VGA Game Premieres

[duckman2000]

The only thing about MOH that I'm skeptical about is whether or not DICE can make the multiplayer different enough from Battlefield to stand on its own, so to speak. But then on the other hand, the worst case scenario is that you get Operation Anaconda SP with BF MP, so that's hardly a god awful situation.

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

The gliding and the zombie stuff gave it a brief but unpleasant scent of Prototype, but I'm sure they know better than to borrow anything from that piece of shit game.

[iconoclast]

With all the zombies and mutants in Crackdown 2, I hope it has some massive Shadow of the Colossus style boss battles. Going around and killing weak mob leaders in the first game was lame as hell. Platforming on top of some giant mutant would be awesome.

[cool breeze]

The gliding and the zombie stuff gave it a brief but unpleasant scent of Prototype, but I'm sure they know better than to borrow anything from that piece of shit game.

I thought that too, and the zombie thing doesn't look too hot.  But gliding was maybe the only thing I liked about Prototype, even though they made the controls unnecessarily convoluted.

[treythemovie]

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

The character was clearly modeled after Jake Gyllenhaal from the movie. In fact, I'm betting the only reason they aren't calling it Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: The Movie: The Game is because they already have a game called Sands of Time. Hence the lame "Forgotten Sands" logo to try to tie-in into the movie vainly.

Basically, all that shitty cg trailer did was convince me that the game is just a shitty movie tie-in like we all assumed :/

[Bebpo]

Wait, DICE is doing MoH?  How big are they?  They're doing MoH, Battlefield 3 and ME2?  

It's weird how they do these war games and then they do awesome non-war games (RSC2, ME).  Usually a studio just specializes at one type of game.

[Stoney Mason]

Gametrailers has a few of the videos up now.

[MCD]

no soap mactavish

no captain price

don't care

[demi]

NO KNIFE THROWING

[duckman2000]

As I recall, Airborne used UE3 because Renderware wasn't where it should have been at the time. Frostbite kicks ass.

[drew]

the only thing about MOH that im skeptical on is that it is a complete rip off

[fistfulofmetal]

Spec Ops looks like a sequel to Kill.Switch

[Stoney Mason]

Spec Ops looks like a sequel to Kill.Switch

Video since some people were asking about it.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/spec-ops-spike-tv/59821

[duckman2000]

the only thing about MOH that im skeptical on is that it is a complete rip off

Lulz. Dumbass.

[fistfulofmetal]

i like the whole sand city thing. looks like the main gimmick of this game is moving sand and stuff.

[duckman2000]

Looks interesting. Best looking cover stuff so far.

[demi]

Spec Ops looks like a sequel to Kill.Switch

Video since some people were asking about it.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/spec-ops-spike-tv/59821

That looks so sick.

[MCD]

yeah that looks pretty sweet.

[fistfulofmetal]

Love this shot:

[iconoclast]

Spec Ops: Blood on the Sand

[MyNameIsMethodis]

So DOES that have any relation to those POS PsX games?

[ManaByte]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

At the beginning of the game Starkiller comes out of the shower and reveals the end of part 1 was just a dream!

[Stoney Mason]

So DOES that have any relation to those POS PsX games?

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177031

[Purple Filth]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

At the beginning of the game Starkiller comes out of the shower and reveals the end of part 1 was just a dream!

So he survived? yikes

he kinda doesn't look like him though but maybe its just my memory bieng rusty.

[demi]

Nobody dies in Star Wars. Bacta Tanks are their retcon

[ManaByte]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

At the beginning of the game Starkiller comes out of the shower and reveals the end of part 1 was just a dream!

So he survived? yikes

he kinda doesn't look like him though but maybe its just my memory bieng rusty.

It's him. Otherwise they wouldn't have used Juno's line from the Death Star 1 level.

[Beezy]

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

Yes there was. NSMBWii won. They didn't do the whole award acceptance thing for it though.

[demi]

There wasnt even a PS3 segment. 360 market leader

[cool breeze]

yeah, they bunched up a lot of categories to save time.  At the end they were like GOATY UNCHA 2..also won BEST GRAPHIX + BEST PS3 GAME and all that.

 

[duckman2000]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/medal-of-spike-tv/59827

Holy shit at the rockets ripping apart the cliffside.

[Draft]

What the hell? Spec Ops looks kind of amazing.

[Mr. Gundam]

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

Milk that shit for all it's worth.

AA was a fantastic game, I hope the sequel isn't a rush POS.

[TEEEPO]

whoa at specops

[Kestastrophe]

SpecOps looks nice . Was that the Dubai tower?


Halo and MoH trailers were lame zzzzzzzzzzz

[The Fake Shemp]

Batman sequel? I don't get what it is about, looks fucking dark, though.

[Stoney Mason]

My only concern about Batman and the announcement is that hopefully Batman isn't a 2010 release. A good sequel like that needs a 2 year dev cycle. It's a bit odd to make the announcement so early though for a 2011 game, so that is a bit worrying.

