The Official Technodrome E3 2005 Thread

[Barkworm]

Cool down, man. We're all kinda disappointed but bashing the other showings which were at least decent won't make it any better.
And yeah, where the hell was Mario 128? Does this game even exist?!

[愛]

I was kind of looking for Mario 128 myself. Maybe sometime during the real show? I'm really hoping. I could go for a new Mario game.

And they did have game demos during the Sony conference. I don't know if you watched it or not.

[Karpo_007]

Miyamoto has confirmed that Mario 128 was in development even before they started on Sunshine. My guess is they decided to release it for revolution. Wich would mean we don't get one Mario game worthy of the series for Cube. I guess they thought we don't need real Mario games, since they will release Mario Swimming School and Mario Pony Riding.

Way to go Nintendo. Way to ***** go.

Yes, I am very bitter.

[Voltron]

Originally Posted by Anarchistguy

I don't get it. Are you people going to buy the systems for the games or for the LOOKS of the consoles? COME ON!!!

I think by now everyone knows that I am completely superficial. Now if you'll excuse me I gotta get back to Madden 2000-something or other. The greatest game EVER MADE!

[Anarky]

Well, to be honest, I have seen Nintendo going down for a while now. The N64 was cool, but it was too late. Every other console was released (at least in Switzerland) before the N64, before christmas even. Guess what a lot of people got for christmas? Well, no N64, that's for sure. Then came Zelda, a great game. There was no publicity, no RTLII-news broadcast (A corrupt TV station, if you buy them a coffee they'll send whatever you want), no nothing. And, of course, gamewise the N64 was great. You had Mario64, eXtreme G, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Aero Gauge and many more. Those were good games, but noone noticed them because you heard from other, seemingly better games all over the place. Then came NextGen 1.0: PS2 and XboX were both big... oh yeah, Nintendo threw a brick on the market, an ugly, purple brick with a handle (and yes, looks of a console matter to some extent). Why didn't they make it fluorescent pink with blinking lights on it? And again, no publicity. I mean, PS2/EA Games is sponsoring half of MTV's programme here. And the games were rather mediocre too. Plus: I've never even realised that GameCubes were actually sold here until they went on Special offer a few weeks back. Hell no, I wouldn't even take that console if you gave me money to take it.

And now this, the E3, normally Nintendo's big event. Face it, they practically owned the event. This is where it happened, new games, new graphics a lot of AAAHs and OOOHs. But competition is getting stronger, they have good graphics and rather good games too (but no game ever managed to touch the early Super Mario games, except for eXtreme G maybe).

Don't get me wrong here, Nintendo is making great games, they're innovative, they just "feel" right somehow. I mean, I felt somehow... well, really at home playing Mario64. It was such a lovely game with lots of funny ideas and stuff. Gamewise Nintendo will most likely hold their position as a great manufacturer, but consolewise...

[Karpo_007]

Besides Zelda nothing Nintendo has made this generation has really impressed me. I think Nintendo has certainly been going down hill these last years. I want the SNES days back I thought that if Nintendo does the right thing and releases a good Mario game for the Cube, I would give revolution a chance. But after today's disapointment, Im starting to think that Revolution will be the first Nintendo Console I won't be buying.

[Kid Icarus]

And Ai, I got my info from TMB, so my bad. Seeing as I don't really give a damn as to what Sony's doing anymore, I coulden't be bothered to pay attention.

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Cool down, man. We're all kinda disappointed but bashing the other showings which were at least decent won't make it any better.
And yeah, where the hell was Mario 128? Does this game even exist?!

subtle .

I'm not bashing, I'm stating an opinion. To my eyes, the others consoles look like crap.

According to one of my sources, M128 was supposed to have been shown. Obviously it wasn't.

[愛]

The only real thing that's getting me to buy Revolution is that downloadable content thing they got going. But you know, they didn't release a whole lot about the system and its games, so I really have to wait until I know more about it. It's not looking good so far, though. I still want to see what the controller looks like. Anything is better than the PS3 controller, that's for damn sure.

I'm probably buying all three systems either way. I love owning systems.

[Peanut]

Dude, GWG. That was outright bashing. No one enjoys that stuff, so there's no need for it.

