E3

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything more than a minor rant, but it's high time I got to the one thing that's bugging the hell out of me - E3.

In all honesty, the show will probably be dead in a few years. Especially if things continue to go the way they are now. It seems that now the game companies are focusing on investors, rather than potential customers. What we were given in the Nintendo conference was graph after graph with a few little snippets of games we don't care about in between.

The casual gamer must have been the object of the game makers' affection this time around, as little to no new games were announced with a whole bunch of filler covered in between. Video downloading services, unnecessary hardware, a new user interface - it's all just pure bullcrap. And if the only footage you have of a new game is a vague trailer, you might as well wait until an event comes for which you're prepared.

The most exciting announcement of the show was that Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the XBox, which a lot of people apparently saw coming. Everything else was either already known to the public or pretty frickin' vague. MAG was meant to impress, but just left me scratching my head in confusion. I don't see a playing field with 128 players as being that much fun.

Nobody was really prepared for E3 this year. Gone were the flashy showcases, demo booths, and superfluous cleavage. This E3 was a shell of shows past, and we, the gamers, were shafted by the ESA and their inability to tolerate a good time.