The random cool things at E3 thread

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:59 pm

1) Guild Wars, the free Diablo-esque MMO brought to you buy some ex-Blizzard employees is now live for their "E3 for Everyone" campaign. They have a rather unique streaming client which you can download here and play.

2) Nintendo unveils it's Dual Screen system, called (appropriately enough) the DS. Read more about it here. high res picture of Metroid DS The short: Two screens, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons (possibly), and the bottom screen is touch-sensitive and includes a stylus. Also two ports: one for GBA games and one for smaller DS cartridges. Bluetooth wireless connectivity. 3D that surpasses the Nintendo 64.

3) Sony PSP was unveiled. Get pics here. Very wide screen. Uses both memory sticks and "universial media discs". Pretty poor battery life apparently.

4) Not really E3 news, but the new Thief game is now gold.

More tomorrow.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:00 pm

http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:31 pm

*cheeks blushes*

I'm pretty nervous.

Cougar · Post by **Cougar** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:38 pm

Damnit, I wish they'd hurry up and blow the lid off of Mario 128...

Skyalmian · Post by **Skyalmian** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:54 pm

DarkFlameWolf wrote:http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!

About time. I guess Miyamoto finally saw the light.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed May 12, 2004 7:32 am

man the PSP looks bad ass they just need to improve that batt life or have it do it buffers more of the data off of the disk so it wont run it all the time cause thats the batt sucker right there

DarkFlameWolf wrote:http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!

about damn they that drop that ★■◆● cell shadeing, it would have work good if they put in black lines.

but to me this is what zelda should look like

Neo · Post by **Neo** » Wed May 12, 2004 9:18 am

The Nintendo system looks cool

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed May 12, 2004 9:42 am

DarkFlameWolf wrote:http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!

And how! (though the music sucked...)

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:56 pm

Thief 3 is looking very promising in contrast to what we got in Invisible War.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Wed May 12, 2004 7:46 pm

T3 is looking good, but I still want a demo before I shell out $50.

Nexus_One · Post by **Nexus_One** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:22 am

DarkFlameWolf wrote:http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!

woot!!!

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:28 am

Spiderman 2 movies: http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/566/566218/vids_1.html

New info/screen on Battlefield 2: http://pc.ign.com/articles/514/514523p1.html

KOTOR 2 movie: http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140580.shtml

More new Link info: http://cube.ign.com/articles/513/513962p1.html

Final Fantasy XII info (namely, new battle system a la action-adventure games): http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/finalfa ... 97934.html

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:25 am

http://www.e3insider.com/floored.htm

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:52 am

Mr. Perfect wrote:T3 is looking good, but I still want a demo before I shell out $50.

You're not talking about Terminator 3, are you?

Stupid · Post by **Stupid** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:18 pm

Soo.... I'm pretty sure that the RPG fanatics that have posted in this topic already have/had intense optimism about FFXII already, because there's been tons of stories written about it already, lots of trailers, lots of plot revelations, and I have come to understand that it will be a very awesome game.... But what I'd like to know is about Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose. I can't seem to find any special plotline/hands-on descriptions of it yet, and I'm anticipating the release of this game MUCH more than the release of FFXII (partly because the story of Xenosaga isn't done yet....) BTW... I'm on poor 56k/computer, and I'm far too lazy to take the hours it would take to troll all the boards to come up with any info. I also thus don't have time to download trailers, which reminds me that I need to go troll around at my friend's house and d/l on his computer

.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu May 13, 2004 10:30 pm

One thing about Zelda is that it has never lost it's SNES MIDI music .

And XII is gonna ROCK.

It almost seems like the battle system will be somewhat simaler to XI where you may have the choice to avoid or engage the enemy.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Thu May 13, 2004 10:41 pm

Sergeant Thorne wrote:
Mr. Perfect wrote:T3 is looking good, but I still want a demo before I shell out $50.
You're not talking about Terminator 3, are you?

Thief 3, obviously.

[DWL]Punk · Post by **[DWL]Punk** » Fri May 14, 2004 4:26 am

or tribes 3...?

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:53 am

[DWL]Punk wrote:or tribes 3...?

Considering that Thief 3 was brought up twice already in the thread, including the one right above his, probably not.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Fri May 14, 2004 10:16 am

My blunder. I'm really looking forward to checking out Thief 3; I had a lot of fun with the Thief 2 demo (putting out lamps with water arrows, using gas arrows on guards, etc). It's too bad that it's centered around stealing; I wish they could have come up with a cleaner premise for such a cool old-age game.

