E3 2011: Wishes, Expectations, Surprises, and Disappointments

E3 is less than a month away, and the press conferences are being confirmed (in center of the universe time):

• Konami - June 2, 8pm (pre-E3)
• Microsoft - June 6, 12:30pm
• EA - June 6, 3:30pm
• Ubisoft - June 6, 5:30pm
• Sony - June 6, 8pm
• Nintendo - June 7, noon

Here is what I want to see, which is a mix of the aforementioned wishes and expectations:

• Activision - Bankruptcy and/or Bobby Kotick assassination
• Bethesda - Fallout 4 with id Tech 5
• Capcom - Dino Crisis 4, Darkstalkers, and an apology for RE5
• Cave - iOS exclusive shooter so that heads explode
• EA - Mass Effect 3: Focus Group Free Edition and an Old Republic date!
• Konami - CastleSpainia 2, Castlevania and Contra 3DS, Gradius VI
• Microsoft - Gears of War 2/3 on PC and a Kinect-exclusive Halo for lulz
• Namco - More Move-enabled light gun games and a Cafe Ridge Racer
• Nintendo - F-Zeros, Mario Karts, Star Foxes, Yoshi games... and no elves
• Sega - Aliens (finally) and Move-enabled light gun games
• Sony - Uncharted NGP: Touchscreen Bullshit Free Edition
• Square-Enix - Matsuno has to be doing something, right?
• Ubisoft - Rayman Origins (not a $60 flash game)
• Valve - Half-Life (not Episode) 3

I'm sure I missed a bunch of shit, and it's nice to talk about games instead of hardware for a change, so have at it.

Want to see:
SFxT - more info
Hot Shots Golf NGP
Advance Wars 3DS
Just Cause 3


Expect to see:
A million boring, safe sequels like ME3 and AC:R.

for the lols:
Diablo 3 console versions

pie-in-the-sky:
new franchises

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

[*]Valve - Half-Life (not Episode) 3[/list]

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Do you really thing HL3 and Episode Three are two different things still?

I knew, beyond a shadow of all doubt, that this thread was made by Yoshi.

If it's a thread about speculation he will make it.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

[*]Bethesda - Fallout 4 with id Tech 5

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Why would they do that when they're making their own new engine?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Why would they do that when they're making their own new engine?

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The bigger question is why is ZeniMax paying two seperate developers to write two seperate engines?

Different engines for different types of games.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Do you really thing HL3 and Episode Three are two different things still?

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No, that was my point.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Why would they do that when they're making their own new engine?

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I trust id more than I trust them. If this was 100% about reality, I would have just shed a tear for the Capcom list.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Different engines for different types of games.

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Based on what I have seen from RAGE it can handle an RPG quite nicely.

My comment was more about why these publishers have been doing so poorly this generation. Engines take tons of time to write and are enormously expensive. Yet ZeniMax is funding not one but two, and presumably neither will be available for licensing (id has already said theirs won't be, and I doubt anyone will be interested in Betheseda's).

I hope Nintendo announces they're done making new consoles