E3 Hub Thread - TIme to wrap up! Nintendo poll up

[Runa216]

So who's going to write the Eulogy for E3 2021? None of the conferences have been good yet. Not even close. While Geoff Keighly's summer games fest had Elden Ring, nothing else has been great and every other reveal has been disappointing. Nobody's gotten away from the hype here. Microsoft and Square-enix could have been great. Microsoft has 23 studios and managed to only show a handful of games, most without any gameplay on display. Square-Enix has Final Fantasy XVI and the XIV expansion coming up, and instead they showed us some emo kid's Final Fantasy I fanfiction. Ubisoft has Skull and Bones and Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil and we just got...more Far Cry 6. Which looks bad, or at least did during the Ubisoft presentation.

So many games from so many developers have been absent. At this rate I'd almost be willing to bet actual money that we won't see Breath of the Wild 2, Bayonetta 3, No More Heroes 3, Octopath Traveller 2, Triangle Strategy, or Metroid Prime 4 at Nintendo's showcase. Back near the beginning of the thread I JOKED that a Smash character could win E3 but now it might actually be how things go. I just...this is so bad. IT's so disheartening. I know nobody believes me and that's fine, but I WANT everyone to win. I want all the consoles to have their own identity that makes them stand out and caters to their own fanbases, I want developers to be competitive and to push boundaries and try new things. I want the industry to be good and I truly do believe that gaming as a whole is more diverse and inclusive and better than it ever has been...so why does E3 suck so badly?

where's everwild? Where's Avowed? where's Fable 4? where's Final Fantasy XVI? Where's The Elder Scrolls VI? Where's Beyond Good and Evil 2? Where's Rayman? Where's...

And for those games that are announced, regardless of platform or publisher, where's the gameplay? Announcing a new IP and not showing gameplay is only one step higher than a splashpage logo. we watched like 10 minutes of Redfall or whatever and we barely know more about it than MEtroid Prime 4. Why can't we know ANYTHING about 'Contraband'? Why do we not know more about Starfield now than we did 10 months ago (IT's a Bethesda game, in spaaaaaace!....is all we know except that it's now confirmed exclusive, which we all figured out months ago).

Babylon's Fall and Final Fantasy Origin both look terrible. Like, the teams behind them (Platinum and Team Ninja) Both have impressive track records so I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt here and be cautiously optimistic but what we saw was absolutely terrible. FF Origin or whatever looked like some emo kid's final Fantasy fanfiction after he played the Devil May Cry side-game from....ninja theory (holy shit it makes sense now!) Babylon's Fall looks okay but nowhere near the punchy, engaging awesomeness it could/should be.

Like I said, the only announcement so far that has me excited was just the patched-together Elden Ring gameplay trailer. And honestly, if I didn't know the team behind that (Fromsoft and Hidetaki Miyazaki) I would think that looks bland and generic, too.

All Nintendo has to do is not be terrible and it wins E3 by default. The only other presentation that was kinda okay was Microsoft...and that's because once again they showed two of their holy trinity. The two that don't personally interest me at all. Forza genuinely looked great and HAlo was...Halo (except Free 2 Play now, which warns me that it'll be Microtransaction-littered and disgusting and thus something I will avoid like the plague).

Bad E3. Bad presentations. Bad all around.