Overall, Definitely Alan Wake gameplay, the 15 min section around the Alan Wake section was perfect at Microsoft's E3. Splinter Cell Conviction looks amazing, I've never played one before and It got me hooked! Halo ODST looked good too, I'm looking forward to NOT playing as Master Chief. But the best of the 3 was Alan Wake, the look and feel of it was perfect (I felt excited and creeped out just by watching it in the conference, which is how I want the game to make the player feel).
Out of the other things so far, for Nintendo, nothing has really got me excited. I seriously don't get how you can get so excited about Mario, I love mario too but its really something huge, groundbreaking or something to anticipate release of. Its just another great game, which is fine though, I mean I had fun playing Mario Galaxy but it feels aged, no story at all, I can't play a game without story - which is my opinion, so no need for any backlash here.
Sony on the other hand, actually excited me about a couple of things in their conference, MAG was OK, I still think that so many players is a detriment to the game more than a benefit, I'd draw a line at Resistance's 60 players as the absolute maximum, anything above that just doesn't add anything other than "wow! Its 256 players!!!!!", like you'll actually encounter more than 32 at maximum in a section of the map at once anyway (except when overlooking the map from above in a sniper tower for example).
The two things were the sheer amount of support they got for the PSP, as well as the actual handheld itself and the LBP-style racing game. The PSP go really reinvigorated the handheld, I'm sure sony has noticed that Nintendo has no plans of ending their cash cow of the DS for a while and have a good SKY setup for their PSP now. The racing game was actually very impressive, LBP v2.0, with a mix of Mario Kart and of course LBP. Look out for this one next year when they unleash it (I think next year?).
Haha, sorry for the wall of text, just wanted to write a round up of e3 so far and ended up expanding too much lol.
Consoles Owned: XBOX 360, Wii, DS and PSP.
