There is only one thing to be said of the Ubisoft keynote.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2lk5l04.gif

That is all.

Colossal WHAT THE FUCK at Ubisofts thing. They tried to sell lasertag as a new and innovative video game, and how it's a "video game you don't need a screen for!" Then they did a thing about a stress relief game you play by breathing. There was a lot of really dumb shit this time around, and it climaxed when they had some people doing a really poorly choreographed dance to Michael Jackson's Beat It for NO FUCKING REASON.

Yeah I edited in my rage to my last post about the Laser Tag thing shortly after I saw it. The only remotely interesting part about Ubi's conference was Assassin's creed. Apparently in Driver you are now a dude in a coma who's just imagining everything and can possess other drivers and steal their cars. I won't even get started on the laser tag again, let alone the retarded 'get fit and energize yourself' stuff. I don't even think that last dance part was choreographed. When I was in grade 11 we choreographed a dance fight in my drama class that was part of a play for our exam, and it turned out a million times better than this crap. I can't even remember the number of times I literally face-palmed while watching that conference.

Well there may be more before launch, or it'll just take a while. Reminds me of a certain other platform right around launch time in fact! I am concerned about its price still though. DDR is fun. $200 DDR is ennnnh. I'm ballparkin' it though, was a price announced?

I was disappointed enough in GoW2 that I'm having trouble being excited for GoW3. And I'm trying to not want to stab Kotick and his Activision while watching the new COD trailers. Man, I've become violent and cynical since last year!

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood looks interesting, although now I can't shake the thought of a washing machine full of Rabbids plummeting out of the sky during a key cutscene and mashing someone.

Also, yay! New standalone Rayman game! With an awesome looking art style.

Oh and Ghost Recon looks pretty good. My rage at everything else made me briefly forget about it, which makes me hate the rest of the conference even more.

That Child of Eden thing looks amazing. I have no clue whatsoever what's going on (purifying corrupted sea beasties?), but it's visually and musically stunning while it does it. I hope it comes to the PS3.

Speaking of, it just occurred to me that the PlayStation Eye is capable (in theory) of basically everything Natal is. It has a great microphone system that can even pinpoint the location of the source and filter out echoes and noise, face recognition, gesture recognition, and head tracking. You wouldn't even necessarily need the Move. I mean, the known size of the sphere makes 3D tracking easy with edge detection, but then so would standing at a fixed distance or something and scanning yourself in.

The only purpose the Move serves is reducing overhead the PS3 can probably spare and providing buttons.

Did they mention a platform? I don't remember hearing anything about what platform it will be released on. I can speculate that it'll be an Xbox Arcade/PSN/WiiWare thing, but that's just my speculation. But, yeah, I'm sure that made some folks happy.

Also, Ubisoft's maniaplanet seems interesting, if only for Questmania. I can see something like Neverwinter Nights, but with an even larger player-base, and that makes me excited.

The only reason E3 2010 exists is to show me Saint's Row III and if I don't start hearing something about it soon I'm going to

I don't know much but I was under the impression that hardware wasn't really what made Natal Natal Kinect.