Game

[Human Snorenado]

My favorite part was Blow taking a snarky shot at the other games, bet he was reeeeal popular backstage after that

Seriously, fuck that guy with Thor's Dildo of Extreme Justice.  I can't think of a single way he makes gaming better.  Go fuck yourself, you self-satisfied smug piece of shit.  Gaming doesn't need you, asshole.

[fistfulofmetal]

IMO the single best aspect from the entire conf is the concept of trying full games before you play. The free trial stuff is a great concept they have currently with PS3 but since you have to download the ENTIRE GAME it's not really useful. However being able to load up the game over the cloud to try it for a period of time nearly instantly? That's goddamned amazing.

[Madrun Badrun]

Overall it felt like a meeting that was quickly mashed together in order to get the word out before MS.

Ya.  Not impressed at all.

[Human Snorenado]

system itself sounds cool

games were zzzzzzzzzzzzz

will buy in a few years when there's a bunch of cheap stuff i want to play

not used tho

[benjipwns]

did that guy just teleport or did my stream skip?

[Cormacaroni]

The best part of the conference for me? My wife coming home near the end and casually asking "So which one are you gonna buy: Microsoft or Sony?"

Family finances conversation avoided. Score.

'I'm buying the Sony. You're buying me the Microsoft'

[Human Snorenado]

At least we can finally put to rest the notion that the weeeeeooooooooooooo is in any way going to be competitive with these actual next gen machines, that's one benefit of today.

[Cormacaroni]

At least we can finally put to rest the notion that the weeeeeooooooooooooo is in any way going to be competitive with these actual next gen machines, that's one benefit of today.

your cock isn't out of your pants yet but you are toying with your zipper

[cool breeze]

/shrug.

I found the presentation to be exactly what it needed to be. It tells us the key features and ideas behind the console. It shows up there will be developer support. It shows us there will be some known games and some unknown games.

Calling it shitty or dog shit seems like extreme hyperbole.

yeah, it's not that bad, but it is underwhelming.

Everything remotely exciting was about the OS.  The streaming stuff is very cool, and the share stuff is the best part of onlive.  But the hardware power wasn't conveyed well.  No explanation about how the new controller matters for games (touchpad, camera tracking.  No real mention of the camera.  No shot of the consoles.

And it was just lacking on the software side.  As much as I like Infamous, it's all samey games, like PS3+.  I kept expecting Killzone 4 to pan out and you could fly around the city in one of those planes.  Nope.  It's straight up a prettier killzone shoter.

Is it as bad as that Xbox 360 MTV thing? no, but that wasn't 2 hours long.

seriously, though, streaming stuff to the Vita is really neat if it really minimizes the lag. 

[benjipwns]

At least we can finally put to rest the notion that the weeeeeooooooooooooo is in any way going to be competitive with these actual next gen machines, that's one benefit of today.

Nintendo's waiting to show the dongle last.

[Shaka Khan]

I was gonna bitch how underwhelming Watch Dogs looked, as I was expecting an improvement over last year's E3 demo, but got Ubi patented tearing and hist. First thing I wanted to blame were consoles, but the Ubisoft rep on GT just confirmed it was running on PC with "comparative specs of a PS4... we have it running on a PS4 in the office, honest."

Work in progress, I know I know.

[Don Flamenco]

8 US GIGABYTES OF GRAPHIC DOUBLE DATA RATE FIVE MEMORY

[Human Snorenado]

At least we can finally put to rest the notion that the weeeeeooooooooooooo is in any way going to be competitive with these actual next gen machines, that's one benefit of today.

your cock isn't out of your pants yet but you are toying with your zipper

For what?  The capcom Devil's Souls clone?  Killzone? 

The only thing that actually interests me is Watch Dogs, but just in a "$20 steam sale" kind of way.

Notably absent from that presentation:  the actual console itself, details about DRM anti-used games shit, ANY talk of price, and Kaz.  Not feeling it.

[radioheadrule83]

8 US GIGABYTES OF GRAPHIC DOUBLE DATA RATE FIVE MEMORY

I wonder how many gigabytes are devoted to SHARE buttons. Cacheing video data for 720/1080p gameplay and having a slick suspend system is going to come at a cost... they didn't mention what was actually reserved for gameplay


Microsoft can easily smoke this reveal. As long as they don't go too Kinect 2.0 heavy.

