What games interest me this E3

For me E3 has always been about what games are going to be coming out within the next year or two, yes there is the odd year or two were we see a new console but without the games a console would never be sold.

Before I get into what games I am looking forward to this year there is one thing that I just couldn’t quite understand and that was why Sony decided to show of Assassins Creed 4 in their main press conference when Ubisoft showed it off a few hours ago. I know that Microsoft did the same thing with Battlefield 4 but one of the biggest differences there was the fact that in the EA press conference they went into more detail about the game. I should also point out that I don’t play modern shooters

Enough about that lets get into what games I am looking forward to. I should mention that these games do not come in any order but these are games that have sparked my interested and will a one point picking them up.

First up we have Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, I have been a massive fan of the Plants Vs Zombies games ever since I discovered the original game in my local Apple store. From what I have seen from the EA’s press conferences about this game and the information that has been released since then has made me believe that this is going to comical game that is going to poke fun at modern day shooters plus it just looks different to everything else that has been released so far.

All thought not much information has been sent out about Quantum Break from what I have seen thus far and what from what I have read it sounds like something the Fringe writes created. For those that don’t know Fringe was a television show that was created by JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. If this game turns out to be like Fringe then they could be the possibility that I may pick this game up.

For most of the Sony’s press conference there wasn’t anything that I really wanted to play until I saw the trailer for The Order: 1866. The main reason that this game caught my attention was the fact that it was going to be set in an alternate 1800 London and that it was going to be set in the Steampunk genre. Now I have only just gotten into Steampunk and from what I have seen from this genre so far I have really liked and if The Order: 1866 can live up to what I have seen thus far of Steampunk genre then this game alone could be the reason that I buy a PS4.

When it comes to talking about the next few games which come from Nintendo you might think that I am going to contradict what I said in last week’s blog but I still stand by the fact that Nintendo did play it way to save when it came to talking about games this year but that still doesn’t mean that they don’t have some good games coming out this year. The first game up is Mario Kart 8, to me the trailer that was on Nintendo Direct didn’t really show anything new apart from the anti-gravity sections of track which looks like it was borrow from the F-Zero franchise. I can only hope that with the news that F-Zero may not be coming to a Nintendo console for some time, Mario Kart 8 can bring some of the best parts from the F-Zero franchise over to Mario Kart.

The next game from Nintendo that I the look of is Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, in my last blog I talked about how much the game looks like the last Donkey Kong Country game that Retro Studios had created but after spending the rest of last week looking at the game more closely I can see that Retro Studios have done more than just release the same game. They have spoken about the return of Dixie Kong and the inclusion of one more character that has yet to be revealed. The big differences between this Donkey Kong Country games and the last one is the fact that they have done more with the camera so that let looks like you are going round a 3D world instead of just going left to right and it also now has water levels that were missing from the last Donkey Kong Country game.

The last game that spiked my interest was Project Spark for the Xbox One, the main reason for this is because it will allow you to do whatever you want when you want with your friends also helping you or hindering you. It’s like Scribblenauts but without the writing.

That brings me to the end of this week’s blog, if you were following E3 like myself let me know what games you are looking forward to.

Until Next Time.

E3 2013 Press events so far

As the title of this blog says I will be having a look at the press events that have been shown so far from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. As a side note, I am aware that Nintendo do have other events planned throughout the rest of this week but I am so far only talking about what has been show thus far as of Nintendo Direct 11/06/13 3pm.

If we look at Microsoft there was one thing that they did very well and that was showing us the exclusive and new IP’s titles that they have coming to their new console which is good because it shows that they are going to do something different, plus if you saw their reveal event you know that they had to do something to get those that play games interested in there console. Yes the biggest question that everyone came away with when the conference end was the price of the item which yes is a bit pricey but then again I have never been someone that buys a console at launch due to the lack of games at the start.

When it came to Sony’s press conference there was one question that I had by the end of the show and that was why was your conference make up with 90% of multi-platform games, yes you may have exclusive content for some of those game but where are your own games that I can only get on your console that will get me to by your console when it is released (yes that is also aimed at Microsoft but they didn’t have as many as Sony). If there was one thing that Sony did give everyone by the time you left was the fact that Sony was going to do everything you want it to without all the Microsoft ball shit, which is good because it brings back the whole console wars like the good old of Nintendo and Sega ads.

