E3 2011 Topic of Legends, Moving Your Body and Googly Eyes

[max_cady]

Ellen, The Today Show, PBS and the likes would be a far more appropriate stage to showcase some of those titles and it would certainly get far more feedback, than showing it to game journalists.

The main problem with the Kinect's limitations for hardcore gamers is crystal clear from the get-go, it does not work with 3rd or 1st person shooters, nor RPGs or action-oriented games, many sports titles, without them being on-rails, at least not right now.

The Kinect was programmed for the people to stay roughly in the same spot(or in close range), because you still can't make the characters go foward or backwards in a three dimensional space.

Kinect might have some interesting functionalities in adventure games, which could work, but it is such a niche market, even within the more hardcore crowd, that developement costs might be counter-productive.

[George]

Fuck Kinect. I feel bad for those 360 gamers that put 400 dollars day one and now have to purchase a 150+ dollar add-on to enjoy new promising software. Sucks about Kingdom.

[MadeManG74]

Holy Shit, Drake's Deception looks aawwwwwesssoooommemeeeeeeeeeeajdngljadgbnjladbgladgnladgn

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As does Dark Souls. I never played Demon's Souls, but I might skip it and just get Dark Souls when it's out.
Fucking awesome tagline too.
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[Aki-at]

PSVita priced at $249.99, fantastic stuff but still need to know stuff like battery life but all the right noises coming from it. I may purchase if they continue to show awesome games (And I'm quite excited for three or four of the games coming out on it, a good launch lineup thus far)

[CrazyT]

The price was mindblowing indeed. I think nobody saw it coming. Wow

[CosmicCastaway]

Hopefully someone will do booth tour videos soon. I'm really anxious to see SEGA's booth this year!

[George]

I was 50 dollars off.

[max_cady]

The Wii U looks nice and all(just when you think Xbox 360 would be laziest console name ever), but there's a functionality to resume play using the screen, when Dad whens to use the TV. I have a TV in a bedroom, so there's completely worthless feature for me.

It's a funny contrast, Microsoft has no clue what to do with Kinect outside of mini-games and some game integration and Nintendo, on the other hand, has finally arrived in 2006.

[George]

I think the Wii U is probably the most terrible looking console in the last 10 years.

Here is some Reggie interview bits:

"High-def graphics, got it. Online capabilities, got it.

We're showing the online in a few days.

It's single-touch (In response to a question from Geoff).

The Wii was not unsuccessful with the hardcore.

The system's gonna be 1080p. Tick that box, it's done.

We're not talking about price yet.

It's all going to be driven by the game.

[The HD Zelda video] was an experience. I don't like the term 'tech-demo'.

We're very good a keeping secrets.

[Hitting 45 million sales before announcing WiiU] was just a nice, figurative conversation. (The Wii has not yet sold 48m, yet WiiU has been announced).

They're going to buy it for the price point (strong hint a competitive pricing).

Will it have a competitive price? Absolutely!

It will have a fantastic value.

You'll be able to play those Wii games, but with a new experience.

By the end of the week, we'll show the WiiU online.

Geoff: You're gonna have some big launch first-party games? (Reggie doesn't answer)

[About the console]: We're not emphasising the console. It's a box. We're focusing on the controller.

It will not be Blu-ray"

- Wii finally catching up to PS3/360.

[CrazyT]

I always found reggie to be... well not an idiot but just kind of a moron.

The console itself, is i think really awesome. At first when they showed it on the screen I was like wtf is that huge thing, but then it ended up being pretty small in the palm of peoples hands.

Honestly I am a sucker for nintendo franchises, and HD graphics is just something we haven't seen happening in full potential with their franchises so that's a thing I am really anticipating.

I can see alot of inovation be created with the WII U. Seriously that new controller could add so much inovation to gaming but also how browsing works and all that. I can vaguely see it's potential but all in all, i'm just glad that I can have great nintendo franchises AND great HD third party(defenitly SEGA's) games on one console.

I think i'll actually buy it so yeah, i'm sold.

[George]

Damn, Gravity and Uncharted game going to sell that  Playstation Vita:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432972

If only SEGA made a 'Playstation Vita' game and not a port.

[max_cady]

Reggie Fills-Ame is a figure that's just ripe for comedy. When he talks, he seems to be giving a lecture rather than actually making a presentation, it gets boring after 2 minutes

[MadeManG74]

I think it's hilarious that Nintendo just made THQ's uDraw tablet incredibly obsolete.

The Wii iPad looks cool and all, but the biggest concern for me is that it's going to be a bitch to use like a controller. It looks huge and not ergonomic at all. Hopefully I'm wrong, since the screen in the controller is a cool feature. It was also great to see them back up claims of going back to hardcore with all the games like Batman, Ghost Recon etc coming to the platform now.

The thing is though, would I rather play batman on Wii U with that funky controller, or play it on the more comfortable looking 360 controller with the same graphics? I'm leaning to 360 at the moment, even if the WiiU has the funky screen.

EDIT: BEst thing to come out of E3 so far:

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[Chaosmaster8753]

I don't think we should worry about the Wii U controller's weight, people who got a chance to use it have said how light it is.

[Emmett The Crab]

Is it backwards compatible with the GamCube?