Tell Us Dammit

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June 9, 2011 at 11:00 am

Dammit, we want you to tell us stuff – like what are your thoughts on what you’ve seen at E3 so far? Any games that jump out at you? Any disappointing absences?

This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know enough about us – more than you even want to, we’re sure. But, hey, we’d like to know about you, too.

The Last Guardian is the one game I was disappointed not to see. It seems like years since we last had any concrete details on that game. Fumito Ueda usually seems to be more active with the press during the Tokyo Game Show – so hopefully we’ll have more details then. I’m becoming more excited about Journey – that’s probably my favourite game of the show from what I’ve been seeing. Mass Effect 3 is looking good of course.

And the PSVita pricing! Wow. Although we should probably wait for official Australian pricing before we make any snap judgements.

But what have you guys thought of E3 so far?

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♣TadMod♣

June 9, 2011 at 11:05 am

F♥cking Ubisoft. How do they work?!

Seriously, what kind of bozo hired that moron to host the Ubi conference…

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1. Bish
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:27 am
  
  Doodly doodly doooo!
  And the penis jokes.
  What a champ.
  Not really.
  
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  1. 706
    
    June 9, 2011 at 11:39 am
    
    Penis jokes, really? I want to see this, is it up online somewhere?
    
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    1. ♣TadMod♣
      
      June 9, 2011 at 11:45 am
      
      No. No you really DON’T want to see it…
      
      It was one of the most gross displays of stupidity I’ve ever seen in my entire life…
      
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      1. ndroste
        
        June 9, 2011 at 12:06 pm
        
        Man that guy was such a douche he made Randy Pitchford’s appearance seem modest and humble.
ndroste

June 9, 2011 at 11:06 am

Bioshock Infinite looks cool.
Skyrim looks awesome.
PSVita pricing is low enough to interest me…need a killer app though.

Otherwise meh.

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1. Glenn
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:22 am
  
  Uncharted, ‘nough said.
  
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  1. ndroste
    
    June 9, 2011 at 11:33 am
    
    I love uncharted but I’ve already played it twice, 3 times before the Vita is out maybe.
    
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    1. Braaains
      
      June 9, 2011 at 12:33 pm
      
      It’s a new Uncharted game on PSV, not a remake.
      
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Chuloopa

June 9, 2011 at 11:08 am

Honestly – i have no idea

I haven’t had a chance to to look through much of ANYTHING at all…

I have to play catch up after exams.

All i know is that i don’t know what a Wii U is, but i already hate it’s name

And as a long standing fan of the PSP, i hate the name “Vita”, so i’m just going to call it PSP2 or NGP, and anyone who doesn’t understand what i’m saying can go drive a truck

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1. 706
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:43 am
  
  I feel like if they were going to go with something as odd as ‘Wii U’ why not make it ‘Wii Too’. I feel like at least that makes more sense.
  
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2. The Cracks
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:46 am
  
  Ling’s father approves of the Wii U.
  
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DeReam

June 9, 2011 at 11:09 am

Apart from all the games we knew were coming that I’m excited about (Skyrim, Forza4, ME2, Batman AC) the standout for me was the gameplay trailer for Far Cry 3 – Looks Amazingly good… as well as the gritty “uncharted” look of Tomb Raider

Vita and WiiU were just meh I’m afraid…

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masha2932

June 9, 2011 at 11:11 am

The best thing announced this E3 for me is the NGP price point

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ShiggyNinty

June 9, 2011 at 11:11 am

E3’s been good so far for me. Majorly impressed with the Wii U and the creative
possibilities and options that it could present. Of course Mass Effect 3, the tiny bit of Aliens Ive seen, Snake Eater 3D have made me happy too. Dissapointed that we couldnt see any Wii U games aside from tech demos but i was expecting that. Also, where was Pikmin! i wanted to see it not hear about it!

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1. ShiggyNinty
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:32 am
  
  How the hell did I forget this, everything Zelda has made me smile with pure joy. Cannot wait for OoT3D and Skyward Sword. And 4 Swords!
  
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Marathon

June 9, 2011 at 11:12 am

Yay!
– Mass Effect 3 looks good.
– Old Republic intro cinematic. Don’t have time for MMO’s but these trailers have been better than the prequel films.
– Battlefield 3 – On the fence before, now I’m hooked.
– Ace Combat: Assault Horizon – One to watch.

