quietchat
06-01-2009, 10:20 PM
This is Quietchat once again to bring you info on all the things you love about gaming. Next on the list is the EA Games E3 press conference, once again I'm watching this live as it is aired and and picking out the best of it. I don't expect alot of posting actually for this thread.
EA Games is a giant when it comes to the PC gaming world with a hand in many different game genres and further work as a third party company for home consoles. Their most famous game of course is The Sims series, with the third installment having been announced recently, and the game Spore making splashes late last year. Their division EA Sports (Which I have critisized before in other threads) continues to make sports games with little new innovation in sports games, apparently with exception last year. Last year also showed some legal issues, with a failed takeover of sports game rival 2K Games (Yeah, they wanted the monopoly), people making sexual and graphic images with the Spore Creature Creator, and some issues with layoffs and unpaid wages (Assuming that last one I'm not thinking of another company). Rock Band: The Beatles and Left 4 Dead 2 (By Valve but partnered with EA) has already been shown in the Microsoft press conference, and it's expected that we'll see Jack Black's Brutal Legend at this year's show. I don't know quite how much will actually be shown however, so I'll try to follow the best I can. Another interesting fact, EA was at one point the largest third party developer and most successful, but has been overetaken by Activision Blizzard by a full billion dollars in sales last year, sitting now in second place. It is now about 20 minutes until the conference, a bit more than 20 hours until the show opens.... Actually, quick update: The Sims 3 will be released tommorrow. I'm getting lazy at following release dates.
Alright, it is now the start of the press conference for EA Games (Before I go on.... Seriously, why are EA Games and Ubisoft having their own conferences??). First a trailer, which shows tortured people embedded in rock. This is a videogame that is based off of an old poem, where a man who's love has been taken to the deepest circle of hell, attempts to rescue her soul. The poem and game's title is Dante's Inferno. Since it's based off a poem, the world is based mostly around what was written, but with some added intensity by the developers. Check out the preview on Kotaku, it's pretty interesting.
Next, a man comes on stage to show a trailer for the third Sims game. If you're a Sims fan, you already know all there is to know so far about the game. They announce that there will be 12 games shown at this conference. Chip Lang takes the stage from Hasbro games, and the background shows some sickingly sweet chibi creatures..... Talks about Littlest Pet Shop (Yech.) This fall, 3 games for the Wii and DS for the pet shop (GACK). SKIP!!! No, not to a trailer for the pet shop games! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Skip that too! Wtf was that logo?? EA Girls!?! Okay, someone else is on stage.... WTF?? Charm Girls Club?? What the hell? One game on the wii? Three on the DS!?!? About the prom?!?! And Slumber Party!??!? SKIP IT!!! What the fuck!?! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SHOWING ANOTHER TRAILER!?! AND WHY IS THE AUDIENCE CHEERING!?!
Finally, somthing decent: Need for Speed: Shift. hey are trying inovate it with a new perspective and true drivers idea of what it's like to actually be in the car..... Except that the trailer broke and they had to start over. Apparently there is leveling up, so on, ect ect. People will now have driver profiling which will determine and show your success rates, your driving personality, and 2 other things I missed, and they go on to show a love action demo. I have to say there's alot of shaking and stuff, so I'm pretty convinced for the realism. For fun the developers are having a competition at their booth. Winner gets a new car.
Next, Dragon Age: Origins, with developers from Bioware. A trailer starts with some scary looking warriors, some pretty bloody stabs and kills, and some pretty large battles and freaky looking creatures. Coming out October 20th, 2009 (This really is bloody). Next they show Mass Effect 2 and a trailer, where it looks like Combat will be a much bigger part of the game, with the story still being a massive part.
Next up is the EA sports division starting. A trailer starts, people in sports, pull out controllers, blah blah I don't care. If you like EA Sports games you'll get them anyway, right? They show work on Fight Night Round 4, Madden 10 Online will be featuring online content that can be taken back to your console... or somthing. I'm still confused. Into the health and fitness part, for the wii is EA Sports Active, which looks much more intense (Work out wise) than Wii Fit. Somthing else new for the Wii, Grand Slam Tennis, which will use the Motion Plus, and a demo of the game in action.
