SCEA: E3 2009 to be one of the biggest in the past 11 years

Didn’t really like Ape Escape and Parappa is fun in very small doses but I don’t really ‘do’ music games. If they redid The Getaway so that it wasn’t shit then that could potentially be interesting.

yea i know you and the rest of these xbots on this site talk to each other over xbox live while posting hate comments toward sony and taking bets who gets to be on top if they can make aires rant first. its no secret really, i just like for you to win because i know you’ll be covered in shit tonight

It’s harder to be innovative when the controller your innovation is based around becomes the de-facto standard I suppose.

Leave Sony alone!

/pouts

How so? It was still innovative, but only by PS1 standards.

Yeah I actually don’t do music games either really, certainly not this generation.

The Getaway had a good story and again it was technically better than GTA, but it’s useless when it’s so empty like it was. And ofcourse Team Soho isn’t around anymore.

why are you trying to attack me all of a sudden.

You’re not that sensitive are you? After all, you’re quick enough to throw around the insults so I’d assume you can take it too.

Also, I’m killing time waiting for a delivery.

If Team Ico announces their game.. it will be a victory in my eyes !!

If Team ICO’s project is there, it should be a victory for HD generation.

Any possibility that they would announce both new games?

Let me guess its a penis pump or a blow up doll ver of aaron greenburg you are waiting for

Team ICO should disband. It’d be best. Two landmark titles. Legendary vision. Unparalleled narrative.

And then.. void. Like a barren landscape in SOTC.

sory bout that wrong article my fault

Evil…put that post in every other story….lol !!!

(thank god we got the edit button)

So… how many more stories are going to come from this conversation at GDC ?? is that still going on?

@TEA: I’ve already got both of those things. I’m waiting for my xbot certification study guide.

Let’s hope they show some good stuff – E3 should be a bit better then usual this year, it looks like Nintendo will be pushing some goodly warez too.

So, fingers crossed Sony have recommissioned Eight Days and we’ll see a pre=rendered cutscene of it at E3.

I saw that video they release a while ago on Eight days showing off the “cover system”.. Damn that looked good. Made me wonder why they didnt want to make it all the way through..

Shatner. Unparalleled narrative? I don’t mind people pretending they’ve played a game, just so long as they do it convincingly.

Anyway, let them show you what they are wroking on and then say that. People who have seen it have been suitably excited. Not me obviously, I wish I had though!

Hopefully they’ll show some good stuff, feck knows they need to right now.

New IP would be smashing.

“A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format (written, spoken, poetry, prose, images, song, theater or dance) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events”

“Team ICO should disband. It’d be best. One landmark title. Legendary vision. Unparalleled narrative.

Then… void. Like a barren landscape in ICO.”

(Post circa 2005)

Things can only get better :p

Seraphemz, 20 mil is a lot to spend on a game, that is part of a very busy genre this generation. Sony has Uncharted.

By the way, I am not agreeing with that ridiculous thought that they might reuse the animations from Eight Days in Uncharted 2. Asset sharing is not something even internal teams do.

I am with Mike…. New IP please. Starhawk :O

Really really really hope it’s real.

“Shatner. Unparalleled narrative? I don’t mind people pretending they’ve played a game, just so long as they do it convincingly.”

I’d argue that you’ve played Ico and SotC and don’t consider them unparalleled narrative within the gaming industry, then *you* are the pretender.

I’m hoping Team Ico do reveal something at the event, but the fact that Ueda himself admitted they’re “struggling” is not a good sign in the slightest.

thank Zeus for the edit button also but at the xbot general i didn’t start anything with you. i’m not sensitive. I can take more bullet shots than you’ve taken more cum shots.

I just find it funny that you have been waiting for me to return so you can throw numbers in my face. Sorry i haven’t been glued to a computer monitor like you have but i’ve been busy packing to leave.

The sad thing psychotext and i’m being serious (cause i spelled your name right for once) you want to be my friend. I know we got off on a bad foot when we first met but i hope when i come back from cali we can put all this xbot and sony fanboy stuff behind us. I hope when i get my xbox360 you also accept my friend invite. You’re a smart guy and i do respect most of your thoughts you post here. Good luck and I hope we can come to a truce…friend

Pud – now that you bring that up, watching the Uncharted 2 footage, i did notice that Nathan now slides to cover.. kinda like the video of Eight Days was showing.. maybe Naughty Dog liked what they saw. Cant blame them for using it.

I personally would mind getting Eight Days if its a good game that is in the same genre. As long as its good.

I say you can both explain to me why they have an unparalleled narrative.

It’s a completely unconventional narrative, I’d agree. It’s a very basic story, I’d agree.

Ueda said he was struggling to say anything. Not struggling to develop the game. That much is confirmed when Redmond (TIGMagazine) retranslated it from Famitsu.

