E3 2010: Motion Controlled Edition

[N-Forza]

Buying a 3DS SO


HARD

[?q]

Is it weird that this game reminds me more of Yoshi's Island than of any actual Kirby game? Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing.

You mean Yoshi's Story?  (except without the yoshis singing thank god)

At first I wasn't sure what I thought of the graphics, but I think I like the art style.  I don't know how much the yarn concept will allow for difficulty, though.

I'm fairly impressed with this year's E3.  There are finally a few games that may be worth buying again.

[Formless God]

What the hell is Portal doing on PS3 aaargharhaghhgrhagh

[Zengar Zombolt]

SRW 3DS.

I came
so hard

[helvetica]

The Kirby game is adorable and a mustbuy for me.

[Barrakketh]

The Kirby game is adorable and a mustbuy for me.

But will still probably come with Angry American Kirby box art :3

[helvetica]

But will still probably come with Angry American Kirby box art :3

Then I import silly Japanese version just to get the better boxart BV

[Edible]

Pretty sure this was announced at E3, but this is a good a place for it as any:

Valkyria Chronicles 2, Stateside by the end of August.

<3<3<3

[helvetica]

So apparently Miyamoto's fuckups with the Wii Zelda demo was just good old-fashioned interference.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/what-its-like-to-play-the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword/2188/

Still looks ugly as hell, but I guess the motion is decent afterall.  Horray?

[Suikama]

lol Old Link + Wind Waker graphics

[Mounting Jaggis]

It's like they put OoT, TP, and WW in a blender

[helvetica]

It's like they put OoT, TP, and WW in a blender

Mind you, all 3 of those are good on their own, but together it just looks... odd as fuck.  The low res of the Wii isn't helping at all.  You got superrealistic Link with superdeformed monsters and terrain.  It's just full of juxtapositions and style clashes.

[helvetica]

From the my face is now a puddle category,
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

Game is being led by one of the key character creators and animators for DMC/Okami/Steel Battalion.  I am in awe.  I want this game.  I am tripping the fuck out.  Oh and there will be no HUD in this game at all.

[Edible]

Hermaphrodites in games, huh.

[Nat Tea]

Hermaphrodites in games, huh.

New and original concept.

Like visual novels.

:smug:

[Edible]

welp

[Barrakketh]

It's like they put OoT, TP, and WW in a blender

I don't consider that a bad thing, though hopefully they take another few steps back from the "realism" side of things.  A small detail in the images we've seen is that instead of fading out images in the distance they take on a watercolor-ish appearance.  I like.

Hermaphrodites in games, huh.

Didn't we already have this in Nier?

3DS bit from Jeremy Perish (relevant to some posters ITT):

After yesterday's collective industry boondoggle, I was not looking forward to seeing Nintendo's E3 press conference. With 3DS on its way, things were just destined to make me angry. I mean, I've got really crappy eyes thanks to losing the genetic lottery, and 3D effects just don't work for me. Even when I can visualize them, they give me a headache in short order. That Crysis 2 demo at EA's conference yesterday made my skull go from zero to explode in about five seconds. And now Nintendo is inflicting a platform built entirely around 3D on us? Honestly, I was taking it as a personal affront.

Then I actually got to use the 3DS, and... wow. It works. It doesn't strain my eyes at all, yet I can absolutely see the depth. I'm not exaggerating that the realization that my poor eyesight won't shut me out of the next generation of portable gaming was the single happiest moment I've ever had at a gaming industry event. It's one thing to see cool new games -- speaking of which, finally! Kid Icarus! -- but another thing entirely to learn I am not suddenly biologically obsolete.

[Edible]

3DS bit from Jeremy Perish (relevant to some posters ITT):

Relevant to me, actually - my eyesight is rather remarkably effed up, and I have never been able to properly discern 3D through things like those Magic Eye books and whatnot.

I actually own Jeremy Parish's copy of Guilty Gear X on Dreamcast. <_<

[Cadmas]

Enoch looks like a Guildwars paragon. Whats with all these biblical based games all a sudden?

[helvetica]

Enoch looks like a Guildwars paragon. Whats with all these biblical based games all a sudden?

Japanese have always had this rotating mythology hardon.  A few years ago it was Norse, then Greco-Roman, now Judeo-Christian.

