June 3, 2009
It is the E’d Three. Yep. And I watched it.
Much like last year, Talking Time got a chat room and watched all the press conferences for this year’s E3 together. It was hilarious and awesome times, even if I accidentally slept through the first part of the Nintendo conference. But man, overall, the showings of the Big Three were much better than last year. Of course, a lot of what excited me wasn’t even in the press conferences. What excites me? Well…
Starting with Microsoft, they announced Shadow Complex with Epic. It’s a game that looks like pure Metroidvania, and it’s coming out on XBLA this summer. I can’t wait for that.
They also showed off enough Beatles: Rock Band to have me learn that the game has THREE PART HARMONY on the vocals! I am in love.
Of course, the biggest news from their conference was the news I heard right before that didn’t have anything to do with Microsoft: Telltale announcing Tales of Monkey Island. Holy shit. Holy. Shit. I’ve already preordered.
On the Nintendo front, they, outside of the conference, confirmed Layton 2 for early August, and that 3D Picross and Made in Ore (coming over as Wario Ware: DIY) were coming over to America, which pleased me.
I’m interested in 4 Player Co-op Mario Brothers, too, although questionably. Could be great. Could be not so great.
I didn’t much care about the completely fucked-up new Metroid game by Team Ninja? But Parish just tweeted this, so… maybe it’ll be great.
I was also excited about Galaxy 2 on Jonathan’s behalf, since he’s played through that game, what, three times now?
Also, before the conference, once again something unrelated made me happy: Atlus is bringing over Shiren on the Wii. I’m thrilled.
Sony had a new PSP Metal Gear, which is nice I guess, and nothing that will sell me a PS3. Certainly no price drop. So that’s… nice…? I think that’s nice.
The Last Guardian, of course, looks fucking beautiful, though. Who knows when it will be released, however.
But yeah, the real joy of E3 was making fun of all of the silly bits of the press conferences with all my good internet gamer friends. THE TIMES WERE FUN! They were fun.
E3. Man, I am going to spend so much money on games this year. But we knew that already, didn’t we?