Microsoft E3 Nerdage

I'm writing this mainly so I don't forget what games I want to buy, and what games were presented, but here it goes anyway. Not having the ability to watch E3 live, I had to DVR it and watch it as I got home. A lot of good stuff presented by Microsoft, and a little bit of disappointment regarding the Zune. More or less- If you're not interested in touching my inner nerd (hehe) stop now.

Left 4 Dead 2: Nice nice.. Dead Rising mixed with L4D 1. Note to self- avoid Dead Rising 2, L4D2 is coming out.

Splinter Cell: Sam Fisher goes ape shit over his daughters death- Looks cool, a lot of violence and really extreme tone compared to anything we've seen from Clancy games before. But will I really want to buy this knowing I can hardly beat the first level of a Clancy game?

Forza 3- Very cool, and I'm sure Scions will be in the game (and I'd fucking love to tune one).. but I don't think I can spend money on a game I'll suck at. (For those who have played with me, okay, suck worse than usual). Need For Speed remains my calling card for vehicle games.

Crackdown 2: The story of bad movies. The first one sucked, let's make more!

Alan Wake: After waiting since the arcade days to get this beast, I might finally have interest. Some foreign guys with funny accents presented it, so I was pleased. Overall it looked kind of creepy. It was like Resident Evil with Ghost things. Deep looking plot too, I'll look into it.

Halo: The Fall of Reach- I think the games just called Halo Reach, but lets be real here, this is goddamned Halo, and I base it off the book that I read, because I'm that much of a nerd. Just win for this and
Halo ODST.. Halo will probably always be my favorite franchise, despite the bullshit magic on XBL and it being a weapons game. Certainly something I'm interested in cherishing forever, like grandads old baseball cards. Even though my grandpa never collect baseball cards.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: You're just well.. I don't even know if you're not looking forward to this. Along with ODST and Prototype, this is one of my more anticipated games of the year.

Metal Gear Solid- Coming to the 360, that's pretty neat, considering I was close to saving up for a PS3. In your ass, Sony.

Media Upgrades- Lastfm on Xbox Live, for free. Sounds cool, although this is where my major disappointment came in. I really wanted to see the Zune become Xbox integrated and this was a good time to do it. My Zune library has 6002 songs on it- for 27.7 gigs of space. I really would've liked to play it in a non confusing, normal way. Oh well. Zune is being integrated with the 360 for video, although I'm not sure why. Next, Live TV is going to be available for all gold members, including wild shit I won't watch, like Cricket. All in HD 1080P. You will now be able to access your Facebook and Twitter from the 360. Not quite the total Online access the Wii has, but it's still cool. Atleast they didn't give us Myspace and Twitter. *shudder*

Lastly.. No controller gaming. The Wii just got a facial, and then some. Just wow, I can't believe it still, but I guess I will when it comes out in 2046. You might look like a total retard doing it, but damn, I wants at it.

I was disappointed to not see Assassins Creed 2, but it's not a 360 exclusive, so I guess thats acceptable. My game list just grew though, and that's disappointing. Now my buys include Prototype, Red Dead Redemption, Halo Wars, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, Modern Warfare 2, Alan Wake, Assassins Creed 2, and L4D2. Also, I see myself purchasing Wolverine, Red Faction, Fear 2, Street Fighter 4, Battlefield Bad Company, Borderlands, Army of 2:2, and others. Failroad, I know. Perhaps the 3 sports posts made me think this was morally right- an entire nerd post.. but whatever, it is what it is.


Spliting you in half like Mortal Fucking Kombat,

Matt "Failroad" Stephen