recap
Full Member
Posts: 134
|
Post by recap on May 13, 2006 13:54:45 GMT -5
Seems Odin Sphere was shown privately. It's indeed a 2D-graphics, side-scroll action RPG with Soejima [Stella Deus, Persona 3] designs. News of the year to me and the only E3 thingie which got me interested. Can't wait to see the first screens.
|
|
|
Post by Scylla on May 13, 2006 15:00:33 GMT -5
Right after I posted last, I went down to the Natsume booth - and they were giving out flyers that said "Yes! Chulip is still coming!" So, that is cool. It's underneath all of my crap in my bag somewhere, I'll dig it up once I get some sleep. Yay! You have made my day, good sir. :) Now I'll just keep my fingers crossed that they'll keep the $15 price point (although I'd rush out and buy it at $20 too, just like Katamari Damacy). Which reminds me, I still need to get River King...
|
|
|
Post by Discoalucard on May 14, 2006 0:33:24 GMT -5
Doesn't say anything about price point. It reveals the release to be October 2006 though. Anyway, my pictures are here: hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/e3/2006/pics2006.htmlI think my favorite playable game of the show was Dead Rising, mostly because of the awesome concept. The best nonplayable game (that I saw, not including the MGS4 trailers) was Bioware's Mass Effect. Mix the action/RPG stuff from Deus Ex with the exploration of Star Control 2 and the morality of Knights of the Old Republic? OMG YES. I wish they'd stick more stuff out on the floor and not just show it behind closed doors. What's the point?
|
|
|
Post by Malroth on May 14, 2006 0:54:48 GMT -5
Heh. Looks like you went nuts with the camera when Brawl and PoR popped up.
|
|
|
Post by Brand on May 14, 2006 7:39:25 GMT -5
Desperate Housewives the game?! WTF?! Pairs Hilton has a bejeweled game?
OMG! I creamed my pants for Fallout 3!
So I'm now stoked for Fallout 3, Phoenix Wright, Castlevania: POR, and Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime. Also that Lunar Knights game looks pretty cool.
|
|
|
Post by Brand on May 14, 2006 16:46:23 GMT -5
Yo Kurt do you know that is Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors? Is it the Dragon Quest Yangus game for the PS2 or something new?
|
|
|
Post by Weasel on May 14, 2006 18:50:38 GMT -5
I think Dragon Quest Swords is a new title for the Wii, but I'm not sure.
|
|
grad
Full Member
Enlarge my avatar, yea or nay?
Posts: 129
|
Post by grad on May 15, 2006 1:39:40 GMT -5
Hey, thanks for everything--especially the pics! So, uhh... How are the ears doin'?
|
|
|
Post by Warchief Onyx on May 15, 2006 2:13:12 GMT -5
Kurt: get a chance to try out Valkyrie Profile 2? A few people I talked to at E3 said it was one of the best things they played during the show.
|
|
|
Post by Scylla on May 15, 2006 16:58:09 GMT -5
Valkyrie Profile 2 was playable at the show? I thought they only had a new trailer at the show? I don't think anybody in Japan has even played it yet. o_O
|
|
|
Post by Discoalucard on May 15, 2006 17:15:23 GMT -5
Kurt: get a chance to try out Valkyrie Profile 2? A few people I talked to at E3 said it was one of the best things they played during the show. Yeah, a bit. The game is gorgeous. Like, Grandia 3, but with even nicer looking characters. It still has the normal hideous PS2 jaggies (which were amplified by the high def monitors they used) but for the system, it looks great. It seems like you run and jump around dungeons with the same side-scrolling viewpoint as the original. It's weird when you get into battles - you and your party can actually walk around the battlefield, choose your target, and then engage in combat with the chosen foe. At this point, it works just like the original, with button commanding a character to attack. It still says "Purification Complete" when you finish a battle too. I'd be hard pressed to call it one of the better games of the show, if mostly because the intricacies (if there are any) of the battle system were lost on me. It seems cool though. I think I'll be getting the import one next month.
|
|
|
Post by MRSKELETON on May 15, 2006 17:21:44 GMT -5
Did you get a chance to look at the gameplay demo for heavenly sword?
|
|
|
Post by Discoalucard on May 15, 2006 17:54:55 GMT -5
Heavenly Sword is another one of those "press buttons, make cool shit happen" type of games. Feels a lot like God of War but shinier, because that's what your $500 will get you. Lots of shiny.
I got a bit annoyed at it because there was only one small arena in the demo, with enemies constantly coming at you for ten minutes until the final foe, which you did a quicktime-esque sequence. It was annoying because, even with only three people in front of you, they insist of playing the whole thing until the game tells them to stop, so you're waiting half a goddamned hour in an already crowded booth with people gawking over the same MGS4 trailer that had been looped twenty times already, not only there, but at the Konami booth as well.
Anyway, I like the way the attacks are set up. There are three modes of attack, and each mode has two attack buttons, along with combos. There's regular, distance and power attack. By holding L1 (I think) your strikes focus more on far reaching attacks, but by holding R1, your strikes are don't reach as far but are more powerful. Then you have the default attacks without pressing the shoulder triggers. The right analog stick dodges, just like GoW.
The biggest problem is that the camera is zoomed way too far in close, which is a constant problem in 3D games and it's baffling how game designers don't realize that giving a wide viewpoint is far more important that showing off how impressive their character model is. At least Too Human is trying to fix that, even if that game ran like trash
|
|
|
Post by MRSKELETON on May 15, 2006 18:27:35 GMT -5
Havent really heard much about too human.
|
|
|
Post by sainttweeter on May 15, 2006 21:32:23 GMT -5
Apart from Nintendo slightly redeeming themselves to me, E3 this year was overall kind of lacklaster and unimpressive to me. :/
|
|