I'm about to watch the Nintendo conference now. I'll probably jump through most of it, like I did with the last two.

Also, I agree with Barkworm. Microsoft had the best showing in the conferences. Not only do they have some great stuff coming out for 360, but the easily have the best game line-up for the rest of this year.

[Mecha Cow]

Well, one thing that cheers me up Mecha is that PS3 is some of the ugliest hardware I've ever seen.

I just saw Nintendo's press conference, and that cheered me up a little because it was so funny. I must admit I had quite a few laughs at Iwata's expense. No offense to the guy, but his English is terrible.

...But then I came here and I became depressed again. The worst part is that I actually kind of agree. Comedy aside, Nintendo's showing was extremely uninpressive.

I really wanted to get some info about the Revolution and Mario 128, and as I said before, I was extremely dissappointed with Zelda, to the point where I don't even care for the game anymore.

That's right, I'm a die-hard Zelda fan who has practically given up on Zelda, yet I still have some hope for Nintendo. So if I can manage that, some of you guys can manage to stop the 'Nintendo is dying' crap. We're all dissappointed, but Nintendo is here to stay, even if they could be doing better. Let's hope the next few days will be more interesting.

[Peanut]

How could you possibly lose interest in Zelda? I think it's going to be awesome. It's a bit more dark and gloomy than I like my games, but whatever.

[Mecha Cow]

How could you possibly lose interest in Zelda? I think it's going to be awesome. It's a bit more dark and gloomy than I like my games, but whatever.

I do not like the 'Link is a wolf' thing at all, nor the stupid midget. And let's not even mention those Predator/Heartless-like things.

I'm having trouble wording it and I'm sure it will come out sounding stupid and shallow, but what I've seen so far completely craps all over what I consider the essense of Zelda. This isn't Zelda, this is some kind of Final Fantasy wannabe.

Whatever, I can't explain it. I just think it's lame, let's leave it at that. I'll get the game anyway.

Btw, has any Revolution footage been shown yet? I'd like to see what this thing is capable of.

[Peanut]

I agree with you, Mecha Cow. It doesn't feel like Zelda. At least not for the most part. I know exactly where you're coming from, don't feel like you're in the boat alone.

As for the Revolution, no one has seen anything. I hope to God that all changes on the show floor. Nintendo can't sit back this long, they can't afford it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Well, I'm pissed. I was told by a rep that Mario 128 was to be shown "definately" unless they changed their mind at the last second. Well, they changed their mind. I give up on it. Forget the game. If it comes out, then whoopiee, otherwise, I'm not dwelling on it. Also, what the ell does everyone have on Zelda now? Geeaz, it's like now everyone detests the game. THAT, i just don't understand at all. It's the best game of all time and that trailer literally had me in tears I was so happy. The conference itself wasn't as good as last year's (though just as funny), but I don't care. I was there. I also have a TON of things that happened around it. Let me tell you te story....

We arrived around 7:00 in the morning. I was the first in line of any press. Some Japanese dudes came in after me with a PSP. I wanted to kill them. Anyways, around 8:00 we were allowed to start checking in. I went in with the camera crews first because I had $2000 of equipment in my bag. George Harrison escorted me and the other guys to the conference hall. It was daunting because no one was there and for a afew moments I had the whole thing to myself. I walked around, walked around the stage and saw a teleprompter with Revolution's pic on it. I had saw it the night before, but I thought it was, and still think it is DAMN sexy. PS3, though interesting to me this time around (didn't think I'd say that huh) looks like a scanner/referidgerator. Pug fugly. Same for Xbox 360. Whatever.

I walked over to the camera area trying to figure out where I was supposed to stand when a big towering figure came up on me. Literally, his shadow completely dwarfed me. Of course it was Reggie. I thought he was going to break my body into a trillion pieces me for walking up on the stage. Instead, he very kindly pointed out a GREAT place where I could stand on the front/side and get a perfect camera angle. BETTER than G4's. They were pissed. I love Reggie. Took my picture with him

As I set up my equipment, the G4 guys scrunched in around me as best they could. By now the people were pouring in. What you don't know is they overcrowed the theatre and the fire marshal wanted to clear half the building. Using my projected microphone, I discovered Nintendo paid him a $1000 bucks to shut the fu*k up. Then they announced that the conference was running behind schuedle because "The Fire Marshal had issues with the population limit". Direct quote. Everyone booed the bastard. Got it on tape.

