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Doesn't mean the game is bad, he could just be dead inside. Seriously though, I wasn't expecting much, but I thought, if they were going to do this livestream, they'd at least have something: one feature, maybe expand a little on how they interpret 'sandbox' for EQN, perhaps even one...

So...was that was the extent of the EQN "news"? Is it all these videos now?

Which is odd; I could've sworn they specifically said at the conference, "this is just a tech demo, not an actual game"

Ditto. As with the Wii, the odds that I'll get my money's worth in terms of the number of games I buy for it is about nil, but damn if I don't love me some Smash and some Zelda, so I'll get the goddamn console. Although, really? The Wii Fit Girl? Somebody's starting to run out of Nintendo...

Wished they had had some new stuff on Deep Down, but otherwise they pretty much nailed it.

And there's the final nail in the coffin.

Sounds like he's said you'll need ps+ for online multiplayer. Mildly annoying, but still, they're still not doing xbone's drm shit...

Well, there ya go. Console war over, I guess.

lolteso

Well, it looked good until the demo shit the bed

Huh; sothat'sfinally happening...

Ok, infamous looks fucking awesome, but that's to be expected.

How many games is Ellen Page in, nowadays? Edit: wait, that was Beyond? I missed the logo there, and thought this was yet another game.

Eh, let them get the last gen stuff done early, and get it out of the way.

Spike's showing Thief now, FYI.

Ryse was the only exclusive that intrigued me, in spite of the copious QTEs. Not enough to move me to Microsoft for this generation.

C'mon, this is the no spoilers thread; don't ruin the surprise for them.

Obviously, the themepark/sandbox dichotomy is more of a continuum than a simple binary choice (and certainly, eq was more sandboxy than WoW is), but for something to be considered thoroughly a sandbox, and not a themepark with sandbox tendencies, I'd it needs to have the following four...

Tell me about it. I mean, sure, maybe this game'll be decent, and maybe it will be the precursor to bringing the series back proper; but who the hell looks at Legacy of Kain and says "this needs a multiplayer-only title!" The fact that they looked at LoK and saw viable options beyond...

Hard to tell with the plain grey model, but it does look like the art style is fairly consistent with the concept art they had shown us before they scrapped the previous incarnation of the game, with that exaggerated-but-not-full-WoW look, so I'd guess that stuff is still reasonably valid for...

I've never really done the castlevania games (I know, I know), but it does look pretty cool. That said, what the fuck am I now watching?

I suppose it depends on what qualifies as a 'first look'. I mean, if E3 was a cg trailer and talking a little about it, but not showing gameplay, would showing gameplay at fan faire still qualify as a first look? Food for thought.

IIRC, the 'actual gameplay' and all that was what they said at the last fan faire. I think the bit about the game being not being unveiled until the next fan faire was something Smed tweeted some point earlier this year.

I thought they did, but I suppose it's not impossible that they just said that to throw us off the trail, so they can blindside us at E3. Stranger things have happened. Still wouldn't bet money on it, however.

Elder Scrolls games are up there for me. According to Steam, I'm sitting on a little over 380 hours played on Skyrim alone.

Last book I finished was the second book from the Corean Chronicles series by L.E. Modesitt; not great, but it works well enough if you've got a gap between the releases of better books. Currently I'm reading a history book about the Greek Hoplites entitledStorm of Spears, which is a...

I agree with you on the importance of player-created content as a feature of the next generation of MMOs. However, one caveat I'd throw in there, just based on my own preferences, is that I want the player creation of content to be something that works from an in-setting or in-character...

How do you make an mmo that gets its players addicted? In short: don't let them run out of goals. In your typical WoW-model mmo, you're given two goals: level to cap, and then progress through a linear lineup of raid targets to get the best gear. Once you do that, you either sit around with...

We practically never see this, but I'd rather like it if the means of getting new skills and spells wasn't so basic that could be replaced with "buy it from the shop". In my ideal dream mmo, the means of getting new abilities would mirror, as much as possible, how it "really" happens, according...

Or, like I said earlier, simply don't sell items that could qualify as in-game status symbols. I'm willing to bet the market for silly novelty hats and account services is sufficiently big that a developer can make a decent profit without dumping gear onto the marketplace that would otherwise...

Oh yeah, that's right; she did tradeskill stuff for a while. I never really cared about that stuff, but I recall that people who did do crafting really liked her. Certainly can't hurt to have her on EQN.

An Xbox game giving us a dog that we'll be super attached to. So Molyneaux is making FPSs now?

Oh hey, a shooter. Thank God I was sitting down for that revelation.

The fact a game console is devoting this much time to referencing fantasy sports is...interesting.

Well, one will probably be Fable. So only 14 of them will be shooters!

And now we can listen to a bunch of athletes yammer on about shit for five minutes...

On the subject of selling armor appearances in the cash shop, I think the solution there would be to make it so that you can buy stuff that's different or odd (but still fitting to the setting), but to get stuff that's badass, you need to actually play the game. If you want a top hat, or some...

Ah, so we're doing the "what I want back/miss from eq" conversation again, are we? Eh, what the hell: For me, it's not any particular mechanic, but rather what the game felt like to me. EQ felt like an actual world to me in a way that no game before or since has, rather than feeling like a...

I think you could manage to do both 1st and 3rd well in a game, it's just that you need to put some reasonable limits on the camera in 3rd person for it to work. If you go with the mmo standard of letting the player zoom the camera half-a-mile out from the character, then yeah, 1st person will...

Well, there will be a demo at fan faire, Smed said that at the keynote address last year. Released? I don't know. Going from properly announced to released in <4 months is somewhat out of the ordinary.