[Vertigo]

Where was EA?

[duckman2000]

/shrug.

I found the presentation to be exactly what it needed to be. It tells us the key features and ideas behind the console. It shows up there will be developer support. It shows us there will be some known games and some unknown games.

Calling it shitty or dog shit seems like extreme hyperbole.

yeah, it's not that bad, but it is underwhelming.

Everything remotely exciting was about the OS.  The streaming stuff is very cool, and the share stuff is the best part of onlive.  But the hardware power wasn't conveyed well. 

Are you seriously saying that the power of this thing isn't a little exciting? Knowing that Sony is going all out with the hardware (within reason for a home console) makes me pretty damned excited because I know what ridiculously talented developers they have working full time exclusively for the system.

Microsoft can easily smoke this reveal. As long as they don't go too Kinect 2.0 heavy.

Microsoft won't smoke anyone. Maybe Nintendo.

[Shaka Khan]

yeah, it's not that bad, but it is underwhelming.

Everything remotely exciting was about the OS.  The streaming stuff is very cool, and the share stuff is the best part of onlive.  But the hardware power wasn't conveyed well.  No explanation about how the new controller matters for games (touchpad, camera tracking.  No real mention of the camera.  No shot of the consoles.

And it was just lacking on the software side.  As much as I like Infamous, it's all samey games, like PS3+.  I kept expecting Killzone 4 to pan out and you could fly around the city in one of those planes.  Nope.  It's straight up a prettier killzone shoter.

Is it as bad as that Xbox 360 MTV thing? no, but that wasn't 2 hours long.

seriously, though, streaming stuff to the Vita is really neat if it really minimizes the lag. 

Agreed. They revealed some details but never touched upon, leaving me with more questions. And it wasn't like they had no time, this was a 2 hour show with lots of padding here and there. They wasted time on some developers for the sake of "well, we're trying to make a point." Blizz and SE segments had zero actual impact aside from being PR boosts.

[bud]

i haven't really been keeping up with this, but didn't the leaked specs state it'd have 4gb ddr5 ram?

[Flannel Boy]

My favorite part was Blow taking a snarky shot at the other games, bet he was reeeeal popular backstage after that

If I wanted to watch pointless explosions, I'd go see "A Good Day to Die Hard."
Fuck you. And Porcelain is a shitty song.

[Vertigo]

How many of the demos were actually running on a PS4?

[duckman2000]

i haven't really been keeping up with this, but didn't the leak specs state it'd have 4gb ddr5 ram?

Edge claimed 8, so I guess they had a real clue.

[Great Rumbler]

Watch Dogs and Deep Down both looked pretty cool, don't care about PS4 though.

[Shaka Khan]

And they stated it's a unified memory pool. Can it really be 8GB of (G)DDR5?

[bud]

bethesda vp basically saying they won't release their games for the wii u.

[duckman2000]

Killzone actually had a vibrant look, which is bloody surprising.

Can't wait to see what ND and Santa Monica are cooking up for this thing.

[headwalk]

atleast it looks good in GIFS.

[duckman2000]

Well... graphics hasn't been a problem with KZ games this gen so that's neither here nor there at this point. It's going to look good, but it's just another shooter. I would have been more excited to see a Ratchet game which I doubt anyone agrees with me on.

But Infamous 

[tiesto]

Nothing game-wise really jumped out at me too much... Knack and Watch Dogs were the only ones that weren't (what seemed to me) canned footage. SE "oh we're working on FF, stay tuned to E3" just further proves how much of a joke that company is.

Was hoping to see:
-system design
-price reveal
-whether or not they are going ahead with the used games ban (I have a feeling both Sony and MS are playing "chicken" with this, both have the logistics in place but are waiting for the other to make the first move)
-region free

[duckman2000]

Yeah well... things are looking good, no?

[Madrun Badrun]

of course a blown up picture will look like shit

[headwalk]

of course a blown up picture will look like shit

it's a screen cap of the only footage they've released - or have you seen some other footage you could link me to? i want to feel what everyone else is feeling.