Nay!
– Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, how to kill an IP with one punch. As a fan of the series this was just slap in the face.
– Wii U, not convinced. I can see the market for families but as a single mid twenties male nup.
– Kinect – Still nothing jumping out at me. Voice recognition with games like Mass Effect etc just seems like a gimick again. Couldn’t I do the same thing with a microhpone headset on any platform?

Overall opinion – a bit underwhelmed this year.

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1. NotoriousR
  
  June 9, 2011 at 11:19 am
  
  Oh yeah, and those Blur CG trailers for SWTOR are just spectacular. MOAR!
  
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  1. The Cracks
    
    June 9, 2011 at 12:07 pm
    
    I don’t understand why LucasArts don’t round up some of their Star Wars EU writers (say, Zahn or Stackpole), get them to write an awesome new movie, then get Blur to make it. Hell, even just adapt the Thrawn trilogy to movie.
    
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NotoriousR

June 9, 2011 at 11:17 am

Vita price was good for US, terrible for Europe. And seeing as we’re bundled with Europe, I think there’s a good chance we’ll be screwed.

Microsoft – Thoroughly unimpressive. I really don’t care about Kinect. I can understand them making it and talking about it a lot, but they need more first party titles. At the moment, all they’ve got is Halo, gears 3 and Forza 4.
Sony – Disappoint at no Last guardian details and lack of new games (except Sly 4) being announced. I suppose that’s probably because of the focus for Vita.
Nintendo – Meh? It sounds pretty cool, the Wii U, but then again, so did the Wii, and I still haven’t bought one of those. And the 3DS sounded cool last year, but there is a distinct lack of any titles that interest me. Sure, MGS, OoT, Super Mario and Mario Kart, but two of those are remakes, and haven’t really heard much of the Mario games, so can’t really judge.

Overall, it’s actually been kinda boring. And I’m getting bored of this pissing contest between EA/Activision with their BF3 and MW3.

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Dire Wolf

June 9, 2011 at 11:23 am

I’m over the moon at the announcment of Halo 4 and Halo:CE in HD. Also loving the screenshots and videos of Skyrim, ME3 and Uncharted 3. Can’t wait to play those games.

I’m disappointed there was no God of War 4, Heavy Rain 2, that Fable: The Journey isn’t Fable 4 but rather a lame Kinect game and that there’s still no release date for SW:TOR.

Also a bit disappointed that the Wii U is just going to be another casual/kids/old people console but can’t say I’m surprised. I’d just hoped Nintendo would try and broaden their market a bit.

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Trjn

June 9, 2011 at 11:24 am

Plenty of things that are interesting.

Very few things that are amazing.

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Bish

June 9, 2011 at 11:25 am

Half Life 3.
*sob*

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James Mac

June 9, 2011 at 11:31 am

I think Nintendo screwed up the announcement of WeeYou… I think I said it earlier, but by the end of that conference I honestly thought it was just a HD controller for the Wii. Everything else was just their same old stuff on new hardware.

Some of the Microsoft stuff was interesting to me… but then I don’t actually mind Kinect… and Minecraft is something I’ll get. Also their 3 core exclusive games looked really appealing… and HALO4 got me all kinds of excited.

Sony was a bit bland for my liking… but some of their exclusive deals were pretty canny, and goes to show that anyone can play the DLC game.

Ubisoft not only persisted with those accents but then wheeled out some kind of ADD afflicted spokesman. I’m not even sure they announced anything… Ghost Recon and Tomb Raider I was going to get anyway.

EA… getting Al Pacino to host was an interesting move. Battlefield 3 looked beautiful, but I’d have liked to have seen it on a console as that’s how I’m buying it. The Insomniac game seemed interesting…

I don’t know… there was nothing so far that’s made me scream “I need it now”!

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Tom

June 9, 2011 at 11:34 am

Good things: that Bioshock Infinite trailer ending excited me to no end, BF3 content (but I expected that), wasn’t really into Skyrim until I saw a developer preview. World looks fantastic.

Bad things: that awful, awful Wii U trailer. And a lot of cinematic trailers, but a lot less gameplay trailers 🙁

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Effluvium Boy

June 9, 2011 at 11:38 am

PS Vita has me excited. I’m willing to overlook the name. As long as most games give you the option to use normal controls and ignore the gimmicks then I’ll be happy.
Wii U is not really my cup of tea from what I’ve seen, but I’ve never been a big Nintendo fan. It has some groovy features though, so it will be interesting to see where they take it.
Looking forward to seeing what Ubi has to offer.

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Suihaira

June 9, 2011 at 11:42 am

They really are calling it the Wii U?
I see a lot of “Wii on U!” jokes coming.

