underwhelmed, unenthused, lack of emotions, you can fill in you jaded adjective here.

To begin I give you E3 2003, and yes, I was excited for Half Life 2 like any self respective fanboy, my biggest excitement was basically Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the gameboy advance. It never did have any center presenation, no big unveil like Majority of the E3 presentations, instead it was showcased on a few articles online, and a few images were enough. It was simply put a "known quantity," I felt safe and secure with knowing this game is what I wanted. It got me to adopt a GBA and then later I'd also buy Boktai which also had an amusing presentation by Hideo Kojima himself.

That's how I have felt every single E3, always look to the corner of the articles get more excited by a GBA or DS game, it becomes more about uncovering something then just be overwhelmed by the specifically. I recall reading a lot about Eyetoy sports games and often think "is this something for my family" well before nintendo went crazy with the Wii Fit balance board.

I never really held a desire to go to E3, it sounds a bit too much of a headache from all the journalists covering the event. But from time to time it became something to brag to family and friends on how big video games are. Although through out the years I got embarrassed with it's showcasing the more bland shooters instead of something colorful like Pokemon, Plants VS Zombies or Guitar Hero. When we think of the iconic video game, mario is never on the big posters or billboards across the convention center. The last most colorful visual was Bastion right bellow Battlefield 3.

Now as e3 2013 approaches all of the majorty companies have already revealed their announcements. The biggest surprise was today, Harmonix announced their next big game will be announced. So that means they will not have anything as big as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on the Microsoft event or a nerdy boy dancing to dance central. Even if it's showcasing the new Kinect controller it seriously deflates Microsoft expectations showing what they have to show for.

Ubisoft was last years big winner, but even now with Watch dogs already seen for a bit the biggest question everyone has is "what will it look like on Xbox 360 vs Xbox One?" The thing is Assassin's Creed series has been satisfying even if they did take dramatic turns in style, so there's going to be very much a safe bet with Watch dogs, just would be nice to know something more.... probably show off a co op multiplayer..... but they did that with Far Cry 3 and that did NOTHING compared to Blood Dragon's bizarre take on the genre.

Fighting games never get center stage at E3 since Soul Calibur on Dreamcast, so it'd might be interesting to just see Killer Instinct. But that's a case where Rare has been scalvaged into helping Microsoft make avatar skins helping kinect star wars, and basically be that hired gun for their company. So there's no real sense of assurance that Rare is going to make a solid fighting game. Considering how revolutionary Street Fighter 4, and helped Netherrelms understand how to make their games better, again I'm doubling down, I honestly don't feel Rare is going going to show anything special with Killer Instinct. It'd be more along the lines of Perfect Dark Zero, colorful new showcase of the console.

Smash Bros, to be honest, I don't love the series as much as the hardcore made it out to be. It wasn't something where it was easy for the casual to play, but it did do a lot of fun and clever fan service that made me amused over the references in there. All of Resetti quotes, the Electroplankton stage, an all of snake's codecs. Now again, no fighting game gets center of the attention, Which is why I bring up smash bros because they were seen on developer round tables.

Square Enix, now right now the rumors are it's FF15, but to be honest, E3 has been nothing more then to showcase how competant Eidos has been for them. Tomb Raider has been showcased 2 times and then at the end proven it's a remarkable take on the franchise. So my money is that they will show Theif 4 running on Next Gen Hardware. Maybe a possible trailer for FF15, if it's NEXT GEN, that that's terrible and that was the reason why FF13 was a complete mess, you can actually see PS2 textures on FF13. We are more then likely see an actual playable FF15 on something like Tokyo Game Show then here in America.

It's a safe bet Metal Gear Solid 5 will have yet another amazing trailer that will get all the fanboys drooling..... I know for certain that's my reaction. Still it's an odd thing, even Hideo Kojima's own audience is going to do the same as they have before what will it take to get more attention from MGS5 then lets say Battlefield 4 which will be HEAVILY Marketed and probaly be attop of the convention center. And also, what are the odds that Bungie isn't going to do another dumb video for their game Destiny? Now that they have an activision rep in all their events, assuring them they are behind their 10 year deal, Bungie has shown nothing to progress outside of their whole pretentious smoke up their own asses. Considering how Destiny is said to be closer to Borderlands, that'd also be a better presentation at PAX or even a year after it's release any any single presentation. I brought up Bungie in the same vain as MGS5 because they are both auture companies that never seem to learn from their mistakes but appeal to their fan base.

The biggest problem I have with E3 is it's appealing to this 15 year old boy mentality. It'd be wonderful if there was massive posters of Angry Birds, Animal Crossing or games that bridge larger audience.... but then at the end of the day the hardcore COMPLAINS over how appealing to that audience is irritating to watch. Diakatana got more attention at E3 1999 then pokemon did. It's going to be embarrassing in the future we keep seeing these bad trend just be displayed like this.

so for now, I'll be mining the news, looking for that gem of a game to be excited about.