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This year's E3 has kicked off, starting with the thoroughly uninspiring MicroSoft press conference, which only had 1 thing of interest for me: footage of Metal Gear Solid Rising (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-metal-gear/101271), which I'll probably end up getting on PS3 anyway, due to controller familiarity.

Everything else was bumf... all sequels that I don't care about and anti-gamer nonsense.

Nintendo and Sony don't have much to live up to in the next few days!

But the NEW SLIMMER MORE STYLISH XBOX 360!

eh

Don't care about the new 360.

Also, I'm laughing at Wii knockoff games. THIS FITNESS GAME IS NOTHING YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE, OR THESE SPORTS GAME USING AVATARS THAT AREN'T MIIS OR ANYTHING!!

You know, the only few things that hype me up, a little, about E3, is hopeful news/gameplay for MvC3. Or MegaMan related stuff, all the rest I can care less.

EDIT: Hope MvC3 does great justice like TvC did for the MegaMan franchise.

oh kojima you troll

Anyway, Zelda Wii will finally be shown today... as well as the new 3DS.

I'm looking forward to seeing the 3DS.

I don't know where this info is coming from, plus I'm busy, but I hear on Facebook it's called "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword".

zelda skyward sword

i am excite

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oh my goood nintendo 3ds

i'm jizzing buckets

HOLY #####!!!

NEW DONKEY KONG COUNTRY
NEW KID ICARUS
NEW KIRBY
EPIC MICKEY
ZELDA SKYWARD SWORD
METROID OTHER M

Nintendo won E3.  Sony is #####ting bricks.

Epic Mickey doesn't look half as good as I had hoped, but Zelda, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Metroid and Kid Icarus all look incredible.

I was kind of hoping for a shock Mario Galaxy 3 announcement, though!

Sony really don't stand much of a chance unless they announce something immense.

My god Nintendo murdered... I can't believe how solid their show was.

Metroid Other M is what we should have gotten instead of that Prime FPS #####.  This is looking solid as ##### and day 1 buy.

3DS looks simply amazing so far.  I am a little worried about how it will hold with the analog stick and Dpad like that but I guess we'll see.

The rest was an amazing line up of solid games.  Real solid.  Save for maybe Mario, er Wii Party.  But still, the amount of core gamer material they had up was shocking.

Plus all the 3rd party stuff for 3DS, Metal Gear?  Resident Evil?  I have some high hopes here.

I really can't think of ANYTHING Sony can do to top it.  Hopefully their conference isn't all Move focused like Microsoft's was Kinnect.

Currently laughing my ass off on Sony's conference.

As I foresaw; Nintendo wins.

Currently laughing my ass off on Sony's conference.

Likewise... this is embarrassing, they have absolutely nothing...

4chan's /v/ is in utter #####storm between Xbox and PS3.

LOVING IT.

They really have to end on some earth shattering announcement or all they've announced is that they're money grabbing bastards.

Showing the same games... again... and again.

Wow, that was awful.

I don't know how anyone can spin it any way other than Nintendo crucifying everyone else.

Sony's show wasn't AWFUL, but it wasn't great.  It was all 3D GAMING 3D GAMING 3D GAMING.  They didn't spend nearly as much time pushing Move as I thought they would.  They had 2 or 3 games that looked good to me (outside of the FPS bull#####).  I though Sorcery looked interesting if not generic.  Twisted Metal looked good.  In truth though, I thought their PSP lineup blew the PS3 lineup out of the water, and I'm not a big PSP fan.

But in the end, Sony's show looked like Nintendo's compared to Microsoft's.  And Nintendo utterly DESTROYED both Sony and Microsoft.  While they were busy desperately trying to do the "casual waggle" stuff that Nintendo already did, did well, and blew them away with, Nintendo dropped nothing but core game titles with narely a hint of casual and made sport of them.

Wow.  What an E3.  Can't wait for the last of the developer announcements.

New Donkey Kong Country is the biggest thing for me. DKC2 is still one of my favorite games of all time, right up there with MM3.

I still would love to actually SEE how the Nintendo 3DS works. They just sort of talked about how great it's going to be and what a technological marvel it is.

I can't tell what I think about Metroid: Other M. I'm excited for it, but... something just doesn't feel right. Especially when taking into account all the voice-acting and cutscenes in the older trailers, I'm very apprehensive about this. I loved the Prime games and I'm firmly in the camp that those are the best a 3D Metroid could have been. We'll see, though. I really want this game to be great.

The new Kirby looks easy as hell but oh so much fun. I love the art style.

Just wish I could get a go of a 3DS...

Have you guys checked out Nintendo's E3 site yet?

www.e3.nintendo.com

HOLY #####E NEW PAPER MARIO, NEW ANIMAL CROSSING, NEW MARIO KART, NEW RESIDENT EVIL, OH MY GOD STARFOX 64 3D REMAKE AND METAL GEAR SOLID 3 3D REMAKE

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9033963

...AND OCARINA OF TIME!?

guys. GUYS. Nintendo WON.

