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Hey guys, so my friend who does event planning saw me talking about E3 on facebook and got me on a guest-list for tomorrow. So I get to go to E3 for free!...for one day.

As someone who has never gone before, any suggestions as to how I can make my 1 day there worthwhile?

Thanks!

I have an Oculus, but if I had the chance to go to E3, I'd try out all of the VR, all the new hardware, etc. Games are always games, but that hardware needs to be experienced first-hand before jumping in.

This is coming from someone that's never been to an Expo before, though. You might want advice from experienced goers, too.
 
in the next 6 months, we'll TECHNICALLY get those :

Star Fox
Yoshi
Mario Maker
maybe Xenoblade (I have my doubts)

6 games in a year? good lord

The Wii U is nearing the end already, more or less. They've probably shipped a lot of their resources to the NX already. Doesn't mean I like it, but this is probably as good as it's gonna get.
 
So Nintendo showed off that Metroid thing on their livestream and it actually looks like a competent and fun co-op shooter. But why chibi design, and why handheld, and why Metroid when there's no mainline game announced yet?

Next Level does good work, and this feels like they're intentionally sabotaging a perfectly good concept.
Yeah I think I wouldn't be mad if they had already announced a Metroid Prime for Wii U, I still wouldn't play this 3DS game but at least it wouldn't feel like a spit in the face. Sadly it's kind of irrelevant how fun or good it is as that was never the point, Metroid fans didn't say "give us a good game and slap a Metroid name on it".
The Wii U is nearing the end already, more or less. They've probably shipped a lot of their resources to the NX already. Doesn't mean I like it, but this is probably as good as it's gonna get.

That's fine by me as long as they actually release the games they announced on the Wii U, I've gotten everything I wanted out of this console and then some.
 
I think I can guess where Vinny's going to be at:
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Good to see the simulator folk making it

Sim games suck.
 
in the next 6 months, we'll TECHNICALLY get those :

Star Fox
Yoshi
Mario Maker
maybe Xenoblade (I have my doubts)

6 games in a year? good lord

I'm skeptical as well with Xenoblade, but at least they have a set date for it. But I'll still say from now till next year, there's still a good amount of games coming for Wii U with the ones you mentioned, continued support for Splatoon, new #FE game and new Zelda, and there still might be new announcements coming through the year with Nintendo Directs. I hope they don't just drop support of the Wii U as soon as they start talking about the NX, but I can't say for sur

Edit: Forgot about Pokken and Project Treasure as well..
 
Yo, I missed the square enix conference, and the youtube link doesnt seem to be working.

Can someone pls link to me the conference on the giantbomb website, cant seem to find it? Thanks!
 
So Nintendo showed off that Metroid thing on their livestream and it actually looks like a competent and fun co-op shooter. But why chibi design, and why handheld, and why Metroid when there's no mainline game announced yet?

Next Level does good work, and this feels like they're intentionally sabotaging a perfectly good concept.

If I need to guess, Nintendo doesn't even know why Metroid is loved in the first place.
 
I'm sure Xenoblade will stick to 2015 just because everytime Treehouse plays it they talk about how they've played a fucking load of it. They've probably been working on that shit forever.
 
Maybe I'm as jaded as the GB crew but I think they are spot on with their reactions. That gametrailers reaction is embarrassing to watch.

I've only seen the GT reaction in gifs, but I did tune in last night for about an hour after the conferences for wrap-up and I felt really goddamn old. It was like a bunch of 3rd graders talking over each other on the playground and making weird noises to illustrate their excitement. At one point they nearly argued how many times they could outwatch the FF7r trailer from each other. "I could watch that thing at least 300 more times before this show is over!!". Kept wondering where Brandon Jones was to reign everyone the fuck in.

Granted, in my early 20's I reacted the same dumb way during the MGS2 reveal trailer, so I get it. Part of me is kind of enjoying the extreme lunacy as well, its been too long since E3 created that.

Outside of some flippant naive criticism directed occasionally by the GB team, I much preferred the more rational grounded take on the show overall by far. A comfortable haven, and I'm not even much of a GB fan.
 
Figuring out how wrong they were about E3 will have to wait for tomorrow, now it's Witcher 3 time!

I'm looking forward to hearing Jeff talk some more about Just Cause 3 though.
 
in the next 6 months, we'll TECHNICALLY get those :

Star Fox
Yoshi
Mario Maker
maybe Xenoblade (I have my doubts)

6 games in a year? good lord

Honestly, I think thats pretty much what folks have come to expect from Nintendo. I'm not excusing it, but I do think a lot of WiiU owners treat it as a "buddy" console. Its no one's primary machine, its the one you get strictly to play those 4-5 great games Nintendo will release in a year and it doesnt matter that there's zero third party support because you'll get that stuff on PC/PS4/XB1 where it looks and plays better anyway.

At least thats how I've felt about them since the Gamecube days.
 
Honestly, I think thats pretty much what folks have come to expect from Nintendo. I'm not excusing it, but I do think a lot of WiiU owners treat it as a "buddy" console. Its no one's primary machine, its the one you get strictly to play those 4-5 great games Nintendo will release in a year and it doesnt matter that there's zero third party support because you'll get that stuff on PC/PS4/XB1 where it looks and plays better anyway.

At least thats how I've felt about them since the Gamecube days.

That's how it's been since the Gamecube, so I think that's accurate.
 
GB can be compared pretty well to negative reviews on Steam. You can either look at the positive reviews that have been thumbed-up and see all of the fellating of the game (or horrible jokes), or you can see someone outline exactly what the games problems are and decide if you are completely okay with them.
 
Honestly, I think thats pretty much what folks have come to expect from Nintendo. I'm not excusing it, but I do think a lot of WiiU owners treat it as a "buddy" console. Its no one's primary machine, its the one you get strictly to play those 4-5 great games Nintendo will release in a year and it doesnt matter that there's zero third party support because you'll get that stuff on PC/PS4/XB1 where it looks and plays better anyway.

At least thats how I've felt about them since the Gamecube days.

I treat it as a secondary console because i'm forced to, I can't play games on it if there aren't any... I would like to play more! some 3rd party game could've been AMAZING on the WiiU and none of them followed for obvious reasons
 
So Nintendo showed off that Metroid thing on their livestream and it actually looks like a competent and fun co-op shooter. But why chibi design, and why handheld, and why Metroid when there's no mainline game announced yet?

Next Level does good work, and this feels like they're intentionally sabotaging a perfectly good concept.
Because Retro is working on Metroid Prime 4 for the NX while Next Level's is just a stop gap title to keep fans of the series busy.
 
Lol at Dan (and the other GB people?) getting a Gamespot badge instead of Giant Bomb.

You probably know, but the interesting fact is that those gamespot badges are exhibitor badges because of the stage and grant earlier show floor access in the morning.
 
Lol at Dan (and the other GB people?) getting a Gamespot badge instead of Giant Bomb.

Gamespot are exhibitors. I think that is much better that a press badge (at least it was at the last (non-gaming) convention I were at).

E: what Jaina ^ said
 
You probably know, but the interesting fact is that those gamespot badges are exhibitor badges because of the stage and grant earlier show floor access in the morning.

Gamespot are exhibitors. I think that is much better that a press badge (at least it was at the last (non-gaming) convention I were at).

Ah, didn't know that. Makes sense!

"It smells like everyone in this convention center is farting simultaneously."
 
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