Microsoft Press Conference
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:01:40 PM] - G4TV is about to start the coverage of Microsoft's press conference. I believe there is a 30 minute pre-show before MS begins.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:21:03 PM] - Commercial break before the conference starts. 10 minutes left. On an unrelated note, the more I see Gears 2 Multiplayer, the more faith I have that it isn't going to piss me off like Gears did.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:37:09 PM] - Yes, please reconnect controller. Fallout 3 demo is being shown, and will be available later for download. The game gets better every time he says "Ridiculously violent ways."
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:42:59 PM] - I didn't really like the Fallout 3 stuff. The ability to just stop time and choose where you want to shoot someone kinda ruins any skill. Wow, complete control over auto-aim to the point where you don't even have to move to shoot someone.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:43:36 PM] - First RE5 demo is being shown. Online co-op mode showing. Friday the 13th, March 2009 RE5 will release.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:49:17 PM] - Fable II discussion now. Never played Fable, so I don't have much input here. Trailer is being shown right now.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:58:23 PM] - CliffyB is coming out to show Gears stuff. He has a red controller too, interesting. Late edit: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/14/limit ... g-sept-30/
[Mon, Jul 7 - 01:59:09 PM] - G4 is trying to censor the Gears gameplay. God forbid Dom says "Oh shit" on TV.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:02:55 PM] - The Gears gameplay looks very refined. There's a new mode in Gears 2, Horde, where 5 people can team up and fight off hordes of Locust. November 7th release date.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:04:01 PM] - Don is touting the ability of the 360 to reach all kinds of gamers. He says the 360 will outsell the PS3. SHOCKING! Nobody saw that coming.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:07:54 PM] - NBC and Universal Studios are joining the XBLM lineup. Stuff is up for download today.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:11:09 PM] - Software director for Live/360 is showing the dashboard. He's announcing a new dashboard update. Let's see what it is.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:12:15 PM] - Oh fuck me. It looks like shit. An avatar that looks fucking cartoony, the dashboard blades are now slides that slide in 3D. Fuck this is shit. There better be a way to go back. I'm pissed now.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:16:05 PM] - God damnit community is now a bunch of avatars standing around. Fuck this. The only thing good here is a global party system, multi-person private chat ftw. Up to 8 people can be in a party across games, etc. Here's a pic of the new dashboard: http://media.coveritlive.com/media/imag ... C02332.JPG
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:18:53 PM] - No dashboard themes, no gamerpics, looks like that was a bunch of wasted money...
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:19:37 PM] - Geometry Wars 2 coming next month, but who gives a shit right now when they're ruining the Xbox dashboard, the thing that defined the 360 as being a media device, not just a game console. Fuck.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:20:18 PM] - Galaga sequel as well. Galaga Legions.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:20:55 PM] - Portal XBLA.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:21:46 PM] - South Park XBLA game.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:23:14 PM] - Another new video partner, Netflix. Uh.. k.. So you can download videos if you're a Live subscriber "At no additional cost" he said. I don't know if I missed something, or if there's really free rentals.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:25:49 PM] - They just popped up the old blade dashboard, it was a little box in the middle of the screen, just gray. No customization, again. It's a mini-dashboard. This is stupid.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:28:25 PM] - Banjo and Viva Pinata stuff. Original Banjo game will be on XBLA too. Both of the titles will be available this holiday season.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:34:21 PM] - New vision camera game being shown. Running, wasp swatting, and dancing. "You're in the Movies" is the game name.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:35:59 PM] - The game takes the footage of you doing minigames and turns it into a movie.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:38:42 PM] - More Guitar Hero stuff coming. World Tour thing.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:40:26 PM] - 8 person battle of the bands, new drumset and guitar everyone knows about, lots of new songs, blah blah. Same old thing, as all music games are now. There's a music studio, you can make and share music, apparently. Interesting concept.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:42:20 PM] - With GH WT launch, 360 owners will be able to download REM tracks, and secondly, Metallica will join GH to release their full album on the same date as the actual album releases.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:45:15 PM] - Lips is a karaoke game or something, you can plug in a Zune or whatever and sing along to your songs, in addition to the built in songs.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:46:07 PM] - Whoever this bitch is, she has a terrible voice. It's annoying pop garbage.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:49:50 PM] - Rock Band 2 debuting exclusively on 360 this September.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:50:48 PM] - Full track list is being shown. 84 songs, text is way too small to read. It'll be up online in a moment. Plus 20 free songs as DLC later.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:57:19 PM] - The Last Remnant (Nov 20), Infinite Undiscovery (Sept 2), and Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Spring 2009) coming from Square Enix.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 02:59:31 PM] - The Last Remnant trailer was shown. It will also be on Games for Windows.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 03:03:17 PM] - Some other SE video is being shown. I missed the first part. There's a weird camera angle being used to show it, something's going to happen in the crowd.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 03:04:41 PM] - Or not. FF XIII is the video. It was shown from really far away for some reason.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 03:06:24 PM] - MS conference is over. That fucking dashboard was horrible. Now a commercial before the G4 hosts tell us how pissed they are, much like us, about the dash.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 03:08:43 PM] - Pictures of the dash can be seen here, if you want to rage about something.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168697
[Mon, Jul 7 - 03:11:35 PM] - Bungie.net is doing something. http://www.bungie.net/defaultsi.aspx
Thanks to Yama for showing me. Counting down to 7/16/2008 2:07:07 PM.
[Mon, Jul 7 - 07:59:57 PM] - NXE (New Xbox Experience, the new dashboard's title) stuff can be found here:
http://tural.gfxevolution.com/E3/New%20 ... xperience/
