Complex - Hahaha, broken microphone. Looks interesting, a throwback to sidescrollers, which is nice... might be a neat little arcade game... not sure why they put it in the conference except to give CliffyB an appearance.

Joy Ride - Avatar based games, finally. It's nice that it'll be free, cause otherwise I wouldn't touch it. But as a free party game, it'll be worth a try.

Crackdown 2 - My my. Doesn't look like Realtime Worlds is doing it this time around... I'd like to get more detail on it. The first one was plenty fun and possibly one of the most overlooked games on the platform.

Left 4 Dead 2 - This is one of the ones that everyone's talking about, isn't it? It's a little soon, but, hey.... it'll still be good. I doubt I'll be picking it up anytime soon, I haven't even given the first one that much of my time.

Spinter Cell: Conviction - another one? Sam Fisher's daughter's dead? Talk about overusing the cliche noir thing.

Forza Motorsport 3 - It's a third Forza. It'll be awesome. Nice to see the R8 V10 on the floor. 400 cars? I'm sold.

Halo 3: ODST - This franchised is overused... but if they pull this off, it might be the first orbital drop-pod infantry game to not suck. It's couched already in a rich universe, so it's got a lot to work with. Bungie needs to make something original like they did with Oni though, that was a brilliant game.

Halo: Reach - What, more? Jesus. Milking the series for all it's worth, aren't they. Not enough shown to make any judgements... I'm sure Halo fans are all drooling a bit though.

Alan Wake - Whoa! It's finally coming out! If Remedy can do for supernatural thrillers what they did for film noir games with Max Payne, this will be bloody brilliant.

Facebook/Twitter on XBox Live, other Live improvements - TV and such from Sky, that's nice. I don't use many of these services so I'm not too bothered. Last.fm on Live is cool. Would be sweeter if my XBox wasn't already hooked up to my system through my computer anyway... I can see how it would be way more awesome if I were using my XBox with a home theatre system. Also: Felicia Day (who made an appearance to announce the Facebook/twitter bits) is awesome.

OH SHIT HANG ON! THEN THEY WHIPPED OUT THE BIG SURPRISE OF THE EVENING!

Hideo Kojima at Microsoft's stage - MGS on XBox 360. Whoa.

Controller-less gaming/voice recognition/WE'RE IN THE FUCKING FUTURE HOLY CRAP/Project Natal - Bits and pieces of this sort of thing has been tried before... let's see if they can actually pull it off. I half expected the 360 in the ad to suddenly go: "I'm scared, Dave."

Molyneux's Milo project reminds me of a dream about an obsessed AI I had the other night. It freaks me the fuck out. This dream I had was just so fucking vivid, and started out something like Milo and evolved. Cept it was developed by Google, not Lionhead. Freaking out.
 

I'm looking forward to Splinter Cell. i wonder if the entire daughter story is just a setup for something bigger as was suggested towards the end of the gameplay? I hope we don't have lo-tech Sam Fisher for an entire game, that would really blow. I didn't care much for Double Agent, and this looks to follow the same rogue agent style. Please give me some regular kickass black ops night vision missions!

I'm glad they returned to a more stealthy perspective, that was lost in DA. But I still don't see the light meter, I miss that. And two player split screen co-op needs to return! That's bullshit if they don't bring that back.
 

Gogogo Facebook/Twitter integration!

I think the Microsoft conference was best overall, though I never bothered watching the others. Just read the list instead.
 

I'm stoked about the last.fm through live idea because I currently have all my music on my pc hooked up via a media extender to my xbox. So this just means I can play even more music which is a bonus.
 

Oh yeah, last.fm sound really good because I can't seem to hook up my computer with my 360 and can't transfer files over to the 360 with a USB stick.
 

I watched Natal when G4 replayed it on the Tv, and I'm very excited. Milo was the shit.
 

Natal is going to be every child molester's best friend.

Milo? Yes Hello Milo. Let's go swimming. Yes Milo... yes.

It's fucking creepy.
 

I was unimpressed until Microsoft busted out with Natal.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Assuming this works as well as they make it look, if MS has the balls, imagine what this could do for games like GTA. You could actually stab people with just a stabbing motion! Murder simulator!



I rarely go to arcades, but my local arcade has what has got to be the funnest arcade game I've ever played. I've never been a fan of rhythm games like Guitar Hero/Rock Band/DDR, but this one was right up my alley. They had this Fist of the North Star punching game, based off the anime series, which incidentally is one of the best animes ever.



The way it works is that these pads would come out and light up and you had to hit them at the right time when the light activated. It was translated all into english complete with hokey english dubbing, but it was a barrel of fun. It's an old game and it's extremely rare to see one of them. I highly recommend checking it out on the off chance you ever happen to encounter one and it actually works.



Your performance is based on speed and accuracy and it gets harder as you progress. It's one hell of a workout. At one point you have to throw down 100 rapid-fire punches in 60 seconds. I had a blast playing that thing. It's extremely challenging. Unfortunately people are dumb and would strike the pads with every ounce of force they could muster, which not only ruins your score by making the pad bounce off the side of the machine, but often breaks the thing. So the machine would end up out of order all the time.

I thought to myself "How cool would it be if you could play something like this on a home console and not have to worry about stupid niggers intentionally breaking the shit all the time which is why we can't have nice things?". Of course I never thought it'd happen because the way it works, you have to be using actual physical punches for the game. That's the entire point. This is not something you can do with a controller, the mocap technology was too inferior/complex/expensive, and a custom set of those pads for a TV console game would be impractical and hard to work effectively.

Now with Natal technology, they could make games like that available to the general consumer to use with their TV. It takes combat games to a whole new dimension since you can actually dodge their attacks, do counter punches, etc. and your moves would be recognized by the system.
 

Natal does sound promising but I'm skeptical about the practical use of the technology at the moment, especially its pricetag if we ever use it for a console. Though I'd like to use the motion sensor for military simulated games like Operation Flashpoint 2, MW2 (though that's more action orientated) and R6V2.