What are you hoping to hear/learn more about from E3?...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:52 pm

Thought this would be a good discussion point, seeing as how E3 is almost upon us.

For me, personally, I would really like to see both final game lists and release dates for PS2 Taito Arcade Classics and Capcom Classics Collection. The former because there are some games on JP Taito Memories 1 and 2 that never even came out here in the States, and the latter to see if Capcom will include the Street Fighter games from Capcom Generation vol. 5-given that Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is now available- and if not, what they'll put in place of those games.

Beyond that, I'd like to know if these rumors about 2 different PS3's-one that's soley for gameplay, and one that can also play DVDs-are for real, and more about what's happened to both the XBOX and GBA Xyanide games.

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:07 pm

E3 doesn't much interest me this year. I don't care about any of the new systems (I'm too busy with all of the old systems) and I can't think of any titles being shown that i'm too desperate for new information on.

That said, I'll be grabbing pretty much every 720p video I can from Fileshack because 5-10 years from now I'm sure some of the stuff will look as funny as the videos from older E3s. For example, Half Life at E3 1997

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:33 pm

I'm really interested in a possible home port of Outrun 2 SP. It's been rumored that it is soon going to get a discount release but nothing official has been said about it.

I also want to hear something about xbox 360's rumored backwards compatibility. Come on MS if none of the launch games are that compelling, why not let us play some really good xbox games?

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:58 pm

Why would anyone care about backwards compatibility? Look what backwards compatibility has done to the PC.

Don't you have an Xbox already?

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sun May 15, 2005 12:00 am

I'm hoping that the shmup genre may get revived. Fat chance though, but a guy can dream.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sun May 15, 2005 12:29 am

I wanna see the Revolution. I sincerely hope it comes and shakes things up a bit...

Edit: I thought the shmup genre was already revived. Compare the situation now to 5 years ago. I feel I am spoiled for choice.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun May 15, 2005 1:39 am

^ My problem with the recent batch of shmups is that they are almost all vertical. There's no more horizontal love anymore.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:40 am

True dat.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:47 am

I'm mostly interested to see what shows up for the DS. Of the current platforms, I think that the DS is the most likely to produce interesting new gameplay ideas. Besides, the DS could use some new stufF, and Meteos is still over a month away (I'm half-tempted to import it so I can get it sooner at this point.)

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:46 am

Im interested in all the SNK stuff for the XBOX and Metal Slug on the GBA. Oh, and i wouldnt mind seeing what Nintendo are doing with the Revolution.

benstylus · Post by **benstylus** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:49 pm

icycalm wrote:Why would anyone care about backwards compatibility? Look what backwards compatibility has done to the PC.

What has it done exactly? There really isn't backwards compatibility on the PC so much... There are a lot of games (classics even) like Duke Nukem 3D that just can't playable on newer systems without a DOS emulator.

And forget about games like Wing Commander that regulate their speed based on the processing power - back when 33 Megahertz was high speed top of the line, the game ran fine. But try it even on a Pentium1 90Mhz and it's unplayable.

Don't you have an Xbox already?

There are some people that do and some that don't. For those that don't, backwards compatibility is great because it's a full library of games right out of the box - plus people who are trying Halo 3 or Mechassault 3 or such may want to go back and see what the original ones were all about.

For those who DO already have an Xbox, backwards compatibility can still be important.

First off, I currently have my Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox and PS2 hooked up to my TV. I really don't have room in my living room for more consoles, so my NES, SNES, Genesis/SegaCD, and N64 are sitting in a closet.

If the PS2 wasn't backwards compatible, then I'd have a PS1 in the closet as well.

And while the N64 belongs there, the NES, SNES and Genesis all have games that I like to play, but I just play them on emulator now because I don't have the room to keep the systems hooked up, nor the desire to constantly haul out systems and hook them up, then put them back when I'm done.

If the newBox is backwards compatible, that would allow me to increase the number of "systems" I have hooked up without actually physically increasing that number.

Besides, my Xbox is wearing out and starting to have problems every now and then. It'd be nice to replace it with a newBox and still be able to play my old Xbox games without shelling out another hundred bucks for a replacement Xbox when mine dies.