E3 2011 has come and gone and left the gaming world in anticipation of the things announced. New games! New consoles! New…uhm, more games! Now, I’m not a big gamer these days myself; I’m still an Atari/NES-era guy, but since the E3 show (and the press conferences that preceeded it in the days just ahead) is just that damned important, we figured we’d still take a look at it with the help of our always-amazing and flat-out freakin’ awesome posters at the official FAN message board. So here goes:
“You know, I just realized that this is the final E3 before Duke Nukem Forever comes out. That still hasn’t fully hit me yet, though.” – Koda89
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision) is announced for PC, PS3 & 360:
“Man, all this swimming is really setting me up to want this game!!!” – Bergman
“…this is the most boring CoD demo I’ve ever seen” – Koda89
“Sad part about that MW3 demo? As boring as that was it still sells a million copies on day 1” – Bergman
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Tomb Raider (Sqaure Enix) announced for PC, PS3 & 360:
“Reminds me of the Descent” – Shemp Howard
“Damn, they are straight up abusing Lara in this game” – Koda89
“Is this game serious? Good lord.” – SNESmaster
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Mass Effect 3 (Electronic Arts) is announced for PC, PS3 & 360:
“And the rumors are true” – SuperSweet Edge
“ME3 uses Kinect voice recognition…WOW” – Koda89
“Seriously, why can’t Kinnect be something that won’t be connected to every single X-Box game. I don’t have one, I don’t want one and I shouldn’t need one to play the newer games.” – Citizen Grimm
“…looks interesting” – D2: Sweet & Sour Edition
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Ghost Recon: Future Solider (Ubisoft) for PC, PS3 & 360:
“That trailer at least makes me more excited than MW3 did” – Bergman
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Gears of War 3 (Microsoft) for the 360:
“Is that Cthulhu they’re fighting?” – D2
“Let the Gears Tentacle Rape art begin” – FSin
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Kinect Disneyland Adventures (Microsoft) for the 360:
“DisneyLand Kinect: When you’re too poor to go to Florida” – D2
“Seriously, who would want to play this? Wouldn’t they just want to go to the actual Disneyland?” – Citizen Grimm
“Ah, it has minigames” – Citizen Grimm
“…isn’t my cup of tea…looks like a good game for families” – ToyFareMark
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Kinect Star Wars (LucasArts) for 360:
“…a LOT of input lag in the freaking stage demo” – Koda89
“Now you can live out your inner Star Wars Kid” – FSin
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Kinect Sports: Season 2 (Microsoft) for 360:
“No hockey love for Kinect Sports? S***” – Death by Pickles!
“You know, that kinect football thing would be pretty fun when you’re drunk” – triplethreatmark
“After the announcement of the EA Sports franchises and seeing the lag here, I’m not excited” – Bergman
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Halo 4 (Microsoft) for 360:
“F*** YES!!!” – SuperSweet Edge
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda) for PC, PS3 & 360:
“I was not the least bit interested in Skyrim until I saw this” – AFN
“Skyrim lookings f***ing incredible! It’s going to blow Oblivion into obvlivion!” – “Showtime” Krimzon
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Batman: Arkham City (Warner Bros) for PC, PS3, 360 & Wii:
“This game looks freaking awesome” – Koda89
“WANT! WANT! WANT! WANT! F***ING WANT!” – SuperSweet Edge
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Need for Speed: The Run (EA) for PC, PS3, 360, Wii & 3DS
“Autolog from the last game will now affect the storyline in career mode. Interesting” – Vyse
“Eh, I dunno about the on-foot action sequences” – Koda89
“This guy can’t drive for s***!” – “Showtime” Krimzon
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The Sims for, uhm…Facebook
“I’m conflicted, I usually hate Facebook games, but this looks by far the best Facebook game to date” – Koda89
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Battlefield 3 (EA) for PC, PS3 & 360
“somewhere in my top 3 games I’m looking forward to this year” – SuperSweet Edge
“open Beta? I love you” – Krimzon
“I orgasmed…multiple times…” – Koda89
“gorgeous as f***” – Dude
“Battlefield 3 ran away with this sumbitch” – Krimzon
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Twisted Metal (Sony) for PS3
“epic looking” – Koda89
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Rayman Origins (Ubisoft) for PC, PS3, 360 & Wii
“I think the Ubisoft guy just came” – BR329
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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft) for PC, PS3, 360, Wii
“Sex wee! I cannot wait for AssCreed” – Legion
“OMG Orgasm” – EzioAuditoreDaFirenze
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Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Sony) for PS3
“The water physics, wow, just wow” – Koda89
“Uncharted 3 = S E X” – BlindSlayer
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The Playstation Vita for, well, Playstation
“That’s not a gaming console name, that’s the medicine from ‘I Love Lucy'” – Mikey Cee
“if they’re officially going with PSVita, I hope it’s sold in aluminum foil.” – BlindSlayer
“They just shot themselves in the foot. AT&T’s the exclusive carrier for the 3G wireless service on the Vita…You could hear the disappointment in the crowd.” – PKSandman
“I predict in 6 months after launch, they’ll announce a Vita for Verizon and sales will double” – Vyse
“Wow. (Little Big Planet) Vita looks AWESOME” – “Macho” Muskrat
“Street Fighter x Tekken for Vita? F***ing sold.” – Death by Pickles!
“I didn’t expect to actually feel like I NEEDED to be there on launch day for Vita until now.” – Threadkiller
“looks like an impressive handheld with lots of potential” – Dude
“Tech wise, the Vita kicks the crap out of the 3DS. The Vita clearly has the better graphics, and well just from a gameplay controlling aspect it is better, it has two touch screens vs. the 3DS’ one, and it has two analog sticks vs. the 3DS’ one analog pad.” – Koda89
“I hope and pray Sony understand now that there’s more to the portable game market than making it emulate the home experience as closely as possible.” – Powerline
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The Wii U for Wii (what? I already did the joke twice already)
“Project Cafe now known as Wii U. Bit weird but I’ll get used to it.” – PKSandman
“Ok, this is a nifty piece of hardware…I want that tomorrow” – Bergman
“Okay, Nintendo, you have my attention” – Jet Strong
“That’s the best controller ever…(it) looks to be the selling point instead of the system” – Krimzon
“Gotta say, I’m not that impressed. Yeah, the idea behind is cool and the controller should be fun, but as a console I’m not impressed.” – Citizen Grimm
“This NEEDS better 3rd party games” – Ezio
“Give me full online service on par with PSN or X-Box Live, Give me good third party support, a sizable hard drive and a decent price point (400 or less) and I am fully in. Oh who the hell am I kidding I was in as soon as they said Smash Brothers.” – wcw
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So there you go; just a portion of the reactions to the show (and, yes, technically the couple in the days before it). Agree? Disagree? Talk about it here.