Realtime Microsoft Press Conference Updates

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• Reminds me when I first started playing AvP. : gargy
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  I like how you can carry the mini gun and also attach it to the mech. : kedmeister
  • ...and the reverse. Take those mech guns and use them yourself. : jake
  • Cool I didn't know that. : yourname00
• I love how awesome it looks when your player gets pwned by an explosion. Reminds me of MI:3 when cruise b... : socksta
• When I ripped that massive gatling gun off the mech, I had the biggest smile on my face. Bring it! : stump
• I love the animations of running throught the snow, at first it didn't strike me was being well done but ... : pebui
• For a game that still has months and months of polish time this is looking super fuckin good. I loved the... : godm0de
• I just got done playing the demo. I could see myself buying this game for sure. The explosions are huge... : jahulio2

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• because it's better than your lame (insert favorite system) system :D : deadfish
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  Moneyhats. Or maybe because there was no video stream. Or because they could. Pick one. : Carnivac
  • is that guy eating money? : deadfish
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  Because Chris Remo is a MS fanboy : alexthegreat2
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    Conversely, he wanted to pay more attention to the Nintendo conference ;) : SiW73
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      ^^ plus he was apparently taping the nintendo one (see remark about HD footage) : jake2000
      • (I was joking about the fanboy thing - people have stupidly accused him of being a nintendo fanboy) : alexthegreat2
• I knew somebody would ask this. During the Sony one, I didn't have our Verizon cellular internet thing. ... : Chris Remo

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• :D : GrimmyD
• I know what I want for Giftmas now! : pebui
• Oh. Hell. Yes. : trevis
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  yeah I sprouted wood when I saw that. force-feedback wheel, too! omfg. : warpdude
  • wireless at that!!!! :O : r0gue3
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    That mofo better work in Windows too... Although being wireless, I guess maybe it won't :( Hate per... : tigeN
    • I remember MS mentioning that Vista will have support for wireless 360 controller via a USB device or bui... : pebui
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      Agreed Agreed Agreed - won't buy unless it does. : abrasion
      • Maybe our dreams will come true: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/09/microsofts-wireless-racing-wheel-a-... : pebui
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    Is there independent confirmation on the wheel being true forcefeedback? Gamespot is reporting that the ... : schnitz76
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      http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/706/706021p1.html There are two levels of feedback, the basic rumble m : Wiseblood79
      • I hope this controller will pave way for lots of racing games for the 360. If you build it, they will com... : pebui

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• I noticed it, got depressed for a second, then forgot about it. They probably haven't done the voiceovers... : at0micgarden
• It's weird though, because they did use Ironside for that teaser site Ubi had up before officially announ... : evildanish

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  Exclusive? Only thing I've seen as exclusive is the XBox Live content unless Remo reworded something bet... : Zips
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    Yes, but I don't remember Sony saying anything about GTA at their press conference. A mediocre press conf... : lordmedikit
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      2007 bud : Silent Wolf
      • What? : gl2 drivers
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        Where does the 2007 come from? : nudel
        • where does the 2006 come from : Chandler55
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          http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149698 He's right, seems Chris may have forgot to mention... : gl2 drivers
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            simultaneous release for ps3/xbox360 http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=195753 : Chandler55
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              Aha! excellent find. Absolutely bizarre that Sony didn't mention this yesterday. : gl2 drivers
              • They were probably ashamed. The only mention of the 360 during their conference was when they were compar... : pebui
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              Thanks. Damn, over a year to wait before new GTA. :( : nudel
              • A 360 exclusive would have really stuck it to Sony. Oh well. At least they'll have exclusive online fea... : cmkyle053085
      • Thanks for the correction, I was going by Remo's transcript. : lordmedikit
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  Sony is in BIG trouble. They have nothing. Really, they don't. : baron calamity
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    They have metal gear solid and virtua fighter and FFXIII. Personally I don't give a shit about FF, and e... : skunk_ape
    • even though kojima succeeded in what i saw of making raiden cooler, i'm not paying $675 to watch snake bl... : chongerX
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    They have the asian fan base.. they don't need to be successful over here. :/ : GrimmyD
    • I really doubt that. The US and Euroe a much much bigger markets that asia for Sony.. Even their own numb... : baron calamity
    • Last time I checked population wise Europe + North America > Japan. : Fred Garvin
    • Playstation 1 sales as of 2004 Japan: 20.72 million North America: 39.67 million Europe: 39.61 million... : edgewise
  • I wouldn't go that far but without GTA - wow Sony are in pain....... real pain. : abrasion
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    and 600 dollars/Euros is just insane. : edgewise
    • They definitely don't have anything that'll justify it for me. Wii this xmas for sure. Unless, like you... : brickmatt
• I'd bet money on that this exclusiveness is just like how Halo was Xbox exclusive or the GTA series used ... : SilverSnake
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  What the hell are you all talking about? Rockstar Games, the universally-renowned publishing label of : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    you gotta read the threads first : Mansmells
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      ardent refusal! : GreatGooglyMoogly
      • hahaha! :D : Mansmells
  • October 16?? Why bother making an exact date like that when it's a year and a half away? Most games fail ... : thecray

