VGA Game Premieres

[archie4208]

So I'm slightly confused. The Batman game is gonna be at Arkham again? I was hoping for a change of venue.

But what's the deal with the "Arkham Asylum has moved stuff".

Unfortunately I went to the Batman bathroom during the video.  

The Joker takes over Gotham City.

[Stoney Mason]

So I'm slightly confused. The Batman game is gonna be at Arkham again? I was hoping for a change of venue.

But what's the deal with the "Arkham Asylum has moved stuff".

Unfortunately I went to the Batman bathroom during the video.  

The Joker takes over Gotham City.

Ah... So its not just going to be just at Arkham? Or too early to know?

[archie4208]

So I'm slightly confused. The Batman game is gonna be at Arkham again? I was hoping for a change of venue.

But what's the deal with the "Arkham Asylum has moved stuff".

Unfortunately I went to the Batman bathroom during the video.  

The Joker takes over Gotham City.

Ah... So its not just going to be just at Arkham? Or too early to know?

The tagline is "Arkham has moved".  It is inferring that the crazies have taken over Gotham.

[maxy]

Now to find high res trailers of Reach and Crackdown

[archie4208]

FYI, www.arkhamhasmoved.com is up now.  There isn't anything up, though.

[Stoney Mason]

The tagline is "Arkham has moved".  It is inferring that the crazies have taken over Gotham.

Oh...

That's kinda confusing.

But then I didn't see the video...

[ManaByte]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

[archie4208]

The tagline is "Arkham has moved".  It is inferring that the crazies have taken over Gotham.

Oh...

That's kinda confusing.

But then I didn't see the video...

The Joker was in some random building in the city and was hooked up to an IV.  It is a direct sequel to AA.

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[Stoney Mason]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

lol. We'll see which sells more and gets better reviews.

[fistfulofmetal]

Batman just came out a few months ago. Really weird they announced a sequel already.

[duckman2000]

So I'm guessing the Operation Anaconda thing was correct, and they just sort of toned down the direct connection. Hot.

[ManaByte]

Anyone have the TFU trailer?

[archie4208]

Batman just came out a few months ago. Really weird they announced a sequel already.

I hope it has been in planning for awhile, preferably even before AA came out.  I loved AA and would hate to see a hasty cash in sour my previous experience with the game.

edit:  The website seems to imply Two Face will be in the game.

[Don Flamenco]

you guys are watching this shit?  smh 

[ManaByte]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

lol. We'll see which sells more and gets better reviews.

Sheep will flock to COD because of blind brand loyalty.

[Crushed]

Spec Ops looks great. You can see they're taking some cues from Uncharted 2 too, which is great.

Pretty sure Uncharted 2 started a trend on big set pieces being actually playable. Hope we see alot more of that from now on.

[Bebpo]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

lol. We'll see which sells more and gets better reviews.

Sheep will flock to COD because of blind brand loyalty.

Uh, did you just own yourself?

[duckman2000]

Crushed airlifting posts from GAF, smh.

[demi]

Fucking Batman thats so awesome.

[ManaByte]

The new MoH looks alot better than MW2.

Anyone who thinks Treyarchs CoD7 will compare to it is an idiot.

[Don Flamenco]

Spec Ops looks great. You can see they're taking some cues from Uncharted 2 too, which is great.

Pretty sure Uncharted 2 started a trend on big set pieces being actually playable. Hope we see alot more of that from now on.

also there are guns in it, which they must have gotten from Uncharted 2.  other games had guns before, but uncharted 2 really made them popular.

[Stoney Mason]

Sheep will flock to COD because of blind brand loyalty.

Or Anti-Sheep will try to pimp a game they have never played to be "teh awesome" to try to be all anti-mainstream. Whatever that means.

Like I said reviews and sales will determine all. I'm more than happy to leave it up to that and hope for two good games.

[Crushed]

other games had guns before, but uncharted 2 really made them popular.

You piece of shit idiot, that's a fucking lie and you know it. Why do I deal with such Xbots.

[fistfulofmetal]

has the spec ops trailer been posted? whats it even about?

[maxy]

you guys are watching this shit?  smh 

Yeah show was shit,awards thing sucked and i saw more commercials in last 2 hours than in last 5 years,but we got some very  footage

[Stoney Mason]

has the spec ops trailer been posted? whats it even about?

I don't see it on youtube yet (At least the new version not the old). Third Person shooter. Lots of shooting. I'd need to see it again. It didn't really strike me as hot on first viewing.

[Third]

Why is Bungie still lying to us? It's the whole Halo 3 fiasco again.
First "realtime" footage looking great >>>> final game looking like shit.

