E3 2012

Day 3 and final wrapup:

1) Sony booth...GoW MP was decent. SP still a lot of fun. Otherwise the booth lacked excitement as Vita was the big push and despite that I like the hardware they showed no exciting new Vita content. I want Gran Turismo Vita already.

2) Finally played Aliens Colonial Marines MP on the show floor. It's really fun...at least it was at E3 in a LAN setting.

3) Snuck into BL2 again. Better still. My game of the show. And yeah there are GBX guys here but this game had crazy good energy around it. People were just standing around the 2K booth watching the trailer and listing to the music, tapping their feet and bobbing their heads (well, a few people were doing it). Anyway the whole vibe of this game is just electric and fun.

4) Halo 4 MP. If you like Halo, you'll probably like this game. They are evolving the MP a lot to have more persistence and leveling and whatnot. I'm no MP junkie so I didn't pay much attention but core Halo MP fans will probably love it. Personally I liked the first Halo and Reach, kinda hated every Halo game in between. the SP stuff they showed seemed okay but it was so short it wasn't really enough to get me excited about it.

5) Defiance (Trion Worlds' FPS MMO on PC/PS3/360) Better than I expected but my expectations were shit

6) Medal of Honor Warfighter: only watched didn't get to play. Eh...looks better than last MoH which had issues but was good.

7) Nintendo booth...had shitty energy like Sony. On WiiU we played Nintendo Land. booooorrrriiiinnnngggg. New Super Mario U or whatever it was called was interesting cause the person with the tablet controller could place helper blocks to the other people playing the levels. Interesting innovation but still it was enough to get me super excited about the WiiU. At least all the old controllers and Wii Fit balance boards and crap like that is compatible with WiiU.

Dust 514. Um...just as a online shooter game I guess it is okay. The real fun will be in the connection to EVE (I guess) and how you upgrade equipment etc. Thought it will be a F2P game so we'll see. Gameplay alone there wasn't anything amazing I found.

Blah blah my best/worst list of the show (of the stuff I played or saw presentations/demos of):

Best:

1) Borderlands 2

2) The Last of Us

3) Beyond: Two Souls

4) Tomb Raider

Worst:

1) Star Wars 1313

2) Spec Ops: The Line (I checked it out again. Sorry, it's just ... meh)

3) The entire Sony booth (I still love you, Sony)

4) The lack of volume controls at Ubisoft booth, again. AC3 may rock, Watch Dog may be sick, but the volume was punishingly loud. Same to you Electronic Arts. Hand out some ear plugs next time cause your booth layout made the sound bounce around in there and cause eardrum

Strangest but noteworthy:

1) Metal Gear Rising Revengence. it was just a friggin training level, but slicing people is friggin awesome and that was really all that it was.

E3 in one picture.