Vita.. oh joy I’m playing games on a giant vitamin pill…sounds like I’m sticking to NGP !

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706

June 9, 2011 at 11:42 am

I’m being a fanboy, but I’m excited about Halo. I do feel like the series is getting stale, but I am still happy to have another game. I don’t think it will be the blockbuster the previous games have been and I fear that being a ‘new’ group working on it they will stay safe and stick to the formula, but I’m really looking forward to the continuation of the story.

Also Halo CE remake looks like a lot of fun. I spent countless hours playing it on my xbox and I will happily go back and play an updated version for nostalgia. The only disappointment is apparently the multiplayer isn’t coming too? Just the maps are being put into Reach? That is really disappointing as I wanted to have some old school games with the old weapons and vehicles. I guess campaign will have to do, Silent Cartographer Warthog Chicken was always fun.

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RaygunBrown

June 9, 2011 at 11:43 am

GOOD: Skyrim, Far Cry 3, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Once Upon A Monster, Reggie starting the Ninty conference with LOOK WE HEAR YOU, SF3 Third Strike and surprisingly, MW3.

BAD: Fable with Kinect, ME3 with Kinect, Star Wars Kinect

UNDECIDED: PSVita, Wii U

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Braaains

June 9, 2011 at 11:44 am

Disappointing show so far. Haven’t seen any interesting new games announced that I didn’t already know about. Highlight so far for me I guess has been the Uncharted 3 trailer. Already knew it was coming, of course, but it still looks nice.

Biggest surprise so far has been the reasonable price of the PSV – very un-Sony-like. Wii U looks to have been unveiled 6-12 months early with no games, no pricing and (from me at least) no interest. I guess they rushed it to this year’s E3 because they’re worried that Sony and/or MS might reveal their new consoles next year, which would have left Wii U looking rather poor in comparison.

So for me overall – Sony’s PSV announcement was impressive (although it’s not a platform I have any interest in actually buying), Uncharted 3 looks awesome but other than that there was a lack of interesting PS3 stuff. Lack of Last Guardian REALLY sucked. Nintendo showed off something half baked that may or may not be interesting when it’s done. MS… distant third, can barely remember what they showed off. Whole thing passed in a haze of “blah blah Kinect blah blah Kinet blah blah Halo”. Although they were at a slight disadvantage in that they didn’t have any new hardware to attract attention.

I think publishers may have caught onto the idea that it’s not a good idea to announce interesting new games at E3 because they end up just getting lost in the general noise of all the other stuff on show. The end result being that if you don’t have new hardware to show then you’re not likely to have much else new of interest to offer.

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The Cracks

June 9, 2011 at 11:47 am

Old Republic, AssCreeRev, and Skyrim. Give them to me now!

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1. The Cracks
  
  June 9, 2011 at 12:03 pm
  
  And Tomb Raider.
  
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Peter Richards

June 9, 2011 at 11:50 am

I’m actually more excited by building a visual pinball cabinet than by anything at E3.

Stuff that interested me: Forza 4, the Wii U, Halo,

Stuff I’m disappointed I didn’t see: Half Life, Last Guardian, Journey, Syndicate, Carrier Command, more 3DS titles, anything that used the Kinect in a new way, no new IPs worth getting excited about.

Stuff that didn’t interest me: The NGP/Vita.

Overall it was good to see Nintendo attempt something totally new (no it isn’t playing catch-up with the iPad, this is integrated with a console and allows far, far more possibilities), I was worried nextgen consoles were just going to have slightly better graphics and awful motion controls. At least Nintendo is shaking things up and making developers think about new ideas for games. We could use something new rather than just more standard FPS, Driving and fighting games.

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DG

June 9, 2011 at 11:55 am

PS Vita…. really? getting a little too close to MS Windows vista for my liking – and we all know how well that worked out for everyone 😀

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lamboman007

June 9, 2011 at 11:56 am

Quick time events in NFS: The Run was a surprise, was definitely something I wasn’t expecting. Let’s hope they pull it off well, cause it could make the game a whole lot more interesting. And OverStrike, that was something I wasn’t expecting. It looks hilarious, let’s just hope they make it for PC.

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jamesmacusedmyhandle

June 9, 2011 at 11:57 am

Wii U looks like they had leftover shells for that crappy wii draw pad thingy.
But it will have Zelda so it will sell.
Mass Effect 3 was always going to look intriguing, but it really better be a step up from 2 if we have to wait til early next year.
PSP2 is the business. (I don’t like Vita either)

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Powalen

June 9, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Nothing really grabbed me with the Sony conference. Uncharted 3 was probably the only thing that made me go “Ooooh~”.