[radioheadrule83]

Watch Dogs and Deep Down both looked pretty cool, don't care about PS4 though.

Naughty Dogs game needs to be baller, because the games they showed really weren't

Deep Down looked beautiful, a bit Dark Souls or Skyrim-esque, but what is it? How does it play? What was exciting about it?

Watch_Dogs looked good again, but more moments of current gen convention are leaking through. I felt like I could see some Assassins Creed team code-sharing on the screen when he was chasing the guy down alleys and stuff. When it went into slowmo after scaling the railings, it looked exactly like the moment of hesitation before a kill in AC.

We'd already seen Destiny, Agni's Philosophy, and other stuff. I really could have done without all the developer waffling, especially from the likes of David Cage - showing us silent movies to show us that once upon a time people learned to act, and then later showing us a near lifeless old man with some eye animation. David Cage is gaming cancer. Somehow, the guy from Sucker Punch managed to deliver an even more terrible soliloquy. Abominable.

Honestly? The only impressive things they showed were the Gakai aspects of the UI and that Media Molecule sculpting thing, which quickly devolved into a horrible, scripted and not at all player-designed version of Wii Music. Horrendous.

No images of the console, no price, no Naughty Dog, no big Santa Monica game, no Studio Liverpool ( ), no EA, no Activision - no insane gulf on the screen that will justify $500. 8GB of GDDR5 is only nice if we see something that justifies it. Microsoft and Nintendo will be happy tonight.

[Madrun Badrun]

of course a blown up picture will look like shit

it's a screen cap of the only footage they've released - or have you seen some other footage you could link me to? i want to feel what everyone else is feeling.

Its a resized screen cap of a streamed video

http://kotaku.com/5985781/killzone-shadowfall-announced-for-ps4

[headwalk]

of course a blown up picture will look like shit

it's a screen cap of the only footage they've released - or have you seen some other footage you could link me to? i want to feel what everyone else is feeling.

http://kotaku.com/5985781/killzone-shadowfall-announced-for-ps4

hold on let me get my magnifying glass, are those full size vita screenshots?

i mean, everyone is splooging over that same video - right? or are those thumbnails you're linking the source of all this enthusiasm?

[benjipwns]

Mark Rein firing shots at Nintendo.

[Shaka Khan]

Some info from gofreak's twitter since GAF is dead:

- Also, the camera is 60fps @ 1280x800, 120fps @ 640x400, 240fps @ 320x192
- Controller PR mentions improved analog sticks and triggers
- Details of the camera in there too. 85 degree FoV, face recognition for login
- Select+Start merged into Options button, ala the Edge report
- A headset will be bundled with PS4: http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221b_e.pdf
- PS4 press releases are up: http://www.scei.co.jp/index_e.html  Short but sweet spec sheet here: http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf

[Mr. Gundam]

Yeah well... things are looking good, no?

like i said, everything looked great except the games.  it's always hilarious to me when companies push this "WE CAN DO ANYTHIIIIIIING NOW, LIMITATIONS ARE GONE" and then show the same ol' shit. 

don't get me wrong, i know there's going to be some cool/interesting stuff on the system, but they certainly didn't show any of it.

The stuff I'm interested in might be shown at E3, but probably won't be shown until TGS.

[duckman2000]

Yeah well... things are looking good, no?

like i said, everything looked great except the games.  it's always hilarious to me when companies push this "WE CAN DO ANYTHIIIIIIING NOW, LIMITATIONS ARE GONE" and then show the same ol' shit. 

don't get me wrong, i know there's going to be some cool/interesting stuff on the system, but they certainly didn't show any of it.

I suppose, but for me Infamous and knowing what studios are playing around with this hardware right now is sort of enough to get excited. I thought Infamous really made the PS3 look limited, so a new game of the same type running on a proper system... that's hot.

[brob]

- Select+Start merged into Options button, ala the Edge report

finally. the future is now.

[Smooth Groove]

Obviously obvious that it was gonna be a waste of time, morans

Didn't the last 7 years teach you anything?

[duckman2000]

So it is GDDR5, and 8GB of it. God damn.

[Mr. Gundam]

Obviously obvious that it was gonna be a waste of time, morans

Didn't the last 7 years teach you anything?