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAAAAAAAAAAAAIT

EVERYONE BACK UP

I JUST FOUND OUT THEY'RE REMAKING GOLDENEYE?

Nintendo:  A+
Sony:  C
Microsoft:  D
Ubisoft:  F
EA Games:  C+

Nintendo: A+++

Not a big fan of Nintendo but, THEY RAPED, I can imagine how Sony and Microsoft is taking this HARD BLOW. XD

I didn't watch Ubisoft's show or anything but I know they're making that Scott Pilgrim game... which is a classic-style sidescroller arcade brawler and looks absolutely awesome.

But then there is Breathing:  THE GAME

I'm just now looking up all of this.

I'm happy for a new DKC, but it's not what I expected. Still looks real nice though.

Kid Icarus Uprising looks... amazing.

Skyward Sword looks like they took Twilight Princess with a little bit of Windwaker taste to it. I like it.

Kirby's Epic Yarn. Looks good. Reminds me of Yoshi Story.

I'd like to know more about this Paper Mario, Mario Kart, MGS3, and 3DS business though.

I can't tell what I think about Metroid: Other M. I'm excited for it, but... something just doesn't feel right. Especially when taking into account all the voice-acting and cutscenes in the older trailers, I'm very apprehensive about this. I loved the Prime games and I'm firmly in the camp that those are the best a 3D Metroid could have been. We'll see, though. I really want this game to be great.

Other M looks as close to a 3D Metroid game as you can make and still have it actually be a Metroid game.  If you though the FPS bull##### Prime games were really "the best a 3D Metroid could have been" then I don't know how to finish this sentence without calling your mother a whore.  After this E3 I'm firmly optimistic on Other M.

Metroid Prime 1-3 are great games.

However they are not great Metroid games.

omggggg The new Legend of Zelda game, Skyward Sword is INSANE looking. I want a wii again, just for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dYgrMz_XBI

Any clue when Capcom is doing any sort of presentations this year? I'm curious to see what their big Megaman related suprise is supposed to be.

Metroid Prime 1-3 are great games.

However they are not great Metroid games.

That's a fair statement.  I only bash them when they're touted as being some definitive textbook case on how perfect a 3D Metroid they are, when they are as far from that as one can get.

They had everything that I personally enjoyed and loved about Metroid, and that's what mattered.

I think a lot of it had to do with the first one coming out at a time when everyone was growing tired of 3D platformers as a whole.

Any clue when Capcom is doing any sort of presentations this year? I'm curious to see what their big Megaman related suprise is supposed to be.

All I know is that representives from Mega Man Network and Protodude's Blogspot were invited by Capcom to attend E3.  So whatever they have planned must be good.  Most likely it will be Mega Man Universe.

But Legends 3 wouldn't be bad either.

Other M looks as close to a 3D Metroid game as you can make and still have it actually be a Metroid game.  If you though the FPS bull##### Prime games were really "the best a 3D Metroid could have been" then I don't know how to finish this sentence without calling your mother a whore.  After this E3 I'm firmly optimistic on Other M.

Ahh, Rez. Please never change. :D

The truth shall never change.

You fine folk are missing out on the glorious Konami Conference, if you didn't know. Truly a masterpiece of amusement!

what is e2??

You fine folk are missing out on the glorious Konami Conference, if you didn't know. Truly a masterpiece of amusement!

Nothing but CASUAL CASUAL GLEE GLEE SILENT HILL SILENT HILL METAL GEAR METAL GEAR.

But where are the games?

They said there would be games!

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Don't get me wrong.  I like Metal Gear and Silent Hill, but at least give us a surprise or something.  Too much casual and not enough games.

They had games between the Luchadors wrestling onstage / Glee Kareoke Group Demo and the guy losing his head onstage, and now it's sit down time to have them overly explain a Hack N Slash's mechanics and the story that nobody will really care about attached to it.

The only thing that's non-Nintendo that looked remotely interesting so far is Raiden cutting people/things.

The cutting was pretty cool, yes, but on the people it was a bit TOO realistic and gory for me, I actually winced a bit.  That's the problem you run into when you get graphics that start to approach this level of "realism".

Apperantlly MM2 is going to be remade were the game is going to have a "pop-out" like thing, am not exactlly sure but there's an article about it on kotaku.com

Megaman 2.5D. old news.

It's part of a classic games tech demo at E3.

Among the games are Punch Out, Mario Bros, Castlevania etc.

My laptop took a turn or the worse plus I've been busy so I'm not online much/enough to check this stuff out so I haven't actually watched anything but I hate the name "Skyward Sword" right now.