E3 2008: Microsoft Official Thread

[Roto13]

I don't want to play a single game on MILF's list. xP Not a one.

[Madame Adequate]

And he says I'm the one with bad taste.

Geometry Wars 2, Still Alive, and the Gears 2 news all has me very excited

[Roto13]

Castle Vidcons is on the ball again. :P

http://www.castle-vidcons.com/comics/2008/07/cv0045.jpg

[XxSephirothxX]

The thing is, I'm not so sure Microsoft even paid the big bucks for Final Fantasy XIII. If this happened three years ago, it'd be obvious they had. But their strategy is obviously to reach a larger audience in the west to support what must be a massively expensive game, and they'll certainly accomplish that this way. This may not be another scenario like they had with Rockstar for the GTA content. Either way, it's rather irrelevant, but it would be interesting to know what kind of dealings there were leading up to this.

Also, any more system wars nonsense from this point forward is going to get deleted, even if it makes the leftover discussion nonsensical. Seriously, keep that out of this thread or gtfo.

[Vyk]

Its called damage control. When people gloat I lay down the facts.

Gloating?

Also, any more system wars nonsense from this point forward is going to get deleted, even if it makes the leftover discussion nonsensical. Seriously, keep that out of this thread or gtfo.

Erm this is Microsoft's thread. How might the line be drawn?

So uh... what else was announced that I missed? Too many distractions..

[Karellen]

Peter Molyneux seemed really excited about Fable 2. Don't think anyone else was though.

[Vyk]

I hope they're not aiming too high this time. I liked Fable. But the constant bashing for missing content was annoying. Considering I never followed the game's production. It was all fresh to me. Too bad for those people. Maybe ignorance is bliss

[Roto13]

Peter Molyneux seemed really excited about Fable 2. Don't think anyone else was though.

Peter Molyneux is always really excited about everything.

[Dragonsoul]

Great conference! I watched it on G4 channel. I liked the Square Enix part best. Yoichi Wada started out with Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, and The Last Remnant. I have some interest in those games but I'm most likely to play The Last Remnant. Then he left, then while the Microsoft guy was talking Yoichi tapped him on the shoulder and said he had another announcement. This specific action was extremely funny and ultimate. Then the big news about Final Fantasy XIII. In the trailer I didn't like the music of it. We saw new great footage, atleast stuff we haven't seen in both FF XII public trailers. But I don't know if the choice and arrangement of the trailer was as great as the Dengeki trailer and original trailer. The best part of the trailer by far was the red haired pigtailed girl, one of the main character. Showing video of her was the great, and this is huge news.

I had a Xbox 360 earlier, bought it in August 2007 in mid August so I could rent Blue Dragon and decide whether or not I would buy it. Later I wanted to rent and possibly buy other games, but I was definetely planning to buy Lost Odyssey. I bought and beat Eternal Sonata though, which is great. I had to sell my Xbox 360 to round up some money for a Nintendo DS for Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, so I don't have the console anymore. I was planning to buy a Playstation 3 later this year for whenever the Final Fantasy XIII demo would come out.

I hope that the Xbox 360 and PS 3 versions of Final Fantasy XIII are almost exactly the same. I want them to be released on the same dates for each specific territory. Each territory will get seperate release dates probably. I hope that there is no certain version of the game with many bugs or something also.

Now that Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII(probably in my opinion) are coming out for Xbox 360, I don't have a real reason to buy a PS 3 for rpg's...
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom - Not good and popular, not interested
Folklore - Better, but nothing too important I think
Disgaea 3 - Great, but not my style, I prefer FF Tactics A2
Valkyria Chronicles - Not too interested in this one either
White Knight Chronicles - Most interested in this but not really though, I didn't finish Rogue Galaxy(same development team) for PS 2.

As far as non-rpg's and non-rts games go, I probably would only play: Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Racing games. MGS 4 is great and could push me to a PS 3 if the other games are great for it. Resident Evil 5 is coming out for both PS 3 and Xbox 360 so it doesn't push me either way. Same thing for Silent Hill: Homecoming. For Racing there is Burnout Paradise for both systems but Gran Turismo 5 for PS 3 but I prefer Burnout Paradise. I probably will end up not buying a PS 3.

Playstation 3 is getting killed off by Xbox 360 and Wii as far as rpg's go. Interesting situation we have now!

[Fonzie]

Too human sucks ass, don't bother with it.

Played the demo today, and I nearly had a lulz storm.

[Old Manus]

Square went to Sony for cash too. Sony didn't have the only CD based console on the market at the time. In fact it had an inferior CD based console at the time

I hope you're not talking about the Saturn

[Raebus]

The saturn was awesome.

[Madame Adequate]

Too human sucks ass, don't bother with it.

Played the demo today, and I nearly had a lulz storm.

Before I played the demo it would not have been on that list

Anyway yeah on the downside, I'm not sure how I feel about the Miis. They look kinda retarded.

[Dreddz]

Fallout 3 looked disappointing in my opinion, was expecting more.

The saturn was awesome.

You speak sense for once.

[JKTrix]

Too human sucks ass, don't bother with it.

Played the demo today, and I nearly had a lulz storm.

I'm about to fire it up again right now, but yea... when I was playing it at 3-something this morning, I wasn't particularly enjoying it. Let's see if lucidity changes anything.