Microsoft @ E3: A Space Odyssey. June 10 [9:30 AM PDT/ 5:30 PM BST]

[Wraith]

This E3 conference is going to be magical.

[Abominal SnowTaz]

Well this is going to be one interesting E3 2013.

[spinny]

EDIT: Ninja'd by Hogfather. He got the pic working on his again.

Edited June 5, 2013 by Super Spindash

[Badnik Mechanic]

Just reuploaded that one myself since that image went viral so quickly the account it was connected to got a bandwidth limit error =p

The developers behind Killzone have noticed.

 

[Solkia]

So when is Microsoft going to post a teaser for that new Mario game?

[Abominal SnowTaz]

Does anyone have a "Royally Screwed" gif?

[Gabz Girl]

This has to be a joke. Unless Microsoft is actually going to have a Killzone game on the Xbone. XP

[Urban Flow]

Hoping a new Killer Instinct is revealed at E3.

[SIXTH-RATE SOMA]

"With the new Xbox ONE, we are going to provide you daily with new information about all the great games you missed out on by purchasing this console!"

[Carbo]

Respawn's new game, TitanFall, has leaked. It's a Microsoft exclusive on Xbone and PC, with a separate team making a 360 version.

 

- Xbox One, PC

- Xbox 360 version developed by someone else

- Planned to target current gen, but realized that they couldn't run it

- Started to look into next gen and the answer they got from Microsoft intrigued them

- They said they needed to focus on fewer hardware. In the future they are open to more. They don't specify if it would be this project or another.

- Plan to use Microsoft's Cloud for dedicated servers and physics and AI calculations

- Spring 2014 Release Date

- There are a good amount of screens. In my opinion it visually looks pretty nice.

- First person shooter

- "Mech" and ground combat

- "Mech's" are called Titans.

- They want these Titans to feel fast. They can dodge etc.

- If you don't want to pilot the Titan you can have it follow you, killing people as it goes along.

- Player characters are called Pilots

- They are extremely agile. Can run on walls, multiple jumps.

- They can take down Titans. Jumping on them and shooting the "brain".

- You need to be cunning as a pilot. "Hit and fade" tactics is the term the game director uses.

- Pilots come equipped with a variety of weapons. Pistol, Assault Rifle, Anti-Titan Rocket Launcher, data knife used to hack AI characters into joining you.

- There are AI enemies on the maps.

- You survive longer than in COD. Making it more welcoming to newcomers.

- Source Engine. Building new engine = too much time.

- Source gives them 60 fps

- Modified Source - "Rewriting major portions of it".

- Article talks about the process of forming the team, being fired, prototyping ideas etc. I recommend reading it.

- Going for a District 9 or Blade Runner vibe.

- Integrate memorable single player moments into a multiplayer game.

- Storytelling style will be more Left 4 Dead.

- Humans segregated between Earth and frontier planets. Corporation trying to take the resources of these frontier people.

MORE STUFF

A lot of the article has to do with Respawn's origins, actually.

So here's the exclusivity mention: They thought working on PS4, Xbox One and PC would prove too difficult for a small team, so they decided to focus on one console instead of two. (er...). "Not to say we won't [go multiplatform] in the future, but for our first game we wanted to focus on making the best game we could."

GI points how that the Xbox One has 5GB of GDDR3 ram available to devs, whereas PS4 has 8GB DDR5 ram, and asks if that's a problem for Respawn. He says they're having trouble even using the 5GB efficiently with all the new architecture tricks. (that is to say, even if they had 8GB they wouldn't know how to use it properly at this stage of development)

GI: "What XBox One lacks in RAM, it potentially makes up for in cloud computing." Talks about how the game will have unlimited dedicated servers for the game, offloading "a few dozen AI" and physics, says the game would be impossible without the cloud and wouldn't have attempted it. Still dealing with unfinished hardware and software, so it's "still a little rough going at times."

From the article about Titanfall:

"Thanks to the more open maps, healthy mix of enemy AI and real players, and the ultra-powerful titans, the gameplay loop in Titanfall is more accommodating to newcomers."

"Seeing a match play out on three different player screens in a short demo after the the target gameplay video, the average time of life seems drastically increased over the average Call of Duty, Battlefield, or Halo match."

Going to go dig for other gaming news before it gets yanked.

Spoke too soon, there are screenshots towards the end of the article. Smartglass integration, "some level of" Kinect support, Campaign Multiplayer, Regular Multiplayer, and some one player mode that isn't revealed yet.

