adored wrote:

Have they lost the third party support again?

They haven't had it since about 1996 have they?

Still trying to catch up on everything. First E3 I've missed in years and it had to be this one.

Uncharted and Star Wars sure brought the visual wows. Liked the look of Rare's pirate thing and that knight sword fighting game looked like fun. The robosaurus thing from the Killzone lot looked good too.

The Biggest Disappointment Despite Already Low Expectations award goes to Halo 5. 343 really don't have the first bloody clue.

tLG's my fav so far.

Hololens could be absolutely huge outside of games. Prototyping and visualising could be turned on it's head.

If nothing else it is on the path to it. I think it has a lot more industry use than VR.

Hasn't this tech been around for years? I remember being wowed by 3ds AR cards in the same fashion. Just seems like a logical advance to stick it in a vr headset.

Yeah AR always kinda glitches around a bit, this looks much more stable, plus more easily viewable. There didn't appear to be any ugly QR codes either so it will be interesting to see how it maps the real world and places objects.

It wasn't just Minecraft that got the Hololens treatment:  http://www.usgamer.net/articles/astonished-by-the-halo-5-guardians-hololens-demo

Some kind of canned, table-based tech demo... but it seems like MS are pulling in all their big IPs to do some kind of hololens thingy?

But then again, thinking back to kinect (and stuff like SmartGlass and Illumiroom as well), they've always pulled in interesting tech demos, so the jury's still out IMHO.

Kinect never really worked though. Plus no one wants to wave their arms about like a cunt.

It looks like it will better mimic what people already do at a desktop. Playing with Lego/minecraft, board games, architectural models, prototyping. I see it as much more of a viewing tool than an input device like Kinect.

mistercrayon wrote:

People saying kinect is dead. Simultaneously people say hololens is amazing. What is tracking the world in wonder?! Kind of funny.

Agree with that. Kinect 2 is a remarkable bit of kit.

I have to be honest and say I thought the Halo SP demo was very disappointing. There. Boom.

343 appear to be going down the linear, scripted path, CoD style follow the leader route, like they did with the last game, which wasn't what made earlier Halo games so good, and one of the many reasons Halo 4 just doesn't cut it. 

I didn't see any opportunity for imaginative and thoughtful play in that demo; just move through a level shooting stuff until the next checkpoint.  

I didn't see any evidence of emergent chaos and clever AI, nor any alternate paths or vehicular hilarity. That bit where the guy fell off the ledge and nearly dropped but saved himself at the last minute had me rolling my eyes. How many times have we seen this shit in shooters of late?

Halo just ain't Halo any more.

I'm sure it'll be a great shooter, but the chances of it ever reaching Halo 3's dizzying heights are slim indeed.

Here's hoping Warzone is something else...

The bit of the campaign they showed looked boring as fuck. I don't know how that can still excite anyone.

Mainly Hololens.

Yeah it really was an awful showing.

wonderbanana wrote:

I assume this ties more into your anti xbox stance?

This would've been tragic whoever it was aimed at, but J2 is still a proper Halo fanboy. Get over yourself 'nana, anti Xbox stance my arse .

Boom. There it is. And noxy nowhere to be seen...