Next up, developer Tom French from Pamdemic Studio's showing The Sabatour, starting with a trailer. It appears to take place in France, which has been over-taken by Germany. The actual gameplay has started for the game, where the actual game is in black and white, except for certain parts of the game which are specially colored. At the moment, only the color red and the color yellow from the glows of windows are nearby. It shows up climbing a building, ala Assassin's Creed, down a zipline like Splinter Cell, snapping the neck of a nazi and taking his outfit ala Hitman, then planting an explosive, getting into a gunfight, hijacking a car to escape and hiding into a building.... to be precise a bourdello.
Next is Tim Schafer, president of Double Fine Studios, to show the game Brutal Legend (if you don't know who he is, he's someone who made many of those great point and click adventures like the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentecle, then making the very under-appreciated game Psychonauts). Of course the game is based heavily around rock music and the rock lifestyle... and some super goofy parts, like a famous bass player that can heal with his guitar work, and a man with such large hair he can fly with it. Some of the rock artists these characters are based on are Lita Ford, Rob Haleford, Lemmy Kilmister, and Ozzy Osborne. Next is a trailer for the game, where you play a roadie, represented by Jack Black. Pretty hard to describe. In stores October 13th.
Next is the president of Crytek showing Crysis 2. Release for PC, 360, PS3. Not much shown.
EA is announcing a new company partnership with Realtime World studio's, president Dave Jones, showing APB (All Points Bulletin), an MMO game where you set out to take out the criminal infestation that runs rampant through the city, or be a part of it. It looks like a real time exploration shooter driving ect game.
After that, some trumpets blare, and a bunch of people come on stage with lightsabers and wearing outfits. Then I'm reminded that the trumpets is from Star Wars, where Lue is branded a hero at the end of the 4th movie. Bioware in combination with Lucas Arts Games, showing the new Star Wars: The Old Republic, for an MMO project. They start a trailer for the game, showing a sith and a twilek heading into a large building. They are surrounded by Jjedi, only for a drop ship to crash into the building behind the sith lord, full of even more sith, and what follows is a massic lightsaber battle, with a Boba Fett looking character in the middle of it. Tthe whole city is overrun by with ships and is destroyed. This one gets quite a bit of applause. With this trailer the EA Games conferences has ended.
I think EA had a pretty good showing for this conference (Last time I'm saying it: WHY DO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CONFERENCE?!?). Most of these games though weren't developed by EA, but by partners of EA. So, it's more like a showcase of a bunch of different companies. So, who knows. With so many developer partnerships to EA, they may be set up pretty well. This is quietchat and I'll be back later with the Ubisoft conference.
EA Games is a giant when it comes to the PC gaming world with a hand in many different game genres and further work as a third party company for home consoles. Their most famous game of course is The Sims series, with the third installment having been announced recently, and the game Spore making splashes late last year. Their division EA Sports (Which I have critisized before in other threads) continues to make sports games with little new innovation in sports games, apparently with exception last year. Last year also showed some legal issues, with a failed takeover of sports game rival 2K Games (Yeah, they wanted the monopoly), people making sexual and graphic images with the Spore Creature Creator, and some issues with layoffs and unpaid wages (Assuming that last one I'm not thinking of another company). Rock Band: The Beatles and Left 4 Dead 2 (By Valve but partnered with EA) has already been shown in the Microsoft press conference, and it's expected that we'll see Jack Black's Brutal Legend at this year's show. I don't know quite how much will actually be shown however, so I'll try to follow the best I can. Another interesting fact, EA was at one point the largest third party developer and most successful, but has been overetaken by Activision Blizzard by a full billion dollars in sales last year, sitting now in second place. It is now about 20 minutes until the conference, a bit more than 20 hours until the show opens.... Actually, quick update: The Sims 3 will be released tommorrow. I'm getting lazy at following release dates.
Alright, it is now the start of the press conference for EA Games (Before I go on.... Seriously, why are EA Games and Ubisoft having their own conferences??). First a trailer, which shows tortured people embedded in rock. This is a videogame that is based off of an old poem, where a man who's love has been taken to the deepest circle of hell, attempts to rescue her soul. The poem and game's title is Dante's Inferno. Since it's based off a poem, the world is based mostly around what was written, but with some added intensity by the developers. Check out the preview on Kotaku, it's pretty interesting.