From Titanfall article:

"Hulking 24-foot tall mechs concentrate heavy fire on anything that moves while lithe soldiers zip across the map with a swiftness normally reserved for superheroes"

"Legions of AI soldiers pour in and out of buildings on a large-scale battlefield as dropships deliver reinforcements from above"

Weapons of soldiers can vaporize multiple targets at once, but the mechs can repel shots back.

Blurs line between competitive multiplayer and single player.

"The titans move at the speed of a regular soldier in many first person shooters and feature an array of heavy firepower that make them formidable adversaries in open space"

Titans best offense is good defense.

Titans can be player controlled or can be commanded to guard an area or follow you around.

More to come...

[Candescence]

The very notion of using cloud computing for handling important parts of the game makes me feel extremely iffy. They're basically making always-online intrinsically part of the game (granted, XBone already has the "phone home" crap), basically meaning it'll literally be unplayable in the future when the servers go down.

 

It at least explains what the hell Respawn's been doing. But you shouldn't be designing games that the hardware you're designing for just can't handle.

[Patticus]

- Plan to use Microsoft's Cloud for dedicated servers and physics and AI calculations

 

Sounds a lot like EA saying that SimCity would use its cloud servers for important stuff, too... This doesn't bode well.

[Mando-Whirl-Wind]

Honestly the more I hear the less I like it. Also sounds like Xbone games are going to have extremely short lifespans, because if a game maker decides to put out a sequel, and doesnt want the first game stealing away players because its cheaper, they just shut down the servers and thats it, the games dead forever

Also games that require the cloud stink when the power goes oout or if you have lousy internet... Boy am I glad I have a wii-U

[Badnik Mechanic]

- Plan to use Microsoft's Cloud for dedicated servers and physics and AI calculations

 

360 version it is then.

[Chooch]

Well that's another one of the 15 Xbox exclusives out of the bag.

[KrazyBean]

Well that's another one of the 15 Xbox exclusives out of the bag.

 

Apparently it's not part of the 15 exclusives because it's not being made by Microsoft studios....it's still an exclusive nonetheless, but not part of the 15 exclusives list.

Edited June 6, 2013 by KrazyBean

[Ming Ming Hatsune]

It's not technically a XONE exclusive anyway, it's more of a Microsoft exclusive.

[Carbo]

Apparently it's not part of the 15 exclusives because it's not being made by Microsoft studios....it's still an exclusive nonetheless, but not part of the 15 exclusives list.

Was it ever actually specified that it was supposed to be Microsoft Games Studios? Because I don't remember this.

It's not technically a XONE exclusive anyway, it's more of a Microsoft exclusive.

Knowing Microsoft that's exactly the kind of mantle they'd try to slip a game under the rug with.

[LordMetallix]

Welp Microsoft has finally come clean on the used games/ game sharing/ always online debacle and ....it is less than thrilling.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/06/06/xbox-one-game-sharing-used-game-policy-detailed.aspx

 

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/06/06/microsoft-outlines-xbox-ones-always-on-perameters.aspx

    YES MICROSOFT, because you couldn't just stop shooting yourselves IN THE FOOT!

Edited June 7, 2013 by LordMetallix

[Mando-Whirl-Wind]

Now more than ever am I glad I have a Wii-U

[KrazyBean]

Welp Microsoft has finally come clean on the used games/ game sharing/ always online debacle and ....it is less than thrilling.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/06/06/xbox-one-game-sharing-used-game-policy-detailed.aspx

 

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/06/06/microsoft-outlines-xbox-ones-always-on-perameters.aspx

    YES MICROSOFT, because you couldn't just stop shooting yourselves IN THE FOOT!

 

 

Microsoft need to perform some black magic or juju or something if they want the majority of people to still be excited for their console after this.

Edited June 7, 2013 by KrazyBean

[Patticus]

If their E3 game line-up doesn't completely reverse the rising tide of anger and resentment among gamers, the gaming press et al, if it doesn't absolutely overwhelm us and make every draconian policy on the system worth the price, they're going to go into the launch period with a huge disadvantage. They do have a vast marketing budget apparently, but if Sony and Nintendo's fall campaigns decide to aggressively target the X1 while promoting their own platforms, the chances of that being an effective counter to months and months of bad press could be scuppered too.

[Detective Shadzter]

https://twitter.com/GAMEdigital/status/343031902434893824/photo/1

 

Press will be meeting Microsoft staff at E3 Tuesday between 3:30pm and 4:30pm Pacific Time. Don't know if this is that cancelled round table or something else.

[Badnik Mechanic]

 

So... this amazing game, I won't actually own it based on Microsofts policy will I?

[Mr Useful]

 

So... this amazing game, I won't actually own it based on Microsofts policy will I?

Now, is it a kinect game?