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« on: May 15, 2003, 11:58:46 PM »
From all the years I've gone to the E3, this one has probably been the most blah. Alot of the games I've been looking forward to, either ended up being just ok, or utter crap. Nothing really groundbreaking of mindblowing this year.
Mario kart: Its mario kart. Aside from that, I wasnt all to excited by the whole charachter riding in back thing. I give them credit for trying something different, but for such a high profile franchise, I was hoping for a little bit more. Still a nice game though. Going to play it tomorrow to see if someone can control the guy in the back indipendently.
Mario & Luigi: eh, I'm spending my money on final fantasy tactics. Mario and luigi have crazy eyes that make them look like they just visited their eye doctor and got those drops that keep their eyes from dialating. Either that or they are on crack, or are hypnotized. Just a 10% reduction would make a world of difference. Not particularly fun.
Star Fox fighting game: I forget the title... but this game surprised me. Pretty fun.
XIII: Dissapointing. I'm actually a proponent of cel shading, but the way the game handles it turned me off. At times I felt like I was playing one of those crappy earthink animated commercials. total loss of depth perception. And the comic book like screams and yells was pretty lame.
MgsTwin Snakes: eh. If you liked mgs for ps1, then you'll like this one. If you hated it on the ps1... well depending on how much of a fanboy you are.... you'll still hate it. The graphics and other stuff isnt enough of an improvment to move from hate to like.
Rogue leader: basically what I expected. nice game... but nothing mind blowing. The ground combat isnt the most well designed thing in the world... thank god they still have the flying parts. For one thing, whenever you enter a room.... for whatever reason the camera is pointed at you so all you can see is yourself and a wall. You have to run about five steps into a room/hallway until the camera finally swings around and lets you see where you are going. Frankly, I didnt find the land parts to be very fun. The game crashed a bunch of times... but so did the first game at e3 2001 and cube club. Not a problem... just annoying. The thing I"m most looking forward to is playing th co-op mode. Dog fighting is basically the starfox dogfighing mode all over again. lots of turning. I really wish they could have put the n64 levels in as well, so I could finally finish that damn escape from fest level with a gold medal!
Soul calibur: oh man, cube owners will definitly get the best version of the game. Link is a really great addition. I was expecting them to just give link sophitias moves with a few cusom ones and be done with it. But Link is probably one of the better charachters in the game. Plenty of penache. Makes the smash brothers Link look like a worthless peice of excrement. The rest of the charachters look good too. But its not that much of a leap from the dcast game.
1080: bleh X 10
Pikmin: As much as I like to play this game... I found myself getting sleepy playing it. I played it with a friend of mine, and it just ended up being two people playing the one player game with one communal pool of pikmin. I'm sure later their will be a team aspect. I tried to stick with my freind, but you only ended up needing one charachter for the puzzles, so I had nothing to do. So it just became a game about stealing pikmin for whatever seperate project we were working on the map.
MGS3: What total crap. If you havent seen the movie yet, check it out. You will see what it looks like when a game designer totally looses perspective. The gameplay parts look ok, but it looks like its going to be another bizarre story. Their was incest in the first game... so who knows what turd nuggets kojima -san will drop on us this time.
Gran Turismo 4: I have a hard time distinguishing this game from its predesessors. Online play will be nice... but I dont have the modem. Other than that it looks the same.
Halo 2: Looked great. One of the few highlights of the show.
Conkers crappy game: Holy crap. This game looks horrible. looks like the n64 game in svideo mode. I dare anyone to say that rare leaving was a bad thing.
Kameo: I almost didnt see it. I thought it was wallpaper and just walked by.
Castlevania: Generic as you can get. Who cares? You could re-lable this game vampire ho-down, and I wouldn't notice. The items are the only thing that seems to connect this game to the previous ones. And on top of that, its just not that fun.
Spawn: An ok game. Probably the best spawn game ever... but that aint sayin much. Still fun.
Final fantasy tactics: My favorite game of all time ported to the gba? Some one at nintendo has been reading my mind. Good enough for me to overlook the mediocre graphics.
That thing where you can watch cartoons on the gba: First of all, I guess Nintendo didnt hear you guys, when you were harping about how you wanted your GAME system for GAMES. Almost looks like a real cartoon.... if you happed to have brain damage and can only process about 10 frames a second. Its good if you want to keep your mentally disabled cousin busy for awhile.
FF Chrystal chronicals: Ok. Not really fun. I tried it twice, and neither time was it fun. The gba connections seems pretty useless. yay, I have a map in my hand... oh buy wait, that means I cant use the greatest controller ever created, called the wavebird. Maybe they'll think of something usefull in some other part of the game. Their may have been something to do with the gba later, but I just stopped looking at it after awhile when I went to run around trying to find fun.
Gba controlling a car on a track: They had this thing where you can control a little car on a track with the gba. If this is what they're comming up with for the gba connectivity... really, whats next? Gba controlled toaster? They just need to admit that they lied when they said that the gba connectivity was going to be significant.
FF X-2: I'm just going to chalk this one up to me not understanding japanese society. Why? WHY?
Kentia Hall: Usually the most fun part of the show... this year it was pretty blah. Still lots of desperate company owners. But they managed to fix most of their funny pamphlets. The highlight being " street besketball".
The rest of the sequels: New levels... new bad guys... maybe some new moves. The end. Nothing spectacular. Just like the booth babes. Just like the rest of the show. Although the roast beef sandwich in the sportsbar was spectacular.
This show was inundated with ww2 war games. I guess thats the hot thing right now. Just about every publisher seemed to have one.
I know that you guys probably hate me for getting to go to e3, and then pissing all over it. But thems the breaks. Atleast for those who hate lots of stuff, they'll get an idea of what it was like. Times to sleep, one more day of e3 to go, gots to wake up early!
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