[Don Flamenco]

didn't hideo kojima show up and one of these things and look super pissed the whole time?  i remember those pics being funny...like he saw how distinguished mentally-challenged this unfortunate piece of gamer culture is (the vga show)

[duckman2000]

From Call of Duty being a Medal of Honor copycat to Medal of Honor being a Call of Duty copycat.

How low has Medal of Honor fallen :'(

You distinguished mentally-challenged pole, there are like zero similarities other than common shit due to being set in the same damned era. Also, destruction

What are you, some fucking GAFtard?

[Stoney Mason]

didn't hideo kojima show up and one of these things and look super pissed the whole time?  i remember those pics being funny...like he saw how distinguished mentally-challenged this unfortunate piece of gamer culture is (the vga show)

lol at the notion of the man who made this being too "high brow" for the VGA awards.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Kestastrophe]

On a side note I've played GoW3 demo in friend's house on a 52" screen and god fucking damn it. This is the best looking console game EVER. The textures especially on Kratos and enemies are INSANE. Same with lighting engine. Absofuckinglutely amazing. I wish I didn't see the playthrough of the demo level before. I knew exactly what will happen next :'( The final ascend was still mindblowing, though!

 

re-leper Borys

[Stoney Mason]

Here is an HD embed version of the Reach trailer.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Third]

I loved Crackdown. But the C2 trailer looked pretty bad and quite messy.

[maxy]

Interesting...MOH fanboys are certainly coming out of woodwork,i thought they were all dead.And no boycott petition for Batman?Somebody has to make one.

[Stoney Mason]

Interesting...MOH fanboys are certainly coming out of woodwork,i thought they were all dead.And no boycott petition for Batman?Somebody has to make one.

So true. 

In both cases its funny to see hypocrisy in action.

[cool breeze]

The funny thing is that the team who made the definitive (arguably) MoH game, Allied Assault on PC, went on to form Infinity Ward and the CoD series.  It's not so different from the Rock Band / Guitar Hero thing.  At the same time, people are bashing this new MoH for making the jump from WW2 to modern thinking that CoD invented that transition when DICE, who is making the multiplayer part, had a similar jump with BF1942 to BF2 (and Vietnam in the middle).  In conclusion, people are dumb.

[duckman2000]

Especially Borys

[Don Flamenco]

didn't hideo kojima show up and one of these things and look super pissed the whole time?  i remember those pics being funny...like he saw how distinguished mentally-challenged this unfortunate piece of gamer culture is (the vga show)

lol at the notion of the man who made this being too "high brow" for the VGA awards.

*vids*

I never said he was highbrow, he just had a deathkill look on his face.

On a side note I've played GoW3 demo in friend's house on a 52" screen and god fucking damn it. This is the best looking console game EVER. The textures especially on Kratos and enemies are INSANE. Same with lighting engine. Absofuckinglutely amazing. I wish I didn't see the playthrough of the demo level before. I knew exactly what will happen next :'( The final ascend was still mindblowing, though!

all running at a slick 10fps

[Purple Filth]

The funny thing is that the team who made the definitive (arguably) MoH game, Allied Assault on PC, went on to form Infinity Ward and the CoD series.  It's not so different from the Rock Band / Guitar Hero thing.  At the same time, people are bashing this new MoH for making the jump from WW2 to modern thinking that CoD invented that transition when DICE, who is making the multiplayer part, had a similar jump with BF1942 to BF2 (and Vietnam in the middle).  In conclusion, people are dumb.

people just are forgetting things too easy.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

didn't hideo kojima show up and one of these things and look super pissed the whole time?  i remember those pics being funny...like he saw how distinguished mentally-challenged this unfortunate piece of gamer culture is (the vga show)

lol at the notion of the man who made this being too "high brow" for the VGA awards.

*vids*

I never said he was highbrow, he just had a deathkill look on his face.

On a side note I've played GoW3 demo in friend's house on a 52" screen and god fucking damn it. This is the best looking console game EVER. The textures especially on Kratos and enemies are INSANE. Same with lighting engine. Absofuckinglutely amazing. I wish I didn't see the playthrough of the demo level before. I knew exactly what will happen next :'( The final ascend was still mindblowing, though!

all running at a slick 10fps

demo?

Borys has seen the light though. 360 annihilated.

[Don Flamenco]

didn't hideo kojima show up and one of these things and look super pissed the whole time?  i remember those pics being funny...like he saw how distinguished mentally-challenged this unfortunate piece of gamer culture is (the vga show)

lol at the notion of the man who made this being too "high brow" for the VGA awards.

*vids*

I never said he was highbrow, he just had a deathkill look on his face.

On a side note I've played GoW3 demo in friend's house on a 52" screen and god fucking damn it. This is the best looking console game EVER. The textures especially on Kratos and enemies are INSANE. Same with lighting engine. Absofuckinglutely amazing. I wish I didn't see the playthrough of the demo level before. I knew exactly what will happen next :'( The final ascend was still mindblowing, though!

all running at a slick 10fps

demo?

