Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all brought their "A" games. The IGN editors debate who came out on top in one of the best E3s to date.
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.
Nintendo - 8/10 - Generally consistent, some excellent titles, lack of new IPs
Sony - 7/10 - erratic conference, big surprises, too many compilation videos, ton of content
Microsoft - 5/10 - too casual-orientated, way too flashy, not enough original titles, scripting was evident, a few great moments
Nintendo won in my eyes. They did something that I had forgotten they were capable of doing, and that was show off good games. I was really expecting a ton of shovelware to be shown, but instead we got a look into a bunch of quality Nintendo Titles. Hell, there was barely any shovelware shown from Nintendo this year, which is simply amazing.
Sony comes in second, they had a very good E3, but it wasn't much of a shocker aside from Gabe and Twisted Metal. I understand that they needed to put Move information out there, and that's why all of the other games had been leaked out so early, but overall their E3 was entertaining to watch. I was also very surprised by the timed exclusivity from Sony, I really hope they will still push out quality first-party exclusives instead of trying to secure third-party exclusivity.
Microsoft had the weakest of the conferences. They showed off 3 games that everyone has known about for a while, and even then it seemed like they just threw Halo/Gears/Fable to the side to make room for Kinect. Hell, they didn't even have the time to show Crackdown 2 at all. No idea what I think about kingdoms, could be interesting but ATM there is no information on it. I understand that Microsoft is trying to push Kinect, and hell I'd say they did a pretty good job in advertising it so far. The downside is that the Kinect push is detrimental to the "core" 360 audience, as I'm sure everyone except die-hard microsoft fanboys felt underwhelmed by the conference. I hope they are able to balance Kinect and hardcore games, because a Kinect-dominated xbox seems gloomy.
i liked sony's conference.
Can't be bothered to watch the video. Somebody who watched, would you please summarize and say who they said "won"? Please?
I dont know who won, but I can tell you who lost ;)