[Stoney Mason]

Why is Bungie still lying to us? It's the whole Halo 3 fiasco again.
First "realtime" footage looking great >>>> final game looking like shit.

Supposedly it is a new engine. Obviously people will have to wait until beta to see what the actual game truly looks like.

[iconoclast]

Heh, I thought it looked pretty UE3 too. Obviously the final game won't have ridiculous AA like that, but if that trailer is any indication it'll look pretty hot.

[maxy]

Why is Bungie still lying to us? It's the whole Halo 3 fiasco again.
First "realtime" footage looking great >>>> final game looking like shit.

Cry moar please.
Its in engine cinematic and we all new that from the day one.

[Bebpo]

Where are you guys seeing this stuff?  I saw a Reach trailer and it just showed the earth blowing up from the sky.  No actual game visuals.

[Don Flamenco]

other games had guns before, but uncharted 2 really made them popular.

You piece of shit idiot, that's a fucking lie and you know it. Why do I deal with such Xbots.

OH OKAY I can think of 3 right away.  There's like...halo, max payne, contra...??

[Third]

Why is Bungie still lying to us? It's the whole Halo 3 fiasco again.
First "realtime" footage looking great >>>> final game looking like shit.

Cry moar please.
Its in engine cinematic and we all new that from the day one.

hey, it's just that the first gameplay footage of Halo 3 made my eyes vomit after seeing the great introduction trailer.
I'm just being skeptical about this new footage. Negative déjà vu, that's all.

[duckman2000]

Or Anti-Sheep will try to pimp a game they have never played to be "teh awesome" to try to be all anti-mainstream.

You're being trolled, dude. Besides, Medal of Honor is hardly an indie franchise. I am starting to get increasingly irritated with the limited memory of gamers, though. IW makes good, addictive games, but the MW games are hardly trailblazers for current-era war games. Hell, the air support bits there looked like straight up Battlefield.

hey, it's just that the first gameplay footage of Halo 3 made my eyes vomit after seeing the great introduction trailer.
I'm just being skeptical about this new footage. Negative déjà vu, that's all.

That's still nothing compared to the Halo 2 mess. The first trailer, and then that whole E3 demonstration. 

[Eel O'Brian]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

lol. We'll see which sells more and gets better reviews.

Wii Fit > MW2 confirmed

[Eel O'Brian]

Should've phrased it as "Arkham Has Expanded" or "Arkham Has Added a New Wing."

[archie4208]

MoH looks great. Activision is owned.

lol. We'll see which sells more and gets better reviews.

Wii Fit > MW2 confirmed

This is true regardless.

[maxy]

Where are you guys seeing this stuff?  I saw a Reach trailer and it just showed the earth blowing up from the sky.  No actual game visuals.

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[Stoney Mason]

You're being trolled, dude. Besides, Medal of Honor is hardly an indie franchise. I am starting to get increasingly irritated with the limited memory of gamers, though. IW makes good, addictive games, but the MW games are hardly trailblazers for current-era war games. Hell, the air support bits there looked like straight up Battlefield.

I don't know people around here well enough yet to know who is joking or who isn't joking in which circumstances. It takes time to learn that stuff. 

As far as the rest I don't know exactly what you are speaking to.

[Bebpo]

Ah, the environments look better for sure.  The special effects in the sky looked crazy, Bungie has good art direction.
Character models looked about the same as ODST, which is to say very good with helmets on, poor without.

What I'm not happy about is we still don't know what genre of game this is.  Is it an MMOFPS, is it like MAG, is it a 4p coop story campaign like Halo 3?  I'd like to know wtf Reach actually is.

[duckman2000]

As far as the rest I don't know exactly what you are speaking to.

I'm talking about the irritating amount of "Medal of Warfare" and "rip-off total" shit elsewhere. Popularity is one thing, but when popularity ends up clouding the history of things, it gets to be irritating. Smart move of IW nabbing "modern warfare," I bet Ubi wishes that it picked that instead of "advanced warfighter."

[Stoney Mason]

As far as the rest I don't know exactly what you are speaking to.

I'm talking about the irritating amount of "Medal of Warfare" and "rip-off total" shit elsewhere. Popularity is one thing, but when popularity ends up clouding the history of things, it gets to be irritating. Smart move of IW nabbing "modern warfare," I bet Ubi wishes that it picked that instead of "advanced warfighter."

Meh. I think you are being over-sensitive to that. People will judge the game based on the end product. Until then they will snipe at it like every other game gets sniped at by people including all the pre-release sniping that occured towards Modern Warfare.

All that matters in the end is reviews and sales and what an indivdual thinks about an individual game. That last thing matters the most anyway.

