Halo Reach is kind of a main title for Halo.

It's a main title in the sense that it's a full effort. However, story wise, the game doesn't really contribute much anything to the series.

Anyway, not sure why it's relevant. ODST was a spin off, but especially in retrospect, that was one of the best Halos that came out (people were just hung up on the price because in general Halo games offer so much content, this one was more of a value pack with a new campaign, firefight, and a bunch of dlc for halo 3).

It depends on how much better it actually looks. Like I've said, a remake is fine. If its just a port like most of these things, **** it.

If this is true, lol @ the web developers.

I would imagine it'll be something like this:

Nintendo announces there classic titles. Nothing unpredictable, but solid. A new mario, maybe Zelda, etc. etc. Might be something from left field like a Platinum game or Mistwalker JRPG something. Nintendo is always really predictable at their confences. They announce new titles to the ips they have done for decades. this isnt a bad thing, and this is why you bought a nintendo console.

Sony will probably have some cool new gameplay to show off. Uncharted will probably have an amazing show (come on, theyre tigthly scripted games with awesome graphics, obviously it will). The order will probably show well as well (for the same reason as above). There should be a couple of new announcements, such as potentially a new GOW game, and maybe GT or something like that. I expect a couple of new ips to be announced as well. They'll probably spend way too much time bragging about sales and showing off montages. And then needless indie talk. I like sony's games, they're really good for those tight movie-like 8 hour games, but god, I hate their gloating about sales and badtalk. Last year's E3 for sony was a disaster, yet their badmouthing the competition made it successful....I hate that it works... I expect at least 1 cool new ip. I think Guerilla is supposed to have a new IP, and there's the Demon Souls sequel thing. The problem here I think is that sony really didn't do anything last year at E3, and they got a lot of praise, and sales are doing very well. I think that's why this E3 might be really underwhelming.

Microsoft should have some new gameplay for Halo Guardians, which is my personal most looked forward thing of the show. I'm also expecting that Halo 1-4 leaked thing to be real. I hope these are remakes a la Anniversary. They had some old MLG halo guys playing at 343 so i expect this will have some sort of mp attached to it as well. Halo is my favorite game series so I'm sure this alone will please me.There should also be some new gameplay of Quantum Break, Fable, etc. probably a teaser for the new Gears. They keep on hyping up their E3, and they've made a good case for it based upon the pre-E3 announcements. I remain skeptical however. While their last E3 had a very good games showing (although it was overshadowed by the DRM crap), the ones before it were weak for the past couple of years. Hopefully they announce something from left-field like a Banjo or Perfect Dark. Killer Instinct was rather succesful so this is completely within question (whether or not rare makes it is really irrelevant).

** I think Microsoft has the most to prove. They've had a lot of momentum, and they can use E3 to captilize on it. if they don't it gets squashed.

I finished playing Ground Zeros, and all I can say is one thing: The plot is stupid at this point.

It's just too convoluted and has so many plot points that are so incredibly unjustified. Also, there is simply too much dependent story content, that so little people have kept up with. It would be easier if the stories were easier to digest, or if there were modern remakes of the game. However, there aren't. Playing through old MGS titles (especially 2), is an absolute pain, because they have aged horribly. I genuinely think very little people, even fans of the series like me, have any clue what's going on in the story. It's not because of how much story content there is. It's because there's too many conflicting details-- and the story is largely comprised of these.

Do you think just scrapping the story and starting over again is a horrible idea?

Seriously, let's just start from the beginning. Let's have Snake infiltrate Shadow Moses looking for nuclear capability, and in the process find a Metal Gear. Let's scrap everything else and come up with details. I think it's a better alternative to making endless ill-contained content at this point. It's why this series is declining in popularity. These games shouldn't be 75% cutscene either (which MGS4 honestly is) but rather have story telling more similar to the ratio in Uncharted.

And maybe this will be an absolute horrible thing for me to say but: let a western studio do it. The idea behind MGS is great I think. I just think the execution could be way better. Give it to a studio like RockSteady or Crystal Dynamics. I'm not even kidding...