GR: "Europe's E3 is just a few weeks away, and honestly we cannot wait. The summer of 2012 will forever be known as the summer gaming died a little bit.... just a little. Holy crap have we been bored! There's been a drought of gaming news and energy since everyone cleared out of Los Angeles back in June.
That means it's all up to Gamescom 2012 to bring the energy back for the Fall season. Here are five announcement we just HAVE to see out of Cologne to rekindle our relationship with video games."
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The only real way around it, is to do what Ubisoft did, play a demo on a super high end PC and then be pretty cagey about what consoles its coming to.
Next gen games though we might see demoed in trailers with teasers, but listed as current gen.
I think this would get the public speculating on how consoles could preform as compared to showing everyone the console first and THEN the games.
i rather wait till 2014 and i think its a safe bet we will not see sony or MS launch a new system in fall 2013. They most likely will show something and talk about it like nintendo did with wii-u than the following year do a blowout e3 press conference of everything and launch that same year
MS is more in need of a new console than sony/ps3, i still think ps3 has good 2-3 years left in it and i doubt sony is in any rush to make a new system when they are going through loosing a lot of money.
And you people will be the same one asking for a new system in 4-5 years, if that's what you want get into pc gaming don't expect either ms or sony to release a new system to please a very small percentage of gamers. I expect a price drop soon for both ps3/xbox360. The graphics difference between ps2 to ps3 was huge but don't expect the same tech jump again look for little better specs and call it a day
when current games in development are showing us we don't need a new system than why all the out cry?
2013 line up
aints row 4
gta 5
last of us
beyond 2 souls
gears of war
tomb raider
god of war
last guardian
FF versus
bioshock
xcom
sly 4
devil may cry
rainbow six
metro last light
battlefield 4
COD
crysis 3
ni nu kuni
aliens
respawn's new game
insomniac's new IP
GG new game or possibly KZ4(on ps4 maybe?)
sucker punch new game(possibly on ps4?)
star trek
anarchy reigns
dead island riptide
prey 2
brothers in arms
and that's not counting all the great games coming out this fall. All i will say is people who are waiting for a new console from ms and sony in fall 2013 will be very very disappointed
Graphics are FAR from the only measure of a console. the fact that consoles can only do 24 players on BF3, is like a dagger to the chest.
I've even seen hacked 128 player BF3 for PC.
Consoles = disturbance in the neighbourhood.
PC = A true Battlefield.
not hating on consoles, it's just kinda sad.
There is little chance an experienced company like Sony or Microsoft would release a new console in the same year that all these great games you listed are releasing. They know that most of us gamers cannot afford New next gen consoles in 2013, it take quite some time to save up enough money.
I dont know about you, but i can only afford a next gen console in 2013 if i dont buy any new games starting form september.
The best solution is to announce PS4/Xbox 720 in e3 2013, then i have a whole year to save up for 'BOTH' PS4 and Xbox 720.
If anything, it suggests that 2013 will be the swan song of the current gen console because in 2014 there will be only handful of current gen games releasing.
That, and a Tenchu reboot.
All it needs is intelligent A.I, Noriyuki Asakura back at the helm of the soundtrack, unarmed takedowns like in Shadow Assassins and maybe....just maybe cel shading that has red Kanji appear when you draw your sword, a killing blow or a stealth kill.
Tenchu 2 was the closest I felt we got to a perfect installment then it's mechanics got thrown out of the window in Wrath Of Heaven which wasn't bad combat wise but needed some work under the hood.
It had the best controls and the best camera of the series. It returned to the open levels that you could tackle from any angle you liked, that I loved from the original. The PS2/Xbox games were just linear paths.
I'd just love a few special moves to unlock with enough stealth kills like (I think) the third game had, and a Timesplitter 2 style level editor. They dont want to make new levels, I'll just make my own.
Play/Create/Share/Tenchu
That, and it should get the AAA spit and polish this series has always deserved and never received.
I do agree with your above pros for the game and the ability to stealth kill bosses was sure nice. I think my anger was due to the laggy multiplayer after I finished the campaign solo but then again Tenchu was always a better single player experience. Another pet peeve was the grabs which made the game a little to easy because enemies cant escape at all.
Tenchu II has a level editor if you are interested and the A.I I still think was the most superior in the series especially when facing the other ninja but Senran still had the best controls bar none. The Stealth kill unlocks were a great addition in the third but editing techniques was fun in the Senran version as well.
Maybe I was too hasty in getting angry at the game because as you say nobody gave it the attention to detail that it deserved and you've caused me head back to Gamestop to give it a chance again XD.
Still trying to find the one on PSP or Wii to give my judgement on that as well but it's hard to find in Kearney........
these games would make me literally jump and scream like a little girl , lol.....
Maybe everyone who wasn't paying attention during the time leading up to E3. If you want to play journalist, that's cool, but try and pay attention. I didn't expect new hardware and I wasn't disappointed.
This is a crap list. The only thing from this I care about is GTA5. I don't need next gen yet, so stop acting like "everyone" does.
beyond2souls, lastofus, godofwar, the last guardian, versus13.....etc
xbox360 also got few more games like gears4, fable....
they can launch a nextgen console next year if they want but i wont be upgrading right away.
All you'll hear at Gamescom is game related news, and maybe some new Vita features (ability to play PS1 games for example) or games.
Probably the same situation for Microsoft.
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Oh, and like someone mentioned above, we'll hopefully find out more about what Sony's plans with Gaikai are.
Microsoft will not even attend TGS anymore.
I also think they will showcase the next consoles at e3 2013:)
not sure anything related to ps4 will release in this show since they didn't talk about it even in E3
Im not expectiing anything this year , next year Will be the best year.because of the great games that will release such as the last of us / god of war / tomb raider ...etc
But still , it wont be a problem to anyone if its released next year , it will be better for the people who want to wait more even the ones who want it in 2015 xD , more games / fixes / drop price ..etc so the sooner it released the better for everyone
I kinda believe that vita made forthe ps4 not the ps3
sick of hearing about these fossils
"Oh the world stopped turning for GTA5"
Maybe his pathetic world stopped but not everyone on the planet loves GTA as much as he would have you believe.
And I agree. There's no chance of next gen being announced at this show only a few months after E3.
I'd be happy with any new info because i don't hype events and let speculation turn to expectations.
That left us with blue balls and it's up to Germany to give us a hand. Sure, many of the attendees will be far too drunk to remember any announcements or even what they ate for breakfast, but that doesn't mean we won't be watching at home. Microsoft and Sony owe it to us."
... except sony and MS said long before E3 that they would *not* be addressing their next generation of systems. if people like this twit thinks that there were guarantees of new hardware, he was clearly living underneath a rock or took what some anonymous moron wrote in a pastebin post to be true.
and no... sony/MS doesn't owe us anything.
i've said it before (for the last 8 months) and i'll say it again: we will not see any announcement of a new xbox or playstation until E3 *next year*. we won't see the release of either of those new systems until 2014.
Sony and Microsoft's next-gen consoles will share the same online network, allowing cross-platform play. PS4 and Xbox Durango development will be easier than current consoles. Their real battle is going to be retaining customers in a down economy.
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The industry is becoming way too stagnant, and the Wii U is like watching paint dry.
<they wanna be like apple.> so they are just waiting for the technology to be more affordable.
I would be happy with 60fps and true 1080P gaming.