SMT V, Metroid Dread, Advance Wars. Nintendo won E3.

Gearbox: 0/10

Take-Two: 0/10 (wtf even was that?)

Ubisoft: 5/10

Square Enix: 1/10

Capcom: 4/10

Microsoft: 8/10
I initially gave Microsoft a 10/10, but looking back it didn't have much gameplay and most games were for next year or just CGI teasers.

Nintendo: 9/10
Not that much was really big, but they brought back four franchises, Fatal Frame, Advance Wars, Wario Ware and Metroid. Also Mario Party looks great SMTV and MHS2 got alot of gameplay and Super Monkey Ball and Danganronpa get collections.
The AoC DLC trailer sold me on it.
BotW2 trailer was awesome and gave an idea of how the game changes from the first one.

The only disappointment was that there was no Bayonetta 3 and BotW2 didn't get a name.

I'm hyped.

Didn't watch any other showcases.

LMAO I thought it was confirmation of Switch Pro being a beast. 

Nintendo's show was well paced and entertaining. 7/10 for an E3 conference.

Positive
- Overall a great 2021 line up
- SMTV looks surprisingly good!
- Typical Nintendo charm and wit

Dissapointments:
- Was dissapointed with the visuals/design and trailer for Metroid Dread.
-A bit too many ports/repeated trailers etc
-Was hoping for more meat from the the Zelda reveal

I personally feel you shoulda left it off since it was clearly the frontrunner but I understand why you left it in. 

Nintendo's presentation was alright.

There's a lot of games that I'm glad exist, but only one that I'm truly hyped for.

We'll start with that one. Metroid Dread is real and coming sooner than I expected. The art looked a bit meh at first, but watching a bit of the treehouse, it looks better. I think Mercurysteam did a great job with Samus Returns, so reasonably hyped for this.

On the other side, not thrilled with Kazuya for Smash. That's purely personal, as I just never played much Tekken. But there are other characters whose games I haven't played, and at least they look fun to use. Kazuya really didn't look fun to me.

Mario Party fully online is fun. I almost bought "top 100" on impulse the other day and I'm glad I didn't because they're going back to that well. Still, I like Mario Party and Princess Peach's cake makes me nostaligiac. Although I feel like this would have been more reasonable as an expansion pack, especially if it's only going to be 5 boards.

I also almost bought Wario Ware Gold (was deciding between that and top 100 and wound up with neither) and I'm looking forward to this one too. Perfect fit for the Switch's hardware.

Mario and Rabbids 2 is a sequel to one of the Switch's best titles. Was revealed at Ubi's conference, but no need to discount it on a technicality.

Breath of the Wild 2's trailer didn't really do it for me. Not that I think it will be any less than awesome, but I really didn't get a sense of how this game would really evolve the formula.

Advance Wars' title "reboot camp" makes it sound like there is going to be more on the horizon, and I really like the series so that's great. But... replaying though the first two games doesn't get me super psyched.

And those are the only things I'm really excited for. Other things piqued my interest like Shin Megami 5 and ummmm... dagamoprapa... errrr... the one like Phoenix Wright but with demons, but those are things I'm kind of interested in not "shut up and take my money" kind of things.

For your normal everyday direct this would have been great. Considering it's E3 and how slow Nintendo's release schedule has been, I was hoping for a bit more. It was just good.

From the ones I watched

Nintendo 8/10

Microsoft 7ish/10

Square Enix 0/10 - Won't even give it a 1, Life is Strange had a better trailer on the Nintendo presentation.

Didn't watch Ubisoft or Limited Run, but I'll give them a gold star for Mario + Rabbids, and Bloodrayne Betrayal respectively.

Cha0s/10

So E3 is over now and unfortunately it was for sure the worst E3 I've seen yet. Yesterday was a terrible day that was mostly filler but this day was much better thanks to the really good Nintendo direct. There was a decent amount of good stuff but man the bad parts were big this time. A large problem was a serious quantity over quality issue, if it was three days instead of four and almost everything that happened yesterday was cut and the small amount of good stuff was moved to another day that would've helped make it more consistent. Also there was annoying political stuff that should not have happened like the Take-Two panel, getting rid of stuff like that would've helped increase the quality too. I can cut them some slack considering the pandemic but those two aspects did not need to happen and hopefully will improve next time. I do think it's likely E3 2022 will be better due to the pandemic improving a ton and it being back in person but E3 is past its best years now and the average quality will be lower than years ago and stay that way unless stuff like Sony leaving it reverses. At least Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is coming to modern platforms, that was a delightful surprise.

I actually wrote over 7,000 words ranting about E3 in a single file, but like half of it was just bitching about Microsoft's disingenuous use of the term 'console launch exclusive' so I'm not going to post it here. (actually about 2,000 words of it was that, but still). I know y'all don't like me rightly ripping into them, so I'll just say that while they had a bunch of great announcements, most of it was marred by a lack of gameplay, an absence on updates on important games we need more information on, and their loose definition of exclusive.

Here's my scores and one-sentence breakdowns of each presentation:

Summer Games Fest - 5.6/10

Nothing mostly mediocre and a fantastic Elden Ring gameplay trailer at the end; nothing terrible but really only one truly great thing. Mostly boring filler.

Ubisoft Forward - 3.8/10

Mostly nothing. So many missed opportunities, so many of their reveals looked like trash, Almsot entirely forgettable aside from Mario+Rabbids and Avatar.

Gearbox - 1.8/10

Absolutely nothing here. I like the humour but Randy Pitchford is poison and most of the presentation was about the movie, not games.

Devolver Digital - 3.5/10 (for the games) 8.5/10 (For the comedy)

I love their absolute tearing down of the medium's greed and nonsense, so I loved this presentation but it was really light on the games. Like really light

Microsoft and Bethesda - 5.9/10

Lots of reveals, tonnes of games shown off, but almost all of the announcements were sorely lacking gameplay or details and so many key games weren't shown at all. A critical miss and an example of 'needs more info'.

Square-Enix - 3.2/10

IT started strong and had a lot of potential with Babylon's Fall and Final Fantasy Origin but dropped the ball with them and every mobile game from them is shit, which was like half the show. Especially angry about FF1-6 being on mobile.

Capcom - 0.9/10

Nothing here at all, ended with an Esports segment that couldn't have been less interesting, and the presenter had a 'we happy few' styled fake smile that creeped me out.

Nintendo - 8.7/10

While this wasn't a bombshell-ridden presentation like some of their previous directs, it was a steady stream of new announcements, shocking reveals, actual gameplay, and more information on one of the most anticipated games in Breath of the Wild. A win all around.

Nintendo won by such a wide margin it's not even fair. I absolutely loved Devolver digital's presentation for its absurdist humour and takedown of corporate nonsense, but for its games it was quite light so sadly I can't really say it was that impressive.

My top 5 moments:

1 - Elden Ring gameplay trailer
2 - Breath of the Wild Sequel trailer
3 - Metroid Dread
4 - Smash Bros Character (Kazuya)
5 - Guardians of the Galaxy