RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Games and Tech E3 2012

hooray?

boo

I heard they got rid of booth babes and replaced them with Llance cosplayers.

Mmmmm...No.

I think that last time I was truly excited about E3 was at the beginning of this generation.

Now it's just...Meh.

booth babes died out in like 2003. or, at least, excessive booth babes, for the sake of excessiveness. they still have a few, but its not like what things were.



but this is the start of a new generation!

true wii-u debut (i do wuhoo! [not you, boo hoo]), 3ds and vita now moving into their first real cycle, xbox and playstation ready to tease their next moves (already rumors of an xbox tablet)

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of next-Gen console information out, including games being developed for them. Maybe I'll pick up a PS3 or Wii when the next consoles come out and just play those game libraries instead of updating my Xbox. I'm just not thrilled about the gaming industry any more, and I think they're on the road to creating another crash caused by their greed and anti-piracy measures that have become a bane to gamers (see: DIABLO III server crash).

Consider me schooled.

Seriously though, I just don't like the direction that games are going in. I've built up a mighty library of games over the past seven years (holy fuck! Has it really been that long!?), but the more recent the games are, the bigger the increase in trends I dislike. And I don't see any sign of them being halted--especially not with EA controlling most of the market share.

Don't get me wrong. I like the more environmentally friendly tropes we're treated to nowadays. I'm very happy with the fact that wall-hugging, strafing, climbing, and third-person perspective are becoming more standardized. But more and more often, I'm finding that developers feel that they can just work on these presentational aspects and forget about everything else. What ends up suffering the most in this arrangement is the story. In which case, I've had my heart broken way too many times this gen.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the problems I had with Mass Effect. I tend to see the same problems from that game manifesting in other franchises that I find are suffering. Individual franchises seem to just be passed through too many hands throughout the development process. And what's more, their developments become way too dependent upon extraneous pop-cultural shit and producer decisions to be coherent products.

The Mass Effect trilogy was developed over the better part of a decade in the midst of a gaming culture that was still discovering new mechanics, which were evolving according to fan popularity. As a result, the genre became more confused the more the mechanics changed. Compounding this issue, the franchise switched writers three times and changed owners once. To that end, Mass Effect 1 cannot be compared to Mass Effect 2 cannot be compared to Mass Effect 3 cannot be compared to Mass Effect 1.

A more recent example of butchering is going to be Hitman: Absolution. All the modern tropes (and then some) are applied and then bundled with a shitty derivative story that just jettisons the relevance of the previous games. And I was never a big Splinter Cell fan, but even I could tell that Conviction was a fucking slap in the face to all the iterations that came before it.

It is for this reason the I'm going to attempt to move away from franchise-based games and more towards one-shots...God willing developers are able to invest time in such animals. Naughty Dog's The Last of Us has potential as that type of game.

Did you watch the pre-E3 Nintendo thing, rob? Hulk Hogan Batman? I had an erection the whole time, for unrelated reasons, but the new Wii U features they showed looked pretty cool. I'll probably watch Tuesday's conference live.

Mxy is lying, he just wants to bed you.

Would I lie to you?

I honestly don't know, but I hope you're willing to bed me.

IN THE ASS

Souped up Arkham City with all the DLC for the WiiU? Awesome. I hate the four player concept of SMBWii, adding a fifth for the WiiU is going to drive me insane when playing with wife, friends, and family. I'm still surprised at the level of suck some people exhibit with a nearly thirty-year old concept. Still, I love me some one player SMB side-scrolling action so--again--awesome.

I thought the Nintendo presentation was pretty lame. The best Wii U game so far is still Rayman Legends, and they showed that one weeks ago.

Wii U is getting Mass Effect 3 as a launch title so Bioware can piss off every gaming demographic.

I just saw the demonstration of The Last of Us.

I am now kind of excited....and aroused.

Can't embed. But here's the link:

http://eventsnetwork.com/content/e3-2012-last-us-gameplay-trailer-sony-conference


Or if Rob would be so kind:

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