Alright, gents. E3 is finally here. And as we’ve discussed most recently, the hype machine is going to be in full effect. As much as it can be a bit grating, it’s still a fine week to be a gamer, and one of my favorite of the year.
I wanted to get a pre-E3 post up, just to let you know some of the things going on during the week. Even though we’re not at E3 (sigh), we’re still probably going to do a fair bit of updating around these parts. During the Sony press conference you can expect a liveblog of the events, so come here if you want to comment and enjoy some fun minute-by-minute updating of the opening press event. We’ll also be posting some recaps of the Nintendo/Microsoft press conferences once they’ve happened. In addition, there will probably be a daily recap post to discuss the cool news that didn’t make individual posts.
Personally, I’m most interested to see Project Cafe from Nintendo’s press event on June 7th. Rumors are swirling like crazy still, but it seems fairly certain from reports that it’s going to sport a touch screen controller. Other rumors speculate that the system itself will be portable, and could feature a screen as well… which is interesting, to say the least. Other cool confirmed stuff includes the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which is going to include Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and Peace Walker. Konami is also going to release Zone of Enders 1 and 2 in HD – and all of these are going to see both PSN and XBLA releases. Pretty cool, huh?
The tricky thing about E3 is that there’s going to be way too much stuff to post about. And as we’re not really a gaming news site and more of a gaming conversation site, I think it’d be cool for you guys to let us know what games you’re most excited to talk about. As updates/trailers, news and such come flying in, we can be sure to post about those games so all of us can come back here and wag our tails about them a bit. Yes, in this analogy we have somehow become dogs.
So yeah, tell us what you’d most like to discuss once the news goes up, and we’ll do our best to placate you gents and gals.
While I am certainly intrigued by Project Cafe, I think the things I’m most curious about are the no-shows of E3’s passed. Namely Legend of the Guardian (which I think I heard there will be no news for) and the ever-enigmatic FFXIII: Versus. I was one of those that truly enjoyed FFXIII, and am excited for this game that I’m starting to wonder if it will ever come out. I’ve always given Square the benefit of the doubt when it comes to delaying games, but I’ve heard nothing in the past few years…maybe someone can let me know if I’m wrong and Square released something more recently, even a few screenshots or something.
Beyond that, that other things I’m excited for (Skyrim, ME3, and mother-flippin’ Dark Souls!) are things that we’ll actually be able to play within a few months, so I don’t want to see them at E3, I want to see them at my house.
The list:
1. Legend of the Guardian
2. FFXIII: Versus
3. Project Cafe
4. Diablo 3
5. Kevin Butler in some kind of South Park style BP apology video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeP6CpUnfc0)
6. Maybe something about a Prince of Persia/Elika sequel.
7. While remakes are cool…they’re still remakes.
I have to send my PC away so it can get fixed tomorrow and i just remembered E3 is starting. I feel like i need to scream and die, but i won’t because i am civilized. At least it will all be archived on the internet for the future.
I like the posts you guys have done the last couple of years where you give the main points of each of the big 3 presentations. Its a good way of knowing what to look for on other sites. It would be amazing if you could do another 2hr + wrap-up podcast though. That was awesome last year.
I really don’t know WHAT I want to discuss because E3 is just information overload. Curse E3 for the time I waste each year looking everything up!