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175281 No. 175281
That time of the year is upon us once again, fellow gamers. While E3 itself doesn't start until next week, we get a "Pre-Show" tomorrow from Konami, so let's kick it off.

Feel free to use this report card (or any other) to upload your list of predictions now and your review/grades later.
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>> No. 175759
>>175707
I should mention this includes Jeff's live reaction to the How To Share PS4 Games video at about 47:00.
>> No. 175760
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=vQD1yJinzeQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvQD1yJinzeQ
More Smash info. We have three newcomers so far.
>> No. 175762
>Wii Fit Trainer is a new SSB fighter
Wat.
>> No. 175770
>>175764
>>175768
Both of you shut the fuck up.


Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii …youtube thumb
This is... weird. I feel like it's an April Fools day joke; but it's not. It's... I don't even know. It's like she's this installments ROB or G&W.
It's Weird, it's unexpected, and it's fresh. I like it.
and she helps fill out that women quote people are so concerned with

Smash is shaping up to be pretty damn good. Here's to hoping Snake comes back for it.
>> No. 175802
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Maybe I'm being too kind to EA.
>> No. 175803
Wonder if Capcom will actually announce anything.
>> No. 175807
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>> No. 175863
>Ryan: We'll be taking a 10-15 minutes break
>AN HOUR LATER, STILL PLAYING THE SAME BREAK SONG
GIANT BOMB: A PROFESSIONAL OPERATION
>> No. 175866
So will Destiny come out for PC? It looks really nice. But if I can't play it with K+M, fuck it.
>> No. 175874
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175874
You know what makes me happiest about the new generation of consoles? It's that games on PC will finally be more demanding. We'll finally get games that take advantage of the rigs with better hardware. And I'm not just talking graphics, I mean better AI and more stuff on screen too.
>> No. 175881
>>175532
What was that referring to? I saw it mentioned on /v/ too.
>> No. 175883
>>175802
No, EA had a genuinely good conference. Too bad I care for none of these games because DRM and Origin.
>> No. 175884
>>175874

On the flip side, I might actually have to upgrade soon.
>> No. 175909
>>175884
You say that like it's a bad thing. All my upgrades from the last 3 years have purely been just because I can.
>> No. 175910
>>175881
The Battlefield 4 video took like four minutes to start, during which was just awkward silence.
>> No. 175912
>>175909
Some people don't have the money to upgrade every year.
>> No. 175915
>>175912
The nice thing about gaming these days is that yearly releases are no longer MONSTER improvements over the prior year. In '98-'05 you could upgrade every six months and see massive leaps in a game's graphics. These days, you can easily go two-three years without upgrading and still play new games (just on a lower setting.)

With this next gen of consoles now coming out, they're still underpowered compared to a $500 gaming rig you roll yourself, but they do have enough of a boost that PC ports should improve markedly. So long as the trend continues to be "PC as an afterthought", you still won't need yearly upgrades.

Those who haven't in a while can benefit largely by doing so now, and as long as they go for medium-high components they'll be good for another 3-5 years. The big thing these days is an SSD, which is also the most expensive component. (averaging $.80/gig or so, vs. HDD $.04/gig or less)
>> No. 175971
http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/416256218

I can never decide if I hate CliffyB or not.
>> No. 175973
>>175971
I don't feel very strongly about him. But I'm pending more towards dislike. No outright hate though. Just, I don't think I would ever be able to get along with the dude, if we met.
>> No. 175988
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>Regarding this from @jimsterling whom I admire and like very, very much:

>'It's not our fault games have gotten so expensive, and I resent the implication that it is. The fact this industry seems utterly fucking incapable of taking some damn responsibility for itself continues to disgust me, and I refuse to shoulder the blame for companies that cannot demonstrate one iota of self-reflection. '

>It may not be gamers faults but a fuck ton of game journalists sure are complicit.

>They are part of the problem.

>Why is Nintendo (who I love) being called out for trotting out the same old same old this year but Ubisoft (who I also love)'s game THE DIVISION is being lauded and showered with GAME OF THE SHOW awards? THE DIVISION looks so stunning it looks like LIFE COME TO LIFE but mechanically it has shown- at least based on what they revealed to the public- to be a wonderfully executed yet standard online shooter. So it's got lots of other folks playing at the same time...Planetside 2 says hi (along with a lot of other MMO shooters). And I bet if folks took the time to dig into the meat of games like MARIO KART 8 or THE WONDERFUL 101 and PIKMIN 3 they would find a great deal of unique, nuanced, and fresh PURE PLAY

>I'm not saying gamers only want photo real and super expensive looking games. They don't (and thank God, as we're betting the farm on a non realistic art style for our next game) but it's disingenuous for Jim to act as if the publishers are the only ones pushing visuals over gameplay/interactivity. The press eats that shit up with a spoon and then asks for more, each and every time. And at the SAME time so many of the gaming press seems unable to write about and talk about interactivity in any way more sophisticated than simply listing out feature lists on the back of the box.* So you have to forgive us game makers- who read the game press and comment boards religiously- if we are conditioned to feel that graphics are the most important thing to y'all when an amazing looking game (that no one even knows how it plays) can generate awards and pages upon pages of comments while a unique, mechanic/interactive heavy game results in mostly crickets.

