E3 2010: Brad's Awards

Agreed. However the Vanquish mention was a surprise. I'll definitely have to keep an eye out for that one. However I am a little worried as to how the gameplay of Rising is going to pan out. I couldn't care less about Kinect, but the footage shown at the MS Keynote looked as if it was better suited for the Move controls.

...if only we got a taste of Last Guardian. TGS is too long of a wait.

Maybe one day your space shooter will exist maybe after Bungie realizes how they are being fools or maybe someone will make a level in LBP2 and it will be what you wanted :P

As far as the Vanquish subject goes it looks good and considering this is the these guys also made Bayonetta it should be more then worth the 60 dollars when it comes out. And as for the "Black magic" Bungie conjured up the only thing i have noticed that halo differed from the other shooter games is that you take awhile to die, like you can stand out in the open for a good 5 seconds on legendary mode and still have time to find cover. I don't know i might be oversimplifying it.

Cool article. I was curious to hear what you had say about E3 in more depth.

I'm really interested in War in the North.

I have a Tolkein fetish...

Can't wait for the LotR game~ but, I still have low expectations for it. The last RPG to come out of the franchise wasn't all that original, nor was the gameplay that great. oh, well.

Here's looking forward to more gameplay footage of Vanquish. P* does little gameplay details really well, so I'm hoping to see how refined they managed to make the game.

yay another lord of the rings to add to my collection. meh who am i kidding i cant fight it.

"The demonstration of the game felt like Mass Effect meets Dragon Age, but with online co-op" Holy shit. I'll definitely be keeping and eye out for this. I'm not really a Lord of the Rings fan but damn this seems interesting. Metal Gear Rising also looks amazing but I hope that precision cutting skill has a better purpose than just making the kills look better. Maybe disable someone by cutting their hands off like shooting a gun out of someone's hand in Red Dead.

Not surprised to see Vanquish up here at all. You guys seemed really hyped for it on your E3 coverage podcasts and I can see why. I got psyched for this game just from watching the videos, which I know doesn't do the actual gameplay justice. I think we all were expecting the worst when we saw the trailer with the vaguely Hilary Clinton looking woman in them, and the guy's suit that looked like it was made from dice. Shame on all of us for doing that to Mikami and Platinum Games, it looks like they have another winner on their hands. I'm also really interested in Lara Croft and Ghost Trick. My only worry about Lara Croft is I don't have much experience playing the past Tomb Raider games. I don't think playing Guardian of light will spoil me on Tomb Raider games though as they seem different enough in gameplay style. Ghost Trick is just smooth. The animations are great, the art is fantastic, and the concept of the game is one of the more interesting I've heard in a while (let alone on a handheld).

Rising huh? This is a good pick. The trailer was impressive and if it delivers on half of its promises then the game should be great. I'm glad to see Red Faction get a mention here as I was expecting that to be your pick for this category (I was wrong apparently). Portal 2 is not a surprise however, that game looks amazing. I didn't think much could change from Portal 1 to Portal 2, and I was wrong. They have managed to add new mechanics to a game and not break the core gameplay from the first. That's hard to do but so far so good.

War in the North really had me sold on loot with your friends. I love good loot systems, and I love good co-op play. I don't have my hope up too high for this game quite yet though, as I haven't done much research on it yet. But from what I do know, there is nothing I don't like.

Disappointments were abound at E3 this year and I think you guys got them all in your posts here. I'm willing to bet that the little area shown in Skyward Sword won't even be in the final game. That's not the way to show off a Zelda game. I understand they wanted to show off the controls, but why not just let us play a little bit from a dungeon or from Hyrule Field or somewhere? Hopefully the final product will deliver in traditional Nintendo fashion.

Beast...

I guess I should look at some Red Faction: Armageddon stuff. I pretty much wrote the game off when I learned it was underground.

I agree with a lot of what you have to say. I really want to try out Vanquish. Can't wait.

I didn't expect you to say anything positive about Vanquish. This is good news for me as I was kinda drawn in by the weapons and armor designs, but to hear that the game is likely good and fun... well. I'm looking forward to it.

I do have to ask though... how good/bad was Front Mission Evolved. I may get it just because I love Front Mission... but it is still a shame to see it bastardized from the original Tactical RPG it was to... another 3rd person simulator of sorts.

Even if Armored Core controls clunky, I'm betting that like always, whatever anyone else comes up with in terms of 3rd person mech simulators will be worse than Armored Core.

Good article with good in-depth details. However, Brad, were you expecting there to be no announcement for the New Elder Scrolls, and if so, have you lost more faith in Bethesda as for a new game coming in the future?

I was surprised to see Vanquish on here as well. I honestly wasn't expecting anything at all from it but it seems I have the pleasure of being pleasantly surprised.

Good show, I especially liked when David and Brad were arguing over Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

Like you I was apprehensive about Vanquish when I saw the trailers. But after the glowing impressions of it from you guys, I'm gonna definitely keep my eye on this game.

whats going on with all these people wasting their talent?
and bungie not bringing back space battle thats just wrong

Kinda hard to think about it when after Vanquish was announced earlier this year, people were skeptical that it could have been a generic first person shooter from Japan. God, I'm glad that's out of the question, since the recent E3 gameplay videos looks AWESOME. Hope that people don't turn down Vanquish for the many reasons gamers could be baffled (like "Oh, Vanquish is a Gears clone, blah blah blah..."). Somehow I sense deja-vu when Bayonetta was first announced, but this time we get Spike Siegel in a bad-ass male armored version of PN-03's character.

Oh well looks like I'm going to have to keep on playing Project Sylpheed or buy a PC space shooter.

Bungie has been disappointing me a lot this Gen enough to tell me that they are not even gonna try to make to make a game with much ambition an change, but instead play it safe and sell the same thing they've been selling since halo 2. Its very annoying and needs to change before I just not even consider what Bungie has to say.

Rare are quite possibly the underdogs of the industry: I've played a lot of games that were great by Rare, yet people always say " They're not good anymore". They make very good games, and I eagerly await a new conker game as Conker: Live and Reloaded was really a great looking game for its generation.

The new Rayman, I think, is too little, too late. The Art style is interesting and the gameplay looks like the regular old Rayman, but I think everyone would rather see a new Beyond Good and Evil.

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