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The week of E3 is now past. What piqued your interest?

Queasy

Queasy

Moderator<br>Console Gaming
E3 and it's newly returned booth-babe-age have come and gone. After the week of festivities, what stuck out in your mind?

360
Splinter Cell: Conviction - All I can say is 'WOW'. I was looking forward to seeing how well Ubisoft was going to bring the series back after it reportedly was restarted but I didn't expect this. Having the plot points and objectives displayed up on walls like Black & White pictures is sweet and seeing Sam Fisher attack a room full of baddies, jump out a window, climb along a ledge, and then attack back in through another window was very cool.

Project Natal - Can they pull this off in a meaningful way? (ie - not just a bunch of gimmicks)

Games on Demand - The march towards digital distribution continues. Seeing the videos of this in action has me jonesing for a larger hard drive. 🙂

PS3
The Last Guardian/Project Trico - This game was just stunningly gorgeous in the trailer shown. It didn't give off much of an idea about the gameplay beyond exploring and climbing but it looks very impressive.

Motion Wand - Like Natal, lots of neat ideas but can they pull it off in a meaningful way?

Wii
New Super Mario Bros Wii - Of all the games that Nintendo showed for the Wii this one ultimately stuck out to me more than Metroid: Other M, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dead Space: Extraction, etc because I looked at it and thought, "this is a game that my kids and I could have a lot of fun playing together." It really is Left 4 Mario.

A Boy and His Blob - While previously announced, this game still looks exceedingly beautiful and seeing more of the media from it at E3 only makes me want to play it more.

PSP
PSP Go - Obviously. It was the only new hardware announcement during the week outside of some peripherals. The fact that it is the first major platform to be download only is intriguing and is worth watching. The $250 pricetag is disappointing but Sony is obviously going to milk the early-adopters first and then start dropping the price.

DS
Golden Sun DS - It's no Style Savvy, but I eagerly await the return of this classic RPG series.

Multiplatform
Modern Warfare 2 - From the very first trailer, I thought this game looked like a movie. Seeing the live demo during MS's presser didn't change that opinion. The style plus the solid multiplayer from the first Modern Warfare has me licking my chops.
 
i have to agree big time with splinter cell, especially cause i thought it would be a bust seeing it was scrapped once already, and the series has become VERY stale. but that game looks like it is going the right direction and will be pretty badass.

the one i think i'm most excited about however is Castlevania. that trailer looks so epic and it was such a surprise to see that game out there. it looks completely badass and i am looking forward to that more than god of war 3, which i am also looking forward to.

then i have the standard games im looking forward to which i knew about already - god of war 3, uncharted 2, new ratchet and clank. i also think that new halo game looks good, i enjoyed halo 3 campaign a lot and i like the looks of the ODST one. MW2 of course, but other than those 2 games, nothing on 360 that i really am too interested in at this point.

i really have 0 interest in any of these motion control things for ps3 or xbox360.
 
NetFlix queue modification from your 360 instead of having to do it on your PC.

That is all. 😉

Edit: Okay, to be fair, FFXIV does look promising. If they manage to keep the awesome class system from FF XI and implement an improved gameplay experience (like WOW), it could be a winner. Here's hoping for the best, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in Square-Enix...
 
Natal, honestly... that's about it. I was interested in the PSPGo until it failboated out at $249.

Microsoft's Games on Demand is an okay concept, but not when most of those titles can be found used for half the price (and the fact their hard drives are re-fucking-diculously expensive).

As far as the games themselves - none. I don't generally buy games at release, and usually wait till I've either tried it or had friendly recommendations on it.
 
NSMB and SMG 2 and also the Black Wii. I have already bought and sold two Wiis and now I'm getting that itch to go back and give it a third try. Curse you, Nintendo.
 
It's hard to make a list because there are so many, but here are a few:

Mass Effect 2 - not a lot was shown but this is my most anticipated game of 2010 bar none.

Metroid: Other M - I'm so happy to see Metroid return to the third-person perspective and the fact that Team Ninja is working with Nintendo on this is interesting to say the least.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - looks incredible, has an impressive voiceover cast, and Kojima Productions is involved (even if only in name). That's enough to get me interested

Splinter Cell: Conviction - pretty much what Queasy and purbeast0 said. Way better looking than expected. Love the stylish wall display of objectives and cutscenes.

Scribblenauts - I'm amazed at the seemingly limitless amount of things you can call forth in this game, including internet memes.

Forza 3 - I stopped playing Forza 2 earlier than I would have liked, but the sequel looks great. I like the rewind feature and actually think it will help keep me interested even though it seems like it may be pseudo-game-breaking (similar to GT4's B-Spec mode).

