Today, GamesAreEvil was alive and live tweeting the Microsoft press conference as it took place this morning in LA, for better or worse. Take a look at today’s comedic highlights followed by an overview from some of our staffers at the bottom.
- Way to go Microsoft, so Halo 4?
- Okay Microsoft press conference, let’s do this!
- GrE3 starts now…
- MW3 intro and @GreedyRaven is already out…
- In the interest of time, cut to DINOSAURS!!! #GrE3
- Must flap my arms while talking… #GrE3
- Really Tomb Raider is your #2? This is going to be a long show #GrE3
- Kinect = voice commands? Hokey at best… Just use your Xbox headset. #GrE3
- This is getting kinda silly… Who cares about gunsmith? Completely unnecessary Ubisoft… #GrE3
- So we have an NNXE? Make it stop!!! #GrE3
- Keri calledYouTube last night. #vindication #GrE3
- So Xbox is making it easier to be lazier? #GrE3
- Finally! Some exclusives…
- Ice-T? Fuck to the yes. #GrE
- Oh Crytek… You make me sad
- I am done, Halo is enough for me… #Pleased#GrE3
- Move over Gran Turismo, Forza has arrived! #GrE3
- Stop it with the Kinect already! #GrE3
- Minecraft and Kinect? I think @JoeyDavidson just came… #GrE3
- It was if thousands of voices cried out in pain… #StarWarsKinect
- Stop it with the Kinect… Seriously… Like now… Make it stop… … Please? I beg of you… #GrE3
- How many more pre-taped demos are we going to be forced through?
- Halo 4… again.
Lucas DeWoody:
Conference highs: Easily, the highlight had to be the announcement of a remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved. Easily remembered by many as still the storytelling highpoint of the series, Combat Evolved is also still beloved for it’s amazingly balanced multiplayer. Any excuse to see this incredible multiplayer experience back alive on Xbox Live and in the LAN scene will be a joy to behold. The announcement of Halo 4 and a new trilogy was also much welcomed, even if the big payoff actually leaked this morning.
Conference Low: Dear Lord, where to start… How about the failure of the Xbox Live TV Functions? It sounds like an incredible service that brings the last missing piece of the living room into the Xbox… unless you’re American. How about the dismal looking Kinect: Star Wars? Guys yelling, “LIGHTSABER ON”, then swinging their arms to nearly a half second of lag bros playing Kinect Sports 2 Football? Embarrassing, sure, but Tim Schafer and Cookie Monster was rock bottom. There was a severe lack of actual “new” core gaming announcements. Sure, Gears 3 rocks, but we just played it for three weeks. Where’s all the new shit that actually uses a controller? I like my buttons. How about some gameplay footage for Halo 4? Bungie is gone. Reassuring the fan base that this won’t be Call of Duty: Halo Edition would be a good thing right about now.
Eric Wall:
Conference highs: I found this presser a bit tough to make it through, but I think the appearance of Ice T might have been the high point. I’m interested to see some more details about the streaming TV service (mainly cost and channel selection), as well as play around with the new dashboard. Tomb Raider looked interesting, but I could have done without the constant moaning of Lara as she made her way through an all too generic looking cave environment.
Conference Low: Kinect was out in force, but not how I wanted it to be. An utter lack of interesting core games (Where was the Panzer Dragoon game announced at TGS?) made for a press conference where I kept waiting fo a bombshell that never came. From a tech perspective, Kinect is an interesting concept, but Microsoft did little in the way of convincing me to pick one up…For the second year in a row. Every Kinect demo looked pre-taped, and The Disneyland demo made the Kinectimals demo from last E3 look like Gears of War.
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