Highlights were the Pokemon roundtable and the new X trailer for me.

Rest were either too far off to be excited for or unsubstantial.

Yeah, I remember E3 being a huge deal many years ago. One of my best friends moved to the city before us and he had 100/100Mbit internet and always came home for the summer with a CD or more with fresh gametrailers from E3. We would watch them and be awed, the trailers were gameplay, they showed diversity or intense scenes being played out, they were captured from someone actually playing the game, were not heavy on scripted events, were not cutscenes, (mostly) not pre-rendered and almost always showed the concept in a good way. Today, you can't even tell which genre games are in judging by trailers and we're fed lines like "rendered in-engine", as if it matters.

Am I hopelessly nostalgic or is gaming taking a plunge? I think a bit of both, to be honest. There are still some great games being made but they're becoming few and far inbetween. The constant reboots and overall butchering of old franchises need to die as well.

Unimpressed.

The new consoles and respective games were presented in the typical "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"-style established by MS/Sony/EA/Ubisoft/Activision (i.e. focus on FPS, TPS and other violent games, plus racing due to new gen).

Nintendo presented the expected franchises.

Did they even show dedicated PC games at E3? NA and satellite countries don't care about PC games anymore. Gamescom will be better for people who also play PC games.

MS showed some great exclusives that I'm excited about. Sony didn't show anything worthwhile to me yet and I didn't watch Nintendo because I already know what Mario and Mario Kart look like. Regardless after the first day it was pointless and boring. I don't know why IGN and other sites drag on the coverage throughout the week when all they show are the exact same gameplay demos we saw day 1.

i liked just about everything from e3, some games i wanted to see but didnt was a bit of a let down. but overall i enjoyed it and liked it better than the last few years for sure. im not difficult to please.