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Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
by Garnett Lee, May 25, 2012 12:00pm PDTDiablo 3 has strengthened its hold on Jeff Cannata who really only wants to talk about his barbarian, but there's so much more to cover. Garnett returns to the driver's seat after spending last week getting a sneak peek at some of the big games ready to vie for the spotlight at E3. "Indie" Jeff and Andrea Rene complete the adventuring party that gets down to business discussing their varying degree of anticipation for E3, the demise of 38 Studios, and the plight of subscription model MMOs, whether Max Payne 3 actually improves the gunplay over previous Rockstar open world games, and a handful of other games including Lost Planet 3 and Rock Band Blitz. Put a bird on it with Finishing Moves and you've got one massive show to take along on the Memorial Day weekend.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 114: 05/25/2012
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Comments
1) SONY has already shown their PS3 games, and I am excited to learn more. But I don't think there will be any excitement around them short of the Last of Us. I am holding out hope that SONY is saving some amazing stuff for Vita, but given the sales who knows.
2)I have a feeling since there will be no Durango talk at Microsoft we will get a very cookie-cutter conference from them. They will make Halo 4 the center of their show (as it should be), Treyarch will do a game play demo of COD Blops2, and then it will be about Kinect and the evolution of Metro and Skype and that avatar moto-cross game. But I think that Microsoft has it's sights set on the next Gen as far as development goes.
3)Let's face it Nintendo doesn't want us anymore. They saw the gap in gaming. They saw that it was the perfect chance to use the parents to get the next generation of gamers hooked on Nintendo. I am 32 and have always been an avid gamer but quite a few of my friends left the hobby about 10 years ago. They got married and have kids now, kids that are the age to start playing games. Nintendo very deftly used their nostalgia for Nintendo properties to make the Wii their console of choice and therefor their kids will grow up on Nintendo and the cycle goes on. The Wii-U is for the kids that grew up enough with Wii and are now ready for something a little more complicated. But it isn't for us.
The fact is I think this E3 is going to be kind of a filler year while we wait for the big reveals from Microsoft and SONY, who I think are perfectly okay with just riding the few games they have to push the end of this console cycle.
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