Official Microsoft E3 2010 Press Conference Thread

[MaxwellGT2000]

Smeags said:

Here's my take on the conference:

Bold: Great
Normal: Okay
Italicized: Not Appeased!

Call of Duty looks great, and has a less "Action Hero" feel that MW2 had.
Nice grab on the CoD content
The Slicing and dicing looks great in Metal Gear Solid: Rising
But will that be the only gameplay element? Hopefully there'll be more to it than that.
Gears looked great!
Apparently I missed the boat on Fable, because III really doesn't look like a must own experience.
And compared to Gears, Rising, and Black Ops, it's definitely not a looker.
Halo Reach was very pretty.
Space battles?! Totally awesome! (And could possibly mean space battles online!)
Exclusive game? From Crytek?! Here comes the trailer...
That didn't show us anything. Except blood.
ESPN using Kinect was nifty if I had gold (replay would be my most used feature to use on some England fans after that goalie missed that shot)
In fact, the whole interface using Kinect was probably the best part of the show. Looks great.
Kinectamals looked okay. (okay with more of a sigh to it) (The little girl however was the best actor in the entire show even with the awkward "licking" acting)
So did Kinect Sports
So did Joyride
YourShape, however, looks like it will be the kill app for Kinect. Great use of the peripheral. (This was my killer app for Kinect, if there IS a killer app that is... but if I bought one it would be for this game)
Dance Central looked groovy when the lady was up there.
But the guy was cringe worthy. Expect gifs. (EXACTLY WHAT I SAID no seriously!
2:48 PM - maxwellgt2000: GIFS INCOMING! that's lifted from steam while watching that part of the show)
Star Wars looked pretty rough
But it's on rails... and the movement was very clunky.
And why is there Storm Troopers on Naboo?
Kinect is launching on Nov. 4th!
No price? Really? Why wouldn't they announce the price point? Boo!
Xbox 360 Slim! Built in WiFi. 250 GB Hard drive!
And still for $299. Still... not bad. Wonder when it'll come out...
Now?!!

Since your feelings were so similar to mine I simply changed the bolds and italics with a few changed comments to reflect my feelings

Overall I felt the show started strong then fell utterly flat, few new games shown, kinect games were mostly shown last night so that didn't even have the thrill of being a new surprise, thankfully there was more footage shown, but none of it gave the vibe of this would be fun other than the Your Shape sequel (what exercising IS fun!).  There simply wasn't any megatons from the kinect games or traditional showings, nothing too surprising, biggest being space battles for reach and that's IF it has online space battles!

This simply was Microsoft's, Sony 2006 or the overall E3 2008 (cause I don't see Sony or Nitnendo having shows as bad as 2008, even MS had a decent 2008 show).  Sad to say it cause they messed up their perfect track record for never failing to at least entertain me.