E3 Continued, New Project in Works!

   I'm going to be writing more about E3 soon, but as it is getting late right now I'm just going to comment on Nintendo while I'm sitting here thinking about it. It's rather sad to see the current state of Nintendo's creative department. This is the company that single handily revived gaming. This is the company who has thought of all of the new ideas brought into gaming from motion control, to the use of tablets. But their problem is they just don't seem to think far enough a head. I don't know if its the Japanese business mentality, or if their still stuck in some ideas from the past, but Nintendo just always seem to take a step forward and leap back four.
   For my first example lets look at their new system, the Wii U. They basically made a controller on the sides of a tablet. This is further proven by the fact that most of the demo games they have showed us is played on the Wii U"Tablet" controller. The game play that is displayed on this controller is then displayed on the TV for others to see. There has been a few obscure uses for it such as one player seeing a private screen while the others all look at their controllers and TV, but still, its just a tablet. Alright Nintendo made a step forward, then Sony and Microsoft promptly knocked them back four steps. Sony made it so you can use your Vita and your PS3 and just play the same games back and forth. Basically a tablet that plays PS3 games, not ones specifically made for it. Then Microsoft said hey, everyone already has phones and tablets, lets just make a App so they can use all their old things they already own.
   If that's not bad enough, Nintendo at first glace appears to be ignoring most of the internet once again. Their sticking to their idea of getting the whole family to sit around and play 4 player games. Good on paper, but I have never met a family who all sat around and played video games. When it comes to getting 3 of my buddies to come over and play games, I haven't been able to convince them of that in years. The internet ruined couch play and as much as I miss sitting around getting drunk with my friends playing games, I just don't see us going back in that direction, we're going forward into the full digital age.
   I have a lot more to say about E3 but its getting late and I'm getting tired. More to come.
   Side note, it almost seemed like Reggie was going to flip out on the G4 interviewer when asked why anyone would play these 2 year old games, aren't they the same content?
-InfectedCrow

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E3 Day One Complete!

 Here's my personal take on E3 so far.

Poor Poor Nintendo...

   I was kind of hoping that Nintendo could get a break this year. This obviously isn't going to be that year. Nintendo had a pretty cool idea, it was basically the old school Dream Cast idea on a whole new level, but it was something new to bring to the market. They basically took a tablet, stuck it into their controller and left in their motion controls. Awesome I thought, more control over your video game, less controller. Microsoft saw this idea and said to themselves, oh you put a tablet into your controller? We'll just put the program into tablets. Yep that's right, just like when the announcement of the Kinect blew away any hope of making the Wii technology worth something, the new Microsoft Smart Glass technology takes the Wii U idea and puts it into ANYTHING with a touch screen. This is obviously day one and we haven't seen what Nintendo is offering, I just hope its enough to take the scene back from Microsoft. I'll have a larger post on what this thing can do either in a few days on this Blog, or on the Eligible Monster blog soon. For now, I think I made a mess in my pants at the possibilities.

Halo 4, More Elites because there's cake.

   So I'm happy we have more Master Chief, I'm happy we're getting Cortana again, and hell there is the elites again... Okay this is starting to just look familiar. Sadly in my opinion it appears Halo is about to fall into the COD trend. Just another rehash of the same game to sell the name. Sure we saw a new alien and we saw some new tech with the new guns. Overall though, it looks like its the same ol Master Chief and Halo. Here's to hoping we at least have some new game play mechanics or they at least bring a lot of the Reach features into the game. Regardless I'll play it and the live action stuff they put into the beginning was just amazing!

Gears of War...Again....

   Don't get me wrong, I am in love with Gears of War. I don't know if its the sappy bromance story or the over the top chainsaw guns, but I love it. I tip a beer in hopes that this wont be more rehash of the exact same just to sell the game again.

Tomb Raider can raid my tomb...

   I'll regret that statement later with my wife, I already know it. I have to say though, I'm throughly impressed with the new Tomb Raider. I was expecting the same old rehash with a prettier face, but they have defeintly completely reinvented the game...and seem to have ripped off Uncharted. Not that this is a bad thing, but from the trailer we saw today they defiently took a lot of ideas from that blockbuster series over on the PS3. Now the question is can they properly make a game to compete with Uncharted and have it be on all the systems, because I'm seriously not a fan of my PS3...

Assassin's Creed...I made a mess in my pants again

   I won't lie, I was getting a bit burned out on  the Assassin's Creed series. I absolutely, positively, without a doubt love the series. Its always in diffirent and unique areas that no other game even tries. Walking around killing random people and stalking your prey is awesome. But after giving us a yearly release for about five years now, it was growing very stale and tiresome. But when I saw this trailer, I flipped, within the short 5 minute trailer they showed us all the gameplay we know and love, but with a whole new take on it. No more Italy, we're in New England. No more hidden dagger, we have a tomahawk. No more full florished cities, we have wooded areas, with soldiers looking for you to killing you with a single bullet. They could have showed us just the good stuff, or we could possibly have the next big thing. I cant wait, let me go clean my pants now.

More of my personal opinions on E3 tomorrow!

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