Now comes the best part. As the G4 guys kept trying to set up their equipment, they seemed to be having a hard time of it. Techinal problems and all. The lights had started to go down which meant the conference started in about 2 minutes. My stuff was ready to go and I had been filming the whole damn thing and taking part in a 50 person Pictochat session making sexual humor on my touch screen. Then as the poor G4 camera man started having more toruble, this detested women came over bitching like hell. I knew the voice, but I couldn't believe it. THe lights were dim so I couldn't see her for a sec, so I just flipe the camera's light twords her to see for sure. She yelled at the camera man "WHERE THE FU*K IS THE GODDAMN CAMERA?!? IF YOU DON'T GET THAT MOTHER FU*KING CAMERA RUNNING WE ARE GOING TO GET IN SOME DEEP SH*T. GET THE GODDAMN THING RUNNING OR YOUR ASS IS MINE!" So said Morgan Webb. I look at her point blank with this dead scowl with a "You bitch" look on my face because I alread hated her anway, then she gave me the excuse I was looking for. She looks at me like some hate filed witch and says, "What the fu*k is your problem n00b?" So I think what the hell. I've wanted to do this since I first discovered Xplay. It's fun time. I yell, "I have a problem with you, your fu*king show, your goddamn network, your pandering of anything the media likes, and the way yo pretend you're a fu*king gamer because you obviously don't want to be here, so if you don't mind, this is my first E3 and I have a fu*king job to do, ad that job is to outperform you to my audience as best as I can, buh bye bitch". She just looks at me with this dead stare and says "Fu*k you asshole" and flips me one while Adam Sessler cwers behind her like a whipped dog scratching his ass. You can tell he thought it was halarious though.

That made my whole fu*king day. The press Conference started next and I was giddy from that point on. But it wasn't over! You know the conference so I'll skip that. As I left, we all picked up our press kits (including the Zelda DS cards from Amouna, FU*KING SWEET!!!) and I was walking with the other 5000 people down the stairs of the Kodack theatre when I saw you know who walk up behind me, I started to turn around when she just took her elbow and WHAMMED the Fu*k out of me in the ribs HARD. Still hurts. That woman can hurt you. Normally I wouldn't have done it in public, but no one was paying attention in that solid pack of people and Gawd I couldn't resist, so I slammed her back ideep in her gut with my boney elbow and knocked the wind out of her. Oh sh*t was she pissed then. She left because she looked like she wanted to pull a gun or something. Adam was by then laughing his head off. She gave him one of those "You're dead" looks. Guess we know who the Alpha dog is in that pack is. I pity him. You know what the funniest part was.....I had the fricking camera on the whole time. I really should pw0nz her ass.

Saving the rest for later as this post is too damn big. Seriously, best Fu*king day EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mecha Cow]

LMAO, that's awesome. Please post more stories during the next few days.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Which video feed were you guys watching of the conference because I know there were two live cameras set up in there, and one of them cut to another camera while Shiggy and Tina Woods were playing Nintendogs because Tina's dog got hummped by Shiggy's. It was a totally unscripted event and was funny as hell. They thought it was funny, Reggie was snickering, and everyone was just chuckeling.

Oh yeah, gettin some hardcore Nintendo action Doggie style live

[Kid Icarus]

I caught IGN's feed, for free somehow. Totally missed the doggy humping, but I figured thats what was happening.

And Miyamoto... he was kinda dirty "if you'd like, my dog can show you more tricks back stage".

[愛]

That's what Japan's about, baby...being dirty.

[JameO]

GWG, if you can't talk like a decent human being, get out of this thread and let us talk about the systems. Take your costant bashing to gamefaq or some Sh*t. Anyways, that PS3 is a pretty weak look, but the graphics are looking pretty nice. Can't wait for Xbox 360, then I can play kickass games and not be able to use the trackball.

[GK Punk]

Am I the only one that LIKES The look of the new systems? I'm pretty excited about them all.