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Watched the reveal with my friend, was watching the Giantbomb coverage. I managed to call the name of the game about 5 minutes before it was unveiled so thanking my psychic powers about now. Guess they want us to call it "The One". It was rather disappointing I guess, short, very little actually revealed. One HORRENDOUSLY ugly console that several of my friends likened to a VHS machine. Which considering how much the reveal covered the TV capabilities it basically is. The EA games revealed are nothing special as it's inevitable EA sports will go on, NFL isn't a big deal to me, Quantum Break was so vague and confusing it was essentially a nothing announcement, COD is also an inevitable thing that doesn't really interest me or look special in any way. Except.... For mo-cap dogs.

Aww man...can't we get Henry or Owain instead?

Hahaha no worries because I found the game easy because it was just pressing X. I think I had trouble with......well aside from the things you aren't meant to fight till post game like Longhui....the one fight with the Adamanchild you are forced into and maybe Proud Clod. It was real easy. Just L1 and X and you are sorted. It's like....mashing 'Attack' in a game is something I'd expect late-game for grinding or sidequesting, revisiting areas where I was more powerful. Like in FFIV on DS I used the auto-attack function to grind once I was comfortable. An that's ok for grinding, it gets what is otherwise a repetitive task over with quickly, it makes a mockery of any kind of 'combat' since you pay little to no attention to it but it's not important because it's not a challenge at that point. That's what XIII felt like all the time to me. A battle system I didn't really have to engage with.

I don't get where all the praise for the battle system comes from. There's nothing worth grinding for equipment-wise to justify the fights, the battle system is repetitively choosing auto-battle for most of it. It's especially apparent in Eidoleon battles, the battle is decided before you even begin based on what paradigms you use. The most control I ever felt I had over the battle was when I manually chose buffs because the synergist autobattle applies needless buffs in the wrong order. Everything else....is X

Well it doesn't get better beyond that.

I like VII, V, IV, III, XII, I love X. VIII, IX and even X-2 are ok (though my girlfriend is trying to beat IX into my head better). XIII, XIII-2 I hated. XIII-3 just makes me groan and sigh at the fact Squenix is continuing this stupid franchise.

I actually thought a lot of the plot to X-2 was rather interesting. I liked how it touched on the old war that created Sin and things back then found the backstory pretty interesting. It was how they carried it out that seemed a little off about the game, sure the combat was fine, awkward lesbian orgasmic massages for LeBlanc are not, upskirts of barely-legal girls hanging off cliffs, awkward spa-scenes of men being mistakenly accused of spying on female goons there, ACTUAL videos of one of the antagonists spying on female goons at a spa. All those things....not quite ok.

Guards in Oblivion and how mad they get.

This leaves me feeling uneasy.

Agreed, I recall there was an April Fools video a couple years back detailing all these awesome things that were never going to happen and one of them was an awesome Altered Beast one.... Still waiting and hoping.

Resident Evil 4: The first time you enter the sewer system.....geez Also any time with an Iron Maiden/Regenerator.

On the stage I mean.

Why not? They can react to this, and put extra effort in knowing they have one less competitor at E3. They could design their presentation to counter one person rather than 2. They may attempt to garner more time to show more things since a big timeslot was just freed up. I can think of numerous ways they can capitalise on it and react to that news.

Ok other companies is the wrong word. Irritating anti-nintendo fanboys is the right word.

Oh snap! Well darn Nintendo be so smart. Though when I forwarded the news about this onto another site the folks there made reference to some crisis at Nintendo as a possible cause for this. Is there some crisis I'm missing?

Psyched. Perhaps they'll do a Nintendo Direct to coincide with the conference.

Well if it's niché perhaps it's old-school style JRPG's none of this XIII-autobattle stuff or these western Third Person Shooter/RPGs like Mass Effect. It would be Amano and Uematsu's familiar domain after all. What interests me is how it's these guys and they've moved away from Square to make an RPG. God I wish I hadn't watched that first video.

The last Nintendo Direct was basically as good as an E3 in terms of announcements anyway in my eyes. Some good solid stuff. However I'm worried the other companies will see it as a sign of weakness if they withdraw.

The entire Metal Gear Solid Series summed up in two words.

Spoilers for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Senator Armstrong. Seriously picking Raiden up and chucking him Skywards with a shot of Raiden's face just going "AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH" was hilarious. Spoilers end.

It looks kinda good but I think I'm sick of having Batman shoved down my throat everywhere I look. Also the thought of one really really big awesome Super move that isn't a Fatality/Finisher is pretty cool but the fact there is only one means that it might be underwhelming when it doesn't kill or get tiring over time.

More cause Apple = Common market, appeals to everyone for a wide variety of reasons. 3DS = Primarily Gamers It's hardly a fair comparison. Besides the initial problem with the 3DS was the high-price to low game rate at launch, since then the price has fallen and the roster has filled out very very nicely.

That's actually one of the things I envisioned before I bought my 3DS, shame it's not on 3DS yet.

Well it's not all that bad. The extremely bizarre percentile of Americans that own a European 3DS can import it because it's out in 2013 there. Though yeah excited for this .

They did leave us hanging on after the cliffhanger in Dark Dawn. Though if they do make another one they really need to fix the character development in it.