Kantor said:
This is an opinion I haven't seen before. Care to justify? Microsoft had fantastic Halo 4 gameplay, and some nice third party footage, but they wasted half of their conference on non-gaming stuff like Internet Explorer and smartglass. Usher was awful as well. Sony, on the other hand, showed Beyond, Ascension, Battle Royale and Last of Us, not to mention AC3 and Far Cry 3, which looked much better than Black Ops 2 and Tomb Raider. |
Off course :) :
Microsoft's presser included Halo 4 (Possibly my game of the gen), Splinter Cell: Blacklist (One of my favourite franchises), Forza: Horizon (I like this type of "open" racing game, Gears trailer (Should have been gameplay though -.-), Tomb Raider (Love the franchise).
Internet Explorer while not necesarry a good conference subject is a feature I'm likely to use daily basis when I'm gaming, it saves me turning on my pc everytime I want to do sometime on the net whilst gaming.
I'm divided about smart glass. I agree with you about the end, Usher followed by Black Ops 2 was just plain terrible.
Sony's presser was better presented, and The Last of Us and god of War: Ascension looked extremely awesome, and the 3EYOND part was interesting!
But besides that there was little noteworthy enough to be interesting to me, I don't intend to get a PSV or PS+, and Move is just a appaling as Kinect to me.
The lack of The Last Guardian or Agent was just the biggest dissapointment (If these were in Sony would have edged out Microsoft for me), and the fact that Sony didn't flat out deny a cloud gaming deal before the Conference started was just bad (imo).
Far Cry 3 while still interesting looks to be a lot more scripted than the "semi-open world" of Far Cry 2 which I loved, and AC3 while it looked great and is a day 1 for me just doesn't have as interesting a setting as AC and AC2 (imo)
In the end it really came down to the games I feel I'll be playing most in 2012 and 2013 :)
