I guess you didn't watch the trailer.

I really like the concept of the game, wil be keeping my eye on it for sure.

Watched it. Looked boring. I mean it looks pretty and all, but I think GTA V will blow it away.

Looks really great and intresting. Why did they cut out the multiplayer bit thing?

So much potential.... to turn out bad. But I think this game could be something awesome

You don't like the idea of being able to control an entire cities computer system?

The only similarities seem to be that it's third person in an open city and has guns.

Granted that's 95% of a GTA game.

Have we seen anything of GTA V other then that short debut trailer? They've been awfully quiet. It better be more like the older ones and less like IV.

I heard they won't be appearing at E3. So guess we won't see anything new for a while

Was pretty upset by this myself. But if this means they are taking time to make things perfect before they want to show the game and release it then I am happy waiting a little longer before seeing more details.

It's by far my most anticipated console game, ESO for PC, hopefully we'll see more of it this year.

Looks awesome however what I don't like is the regenerating health and slow-motion.

They did indeed announce that they wouldn't appear at E3, but we can't rule that out for sure... Aren't there supposed to be some secret game announcements during E3 this year? Perhaps they're only keeping it a secret, so they can reveal it and surprise everyone?

I also heard Valve would be here this year for something, does anyone know if they are and if yes, what for?

Maybe, would love to see a surprise tommorow.

Maybe they'll announce Half Life Episode 2.5?

Is this turning into a second E3 thread?

Well technically Watch Dogs is E3 related, but sorry for being a bit off topic.

Would love to see more on Half Life but I think the very sun would halt in the sky on that fabled day. I've also heard rumours of a Valve console but even if they are making that I wouldn't think it would be shown this year, I would expect it to appear at E3 2013. Depends if they actually are making a console or not of course. Also there is CS:GO coming out soon I think so maybe it could be to discuss that.

I was watching the E3 live stream on IGN pretty casually until Watch_Dogs came on. I leaned in and my eyes were glued to the screen for the entire demo. That was by far the most amazing game I think I've ever seen. And if it really looks that great on consoles, that's a Day One buy for sure. I'm glad there's finally something new on the gaming scene.

You know some people were speculating if Watch Dogs was gonna be a next-gen game. They confirmed it is next-gen, but they are really pushing the limit of the current hardware aren't they?

They were using a high end PC.

Just checked out the video yesterday.

I think it looks quite promising. Ubisoft has made some... "odd" business decisions of late, but I have always enjoyed their games; which (when they pull it off) I find to have a really nice balance of fun gameplay informed by good storytelling. I've been a fan of theirs since at least the Prince of Persia games.

Watch Dogs looks very intriguing, I think. Still lots of questions, though. Looks like there's a lot of interactive possibilities, but I also can't tell how much of that was scripted events, and how much was procedural or emergent. (ie, the car crash, for example - is that an emergent result of the simulation responding to your actions, or is it scripted that if you choose that option at that time, that this will be the result each time?)

Something I'll be keeping my eye on, either way.

that's just it

the demo doesn't seem to showcase that very much. I had no idea Watch Dogs even existed until this thread popped up, and when I saw the trailer it looked like an AC+GTA IV clone.

that does sound like a pretty cool idea though, but the demo, in my opinion, fails to get this dynamic across, or, if nothing else, doesn't point out this feature much.

While that is cool in it's own right, I wonder how strong the networking dynamic will be when taking into account the fact that much of the game does look like a typical free-roam sandbox game.

I must be the only one not feeling the hype for this game. But hey, might be good.

It looked pretty interesting, then the shooting started.
That's the big question.

Also, did e3 have a requirement that every demo video must end with the protagonist shooting an unarmed dude in the face this year?

Precisely what I thought when I saw the gameplay.

The concept is interesting but it still remains to be seen how many events from the demo were scripted.

Yeah, it's easy to read too much into just one demo, and (as far as I can glean) no real dev interviews or previews as yet.

From what it looks like to me, I'm guessing there's likely to be a fair amount of procedural stuff in this game. The animations certainly looked procedural, and I'm guessing that most of the "crowd" NPC characters follow procedural behavioral patterns.

With all of the things it appears you can do with your... "magic cell phone," I'm guessing it makes sense that a lot of stuff is going to be procedurally-generated, as well. My experience with videogames in general leads me to think it's probably not going to be quite as "incredible" as I might want to believe, as far as that, goes, though. Probably a mix of procedural and scripted events.

For example, I'm guessing that you can use the "block communications" thing whenever you want, and NPCs in the area will follow believable patterns. But at the beginning where you're sneaking into the bar - the bouncer walking away as his cell phone goes out is likely a scripted event. Ditto with the car crash/traffic light deal. I'm guessing that when you use it most times, that the traffic procedurally responds in an emergent manner - however that specific scene was another scripted event (even if it might be partially emergent to some degree.)

I don't go for the "GTA-clone" cop-out, but as far as procedural behaviors and animations go - it's something that GTAIV started to get into; I wouldn't be surprised if we were largely able to push that concept pretty far by now.

Anyway, still looks cool to me either way. Regardless of the level of freedom given to the player (illusory or not,) I think it still seems like an interesting concept to play around with in a videogame setting. And most importantly - it looks like it'll be fun for me to play.

I should add that demo, especially the traffic light part did feel very heavily scripted to me. So while the concept does intrest me about the game I also have a horrible gut feeling the end result may just turn out not working very well, take away the feature and what are you left with? A sandbox freeroamer that appears to borrow a lot of ideas from GTA. Hopefully we are able to see more gameplay and get more details in the coming months.

Rockstar told me on their social club that as soon as Max Payne 3 was sorted they will beging releasing more GTA info. It shouldn't be too long before new info, maybe it will come after the first Max payne multiplayer dlc which comes in like June.

That's what they were discussing on Machinima. They seem to thing it shows next gen capabilities. I'm inclined to believe them as they were playing it on a very powerful PC.