Someone tell me in the morning if S-E hates money and success or not, I need to get to sleep.

Great job Jeremy.

All they had to do was stage their E3 video getting hacked, and they would have won E3.

Hey! Sly Cooper!

The kids in the X360 Disneyland game reminded me of the Kinectimals girl XD.

My bro wants get a console around the end of the year, Microsoft didn't really have anything that tipped the scale in their direction, I wonder what will Sony offer.

So far, the thing I remember the most about what's been shown on Sony's conference is...

Praystaishon

Dammit, stop playing that crappy clip after EVERY SINGLE TRAILER

All these people fail a public speaking.

So, the wifi only PSVita will sell at the same price that the 3DS does, I wonder how much will it actually cost in other countries (the 3DS is closer to 500 USD than it is to 250 USD here :/)

I'm easily impressed, aren't I? I was more entertained by Sony's conference than the others. They made a joke about "RIIIIIIIDGE RACER!" for crying out loud! The PSVita looks like it has some serious love behind its software (and that name is really good in my unimportant opinion). And a new Sly Cooper must've made someone's day.

I was hoping they'd announce, like, a new PS3 model that only plays Demons' Souls and Dark Souls for $19.99, but I guess that was a little unrealistic, huh?

I don't think the conference was bad but, it kinda left me expecting more. Actually, I was waiting to see more videos and stuff after that dude stopped playing DJ Hero...then I noticed it was over XD.

The PSVita looks interesting for a similar reason the 3DS is interesting to me right now, it's got better graphics and hardware than my DS lite :P.

The PSVita graphics look awesome and the 3DS has 3D (derp) but, the OoT 3D trailer I saw some time ago has graphics that look closer to a N64 game than a GC game. Oh, and the 3DS' battery life...ugh.

I'll wait to see games I like before making a decision...actually, I think I'll wait for the revised version of either console.

Y'know, I think I'm going with the PSVita. I'll have to wait years 'til it's at an acceptable price here, though.

I think the greatest moment at what I saw of E3 was INCEPTION MADDEN.

I still have no idea why that happened.

There's still Nintendo's and, I think, Square's conferences tomorrow.

Square has a conference?

From what I hear. I could be wrong.

Not seeing anything, but if you here a confirmation of that let me know.

You know what I love about this the most?

according to the E3 Expo website, the thing doesn't even start till Tuesday. So whats with all this crap going on on Monday?

I asked around, and it appears I may have been super mistaken.

Press conferences. E3 is the booths and shit where I get to go play FFXIII-2 and tell you all that it's the best game ever and laugh at you all when you buy it. MUHAHAHAHAHA

Because they barely have money to flaunt their "new and improved" fantasy that isn't final...

That's not why...

That's just dumb.

They do have stuff comin' out that I want to know about. I know that people want some, well, any new info about Kingdom Hearts DDD, and that Type-0 thing actually looks really sweet.

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...Yeah, so guess which developer I thought did the best presentation.

Type-0 has a really soon Japanese release date, but, last I heard, no confirmed US release date, so unless they announced a US release sometime this week, don't expect anything. As for the KH games, don't expect new info till TGS.

Atlus just announced they're localizing Devil Survivor 2 and King of Fighters XIII.

Devil Survivor 2's for the DS, right?

Yup, which is awesome cuz it means I get to keep putting off a 3DS purchase.

Nintendo brought a live orchestra to open their conference!

And that was the highlight of the conference.

So, I only caught the very tail end, and saw a Luigi's Mansion 2 logo. What else did they announce, and what console is Luigi's Mansion 2 on?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(Luigi's Mansion 2 is for the 3DS)

They put another screen in their console so you can play while someone else watches TV.

Hm. The new controller is a pretty cool idea.

Yo dawg, I heard yo like screens
 

Meister, I get you haven't played 4 swords adventures in the GC :P

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I'll have to watch the nintendo conference some other day, I got (my last) 3 finals this week D:

More they just assume the things you care about wouldn't be worth announcing at E3 when they can be announced at TGS for their core demographic.

It looks absolutely terrible to use though. It's like they had a bunch of balance boards laying around, and were like, "Crap, what can we do with this?", then made it into a controller.

Yeah I'll second that, and I don't even play PS2 era jRPGs anymore. I mean there's some ME3 news and like 6 minutes of BF3 and that was neat, but it was so minimal compared to the junk they're pushing.

I'm actually forming an opinion against motion controlled gaming, to be honest. I was personally not interested in it very much, after being bored to death by the Wii twice, but I kept neutral on the matter. I know people that are enjoying Kinect, for instance. But honestly, I feel it's going beyond just my personal preference at this point, I think motion gaming is indirectly harming my own interests, now.

Watching these conferences, there's just so much effort going into these motion games, be they 100% motion or 50% or 20% or fully optional, it's detracting from games I give a shit about. Ride a fucking cart in Fable 4 with Kinect? Serious? How about spend the 10,000 man hours put into an optional Kinect bullshit cart and make Fable 4 a good fucking game [unlike Fable 3]. Was that ME3 kinect stuff real or not? Shit, if it's real, god damn, don't even get me started on motion gaming poking at my most beloved contemporary game franchise. Maybe Ubisoft would stop being near the top of most facepalm-y developers in my books if they stopped producing less garbage and focused on a few more powerful franchises (AC is a good example of this, even if its "changes" with each iteration are a bit dubious).