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  wha????????? : sevogajre
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    it's up...dowloading it now...someone jumped the gun and put it up a tad early eh? : hellen keller
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      woohoo! i guess that will be the big announcement at the end of the keynote for MS. : jonin
      • MS has done a kick-ass job integrating xbox live with all this E3 hype--they've given the fanbois a ton t... : hellen keller
    • That's what MS gets for having a 30 minute delay on their live stream : shred.
    • Gods damn it, why must I be on campus when these things happen! : pebui
    • needs more impressions : sevogajre
    • What's the status on the video? : mallfouf
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  YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!! : dmiller
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    when will it be available for download outside of live? Funny how bungie.net is down right now :) : Tincan
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      http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_announce_larg... : Turin_Turambar
      • Whoa, 800 KB/s goodness. The internet is so alive during E3, each iteration better than the last. : pebui
  • GO MAN GO!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D : Silent Wolf
  • now you don't have to live a lie! : Postal
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  Halo 3 trailer - Lame...gamePLAY!!!! Lost Planet Demo - Great, but what's up with the "must play throu... : jodiuh
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    Hey guess what jodiuh, trailers don't normally have gameplay. : dmiller
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      Sure they do. Lost Planet does...Dead Rising does...the Halo 2 trailer did...remember Master Chief whippi... : jodiuh
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        actually, no. The Halo 2 trailer was the one where he was walking down the hallway of the ship and jum... : dmiller
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          Hmmm...I remember seeing a Halo 2 trailer where MC whips out dual guns. Then he hopped onto some carrier ... : jodiuh
          • sure we'd like to see it, but c'mon, it's 18 months away. : edgewise
          • dmiller is right on the Halo 2 trailer. You know, the trailer that had nothing to do with the actual game... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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            There was the announcement trailer, which was the cinematic jumping out of the ship. Then the next year t... : jake
            • Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I want the demo first. :p : jodiuh
    • Dear dmiller, You are absolutely correct! However, you should be completely wrong. Trailers should all... : lord cecil

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  Totally agree. MS is following Sony with this ....give Us realtime gameplay. : omontero
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    At least the halo video was real time and not some pre-rendered junk. That said, I too would have prefer... : MilkDud
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      I will believe that the game looks like that during real gameplay, and not cinematics, when I see it. ... : xcalibur19
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        bungie used in game engine video for halo2. : broly1718
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          yeah but with zero game logic going on the effects can get cranked up to ludicrous levels : thebigbeefsandwich
          • i dont see them knocking the graphics down much, if at all. and on bungies site, they said that sinc... : broly1718
      • Grafics in that video are not as amazing as the KillZone one (Yes I know the Kill ZOne 3 video was preren... : omontero
  • they have to do what sony's doing.. cause it's worked for them so far. : R.Cade
  • The rendering farm is still backed up making Sony's "gameplay video's" to actually do MS's ones. : abrasion
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    Why are gameplay videos so important to you guys? The game is a a year away or something like that. The l... : ajwilson
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      They are important because a trailer of pre-rendered rubbish is POINTLESS - absofuckingloutely 100% a was : abrasion
      • Lmfao. While I don't feel quite as jaded, I'm all about the yummy gameplay footage. Hell, why not a demo?... : jodiuh
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        but man what he's saying is that we allready know how halo plays. Personally Im happy with what they have... : godm0de
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          Check out there forums...holy cripes, it's filled with reading!! : jodiuh
          • I want to, I love Halo lore, but I'm just afraid I'll get lost in the static. Halo movie comes out nex... : pebui

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  which games? the inbox games, or do you mean DX10 Vista games that ship separately? : malloc
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    DirectX10 games, like Crysis and Shadowrun. : omnova
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      undecided... its being worked on. : malloc
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        wait, are you serious@!@#$%#$%#$% Y You might have to have an Xbox Live membership to play PC games??? : snowwolf
        • i dont think its undecided, there wont be. vista is not a 360, just because it can interface with one doe... : ssj4megaman
• lol if that was the case ppl would be all over hacking that like 2 days before its even on the shelf. : godm0de

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  NOW plz. : Rauol Duke
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    Its up on 360 Marketplace but I cant get it. >:( : Rauol Duke
    • Yeah, the Halo 3 video pretty much borked the marketplace.. Probably until about 3am. : ]aratex[
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  it's a multiplayer fps like counterstrike, not an rpg : alexthegreat2
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    Well, in that case, thanks for wasting the trademark, Microsoft. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • How could this happen to meeeeeeeee? : Rauol Duke
  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Fuckers. FUCKERS!! How could they do this!!! I feel like a ... : x-eyd|mary
  • WTF? Say it ain't so : gl2 drivers
  • Wow. And ontop of that... 2021... no orks... Brazil instead of Seattle... What in the hell are they... : Twist of Cain
  • thats fucked up. who cares for another fucking stupid action game : deadfish

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  anything? what cameras are you using? : virus
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    You realise you're posting this in The microsoft conference comments, right? : thecray
    • Look a his name, he's taking this thread over. : Derringer