*edit* - And let's not forget the rope arrows!

[DWL]Punk · Post by **[DWL]Punk** » Fri May 14, 2004 3:38 pm

you guys have bad taste in games.
especially that japanese sh*t
why?

GTA3:SA

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri May 14, 2004 4:14 pm

Sergeant Thorne wrote:My blunder. I'm really looking forward to checking out Thief 3; I had a lot of fun with the Thief 2 demo (putting out lamps with water arrows, using gas arrows on guards, etc). It's too bad that it's centered around stealing; I wish they could have come up with a cleaner premise for such a cool old-age game.

*edit* - And let's not forget the rope arrows!

You end up being more of an anti-hero actually. Theif 1 is more of an Indiana Jones adventure. Have you every played the full version?

you guys have bad taste in games.

Word.

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Sat May 15, 2004 3:11 am

I'll post a link to the best of my ~300mb of pics eventually.

Coolest things for me were:

The Blizzard trailers, especially the one for StarCraft Ghost. I have some clips of that thing, and it ROCKS.

Half-Life 2 demo was incredible.

The Skyline GTR parked in the Namco booth(that no one was really paying attention to).

Thief 3 does look(and play) well, and I can't wait to get the full version on the 26th.

The Nintendo DS looks AWESOME, especially with the backwards-compatibility.

And that's all I can think of right now, since I just got home after a 7.5 hour drive.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:27 am

Yeah Zelda Windwaker for GBC really didn't do it for me...Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were two of my all time favorites though. This new Zelda might make me have to switch back to Nintendo again...

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Mon May 17, 2004 4:28 pm

E3 kinda sucked this year.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:58 pm

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140731.shtml

The new Unreal 3 engine will trouce Half Life 2 and Doom 3.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:00 am

Gooberman wrote:E3 kinda sucked this year.

Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, HL2, Doom3, Unreal Engine 3, etc. What sucked, specifically?

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:45 am

[DWL]Punk wrote:GTA3:SA

GTA is so dull the 3rd one was cool for 30min then i got board with it

steal car
take it to a chop shop
steal another car
run over a few people
do mission
and so on

Unreal has allways been the killer of FPS cause that engine is so amazing, hell when Unreal came out during Quake 2 times Q2 look nice and colorfull and Unreal had the most amazing feel and the texters and the world look amazing

KompresZor · Post by **KompresZor** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:09 am

Guild Wars was fun while it lasted, thx for the heads up Tet

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Tue May 18, 2004 10:25 am

Doom3/HL2/Halo2 was just more of stuff we have seen. On the anouncement side there wasn't much. And also, most of those info/videos were released pre-e3.

Jagger · Post by **Jagger** » Tue May 18, 2004 8:33 pm

On that score I have to agree with Goob. A lot of the stuff we saw at last year's E3. Gran Turismo 4, Thief 3, Half-Life 2, Halo 2 etc. Not too many exciting games we haven't heard of already. Except for Final Fantasy XII, which looks great.

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:55 pm

I'm getting a Nintendo DS and that ★■◆●ing Zelda game. The PSP looks like a long terdy peice of ★■◆●. Maybe I'll buy one just to poop on it and return it.

Nexus_One · Post by **Nexus_One** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:00 pm

that new zelda game gives me a chub

i gotta get the psp, and maybe the ds if any more good games come out for it besides metroid prime

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:31 pm

every single game mentioned in this thread is a sequal.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Thu May 20, 2004 11:21 pm

Brothers in Arms is an interesting game that seemed to have generated far less press than it should have. Okay, it is a WW2 shooter. But the interesting thing is that it's a squad-based tactical realistic WW2 shooter. The guys at Gearbox (yes, I know, them) have this fairly high ranking military guy doing all the storyline and such, and I got to see a bit of it today. It looks really, really good. Two things of note that stand out: "suppression icons" over enemy's heads to see if they're a threat or not (i.e. if it's red they're firing at you, and if it's empty they're not going to risk sticking their head out and shoot at you), as well as the single-button context sensitive command system. If you've played RTS's, imagine having one of your two squads selected and right clicking on something on the screen and issuing orders depending on what you've selected.

And it's also not a sequel.

Edit: trailer

The random cool things at E3 thread

The random cool things at E3 thread

Realistic Zelda!

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Unreal 3 Tech Engine Demo