An E3 2010 Retrospective
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Marino's Most Anticipated Games from E3 2010
 | 1. Mortal Kombat Well, this one held up pretty well. I ended up spending about $200 on it since I got both the Kollector's Edition and the Tournament Edition (fight stick). I sold one of the copies of the game to a friend to make part of the money back. The fight stick is amazingly accurate. I feel pretty good about this being my #1. |
 | 2. Nintendo 3DS My #1 held up but #2 just fell off the radar completely. I know I kinda cheated by putting hardware in the list, but oh well. I was excited at first, but my enthusiasm waned as the year went on. You may have seen my 3DS rant on my blog. I really want to like it, but I still see no reason (games) to buy this thing. I'm sure I'll get one at some point though. |
 | 3. Rock Band 3 General consensus is that the rhythm genre is dead, but I still love Rock Band. It's sad that more people didn't buy this game. If you need any proof on how potentially awesome this game can be, just check out this video I shot. |
 | 4. Fable III I love Fable. I really do. But this game...I don't know. I didn't hate it as much as some of the GB guys did. I didn't really have a problem with the way the game was presented after becoming king aside from how they deal with the passage of days randomly. I didn't get burned by the forced ending, but after it was all over and I looked back on the game, it was pretty disappointing. Just way too many weird (bad) design choices after having an almost perfect game in Fable II. |
 | 5. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword So, obviously this isn't out yet. Still looking forward to it, albeit cautiously. I'm sure it'll be good, but part of me just wants to be done with the Wii for good. As a fan of Zelda from the very beginning, I can't deny a new Zelda game is permanently going to be high on my list of anticipated titles. |
 | 6. Portal 2 Just finished it a few days ago. Pretty amazing. Not gonna spoil it. It's place on the list is definitely justified. |
 | 7. inFamous 2 Still looking forward to this. Infamous was my favorite PS3 game until Uncharted 2 came along. I got to play it last year at PAX Prime, and from the video GB just put up, it's still looking good. |
 | 8. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Wow, this should've been higher on the list for sure. I think at the time of E3 we still didn't really know what all was going to be included with the game aside from multiplayer. Even at PAX they were only showing multiplayer. But that single player campaign was great. |
 | 9. Kid Icarus: Uprising The original Kid Icarus was one of the first games I remember playing on my NES when I was about six years old. I still remember my neighbor coming over and showing me the ICARUS FIGHTS MEDUSA ANGELS password and it blew my fucking mind. I can understand why I put this so high (due to nostalgia), but looking back now, it didn't deserve to be on here. |
 | 10. Twisted Metal Still looking forward to this, though probably more cautiously than I had been a year ago. I'm just not sure this type of game works today. The nuclear bomb thing in multiplayer looks kinda cool, but even that is gonna get old pretty quick if it's just that and deathmatch. Probably shouldn't have been in my top 10 in retrospect. |
There's a few games that snuck up on me after not really paying much attention to them at E3. Those would be Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Civilization V, and NBA 2K11. Despite not including them on my most anticipated list, I spent a sizable amount of time playing each of those three games.
Anyway, I'm interested to see other people's lists. So, jump on in and post your list.
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