Sure, the economy is against me. Sales are probably against me. Perhaps I am even the minority opinion here; I probably am. That doesn't change a thing: this shit sucks, it's gimmicky, it has almost always sucked, and it will continue to suck until somebody important decides more sales can be found with some other gimmick and the industry moves in that direction. Shit sucks.

Wait...is the Wii successor gonna be something that resembles the love child of the Wii and DS? I mean, that thing adds an extra screen (DS) and has waggle (Wii)

...wat

But my TV isn't for watching. My TV is for video games. Why don't you understand this, Xzibit? Speaking of, the free Four Swords game in the fall for DSi was unexpected.

Now I just have to wait until I know how I feel about a console aimed at people with a family and cable TV and $200 to blow on a controller.

Whaaaa? Is it gonna come to the 3DS too? Since that might be a reason to buy one. XD

I watched the whole Nintendo conference and I saw jackshit on any unreleased Zelda titles. What the hell?

I really liked Four Swords, both the ALttP extra and the GC game but they had a big issue. Not everyone has enough GBAs and ALttP games to play or not enough GBAs and GC-GBA cables :/.

Now, the game'll be free and, all that you need is a DSi? Heck, if that works with the 3DS I'm sold ^_^.

I welcome the return of what the GC-GBA cable started but....seriously, a new controller? The 3DS would've been able to handle that kind of things, right? And you would have 3 SCREENS instead of just two, just sayin' :P

You didn't see flying chocobos and childhood-friend Zelda? That was new. Link actually has a personal reason to give a crap about saving Zelda from the get-go this time. And we got a Holiday 2011 release window.

EDIT: http://e3.nintendo.com/zelda/ Here, have a new trailer with both of those things and new monsters.
Something about this and I'm not sure what, hence why I quoted the whole thing reminds me that WiiU is a terrible name and I hate it.

Edit some more: Oh, look at that, Wii U only supports one touch pad controller at a time, meaning any multiplayer is either sharing the touch pad or using Wii remotes. So there goes any hope of new Four Swords type multiplayer games. But at least it all looks as pretty as the PS3 and Xbox now, that's what's really important.

Also, no Pandora's Tower or Last Story or Xenoblade outside of Japan. Awesome.

Keep on editing: Ha ha, I'm the maddest boy in the thread when it comes to the toys I actually want to play.

Well, "Wee" and "Pee" are normally interchangeable.

Anywho, I'm thinking the Wee Woo's controller is gonna be hella expensive, what with the entire bit for the new console waving the damn thing in our faces, and the actual console in question as an object in the background that you probably didn't notice.

http://e3.nintendo.com/_ui/img/hw/pl...hardware/1.jpg

It's like the 360 and Wii had a little baby.

Mario and Zelda. This will happen before those consoles are released, actually, since all the third party support seems to be ports of games that will be a year old or older by the time the WiiU is available. The people who want those games will have already played and beat them. They have to keep selling Wii Remotes until the WiiU's successor comes around, since those are the only input for other players, so it makes sense to keep "Wii" in the name. Doesn't make "WiiU" any less awful, but that's just how it has to be.

Also, "Vita," like the hammer-knight.

And I'm still gonna buy this thing, probably, if it costs less than a used car.

Can we just call it the Wuu?

I figure, the ports are just we're seeing now, because the developers are makin' them alongside the versions going on the 360 and PS3. From what I hear of the Wuu's specs, it's stronger than the 360, so I'm confident we'll see stuff on there that they can't do for the 360 or PS3.

Well, I figure non-ports will happen soon enough. The system's still a year away, on average. What we're seeing now is just what's being made now. I figure dropping names like "Darksiders" and "Assassin's Creed", even if they're ports, was Nintendo's way of saying "Yeah, they're on board with us now".

In other news, I'm interested in the ways the new controller (which needs a name. "panUl"? No, that looks stUpid) could be used. You know, like that sniper-scope thing that was shown.

Or, like, say you're playing some new Metroid Prime-esque game. Your character could have a scanning device that looks like a big ol' panel (I've seen things like this in some shows), and when you pull out the device, you use the new controller to lock on to stuff to scan, while your character moves his device in the same way.

Or something, Idunno. I figure the panel-controller has potential.

It does. Think everything the DS can do, but with nicer graphics and a couple new things (motion control, camera and who knows what else does it have).

Also, maybe they didn't name it the "Wuu" because they fear a lawsuit from the pirates that have been selling Wü accessories and consoles for quite some time .

My thoughts on the Wii U are here.

Also: Does this legitimize the original Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles?

Actually, that should read "for the Wii U every controller is a Wii Remote except for a single iPad."

Because you can't hook up more than one WiiPad to the system.

So no Crystal Chronicles.

Has that been explicitly stated yet?

I don't really care about what the console lacks or does not lack. What I care about is the games.