[JT]

3DS bit from Jeremy Perish (relevant to some posters ITT):

This is good news, but I'm still really curious as to how exactly the 3D effect actually works. I feel like they're being kind of vague about it.

Also, some guy from Kotaku played the Zelda demo and said the controls are fine. Apparently during the conference all the cameras and cellphones in the room were polluting the infrared or something.

[Mounting Jaggis]

This is good news, but I'm still really curious as to how exactly the 3D effect actually works. I feel like they're being kind of vague about it.

I was thinking that maybe the 3DS's screen is made out of whatever 3D glasses are or something like that

[Naut]

Kirby game looks pretty neat, but even more cutsie than usual. Also, Drake pointed out:
<Drake>   i'm still unsure about abilities and eating things
<Drake>   i have not seen any eating
Which I'm kinda worried about too. Ah well, a new Kirby platformer is bound to be awesome.

The 3DS having a "3D depth slider" option makes it worth the purchase, methinks. This "400 pixels allocated to each eye" thing had me skeptical, but the 3D depth slider makes it pretty reasonable. Turn off that 3D garbage if you don't want it, or just tone it down if you're getting a headache.

[Nat Tea]

I still don't like the 3DS because I don't know, I feel like it's just saying "the DS was nothing, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING NEW" in just two years? Maybe I'm just picky with money.

[Kilgamayan]

More Skyward Sword gameplay.

Also I watched that El Shaddai trailer and did not once hear the hymn of that name. Son, I am disappoint.

[The Greatest Dog]

Kirby game looks pretty neat, but even more cutsie than usual. Also, Drake pointed out:
<Drake>   i'm still unsure about abilities and eating things
<Drake>   i have not seen any eating
Which I'm kinda worried about too. Ah well, a new Kirby platformer is bound to be awesome.

Kirby seems to hold enemies above his head in a sphere before he tosses them, so maybe he just injests them but not inhales. Like Kirby 64, or something.

That being said, since Kirby has the ability to float down slowly, he might not be able to fly infinitely.

[Suikama]

I still don't like the 3DS because I don't know, I feel like it's just saying "the DS was nothing, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING NEW" in just two years? Maybe I'm just picky with money.

The DS first came out 6 years ago :V

More Skyward Sword gameplay.

Also I watched that El Shaddai trailer and did not once hear the hymn of that name. Son, I am disappoint.

ahahahaha oh you

[helvetica]

Kirby game looks pretty neat, but even more cutsie than usual. Also, Drake pointed out:
<Drake>   i'm still unsure about abilities and eating things
<Drake>   i have not seen any eating
Which I'm kinda worried about too. Ah well, a new Kirby platformer is bound to be awesome.

The 3DS having a "3D depth slider" option makes it worth the purchase, methinks. This "400 pixels allocated to each eye" thing had me skeptical, but the 3D depth slider makes it pretty reasonable. Turn off that 3D garbage if you don't want it, or just tone it down if you're getting a headache.

The 400 pixels to each eye is garbage.  They're just doing bullshit handwaving claiming each eye is a separate image.  Basically all they're doing is taking a 800x480 screen, and interleaving every other pixel and polarizing it so it shows the two split images.  So imagine a checkerboard where every white space is polarized to show up in your left eye, and every black space is polarized to show up in your right.  That's basically how the 3D effect works.  So in reality you're getting a quarter of the quality as much as you would have normally gotten.  Honestly it's the most disappointing thing of the 3DS, how stupid low the resolution is.  It's frankly cheating.  They can claim the graphics are "PS3" quality, but that's only because the screen has such a low ass resolution.  It's not that hard to drive a crappy GPU at 400x240.

It's honestly a huge step backwards.  Really handheld resolutions that low are painful to look at nowadays, especially considering most smartphones easily double or triple that resolution.  Hell the PSP still has a higher resolution and better GPU than the 3DS, and it's what, 5-6 years old now?  Fuck this 3D gimmick, they should have just made the screen 800x480 and left it 2D and it would have been so much better.

[Nat Tea]

The DS first came out 6 years ago :V

I feel old now.

Kirby seems to hold enemies above his head in a sphere before he tosses them, so maybe he just injests them but not inhales. Like Kirby 64, or something.

Klonoa?!

[Matsuri]

I feel old now.

I can make you feel older.

Pok?mon Red/Blue came out in the US nearly 12 years ago.