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The random cool things at E3 thread
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:59 pm
by Tetrad
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.
Realistic Zelda!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:00 pm
by DarkFlameWolf
http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?game ... 72874aee2e
Download, watch, discuss! The best Zelda footage I've seen in a long time!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:31 pm
by Sapphire Wolf
*cheeks blushes*
I'm pretty nervous.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:38 pm
by Cougar
Damnit, I wish they'd hurry up and blow the lid off of Mario 128...
Re: Realistic Zelda!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:54 pm
by Skyalmian
About time. I guess Miyamoto finally saw the light.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:32 am
by Warlock
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
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
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:18 am
by Neo
The Nintendo system looks cool
Re: Realistic Zelda!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:42 am
by Topher
And how! (though the music sucked...)
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:56 pm
by Top Wop
Thief 3 is looking very promising in contrast to what we got in Invisible War.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:46 pm
by Mr. Perfect
T3 is looking good, but I still want a demo before I shell out $50.
Re: Realistic Zelda!
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 12:22 am
by Nexus_One
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:28 am
by Tetrad
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:25 am
by Warlock
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:52 am
by Sergeant Thorne
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?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:18 pm
by Stupid
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
.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:30 pm
by JMEaT
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.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:41 pm
by Tetrad
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.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 4:26 am
by [DWL]Punk
or tribes 3...?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:53 am
by Tetrad
[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.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:16 am
by Sergeant Thorne
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!
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:38 pm
by [DWL]Punk
you guys have bad taste in games.
especially that japanese sh*t
why?
GTA3:SA
Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 4:14 pm
by Top Wop
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.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 3:11 am
by Jagger
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.
Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:27 am
by Beowulf
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...
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:28 pm
by Gooberman
E3 kinda sucked this year.
Unreal 3 Tech Engine Demo
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:58 pm
by DarkFlameWolf
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/140731.shtml
The new Unreal 3 engine will trouce Half Life 2 and Doom 3.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:00 am
by Tetrad
Gooberman wrote:E3 kinda sucked this year.
Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, HL2, Doom3, Unreal Engine 3, etc. What sucked, specifically?
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:45 am
by Warlock
[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
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:09 am
by KompresZor
Guild Wars was fun while it lasted, thx for the heads up Tet
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:25 am
by Gooberman
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.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:33 pm
by Jagger
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.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 6:55 pm
by Sage
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.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 10:00 pm
by Nexus_One
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
Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:31 pm
by roid
every single game mentioned in this thread is a sequal.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:21 pm
by Tetrad
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.
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trailer
