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General: Seven Random E3 2011 Thoughts
SBFord
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After attending last week's E3 convention in Los Angeles, MMORPG.com Lead Writer Bill Murphy has a few random thoughts about the things he both saw and experienced. And, yes, Hulk Hogan makes his presence felt in The List. Check it out!
This is going to be a decided un-MMO centric List this week. In honor of the closing of the biggest show in gaming, we thought we’d go through a few of our biggest surprises from the show, and that includes games and devices from just about every corner of the industry. We saw a ton of games, gizmos, and other odds and ends from Tuesday through Thursday, and just about all of them had something to offer. But these are just a few of all the things we experienced which really jumped out of nowhere and made us smile.
Read more of Bill Murphy's The List: Seven Random E3 2011 Thoughts.
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I am surprised that your random E3 thoughts included a couple of games like Dead Island, but didn't include SWToR. Maybe you have a special article just for that.
Currently playing:
Rift
Played:
SWToR, Aion,EQ, Dark Age of Camelot
World of Warcraft, AoC
On the Wii U:
Pretty much lol about it, they are a bit behind the times and lol@running on xbox hardware. Mostly this: Careful about calling it tablet like--it very much isn't. From what I've read, it's essentially sends/recieves and displays. It has no strength of it's own.
Still I could a handheld secondary monitor as being useful in many games for separate displays.
Also
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug.
12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
The Wii U sounds like a good idea. Then again, so did Gamecube and Gameboy integration. Anyone remember playing the first Crystal Chronicles game multiplayer with everyone having their own screen? It was a cool concept but forced you to use a limited controller and small screen. The Dreamcast had similar ideas related to the VMU system. I can see the mini-screen in the controller being useful, but I don't believe they will pull off real-time full motion screen video wirelessly without any type of lag if presenting high-quality video content. Using it for selecting plays in Madden? Great and very feasiable. Using it to play a FPS in multiplayer? I have some concerns.
Some would further argue that beyond the local multiplayer aspect, do you really need another mini screen? I can see it uncluttering the HUD in some games but now you have to look in two places for information (TV vs controller screen). I can see this as a double-edged sword.
Cheers for Dead Island
sounds AND looks well!
I have heard it said by the crew of G4 that the new controller for the Wii U looks new and exciting, but it is difficult to say if it will amount to anything other than a gimmick. Developers never strayed very far from the original idea of the Wii motion sensing system or came up with much new or innovative with it. It is very possible the same may happen with the new controller and you will end up with a big fat controller with a map on it and not much more.
A good gimmick does not make a good system. Only time will tell.
Currently playing:
Rift
Played:
SWToR, Aion,EQ, Dark Age of Camelot
World of Warcraft, AoC
The psvita excited me a lot more than the Wii U...
I guess because I could care less about a controller with a screen on it, which was pretty much all they said about the Wii U. I'm more concerned with how powerful it will be, will it be weaker than ps3, slightly stronger (what seems most likely to me), or truly next generation.
I heard the wii-u will have a normal controller too so if you don't like the big screen one, than you don't have to worry.
"Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security." -Norman Vincent Peale
Wii U is blah, Dead Island is surprising, I don't share your feelings on PayDay (perhaps my soul was stolen by writers who assume too much), and Prime World...actually I've never heard of that one :O You piqued my interest on that. It sounds like a fun idea, I'll have to look into it.
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Good to see the guys from World of Tanks pimpin it correct on the game floor. They have a niche game, and pull it off well.
Wii U is quite a letdown for me, maybe I have just weak fantasy, but I cant imagine anyone constantly waving with something in size of a brick for couple hours. That, and second, it will be rather hard to concentrate on two screens rather then one, that example with map, when you have it on screen you constantly see it at least with your periferal vision, but with Wii U its the TV or the controller with map. At least thats how it seems to me.
When you get down to it, not much interesting news on the MMO front.
The difference between the dreamcast and the WU is, the dreamcast was ahead of its time and the WU.... well.. let's just say its right smack-dab in the middle of the ipad trend.
Oh and if you think the average consumer cares whether the controller has a processor of it own, then you're in for a shocker. All Nintendo needs is cool factor and games and they have both at their disposal.
This is not a game.
World of Tanks makes me cry. It could've been so great with even just a grain of realism. As it is today it's as unrealistic as a sci-fi game. Gives us an updated WWII Online please!
Alot of Ground breaking.............stuff.........at E3
Its like this, you get a hamburger, and its big and jucy and yummy! and then as the decades go by, we still pay the same and say "wheres the beef"
If your a young person dont get old..........
Im really starting to understand scrouge.......
Hulkamania rooous bruther!
But yeah, Wii U and Vita are a nice start to the next gen. The King is looking forward to it.
Sorry but Omg...
The Wii U can hardly do anything you can't do with a PS3 and a PS Vita. And with the PS Vita you can play standalone games anywhere else as well. Sure, buying a ps3 and a ps Vita is more expensive than buying a Wii U, but you can NOT call that "innovation".
The Wii-mote was innovation. Innovation surrounded by hardware that could make even an Apple diciple cry but innovation nonetheless.
The 3DS was innovation, nauseating when playing for more than 10 minutes and eating batteries faster than your average electric "friend" but it still did something no other game platform on the market could do.
The Wii U is sadly already glorified, even though I suspect most people who went to both the Nintendo and the Sony press conference probably left the Nintendo conference with an interest in the Wii U (pumped to Savior of Mankind status by Nintendo's crazy fanboi stage presenters), just to later leave the Sony conference, in which the PS Vita was presented, thinking "but wait a minute..."