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Welcome to the E3 2012 EA Press Conference Discussion

Welcome my fellow Giant Bomb comrades! Unless you have been living under a rock trying to avoid the zombie apocalypse that is sweeping the east coast of the United States, you know that E3 2012 is here! Keeping with the tradition, each of the three platform companies along with EA and Ubisoft will be holding press conferences to discuss their company and what they will offer the video game industry presently and in the future. As you know, this will create apocalyptic chaos across the Internet and, more importantly, the Giant Bomb community and forums. In order to help control the madness, we will have an official "sticky" thread for each of the conferences. This thread is dedicated to the discussion of everyone's general feelings/opinions/thoughts of the EA press conference.

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Some EA press conference related forums you might want to use:

• FIFA 13
• Madden NFL 13
• Crysis 3
• Dead Space 3
• Medal of Honor: Warfighter
• Need for Speed Most Wanted
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Battlefield 3
• NCAA Football 13

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• G4TV Online
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• GameTrailers
• Giant Bomb

I am opening this one earlier than usual due to that I might not be here later for the conference. Enjoy!

Dead Space 3 will probably be awesome. Hoping to see some more SimCity too!

I am hoping for an extended look at SimCity. I am sure we will also see an expanded look of the Kinect features added to EA Sports title.

I do not care what anyone ways, that ref thing in FIFA is the thing of the show.

When does it start? half hour from now?

4pm EST on Spike.

I wonder if they're going to say anything about the new ending DLC for Mass Effect 3. Have they said anything about that since the first announcement?

I wonder if they're going to say anything about the new ending DLC for Mass Effect 3. Have they said anything about that since the first announcement?

@Totori: The whole thing is just going to be them joking about changing things they just did.

I need more Dead Space in my life.

@Cloudenvy said:

I need more Dead Space in my life.

Dragon Age 3 maybe?

@Jimbo said:

Dragon Age 3 maybe?

At least a teaser on that

I would love dragon age 3 and dead space 3

The new C&C game perhaps? I wonder if this will be the doctor's show again, like it was a few years ago. I'm just curious what they'll do now that SWOTOR is out and they can't just show off some CG movies during the press conference

@AngelN7 said:

@Jimbo said:

Dragon Age 3 maybe?

At least a teaser on that

Honestly I think we won't hear about Dragon Age 3 for a least a year. But I may be wrong.

@AngelN7 said:

@Jimbo said:

Dragon Age 3 maybe?

At least a teaser on that

Honestly I think we won't hear about Dragon Age 3 for a least a year. But I may be wrong.

Also want to see the nba game because 2k is king so they best not miss

@Jimbo said:

@JeanLuc said:

@AngelN7 said:

@Jimbo said:

Dragon Age 3 maybe?

At least a teaser on that

Honestly I think we won't hear about Dragon Age 3 for a least a year. But I may be wrong.

The only reason I think we might is because of the lack of Mass Effect / SWTOR on the way, though I guess there could be ME DLC or something.

It's the most likely I mean what Mass Effect 3 DLC are they gonna show? The Extended Cut , showing end game scenes that are supposedly there to make amends for people who hated/ want some clarity to the ending? I don't think the would want to show that to everybody , multiplayer stuff? nah no Mass Effect 3 for them.

ok im taking suggestions for what should be my new drinking game for EA. I took a beating with the microsoft show so take it easy on me.

Hope we see some SimCity and more of BF3 Armored Kill.

If they show gameplay of Dead Space 3 I will happily sit through all their sports related crap without one negative comment.

ok im taking suggestions for what should be my new drinking game for EA. I took a beating with the microsoft show so take it easy on me.

@Marokai said:

@DoctorDanger99 said:

ok im taking suggestions for what should be my new drinking game for EA. I took a beating with the microsoft show so take it easy on me.

Everytime they say, or show a logo for, Origin.

that'll kill the poor lad.

@Marokai said:

@DoctorDanger99 said:

ok im taking suggestions for what should be my new drinking game for EA. I took a beating with the microsoft show so take it easy on me.

Everytime they say, or show a logo for, Origin.

are you trying to kill me? wait, dont answer that.i think i might take it easy. my girlfriend says i should take a drink everytime they mention KOTOR3. i love her.

@Marokai said:

@DoctorDanger99 said:

ok im taking suggestions for what should be my new drinking game for EA. I took a beating with the microsoft show so take it easy on me.

Everytime they say, or show a logo for, Origin.

that'll kill the poor lad.

If they show gameplay of Dead Space 3 I will happily sit through all their sports related crap without one negative comment.

Here's hoping the Dead Space 3 trailer features Dubstep and explosions

@Marokai:

unless you think me half passed out on the floor screaming "WARFIGHTER?!" is interesting you a villian!

Strap it on!!

Sim City is about the only thing EA has got that I'm interested in. Here's hoping we get to see a fair bit of it *fingers crossed*

Alright lets see how this goes.

Bejeweled? Fuck yeah

Dead Space 3 time..

Starting off with some Dead Space. Sick!

Dead Space 3 *thumbs up*

Yay Ellie is in it! Also please don't have her die at the beginning.

Co-op isn't scary. -_-

Holy shit, really, co-op in DS3? Fuck....

dead space? ugh,yet another game series i need to play (again)

@NekuSakuraba said:

Co-op isn't scary. -_-

To be fair Dead Space wasn't very scary in the first place.

Kinda disappointed by how different it looks. Not scary at all...

Am i the onlyone getting a lost planet vibe from the trailer?

From Resident Evil to Gears of War. Dead Space has grown, I guess...

So - Lost Space or Dead Planet? What should it be called?

So did he just go through its sphincter?

I never thought Dead Space was particularly scary in the first place, but at least there was a restrictive nature to the environment and a weight to the movement that made it feel different from every other game ever. This just looks like Gears.

Dead Space seems to be going the Resident Evil route and trading horror/suspense for all out action. That and co-op really diminishes the fright compared to when you're by yourself.

I don't like the universal ammo :/

I'm torn.  I think it will be a lot of fun to play co-op, but I think it will ultimately dilute the game.  Especially when played alone.
 
Also, boo EA sports.