Topic: CHATTING DURING THE E3 PRESS CONFERENCE

[kraken613]

Wow............. That was bad!

Where was the game the hardcore would go crazy about?

I mean I think they want to turn us all in to casual gamers!

Come on Nintendo.............. Im so dissapointed............... Casual isnt the market you go for during E3! You would have thought they would have learned that last year!

[GoldenPhoenix]

I thought there was going to be a big unexpected surprise for the more hardcore Nintendo fans?

[stevey]

AC was awesome, wiimusic cool, wiisport rapes me of monies, But why not release voice chat back when Mario striker, SSBB, and Mario kart came out Nintendo!!?!!

[Strell]

Please.  Someone who works at NWR, or any other affiliate associated with the press...

Just kick Matt in the nuts.  I'm choosing to blame some of this disappointment on him with all his shitty rumors and useless hype.

[AV]

GTA for DS is hardcore game and big surprise.

however where is Kid Icarus, Punchout Out, Pikmin 3?

what about harddrive support?

Animal Crossing did seem like a vast improvement to the formula, and voice chat is nice.
Wii Music seems ok, Wiisports Resort seems ok but 1:1 is great.

Mixed bag.

1:1, VoiceChat are things we want but I want a game to use it THIS YEAR.
Sad this isn't shipped with Star Wars game this year.

overall C+

[mantidor]

so not even a single third party game was shown?

[Ian Sane]

I'm just following on text transcripts but it sounds like Wii Music is not a game in any way, shape or form.  If it requires no rhythm and no skill and has no objective and just plays itself it is not a videogame.

Rock Band and Guitar Hero are going to crush it like a grape.  Those games are mainstream.  All the non-gamers at my office that love Wii Sports love those games too.  Wii Music sounds so dumbed down that any person of slight intelligence would be insulted by it.

The Wii is for girls, geezers, kids and morons.  I feel like a complete tool for even owning one.  I want Nintendo to give me a f*cking refund.  A f*cking refund for the last 15 years.

Nintendo is totally banking on non-gamers now.  Once the fad is over they are out of business and I will dance when I hear the news because they'll f*cking deserve it.  They are a con company like EA.

[Mario]

LOL!!!!!

[AV]

so not even a single third party game was shown?

What the hell your talking about, thats the problem to many 3rd party games we KNOW about was shown.

I already knew about that snowboarding game, rabbids, call of duty and star wars. I wanted more from Nintendo Wiimusic and Animal Crossing are games that I won't buy so nothing for me outside of random 3rd party stuff.

[mantidor]

I'm not following any chats or videofeeds or anything so I wasn't sure, from what I'm reading in random forums around the internet is some sort of a show about three games and practically no footage of anything else.

[RABicle]

Reggie told you to shut up Ian. When he talked about fads he was talking directly to you.

[Pale]

I'm like 95% happy with Animal Crossing... it looks awesome, but I wish it looked a bit more advanced than the N64 turned GameCube original.  Voice chat will be sweet.

I just don't get the rest of the conference.  Ending on Wii Music was a HUGE mistake.  It would have been like Microsoft ending on that bad movie game instead of Final Fantasy XIII.

[Strell]

I'm not following any chats or videofeeds or anything so I wasn't sure, from what I'm reading in random forums around the internet is some sort of a show about three games and practically no footage of anything else.

Basically.

They showed Animal Crossing with a new voice chat mic that plugs into your USB port and sits on top of the sensor bar.  So now we have voice chat.

Then they showed Rabbids 3, Call of Duty, and some nonsense I don't remember.

They showed Wii Sports 2 but basically made it look boring.

They showed Wii Music, which literally requires no skill at all to play.  None.  Air-guitar is harder to play.  Seriously.

GTA coming to the DS but not shown in any way.

Nothing else.  No Punch-Out, no Kid Icarus, no Wario: Shake, no anything.  For the last 6 months we've been told that we'll find out plans for the rest of this year from E3, and absolutely nothing happened.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I'm just following on text transcripts but it sounds like Wii Music is not a game in any way, shape or form.  If it requires no rhythm and no skill and has no objective and just plays itself it is not a videogame.

Rock Band and Guitar Hero are going to crush it like a grape.  Those games are mainstream.  All the non-gamers at my office that love Wii Sports love those games too.  Wii Music sounds so dumbed down that any person of slight intelligence would be insulted by it.

The Wii is for girls, geezers, kids and morons.  I feel like a complete tool for even owning one.  I want Nintendo to give me a f*cking refund.  A f*cking refund for the last 15 years.

Nintendo is totally banking on non-gamers now.  Once the fad is over they are out of business and I will dance when I hear the news because they'll f*cking deserve it.  They are a con company like EA.

Mr. Dramatic. ::rolls eyes::

[blackfootsteps]

I just don't get the rest of the conference.  Ending on Wii Music was a HUGE mistake.  It would have been like Microsoft ending on that bad movie game instead of Final Fantasy XIII.

Especially coz they pumped it up with all the lights and smoke, I thought surely it was a new game.

[AV]

I'm just following on text transcripts but it sounds like Wii Music is not a game in any way, shape or form.  If it requires no rhythm and no skill and has no objective and just plays itself it is not a videogame.

