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When coming to E3, my expectations for the Microsoft showing were above average. I knew Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, and hidden first party exclusives were being kept under wraps and were going to be shown at their press conference. Unfortunately none of this happened, and it left my jaw dropping at how disappointing this press conference was.
We saw Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono, which is all great but whatever happened to the people who actually care about playing these games? It's bad enough that we got Paul McCartney doing improv on stage but then you have Steven Spielberg letting us known how insignificant our industry is compared to the movie industry when Halo 3 broke all major entertainment sales records... What point is this snob trying to make?
To top it off you have Kojima bitch slapping the audience by saying where not going to get MGS4, no Solid Snake, and Kojima isn't even working on the title being released on the 360. The game is a spinoff and is totally different gameplay wise then Metal Gear Solid 4. This has the exact opposite effect the Final Fantasy 13 announcement had at last year's E3.
Which games are Xbox Only Exclusive? 5 with 1 being DLC and 3 no one cares about.
Afterward you had multiplatform titles and a few actual exclusives with any AAA value. Alan Wake's writing has to the dumbest crap ever. "He has my writings so I had to go after him" .... Are you serious? Halo ODST looks outdated and everyone in the crowd was holding their breath for Halo 4. I think the place would have exploded if it was Halo 4 or Gears of War 3.
Speaking of Gears of War 3, what was up with Cliffy b hyping up a new Epic game to be let down by a Contra clone? The more you break down this conference the more you will see how bad of a conference it was. Microsoft's biggest announcement was Project Natal, and you had to have the worst hype machine ever, Peter Moleyneux, spouting on about how great it was.
These aren't the games your looking for...Move along
Peter is definitely strong with the force because he call pull Jedi mind tricks with the wave of his hands (You are seeing someone interacting with a little boy on screen. This is not being faked...). There is a noticeable delay among the person and camera. It could be the camera is just retarded and cant capture your movements properly yet but the response time was not as fast as it should be. I do think the tech can be improved on before launch but having Project Natal be your main act shows how little Microsoft has to offer. Then there's the reports of Peter's Milo demo being faked...
The whole Xbox Evolved group at E3 came out there wanting something better, but Microsoft could not deliver. I think by far this was the most disappointing press conference, but not the worst (Nintendo). I hope next year Microsoft can at least show off a trailer of their most anticipated games, like Mass Effect 2, instead of leaving everyone disappointed at the end of it.
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