You're right about the Xbox. I had a very hard time choosing titles to put on my list because there were so few to choose from. Everything was focused on the 360 this year. Stubbs, the number one on my Xbox list, looks absolutely amazing an innovative, but it's not really Xbox exclusive because it's also coming out for the PC.
Another big dissapoint for me was the PSP. I was actually really big on buying one, but after E3 I am actually leaning more towards getting a Nintendo DS. There was very very little shown at E3 for the PSP, and even less of it was very good. The DS had tons of titles, and it took me a while to pick out of them which ones I thought were the best, while on the PSP I was grasping at straws just to find something decent. The PSP has the best games right now (Lumines, Darkstalkers, etc), and the DS is in a dry spot, but if E3 is any indication of the future (which it usually is), the DS is going to be overflowing with great games and the PSP is going to have nada. (or maybe Nada III
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Full Auto looks interesting, the only reason I didn't put it on my list is because I'm not really big into games built on pointless distruction. Although the physics for that game look amazing.
And I just got done watching several videos that I downloaded from GameTrailers, and I must say that I want to add Hellgate London onto my list of PC games. It looks freak'n amazing. It's a first person shooter RPG.
And Okami...wow, this one came out of nowhere. I would have to add this to a list of suprises right alongside the Microsoft/Square-Enix, because I didn't even think this one would make it to North America. The game is built on the ancient japanese tradition of charcoal drawings, and at certain points in the game you have to use a magic charcol brush type thing to make things happen on the screen. Doesn't anyone else think this would make the perfect DS game? I could easily see Capcom porting it.
And you're right about Tabula Rasa, Jonbo. In the next two years I will have a game worthy PC that I'm going to buy for college, and at that point I want to buy a MMO, and I'm deffinatly going to take this one into consideration.
And I bet you are excited about City of Villians, aren't you? That series is another MMO I'm going to consider.
And I was tempted to give best of show to Shadow of the Collossus...believe me, that game is going to rock our socks. It's one of the most original concepts I've seen in years, and has insane potential. The bad guys actually are the levels...it's like fusing Super Monkey ball with the Legend of Zelda. I'm going to feel like Legolas must have in RotK when he climbed up the elephant and slide down it's trunk.
The next Gen game that I am most excited about is Gears of War, closely followed by Dark Sector. If you havn't seen the E3 trailers of these games, go and download them now at
http://www.gametrailers.com They both look absolutely amazing. Gears of War is a tactical shooter running on the Unreal engine, and it looks fantastic. I'd choose it over Killzone 2 any day. And Dark Sector...well, I have no idea, but it looks like you play a bad ass sci-fi ninja in a robotic suite.
Damn this has been a good E3...I'm so excited. It more than makes up for the crappy one last year. Now I need to find some sort of funding for all the spending I'm going to be doing over the next year. I need to become a drug lord or something.