My 10 Favorite Games of E3
It's been a little while now since E3 2014 closed its doors, and after being sentenced to 10 days of bed rest immediately following the close of the conference I've had plenty of time to watch all of the demos and trailers that spawned from the show. Even after absorbing everything this year's show had to offer, I'm hard-pressed to disagree with the sentiment that it was an oddly shallow affair. Taking into account the fact that I couldn't care less about the sixth Assassin's Creed sequel or yet another half-baked Battlefield game, my eyes were cast strictly towards new and resurrected IP during the show, and sure enough many of my show highlights ended up falling outside of many of those established franchises (not that the Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty demos weren't impressive, but I'm beginning to feel burned out on them).
As I had hoped before the show, this year's E3 marked a sort of turning point in the games I'm looking forward to over the next few years. While last year's show placed me firmly in Sony's camp, Microsoft and Nintendo easily took the show for me this year, while Sony failed to display the drive that propelled them to the top in 2013. As a side note, looking back on my list of most anticipated games of E3, it's interesting to see where everything ended up (and which titles didn't show at all). Honorable mention goes to Bloodborne for the absolutely grim (but in a really, really good way) reveal trailer. If I enjoyed the Souls games more, that game would easily have made this list.
Anyways, that's enough talk. These were my ten favorite games of this year's E3.
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