E3 2011 Created 13 years ago2011-06-05 15:07:29 UTC by Penguinboy

Sorry Scotch, I was too tired to do the Nintendo one after it happened, and I kinda forgot about it after that. And here I thought nobody cared. Here goes:

The Nintendo keynote opened to an orchestra playing some Zelda music to a video playing clips from various Zelda games, to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary. After this, some Zelda news is discussed by Miyamoto:

• Link's Awakening DX is available as a 3DS downloadable title as of today.
• A 4 Swords game is available as a DSi downloadable title in September.
• Skyward Sword will be out this year for the Wii
• A Zelda Symphony Orchestra will be touring the US, Europe, and Japan this year, a soundtrack CD of this concert will be available this year.

Finally, a bunch of Zelda devs thank the gamers and give them a nice Japanese bow. How nice.

Now that Zelda is out of the way, some 3DS games are shown: Mario Kart, Starfox 64 3D, Super Mario 3D, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Luigi's Mansion 2.

Now for a video of some third party 3DS games: Resident Evil Mercenaries, Sonic and Mario at the 2012 Olympics, Ace Combat, Tetris, Cave Story 3D, Resident Evil Revelations, Driver Renegade, Pac-Man, Tekken, Metal Gear Solid.

Next up, we have the big announcement. The new Nintendo console is called the 'Wii U'. The controller features a 6.2" single-touch screen as well as 2 analog sticks, 4 trigger buttons, a D-pad, rumble, microphone, speakers, headphone port, accelerometers, gyroscope, and a camera. The controller is not meant to be used as a stand-alone console, but the console streams HD video to the controller with no latency issues. The console can be used without a TV, you can just use the controller's screen.

A Super Smash Bros game will be released on both the Wii U and the 3DS, and there will be some sort of interoperability between the two games.

Third party games on the Wii U: Lego: City Stories, Darksiders II, Arkham City, Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon Online, Dirt, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Metro: Last Night, Tekken, Ninja Gaiden.

The president of EA mentioned the idea of Battlefield 3 on the Wii U, but didn't actually commit to anything.

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Predictions:

The "Wii 2" will contain Nintendo's gimmicky gimmick ever. Everyone will love it.
You decide - Hard to tell with this one. Obviously the gimmick is the screen in the controller, but I think the 3DS is more gimmicky than that.

No price tag or concrete release date will be given for the Wii 2.
Correct - Saw that one coming.

Online functionality in the Wii 2 will hardly get a mention. Friend codes will return.
Correct - Nothing was said, at all. Not even about friend codes.

Nothing will be said about the following things in the Wii 2: Patches, DLC, achivements, or any service to provide these features.
Correct - Dead on.

The Vitality Sensor will, yet again, be mentioned (at least in passing). No release date (or real games) for it will be announced.
Partially correct - Nothing in the keynote, but the vitality sensor was discussed in the post-keynote Q&A session. It was 'still under development'.

Skyward Sword will not be delayed for release as a Wii 2 launch title.
Correct - They wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

At least one announced title will be a re-release of a classic Nintendo title with a large fan base. (Wait...do they have any left?)
Correct - Had to think about this one, but Link's Awakening DX on the 3DS technically fits the bill.

The announced Wii 2 launch titles (if any) will be mostly rubbish.
Technically correct - No Wii U launch titles were announced. (Third party games don't count!)

New 3DS titles will also be mostly rubbish.
Incorrect - Nothing much was announced in terms of new games, but Super Mario 3D and Luigi's Mansion 2 were among them, and they didn't look rubbish at all.

One unexpected game announcement will trigger an enthusiastic response from the audience.
Correct - Smash Bros! Also, when Batman: Arkham Asylum was shown, it got a big cheer. Mostly because it was completely unexpected for a Nintendo console.

Four people will participate in a co-op game demonstration.
Mostly incorrect - No gameplay demonstrations were in the keynote, but Nintendo released a 5-player demo immediately after they keynote footage. I don't think it counts, though.

Nintendo will show off a bunch of statistics and numbers to show why they have been the most successful game company this year.
Nope - Nintendo continues the trend and doesn't say anything about stats, for the most part.

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The wraps up all the keynotes, feel free to discuss they keynotes and any other interesting news that comes out of E3 this year.

I went to E3 this morning.

I don't have an industry pass, so I couldn't get inside the showroom.

So what's the point, you ask?

I still get to watch a lot of the demos that are outside of the showroom, and I also scored a stack of free gaming magazines. There are also two Lamborghinis parked in front of the showroom, and a bunch of booth babes.

Still worth the trip every year, I think.

Far Cry 3, which is set on a jungle island.

Having watched the gameplay footage, I disagree. It looks just like Far Cry 2... Only it actually looks GOOD. Might just look into it when it get's released.

Actually it doesn't look as a new 2012 FPS should look like. It has 2007-2008 graphics(I am comparing it to Crysis). Why? It is a console release of course!
(I hope the pc version, if there is any, will look a lot better).

What's wrong with FarCry 2? I think it looks pretty gorgeous.

Far Cry 2 is fantastic when it comes to graphics. The problem is that the gameplay is utter crap.

Far Cry 3 doesn't look much better and the gameplay seems more like an arcade game with the points showing up when you perform certain actions. It doesn't look all that great and I still have the bad taste of FC2 in my mouth.

No dice.

Yeah, I felt like doing chores when playing FarCry 2. The story doesn't really go anywhere, because of the non-linear gameplay.

However, Mass Effect series is able to achieve great story with non-linear gameplay, so it's not something that's impossible to achieve.

Sorry, I might've worded that incorrectly, when I said 'looked like far cry 2', I wasn't using it literally in the way of graphics, but being similar in general.

Does no one else want to take Battlefield 3, melt it into a spoon, and inject it directly into their veins?

This.

Two games I liked most: Forza 4 and Skyrim.