Gameplayer writes: "The wonderful thing about all of the E3 conferences (or indeed any important showcase speech) is that all of the topics of conversation are pre-planned into bite-sized, half minute blocks. Think about it. The respective games companies have the undivided attention of millions upon millions of consumers for a very set amount of time, once every year. This means that every minute counts, and therefore the whole showcase is meticulously assembled to ensure maximum impact, a set purpose, and to make sure no time is wasted on talking about giant enemy crabs.
Once you realise this fact, you realise that a presentation may also be meticulously disassembled into blocks of time and topic, and then thrown into a delicious looking pie chart."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
MS won again lol nothing to see here.
I love pies and charts... what a perfect combination!
"Well, there you have it folks. A much better look at what went down during the various E3 conferences. Who won? Well, winning really is in the eye of the beholder. Do you prefer a whole host of video teasers? Do you like being shown your games via demo? Does a quick hello from Yoko Ono float your boat? It's all relative stuff, really. Rather than force our opinions on you, we encourage you to draw your own conclusions and make free use of the comments section below."
they make pie charts for this now too o.O
Personally, I think the gamer won. this was an incredible E3, Sony had a lot of humor because of the leaked PSP Go and amazing gameplay that made you hear the audience orgasm at times, Microsoft had a good lineup and was able to show some new footage of upcoming games and lots of new features for the casual gamer, anda nice selection for the hardcore. Nintendo had a really nice lineup with the showing of some unique games and an accelerometer to allow higher precision for games that need it desperately