E3 2011 Discussion

[Sampson]

[scy]

Just posting here so I can infodump when I'm more settled in (just got home from stupid road trips).

I'm still sad I couldn't go to E3 this year =/ Oh well. Maybe next year, I guess.

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Edit2: Sweet, most the links don't work right. Whatever.

Nintendo - Basically everything about Cafe is known except how it physically looks. Much frothing over how the 6" touch screens pan out.
[spoiler]- New console using a R700 AMD GPU []
- Also using a TriCore PPC similar to the one in X360 []
- Minimum of 512MB RAM []
- 25GB Optical Disc & 8GB of on-board flash []
- No built-in HDD included, SD card dependent []
- Controller has a 6.2" touchscreen on it []
- Controller also has the standard set of controls & buttons (d-pad, dual analog, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulders & 2 triggers) []
- Controller also has a camera & gyros/accelerometers []
- Backwards compatible with Wiimote
- More powerful than PS360 (significantly or just a tad bit is undefined) []
- Production starts as early as October 2011 []

There's tons more rumors floating about, these are just the more credible ones. I can post those too if anyone cares since there's a compilation available. Just not sure how much people care about holding on to it having the Vitality Sensor and haptic feedback.[/spoiler]

Sony - 99% looks like it's focused on Vita for this year. Konami blew their load with their (pre-recorded) early E3 bomb of MGS and ZoE HD remakes and "TRANSFARRING (is a stupid name", though the remakes aren't Sony exclusive. Honestly, all we'll really see The only real secret left on them is the NGP/Vita third party lineup, honestly. There's been videos and tons of shots of Uncharted, WipeOut 2048, and basically everything else of the first party line up.

Microsoft - Spoiler tagging for size since their entire conference is known. Courtesy of Nirolak over at GAF on the compilation:
[spoiler]It seems that most of Microsoft's E3 announcements have been leaking out through rumors and trademarks.

There have been so many rumors and trademarks that I thought I would make a thread collecting them all, since at this point, I think we're close to knowing the entire show.

Trademarks:
- (Microsoft/Microsoft Game Studios)
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- (Epic's Trademark, Not Microsoft's)

Websites:
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- (And About Four Variants)

Game Rumors:
- (First Person Melee, Rumored Kinect Functionality, Moved To Crytek Frankfurt)
- (Open World Racing, Developed By Playground Games)
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- (Speculated To Possibly Be "Kinect Me")
- (Unrelated To Rare IPs)
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- (From The Developers Of Roller Coaster Tycoon)
- (They Made Kinect Joyride)
- (XBLA, Possibly Kinect Enabled)
- (Ubisoft)
- (Ubisoft)
- (Ubisoft)
- (Majesco, Kinect)
- (Majesco, Kinect)
- (Majesco, Kinect)
- (Majesco, Kinect)
- (Ubisoft, Kinect)
- (Found On Microsoft's Website, Essentially Official)
- (Found On EA's Website, Essentially Official)
- (Voice Commands, Both Interview And Box Art)
- (Website Registration)

Studio Creation Rumors:
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- (MGS = Microsoft Game Studios In This Context)

New Feature Rumors:
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- (Combines Xbox Live, Kinect, and IPTV Into One)
- ( Seemingly Confirms)
- (IPTV, Matches Orapa Rumor Very Well)

Official - Confirmed E3:
- (Epic)
- (Turn10)
- (They Made Kinect Adventures)
- (Double Fine)
- (Terminal Velocity)
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Official - Known 2011 Releases (Thus Likely E3):
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- (Majesco, Panic Button Games, Kinect)
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Official - Potentially Not E3:
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- (Zipline Studios Is A New Microsoft First Party Studio)
- (Possibly Fable Kinect)
- (The Press Release Confirmed This)
- (Microsoft Published, Developer Of Petz: Horsez 2 and Imagine: Fashion Model)
- (Project Draco, Codename D, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, Fire Pro Wrestling, Haunt, )
- (Ubisoft, Kinect)
-' (Unreal Engine 3, Single-Player Rail Shooter)
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Official XBLA Exclusives - Potentially Not E3:
- (Treasure)
- (Treasure)
- (Double Fine)
- (Kinect, Twisted Pixel)
- (Undead Labs)
- (Signal Studios)
- (5th Cell)
- (Polytron)
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- (MossMouth)
- (Certain Affinity, Action RPG)

GAF Original Rumors:
- (fin)
- (Doffen)

Am I missing anything?

