Well I hate to blog twice in the same day but I gotta give my thoughts on the Sony conference too. I'm rather pissed I was having issues with Gamespot and couldn't get the stream loaded and missed like 30 min of the conference. I jumped in while they were talking about the PS3 online store. It sounds nice but I'm not so sure how long you'll have room on your HD if you dl full games through the store.
I like Home. They talked abit about the new version coming up and it looks nice. You'll be able to start and join games straight from home, even single player games. It looks like its gonna be a sweet well Home. I always liked games with giant lobbys and stuff where you could just kinda hang out while either looking for people to play with or if u just feel like chilling.
They also talked about the price drops and the new 80 gig PS3 of sexyness.
Wow the sweetest thing so far at E3 was just announced. Unreal Tournament 3 is going to be a PS3 exclusive, thats not the cool part though. You'll be able to port over maps and mods from the PC through the Playstation Network. That was always my biggest complaint about console games, there was never much modding and stuff on FPS. I used to play a lot of Rainbow Six on PC and we always played with some fun mods, it will be nice to be able to get mods on the PS3. Lets just hope that UT3 isn't the only game you can do that with.
You know theyre playing this little montage of some of the big titles coming to PS3 and so far I think Kain and Lynch is the only one that won't also be on the 360... kinda funny. And this stream is driving me nuts, for most of the videos theyre just using a camera far back that can see the whole stage rather than just show us exactly whats on the big screens like Microsoft and Nintendo did. Its really annoying trying to see whats going on, I hate when people film big screens like that. Oh apparently those were all supposed to be non exclusives, i think I missed a lot of the exclusives... Stupid internet.
Fun Hideo is here to show off Metal Gear Solid 4. Hopefully theres some good stuff here. Wow Metal Gear is 20 years old... man I must be getting old. Awww MGS4 is gonna be the final one, thats no fun. Man MGS4 looks sweet. I was kinda annoyed that it was only a trailer, I was hopeing for some gameplay footage at least. Cool next week in Tokoyo Hideo said he will have a demo for us. At least the trailer was real time and not a movie. It does look sexy. The first half of the trailer was kinda week but it finished off with a sweet fight between ninja Raiden and Vamp. I didn't recognize Vamp at first but he does look sweet... Raiden still looks kinda like a girl. I'm definatly looking forward to it early 2008.
Man I hate that pulled back view of 4 screens, they just showed Folklore which looks cool but I couldn't see it well. Just showed Heavenly Sword, terrible camera on the feed again but it looks rather sweet. Its kinda funny it seems like every designer has subtly mentionedhow they couldn't have made the game so great without Blue Ray. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune looks kinda cool, and its from Naughty Dog and you know they can make a good platformer.
Oh yeah the first trailer for Gran Turismo 5 Prolog. The game looks just stunning and if you know the team that does GT you know they're always a bit obsessive about making the driving as real as possible. I still plan to get a 360 first but I think I'm gonna have to shoot for a PS3 by the time GT5 comes out, screw this little precursors. Then they finished off with Killzone, it looks pretty but I'm not much for FPS.
I must say after the disappointment that was the Microsoft and Nintendo conferences I was actually pleased with Sonys. They got some good stuff coming up. I also thought it was pretty cool they did a lot of their intros on stuff using their characters in Home. I'm really tempted to get a PS3 just to screw with Home lol. Well in wrap up MGS4 looks sweet, naturally. Being able to transfer mods to the PS3 from PC for Unreal Tournament 3 is sweet and I hope you can do the same with other games. Folklore and Heavenly Sword look interesting so I'll need to keep an eye on them. They didn't spend the whole time saying how great they are like Microsoft and Nintendo did... they did say how great Blue Ray was a lot though... but still I guess thats an improvement.
My final thought is Sony started a bit slow but they got a lot of goodies in the works, don't count them out just yet.