E3 2006

[LobsterMagnet]

It's that most wonderful time of the year again. Time for The Electronic Entertainment Expo other wise referred to as E3. I've decided to start this thread so we can have a place to discuss the upcoming announcements and news as it starts to stream out of the tradeshow. In the meantime discuss what your looking forward to seeing in the show I.E. PS3 playable demos, Xbox 360 announcement of Halo 3, or the official unveiling of the Nintendo Wii (in case you haven't heard nintendo has announced that the official name for the revolution shall be called the Wii) game line up and a demonstration of how the new controller works with different Wii games.

[Archer]

Who came up with that stupid name? What does Wii even mean? Anyways, I may not be able to go, but I'll see E3 on G4.

[darkshadow]

ill see E3 on my 360 >_>

[BioAlien]

Nintendo updated they website about the Wii (before know as the revolution)
http://wii.nintendo.com

it is nice to know that there will be 2 different version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 1 for gamecube and 1 for the Wii

for now they have annonced those game on the Wii:

Disaster: Day of Crisis
Excite Truck
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
Super Mario Galaxy
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Sports (Tennis, Golf, Baseball)


future DS games to come :

Big Brain Academy
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day
Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol
Children of Mana
Clubhouse Games
Custom Robo
Diddy Kong Racing DS
DK: King of Swing DS
DS Air
Elite Beat Agents
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Kirby
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Magical Vacation
Magnetica
Mario Hoops 3-on-3
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
New Super Mario Bros.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
Pokémon Ranger
Star Fox DS
Sudoku Gridmaster
Tenchu: Dark Secret
Yoshi's Island 2

also Super Mario 128 (title that have been going for a lot of time now) got changed to :
Super Mario Galaxy


(yay Nintendo fan boy) i don't care about other game platform since i know that a lot of game from microsoft and sony are coming to PC too...

and the meaning behind Wii is in that text :

Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else.

Wii will put people more in touch with their games … and each other. But you’re probably asking: What does the name mean?

Wii sounds like “we,” which emphasizes this console is for everyone.
Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Just Wii.

[LaZie]

Being the Playstation fanboy that I am, I think i'm looking forward to Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy versus XIII more than I did KH2

[LobsterMagnet]

All I can say is that FF XIII and MGS owned for sony, wish I could say the same for the rest of the software that was on display. Also is it just me or is the whole mankind vs. overpowering Alien forces starting to become it's own cliche. As much I love the whole idea of being that one soldier fighting and losing battle against thousands of hostile forces wishing to slaughter whats rest of my race can't help but feel that the concept is starting to be a bit overdone. Lets count the examples in this new and upcomming genre.

Resistance: The fall of man: this is probably the least interesting of the pack, nice WWII imagery but everything else offered here has been done before and by better developers.

Crysis: Fighting against an unknown alien force in the tropics, complete with war of the worlds style tripod walkers, one of the better looking examples but conceptually not that exciting.

Gears of War: One of the prettiest games to be featured within this genre but Cliffy B. is going to have to work extra hard to make this one stand out from the crowd. Me likey the giant spider creatures seen in the trailer but the generic grunts aren't nearly as exciting.

Halo 3: of course the great grand daddy of man against the hostile alien, despite the fact that no new gameplay was shown, and the trailer didn't look signifigantly better then Halo 2 just to see the good old MC in ridiculously dramatic and hopeless situation is almost enough to get me to sign up for a third and final tour of duty. Speaks volumes about the kind of relationship that Bungie has developed with their fans. Although I'm getting seriously tired of hearing bungie employees whine about how hard there job is. Fricking Hideo Kojima and his crew produce twice as much content as them with more gameplay and story and I've never heard him bitch about how time consuming it is try and brain storm and implement something as simple as dual wielding.

[darkshadow]

not better? it looked a fking million times better:
halo 2:
http://www.tone.co.nz/download_files...1edf9ed3137379
halo 3:
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/h...ChiefVisor.jpg
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/h...ChiefIntro.jpg

if you cant see the difference ( which is gargantuan) you are fking blind.

also this crater is 3 miles across, and rendered in realtime geometry, plus, everything is lighted from 1 source ( the sun), not the multiple light points in halo 2, then add hdr, depth of field and stuff = a million times better:
http://www.bungie.net/images/games/h..._structure.jpg

edit: now that i looked back and forth between the pictures myself, i cant honestly believe you were serious with your previous statement