Thanks to GarthVaderUK, InaudibleWhispa, Kafel, jagowar, Kifimbo, siyrobbo, Jtyettis, Brotkasten and Father_Brain for additional rumors!

Update:

Frankie says these are just from an ad agency, but in case he's stretching the truth, we'll keep this here.

Invite:



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Edit: More leaky ship abound:

Halo 4 and Halo CE: Remastered

[scy]

Just doing a new post since Microsoft's conference started. Tagged for size. Not watching videos really so this is more just rambling by me until I watch it 4 realz later:

[spoiler]Summer of Arcade lineup: Bastion, From Dust, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Starts in July.

Came in late and missed the (OH MAN) Call of Duty. Bizarre and unexpected game. Completely.

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Crystal Dynamics, new Tomb Raider, listening to it without video made it sound like 99% more awkward than it should've been. I'm actually not sure she wasn't getting beaten and molested and enjoying it. Anyway, seems like Tomb Raider: Uncharted edition (+ arousal). Seriously, just audio and I'm not sure if I should be MUST NOT FAP.

...anyway, it really feels like the start of Uncharted 2 for those who played it. Kind of a "wait, what the fuck why am I FUCK CLIMB THE TRAIN SHIT SHIT SHIT" teaser video of the intro. Wants to start with you doing things and go right into it. Looks good visually and the mocapping done was pretty good (and/or hey, Lara Croft).

Peter Moore. I miss you Peter Moore. Stop talking about EA games FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods, and SECRETSPORTSTITLE. Kinect voice control for Sims and Sims Pets and some other stuff I stopped listening about. Wait for a recap. I don't care, I'd be a terrible journalist.

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MASS EFFECT 3 I JUST WOKE UP. Epic music cue in. Wait, what, a brand new adventure? Guys, you do remember that there's two games before it, right? "All about kick-ass action" goddamn it guys. Buzzwords. FUCK YOU SUPPORTING KINECT? Oh, voice-recognition use. Hopefully just that, anyway.

Demo with voice recognition doesn't ... feel right. Hear player voice speak the visual cue and then hear Shepard's voice. It's ... weird. Maybe if I sounded like Shepard it would work. Combat wise, Kinect use tie in. "Fluidly launch tactical assaults." Demo some command prompts ("Liara move up" "Liara, Singularity") that are neat. It's cute, yeah, but it feels too out of the game for me.

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Cut right into the next title without any lead up. Looks like a Ghost Recon-esque title. Cool looking but it's not gameplay so meh. Ubisoft comes up and some rambling on their [s]shovelware[/s] support for Kinect. Yup, right into Ghost Recon: Kinect. Neat, I'm right. Demos some Kinect (motion, voice) options for ... building a gun. Um. What.

Demos some gameplay with it and ... um. It looks ridiculous. Look, I'll have a funny gif later of him hunched over imaginary firing with what looks like "MY HAND SAYS STOP DON'T FIRE" and "MY HAND IS WAVING GO, FIRE."

"All future titles in the Tom Clancy franchise ... will leverage Kinect." Go the fuck home Ubisoft. Just ... just go.

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XBox Live up next. Uh. Alright. Talk about giving us more everything, basically; games, applications, etc. Introducing a new and innovative way to experience television. Oh god. Cute girl though.

Anyway, new Xbox dashboard by the look of things (for Kinect?). More voice recognition stuff. I think by now it's obvious what the buzzword for their conference is (hint: [s]Cute girl[/s] Voice).

10 times the number of partnerships and increasing their content count to the millions. YouTube coming to Xbox Live, apparently. Interesting, I guess? Can we upload directly to it (and then ignore that feature forever, hi PS3).

Next great challenge: "Discovery." Bing coming to Xbox. ... Moving on. Cute to use voice for search and stuff but not that big of a deal in my opinion. "THE POWER OF VOICE CONTROL" I mentally changed it to Greyskull. 117.3% better all of a sudden.

"Xbox ... Live TV." Oh. That's neat. Live television (both in US and overseas; they mention UK, France, and Australia) on Xbox.

Basically, more "XBOX DOES EVERYTHING (wait, wat)" + "[s]CUTE GIRL[/s] VOICE"

I know my first two commands: "XBOX, Exclusives" and "XBOX, Activate Skynet."

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...UFC? UFC?! Look, I enjoy MMA and watching the fights and all but ... why is this at E3? As part of the conference?

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Microsoft Studios up next. I swear to god, shut up about social media stuff. Yes, talk about the games. It's E3. Talk about the games. "From this point on, every single game, every single demo, every single experience is available only on 360."

