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Started 2 years ago by WJUK
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WJUK
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Now I'm not sure how many people would want to know, but I did this last year so here it is (it's not really in chronological order, it's just the way I remember them):

>Beatles Rock Band shown (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr appeared) - trailers only
>Tony Hawk Ride shown by Tony Hawk (who else?) - trailers only
>Modern Warfare 2 shown - demoed (looked great)
>Final Fantasy XIII shown on 360 - demoed
>Shadow Complex annouced, developed by Epic Games - demoed
>Joy Ride - trailer (announced as FREE)
>Crackdown 2 trailer shown
>Left 4 Dead 2 trailer shown (YAY!) - announced for November release
>Splinter Cell Conviction shown - demoed (looks totally different to before)
>Forza Motorsport 3 shown - trailers
>Halo ODST shown - demoed
>Halo Reach - trailers (teaser only! Also announced multiplayer BETA invites come with ODST)
>Alan Wake shown - demoed
>Improving Video service - 1080p HD video available STREAMING
>Sky Player coming to XBox for UK
>Facebook and Twitter coming to XBox
>Live Party can now watch shows together - like they promised way back when
At this point I had to do something else, so this is coming from other news sources (that are obviously less credible than me). I'll probably catch a video tomorrow to see the end.
>Metal Gear Solid Rising shown - NOT PORT OF MGS4 (apparently)
>Project Natal - camera motion thingy
>Peter Molyneux shows off Milo (???)

Have I missed anything?

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thanks for posting this, i saw some of it but then had to stop.

as for that milo thing, i wonder how long it takes to make each "person" after the system is set up.

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WJUK
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Just saw the end bit that I missed and it's basically what I posted there. The project Natal thing looks pretty good, it certainly has potential for casual (almost gimmicky) games. But it'll probably have trouble with "hardcore" games (like Brad has expressed already).

I think it's more suited for games like Wii Sports, where it's not especially deep and there's not a particular amount of precision needed. FPS' would be impossible to play with it I'm guessing.

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the wii uses accseleromiters and the xbox uses a camera so the xbox can be far more exact.

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WJUK
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Not necessarily, with cameras there's a whole host of other issues to account for. What if someone walks in front of the camera? Especially in competitive online games, it can be disastrous.
And the camera could just as easily mess up like accelerometers. Although it relies much more on the software.

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And background might always become a problem. The eyetoy has the same idea just that it doesn't only show the moving shadow.

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WJUK
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I remember playing with the EyeToy. It was fun for a while but grew old.

Although I've got to say, from a developer perspective particularly, Lionhead's Milo AI sounds really interesting.

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Not necessarily, with cameras there's a whole host of other issues to account for.

true, but i hope it works out for them.

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Sooooooooooo excited for ODST.

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WJUK
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@Orange: I hope it works out too. They've still got time to tweak it though. And from some hands-on impressions from reliable sources, it does a pretty good job already.

@Mistercheef: Yea ODST does look quite good. I'm interested in knowing what Halo: Reach is too.

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Did they show Kingdom hearts 385/2 days?

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i don't think so. maybe i am forgetting it.

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WJUK
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I'm pretty sure at the Nintendo E3 conference they showed a trailer. And it's looking pretty sweet. I'm thinking of picking it up on Day 1.

I love the KH series.

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oh now i remember it.

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WJUK
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Yea it was pretty short and was sandwiched between some other trailers. Would be easy to forget.

I'm still waiting for KHIII though.

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Yea KHIII is sopposed to go on the ps3...

I haven't got one though... Yet.

I already reserved my copy of KH385/2 days... so i probably will be getting it on day one

Well... day one is september though but still,

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I liked how Microsoft did not mess around with saying how grate there system was and what not. the other two did and it was really annoying.

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WHUT!?!
MICROSOFT NOT BEING COCKY!?!
THEY MOST HAVE FORGOT TO!

Or it's just an normal miracle.

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WJUK
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@Nik: No one's sure about that yet. It could go on any of the platforms.

@Orange: They said they were showing instead of talking and they seemed to have delivered on that. There's several games I'm really interested in.

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Yes they did say that didn't they. I really liked that they did that they did that because know that know one cares that they make lots of money or that they are really cool.
It was really funny to see falesha day because i have seen her in a few thing and didn't think that she would be there.

I just finished watching the ubisoft conference and thought that they too did a good job not talking about that sort of stuff (but not as good). I did like that they had that actor guy as the host. he was funny and made the 2 hour long thing a lot easier to watch.

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