The announcement of Luigi’s Mansion 2 (and probably Smash Bros as well) was pretty much the only thing that got me really hyped up with Nintendo. Mario Kart and Kid Icarus were good too, but expected.

I like the amount of features the WiiU has though, but I can’t really get excited for it until I see some cool (full) games that take advantage of these features. I hope that at next years E3 Nintendo go all out with launch game announcements.

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Thom

June 9, 2011 at 12:11 pm

For my money, Sony has won this E3, as much as winning is possible. Microsoft had no real core announcements to speak of. Their focus on Kinect is frustrating.

The Wii U looks pretty crappy to me, though they haven’t released enough info for me to really make a judgment on it yet. I suspect the tech will be too backwards to really capture the core market. Even if its slioghtly better than the PS3, it’ll still be based on tech that 6 years old, and I’m really starting to notice the limitations of this generation as compared to PC in terms of scale. The 3DS still lacks the support necessary for me to consider buying it, though I was going to hold out for the next model anyway due to the battery.

The PSVita looks awesome. I had no interest in it before, but the product, price and the third-party support make it look like a must have. Also, Sony’s game lineup looks pretty sweet with all the exclusive core titles. Uncharted for the win.

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f4cti0n

June 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm

JOY: NGP price, Bioshock, Skyrim, BF3.
WOE: WiiU, BiA4

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Palstran

June 9, 2011 at 12:42 pm

I thought Overstrike looked really great. I know it was a CG trailer, but the witty dialogue and action scenes. It is like a grown up version of ratchet and clank mixed in with co-op I guess. I’m going to keep an eye on that one.

Also Spacemarine still looks good, I’m glad they added chaos.

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1. Bish
  
  June 9, 2011 at 1:37 pm
  
  Yeah! Overstrike just looks like fun. They’re not pushing for blockbuster entertainment, realism, or advancement of new graphics whatever. It was comical, it was humorous, it was stylised cartoon violence, and it looks like a game that’ll just be plain fun to play.
  
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MrBS

June 9, 2011 at 1:34 pm

The fact the biggest surprise in the show was the price point of the Vita says quite a bit about the complete lack of surprises this year. The games I wanted before E3 are the same games I want after E3. Nice new trailers though.

Also I HATE Bethesda. How dare they show just how awesome Skyrim is when it is five months away! I was fine with Skyrim’s release in November before I saw those vidoes. Now I’m counting the days.

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Shane

June 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm

Uncharted 3 trailer was quite probably the best game trailer I’ve ever seen. Definitely the best in a long, long while. Just had grin from ear to ear. 🙂

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N0NEoftheAB0VE

June 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm

SO far the standout thing for me has been the way they worked out shooting on Kinect with the new Ghost Recon game, I was blown away by that.

The other thing that blew me away was the graphics on a PSVITA – holy crap, thats a massive leap for handhelds.

The dissappointment so far would be how sparse Nintendo’s conference seemed to be compared to previous years.

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solypsis

June 9, 2011 at 4:36 pm

You must have channeled my thoughts exactly.

Except my disapoint with nintendo is probably greater.

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Baz

June 9, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Honestly? Not much. Basically just the stuff I already knew was coming. Halo Anniversary will be cool, but I’ve got to say as much of Halo fanboy as I am, and I am absolutely that… Halo 4? Meh

Skyrim is looking amazing, ie; Duh 😀

You know what I want though and have done for years and fucking years? A new syndicate game. I can and do play the originals over and over again on dosbox… but a modern syndicate? Absolutely.

Seriously. Guys? Nuclear Grenades and a Cyber-Punk nightmare metropolis on a modern engine? Do want…

*Imagines lobbing a Nuclear Grenade into a Skyrim castle*

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IrishYort

June 9, 2011 at 5:10 pm

I don’t need to “tell you stuff” but I would like someone to ask Nintendo Australia….

How did you come up with the eShop pricing??

As of today AU$1.11 to US $1

Zelda Dx Au $9 to US $5.99

I can sort of understand the price if it was a hard copy with case and printing etc but this is not acceptable for digital media. Why are Australians getting hit the hardest????

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  June 9, 2011 at 5:11 pm
  
  And still I bought it.
  
  [I’ll find a way to ask this q]
  
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  1. IrishYort
    
    June 9, 2011 at 6:03 pm
    
    I think it can be stated, only the hardcore fans of particular games will pay these prices.
    
