HypnoMangaEditor said:
Pokemon was the same as Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and X/Y. Zelda is now open world and looked very ... empty. I was so bored by the gameplay that I had to do something else to not fall asleep. Last years they at least had Xenoblade to show off, which was infinitely more interesting than Zelda this year, but that's just my opinion.
I have to disagree. Before going into this, I would've been thrilled to see ORAS or X/Y stuff because of how big a disappointment they were if the generation ended there. But what I saw managed to renew my hype for the new games because it was actually FANTASTIC -- showing many improvements that will make life both easier and a bit more interesting.
I'll give you this -- Zelda U still did look bland, and it won't be my style. But just because they don't have a sequel to a criminally underrated game like Xenoblade doesn't mean they didn't have anything interesting.
HypnoMangaEditor said:
In the end, I think Sony had the best conference. Orchestra, that God of War reboot looked really good, Horizon as well, then a new David Cage game and Kojima in the end. I would have loved some FF7 gameplay, but square was doing their own thing and only contributed to the other conferences with FF15 (and not really well in my opinion).
I have to disagree with this too, but mostly for personal reasons. I just really hate the Playstation, for many different reasons, and none of the games that Sony showed fall into the very slim category of "I almost wish I had a Playstation so I could try this out". All I saw from Sony was a continuation of the dick-measuring contest, and from my viewing angle it was a really tiny dick at that.
HypnoMangaEditor said:
Because they can't anymore. Their console is clearly out of the game so they had to move back from that. I agree with it being the smart thing, though I disagree with you saying that "that's ready to be shown" - because you make it look like the other stuff that is shown isn't ready. Most of the things are coming out this fall, some was obviously tease for the future, but it is still nice to known what is being worked on.
Aand once more I have to disagree. If Nintendo's consoles are out of the game, it's only because Nintendo is deliberately keeping them out of the juvenile dick-measuring contest. Nintendo has always shot for quality that doesn't sacrifice cost and accessibility, which is why they haven't even bothered to try and include all of the latest doodads like the newest and best graphics or whatever. Instead, they make games that manage to look like they have the newest and best graphics to anybody who doesn't have their head so far up their ass that they can't see how good the graphics really is. And they make innovations that, invariably, Sony and Microsoft try to introduce into their own dick-measuring contest, and their lack of true innovation and the lack of quality of their knockoffs shows just how small their dicks are compared to the company mature enough to stay out of the competition.
Maybe I misspoke on this one. When I said "that's ready to be shown", I didn't mean that the other stuff isn't ready. What I mean is that the other companies, in accordance with the eternal dick-measuring contest, may be rushing their deadlines, pushing their companies to make sure that everything they're releasing over the next year is ready to be shown before E3, instead of just showing it whenever it's damn well ready like Nintendo does. Which leads to what we saw at least once or twice during the conferences: a conceptual trailer followed by "more on this at another con later!" -- which is, to me, a clear sign that they tried and failed to make any significant amount of progress by E3 but had already committed to showing it off, so had to try and cover up their shortcomings.