Which is why I played Ni no Kuni and did laundry while listening to it and occassionaly glancing over at the laptop. 

[Don Flamenco]

meh, what's the use even debating it?  Both consoles will get their share of games and have pretty much equal amounts of bullshit.   

aside from a huge pricing difference or major surprise x-factor, they'll be HD twins again...with a choice set of miniscule differences to serve as the foundation for another console generation's worth of distinguished mentally-challenged bickering.

[Huff]

Mark Rein firing shots at Nintendo.

link?

[Mr. Gundam]

Last gen we had the HD Twins and Nintendo. This next gen, we'll have the HD Twins... and Nintendo.

Good times had by all.

Except Nintendo.

[duckman2000]

Actually, it sounds like we'll have one powerful gaming system and one MediaKineXbox. And Nintendo.

[benjipwns]

[The Sceneman]

Watch Dogs and Deep Down both looked pretty cool, don't care about PS4 though.

Naughty Dogs game needs to be baller, because the games they showed really weren't

Deep Down looked beautiful, a bit Dark Souls or Skyrim-esque, but what is it? How does it play? What was exciting about it?

Watch_Dogs looked good again, but more moments of current gen convention are leaking through. I felt like I could see some Assassins Creed team code-sharing on the screen when he was chasing the guy down alleys and stuff. When it went into slowmo after scaling the railings, it looked exactly like the moment of hesitation before a kill in AC.

We'd already seen Destiny, Agni's Philosophy, and other stuff. I really could have done without all the developer waffling, especially from the likes of David Cage - showing us silent movies to show us that once upon a time people learned to act, and then later showing us a near lifeless old man with some eye animation. David Cage is gaming cancer. Somehow, the guy from Sucker Punch managed to deliver an even more terrible soliloquy. Abominable.

Honestly? The only impressive things they showed were the Gakai aspects of the UI and that Media Molecule sculpting thing, which quickly devolved into a horrible, scripted and not at all player-designed version of Wii Music. Horrendous.

No images of the console, no price, no Naughty Dog, no big Santa Monica game, no Studio Liverpool ( ), no EA, no Activision - no insane gulf on the screen that will justify $500. 8GB of GDDR5 is only nice if we see something that justifies it. Microsoft and Nintendo will be happy tonight.

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I just made this gif and wanted to use it

[close]

[Mr. Gundam]

None of that means a thing to me.

Dammit, why aren't we drinking tonight, Prole? You could explain this shit to me. 

[mjemirzian]

Back to getting my ass handed to me on Very Hard in MGR.

[benjipwns]

link?

Was on Keighley's after show thing, he was like "[Samaritan and Unreal 4] are love letters, and somebody finally wrote back." Keighley goes: "just one?" And he says something like "the first one anyway."

[cool breeze]

I'm dumping a bunch of media in youtubes and large images in spoiler boxes for cellphone users

Controller pictures (Start/Select is dead.  Age of Options/Share begins.)

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

HD Trailers for Killzone, Infamous, and Knack:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

[brob]

oh i see. they conflated start/select to afford space for another useless button. lame.

[Shaka Khan]

Even bigger controller shots:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

I'm intrigued by the material of the back. I guess no more sweaty, slipper palms? Everything looks matte as well, where I thought it the d-pad and button areas were glossy here...

[Madrun Badrun]

because share needs a fucking physical button

[Vertigo]

Those triggers look acceptable.

[BlueTsunami]

So with it being confirmed that this thing has got 8GB GDDR5 I guess that means the WiiU will be stuck with ports based on mobile games of PS4 games

[Cormacaroni]

because share needs a fucking physical button

i'll be stabbin that thing ALL THE TIME

[Smooth Groove]

I'm intrigued by the material of the back. I guess no more sweaty, slipper palms? Everything looks matte as well, where I thought it the d-pad and button areas were glossy here...

I'm intrigued that you're intrigued

[Shaka Khan]

because share needs a fucking physical button

Bitch you''re living in Zuckerberg's world. Be grateful that there isn't a dedicated "Like" button.

I'm intrigued by the material of the back. I guess no more sweaty, slipper palms? Everything looks matte as well, where I thought it the d-pad and button areas were glossy here...

I'm intrigued that you're intrigued

I'm easily intrigued.