E3 2012

Surely there's some gamers amongst us here?
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I am, but over time I've become and outlier from popular opinion.

I really hate the direction video games have taken, and this year's E3 was a cavalcade of everything I despise in modern video game design.

My stance can be summarised by paraphrasing Doug Church; I'd rather sit down and do stuff, rather than merely sit down and be entertained.

Pretty much why a lot of the games I play these days are sports games. They aren't (yet) weighed down by this fruitless attempt to be all Cinematic and Emotionally Engaging.
 
Lazlow said:
I am, but over time I've become and outlier from popular opinion.

I really hate the direction video games have taken, and this year's E3 was a cavalcade of everything I despise in modern video game design.

My stance can be summarised by paraphrasing Doug Church; I'd rather sit down and do stuff, rather than merely sit down and be entertained.

Pretty much why a lot of the games I play these days are sports games. They aren't (yet) weighed down by this fruitless attempt to be all Cinematic and Emotionally Engaging.
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that is very true.
im quite the sports gamer, but i usually go for triple A titles as they are well made and well developed.
open sand box games are quite fun too. think GTA 5.

that i the game i most want in 2012. (or 2013 if rockstar doesnt get its act together very soon, it was slated for a november release to go H2H with CODBO2, but i think they wont fight that battle and go jan 13)
 
Can't say I'm all that fussed with the sandbox games either. For all the lavishly designed world you are given, you really can't do a great deal in them. And you are still imprisoned within a tightly scripted narrative with little scope for deviation bar some signposted (in Saint Row 3's case, quite literally) fork in the road.

If only a GTA games were made with S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s design philosophy.

Not to sound like a complete pessimist, I am looking forward to seeing how Dishonored turns out.
 
thanks for the linky. looks good.

most games that are release by the big time dev's are good gameplay wise.
just if it suits your genre and play style.

im currently hammering fifa. well still hammering fifa.
although i have played a fair bit of max payne 3.
(this is everything you hate in a game)
- directed and very OTT stylized gameplay. lol

still nice after playing max payne games wayyyyyyyyy back in the day.

im actually looking forward to this years sport releases too.
all the major players are making pretty good improvements, rather than just the standard 'roster updates and uniform changes'

NHL 13 looks pretty nice, a few good trailers getting around. havent seen anything on NBA or MADDEN yet. bits and pieces on FIFA.

MLB 12:the show was only released about 1 month ago and its plays nice.



you PS3 or XBOX?
 
meh E3 so far is a big let down.

Most those games that you guys are oozing over, were annouced before E3, so nothing new and exciting.
 
Yeah the game were announced a while back, but we weren't shown much either. Maybe a teaser here and there, but now we're seeing reasonable gameplay footage too.


Here's JSmoove's take on some gameplay footage of NBA 2K13 from E3, which also shows a dunk from the new-look Dunk Comp.


I actually dig the dunk format, the "guitar hero" look, may not be the best way, but showing the slow-mo dunk on the left is sweet!

I hope they tweak the fast breaks, big's shouldnt run as fast as smalls, enough of that in 2K12+more

Unless they depend it upon the speed etc of the bigs. I mean remember chase-down blocks from Drob and Dream back in the 90s? That shit's real!
 
may not be the best way
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Definitely not the best way. Its a glorified QTE, its no longer about skillfully using the controls made available, its about hitting a button in time with a prompt. Its the most basic form of interaction.

At least its only for the dunk comp.

But still, it'd be a lot more satisfying to pull off every facet of the dunk yourself, or even devise new dunks, rather than make it an automated sequence you have little control over.
 
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