E3 2009 Thread

[Jace]

Ok, in lieu of people making a new thread for every single game that was announced I thought I'd list them here... or at least the ones I remember.

Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Metroid: Other M
Golden Sun DS
Final Fantasy XIV(Yea, I know)
Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers
Left 4 Dead 2
Crackdown 2
Assassins Creed 2
Alan Wake
Metal Gear Solid: Rising (for the 360!? And no Solid Snake!)
Halo 3: ODST
Halo: Reach
ModNation Racers
Star Wars: Old Rebublic(It's an MMO! BY BIOWARE!!!)
Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Wii Vitality Sensor(stupidest idea ever)
Dante's Inferno

And sadly that's all I remember for NEW games off the top of my head. I know there are more and I'll edit this post when I can go track them all down here in a bit. So hang on! I'll also catagorize them by System later. Easier for me unless a Mod want's to help ;)

Oh, and the Metroid Game looks BADASS!!!

Edit- OH! And there was the NATAL Project from Microsoft that REQUIRES NO CONTOLLER!!! Yea, and the Milo Demonstration they had kinda freaked me out... The Human Race is screwed...

That and Sony now has their own "Wiimote" which looks better then Nintendos IMO.

[Bonediddly]

The only thing that really got me excited was the new Metroid. The PS3-mote looked kinda okay too. I suspect an epic fail from "Natal".
I lol'd at Final Fantasy XIV.

[Doogles]

Okay, does anyone else think that "Milo" thing is creepy as hell?

[Lord Wraith]

Star Wars TOR looks amazing, I can't wait for that. But I only know about that cause I'm on their subscriber's list. Other than that I have yet to look into E3 this year for myself.

[Jace]

Okay, does anyone else think that "Milo" thing is creepy as hell?
I do. Although I want to see what happens if you treat him like shit and threaten his life.

[The Walrus]

NATAL and the Nintendo stuff (that isn't obvious crap) are all the matter to me this year. FFXIV can go to hell.

[DragonZero]

Okay, does anyone else think that "Milo" thing is creepy as hell?
Hell yes. I predict Matrix in 20 Years, and Skynet in Five. T_T

And I have to say, although I disapprove of "Natal" in General, as I feel that there should always be a controller-based mode as well, Voice, Face, and Motion Recognition could be intensely cool in some cases.
Say, for instance... God of War? Stress relief on an apocalyptic scale. :)
Fighting Games could also be greatly improved through full Motion-Capture... Not even counting how awesome a Motion-Capture-Based Machinima Series would be: the ability to freely and almost totally manipulate a Three-Dimensional Character... It would definitely end the Era of the RvB Head Bob, that I can say.

[Mathis]

On some other E3 news, check the PSN.

-Medal of Honor (yes, the 1st one)
-Final Fantasy VII (Yes, for the psp as well)
-Dissidia Final Fantasy Trailer *NEW*
-Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (PSP and PS2?)

There are others, but They don't seem too new. Anyway yeah, games that are coming and are out for the PSP and PS3 (Not the Dissidia nor the Jak and Daxter). You get what I'm posting, right?

[Blackbeltdude]

Here's the thing about Natal: it needs to be marketed properly. If Microsoft just releases it off to the side, and not packed in with the system, I don't think it'll catch on the same way Wii has. There's also the price point; the 360 isn't all that cheap right now, and Natal might bump that cost up another 150.

Then there's the software; the Wii's had very accessible software like Wii Sports at launch (and it comes with the system). If Microsoft is working on something like that, it needs to come with Natal.

Plus, I'm really not sure what you can do with a Gears of War-like game using Natal. Would each hardcore game that used that camera come with a piece of plastic that would jack up the price? A controller is really how you'll play hardcore games, and Microsoft seems to have put itself in a spot where the games released on the 360 will be one extreme or the other.

Sony is in the same boat at Microsoft when it comes to marketing, but it might be even harder for them, because they've presented new controllers. Developers are going to look at how well those pseudo Wiimotes are selling, and based on that, start to make software. No developer is going to spend years working on a fantastic hardcore experience if there's no install base for the controllers. I would say they've got the best of both their competitors though; a camera and 1:1 motion controllers. They need to take another que from Nintendo, and pack the controllers and camera in with software.

And try to think of how man Sixaxis games that have been out in the last year or two. Not any, right? :P Part of it has to be the horrid response that controller has, but would this also mean their demographic doesn't particularly enjoy those kinds of games?

The reason Nintendo has been so successful with Wii, is because there isn't a choice to NOT use their motion controller. Sure, a developer COULD make a game that only used the classic controller, but that's a gamble because not everyone with a Wii owns a classic controller. Everyone owns a Nunchuck and Wiimote, and that's the first control set-up developers work out for a Wii game. Nintendo is at least packing in the motion plus with any game that requires it, but if we want to see more games use that hardware, the Wii needs to start selling with it (or Wiimotes need to have it built in). And at 20 USD, it's at least not outrageously expensive (but does bring up the total cost of Nunchuck + Wiimote + Motion Plus to 80 USD).

Another reason for Nintendo's success is their casual market software; Wii Sports and Wii Fit were marketed brilliantly. Low price point, and in 06, very new and immersive. I think it'll be hard for Sony and Microsoft to market similar products in an equally successful way.

