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Well, honestly, SC already looks to have a major upper hand on this game from a gunplay/stealth/polish/production values perspective SC won't, however, have a non-Tom Clancy storyline written by the Obs staff, nor will it have AP's (hopefully) awesome choice & consequence. It's really too bad, with the games being released in a narrow timeframe, since AP will get an unfavorable comparison next to SC in those areas. However, they chose to make the actual gameplay action/stealth-oriented, so they either need to up their game or take the flak for it. Unfortunately, I have a feeling the game will be treated as the poor man's action/stealth game. It needs to expand beyond that and offer lots more tactical options, starting with lots of wacky gadgets. Lockpicking/hacking minigames doesn't inspire much, either. I don't think the game deserves a free pass 'because' it's an RPG, and should be called out for having substandard gameplay if that's what it ends up having. Then again, that's exactly what Mass Effect managed, and people are excited about ME2, so we'll see how people receive AP. Obs needs to show off the RPG/C&C elements more, otherwise they WILL draw negative comparisons to SC, or other weird ones I've heard, like Uncharted 2 and Call of Duty and Gears of War :/ Show more dialogue, more character interaction, more branching C&C, more warring factors. Stop showing Thornton sneaking around in his silly crouching animation and shooting things and playing minigames.

Well, E3 so far is turning out to be fairly okay-ish. Nothing major, but some announcements I don't mind. Halo ODST with a co-op firefight/horde mode is going to be pretty neat. L4D2 is a-okay in my book. Crackdown 2 might be good, depending. That's about it from the co-op side. On the Sony side, there wasn't really anything. FFXIV as an MMO is hahahhahahaha. From Nintendo, there's really only Golden Sun. I'd be pretty interested in NSMBWii, SMG2 and Metroid Other M or whatever if I had a Wii. None of those are pushing me closing towards owning one, though. Some other cool stuff, but already known about, so no huge surprises. Maybe I'm missing some new announcements, but if I can't even remember them now, I guess I don't really care about them that much.

Heh, I'll take a map pack that offers more content than the vanilla game.

QUICKTIME EVENTS YEAH YEAH YEEEEAEAEAEAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

GT5, now GoW3. Boriiing. SHOW US NEW GAMES, YOU PIECES OF CRAP

TRICO EDIT: Urg :/

Well, okay, looks like I didn't miss anything. FFXIV might have potential if it's non-MMO online, I guess.

After 10 yrs in development, GT5 is put on the backburner in favor of GT PSP shovelware.

Thanks for telling us about Avatar, James Cameron.

I'm looking forward to U2, actually, depending on how extensive their co-op mode is. MAG, bleh

Nice aim, chopper. Let's run TOWARDS the chopper! Man, didn't realize Hades piloted helis now.

Please tell us more about Avatar, James Cameron!

Why is he talking about the PS2?

PlayStation games accounted for 30% of all retail sales in 2008

SHOW US NEW GAMES, YOU PIECES OF CRAP

599 US dollars ROFLASFJKASGKASJGHAS

Giant enemy crab LOL

Golden Sun DS was the only real highlight for me. I'd be happy with the New Marios and Metroid if I had a Wii, I guess. Most of the Sony stuff has probably already been leaked. We'll see.

What? Team Ninja + Metroid? Hmm... Where's 2D Metroid, you pieces of crap?

2 new actual Mario platformers, hmm. Where's the DS NSMB2, you pieces of crap?

Missed most of the conference. 2D mario on Wii with co-op? Sounds pretty awesome. Too bad I don't have a Wii. Golden Sun DS whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Still need to see the trailer of that. Rest seems to be crap.

One of them is named Nick. ROFLASKLGJASKGJSAKGHASKJGHASGASJASGAS

Needs more ballroom dancing.

This SW LARPing is pretty embarrassing.

Haha, player backlash.