So E3 rolled around as it so often mysteriously does at this time of year, and just to differentiate myself from every other gaming related piece of content on the internet, I thought I’d give a quick rundown on the different levels of awful that we dealt with. This years E3 can be looked at in two ways. The first is that this was the year that we thought we got what we wanted until we took a closer look. Yay, new God of War except it’s actually an over the shoulder beat-em-up now. yay, new Resident Evil except it’s actually a first person survival horror instead of whatever the hell the last 6 were. yay, new Crash Ban…. Oh wait. The second way of looking at it was that this was the year that everything copied something else. God of War became the Last of Us, Resident Evil became PT, and Crash Bandicoot became a pile of faeces.
Nintendo was, as to be expected, the odd one out here, not only revealing a game that we’d all been wanting, but actually making it what we’d wanted and not a ripoff of something else, but even Zelda: Breath of the Wild wasn’t untainted by the trend of stuffing gazmeplay mechanics ripped from other games in. Now link has a crafting and cooking system because of course he does. Apparently anything that doesn’t have some sort of survival based system will be whipped to death. Over all though, general consensus is that Nintendo had the best showing at E3 which I have to agree with. It’s kind of sad actually, considering all that they really showed of was one bloody game, but hey, I can’t complain because it’s the game that I’ve been asking Nintendo to make since skyward sword decided to throw all of the open world-ness of the series off a cliff because they needed more space for their ‘revolutionary’ motion controls.
There’s not really much more that can be said of E3 unfortunately, it was the standard hype generating machine that turns up each year to make us forget about how disappointing all of the games revealed at the previous year’s event were. The only other happenings of note were the unveilings of Microsoft and Sony’s new consoles, possibly designed to punish those who bought earlier models. I always thought that the sole remaining argument of console over PC was that you didn’t have to spend huge amounts of money to upgrade it with the best gear ever few years, but apparently that’s been dropped by the wayside, left to wither and die with the idea of couch Co-op and not needing to install games, both things that consoles have shunned like the plague in the last decade. I’m not even that old and still I manage to see how far console gaming has fallen. It may be naive to think that this might actually be what wakes console gamers up to the fact that PC gaming is, in the long run, the better option. The last thing that consoles had over the PC, the knowledge that your hardware wouldn’t be made obsolete within 5 seconds of purchasing it, has fallen. Now we can get back to the most important question of our time, will I get payed before the Steam Summer Sale ends?
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