Comments on: The Best Games Shown at E3 2012

By: will

will — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:35:26 +0000

watch dogs, last of us and halo 4 look well on their way to being great..

watch dogs looks like it has a lot of potential.. im definately keeping my eye on that one…

By: wevs

wevs — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:03:25 +0000

@Mr.Right: Do you even play video games?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:23:10 +0000

Beyond looks promising. I found Heavy Rain hugely, insultingly dissapointing, and for a group that obsessively trots out tech demos to show how they can “finally portray real emotion in a video game” to put out a marginally interactive film with a bad plot and abysmal, hollow acting just infuriates… but, if they’re going to continue to stray away from Indigo Prophecy down the Heavy Rain path, getting a solid actors that can actually show of the ability of the engine by being able to, wow, ACT(!) is the way to go.

Now, if they can at least pull off a 1:1 ratio of “bullshit plothole shoehorned in to get one more inconsequential QTE in there” to “actual game/story,” they’ll be 2/3rds of the way to achieving what they set out to do in Heavy Rain.

By: Scully

Scully — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:06:23 +0000

Really not even a wimper of Borderlands 2?

By: Mr. Right

Mr. Right — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:31:09 +0000

Watch Dogs looks good.
Last of Us looks just as generic as Uncharted.
Halo is still a good series on a shit console.
Nobody wants a Star Wars game with no Jedi/Sith unless it’s Battlefront 3.
AC3 looks good.
Beyond will be just as overrated as Heavy Rain but admittedly looks more unique at least.
Dishonored is published by Bethesda, not made by them. Looks alright.

Nintendo’s conference destroyed all of the others as usual, but no pricing or release date details for the Wii U was pretty damn stupid. No Zelda or SSB4 is understandable, but they won’t have a bigger chance to announce a release date and price than E3.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:48:32 +0000

Spiderman looks cool too.

By: Mr B

Mr B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:34:40 +0000

Thought the naval stuff on AC3 looked pretty meh, gameplay-wise anyways. Did not seem that the enemy ships did much in the way of actually shooting back.

On a wider note, from what Ive seen so far of AC3, the developers seem to be going the Americans = freedom loving patriotic heroes, British = tyrannical, repressive evil empire, route.

By: Frothy_Ham

Frothy_Ham — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:10:04 +0000

Overall, I was kinda dissapointed with this year’s E3.

Way too many Third-Person Shooters with obviously scripted interactions, quick-time events, and shaky cam bull-crap explosions that distracts us from the fact that we’ve played this before over and over.

Basically, videogames are becoming so expensive to make, such a high-risk venture, and the consumers are so predictable in what they will buy, that everything is converging into a barely distinguishable, third-person, detail overloaded, gritty/grimy, rough caucasian protaganist with a deep voice (sans Lara Croft), cover shooter. Frankly, it all kind of blends together. There really wasn’t anything truly unique in it’s vision IMO…a bunch of tired, borrowed concepts and tropes tossed in a bag, shaken up, and scattered about.

I agree, not all of the games fit this mold, but the majority that did were just sequels…

Watch_Dogs was most definitely the most exciting demo to me, but I’ll have to see more before I believe that most of that was either massively scripted, or it’ll be a game where you are only given the illusion of choice and basically you’d have to do exactly how the character did in the video order to achieve the correct results…or you just get a “Mission Failed” message on the screen and have to start over to try and organize the exactly right situation in order to pass.

I think I’m just becoming an old man…

By: Sara Clemens

Sara Clemens — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:38:47 +0000

Hoodvents: lol, for reals.

By: Bigdog

Bigdog — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:28:27 +0000

I can understand no Pikmin. I love it to death, am excited about it, but it’s not something that will get a “core” games going. And Paul’s just not a Nintendo kind of guy anymore. Other than Pokemon. He might lose his sh*t when a console version comes it. (Yes, I said “when”. With NFC capabilities, it’s a LOCK on Wii U)

But no Zombiu? That’s should be here. It’s the survival-horror game that we’ve been waiting, and all the hands on confirmed it. In spite of being a zombie game, I’m surprised at the originality.