Gears of War 3. "Biggest exclusive of the year." Trailer starts up that my work computer is struggling to load. Cliffy B up on stage, that smug fuck...

Ice T? SVU crossover am confirmed

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Y'know, I'm just done with this section (Note: I actually ... like Gears of War). Not much to say, it's Cliffy B and Ice T playing and I just can't formulate the words I want to describe the amount of apathy I have at this moment.

Looks nice, though. It's Gears. If you liked them before, you'll like it now. If you didn't, this doesn't matter to you.

Plus, Cliffy B already spoiled that a certain character is surviving to the credits.

(also, Ice T "gifted" a tribute to the return of Horde Mode. No. You're not a rapper anymore. You're Detective Fin Tutoala. Stop it. Stop. Just. Stop.)
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Cut into the next trailer talking about Rome and two sides of a coin, two sides of power ("Order ... and Justice").

"A hero will rise ... *EPIC ZOOM* THIS IS ROME."

Looks amazing visually. You know what that means? Crytek. Codename: Kingdoms finally unveiled with the title expected: Ryse. Leaked this morning blah blah balh.

Oh, look ... cut right into the Halo theme and the announcement (for the second time of the day) of the Halo CE Remastered release. Oh man, has it really been 10 years since Halo CE first released? Anyway, Halo: Combat Evolved - Anniversary.

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Looks like we went right into ... Forza? Who the fuck organized this briefing? GeoW 3 and Halo back-to-back as a lead-in to ... Forza 4? Look, I just ... I just can't do racing games. Not my cup 'o tea. There's a trailer and it's orgasmic car visuals, alright? Their dashboards in the game shit on the view in my own car.
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Peter Molyneux. Oh ... Peter. Oh you fucking bastards. You fucking fuck of a fuck. Fuck. Fuckity fuck.

"The next iteration of Fable..." fuck it, I can't do it. It's Peter. Nothing he says is ever true. "Fable: The Journey" trailer + demo and somebody punch this twat, please.

ps, it's a Kinect title. Looks on-rails. I hate everything about this man, you realize. Also, lolz even Fable became an FPS.
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Phil Spencer (Microsoft Stuidos) back on stage. I'm actually wanting him back. "An indie game came out of nowhere..." oh son of a bitch. Minecraft. Minecraft + Kinect. Dear lord, they just made trillions.

Also announced ... a DISNEY COLLABORATION? What ... what. "Kinect: Disneyland Adventures." Are they all Sora too?

Alice in Wonderland demo too. Look, I don't care about this and I'm pretty close to just slitting my wrists at this conference. "FISTBUMP" = GIF potential x 10000000.

(Soccer moms everywhere want this for their kids probably.)

Kinect Star Wars. Look, we all said Lightsaber Game on the Wii would sell billions but ... no, this just doesn't look fun to me but I guess it's for the kids based on the placement.

Tim Schafer (Double Fine). Sesame Street game. Also Kinect. I'm hanging myself brb. These last like four things have been things just not for me as opposed to the children. I just have no comments for them, really. I'm not the target audience.



But, there will be GIFs. Oh ... there will be GIFs...
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Kinect creative director. This horror never ends, does it? Oh. This is interesting. "Kinect Fun Labs" announced. Some neat little Kinect things without needing to hack it.

Demo off People Scanning. Which sounds horrible. But, it's just what it sounds like; scans face, hair, clothes, etc. for easier avatar making.

Next demo is ... finger tracking? Dear god, I went straight to Japan VN H-games what the fuck is wrong with me. Anyway, it uh ... it does what it sounds like. Why is the audience still excited?

Object capture is next. Look look look, I'm right back where I started this mental image. Combining all three of these is getting me into really, really creepy areas.

Scan self, scan favorite anime girl sculpture ... finger tracking!

Scan in naked women!

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Buying a Kinect brb.
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Kinect Sports (Season 2) GOD THIS IS LIKE MY WORST NIGHTMARE MAKE IT END.



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Harmonix .... wait, they exist? Still? More Dance Central stuff?



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Oh god, Don Mattrick is back. Is this horror over? Yes, he's doing a basic recap of everything. Oh god, it must be finishing.

Wait, new game trailer? Dawn of a new trilogy?

Oh, Halo 4.

New trilogy? Oh boy.

HEY THE CONFERENCE IS OVER OH MY GOD THANK YOU GOD.[/spoiler]

[Black_kero]

Yo dog, I heard you like Kinect. So we put Kinect, in yo Kinect, so you can Kinect!