[Snap]

Some of the new Wii games are really exciting.
New Super Mario Bros and Galaxy 2 look great, can't wait for those.
I'm not the biggest Metroid fan but Other M looked great too.

I liked the new Warioware and Mario vs DK but it sucks that their uploading functions are only compatible with the DSi, bad move if you ask me.

Then there's Tatsunoko vs Capcom, a must have now that it's confirmed to have online play.


Microsoft's Natal doesn't seem too bad but I doubt many games will make use of it, it seems more like an extra like the Guitar Hero controller and the Wii board that will be used for some games.
Metal Gear Rising was a bit embarrassing lol, "Raiden ... is back" *one person claps*


Sony's motion sensor controller... who didn't see that coming. I hate that typical hypocritical Sony attitude. When someone comes up with a new idea they bash it with tons of trash talk but when it appears succesfull then shortly after they implement it themselves and make it sound like they just invented the wheel. It has happened again and again, analog stick, rumble, sixaxis motion sensoring, now this thing. I'm surprised the PSP Go doesn't have 2 screens and a touchscreen.
And there was Sony 2 years ago saying motion sensoring was a stupid gimmick.


The real downers imo are:
Final Fantasy XIV, come one Square, you have 3 FF XIII titles still in the works, finish those before coming out with XIV, this is getting ridiculous.
Left 4 Dead 2, this is just a pure rip off. The original has only been out for 6 months and severely lacked content from the start. They promised us extra content packs and an SDK to work with, and so far we got a new game mode which a regular modder could have made himself and an SDK without any updated tools from HL2.

But my biggest disappointment would have to be, another E3 without a new F-Zero.

[Novacrash]

I actually shit bricks at FFXIV.
At first I face-palmed, admittedly.

BUT. When I saw "ONLINE" I was like OHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN.

People may bitch and whine about Square-Enix having too much on their plate, but they have different teams working on each one. I could only imagine that they got the FFXI team to work on FFXIV. Personally I am damn excited for this.

The problem I had with FFXI is that it had no quests at all, it was all grinding with no purpose but to level up (Arguably, you can say this is every MMO game, but there's a difference in running around killing stuff, and running around killing stuff with a purpose). The game itself had everything a decent MMO needed except actual gameplay. So, since Squenix has had so damn long to observe the MMO's that have lasted, there's a very good chance they'll fix this.

Also yes, it is a bit too much to work on, but they've done it before and had decent games come out of it. Anyone remember how quickly FF7, FFT, and FF8 came out in succession? Those were all decent, solid games. They're some of my favorites.

FFXIII Will be released this year in Japan, so we can consider it done except for translation. XIV Has only a 2010 release date, and if they do somehow miracoulously(sp?) get it out this year, it'll be at the tail end of it. So there's a good amount of time inbetween them, just like there was for 7, T, and 8.

Square has done some stupid shit, but I'm pretty sure they've got this down.

One thing that bugged me though, is that they didn't mention FFXIII Versus at all yesterday, it looked like the better compared to XIII. Dunno what's up with that.

Anyways, even though XII sucked doesn't mean the company has completely gone to hell.
The two #'d FF gamed they made before it were relatively awesome.
FFXI was at least awesome for its time, when MMO's like that were just starting to hit a real mainstream.

[Jace]

http://e3.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696128/Next-Legend-of-Zelda-Wii-Likely-To-Support-MotionPlus-Possibly-Coming-Next-Year.html

Yea, looks like there might be another big house game coming soon. I wish we could've seen what the pic looks like but oh well. I'm kinda worried if it does use Motion Plus only. I mean I liked swinging the wiimote to slash in the previous game but I don't want it to become a workout. I mean if it did I wouldn't play it for hours on end like I usually do. Either way I'm still excited about this.

[Darth Dumbo]

The first thing that popped into my head after seeing the metroid game listed was: That's a weird name. I do a little searching, and come up with a trailer. First thought: Who's the blond(sp)? First thought after two seconds of gameplay: Is this a fighting game? By the end of the trailer I had shed a tear.

I guarantee I will be waiting in front of Gamestop at midnight and beyond if I have to. I WILL have this game.

And once I get a DS I will have KH:358/2 Days.

[Plaz]

Why is Dante a Roman soldier with no shirt on.

Goddamnit. Why make a poem about learning and enlightenment into another dime-a-dozen action thing? This must be the first in a line of products: books with vague connections to monsters. I can't wait for Don Quixote on the PS3! It has realistic windmill physics!

[Fuzion Phoenix]

The thing that caught my attention was Metroid: Other M. After seeing the third person mode, I shat a brick.

[Mathis]

Seeing these Trailers I wish to buy a 360 and a PS3, this year is a new beginning of gaming.

[Wanderer]

An intelligent camera that can track my every movement, running on a networked device, made by Microsoft?

Yeah, no potential for abuse there.

[Novacrash]

An intelligent camera that can track my every movement, running on a networked device, made by Microsoft?

Yeah, no potential for abuse there.

I believe I see what you did there.

[Plaz]

Realistic prediction of Natal's impact (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU)