Vitality Sensor: stupid or fucking stupid?

Did you get REALLY excited for the FFXIV announcement and then not care as soon as you say the online subtitle.

Aaron and Topher how did you get your e3 news at home and how closely were you following the news?

Talk about how no one is talking about scribblenauts, after reading the preview I must have this game.

Cammie died on the first goomba in NSMB wii, discuss.

We all know jim's position on L4D2 but what is everyone elses?

Topher do you think the last guardian could beat Shadow of the Colossus?

What did you do to pass the time why james cameron talked in the Ubisoft presser? Was not showing gameplay make that one of the worst parts of E3

Do you think kojima could handle castlevania, I don't see that as his style.

Team Ninja and metroid, will we have breast physics?

Steve weibe was at e3, did jim get a chance to look at nicole?

What would you do to Milo if peter hadn't programmed it to make it safe from our sick minds?

Now that all three consoles have thier own twist on waggle, which do you think would help BonerQuest 2 become the DEFINITIVE game with boners this generation?

I was just looking at some release dates for this fall/winter and here are some of the release dates just for the Xbox:

Halo 3: ODST - September 22
Brutal Legend - October 13
Forza 3 - October 27
BioShock 2 - November 3
Modern Warfare 2 - November 10
Left 4 Dead 2 - November 17
Assassin's Creed 2 - November 17

And there are lots of games that don't have firm release dates like Bayonetta, WET, Edge of Twilight, etc. and that list obviously doesn't included games on other platforms (Uncharted 2, Diablo 3, etc). So my question is, do you think this year's fall/winter release schedule is worse than 2008?

When I was listening to jack tretton and the translators during the Sony press conference I couldn't help thinking that they were so boring. So would you rather listen to an entertaining marketing person who doesn't understand a thing he's talking about or someone very close to the project but is extreamly boring.

You'll go ape for Red Faction: Guerrilla!

What are your predictions for E3 2010? (the crazier the better)

Which games at E3 are you no longer looking forward to after seeing them at the show? Everyone always asks the other way around, so I was curious.

The reveal of Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's wand motion controller thingy, it's pretty obvious that these two technologies have come about from the success the Wii has with it's own motion controlling. Do you guys think that these new motion controlling technologies will one day bring about the end of traditional game playing with some type of gamepad, or at least a gamepad without any buttons?

Also, with the PSP Go, do you guys think that this is further evidence that physical retail copies will be entirely done away with in the near future in favor of digital distribution, or do you think that brick and mortar shops such as GameStop will still have their place in the video game industry?

Were there any games that E3 you didn't get to see due to time constraints or impossilbe long lines.

On a related note, what were some sacrifices you had to make in order to report fully on the "big" games?

Sony's waggle glowsticks demo - am I the only one who got the impression that they just dug those things out of some dusty corner of their R&D department after they saw Natal and realized they were even more behind the times than they'd previously thought? It seemed to me like they just threw that presentation together overnight. The guys that presented it acted like they were just a couple of guys on the R&D team who had just been informed that they would be giving a presentation in front of thousands of people at E3 in less than 24 hours.

Also, is the Dtoid swag bag a bag containing Dtoid swag, or is it just a bag that is also swag?

Topher, what happened to the E3 No 9 podcast? Missing out on a yearly podcast hurts more than missing out on a weekly one.


P.S. GOLDEN SUN DS!!! WOOOO!

You should do a live show.

*smirk*

Uncharted 2!!!!!!!!!?

Also, is there a necessity for Infinity Ward to introduce any major innovation with Modern Warfare 2, or can they get away with simply reskinning the original game? (In terms of critical reception).

Do you think the PSP Go at $250 is in any way a good value compared to the PSP-1000/2000/3000? Specifically to new customers vs to old customers?

How do you imagine E3 2020 will be like? The head of Peter Molyneux announcing Fable 10 exclusive for PlayStation Wii, anyone?

