E3

You guys been following it at all? Some interesting stuff coming out of there.

* Peter Molyneux is at it again with Milo which will use Microsoft’s Natal, their answer to Wii motion controls (both announcements make me sad).
* Bungie’s got more Halo coming besides ODST with Reach and Mass Effect 2 looks awesome but I have no idea what they’re changing and what the story is about besides that there is something besides Geth out there in the universe and it seems waay more shooty.
* I’m getting excited about TOR which scares me. You guys promise if we play it you’ll keep me accountable, right? Looking forward to it, Smuggler got leaked earlier this week, expecting an official announcement soon I hear.
* L4D2: new survivors, set in the South, five campaigns, melee weapons, limb damageable infected — looks good.

There’s tons more, that’s just what I remembered off the top of my head. I’m not bothering linking any of this stuff since most of the time I do big link posts they get little to no action on here anyway. Anyone else watching any of the stuff they’re announcing?

Ooh, almost forgot, some new MGS game starring Raiden for 360. No idea what to think. It is the cool MGS4 Raiden though.

UPDATE: I take it back, here’s one link. Kotaku just posted a round up of Day 1. Link to Kotaku.

Boughter at 10:14 pm on Monday, June 1, 2009

18 Comments

Comment by cody

June 2, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

Ya the bigger announcment hit today. Final Fantasy 14 Online. PS3 exclusive. Maybe by that point the ps3 will be cheap enough that we can all get back on the V-Phone? lol. Except the new world in FF14 is called Eastea or something. So I guess the E-Phone? Anyway for some reason having the number 14 in the title just really makes me think about how long this franchise is. I mean, FF XIV. That shit is crazy.

Comment by Boughter

June 3, 2009 @ 12:27 am

Haha, ya, XIV is something else. Oh man, to get back on AP V-Phone again. That’d be something. We’ll have to see what it’s all about.

Comment by cody

June 3, 2009 @ 9:43 am

Ya. Maybe by 2010 the ps3 will be price dropped to the point where we might consider getting them. I still really want to play mgs 4 and who knows. Might have a lot of free time after work for an mmo…hmm

Comment by cody

June 3, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

UPDATE: Looks like Sony may have jumped the gun when they called final fantasy 14 PS3 exclusive. This bit comes from 1up.com:

:ny boss Jack Tretton may have spoken a bit too soon when he said that Final Fantasy XIV would be exclusively on PS3. At today’s Square Enix press conference, senior VP Shinji Hashimoto stated that the company is “considering all options” for platforms, and noted specifically that Microsoft hardware is a possibility. Though the game is only planned for PlayStation 3 and PC right now, the company is clearly open to putting it on the Xbox 360.

Comment by kg

June 3, 2009 @ 2:14 pm

Yah, I think one of the coolest parts about FFXI was that it was available on so many different platforms and that they all interacted in the same world. I think that’s pretty rare for online games, but it gave us a fair amount of flexibility in being able to find ways for our friends to play together.

Comment by Boughter

June 3, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

“What Needs Improvement?
Not a thing. Seriously.”

Quote from Kotaku’s hands-on with TOR. They played a level 10 Sith for an instanced level.

“Final Thoughts
This is the sort of massively multiplayer experience that I think could bring back a lot of people long lost to the genre.”

Who’d of thought that there’d be two MMOs to tease me after I thought I’d never play one again.

Comment by cody

June 3, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

ya for real.

Comment by brandon

June 3, 2009 @ 6:43 pm

don’t do it. MMOs destroy lives.

Comment by Boughter

June 3, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

hah, don’t we know it. but man I’d love a game to hop on with you guys again.

Comment by Boughter

June 3, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

Oh, and PS, how’s it going KG? Aren’t you in liek southeast Asia?

Comment by cody

June 4, 2009 @ 10:32 am

Hey can anybody tell me what KG’s address in cambria is?

Comment by Boughter

June 4, 2009 @ 11:30 am

I’ll drive by today and post it later if no one else has yet.

Comment by cody

June 4, 2009 @ 6:23 pm

got it from tia but thanks n e way.

Comment by Boughter

June 5, 2009 @ 2:53 am

Oh good, I totally forgot after I said that to swing by… >.>

Comment by Jeff

June 10, 2009 @ 9:49 am

in all seriousness, i would fucking love to sell my soul to a good MMO and play with you guys again.

Comment by Boughter

June 17, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

Just approved your comment Jefe. Dunno why it was stuck in pending. I actually agree. There’s no way I could get sucked back in like FF or WoW, but something to shit around with you guys and talk once a week or something would be awesome.

Comment by cody

June 18, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

the rub of it is, i dont really want to pay a monthly fee to play like one night a week. Why oh why cant we go back to the days of phantasy star online, before monthly fees ever existed?

Comment by Boughter

June 19, 2009 @ 3:19 am

Yep… subscription fees suck.

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