E3 Microsoft (Xbox) Press Conference Discussion

[Nobar]

Closing with BOPS II? I smell desperation. Sony had better not disappoint me (Nintendo has, but just once).

[Rickdiculous]

5/10 for microsoft's conference. Was gonna be a 6.5/10 but they decided to end with Black Ops 2.

[Juffowup]

Well, the one thing that was running 'round in my mind was "I remember when E3 was about games, not about million ways to utilize your TV"

totally thinkin the same thing. Not one game in that lineup had me thinking "oh wow", it was more like "meh" or "great..more shit I wont use"

[doranians]

This is the first time I realize that the game industry has gone to shit...

[jerrelholloway]

Black Ops 2... Probably the only CoD game I will ever look forward to. although it kinda looks like halo.

[SirRobin]

Might look good, still sounds like a bad porno =/

Hehe... so true.

[Deleted]

Maybe I missed it but I was expecting some col GTA 5 footage...would of been alot better finish than BO2.

[Skelington]

These games look so bad. They didn't even say anything about "lococycle," they're making a damned South Park rpg, a game about being a magic canonball, used usher as a selling point, and ended with CoD. Such a desperate ending. All this FPS obsession is annoying.

[SirRobin]

totally thinkin the same thing. Not one game in that lineup had me thinking "oh wow", it was more like "meh" or "great..more shit I wont use"

Well E3 is more an industry show now than any sort of show for the fans. Its mostly producers, marketers, and reviewers, blowing smoke up each others asses now. If you want to get wow from the consumer side nowadays, you have to wait for shows like PAX.

[Xeones]

5/10 for microsoft's conference. Was gonna be a 6.5/10 but they decided to end with Black Ops 2.

Far better than I give them. Literally a 2/10. South Park and that Ascend game were literally the only things they showed that made me do anything other than scoff.

Obsession with FPS games is really personally annoying.

[Rickdiculous]

Far better than I give them. Literally a 2/10. South Park and that Ascend game were literally the only things they showed that made me do anything other than scoff.

Obsession with FPS games is really personally annoying.

I'm a huge halo fan boy so the majority of my points came from there. But jesus christ, the rest of it was awful.

[evilgnomey]

the one playing now may be more of your genre

no but since when do games need to come up with new ways to decapite a man/zombie in order to sell? are gamers really that pathetic these days? shooting and stabbing enemies was fine enough for us back in the day but now they just make things far to graphic and for what reason? none other to appeal to the kids of today... because they think is theres no blood and gore the game won't sell lol.

also CoD:BO2 is showing now... /yawn, just more of the same from this game and the voice acting is horrible.

[Deleted]

It wasn't great but still we have some top games coming later this year, Tomb Raider, GTA 5, Halo 4, Resident Evil 6, Gears of War, BO2 and many more, the presentation wasn't that exciting but that's still one hell of a games line up.

[doranians]

Why do people even play console anymore? The quality has really gone down hill. I still love my ps2 and almost all its games, but lately nothing good has come from these main stream Hollywood games.

[Imhotep]

You can watch it here: http://www.ign.com/events/e3/2012/live-video

or on Spike TV.





So the new Halo 4 gameplay trailer didn't even look like Halo. It kept on making me think of Crysis the whole time. I'm not sure if it'll be worth the buy or not.

Well no shit you have to do something fresh constantly to keep a franchise alive.

[Rickdiculous]

Anyone else notice how they tried really hard to not include any iOS device in their smartglass? Bold move.

[Deleted]

Why do people even play console anymore? The quality has really gone down hill. I still love my ps2 and almost all its games, but lately nothing good has come from these main stream Hollywood games.

because wow, awful pc ports, dungeon defenders weekly DLC and all the other crap we get on the pc is just fantastic.

[Duronos]

My only part that I really liked was Halo 4 because to fair and honest if you take the graphics out of consideration, plus Halo integrates Xbox graphics in a different way so I can live with that, it really out shone all of it. I did like the South Park idea because first of all Trey and Matt took a shot at Microsoft plus I don't think it involved any sort of Kinect but I just can't get around the fact that they talk about all these hardcore games and then the music they back up a lot of their crap with at E3 with people that generally don't listen to the hip-hop music or pop genre is stupid (I think all of us would agree here that the general gaming community doesn't listen to that kind of music to much). Usher was great but just didn't fit the entire conference.

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Anyone else notice how they tried really hard to not include any iOS device in their smartglass? Bold move.

Marketing obviously and that's understandable even to me and I'm not in any major business, but I didn't like the idea as an overall. I like gaming at my house and I love the portable handhelds because they do their job well. I will not use a kinect for a game that is hardcore based (by hardcore I mean nothing like Dance Central with which the Kinect works well) because it just doesn't have the technology do so.

[evilgnomey]

seems like IGN is having stream issues...

[GHP]

only 5 games caught my eye, The new Splinter Cell The new Tomb Raider, Halo 4, Ascend and the new South Park game

4/10