No PS3 price drop. Discuss.
Honestly, if they'd have announced a price drop I probably would've bought a PS3, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that. There's a lot of PS3 exclusives that I really want to play (inFAMOUS, The Last Guardian, Uncharted, etc.) but until there's a price drop it's not worth it for me to get one.

All i ask is that someone agrees with me on this point; "Metroid: Other M is not a Metroid game."

This is a question for Topher.

How was E3?

@funran

I think most people seem to be missing the fact that project Natal is about a whole lot more than just body-waggle. I mean, really, how much body-wagglan' did you see in the Milo demo? Plus, we've only seen a little bit of Natal so far. There's no reason why the camera shouldn't be able to see you while you also hold a controller. Natal isn't going to replace controllers altogether anyway.

@Podtoid

Could you imagine Alan Wake if it incorporated Natal technology? MY PELVIC PALADIN WOULD LET LOOSE A SEMINAL FLOOD OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS.

@Burch, I saw some of the KarEoke pictures, and I was disappointed to see that you shaved your beard... Were you afraid of being called a terrorist? Or is the ol' ball and chain already laying down the law. Please tell me you still wear the pants in the relationship!

Also, to the Podtoid cast in general, what was the biggest E3 upset to you?

I guess as a follow up to Diverse's question (and whomever else posts before me):

What do you think Sony and Microsoft intend to do with their motion technology? Do you think it's intended to expand the audience to casual gamers who don't want to deal with complicated controllers? Or do you think it might be to give developers a chance to create a more immersive and engaging gaming experience?

You can argue against either way: If it's to embrace casual gamers, then why would the average non-gamer consumer pay $400 for an Xbox with Natal (factoring in Natal's cost) or more than that with a PS3, when the Wii is still priced at $300ish with an extra remote and two casual games? But then if it's to create a more immersive experience, you're still only going through motions. With the current tech, handling a tennis racket is the same as handling a sword.

So anyway, discuss amongst yourselves.

Questions (if you address this, please visit the links I provide before recording)

My question is about Project Natal and the claims that it will revolutionize games. Realistically, do you guys feel that this is actually an ambitious product? Or just another cheap gimmick?

Because from what we seen on e3 with this, we seen paint splashing, a dodge ball game, Milo, and the bottom of Kudo's shoe.

Just about everything shown has already been done before. The dodge ball game can be compared to just about any Eye Toy game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3UrfjbGIs

Link above shows Boxing in Eye Toy Play 2, which is a last gen game, and that dodge ball game doesn't really look any more impressive.

As for Milo, from many reports (such as from Kotaku and IGN) it's said that Milo didn't really understand the person's words, but the tone of their voice and their facial expressions. So he also can be compared to current technology such as Nintendogs. Or last gen technology, such as Seaman. Or even the gen before that, Hey You, Pikachu!

And assuming that Milo is what they claim he is, a true interactive avatar, how would he be used in games? Would it really improve a game like Mass Effect if we can talk to all the NPCs the same way as Milo is advertised to do so? Wouldn't the game just end up being incredibly small because the entire disc would be jammed with all the responses the developers could come up with just for one NPC? The most probable way to use something like Milo would be to just keep him as a stand-alone neopet, just like Nintendogs, Seaman, and Pikachu.

Is a talking boy really going to revolutionize games? Is Project Natal really going to improve the industry? Or, from the comparisons I've shown, would you agree that this is all the same gimmicks we've seen before, only slightly improved, just to get suckers into buying them.

Anyways, I would like to hear about your thoughts on this.

And Jim, I'm sorry you didn't get to cuddle with Jeff Gerstmann.

-Stafa Al-Hassani

How about that Wet game, huh? Wow...

How does something like that get coverage? Every second of the trailer must have felt like an eternity for the devs, just sweating and sinking lower and lower into their chairs.

Will Anthony and Ashley promise to dress up at e3 next year as black and white cartoon versions of themselves (or each other if you're feeling cheeky)? I swear this is not a fetish of mine.