I may have posted this twice, so if I did I'm sorry...anyways here we go:
Personally, all the E3 conferences were boring, mostly because we knew what was going to be announced. Kinda. Nintendo just put out some games and was trying to fill in their conference with no new games or anything. Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo? Seriously? Although it looks cool...kinda. Animal Crossing was announced finally, and the WiiSpeak shows that Nintendo is putting their online in the right direction. Hopefully there will be more games that support WiiSpeak, most likely if Nintendo put a patch out for SSBB. Wii Music is coming out after much delay, but if it's a system seller nobody knows. But there needs to be more bigger games next year, or else.
Sony's was the worst. Video rentals? I have Apple, Amazon and BitTorrent covered up, thank you very much. God of War 3? One of the most boring trailers ever. They revealed nothing new except that it's in development. Come on, some gameplay would be nice. Ratchet and Clank? Oh wow. More of the same game. And then there's Massive Action Combat.
MAC can already be done on PCs, and besides it's stupid. Why do we need 240-plus player matches? Is there some sort of reason why? What ever happened to just a 16-player Counter Strike or TF2? The best part of small matches like 16-player is that it's more team-oriented and that it's not like you're facing tons of people onscreen. And the lag will be massive, Sony's servers will probably be destroyed if there are really 200-plus player matches. And since most of the people will be n00bs, it won't be that fun and there will also be lots of camping. MAC doesn't-and probably won't-sound like fun. Rather, it's just a boast to how many players you can cram into one single game. If this is how multiplayer will be, count me out, becuase I just want to be able to play with my friends rather than a hundred 12-year-olds screaming into the mic about their life stories. Sony, you game sucks and don't do this. OK, sorry for that rant but MAC sounds really stupid. So does the name. But at least it Kaz wasn't like Riiiiiiiidge Racer! the entire time. Riiiiiiiiiiiidge Racer!
Microsofts conference was kinda cool, but thanks to all the leaks it wasn't. Examples include: Lips, Netflix, new Xbox Live menu and FFXIII. Lips is a weird name, but is really just Microsoft's approach to SingStar...BUT it's produced by iNiS so I have hopes, mostly because Elite Beat Agents(also by iNiS) was really fun. And so was Ouendan. You're In The Movies is really iMovie for kids, and there's software like this already. Not very intresting, but then again not everyone owns a Mac, like me. So I'll give them that. Netflix is awesome, and thanks to the tons of titles already on Netflix, it's really cool. So Microsoft has the upper hand there...and also the hard-drive switcheroo thingy is awesom-O.
But the new XBL skin? Ugh, it's gross. Microsoft just wants to copy the Wii, and that's not a good plan. What Microsoft needs to do to beat the Wii is make good games and boast games like Fallout 3(want), Gears of War 2(do want) and, of course, Final Fantasy XIII(ULTRA-WANT!!). The FFXIII move was a good move by Microsoft, mostly because that was a big exclusive to Sony. As Jim Sterling put it on Destructoid, "Official: Xbox 360 is the official console for JRPGs". Why? Becuase of Lost Oddyssey, Blue Dragon, The Last Remnant, Star Ocean, Infinite Undiscovery and now Final Fantasy XIII. Now Sony is even weaker because of this, and they need to make a comeback next year or they're finished.
Nobody really "won" E3 because there were no real big announcements: Sony didn't make a big price cut, Microsoft didn't announce a new title, and Nintendo didn't really put out anything intresting. Although Wii Music does sound kinda intresting, like a casual Rock Band with different insturments. Hopefully it will be online, because then I can make a band and sell the music on iTunes. nah, that won't work.
But the announcement that was a bit shocking besides the FFXIII one was the announcement from iD saying that EA will do the publishing now. There was a new trailer for Rage and the new Wolfenstein, and I must say that QuakeCon will look like fun.
And that's what I think.
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E3 did not excite me, Wii Music? You're in the movies? GOW3 without Jaffe or Barlog?
EPIC meh.
You think Sony is the worst because of its movie functionality.
Isn't MS partnership with Netflix is like the same thing that Sony is doing?
I didn't say that Sony is the worst because of it's video service. I had a lot of stuff, and the video service was one of them. MS joined up with Netflix and it had the Live Party feature. So it had more titles. Yeah, that's just me.