@Seraphemz I was saying exactly the oppsosite, there’s no sharing of animation going on. And ND animators are clearly in their own little world, where animations can still afford to transition awfully.

“when I get my xbox360″

You going soft, theevilaires? :p

Welcome to Xbox Land. It’s not that dissimilar to PlayStation Land, actually, only stuff is a little bit cheaper and FOR GODS SAKE DON’T PUT IT NEAR A RADIATOR ARE YOU MAD

I’m also looking forward to the Heavy Rain hands-ons. Love to know how it plays.

@TEA: To be fair, I wasn’t waiting at all. But seeing that you were on here I was hardly going to miss an opportunity to ask you about your favourite game.

“I say you can both explain to me why they have an unparalleled narrative.”

Do you have a few hours? Do you want me to write an essay on the subject? Valid question.

Here’s a link that will go a long way into offering you some insight into why its unparalleled narrative. Since i don’t have the patience to write an essay on the subject, I’ll leave it up to someone who did: http://www.rose-tainted.net/ico/essays/petereliot_annotation.html

“It’s a completely unconventional narrative, I’d agree. It’s a very basic story, I’d agree.”

It’s not basic by any stretch of the mark. The only people who consider story like that “basic” are the kind of gamers who consider games with stories like the convoluted messes of MGS4 and FFVII good storytelling.

NeverSoft/AlwaysHard

The Sony E3 press conference this year is going to be SICK!

They could easily pack one and a half to two hours with various games that have already been announced, but I hope there will be some surprises too.

Am I in bizzaro world ?? WTF !!! Evil is getting a 360 and im agreeing with MICHAEL ???!!!

Michael they are intentionally understated becuase Ueda focuses on communicating other things. I am not saying the stories are bad, they just are not even slightly complex. Hence basic.

Even the themes at play are very basic.

It’s not becuase it’s trying to appeal to idiots either, it’s just becuase it’s trying to create depth in places individual to games. And narrative is needed as a basic driver, that is all it is intended for both ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.

If you want to explain it to me, rather than refer me to an essay. Yes I’d be happy to read. But it’s futile, becuase we clearly have differing views on the games. I just don’t see how you could justify ‘unparalled narrative’. It’s unconventional and different. Not unparalleled.

is that a joke? I have never said KZ2 was my fav game.

Seraphemz said:

Am I in bizzaro world ?? WTF !!! Evil is getting a 360

Of course im getting a 360 right after…

1.they take out the RROD
2.They get rid of that ridiculous power brick
3.PS3 over takes it in sales world wide

@TEA: It’s sarcasm, and I’m talking about Halo Wars.

so not anytime soon….

( and as a SONY fan its hard to admit that…)

@ psycho: oh ok

@ Seraphemz: never ever give up on the power of CELL

Conditions 1 and 2 mean it’ll never happen anyway.

1: Short of removing the lights on the front of the 360 RRoD will always be a possibility.

2: The next step will be making a slimline 360… which will require an external PSU initially anyway.

Hey… i just said ‘not anytime soon’i didnt say NOT ever.. I have a feeling things will change.

Yeah, really who knows I guess. Sony will have to price-drop eventually.

And they still have their ‘bigger’ franchises on the way.

Even now things could change on who comes first and last. I’d prefer see Nintendo fad wear out, and see MS come first than a non-game machine. But I should stop being so defensive of the industry as I like it. I am sure there can be lots of good in casual introduction.

You really don’t like Nintendo much do you Pud?

Well, as I said, you gotta see the positive right?

I mean I’d lvoe to see the industry continue to develop the way we all envisioned, but you gotta be realistic and hope the changes affect what you love minimally, or learn to love new things.

nothing triggers a whirlwind of comments at vg247 like some Sony news

Have you seen N4G… crazy !!

I feel the same way No_Pud even if it is M$. Nintendo hasn’t done anything special besides that damn wii mote. hey Nintendo sorry i already got all the NES,SNES,and64 classics all on one machine. So your Virtual Console means shit to me. Miis are shit,wii channels are messy and ugly,plus the machine isn’t next gen.

Lets be honest if Sony re-released the ps2 as a new revision with the same capabilities as the wii from the start they would have murdered Nintendo like they did to sega.

Lets just leave Sony out of it for a second, I think we should be less critical of Nintendo.

And another thing, people down on the Wiimote, you guys can be quiet. Just becuase devs haven’t implemented the controls well, doesn’t mean it’s shit.

Next generation, everyone will do a Wii in terms of hardware, becuase development of games on anymore powerful tech will not be viable at all. So it’s not the hadrware issue either.

The thing you should be cross with is Nintendo’s intention to chase the casual, and completely alienate the core in the process.

And now if you choose to be cross with that, instead see the 7 and 8 yuear olds, girls especially, getting into this medium early on. They will grow up and want the same interaction, on a more mature level, so it can only be a positive thing for the future of gaming. Just not the present of gaming as we know it.