Topic: Lets Rate E3

Lets put our personal rating and opinion on the presentations from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Lets just focus on their main events.

Nintendo

Presentation - 10/10. Very funny, paced nicely. (Iwata vs Reggie looool, and Robot Chicken)

Game Reveals - 9/10. GamePad focus is encouraging. Zelda, Amiibo(The ramifications of this is tremendous), Splatoon, Kirby Rainbow Curse, Yoshi, Mario Maker, Star Fox tease!

Pre-Revealed Game Info 8/10 - Closer look at Hyrule Warriors, Pokemon release date, Smash 3DS date,Bayonetta bundle, PALUTENA REVEAL)

Overall - 26/30. Very awesome presentation, kept me glued the hole time. The new things shown were very interesting, and i'm hyped for the stuff they will reveal later in the week.

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Sony

Presentation 5/10. Meh It was very standard. Game conference, stop with the TV crap (Ratchet & Clank semi-forgiven).

Game Reveals 8/10. Let It Die, the 4th Uncharted, Standalone Infamous DLC, LBP 3 (nooot expected), Dead Island 2.

Pre-Revealed Game Info 10/10. NO MANS SKY, Arkham Knight, Destiny, Order: 1886, Far Cry 4 (holy crap), Mortal Kombat X

Overall 23/30. I don't know, all of the games that excited me most are multiplats. LBP 3 is cool, Let It Die looks sick.

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Microsoft

Presentation - 8/10. The way they are trying to portray themselves is encouraging. While very standard, they emphasized the fans and community. Live game demonstrations galore.

Game Reveals 7/10. Master Chief Collection very nice, good value, Tomb Raider was interesting, Phantom Dust (where did that come from?!), CRACKDOWN (very surprising), ScaleBound (only CG Trailer so meh). Lots of multiplats.

Pre-Revealed Game Information 10/10 - DLC for Dead Rising looks hilarious, Project Spark and Conker, Dawngate (I actually was planning on getting this last week, got it now and it is fun so far), Sunset Overdrive looks great, Assasins Creed: Unity (dang.), Fable Legends wow, Ori and the Blind Forest looks fantastic.

Overall 25/30. Very good presentation. Definitely has made me more open to buying a One as opposed to PS4.

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WINNER: Nintendo (I have bias, yes). But honestly, props to Xbox, mad props.

Seriously hyped that Nintendo has decided to double down on the Wii U instead of bailing early. Nintendo = integrity.

Lack of 3DS news is a bit disconcerting though.

7/10.
A good showing for Nintendo.

They've shifted resources to the Wii U. Most of their notable games will be on that hardware for the next year and a half or so while 3rd parties carry the 3DS.

Um...

Microsoft:
Games: 7/10
Presentation: 8/10

EA:
Games: 4/10
Presentation: 1/10

Ubisoft:
Games: 6/10
Presentation: 4/10

Sony:
Games:
8/10 (7/10 for trying to sell the PS4 specifically)
Presentation:
9/10

Nintendo:
Games: 8/10 (maybe 9 if something big happens later)
Presentation: 6/10

Stealing KK's format.

Microsoft:
Games: 8/10
Presentation: 9/10

EA:
Games: 110
Presentation: 1/10

Ubisoft:
Games: 6/10
Presentation: 4/10

Sony:
Games:
8/10
Presentation:
5/10

Nintendo:
Games: 9/10
Presentation: 7/10

A- for Nintendo

B for Microsoft.

C for EA
haven't seen much of sony/ubisoft

They are more focused on Wii U now, but it's not like the 3DS is neglected.

Indies.
Final Curtain.
Smash Bros.
Layton.
Pokemon.
Fantasy Life.
Sonic Boom.
MH4.
Harvest Moon
Story of Seasons

And they basically just released Mario Golf and Kirby 3DS, and Tomadochi Life.

Okay...

Nintendo
Games 9/10
Presentation 9/10 (the Robot Chicken stuff and Reggie vs. Iwata was hilarious)

EA
Games - 2/10
Presentation - 2/10 (I gotta give them props for the live cello player playing the Dragon Age theme. That was the only highlight)

Ubisoft
Games - 5/10
Presentation - 5/10

Sony
Games - 7/10
Presentation - 7/10

Microsoft
Games - 7/10
Presentation - 8/10

Anouma snapping his magic fingers revealing Zelda U - 11/10 GOTY shutupandtakemymoney.gif
The rest - 8/10

I would rate E3 20/15

Microsoft:
Not bad. They didn't lose any of my respect this time, but they didn't gain of my respect either. Mostly expected stuff.
6/10

EA:
Mostly concepts and ideas with some Sims 4 gameplay. Meh.
3/10

Ubisoft:
(Shows amazing Far Cry 4 trailer) "And this conference is only gonna get bigger and better than that!" (Shows dancing and fitness games)
4/10

Sony:
Pretty cool. Lost some of my interest when discussing movies and tv shows and peripherals I'll never buy. But overall, pretty interesting.
7.5/10

Nintendo:
Completely unexpected announcements. Very pleasing. Lots of exciting new games and ideas. But I would've preferred some bigger hype for Star Fox U instead of them just being all "oh yeah, we're also developing a new Star Fox".
9/10

Nintendo's E3 is not over yet. Treehouse is still live, also Super Smash Bros. Invitational hasn't started yet, so I won't jump to conclusions yet.

Everyone about equal for me. Lots of solid games announced, very few big new games announced by anyone. Games I was most impressed/excited by are.

Zelda
Splatoons
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Star Fox
Arkham Knight
Far Cry 4
No Man's Sky
Abzu
Bloodborne
The Witcher 3
Crackdown
Scalebound
Star Wars Battlefront 3

Pretty solid list now I look back at it.

I think the consensus is that Microsoft did well and Nintendo did spectacular.
Ubisoft did badly.
Sony did mediocrely.
EA couldn't care less.

Nintendo wins purely for having actual gameplay in pretty much all of their trailers.

I haven't looked at anyone elses, but Nintendo's was pretty good. Nice to see they seem to be listening to their fans now, and giving segments of them what they asked for.

Zelda looks great so far, not surprised that it and X won't be out until 2015 though.

IMO Nintendo "won", hands down, with Microsoft coming in second.

Well all I can say is that I have never owned a Micosoft console, and that I saw absolutely nothing to change my mind from their games list. They just don't do games I want to play. Ok, it's their time for a Kamiya exclusive, but he isn't someone who I would buy an entire new console for. Furthermore, that Disney-esque indie is coming to Steam anyway.

Sony? Similar. Most of their indies are going elsewhere after a time - their biggest thing it seems to me is Grim Fandango - a 20 yr old point and clicker being made for a console without a mouse; a game that stands alone for it's time and certainly does not need any sort of reboot or remake. Desperate stuff, even if it is a classic game.

Whilst I haven't been impressed with Nintendo this much since the 'taking names' era of Gamecube. Very impressed with all. Literally the only disappointment, and it is slight, is how Yoshi's Yarn has changed from being a Kirby Yarn to being a Yoshi's Island-esque game instead, though I guess it's more of a mixture of the two, with gems being present etc. Nitpicking in truth.