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E3 2021
4 years ago
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So, E3 has come and gone and...it was decent! Not great, not bad, just decent.
Best Conference - While Nintendo had a strong showing, I really feel Xbox/Bethesda had the best one. So many great games on the horizon, with most coming to Game Pass on Day One, I feel they really knocked it out of the park (though I feel the announcements would've had a bigger reaction if assholes didn't leak them ahead of time).
Worst Conferences - Have three for this one. First is PC Gamer for, while having some interesting games, those "skits" were unfunny. Second is Square Enix for not really having anything too exciting and they spent just a bit too long on the Guardians Of The Galaxy game. Lastly is Capcom for really feeling unneeded.
Best/Most Anticipated Games - Back 4 Blood, The Outer Worlds 2, Metroid Dread (Yes, this actually looks good), The Advance War remake, Rocksmith+, Atomic Heart, Battlefield 2042, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Project Warlock 2, Dying Light 2 Stay Human
Worst Games - Forza Horizon 5 (I know this is a spin-off but, I'm sorry; this is basically the MTV of Racing Games and shouldn't have the Forza name on it. To me, Forza means racing on OFFICIAL tracks and not trying to perform crazy maneuvers and acting like the Dukes Of Hazard) and Breath Of The Wild 2 (I HATED the first game as it lost what made the Zelda series fun for me - which, admittedly, the series started going downhill when Twilight Princess released - and this one looks like more of the same from the first entry).
Best Conference - While Nintendo had a strong showing, I really feel Xbox/Bethesda had the best one. So many great games on the horizon, with most coming to Game Pass on Day One, I feel they really knocked it out of the park (though I feel the announcements would've had a bigger reaction if assholes didn't leak them ahead of time).
Worst Conferences - Have three for this one. First is PC Gamer for, while having some interesting games, those "skits" were unfunny. Second is Square Enix for not really having anything too exciting and they spent just a bit too long on the Guardians Of The Galaxy game. Lastly is Capcom for really feeling unneeded.
Best/Most Anticipated Games - Back 4 Blood, The Outer Worlds 2, Metroid Dread (Yes, this actually looks good), The Advance War remake, Rocksmith+, Atomic Heart, Battlefield 2042, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Project Warlock 2, Dying Light 2 Stay Human
Worst Games - Forza Horizon 5 (I know this is a spin-off but, I'm sorry; this is basically the MTV of Racing Games and shouldn't have the Forza name on it. To me, Forza means racing on OFFICIAL tracks and not trying to perform crazy maneuvers and acting like the Dukes Of Hazard) and Breath Of The Wild 2 (I HATED the first game as it lost what made the Zelda series fun for me - which, admittedly, the series started going downhill when Twilight Princess released - and this one looks like more of the same from the first entry).
There are in general so many games for me that I'm intruiged to play yet. My main focus before most Nintendo Switch releases currently are games on older consoles that I didn't finish or wanted to catch up on. Playing EarthBound on Wii U at home aside from Super Mario 3D World: Bowser's Fury while on break.
The new Metroid, Metroid Dread, does look exciting (and this is coming from someone who only played Metroid and Metroid Prime) and I probably might check it out sometime. Breath Of The Wild 2, on the other paw? I'm glad people are excited for it, I really am. The first game just, to me, never felt like a Zelda game and more like other games on the market (games like Dark Souls and the Elder Scroll series). Still, glad you're excited for it and I hope it does become another great hit for the company.
Hmm, The Legend of Zelda never really has been always about specific formulas but the algamation of the world, characters and the fun ways the typical sword and shield combat, finding items and magical devices got brought in there. I know how some people found the bosses and dungeons lacking but to me it felt more like the experience was questing through the terrain and making the best of the powers you unlocked. I loved the character interactions and many surprises that I discovered when for example a giant Dragon or an interesting building structure appeared. There are lots of such nice designs in that game and I felt like it was TLoZ on a grand scale.