On the MMORPG side:
Talked with Blizzard guys bout the expansion....no solid date...those bastards! Lost of asian/korean mmorpgs commin out. Most were diablo like. Diablo in the fact that most were click to move and was hack/slash based.
Played LOTR Online and was very impressed by it. They had four stations setup so that four peeps could try to beat a instance in it together. If they did then they got into the beta automatically. Me and Chris were seasoned mmorpg players but the other two guys that played with us were noobs and got us killed. So no auto beta for us. Im still signed up though.
Dungeon Runners: NCSoft mmorpg that is in beta (p.s. I just got accepted into the beta today) and will release this summer. Unlike what the article I read beforehand said about it being a WOW killer, DR isn't the same type of mmorpg at all. It is a Diablo dungeon crawller MMO that looks a WHOLE lot visually like WOW. However looks is where it stops being like WOW. If you want to download and play the game, it won't cost you a dime, but if you want to access every piece of content the game has to offer, you'll have to pay some reportedly small fees. The game uses a content payment system that gives you access to specific, elite items and other currently unspecified content.
Tabula Rasa: Also by NCSoft and by the company Richard Garriott created after he left the Ultima franchise. I saw this MMO last E3 and it was a lil raw but fun. This year it was a lot further and VERY fun. I still believe it isn't releasing until 2007 so don't get ur hopes up. This is a Sci-Fi MMORPG (like Anarchy Online). I loved how the fighting was real time shots and slashing....very cool!
Well, thats all the MMORPGs I can remem right now...
Read about the Crysis engine before I went to E3 and was hoping to see it in action and guess what? I did! It was very impressive and very, very beautiful! I think the guys behind Far Cry has done it again! Of course you will prob have to buy a 600 dollar video card for it to look as sweet as it did at E3...haha
Shadowrun...from M$....hmmm....it looked and played ok but not impressive compared to the other games at E3. The coolest thing bout this game was in the fact that with VISTA (the next M$ operating system) you can play against XBOX 360 people. Vista will have XBOX Live integrated within it. Have to give Kudos on that one M$.
The new Might and Magic game was impressive. Graphics were sweeeet and they game play looked and felt a lot like Oblivion. So guess what? It will do very well and rock when it comes out!
Neverwinter Nights 2 will for sure steal away many lives when it comes out. Titan Quest was totally fun (demo is out if you wanna try this RPG out). God of War 2 looks like more of the same awsome quality play as the first one.
The Marvel superhero related games were beautiful looking isometric playing games. Think Freedom Force with better graphics and characters you already know. I would give em a 3 out of 5.
Dead Rising for the XBOX 360....two words... CANT WAIT! Very fun...looks great...and you can kill zombies in sooooo many ways that it would take hours just to try out the diff ways. You can pretty much pick up just about anything. You can also change clothes...which makes for some other types of funny.... haha
Crackdown, another XBOX 360 is close to a GTA game but I totally think it rocks waaaaaay better. It was more open ended, had better fight engine, and you can upgrade your character to almost superhuman. On the floor they had the guy already maxed out on abilities so I had a lot of fun jumping from rooftop to rooftop and dropping down to slaughter the wicked!
SplinterCell anyone? They took the graphics to a whole nuther lev with it...believe me! Play? Not sure...didn't play it myself but they did talk about all the stuff they added that players actually requested.
RPG on the XBOX 360? Just when you thought once again (like with the XBOX) that we would never get a decent Japanese style RPG on the 360...BANG! Enchanted Arms happens! This game rocked the party out! And it was sooooooooo FF like that I think I cried a lil bit. Go check it out on Gamespot if you wanna know more.
Whew!
Im tired of typing now....
I will post more if I remember more...