Rock Band and Guitar Hero are going to crush it like a grape.  Those games are mainstream.  All the non-gamers at my office that love Wii Sports love those games too.  Wii Music sounds so dumbed down that any person of slight intelligence would be insulted by it.

The Wii is for girls, geezers, kids and morons.  I feel like a complete tool for even owning one.  I want Nintendo to give me a f*cking refund.  A f*cking refund for the last 15 years.

Nintendo is totally banking on non-gamers now.  Once the fad is over they are out of business and I will dance when I hear the news because they'll f*cking deserve it.  They are a con company like EA.

So your hating it because its more like real life and not fake like those games?

You actually make music not PRETEND YOUR PLAYING MUSIC.

Wii Music is going to be more I don't know worthwhile. Guitar Hero and Rock Band only give you the illusion of music being made.

You can have a band and play music and actually become good , not just good at staring at a tv and pushing buttons at right time. A monkey can do that, but Wiimusic you have to try to make it sound good and work on it like a real band.

I don't like music games in general but at least Nintendo is trying something new.

[Spak-Spang]

So many questions left unanswered with this show...but positives are definitely here.

1)Voice Chat is now available...which means games like Conduit and Call of Duty will be using it...perhaps the new Bond game as well.  This is good.  But can this be implemented with a Chat Channel as well?  And could that Chat Channel be launched with another game playing...so to get backwards compatible chat?  I don't see why not...Nintendo can you make it happen?

2)I want to know more about the Wii Sports sequel.  I love adding new sports to the game...but I hope the old games are back re-envisioned and better than ever.

3)Wii Music sounds intriguing, and now I will definitely get Wii Fit so I can have Wii Music.  Will it be using Motionplus?  Surely it must...

4)Nintendo seems to be allowing their 3rd party support to shine this E3 which is important...but it also starts to show how much esteem the new E3 has.  I believe Nintendo is just showing what it needs to for the year.  Tokyo Game Show seems to excite me now. 

What I want to know is how many 3rd party games are being designed with Wii Motionplus controls.

[King of Twitch]

Wii Sports Resort next spring just seems so far off. Next year the Wii is over the hill and Nintendo starts working on the next hardware and a final Zelda hurrah, then it's goodbye Wii.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Ian, quit being emo.

The conference was okay and on par with Microsoft's conference. The mic looks cool so does animal crossing, and Wii sports looks fun and the 1:1 is going to be crazy when implemented right. Wii Music is ehh but not as bad as At the movies that Microsoft showed off. The main thing Wii Music has is that it doesn't require any instruments and you probably have more diversity rather than sticking to songs included on the disc, its cool that you can make your own videos. GTA on DS could be interesting if done right. The Shawn White thing is okay at best.

[Mikintosh]

This is why I never get my hopes up for these things; the last video game announcement that really piqued my interest was when they announced Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy on the same day, and that was three years ago, I think. Companies should always have those kinds of announcements ready, so when people are talking about their company, they aren't saying how shitty their product line is (Rare avatars? a weird controller add-on? f-ing Wii Music?). It amazes me that these companies all have massive PR departments that can't even handle this kind of thing right.

People saying the Wii isn't worth owning, though, is ridiculous. Other than for Animal Crossing (which will come out later) and the Mario sports games, the Wii has every game I'd want for a system, and I'm more satisfied with its library than the 360's, and it's cheaper to boot. Nintendo should be putting out more games for "core gamers" (which makes them sound like a lobby group), but they've put out plenty already. This isn't television that needs new content constantly; the old stuff should last you awhile.

[Mario]

The drum simulator involving the balance board is what makes me consider buying Wii Music. The rest seems very unclear. If you can create music properly then it will be fantastic.

I was also excited for a new game for that puff of smoke, thinking possibly Zelda or Starfox. That was quite cruel, also the F-Zero tease.

That Wave Race type game in Wii Sports Resort looks mindblowing. BUT it's a 2009 title so it's hard to get too excited.

Wii Sports Resort next spring just seems so far off. Next year the Wii is over the hill and Nintendo starts working on the next hardware and a final Zelda hurrah, then it's goodbye Wii.

Did you even watch the conference? DS hasn't even hit the peak of it's cycle yet, let alone Wii.

[Ian Sane]

If Reggie wants me to shut up then he's going to have to make me.  I've been raised on "murder simulators".  He doesn't stand a chance.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Well what I like about the Wii and DS is that it offers more diversity than the PS3 and 360 does atleast Nintendo has the balls to release new types of things and not just stay on the island of safe franchises and genres only.

[Pale]

Just wanted to let everyone know I'm gonna keep the AIM chat riding through the Sony conference, so please let me know if you want an invite.  Best way is just to AIM me at...

palezer0

(the last 0 is a number zero)

[KDR_11k]

Pretty meh conference, only two new games (Wii Music was known before though not detailled) and one is not very new from what I can see. The business talk will give Malstrom something to quote but probably bored everyone else (I did look at it with Malstrom's articles in mind, not much new data except they're saying they're constantly trying to move the goalposts for their disruption, probably to shake any chasers off the trail). I do like how Reggie used the term veteran gamer which expresses that they have experience with games but doesn't say anything about their commitment or oppinions. None of this hardcore jibba-jabba.

Oh and Ian is another parody of a hardcore gamer .

so not even a single third party game was shown?

No, in fact it was almost all third party games.