Alan Wake - It was nice to see this game surface with actual gameplay. I am generally not into survival horror type games but this looks like it will have plenty of action elements to interest me. Plus I loved Max Payne.

The Last Guardian - This looks promising and despite not showing a whole lot the trailer was moving.

It's fair to say that E3 lengthened my wish list considerably.

EDIT: and how could I forget Just Cause 2! This game looks like a ton of fun! I highly recommend watching the 10-minute demo floating around on the internet.
 
God of War III- Looks killer

Castlevania- Looks a lot like Castlevania meets God of War, not a bad thing IMO

Project M- Heh, looks like Metroid meets God of War, same as above 😉

GT5- All of the normal GT, plus WRC and NASCAR all in one game? Way more then I expected

Biggest title for me though, by far- The Old Republic- This game looks absolutely insane

Those are the titles at this point I'd stand out in the cold for hours in the middle of the night to pick up ASAP, bunch of others I'll probably hit off the used wall(Unchartered2, NewSMB, SMG2 etc).
 
Originally posted by: Riverhound777
I just want GT5 already. It was one of the big reasons I got a PS3 way back when. Better be here by Christmas 2012.
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fixed for realistic expectations.

😛
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
New Super Mario Bros Wii - Of all the games that Nintendo showed for the Wii this one ultimately stuck out to me more than Metroid: Other M, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dead Space: Extraction, etc because I looked at it and thought, "this is a game that my kids and I could have a lot of fun playing together." It really is Left 4 Mario.
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I think Little Big Mario is a better description since both are competitive co-op platformers.

Natal interested me the most... or at least the most among things that we really didn't have details about before (i.e. I really want GoW III and Uncharted 2, but those weren't suprises in any way). I'm not really looking to be jumping around like that guy playing the skateboarding game in the Natal video, but I like the potenial for more subtle applications along with things like the ability to work the dash with hand gestures and face/voice recognition.

[edit] Damn, I forgot about Crackdown 2! We've been hearing rumors for a while, but that was definitely my favorite game announcement of E3.
 
I agree with everyone else that SC:Conviction looks bad-ass. I'm definitely looking forward to it. I loved the 2 minute trailer for GT5, since it showed a lot more info that wasn't previous known, but the lack of any other info was disappointing. I guess that will be something to look forward to at TGS in September.

The Last Guardian looked awesome as well. Can't wait for it. I love that the trailer was ambiguous about who exactly the guardian is, the boy or the creature?
 
Heavy Rain - want it even more after seeing the gameplay
The Last Guardian - itching to find out more about this one, loved the trailer
Alan Wake - Looks very promising
GoW 3 - Do I need to say anything? 😛
Uncharted 2 - The multiplayer beta is great so far
new R&C - been with the series since it started
FF 14 - not sure yet about this
 
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
God of War III- Looks killer

Castlevania- Looks a lot like Castlevania meets God of War, not a bad thing IMO

Project M- Heh, looks like Metroid meets God of War, same as above 😉

GT5- All of the normal GT, plus WRC and NASCAR all in one game? Way more then I expected

Biggest title for me though, by far- The Old Republic- This game looks absolutely insane

Those are the titles at this point I'd stand out in the cold for hours in the middle of the night to pick up ASAP, bunch of others I'll probably hit off the used wall(Unchartered2, NewSMB, SMG2 etc).
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Well considering its taken them so damned long to bring it out (meanwhile Microsoft has given us Forza 2 and Forza 3 is coming) it needs that extra content.
 
Well considering its taken them so damned long to bring it out (meanwhile Microsoft has given us Forza 2 and Forza 3 is coming) it needs that extra content.
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In the last decade I've sold two consoles for any reason(I've owned them all, still have my DC even). One was my PSP because its' batteries sucked horribly, the other was my 360 because of how let down I was with Forza 1.1. Maybe Forza 1.2 will be better, certainly not seeing anything approaching what would be worth calling a sequel. For the record, I bought a 360 for Forza exclusively- I used to be a huge fan 🙁
 
Modern Warfare 2 - !!!
Mass Effect 2
Splinter Cell: Conviction

I also realized that one way or another I'm going to need a new hard drive, and soon. THe 20 GB just isn't cutting it anymore and it never really did. I might just pick up a new 360 with HDMI eventually.
 
The second I saw splinter cell, I jumped on amazon and preordered it. It looks fantastic and that's my most hyped game for the year now. I'm a huge SC fan and this looks awesome
 
Scribblenauts
Metroid: Other M
New Super Mario Bros
New Zelda
The Last Guardian/Trico

And, most of all, NEW MONKEY ISLAND CONTENT!!!!!!!!
 
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