Slurmee wrote:What's everyone elses bests and worsts of e3?
I'll use Slurmee's categories first and then add a couple of my own to the end:
Best Game Shown With gameplay.
Spider-Man - Visually stunning, with nice fluid Arkham combat flow amped up a notch to include Spidey's much more interesting suite of abilities and agility. Close second would be
Days Gone, which looks great, but I wanted to see even more.
Biggest Shock
Beyond Good & Evil 2 - Was very surprised to see this make an appearance. It was more than just a teaser: they showed enough of the world/culture to make it look very intriguing, and there was also some early gameplay. The only sad thing about this coming out of left field (again) is that it probably won't actually come out for a while.
Biggest Reveal Revealed at E3
Wolfenstein: The New Colossus & Anthem - There were a lot of options I could have gone with here, but some of them are mentioned in other categories, so I'll stick with these two.
Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is a testament to the success of
The New Order and
The Old Blood. They look great and play great, so it's nice to see the
Wolfenstein revival paying off. Anthem is just a huge, ambitious, important game for EA. While it's definitely not going to be
Destiny (3rd-person, worse gunplay, no info about PvP), it's definitely their answer to that kind of weird cooperative online genre, and it'll either make a ton of money and establish a huge player base for this kind of game under their IP... or it won't.
Best Conference
Ubisoft - As explained in my previous post.
Biggest Surprise
Monster Hunter World - Having this fantastic series come back to a good, powerful home console where it belongs, with well-supported online and party options, is a real treat. I had no idea this was coming, although I've been clamouring for it for years.
Missing at show
Nintendo Switch - Updates to missing Switch functionality were nowhere to be seen. No news about Virtual Console. No news about system updates. No news about voice chat. Their online service was pushed back to 2018. There wasn't even a firmware/UI update at the show. I was non-naively (I thought) expecting a system update during E3. They are way behind the ball on this stuff.
Biggest let Down
Nintendo's conference - Nintendo had potential to really electrify people with their show this year, with a brand new console on the market, but unfortunately they made a number of missteps. Their best game was revealed at Ubisoft's conference. Their 3DS suite was revealed after the show on the floor. They spent 30% of their presentation on DLC for an old game. The biggest news coming out of their conference was anti-climactic: an off-hand post-script comment about a core
Pokémon RPG and a 15-second title splash for
Metroid Prime 4. If they had taken an hour in a theatre/conference hall and actually made their biggest announcements about their biggest news, it would have been a show-stopper.
Now a couple of additional categories:
BEST INDIE
A Way Out - By the developer of one of the best video games of all time,
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. It looks like it may or may not have a similar gameplay mechanic, with the player controlling two prisoners. But even if it doesn't, I give these developers a lot of credit for being able to do very interesting and creative things, so I'm excited to see where they go with this one.
Personal Fave
Destiny 2 - I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Destiny, and this one looks like everything a sequel should be: it maintains the familiar elements, and incrementally improves everything else. The graphics look beautiful. It's not hamstrung by supporting PS360. It's getting a from-scratch PC version. It's shaping up to be the best E3 game released in 2017.