[M3wThr33]

Hot:

Batman sequel
Crackdown 2
Reach
Spec Ops
Mass Effect 2 trailer
Prince of Persia movie

Not:

Prince of Persia game
Tron

Indiffrent:

True Crime
TFU2
Beard of Honor

Was that all that was revealed? Shear curiosity. Which of those will end up on the Wii? Out of 11 games.

[duckman2000]

I think you are being over-sensitive

And this from the dude that went into a sales and reviews argument with manabyte. smh.

Just saying, it gets on my nerves, especially when it all seems based on a common era. On the other hand, I'm hoping that this focus on explosive skirmishes in present day will push Ubi in the other direction, back towards the GR legacy style. But that is just wishful thinking.

[Stoney Mason]

Was that all that was revealed? Shear curiosity. Which of those will end up on the Wii? Out of 11 games.

Green Day Rockband.

[demi]

There wasnt even a Best Wii category. I think the only Wii game mentioned was Wii Sports Resort. Yeah... ok.

[Stoney Mason]

I think you are being over-sensitive

And this from the dude that went into a sales and reviews argument with manabyte. smh.

Just saying, it gets on my nerves, especially when it all seems based on a common era. On the other hand, I'm hoping that this focus on explosive skirmishes in present day will push Ubi in the other direction, back towards the GR legacy style. But that is just wishful thinking.

My point is more that the people who say things like that weren't going to buy it anyway. Because they have pre-made up their minds. As far as old school Ghost Recon, that's probably a really bad idea if they want actual big sales to compete with the other top shooters imo.

Just saying. But obviously that is their call.

There wasnt even a Best Wii category. I think the only Wii game mentioned was Wii Sports Resort. Yeah... ok.

New Super Mario Brothers won best Wii game.

[Bebpo]

PoP trailer?  Did it show the prince?  Is he Jake? 

[duckman2000]

Ah, the environments look better for sure.  The special effects in the sky looked crazy, Bungie has good art direction.

I wouldn't go that far, not when talking about the company behind space rhinorillas and sometimes fisher-price looking guns and vehicles. What Bungie does well, probably better than any other company, is scale. Things are big, and they look even bigger. They are also good at valleys, and natural environments in general, and here you get a big fucking valley. I guess they may be able to mostly avoid indoor locations with this one? That would work in their favor.

As far as old school Ghost Recon, that's probably a really bad idea if they want actual big sales to compete with the other top shooters imo.

I'm not sure about that. A slower, proper recon game wouldn't get to enjoy a slice of the military action movie game pie, but that marketing is getting crowded. A well know, popular franchise doing its own thing doesn't sound like a completely bad idea.

[demi]

PoP trailer?  Did it show the prince?  Is he Jake? 

Yes, no

[duckman2000]

By the way, Stoney, I was just as irritated when critics declared Bioshock groundbreaking and filled to the brim with completely unique gameplay  mechanics and concepts of choice. Lame pet peeve perhaps, but what can you do.

[Bebpo]

PoP trailer?  Did it show the prince?  Is he Jake? 

Yes, no

Does it look like the 2008 game or Sands of Time or Warrior Within?

[iconoclast]

It looks like a shitty movie tie-in version of Warrior Within.

[duckman2000]

PoP trailer?  Did it show the prince?  Is he Jake? 

Yes, no

Does it look like the 2008 game or Sands of Time or Warrior Within?

Nothing like the 2008 one.

[Bebpo]

Also where is dcharlie?  Didn't he hear?  Flower won best indie game  

[Bebpo]

No cell-shaded PoP?   :'( :'( :'( :'(

[duckman2000]

Nope. Looks pretty damned, uh, typical or some shit.

[Stoney Mason]

By the way, Stoney, I was just as irritated when critics declared Bioshock groundbreaking and filled to the brim with completely unique gameplay  mechanics and concepts of choice. Lame pet peeve perhaps, but what can you do.

For what its worth as I've said I hope Medal of Honor is good. I pretty much play all of the top shooters at least a bit so I always hope for more good ones. I haven't liked the direction of Medal of Honor for quite awhile so I'm skeptical about this one but this is a Treyarch year and I generally pass on their games and wait for the IW version so it's much more likely that I personally will pick up Medal of Honor this fall rather than the Treyarch COD game. (Although I'll admit if it is a Vietnam game like its been rumoured, I'm kinda curious to see that as I've wanted a Vietnam game from anybody for awhile)

[Joe Molotov]

PoP trailer?  Did it show the prince?  Is he Jake? 

Yes, no

Does it look like the 2008 game or Sands of Time or Warrior Within?

It looked like a shitty CG trailer that didn't give any clues as to what the actual game will look like.

[Bebpo]

Just saw the Crackdown 2 trailer.  Definitely best trailer of the bunch.  Looks fun!  The super coop + flying seems like good additions.