Perhaps not the best E3 in history, but still the first I make a summary of on my site! You can read a nice, synthesised list of all the things shown during the five major conferences (Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo), as well as my comments on each of them.
Not sure I'd call Sony's conference 'above average', either. I mean, Sony conferences in and of themselves are usually pretty stuffy affairs, though, granted. The Last of Us helped resolve that a bit, although I'm still a bit disturbed that so many people were cheering maniacally every time gore happened on-screen and were pretty quiet otherwise.
Most places consider Sony's conference the best of the three.
Indeed so. I do as well. Not by a particularly wide margin, though, and I would agree with the sentiment that none of the trio were remotely impressive overall.
Not saying I agree, but there was quite a bit of praise given to Sony. Last of Us and Beyond are getting a lot of hype, both for looking good and being new IPs this late in the generation. Personally, I thought Nintendo's was the best of the three, though a total disappointment for a conference that's supposed to launch a new console.
Sony's conference was okay. If they'd replaced the Wonderbook nonsense with some cool Vita games, it would've easily been an 8+/10 conference. Crying about stuff like Beyond and PlayStation Battle Royale is stupid - we knew about the latter, and Quantic Dream make that kind of games, so please.
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I'm actually really excited for PSASBR, albeit only because I'm very interested in a good number of series which the game will likely draw content from (e.g. BioShock, Uncharted, hopefully MGS and Team Ico). I've pretty much come to believe that we anticipate games like that just for fanservice without caring how good the actual game may be (see also: the really good but extremely overrated Super Smash Bros. Brawl).
Also IMO people should quite complaining about Big Daddy's inclusion in Playstation All-Stars whatever (I'm sorry, but that's quite possibly my most hated VG name right now). At least both of his games have been on the PS3 - contrast this to Snake, whose history on Nintendo consoles consists of three non-canon games, a remake of MGS1 that's decried by the series' fanbase, and a port of MGS3 that's viewed similarly.
Here was a list of characters I came up with for who I hope will end up in the game without problems, including those currently announced:
Kratos Sweet Tooth Fat Princess Sly Cooper Colonel Radec PaRappa Nathan Drake Big Daddy Cole MacGrath Solid Snake Sackboy Ratchet & Clank Jak & Daxter Nariko Wander Lightning James Bond
I allowed Lightning here instead of some other FF character solely to expand on the number of females in the roster. Feel free to disagree.
I only included him because he was rumored to be part of the roster and would tie in with some upcoming James Bond movie distributed by Sony (don't really know the details since I'm not a James Bond fan). And yes, Bond is on IGN's "rumored characters" list. I brought every character on that list into my predicted roster aside from Yorda (from Ico), which would not really make sense seeing how she's supposed to be this defenseless ethereal girl who is supposed to be escorted out of the castle by the game's eponymous protagonist (oh, still very much looking forward to playing that game!).
"...what with many people expecting Xbox 720 and PS4 to be revealed..."
Wait, I thought it was confirmed a good deal before E3 that those consoles would not be revealed. Whatever. Plus I don't really see there to be any need for a new console generation to start anytime soon.
All right, time to try this. ANOTHER PLAYSTATION ALL-STARS ROSTER PREDICTION.
(also the game already looks like it'll be better than Brawl. But then again, I view Brawl to be extremely overrated so I guess my opinion there should be taken with a grain of salt...)
Kratos (God of War) Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal) Fat Princess Sly Cooper Colonel Radec (Killzone 2) PaRappa the Rapper Nathan Drake (Uncharted) Big Daddy (BioShock) Cole MacGrath (inFamous) Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Sackboy (LittleBigPlanet) Jak & Daxter Ratchet & Clank Nariko (Heavenly Sword) Wander (Shadow of the Colossus) Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII) James Bond Crash Bandicoot Spyro the Dragon Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) Gabriel Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) Someone from The Legend of Dragoon Chimera (Resistance) Dante (DmC) Someone from Heavy Rain Someone from GTA Amaterasu Okami Kevin Butler Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed II) Klonoa
And...there you have it. Thirty characters. Still shorter than Brawl's roster, but oh well.