Anya

I don't know why there was ever any doubt. It's Ubisoft.

True about Halo, but that is the exception. GE, GTA III and Metroid Prime also all had underwhelming impressions or apathy at some point too. I just find it funny and yet another example of how stupid the gaming press is that they pushed that game so hard and so quickly without much to go on. They want Wii to succed and since there wasn't much else to hype up they picked that to be the next Halo. Now they've got to do the damage control previews. I didn't actually look at Warhawk. I liked the PSX original and would probably play this but I'm so out of the loop I haven't even bought Advent Children yet or seen the MGS4 trailer. I am not wasting my time with Warhawk. Who cares about MGS4's gameplay at this point? The story is the most exciting thing right now. Angst is good. Liquid Ocelot.....isn't. This was the most boring E3 ever. Nothing excites me. I downloaded one video and that was it. This whole next gen is lame. I am ok with just PS2. The graphics are fine. I feel no need for new systems. It feels like the only reason next gen is starting is because Sony, MS and Nintendo just decided to. It's been over 5 years so it's time for next gen even if there isn't a need for it yet. I wish I hadn't bought a 360 yet. I bought it just because it's the new Xbox. That's what I've always done. I think I'm about done with the days of buying a console or games just because. I'm actually starting to think I might not buy a PS3 at launch. I may wait for MGS4 and Tekken 6 with PS3. At this rate I may not buy a Wii at all. I hope my interest in console gaming improves soon.

No it didn't. I just now got around to reading the Red Steel impressions. It must be really bad. The press is usually so soft on games with previews only saying vague stuff like "it needs a bit of work" or has problems that will be "ironed out" while trying to stay positive. With Red Steel IGN basically goes out of it's way to politely say it sucks. This is such a perfect example of how weak the gaming press is. They picked this game to push hard to be a big mature game to represent Wii and now that it doesn't seem to be as good as they had expected they've got to beat around the bush about it. They're practically begging the developers to fix it to justify the hype. This game was chosen to be the Halo of Wii before anyone had even really played it. One of the things they point out, how the sword fighting is really just set sword swipe animation for whatever direction you point towards, is something I've been wondering about since the beginning of Wii. Is that how games like Zelda are going to work? How could they actually let you fully control the sword fighting? Link never has many moves and the combat is extremely simple. It's like a hack and slash game. You could be doing all sorts of fancy stuff but would Link only just do his regular stab? That's what it sounds like with Red Steel. If that's the case for most games then the whole thing seems like it'd get old fast. There is an arcade game called Blade of Honor that is how I've been picturing Wii. You have a wand and it's your sword. You hold it up in front of you to block and you swipe in whatever direction to attack. It sounds just like how IGN describes Red Steel. It's cool at first but you're not actually getting any different control than you would with an analog stick. oh and Andrew...Warhawk was playable. I just saw a video of the Warhawk demonstration from the conference with that guy tilting it. It's so silly. Joysticks and dpads will never be beat. I support the status quo! So I haven't been following Too Human. Is it confirmed it sucks yet? I am actually sort of hoping it does just because of Dennis Dyack's ridiculous hype like saying it could possibly change the WORLD and name dropping everyone from Nietzsche to Shakespeare. That guy is one of the most pretentious in gaming. I can't believe he is hyping it up as this epic trilogy when it takes them years and years to put out a single game.

I agree. Julia should get one.

Yeah, ok. These Alpha games run on the CPS2 board. Hardware a decade old. I'm pretty sure the PS2 can handle it. Pick Eddy. Button Mash. Win!

I'm disappointed he didn't say anything about Tekken. Itagaki interviews are no good without the Tekken hate.

What? They're arcade games. There's nothing special about the Dreamcast or Saturn. There's no reason the PS2 or Xbox ports couldn't be as good. It is not hard to make a good 3d fighter. Tekken has got a lot more tournament play than X-Men vs. Street Fighter.

No but I am more excited for DOAX2 than UMK3.

Oh god I saw the actual trailer for Tekken 6 and it looks horrible. The graphics look like Tekken 4. What is going on with Namco? There is no way that is actually Tekken 6. Lili is straight out of DR, it HAS to be something they just randomly threw together. 2001 graphics and insane price aside I am overall happy. I wasn't asking for much. Standard dual shock controller design + Lili on PS3. Good enough for me!

The screens made it look horrible. Like worse than T5. It looks like it has to be some kind of early place holder thing. I don't know why they would want to show that.

Well supposedly it's actually called Tekken 6 so I would think it would be totally new. I was just wondering if the footage shown was really just taken from DR as sort of a place holder. But I'd have to see it. I just saw some screens of it. Jin has a new shirt but Lili looks exactly like she does in DR. So it must be very early.

Apparently the "new" character is just Lili. If they are fighting in a church I wonder if it's the Cathedral stage from DR. So, I'm curious if this was really T6 or just some version of DR. Wish I could see just this and not the crappy conference.

Wait, there was a Tekken 6 teaser? Gamespot says something about Jin fighting a new blonde girl.

Whatever. Nintendo and Microsoft can't go 20 seconds without making ridiculous claims either. Kutaragi, Reggie, Moore, Itagaki and almost everyone else in the industry is crazy and nobody takes them seriously. If Wii is really 250 I think it'd be as dumb as the 600 dollar PS3.

I do think PS3 could lose some of Sony's market share, if Wii and 360 are really successful they could put a huge dent in it. But let's be real here...PS3 is almost certainly going to sell the most. PS4 is where things could go bad, I think.... I didn't see the video of Kutaragi. It doesn't surprise or offend me. Sony's ego is nothing new and nothing exclusive to that company. All 3 have ridiculous PR like that. Almost everything Nintendo says about Wii is obnoxious and pretenious. As for them using the motion sensor....nobody is going to care after like a month. Internet gamers are all "outraged" now but it doesn't matter. It's not like it's anything NEW either. The dual shock itself was Sony's answer to the analog stick after PSX was already out. Following is Sony's MO. The only people that care hate them anyway.

People on forums. DC beating PS2 was all the rage. Playstation is so strong Sony could make tons of mistakes and still sell the most consoles....

Handheld market is one thing, console is another. People thought PS2 was going to be a disaster too. Why would the industry crash? Sony has been good for gaming.

Sony will still dominate.

You can tell you wouldn't be able to play Tekken with it because of the handels. I wouldn't be able to hold it right. Ms. arcade dweller still uses a dual shock to play on arcade.

So the shape, Dpad and buttons are identical to Dual shock 2? Good..very good. Boomerang would have been horrible to play Tekken on.

I read Gamefan in the mid 90s. MK era. Then the art was some of the worst art I've ever seen in a game magazine and more pics than text. And yes Gameplayers was not as funny as they thought they were.

I always found Die Hard Gamefan to be overrated. The art like that monitor guy was HORRIBLE and they loved everything! This article is so true, they would gush over anything Japanese or a fighting game. The whole magazine was like 90% screenshots too.

It's not. It has more of the IMF team stuff than the other two. There's a good mix between the espionage and plot twists in the original to the action of the second. You know the opening to the original with the team infiltrating the party? The middle of this one has an extended mission like that with Hunt and an IMF team. I thought it was the coolest part of the movie.

I think of Sega as incompetent and Nintendo crazy. Both are dumb, but Sega does what they do because they don't know any better...Nintendo just lives in their own world where they're still in charge.

What did I ignore? When I talk about being sick of Capcom I mean only their fighting games. I like a lot of their other games.