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E3 2009- General thoughts
Drakul:
well the easiest way to answer is to link my blog where i covered the show.
http://nostalgeek.wordpress.com/
Let me know what you think.
the7k:
--- Quote from: z0mbiew0lf on June 09, 2009, 03:47:32 PM --- PSP Go! is out of the question for me, I don't understand why Sony thinks people will pay so much for their systems. Didn't they learn from the PS3?
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Well, the PSP Go does look sexy. Not worth paying $90 more than a regular PSP, but I do love the look.
Also, Sony has said that the price is meant to target early adopters... at least they're honest that they're trying to sucker people.
juan0tron:
Yeah I kind of want one...but no UMD drive and the same ol' analog nub really kills that decision for now :P
MisterCreazil:
I have a hard time finding games that interest me anymore period. Growing up I was one of the most avid computer gamers if ever there was one, but now I find the things I like the most are probably the ones that relate to something I loved when I was younger, like Starcraft 2 or the new Halo games. I remember being excited about the DS but when I finally bought one I never played it. Anyways the point of this really is just that all these new things they show at E3 hold very little interest for me anymore.
KaiserWAVE:
On of the biggest highlights, was when Reggie asked if Nintendo itself could make edgier games and then the Team Ninja logo came on and cross-faded to Metroid: Other M :)
It looked like Ninja Gaiden Metroid but I'm fine with that. Add some bouncing for Samus and give her some badass moves and I'm sold. And please make it as challenging as Ninja Gaiden.
Mario Galaxy 2 was great, even if its just a "map pack" but Mario Galaxy is one of the best games for Wii so I'll buy it day one.
Wii Sports Resort and Wii Motion Plus looked good and I'm really looking forward to it.
Everything else from Nintendo was very lackluster again. New Super Mario Brothers Wii looks like a glorified port of the DS game to me and I just don't see the appeal of playing a jump n run in 4 player co-op.
The Vitality sensor is a bad joke. It has some potential ( Imagine a Phoenix Wright game where you're in the dock and the Vitality sensor acts as a lie detector or something) but the way they presented it it was as casual as can get and while I do enjoy some casual gaming it gets old very quickly. Also, why the freaking hell is Golden Sun for DS and not for Wii? I know the prequels were on GBA but for me the Wii is in dire need of some "real" games. I bought my Wii nearly a year before my Xbox360 and while I have close to 50 games for xbox I only have 12 for Wii and maybe 5 that I will buy this year (as opposed to 10+ on xbox).
Other highlights were Splinter Cell Conviction ( I really liked the style and the new approach), Asassins Creed 2, Uncharted 2 (I think I'll finally get a PS3 for that and God Of War 3), Saboteur. Rock Band Beatles looked great although I don't know how challenging the guitar part can be for the songs. GH 5 sounded good, but I really think that I'm through with GH after Guitar Hero: Van Halen and stick with Rock Band unless GH5's tracklist is the bomb. One of the games I'm most exited for is Brütal Legend. Alan Wake looked great too.
Biggest let downs:
Kojima san anouncing MGS Rising but no port of MGS4
Epic enters the stage and gives us...no announcement for Gears Of War 3...but Shadow Complex. Which looked nice. Like a combination of Contra Shattered Soldier and Metroidvania.
PSP GO for $249 and they even dare having the same price tag in Euros? Epic fail!
The anouncement for Final Fantasy XIV Online. SquareEnix teases us like 3 years with little snippets of FF XIII and then they have the guts to announce FF XIV before XIII is released? And on top is looks like a sequel to FF XI, a half assed MMORPG.
personal highlight:
Rabbids Go Home, the scene where the rabbid was inside the Wiimote and you could press buttons and he would interact with them and then you could throw him around. I LOL'd :D