WOW, E3 is gone now and before I was anticipating it like crazy but hey it was a great E3 everything had its ups and downs, right? Well what is my thought? Here is my impression, first the E3 began with the big 3 press conferences after every ones thought about them, the real E3 starts where there are tons of games at the show floor. The big 3 was the centre of the show (as usually), and when we are talking about games, press conference, technology, 3rd party... Etc, we are talking about those 3 companies: Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, so lets get start it: -
Press conferences: -
Sony: -
When everyone is talking about the press conferences, the Sony one come the least likable one, but hey they were not that bad, so here is the conclusion: -
good :- Sony had to show the world that the next generation is what’s really matter, there were ton of PS3 there, and the games looked awesome, from how nice the animation can be in heavenly sword to how the smokes look real in Resistance fall of man, and the trailer of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots was awesome, if Sony can deliver this much of graphic detail on its machine then it will sell huge, but the most surprise that I was really pleased about was Final Fantasy XIII, the trailer was just mind blowing, nice surprise Sony.
Bad: - not so fast, that was great and all, but first they started really late (40 minutes), then they were talking about how great the PSP was (the DS is selling better and faster, Sony get over it) and showed bunch of awful PSP game (by the way no 3rd party games), and there were boring Power point stuff (again), and there GT HD, and talk about bringing the boringness into a press conference, that was just a nightmare (because I slept), then there were people who were saying how good the Playstation brand was and bla, bla, that’s just amusing, and fake trailers that they were saying it was real (or did they really said that?) and horrible Genji 2 demo, that game was very very slow, but worse of all, was the tilt controller that the came and said "we have a huge surprise" yeah right, all in all it was just awful one, it had its ups but fail miserably 4/10.
Nintendo: -
Am huge Nintendo fan and very pleased with the Nintendo one, yes it has its downs but it was very memorable one:
Good: - the Nintendo press conference was filled with sparkling life, it was exciting and I never felt bored, it first began with this great orchestra from Zelda games that was just rocking the whole stage of, then the MAN came, yes you know him, he is all about kicking ass and I don't need to introduce him (he is Reggie Fill-Aims). The way he was talking about was energise and great, the trailer montages were very cool ones, showing dozens of games (most of them suppressed me) and the games that were demoed was good, Red Steel looked not that special but how to played was the main attraction (but I thought the graphics was pleasant), Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was excellent the gameplay was intuitive and great (but am still buying the Gamecube version) and Wii sport was great and funny to see Saturo Iwata, Shiguru Miyamoto, and Reggie with the contest winner.
Bad: - but unfortunately there were some let downs, the most important part is being no actual price and date launch, that’s pretty big let down which makes the fans frustrating and speculating more (which is not a good thing), but the most disappoint thing to me personally was there were no Gamecube games, and they are not supporting it further more, yes trailers was there, and its very good to have Super Paper Mario, Donkey Kong: Bongo Blast and the most important game to me Baten Kaitos Origins, but that’s a less support than expected from Nintendo, am disappointed, and there were no GBA games playable at E3. Another thing is the DS, the 3rd party support is less and Nintendo I want more. Over all the press conference was very good one and importantly every one was having fun 8/10.
microsoft: -
I will adimt, I hate Microsoft and thier X-Fl... i mean X-Box, but i will say they done well enough for thier fans but they didn't make me go:- wow, I'll buy a X-Box 360, lets see: -
good:- last years E3, it was a nightmare for the system, they were advertising it more than showing its cpabilities and games, but this year was diffrent, it was game after game after game after game, and thats what sell a system, their presentation were very good and truthworthy (thats against thier policy, Right?), thier montages were very exciting (again to thier fans) and the Halo trailer was cool enough to welcom the casual gamers, but the thing that struck me was GTA 4 for the system, i thought the series was exclusive to Sonys PS3 and for a sec i thuoght it was a exclusive title for X-Box 360, that would bring some cash to microsoft, but the anouncement that were pleasing was the PC is still ROCKING, from Prey to Crysis to Spore to Bioshock, thats some amazing games.
bad: - ok, am not saying this because of my hatred twords them, but those games were targeting tword the casual gamers more than hardcore gamers (ad for thier fans), especially RPG gamer and Anime lovers (like me), there were absolutly no talk about how they will dominate the Japanese market. Heck, Squere-Enix can abond someone and thats hapened to Microsoft, the games often were relating to one thing according to thier games that were trailered: - Violence is what X-Box 360 keeps alive, yes there were Viva Pinata and some couple sport games, but with Halo 3, Gears of Wars, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Lost Planet and more, that shows the shooters to others on X-Box 360 is 7:1, beside that, if you are a Sony fan or Nintendo there are nothing to get exciting about (unless Sony scared you with thier price), and thats a bit desapointing since they were claiming that this next-gen hardware will succes in japan, but no RPG game beside EnHcaNeD ArM, the talk was good enough to get thier place higher than the sonys 6/10
so thats my verdict over those press confrence, you can just agree or disagree with what i mentioned by commenting. And i just hate X-Box, and Go Nintendo.