E3 - Microsoft's Keynote

Captain Chaos

Gunmonkey wrote: »

250Gb HD's are about €89.99 in GAME

I saw them on Amazon for £70 delivered, thats €84.

Lets see what the new drives will cost though.
I can see a 320Gb around Christmas time.

evad_lhorg

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I saw them on Amazon for £70 delivered, thats €84.

Lets see what the new drives will cost though.
I can see a 320Gb around Christmas time.

wtf do you need that amount of space for on an xbox?! I have had a 20gb since launch and still have 4gb free.

Captain Chaos

evad_lhorg wrote: »

wtf do you need that amount of space for on an xbox?! I have had a 20gb since launch and still have 4gb free.

I know, but the only active 360 model on the market now is the 250Gb version after all the old models are sold.

I thought I'd never need more than 20Gb when I got my launch 360 and now I have my 120Gb Elite filled. I just don't bother deleting install data.

But 20Gb is not enough anymore. Mass Effect 2 install is 13.4Gb alone. Fallout and all DLC is huge and GTA4 and all DLC so its adds up very fast indeed.

LD 50

I wonder how that Killzone3 looks in 3D

Captain Chaos

LD 50 wrote: »

I wonder how that Killzone3 looks in 3D

Thats an eternal question for me as I can't see 3D and never will. I've no idea what the 3D effect is like but at least I won't have to fork out on a 3D TV ever.:(

niallon

Well I know which format I'll be getting MOH on! Can't say the same for Dead Space 2 though. Final Fantasy 14 though, really? I just don't get it!

Captain Chaos

Captain Chaos wrote: »

There are loads of games. MS only did their own in house stuff and left out the filler that they usually shove in. The EA show had 10 games. One was Dead Space 2 and they said they would show the rest at Sony's show tomorrow. Sony and Nintendo will fill up their shows with third party games like MS usually do.

MS had to try and sell Natal so it got an hour of stage time. Sure Cliffy B was at the EA show, showing off another game that wasn't shown in MS's show. The EA show had the new Medal of Honour 24 people multiplayer shown live, and Crysis 2 in 3D and will be in 3D on PC, 360 and PS3. Optional of course.

I hate when I'm right. Sony went third party to cater for the main gaming market while MS forced Kinect on everyone and didn't cater for anyone else.
Sony ended up with a far better E3 show as a result with only a little Move action. For shame MS, Sony finally got their game on this year. Thing is though I'll still end up buying it all for the 360, because I need my thumbs and want them intact later in life.

corcaigh07

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Thats an eternal question for me as I can't see 3D and never will. I've no idea what the 3D effect is like but at least I won't have to fork out on a 3D TV ever.:(

colour blindness?

NotorietyH

niallon wrote: »

Well I know which format I'll be getting MOH on! Can't say the same for Dead Space 2 though.

Well I'm definitely getting Dead Space 2 on PS3 for the limited edition that includes Extraction. Extraction's supposed to be excellent.

NotorietyH

evad_lhorg wrote: »

wtf do you need that amount of space for on an xbox?! I have had a 20gb since launch and still have 4gb free.

That fills up fairly fast with downloadable games getting bigger all the time and if you install a couple of games to the hard drive. Saying that I usually top out around the 60GB mark.

Captain Chaos

corcaigh07 wrote: »

colour blindness?

No, lazy eye/eye dominance problem. When I have both eyes open I only "look" though my left eye. I don't actually look through my right eye unless I close my left. Like when looking down a rifle scope. It's very annoying.

If I was colour blind I couldn't be doing the job I'm in now, and rightly fecked.

niallon

NotorietyH wrote: »

Well I'm definitely getting Dead Space 2 on PS3 for the limited edition that includes Extraction. Extraction's supposed to be excellent.

I'd rather suffer it on the Wii, Playstation Move just does not appeal at all.

NotorietyH

niallon wrote: »

I'd rather suffer it on the Wii, Playstation Move just does not appeal at all.

