GS = gamasutra.com
CB = Cliff Bleszinsky
MR = Mark Reign
GS: I like that arc on the grenade [in Gears Of War].
CB: My logic here is that we give you a cursor for your gun, why not give you an arc for your grenade? If you're a soldier, and you're going to have a good idea of the weight of the thing, and how far it's going to go, so why not just give you a visual indication of it?
GS: How would you do that with the Nintendo Revolution?
CB: Just throw the controller at the screen.
MR: I'd get tired after a while.
CB: Yeah, you'll have an entire generation of gamers with Popeye arms.
NeSS: LOL :rofl:
At 2:00, there was the Next Gen panel with Mark Rein from Epic, a founder of Obsidion, a guy from PhysX, and Matt Cassamina from IGN. It was pretty much Matt praising Gamecube and Revolution in whatever topic they were on while Mark just laughed at him and muttered "bullshit" . Matt was a waste of a seat up there, he didn't say anything more than what we would say on this message board.
Neat thing Mark said was that the original XBox sold more first person shooters than PC did, so that's why a lot of XBox 360 games are first person shooters.
Peer Scheinder talked about how game consoles didn't have an adequate keyboard/mouse setup when Mark told him to wait and just brought out his wireless Xbox 360 controller and black dev kit. It drew a huge laugh from the crowd. He said that while the Revolution was cool, it would draw way too many gimicky games with no substance, and that it would not be a viable replacement for mouse/keyboard. He also scoffed at Nintendo not putting the best technology into the Revolution, instead opting to focus on the controller. He said along the lines of "that's why Gears of War is on XBox 360, and will never be on Revolution. Hopefully I can show you guys that later, I think there's a Best Buy booth showing off Xbox 360s".(!!!)
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