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FVII-Remake, Shenmue III, Horizon: Zero Dawn (freaking robot dinosaurs), Shenmue III, awesome car chase in Uncharted 4, Shenmue III, the Last Guardian.

So basically FF7, two shooters, and two really boring looking games to be hyped up over. Right.
Apparently there was a ratchet and clank at the beginning but I didn't see that one so I'll give you that.

oh and don't forget the RETRO PIXXXXXLZ games from devolver those sure looked great (no they didn't)

No Man's Sky still has yet to show any actual gameplay of note (what the heck do you actually DO in that game???) and everything else was basically AssCreed, other shooters, and that one awful looking dreams game.

Great conference.

Damn, sod all the driving, climbing and exploring, story and character shizz in Uncharted, you have a gun - so it's a shooter. That must mean Super Metroid is a 2D shooter because she has a gun - and not a platformer where you explore and shizz, nope just a shooter where you shoot people.

Seriously I hate saying "You've obviously never played ______" on the internet because it's just a dick line. But seriously, Uncharted 2 was freakin' awesome - and not because you shot people. It was the best Indiana Jones game - and Indiana Jones is awesome. I mean MGS you shoot people but I would never say it was a shooter, I wouldn't even say Metroid Prime was. Yes, you shoot people but it isn't the main thing. If you're not into them, fine, whatever - but don't be a fanboy and paint everything you don't like with the "stupid gun game" brush just because you're not interested in it. "Shooter" is a rather massive genre. I mean both Metal Slug and CoD fit into it.

For anyone with a Dreamcast Shenmue III is a big deal. It's gaming legend. Hell it's like when Duke Nukem became a thing again. Sure, it sucked - but dragging it out of Vapourware land was still pretty awesome at the time. It's on the same scale as when Mr Saturn strolled across and said "We're also working on Mother 3" - for fans of the series it was time to shit your pants in excitement.

The Last Guardian is also something to get excited about. Anyone who's played Shadow of Colossus knows it has huge potential.

Last year I regretted staying up to watch Sony's press conference. It was dull as balls. But this year you really need to be trippin' something serious to not see that they blew the competition away.

Yes, Microsoft had a few cool things (Rare Replay [yay Battletoads Arcade]) and ReCore (which looked pretty cool, and thus slightly annoying it's an exclusive) but the Gears and Halo series I've seem to have lost interest in. That doesn't make them bad games, but they're games which won't grab my attention. But guess what, they didn't sit and plan their conference for me - it's for every gamer out there. And a lot of Xbox One owners are excited for those games.

Then Nintendo completely dropped the ball with a multiplayer Zelda with no voice chat and a game using Metroid in the title. Castlevania caused an outrage pulling such a stunt and so has Metroid (and rightly so - minus the dickish petition). I'm fine with Metroid having spin-offs, but the last Metroid game was a long time ago now, of course people will get angry.

Normally Nintendo has one of the best E3s, normally being my favourite every year (except the year Rayman Origins was first revealed, and the Wii Music one [did that even come out in the end?]) this year, just a whole lot of meh (and Platinum making Star Fox).




A good conference is one that shows the company knows what their market wants, to the point of making something so awesome people didn't even know they wanted it yet (aka Yarn games, Mario in space, hunting robot dinosaurs etc). Sony made a lot of wishes come true and had a clear vision. Microsoft showed that they were back about the games. Nintendo had a petition set up to cancel a game. I can't think of any E3 where this has happened.

Sure those people are self-entitled pricks. But no matter how you look at it, Nintendo stumbled pretty bad and as much as you can argue your Nintendo-loving fingers of, it was a rather disappointing show from the big N.

Not to mention the strongest words arguing against you will be written by the Nintendo-loving fingers of a let down fan.