Don't think it's only for Move though. They just said it had full Move support. Probably could use the controller. Also I don't have a Wii, tempted to buy one, but Extraction coming to the PS3 is one less reason to. Nintendo had a good showing today though, so still might be swayed.

Jev/N

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Thats an eternal question for me as I can't see 3D and never will. I've no idea what the 3D effect is like but at least I won't have to fork out on a 3D TV ever.:(

Even when glasses aren't required?

Haggis The Dog

Your not missing anything, went to best buy in the UK this week while over due to work (best buy is amazing, gadget geek heaven) and tried out the 3D Tv there, works fine and does what it is meant too, but really cant see the glasses catching on to watch 3D TV on a regular basis..

Captain Chaos

Jev/N wrote: »

Even when glasses aren't required?

Same thing though, you still need two eyes that take in an image at the same time, mine don't, well they do, I just don't "see" through both at the same time. It's like my left eye is doing everything and my brain just ignores the image from my right eye until I close my left and it's forced to use it. My brother is exactly the same.

Jev/N

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Same thing though, you still need two eyes that take in an image at the same time, mine don't, well they do, I just don't "see" through both at the same time. It's like my left eye is doing everything and my brain just ignores the image from my right eye until I close my left and it's forced to use it. My brother is exactly the same.

Ah right, sh1t one

JohnnyRyan99

Whats the best site for an e3 summary anyone know?

DOC09UNAM

WWW.IGN.COM


or go to youtube and watch their videos.

mgsrocks

rizzla wrote: »

I just know we won't get free ESPN. I'll still have to pay for my sub for UFC

Looks like the ESPN feature announced wont be coming out over here:

http://www.xboxer360.com/news/espn-will-not-be-coming-to-europe/

I knew free premier league football was to good to be true.

Fingleberries

mgsrocks wrote: »

Looks like the ESPN feature announced wont be coming out over here:

http://www.xboxer360.com/news/espn-will-not-be-coming-to-europe/

I knew free premier league football was to good to be true.

That's a pity ... but I can't say that I'm surprised, what with the various content rights minefields that would need to be navigated for them.

It would have been pretty cool though.

rizzla

Maybe we'll get Setanta Ireland for free.

Venom

Fingleberries wrote: »

That's a pity ... but I can't say that I'm surprised, what with the various content rights minefields that would need to be navigated for them.

It would have been pretty cool though.

Really sucks having to pay the same amount for Gold membership yet getting so much less than US customers

Mr Freeze

Venom wrote: »

Really sucks having to pay the same amount for Gold membership yet getting so much less than US customers

Agree 100%.

Can we even get those Indy games here yet???

Captain Chaos

CKWPORT wrote: »

Agree 100%.

Can we even get those Indy games here yet???

We used to able to get those XNA developed games but the NXE update dropped the XNA download section. Some of them were decent enough.

NTMK

I kinda knew we wouldn't get espn but i was hoping they at least do espn America on sky player as i would love to see some more us sport

Captain Chaos

Last Fm is something I'd really like to have here. The US have had that a while now. Some licencing issues that don't allow it in the EU I think.:(

Asmodean

Agreed. love last fm

Gunmonkey

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Last Fm is something I'd really like to have here. The US have had that a while now. Some licencing issues that don't allow it in the EU I think.:(

I think its available in the UK also, just not in Ireland. i would have liked it but from what I heard you needed to pay the Last.FM sub seperate to Gold, which kinda removes the point if I can just run it on PC.

JohnnyRyan99

Microsoft really stepped it up this year with the TV broadcasting, only i reckon their conference hinged too much on the appeal of their big 3.. Halo COD and GOW.. Clearly they bigged up Kinect to the very last, however that fell flat on its face with the poor live showing and the media not really taking to it... Mixed bag for MS this year i reckon... Not a bad show but not the one they would have hoped for.