Well, E3 is here once again, and I can't seem to find a thread discussing it, so I'm making one here. Who's hyped for E3? Technically it started today as Day 0, but I'm waiting for the real presentation tomorrow.

Meh, so far I'm unimpressed.

Nothing that has happened today has really excited me, outside of a few things that I already knew all about entering today.

Meh.

pacman1755 : I really feel that I am going to miss out on  a lot by not going again this year, but I'm still excited about some of the things that could be announced. I'm not actually going to watch any of it, just read up on the big anouncements the next day.

I'm legit staying home tomorrow to watch nintendos E3 digital thing. Hope they  show full roster and give release dates for smash bros. Also, hope Zelda U looks awesome

The only thing I liked seeing was the halo presentation in Microsoft's conference thus far.

I'm looking forward to Nintendo's broadcast tomorrow. I definitely want to hear some news on the new Zelda game and get more information for the new Super Smash Bros games. Also, I hope that they will talk about the release date of Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney for the US, say if The Great Ace Attorney will be localized, and also announce SNES games for 3DS Virtual Console.

SUPER ULTRA DEAD RISING 3 ARCADE REMIX HYPER EDITION E.X PLUS ALPHA?!

The only enjoyable part of Microsoft's conference. Everything else was completely unimpressive in my opinion.

STAR FOX U IS CONFIRMED

Well, I enjoyed quite a bit of what I've seen so far. The Dragon Age: Inquisition stuff has been awesome. I can't wait to play that in October and get back to Thedas and see Leliana again. Loved the Rise of the Tomb Raider trailer. Sunset Overdrive looks pretty entertaining. Sort of like a cross between Borderlands and Amped. But what I loved the most, (even though it wasn't much) was the Mass Effect preview. I know it was just 'conceptual prototype' clips, but I have never been so excited for a game. 

I don't know for me I thought that it was a good e3 for all 3 major players. Instead of focusing so much on hardware and other gimmicky things they all focused on what really matters to most gamers. THE GAMES.

I thought Nintendo did a good job of getting people excited for the Wii U again. An open World Zelda game has me drooling as does a few other titles. I wanted a Wii U but was waiting for some solid titles to come out...then started to think that maybe I would never buy one...but the games they announced today has me wanting to buy one again.

I thought Sony had a decent enough conference...although it was WAY too long. Nothing too surprising but nothing disappointing either.

Microsoft probably was the biggest "meh" for me. I mean they started off well then went back to talking about COD and Halo again...and for me I'm just burnt out on those FPS games.

Watched all five of 'em. First off... this is how I'd order the presentations in order from best to worst: Ubisoft > Sony > Nintendo > Electronic Arts > Microsoft. With that out of the way? Seriously, this year was soooo much better than the 2013 E3. So many nice things - and good quality stuff, too.

Microsoft Conference:
I think this conference was an utter disaster. They had a couple good games, yes, but they had absolutely no gameplay available whatsoever - the entire viewing was basically somebody droning on stage and then shows of CGI trailers. No hype, nothing really interesting to cause hype or hook anybody in.

Electronic Arts:
Certainly did a landslide better than Microsoft, that's for certain. Then again, with Microsoft having done so awful, I think my baby brother could make a better presentation about worms. Or anything. EA had quite a number of selections that were interesting in and of themselves, with selective gameplay viewing shown. However, we (once again) had droning artists on the stage who showed very little interest in the entire presentation themselves, which was quite a buzzkill.

UbiSoft:
Hit the ground running with an absolutely wonderful opening using Far Cry 4 to hook viewers in. Never mind the fact that so many people were already hyped for Far Cry 4 - they did an amazing job getting interest using the opening trailer (the "hook" of the story). The speakers (Tyler included) made quite the show with some good jokes (and bad ones) and an interactive presentation.

The claim of "starting big and getting bigger" seemed a bit dubious to me, especially considering that they immediately followed that with Just Dance Now, which doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. However, something that grabbed my attention about JDN was not the fact that it was a dance game - but rather, the use of the smartphones as controllers and the fact that so many people could join in (and did). That is a groundbreaking use of technology and I'm glad to see that UbiSoft made the step in that direction. I think it will be amazing to see what they come up with next.

From there, although they didn't necessarily get "bigger," they certainly did captivate and attract attention, with an amazingly organized, well thought out, and well planned presentation. Way to go, UbiSoft.

Sony:
I went into this one slightly biased on two terms, something that I squashed rather quickly: one, I'm an XBL fan, not Playstation; two, I was still stuck on UbiSoft's presentation.

While I still walked away after this thinking that UbiSoft still sat on top, I'd say that Sony definitely kept the ball rolling with an astonishing amount of content and games shown (and not all bad either). The move of re-mastering Fandango was a great one and I'm glad to see that they listened to their customers and used those letters in their presentation.

And although Sony showed quite a large amount of gameplay and varied content, I still say that their presentation was too long and at the same time, too hurried; they didn't spend enough time showing gameplay and mainly flashed titles. Too many titles. I would have been fine seeing an even longer presentation if they simply showed more gameplay with the titles they announced.

All-in-all, Sony did a fantastic job, even if not quite enough to be UbiSoft's presentation this year (which placed them second in my book).

Nintendo:
Came in with quite an interesting pre-show and the digitally done presentation. While I'm not a fan of that, as it seemed too disconnected, I can understand the necessity; after all, the floor opened today. Nintendo showed off quite a few promising titles (and some not-so-entertaining ones) and they had a nice quantity of gameplay and trailers to accompany their titles.

My main argument against Nintendo's this year? Treehouse was an absolute Trainwreck. I have not seen a worse post-show... ever. They may have topped Sony, if not for that.


Either way, some great content and... interesting presentations over the past two days. I look forward to seeing more footage from the E3 Floor.

I find it to be really exciting that GTA V will be coming to Next gen consoles and PC sometime in the fall. As soon as it comes out for the ps4 AND pc, i WILL BE GETTING IT.

I did not really care about E3 all that much this year, especially since the games that I usually play are never shown, but I was rather miffed at Square Enix's decision to release Final Fantasy Type 0 for the PS4 and the XBONE instead of the PSP or the Vita. I did not even really know much about the game until recently, nor did I care prior to today, but that was still a really frustrating decision on their part. The game was originally intended for the handheld market, and if they were going to release it, they should have at least released it on the Vita, due to the decline of the PSP. The game actually looked kind of cool, and it would have been awesome to have it on a handheld, but they went and destroyed many people's hopes of a portable version of the game coming west. They could have at least announced it for those home consoles and the handheld console (Vita), and it would have been fine, but they really blew it. Of course, it is still going to do really well, but it was irritating nonetheless.

The only thing that I really loved from E# ( granted, I only watched the XBOX E3, but still... ) was the announcement of the Master Chief Collection, and a new trailer for Halo 5.