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• Holy SHIT BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!! it's just crazy... : ThaMAK
• that's.. a lot of gore! : silentzero
• Wow, that was friggin awesome. : frdranger
• Is there a mirror for this? : gl2 drivers
• Kick ass. I can't wait to see what they showed at the press conference. Also, I may need to get an xbox36... : shred.
• http://tk-421.shackspace.com/e3_gowtrailer_lq.avi : TK-421
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  Those guys are really in love with the FOTR prologue. : evildanish
  • that's what i was going to say. it's a little hard not to find the way they copied that distracting. did ... : Mansmells
• Anything CliffyB touches is open mouth acceptance of his load. And $60 less in the wallet! : Vic Viper
• do they have a good quality version of him playing the game? all i can see of it is the free crappy qual... : broly1718

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• That's right. : 5150Joker
• yep. hope they give the controller players a handicap boost :D : malloc

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  Anybody??? : jodiuh
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    Shack time is always on Central. : Degenerate
    • Hey thanks! I just hoped there was a way to change it. : jodiuh

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  neither can i... i want to see the comparison of dx10 vs 9.. OMG OMG OMG : ssj4megaman
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    Did they do that? I didn't know ATi or nvidia had any DX10 hardware taped out yet. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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      as far as i know.. taped out is for mass scale reproduction and final chip hardware... i cannot see ati o... : ssj4megaman
      • Uh, yeah, you're right. Temporary retardedness on my part. I meant some kind of working, presentable stag... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• Just watched that part; sure seemed that way. : omnova

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• Sweet, they got guns, germs, and steel. : pebui
• As much as I loved the original, Peter Molyneux is a flaming asshole. I loved that man for so many yea... : abrasion
• No gameplay :( : abrasion

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• Dude, the MA5B Assault Rifle is back! I guess MC found where they've been stashing all of them or he g... : pebui
• I was looking over the halo 3 forum on bungies site, the lore nerds there are delving as far back to the ... : hakenrend
• As much I don't like Halo - those graphics were darn nice - impressive : abrasion

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• + Gears of War (sorry Cliffy!) : gl2 drivers
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  is blue dragon japan only or will it be coming here too? : alexthegreat2
  • I'll be pretty surprised if Blue Dragon doesn't make it over here.. but I don't believe there's anything... : ]aratex[
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  DOAXBV2 (yes I'm a pervert) : skunk_ape
  • not the only one ;) : yuried
• Oooh, I thought Crysis wasn't coming to 360... : jodiuh

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• Agreed. For the future though it would be better if updated info went to the top of the pile. : freshyk

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• DILLON!!!! : Rauol Duke
• I understand that Chris Jones (aka Tex Murphy and former Access President) at True Golf and a bunch of ex... : baron calamity
• don't make me say it again :( : Mansmells

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• Fall 2007 : headbone
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  Good for Rockstar not to screw people over. I wonder how that went down though... I'm sure they had negot... : tigeN
  • I'm wondering if they were afraid of a PS3 only launch. With that price point and its somewhat less than... : MilkDud
  • I wonder if it can be inferred that cross platform games would be a lot easier to do and release simultan... : pebui
• fall of 2007 : Mansmells

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  BLOCK'D Any direct links to video? : classicfork
  • large: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/3/5b3d8532-65bc-4bf6-b5ea-6ba0f2084d74/h3_e32006_annou... : gl2 drivers
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  it says in there everything in the trailer is realtime. SICK! : madtothemax
  • Wow that video was amazing. : MilkDud
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    Grafics are good. They remind me of BF2 with weather effects. I'm not a big fan of Halo but it looks like... : omontero
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      I don't think Halo3 is coming for the PC is it? : -efx-
      • Definitely too early to answer that one, but it would be nice if they did. Goes along nicely with MS's n... : MilkDud
      • not necessarily - either they make it a Game for Windows (Vista) (unlikely for now, considering they wann... : yuried

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• I think MS and Nintendo have both taken a collective Wii on Sony this round. : Vic Viper

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• If they were to do that (and I hope they do, cheaper consoles is good for everyone!) I would imagine they... : gl2 drivers
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  That isn't something they are going to announce now. They don't want people waiting. : vigilante
  • No reason to do a price cut. Their console is cheaper than Sony's. : omontero
• why bother at this point? ps3 is coming in at a ridiculous price point. : eggnoodles

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• Is it stopping for you too? I'm almost done, hopefully it wont be corrupted since I had to start again a ... : mmt681

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• what : -efx-
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  quit misquoting remo! "150 million people play various games on Windows" : fr0x
  • the "million" was originally missing :) : kungfusquirrel

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• Maybe Hal03? : pebui

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  Laugh all you want, but that integration stuff sounds absolutely amazing to me. : MilkDud
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    Amazingly buggy and a good way to get viruses on your 360? Yes, I agree. : Angrakhan
    • riiiight : silentzero
    • THIS MAN IS ALL KNOWING! : fr0x
    • Go back to lurking please. : lightly inclined
    • You sir are a genius. : okaria
  • With that many platforms supported for Friends Lists, they better bump up that 100 tag limit. : SinistarX
  • windows messenger live beta is still taking 40mb of ram, if thats the case when its final, ........lame : Chandler55