And apparently there's a new Smash Bros in development. One for both the Wuu and the 3DS.

*crosses fingers for Isaac, Felix and/or Matthew*

I love CC, but I don't think that the Wii U can run it, since it's only one panel per console, according to Gamasutra. I think Gamasutra said that.

I hope that, if you can't connect more than one of those controllers, you can at least use the 3DS, or even the DS so we can get more games like the first Crystal Chronicles game, of Four Swords Adventures :/

According to Reggie, in some interview, Nintendo apparently held back on talking about the upcoming Wii stuff because they mainly wanted to highlight the 3DS and Wii U for this conference.

If they don't give me my Last Story promised to my forefathers by the end of E3... :argh:

Just got back from day 1.

Games I checked out:

Dragon's Dogma
Street Fighter X Tekken
Some Resident Evil squad game I forget the name of
Yoostar 2
MGS: Peace Walker HD
Dark Souls
Ridge Racer: Unbounded
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Sonic Generations

Feel free to ask me whatever you want about these games. When I do my writeups and they're online I'll link them.

Also, feel free to tell me games I should check out and questions you want answered about stuff I haven't checked out.

FF13-2 - are Noel and Serah as annoying as they look? And is the combat any different from the original?

Sonic Generations - Any hope whatsoever?

Same question about Sonic Generations, and if they have Super Mario 3DS, if you wanna give that a try and let me know how the controls/jumping feel, that'd be cool.

I've really only enjoyed Mario 64, in terms of 3D Mario games, so if that could be a point of comparison, that'd be awesome. XD I love the 2D ones.

Dude they just announced City Escape for it. Things are goin' fiiine.

Didn't see enough plot and dialogue to say if they're annoying. Serah did a really stupid pose with a bow that magically appeared at one point. That was dumb. Also the bow is a transformed mog.

Combat is mostly the same, but a flan was in my party as well, and by attacking enemies I built up a gauge for it that I could use to do a QTE attack. There were a few QTEs during a boss fight as well that made it finish more quickly.

There are some dialogue choices and multiple gameplay paths you can follow, as well as a nice little puzzle diversion I found. In other words, looks much better than FFXIII already.

Sonic Generations was fun as old school Sonic cuz it was basically an updated version of stage one from Sonic 1 that looked nice as hell. Controlled nice and I dug the physics. You can spin up by pressing a button, or by pressing down and a button. Either way works. Didn't play as new Sonic.

Peace Walker looks like shit. Crisp as hell, but old-ass textures.

Dragon's Dogma is essentially Capcom doing Demon's Souls, but not as good. There are some differences, and it's not bad, but when you remind of Demon's Souls you're gonna fall short.

Is this real or fake?

http://www.gameinformer.com/blogs/me...-7-remake.aspx

Seeing as that was posted ON APRIL 1ST I'm gonna guess fake.

So, Super Mario Bros 3D has a level based on Legend of Zelda games. Top-down, Zelda jingles, those annoying bouncing spikes from Link To the Past, the works.

Skyward Sword has this tripped-out other dimension called the Siren Realm. Works a lot like Twilight-corrupted lands. Also, the sword-girl is named Fi.

Oh, and Pikmin 3 for the Wii U.

NonCon, tell me about Dark Souls. Can you be a vampire? Can you not be a vampire?

Just...

Just tell me everything. Tell me about buttons and loading screens. Everything.

But, mostly I want to know if character creation determines more than starting stats and equipment. Not likely that you got to make a dude, but maybe your experience gave you some hints?

I don't know if you can be a vampire or a not vampire. I'm not sure how I could tell. We were given six classes to choose from. Given the UI setup for that bit, I think they're probably the only classes.

Changes that made the game harder: My sword now bounces off walls and shit when it should. Shielded enemies are much better about using their shields and blocking, only opening themselves up when they attack. One time two red phantoms invaded my world at once, which never happened to me in Demon's Souls. Magic, at least with the class I chose, was a number of uses thing, rather than a mana thing. I fucking dig that cuz it's Dungeons and Dragons as hell.

Changes that made the game easier: It could see where the hell I was going. You don't *seem* to take slivers of damage even from hits that you block, but there are attacks that can damage you even if you block them, it seemed. My health wasn't at half the whole time. Not sure if this is a permanent change, or just to make the demo feasible for E3. There are checkpoints in the form of campfires, and you can restore health and spells by sitting at one, though enemies respawn when you do, I think.

I fought two gargoyles. It was hella sweet. Graphics are better too. Game is aces.

Oh fuck me.

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Will you bring the movie? :dance:

I'd ask you what the classes are, but I'm sure every game site on the net will have that info. Thanks for your impressions. Care to elaborate?

I fell for an April Fool's joke in June.

XD oh bob... lol

Noncon what about ridgeracer unbounded? Does it piss on everything that made ridge racer unique or is it actually worth playing?

It is strangely fitting for you, as I've always had you pegged as the most gullible and naive here at NPF. :P

I dunno. I've never played Ridge Racer. This game looks fast, and you get a destruction meter that you can use to smash into other cars and make them blow up or smash through walls and shit for shortcuts. Heavy emphasis on destruction. Looks great.