Seriously though, from what I've seen of Microsoft so far, I'm really not all too excited.

[scy]

To be fair, that was my general reaction for basically every non-conference Nintendo's had since 2005. This recent fucking fuckfest of fucking fuck with Kinect has killed much of my will to live. Especially if we get the same for Move. I need to dig up the "WHAT I HAVE DONE" Miyamoto picture.

Edit:


I'm being soothed and backed down from my ledge by Skyrim news. It's mellowing. I'll then hate everything tonight with Sony's conference (inb4 FOR HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS) and I'll probably murder people with Nintendo's most likely fail conference.

Edit: Incidentally, Skyrim sounds sexy. I hope so after Oblivion's "meh"-ness. Kind of feel I may need a better computer though to get the 60 FPS maxed out I want...

Edit: oh god, EA conference is in an hour. Fuck my life.

Edit2: EEEEE Arkham City looks sexy. With playable Catwoman. Neat. Game looks hot. Arkham Asylum was the surprise hit of that year. Fix Detective Mode (i.e., can I please not have to use it 110% of the time?) and retain the AA magic and this will be awesome. Did I mention it looks utterly sexy?

[scy]

I thought about doing a big typed out spiel for EA and Ubisoft. Then I realized I just don't feel like it. EA will have:

BF3
SSX
ME3
[s]A new title from Insomniac (Ratchet & Clank)[/s] Overstrike. 4 player co-op game. Seems pretty interesting, definitely going to keep an eye on it.
Need For Speed: The Run
Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning (Oh, this was Curt Schilling's game; forgot about it, honestly. R.A. Salvatore did the story, huh?).
FIFA 12
Madden 12
Sims Pets
Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Unknown Title #1

And I'll edit in the unknown titles as they're announced or something.

Edit "We don't invite random celebrities to the stage..." oh EA. You made me laugh. I'm so confused.

Edit2: The sheer audacity and ridiculousness of the Sims Social thing deserves a mention so I can /facepalm it. Over. And. Over. And. Over. And. Over.

[SirthOsiris]

[scy]

I built my computer just for The Witcher 2, BF3, and Skyrim. I'll be damned if I'm playing the console versions :x I'll drop the extra money if I need it to get the 60 FPS when fully maxed out.

Incidentally, EA actually had interesting things to show. Reckoning didn't look terrible, kind of a more interesting Fable. Overstrike is basically just a Ratchet & Clank title with more a co-op focus which is cool. Sims Social had me laughing at the sheer stupidity of it. All in all, a pretty good win.

And then ME3 and BF3 duh.

Edit: OPEN BETA BF3 IN SEPTEMBER eeeeee

[Rain]

I saw a preview of ME3 from the EA live conference thing.
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Lol Shepard trying to take down a full-sized reaper. With a gun. el oh el. Also, I like that melee isn't completely stupid this time around. AND YOU CAN ROLL! There definitely seems to be more action in this one than ME2, which had a pretty decent amount. SO PUMPED. [/spoiler]

[SirthOsiris]

[scy]

Missed much of Ubisoft's conference. Came in basically during Far Cry 3 (surprise out of nowhere) and right into Gearbox ... Brother in Arms: Furious Four. Damn. I was hoping for Borderlands 2, really. Oh, wait, it looks like BiA meets Borderlands anyway.

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Curious..

Anyway, not much else to say about their conference besides still confused at the Tintin game (in the sense that there is one, that is). And a movie, actually. Really, all of that confuses me with how small Tintin is in the US right now, but I guess Ubisoft is more of a European company.

Besides that, Rayman, Assassin's Creed (or is this at the end?), and Tom Clancy. Think I missed Driv3r as well? So yeah, not much.

Edit: And what is your computer? I can't imagine anything that is still good now and for awhile from a Video Card that wasn't already bottlenecked by the CPU based on the way you make it sound. Shit, I'm iffy on my card (single Radeon 6950) and that's a new card for solid (60 FPS) Skyrim and BF3. Unless you meant "able to run it period kind of thing.

[SirthOsiris]

AC is not over. Apparently that's just wrapping up Ezio and more on the effects on the Animus. My brother told me there will be a definite III, and it'll be Desmond. It's pretty much leading up to Desmond.

[scy]

I meant it was at the end of the conference. We already know there's another Assassin's Creed title (Revelations).

Edit: And at the end of the conference, there's the Revelations bit.

[scy]

[ZetaBladeX13]