>Do some journalists write about/podcast about game play and interactivity first and foremost? Yep- they do. Including Jim in many cases. So some do. But not all. Not most.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkq9tb
>> No. 176001
>>175988
>THE DIVISION is being lauded and showered with GAME OF THE SHOW awards
Wait? Really? Just wow. That game was one of the blandest games on the show. Bored me to tears. I keep forgetting it was even shown until other people bring it up again.
>> No. 176007
>>176001
I suppose they were really impressed with the fear-mongering presentation.
>> No. 176034
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/06/13/battlefield-4-mod-support-ruled-out-by-dice-2/

why

EA/DICE why

why do you hate us
>> No. 176036
>>176034
You act like nobody expected this.
>> No. 176047
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176047
>watch Giant Bomb E3 After Hours
>Microsoft PR guy brings a controller
>Sony PR guy brings a goddamn PS4
They really want to one-up them at every little thing possible, don't they?
>> No. 176050
>>176047
Lets be real; who the fuck are you going to impress by bringing your new controller?
And if you're going to do any sort of presentation, why would you only bring the controller? Common sense dictates you bring a console too.
>> No. 176053
>>176050
They weren't doing presentations. I doubt anyone was expecting them to bring anything. Giant Bomb After Hours is just a casual talk of videogame people getting drunk. It's not a professional PR affair.They just had the dudes as guests, because they knew them from way before they became big shots.
>> No. 176108
>>176034
Because they are a shitty publisher and a bland military shooter dev?

>>176047
When Adam pulled the thing out I lost my mind as much as the guys did. I can't even believe that happened.
>> No. 176119
>>176108

BF3 cast a big shadow over my blatant DICE fanboyism. I still want to give them the benefit of the doubt with not releasing a devkit because EA is running titles almost exclusively on the Frostbite engine (and releasing that to the public kinda cripples their directives), but fuckin' A is BF3 boring.

So that brings us to the biggest travesty: no mention of Battlefield 2143 at E3. Probably because it got scrapped for Battlefront.
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176125
Jesus Christ Xbox, does the ride ever stop?
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>>176125
And this is what showed when PS4 games crashed. So even if they didn't run it on genuine system specs, they at least used the actual system OS.
>> No. 176159
I want to get off of Microsoft's Wild Ride.

>It just keeps getting worse for Microsoft: After facing a consumer backlash over DRM, a bizarrely high price and no love on Amazon, a new scandal has emerged.

>Earlier today, CinemaBlend commented on the fact that a broken Xbox One game returned to the Windows 7 home screen, and that, in a pic we could see that it was running on a Nvidia 700 series GTX GPU (the Xbox One uses AMD). The Battlefield 4 demo ‘running on Xbox One’ was also spotted to include the PC command ‘backspace’. While it sounded terrible – these are meant to be console games, CinemaBlend tried to put things into perspective:

>Truth be told, none of this should be a surprise to most people given that all E3 demos run their games on high-end PCs; it’s a smoke and mirrors circus to sell the idea of the game, sort of like how pro wrestling sells the idea of fighting despite being scripted. We should all be used to it by now and it’s just common practice [from most studios] given that the devkits or comparable specs aren’t usually finalized at this point.

>Turns out, however, that they are wrong. PS4/PC developer Jonathan Blow tweeted (tweets ordered for sense):

It is not true as the article says that “all E3 demos run on hi-end PCs”. The Witness was running on PS4 dev hardware, and it looked to me like all the other PS4 games were running on dev kits as well.

Dev hardware is the hardware that will be in the final retail box, but in a less consumer-oriented package.

All the indies I know were running on the PS4.

We worked very hard to get our game running on the actual PS4 hardware and operating system in time for the show. As did many other devs.

>Sucker Punch’s Jason Connell added:

Yup, we were definitely on a dev kit. [For inFamous: Second Son]

>Blow commented:

That is kind of crazy considering consoles are supposed to be on the shelves with these games in 5-6 months.

During Microsoft’s press show I was impressed by how good the games looked given the console’s specs. But if they weren’t running on those specs then it becomes pretty questionable.

I actually don’t want XB1 to fail because we need competition to keep things healthy.

>And finally:

I’m seeing a lot of forum comments saying “it is no big deal, most E3 demos are on PCs”. False. I wonder if this is “reputation management”.

