E3 motherfuckers.

[General Zod]

I had no idea black ops was such a style departure for CoD. No Kinect stuff yet?

There's been a few pre-e3 announcements. Some on-rails lightsaber game and a bunch of sports looking titles, but nothing really interesting.

[Stark]

So long as you can use it for game/party chat and it has face-tracking video chat I'll be happy.

[Gaidin]

There are legitimate reasons why the game may not be as great as first one. Such as the use of regen health for instance.

How the hell is that, of all things, a legit reason why the game won't be as good as the first? Micromanaging the inventory for medipacks isn't what carried the first game. In fact, if anything brought the game down a notch, it was that. The nano-tech/skills system combined with the awesomely tongue-in-cheek 20th Century Conspiracies story is what carried it.

[General Zod]

So apparently the latest, slimmer model of the 360 will include built-in wifi. It's about fucking time.

[Vendetta]

There are legitimate reasons why the game may not be as great as first one. Such as the use of regen health for instance.

How the hell is that, of all things, a legit reason why the game won't be as good as the first?

Bear in mind that in the first game you could get an aug that gave you regenerating health...

Deus Ex's inventory was the worst thing in it though, Diablo style inventory tetris does not belong in an FPS game, even one with pretensions of RPGness, and especially when no attempt is made to balance the inventory usage with the utility of the weapons (like the GEP gun, ammo for it was so rare that you'd hardly ever fire the thing at anything smaller than a military bot, and bots were stupid and easy to avoid anyway, so it was basically the least useful weapon, but it took up 8 inventory slots)

[Whiplash]

http://e3.g4tv.com/videos/46372/E3-2010 ... quality=hd

Awesome Super Scribblenauts trailer.

[weemadando]

360 "slim". I guess that replacing my dying 360 with something that mightn't have a 1:1 failure rate is an option now.

[Stark]

360 "slim". I guess that replacing my dying 360 with something that mightn't have a 1:1 failure rate is an option now.

Just like it has been for years.

[CaptHawkeye]

The number of horror stories on failed 360s have dropped off pretty sharply over the past two years or so. I don't find it hard to believe the major kinks have been basically worked out since 2008.

[Stark]

IF slims come out in AU in a reasonable timeframe there's no point to not buy one, though.

Flash can replace his and I'll get his wireless dongle for a steal!

[weemadando]

360 "slim". I guess that replacing my dying 360 with something that mightn't have a 1:1 failure rate is an option now.

Just like it has been for years.

My problems have never been the RROD or anything like that. It's been two optical drive failures (one currently in progress) and a video out fuckup.

[Qwerty 42]

The voice acting in Bulletstorm sounds absolutely awful.

[Stark]

The best part of E3 for me so far is Halo: Above and Beyond.

[CaptHawkeye]

Halo as a Space Sim? Bungie you are allowed to talk for just a little while more.

I bet that sequence will be like 1 minute though.

[Stark]

Since it appears to be the Assault level from UT2004, I doubt it will be very good.

[Companion Cube]

I really hope you can talk the midbosses in Deus Ex 3 into self-destructing.

[Gaidin]

I really hope you can talk the midbosses in Deus Ex 3 into self-destructing.

It'd be amusing if this is the character that convinces the cabal that such devices are necessary.

[adam_grif]

Adding links.

Cliff delivers some stuff for Stark and Hav to masturbate to.
Kojima can't stop beating a horse that died in 2003.
Our yearly dose of Madden Call of Duty.
Halo Reach stuff.

[Stark]

ITT everything that grif doesn't like is sidelined.

Is only bad when STRAK does it!

To add content, reach looks hilariously tacticool right down to the redsignedcwrspons, gears3 looks good and a clear technical advance over gears2, and Black ops actually looks to have a strong story element.

Okay, go back to wanking over a franchise that has sucked for more than a decade.

[adam_grif]

Okay, go back to wanking over a franchise that has sucked for more than a decade.

... are you saying I'm wanking over Halo?

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a shitty name, and so was GRAW. Also, part 2 of that video. Looks like it might be ok.
More Crysis 2 stuff.

[General Zod]

XBLA Summer of Arcade. Guardian of Light, Hydro Thunder, new Castlevania Game, Monday Night Combat, and Limbo all look more interesting than anything Microsoft put out during their Natal presentation.

[Gramzamber]

What is this multiplayer Castlevania shit?
When are they going to learn that if it's not good old Castlevania or Metroidvania, it's going to suck? Gah.

[Vendetta]

IF slims come out in AU in a reasonable timeframe there's no point to not buy one, though.

Apparently they'll be stopping manufacture of the old one immediately, so as soon as stocks of it are gone you should be seeing the new one.

[Stark]

Yeah my man told me there's a $100 all models price cut tomorrow and we get stock early next month.

But they're so ugly!

Ps lol at grifpocracy

[Flagg]

Man those TOR trailers are the best fucking SW we've gotten since Empire. Too bad the game will suck.