Borys has seen the light though. 360 annihilated.

Borys has seen the light causing the game to run at an unstable 10fps

[cool breeze]

and that Halo Reach trailer, I don't understand what there is to get excited about from it.  They showed off that the game is slightly closer to the visual standard of today, they made human faces not hideous and now use mo-cap for the 'in-engine but pre-recorded' cutscenes (which is a lame trend if only because they claim it's real time; KZ2 did this).  So, we know it managed to improve on a game from 2007, yay?  I wish they showed off gameplay or anything.  Between the trailer introduction and the trailer only containing dialogue (and the Halo anime) I'm still shocked that this is apparently a selling point for the series.  The only cool thing shown was that Elites are back, which is great since Brutes are smelly.

Can't wait for the beta, though.  I just hope they use the FOV from ODST instead of Halo 3.  Going from ODST campaign and firefight to Halo 3 multiplayer, it was really noticeable.  Not that I wouldn't play it regardless.

[Don Flamenco]

"i'm glad to have your skill set" = COD style perks 

looked like Halo.

[Barry Egan]

so why is this not "Halo 4"?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

so why is this not "Halo 4"?

Because Bungie didnt want to do Halo forever so they named it "reach" so it doesnt look like they've been doing halo forever

spoiler (click to show/hide)

although it should be halo 5

[close]

[drew]

The funny thing is that the team who made the definitive (arguably) MoH game, Allied Assault on PC, went on to form Infinity Ward and the CoD series.  It's not so different from the Rock Band / Guitar Hero thing.  At the same time, people are bashing this new MoH for making the jump from WW2 to modern thinking that CoD invented that transition when DICE, who is making the multiplayer part, had a similar jump with BF1942 to BF2 (and Vietnam in the middle).  In conclusion, people are dumb.

sorry i am not some fucking nerd that follows everything

[cool breeze]

Can someone explain to me what the appeal of the Halo series is?

They're fun games.  In single player each battle has a lot of variety.  AI is pretty good.

The funny thing is that the team who made the definitive (arguably) MoH game, Allied Assault on PC, went on to form Infinity Ward and the CoD series.  It's not so different from the Rock Band / Guitar Hero thing.  At the same time, people are bashing this new MoH for making the jump from WW2 to modern thinking that CoD invented that transition when DICE, who is making the multiplayer part, had a similar jump with BF1942 to BF2 (and Vietnam in the middle).  In conclusion, people are dumb.

sorry i am not some fucking nerd that follows everything

apology accepted on the grounds that you switch "some" and "fucking"

[ManaByte]

But play Halo 2 on the PC. Has XBL achievements.

[Kestastrophe]

Can someone explain to me what the appeal of the Halo series is?

From most important:

1) Sci-fi FPS in an ocean of shitty MODERN IRAQ WAR FPSes (hello new Medal of Honor!)
2) Great story
3) Challenge (Legendary mode). No Sniper Town distinguished mentally-challenged like in CoD games. Also no infinity respawns.
4) Xbox exclusivity
5) Humour
6) Soundtrack

ffs somebody leper Borys. worst list evar

[Bebpo]

Eh, that list isn't so far off.

Halo is great because the battles always intense & interesting, the guns feel great, it's sci-fi and not some generic war shooter, it's well written with humour and tact like a pixar film (I don't even understand how Halo games get M ratings, I guess cause in MP you shoot other humans?) instead of being full of cursing and violence and tits, it has excellent art & music, and yeah it doesn't have the stupid shit that bogs down other fps like infinite respawning enemies or grenade spam or sniper spam etc... It also has the most fun vehicles in any FPS.

Oh and I think a few people play it multiplayer.

[Stoney Mason]

Halo is popular because:

A.) It has a legacy on the Xbox consoles and satisfies fans of the series.
B.) It still controls well as a console fps compared to most series (Hint this is also a large reason why COD is popular)
C.) The single player campaign while it does nothing really for me is liked by quite a number of people due to the AI and the story elements.
D.) Bungie takes the MP part seriously and services their community well.

Its not a grand mystery. Whether you personally like Halo or not, its not too hard to figure out why its a popular series.

As far as Reach, it will come down to the MP on whether I buy. ODST was a bit of scam imo but Reach seems like a legit game from all the info we have and the time spent on the development side. I'm bit tired of traditional Halo MP so I hope they re-work a lot of that stuff and do a lot of the class based stuff that has been rumoured.

[duckman2000]

Halo games are really good entertainment, and that's fairly consistent. The story has been super-crappy and really intrusive since Halo 2, and there's been way too much location hopping as of late, but it's always fun causing chain reactions of grenades and beating up grunts. The magneto-aim and barn size reticles seem a bit silly at first, but it keeps you winning, so hey. I don't know if it's an illusion or not, but the enemies also seem a bit more adept at higher difficulties.