Next, a man comes on stage to show a trailer for the third Sims game. If you're a Sims fan, you already know all there is to know so far about the game. They announce that there will be 12 games shown at this conference. Chip Lang takes the stage from Hasbro games, and the background shows some sickingly sweet chibi creatures..... Talks about Littlest Pet Shop (Yech.) This fall, 3 games for the Wii and DS for the pet shop (GACK). SKIP!!! No, not to a trailer for the pet shop games! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Skip that too! Wtf was that logo?? EA Girls!?! Okay, someone else is on stage.... WTF?? Charm Girls Club?? What the hell? One game on the wii? Three on the DS!?!? About the prom?!?! And Slumber Party!??!? SKIP IT!!! What the fuck!?! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SHOWING ANOTHER TRAILER!?! AND WHY IS THE AUDIENCE CHEERING!?!
Finally, somthing decent: Need for Speed: Shift. hey are trying inovate it with a new perspective and true drivers idea of what it's like to actually be in the car..... Except that the trailer broke and they had to start over. Apparently there is leveling up, so on, ect ect. People will now have driver profiling which will determine and show your success rates, your driving personality, and 2 other things I missed, and they go on to show a love action demo. I have to say there's alot of shaking and stuff, so I'm pretty convinced for the realism. For fun the developers are having a competition at their booth. Winner gets a new car.
Next, Dragon Age: Origins, with developers from Bioware. A trailer starts with some scary looking warriors, some pretty bloody stabs and kills, and some pretty large battles and freaky looking creatures. Coming out October 20th, 2009 (This really is bloody). Next they show Mass Effect 2 and a trailer, where it looks like Combat will be a much bigger part of the game, with the story still being a massive part.
Next up is the EA sports division starting. A trailer starts, people in sports, pull out controllers, blah blah I don't care. If you like EA Sports games you'll get them anyway, right? They show work on Fight Night Round 4, Madden 10 Online will be featuring online content that can be taken back to your console... or somthing. I'm still confused. Into the health and fitness part, for the wii is EA Sports Active, which looks much more intense (Work out wise) than Wii Fit. Somthing else new for the Wii, Grand Slam Tennis, which will use the Motion Plus, and a demo of the game in action.
Next up, developer Tom French from Pamdemic Studio's showing The Sabatour, starting with a trailer. It appears to take place in France, which has been over-taken by Germany. The actual gameplay has started for the game, where the actual game is in black and white, except for certain parts of the game which are specially colored. At the moment, only the color red and the color yellow from the glows of windows are nearby. It shows up climbing a building, ala Assassin's Creed, down a zipline like Splinter Cell, snapping the neck of a nazi and taking his outfit ala Hitman, then planting an explosive, getting into a gunfight, hijacking a car to escape and hiding into a building.... to be precise a bourdello.
Next is Tim Schafer, president of Double Fine Studios, to show the game Brutal Legend (if you don't know who he is, he's someone who made many of those great point and click adventures like the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentecle, then making the very under-appreciated game Psychonauts). Of course the game is based heavily around rock music and the rock lifestyle... and some super goofy parts, like a famous bass player that can heal with his guitar work, and a man with such large hair he can fly with it. Some of the rock artists these characters are based on are Lita Ford, Rob Haleford, Lemmy Kilmister, and Ozzy Osborne. Next is a trailer for the game, where you play a roadie, represented by Jack Black. Pretty hard to describe. In stores October 13th.
Next is the president of Crytek showing Crysis 2. Release for PC, 360, PS3. Not much shown.
EA is announcing a new company partnership with Realtime World studio's, president Dave Jones, showing APB (All Points Bulletin), an MMO game where you set out to take out the criminal infestation that runs rampant through the city, or be a part of it. It looks like a real time exploration shooter driving ect game.
After that, some trumpets blare, and a bunch of people come on stage with lightsabers and wearing outfits. Then I'm reminded that the trumpets is from Star Wars, where Lue is branded a hero at the end of the 4th movie. Bioware in combination with Lucas Arts Games, showing the new Star Wars: The Old Republic, for an MMO project. They start a trailer for the game, showing a sith and a twilek heading into a large building. They are surrounded by Jjedi, only for a drop ship to crash into the building behind the sith lord, full of even more sith, and what follows is a massic lightsaber battle, with a Boba Fett looking character in the middle of it. Tthe whole city is overrun by with ships and is destroyed. This one gets quite a bit of applause. With this trailer the EA Games conferences has ended.
I think EA had a pretty good showing for this conference (Last time I'm saying it: WHY DO THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CONFERENCE?!?). Most of these games though weren't developed by EA, but by partners of EA. So, it's more like a showcase of a bunch of different companies. So, who knows. With so many developer partnerships to EA, they may be set up pretty well. This is quietchat and I'll be back later with the Ubisoft conference.