>This whole thing sounds utterly bizarre: has Microsoft been essentially lying to journalists and viewers with games running on completely different hardware? Aliens: Colonial Marines drew intense criticism after it was revealed that journalists played a better version of the game than was actually released, and it’s hard not to feel deja vu.
>> No. 176168
>>176159
My understanding is that early test hardware is usually within a PC case as the console maker works on getting the final consumer and dev packages ready. So seeing PC cases at this E3 is not odd, especially for Microsoft who just can't seem to understand hardware development. Expect initial Xbones to have the same overheating problems of the initial 360s.

The odd thing is going to Win7, especially one running a whole different GPU. That's complete bullshit. If it was just exiting to Win7, that wouldn't be so bad, because Xbone runs a pared down version of Windows (http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-runs-three-operating-systems/) and they might just have been using Win7 while, again, getting WinXBone ready. But to full 7 with different GPUs? That just bullshit.

Except XBone to crash horribly at $500, this holiday season.
>> No. 176185
>>176159
>>I actually don’t want XB1 to fail because we need competition to keep things healthy.

Look, there is no point in keeping a company in the game if they can't play it. This is the basics of capitalism and what happened to SEGA when they gambled too much with their ideas. And I actually sympathized with SEGA even when they deserved what they got from making Shenmune too expensive.

The Xbox is the youngest of the current big three companies to develop their own console. The console franchise is only 12 years old and there could easily be more competition to take Microsoft's place in Google or Apple or whoever. If Microsoft can't get its shit together than it should suffer for it financially. What good is there in crying about competition if you don't let the market take its natural course and for competitors to devour the weaker or dumber opponent?

I mean, of all the people to cry about fair competition, Microsoft practically deserves to taste its own medicine for all the monopolizing and aggressive takeover tactics it unleashed on the computer world for the past several decades. They should finally reap the whirlwind they'd been building against themselves all this time.
>> No. 176210
>>176185
So what you're saying is bring on the Steambox?
>> No. 176212
>>176210
>get wireless keyboard and mouse
>get connection cable
>plug computer into TV
You how have a Steam Box.
>> No. 176216
>>176212

My graphics card doesn't have an HDMI output.

Also, wireless mice suck dick, no exceptions.
>> No. 176238
>>176216
If you have an LCD TV, chances are good that you have a VGA port on it. If your card only has DVI, you can get a DVI->VGA adapter for like $5 (many graphics cards with DVI these days come with an adapter.)

Chances are good that your card and TV (LCD or non, so long as it's after 2005) both have an S-Video port; then you only need to buy something to get the sound running into the TV, as well. (Some sort of splitter that also converts to RCA audio ends.)
>> No. 176257
>>176210
As long as he knows how to market his system or its just hooking up your computer to a TV, Gaben can swallow Don A. Mattick whole on live television next E3 to announce his place as one of the new big three for all I care. I just want Microsoft out of the video game business if they continue being this stupid.
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>> No. 176297
>>176289
Nintendo wasn't that cool.

A more apropos thing would be K standing there, already in his shades, for Nintendo (old hat, simply maintaining), J throwing on his glasses (new hotness, busting out some shit), and then whatshisface stabbing himself in the eye for Sony.

(Yeah, I know that's not how the original GIF goes.)
>> No. 176318
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176318
Time to wrap this sucker up.
>> No. 176324
>>176318
I agree with this pretty much.
>> No. 176333
>>176318
>Microsoft not lowest grade
wat
I know it sounds like parroting the general consensus, but they really did earn their place at the bottom of the shit-pile. They can parade out all the exclusives they want (along with non-exclusives that they conveniently neglect to mention are available on multiple platforms), but that doesn't really do anything to offset even a portion of the mountain of negative marks against the X-Box One thus far.
>> No. 176334
>>176333
Well, that's mostly because it was a mildly entertaining conference, they did presented games, and since the Xbone Juan was already shown a few weeks ago, we already knew it's gonna suck. So that doesn't even count.
Yeah, the console blows, but their conference didn't, at least.
>> No. 176387
>>176333
Their conference, rape references and technical difficulties aside, was fairly solid. The $499 announcement hurt them, but they didn't mention anything at all about the DRM/Big Brother stuff, which is what everyone hates them for right now.

If they didn't have this back-assward "protection" in the system, they wouldn't have been trounced so hard by Sony; the $399 PS4 launch price would have still hurt them, but not nearly as much as it does now.
>> No. 177182
>>176318
What was the overall grade last year? For comparison.
>> No. 184870
>>184869

Holy shit, bots are the most hilarious thing ever. I was wondering why there was an E3 thread up in January.
>> No. 184872
>>184870
At least it isn't CP this time.
>> No. 184873
>>184872
And, appropriate. I'm sure a lot of the Microsoft show organizers would've looked favorably upon the idea of popping some Valium
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