    This type of pricing format is going to be panned by an awful lot of people. Somebody has said it in a post I read today while researching for answers to this large pricing; “Why would by any thing digitally from the eShop if I have a smart phone?”.
    
    I take this point and run with it – I can get Plants v Zombies they are offering on the eShop for $12, but on my phone I can get it for $3.99. Not only that but I can get current complete or close to games like NBA JAM, Street Fighter IV and Zenoia 3 all for under $4 – but have to pay a whopping $12 for Zenoia 1.
    
    So as silly as it sounds unless there are massive specials or games that I would love to play from memories past, the eShop is practically dead and my 3DS becomes an over the counter game machine! They may as well scrap the eShop.
    
    Apple will eat them alive at this point, and with the pending Vita also running the Android marketplace with all the cheapies on there, Nintendo can forget it!
    
    Surely after all they talked about during the lead up to the eShop about learning lessons, it would seem like they forgot something along the way does it not?
    
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paulthegrouch

June 9, 2011 at 5:16 pm

New reader chiming in. Enjoying the coverage, looking for more details on the following.

Skyrim does indeed look pretty and the inventory management seems better than ESIV. However, some questions remain unanswered for me, and hopefully will become clearer before release date:

– Is there greater dungeon variability? I thought this was a bit of a downer in Oblivion. Admittedly, the forts etc should be expected to look a little similar but so many of the dungeons, caves, ruins etc were just a bit dull due to all looking the same. Maybe there’s some way to shake up the architecture of these things with some randomness, a la the dragon behavior.

– Is there more than a half-dozen voice actors? I loved the expansiveness of Oblivion. The limited number of voice actors however – and the stock pool of lines – made it a bit of a mismatch and a bit of a downer. No matter how far you traveled, time and again you’d hear the same voices saying the same things. At times that was amusing, but often it was a bit of an immersion breaking drawback. I think a little less enormous a world and more voices would be a better balance for me.

– The hints of in-world economy are interesting, but will it be possible to own businesses and rent property, etc? This would be welcome, at least to me. Seems like there’s less factions and Guilds, but maybe not. I wonder if like Oblivion you’ll be able to be members and head of all of them, or they’ll be more restrictive this time around.

As for the Wii U, I think somewhere around $500-550 is probably where it’ll slot in. How will the 3DS interact – if at all- with the new console? And, will we see a 3DS style controller next year??

I’m curious about the way the new controller will play previously released Wii titles. How effectively will it do so? Leaving aside issues of ergonomics, of course…

I’m thinking that some games that look a bit blah on my big plasma telly would probably look nicer on the smaller LCD of the controller, but the motion aspects for games like Twilight Princess or Epic Mickey make me curious to how well that would translate. If it works well enough, the new controller might also serve as way for the couch-lovers amongst us to dodge the threat of physical exertion required for some Wii titles…

The Trauma Centre games would be even more like the Operation board game! Maybe we’ll see titles experiment with leveraging that interface parallel. A Wii U Monopoly set that could integrate with a standard table top set, and stuff like that. The drawing elements suggest Pictionary or Yahtzee possibilities, etc.

Finally – any word on the Sorcery game for PS3? I’m sure I saw it unveiled last year as a cool showcase for the Move peripheral, but haven’t heard any more. Is it in development hell, or coming soon?

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AerintheGREAT

June 10, 2011 at 12:59 am

I was surprised to find myself more interested in the PSV than in Nintendo’s new console… Did not see that coming.

Also, Skyrim and Rage look pretty sweet.

Glad to have heard nothing from “Max Payne 3” so far… (Not-so-secretly hoping it gets canned so that Remedy/Sam Lake can actually do it right someday, I don’t care how long it takes)

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Jones

June 10, 2011 at 1:21 am

Uncharted 3 and Bioshock Infinite have me frothing with anticipation. The new Assassin’s Creed:Revelation cinematic trailer was great but I’m pretty much over AC at the moment. I tried for ages to talk up Resistance 2 back in the day only to be disappointed so now I have little interest in 3.

Mass Effect 3 can do no wrong, so long as they stop cramming that kinect rubbish down my throat and get back to showing me the game.

The lack of Last Guardian and Half-Life was sad but to be expected.

The cinematic trailers for Over-Strike and Old Republic were great.

Wii U? What the hell nintendo!? Was the whole point of that ugly looking machine to make Kung Pow relevant again? And didn’t you make some kind of 3D handheld? Where are the games that make me want to part with my money to get one?

Nothing that Microsoft and Sony had to show was of any real interest to me. Though the announcement of Sly 4 does make me smile.

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