As for Nintendo they did everything that I believe was wrong with this year’s E3 and what I mean by this was the fact that they were playing it safe. This isn’t always a bad think but it seems to be the tread most years with each conference from each company having more of what we had the last time. There was once a time when Nintendo E3 Conference always had something new and interesting to look forward to but this year they gave us reincarnation of games that we have already played. Examples of what I mean are as followed Halo from Microsoft, Infamous from Sony and Mario Kart 8 from Nintendo.

At the end of this round of press conferences each one did everything that they were told to do by us, Microsoft showed us the games we wanted to see, Sony should us the box and what it is going to do differently to Microsoft and Nintendo showed us the games we want to see on Wii U and 3DS.

This comment may come across as something that a fan boy might say but when it comes to games Nintendo and Sony could have learned something from Microsoft conferences this year in showing us some new IP’s that could get us interest in their console. A great example that I would like to us is the fact that Retro Studios has been working on Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze for three years. Now this may come across as me having a little bit of a rant but three years on a game that looks almost like the last one with some miner chances has really pisses me off, I was hoping that within the three years they could have come up with a game that looks like this and something completely different but instead we get a rehash of a game that has already been released.

I know that the chance of Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony reading this blog is very slim but as a person that has been playing games from such an earlier age I have only got one request for this next generation of console and game to be released. Stop creating games that are the same as the last instalment with minor chances and create something new and better from what has already been created before.

Until Next Time.

Can’t believe it has changed so much

For those that have been following or reading my blog’s on a weekly basic I would like to apologise for the lack of blog’s that I created last month, I original had five blog’s planed for the month but in the end I was only able to create three of which one of them was crap in my opinion. So to start this week’s blog I am going to give you a bit of a history lesson which will lead up to my views on how this May’s London Comic Con went for me.

I have been going to the London Comic Con since all the way back in 2004 when I first discovered this exhibition with a friend of mine, back then exhibition was completely different to how it is today due to the fact that back then it mainly stuck to film, television and comic book and because of this the show didn’t really get any bigger. If anything the number of people that where attending the show was starting to decreasing up until 2005 when the show began to include parts of Japanese culture like Anime and Manga and each year since this inclusion the show has gotten bigger and better.

With the show getting bigger and better the number of people that were attending the show was also going up and by the last time that I went which was back in 2010 you could see that this show was something that people wanted to go to.

Now after being away from the exhibition for over three years I was surprised to see how much the exhibition had increased in size, a good example of this would be back in 2010 there was at least a handful of illustrators but this year there was some were in the region of about forty, which just goes to show how much bigger the exhibition has become over the past three years.

There were two things that caught me off guard while I was at this year’s exhibition and one of those was just how busy the show had gotten, a good example of this would be the fact that there were places in the show room on the Saturday were we were packed in like sardines. I am not saying this is a bad think at all it because if anything it just showed how many more people were interested in the show than the last time I was here.

The other part that caught me off guard was now much the Anime and Manga scene had changed over the last three years. When I look back at 2010 we had not long lost ADV films but we still had Beez Entertainment along with Revelations films and the two biggest Anime distributors in the UK, Manga entertainment and MVM. It wasn’t until I got the exhibition and had spend the best part of Saturday trying to find where Beez Entrainment and Revelations films had gone. When I couldn’t find them and after I had gone home that night I began to do a bit of research to find out what had happened to them. It wasn’t long until I discovered that both companies had ever gone under or had handed their licensers over to another company.

If this weekend had taught me anything, it was the fact how much a hobby like this can change so much when you haven’t been following it for some time.

If there was one question that needed to be answered after this year’s May’s MCM London Comic Con it would be did I enjoy myself at the exhibition? The answer to that question is yes I did and I look forward to what October’s Comic Con has in store for me along with what this year’s London Film and Comic Con is going to be like July.

Until Next Time.