Microsoft E3 Conference 2011

[skeezer]

http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/microsoft-e3/

Link for those of you who missed it live.

Games:

Spoiler:

[Luinil]

how about a sumation? I can't watch that or read it while at work...

[El Duderino]

Well skeet says it was bad, but he's a sony fanboy... I say it was very solid... I'll try to give a short summary when Im done making dinner...

[skeezer]

how about a sumation? I can't watch that or read it while at work...

I would but I'm a biased source you wouldnt want a summation from me on this.

I'll give you a game list though.

[El Duderino]

^^ Well to be fair you didn't go all out fanboy against MS...

I say they did a very solid job... they know that new hardware from Nintendo and Sony will get the biggest hype so they just concentrated on their own strong points...

The core gamer exclusives where Gears 3 which looks awesome (Ice-T was on stage for that and its getting a Public Enemy reunion song... so you know its cool... cool as ice )
Then there is the Halo1 remake coming this yeah which should be fun...
Forza4 with kinect support for the racing fans...
A sweet looking kinect game where you massacre people in ancient rome using the cryengine...
A Fable spinoff for kinect that looked pretty cool...
Star Wars kincet... well yeah I think everyone knows it will be a letdown but it did look better than the first video from last year so I'll give it a try...
Also some games with exclusive content like MW3, ME3, new tomb raider and new rainbow six...

And then there is Mincraft coming to Xbox and supporting kinect... I think this could be a real hit... I've played a little minecraft but didn't time to really get into it... but my brother did some pretty awesome stuff building things online together with friends... I think that will be really interesting to share a world with friends where you have complete freedom to create whatever you want... all it still need IMO is a competitive mode where you attack each others fortresses or a mode where you defend against creeps dota style...

Oh yeah and of course there was a trailer for Halo4 coming next year...

Then they had tons of casual kinect games... Sports2, Dance Central 2 with 2 player mode and tons of songs... Sesame Street game... Virtual Disneyland with games for the different rides...
What was really interesting there was that they showed of finger tracking (finally) and also scanning people and objects with kinect... that was pretty impressive stuff and they also talked about people being able to do new things playing around with kinect and hinted at official PC support...

And of course they did a thing about the 360 and kinect being the ultimate multimedia system... voice and motion activation from your couch... voice activated online searches... youtube on 360... nothing super exciting but its been MSs plan to establish the 360 as the living-room device that can be used for most everything by anyone and easy to use... and they seem to be getting closer to that... weather people want that is another question... youtube could be pretty interesting though if they integrate it in game so you can easily upload your best killstreaks and stuff...

[dsister]

I was really impressed by Future Soldier, Ryse, and Mass Effect 3 with their Kinect functionality.

Not so much with what they are doing with Fable... I'll probably end up with Halo 1 and Halo 4 too. Pretty good conference overall

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