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    E3 2006: The Shames

    The disappointing things at the show follow (not in any particular order). 

     

    NOTE: For something to be disappointing, I had to have a prior, positive expectation that got dashed.  There were many things that sucked, but that'll be in a different article.

     

    1. Microsoft/Silicon Knight's Too Human's build quality.  It was slow and crashy.  But I want to believe.
    2. Nintendo Wii's Controller.  This is probably deserving of an entire article on it's own.
    3. Ubisoft: Few games were 'hands on'.  I'm sure they'll have a stellar year, but that's not based on any physical evidence.
    4. Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4 [aka MGS4]: Trailer shows its 'more of the same.'  Ugh.  I walked away from it thinking: "I'd like those fifteen minutes of my life back."
    5. Theatre Lines: Midway's UT2k7, Midway's John Woo's Stranglehold, Final Fantasy XIII(s), Microsoft/Epic's Gears of War, Vivendi's Scarface, Vivendi's Eragon (the game based on the movie based on the book), Activision's Ultimate Alliance: Marvel (aka X-men Legends 3), EA's Spore, Ubisoft/Free Radical's Haze, THQ/Gas Powered Games' Supreme Commander, a second theatre at THQ that I can't remember the game its for, the second theatre at Ubisoft that I can't remember the game its for, and Tecmo's DOAX2.  Basically, one gets to choose 2-3 to attend, and the others they only get to hear about on the Internets.  I managed to find my way into: Gears of War, Eragon, Supreme Commander, Ultimate Alliance, and DOAX2.
      1. NOTE: I'm not counting BVG's Turok, since it really wasn't much of anything -- it was really short and a 'waste' of Buena Vista Games' booth space.  Well, to be fair, Buena Vista Games is probably a waste of Buena Vista Games' booth space.
    6. WBIE/Snowblind's Justice League Heroes:  Very 'me too'.  It didn't help that I had just seen a demo of Activision's vastly superior 'Ultimate Alliance' beforehand.  I walked away from it 'teh sad'.

     

    NOTE: I might update this with links when I get the chance.  Or I might not, to protect the guilty.

    5月27日 21:18 | 添加评论 | 固定链接 | 写入日志 | E3 2006

    E3 2006: The Kudos

    [NOTE: these are the interesting/innovative things at the show]
     
    1. Superman Returns: EA invents a new genre.  Makes every previous Superman game developer look like an idiot.
    2. Shadowrun: Sounded disappointing, but it is insanely fun.  Any decent Halo 2 player will absolutely love it (graphics aside).  Safety Monkey described it to me as: 'Counterstrike, but all the cheats are built into the game.'
    3. DOAX2 Physics: Groundbreaking / pioneering.  Albeit, painful looking.  Also, they appearently had a Kasumi mousepad that, well, was cushioned.  For one's wrist.  And had her upper body on it.  Well...
    4. Battle for Middle Earth 2 (Xbox 360): Controls seem obvious in hindsight, but doesn't mean its perfect.
    5. PS3 having games on the show floor: I expected a twenty hour line for pre-rendered videos, again.
    6. THQ: I expected I could quickly walk through their booth, but they actually had a bunch of interesting games.
    7. Gears of War: Y button to look at points of interest.  Absolutely awesome idea.

    NOTE: I might update this with links when I get the chance.  I had to type this up w/o spell check to repro a bug for work.

    5月16日 22:33 | 添加评论 | 固定链接 | 写入日志 | E3 2006

    E3 2006 Complete

    Three days, thirty-eight noteworthy booths, a billions seconds wasted in lines, four 'mech' games [in a row?!?], a bunch other games, a few presentations, a few demos, a few showers [to try to get the fanboy's stink off of me], two as-of-yet-unreleased consoles played, and a dead turtle.*  

    Yes, E3 2006 is over.  I took detailed notes and photos.

     

    Some questions that don't make any sense:

    Is Wii made of candy bars?
    If so, which ones?
    How many Final Fantasy games does it take to change a lightbulb?
    How does a MMOFPSRTSPG play?
    Which would you rather have on a stranded, desert island: free swag or booth babes?
    I heard that giant robots are super awesome on Wednesdays. Is this true?

     

    And some that do, but the answers might astoud a person:

    Most enjoyable games of the show?
    Biggest inventions and/or innovations?
    Was Kentia full of half-human, zombie robots?
    Surprises?
    PS3 and Wii impressions.
    Shadowrun as a multiplayer FPS.

     

    * One of these is a lie. But which one?

     

    [UPDATE 1: fixed the lost formatting]

    5月12日 20:51 | 添加评论 | 固定链接 | 写入日志 | E3 2006