Excited? Not so much. I'm looking forward to a lot of stuff, which ranges from the obvious, like GT5 or Fable III, to less hyped games such as Journey or Eat Them, going through Silent Hill, Dead Space 2 and Portal 2. But that's it. Excitement will slowly build up as time goes by. 

Least excited? That Kinnect stuff, worst way of doing motion controls, in my opinion. And even though Move seems to do a better job, since it's apeing the Wii remote, I'm not too hot on it either. Overall, the feeling of "me too" and abundance of motion controls, a feature that, except for a few selected examples, has done nothing for me. 

The 3DS is a damned cool system. If there's really going to be this much third party support for it I'll be all over it the day of launch.  I'm a little nervous it won't all come to pass, but based on the super amount of positive publicity the 3DS is receiving I can't see too many developers backing away at this point.

As for my personal favorites that I've seen:

• Kid Icarus - huge surprise and it just looks awesome
• Epic Mickey - had it not already been announced it would have been my pick for #1
• Donkey Kong Country Returns - about fucking time
• Sonic Colours - does that make me stupid?
• The lucha libre wrestling game from Konami - it's like every wrestler will be Starman

The only real disappoints were maybe Kinnect since I think I was secretly hoping it would turn out cool, and the lack of footage for DQ IX and X.  Oh well maybe as the week progresses.  Overall though it was a good show this year. Quite happy.

aspro said:

Least Excited: Microsoft throwing away its money and reputation with Kinect.

How can that be least excited? Did you not watch the Ubisoft Vitality Sensor with that breathing game? Seriously, if anyone says there is a less exciting game of the show they are waaaaay off.

A BREATHING GAME

SteelAttack said:

Least excited? That Kinnect stuff, worst way of doing motion controls, in my opinion. And even though Move seems to do a better job, since it's apeing the Wii remote, I'm not too hot on it either. Overall, the feeling of "me too" and abundance of motion controls, a feature that, except for a few selected examples, has done nothing for me.

There's only a couple of Move games which are worth it IMO. Socom, Killzone and Heroes of Move I think it was called. Really it's going to be an option in shooters. I thought there would be some better core games using Kinect and Move. I thought Sony and MS would really bring it and blow Wii out of the water, but it doesn't seem to have happened. Elebits 2 with Kinect? Bring it. Only they didn't

Okay, for me I was kinda disappointed by Zelda. Yeah I know, don't crucify me it's one of my favourite series. I still remember what it was like 2004 when they showed off Twilight Princess. I was expecting Nintendo to bring it with some awesome, epic trailer with Conan music and a continuation of the Twilight Princess style - especially because Miyamoto hinted at it ages ago. Instead they open with a very short, disjointed video, then fluffed the on stage demo.

You got no sense of story or of the world or elements. All I know is that Link lives on a cloud and uses motionplus for many things. And I'm kinda annoyed with archery, there is no better, more accurate and faster way of aiming on wii than using IR. They got it right before, changing it to this Sports resorts setup sounds finnicky. Are you going to be able to quickly shoot off a group of moblins with these controls?

But yeah, least excited for the Ubi sensor game.

Most excited would be 3DS. If nintendo had shown nothing else at all apart from 3DS at the conference, it still would have been the best conference. When the lineup of games was announced my eyes were popping out of my head. It's pretty much an unprecedented lineup, coupling with 1st party greats and the best of 3rd parties. 3D movies at home as well? An analog stick, all the other gubbins too. Just sounds awesome and I will buy it day 1.

In terms of games, you know my head tells me Goldeneye is going to be sucky, but my heart wants it to work because of nostalgia. Eurocom are pretty well versed in the GC/PS2 generation of hardware and did a great job on Dead Space Extraction so I'm fairly optimistic.

But the game I'm most looking forward to is Epic Mickey. It looks miles better than the screens we saw last year and seems to have bags of character. I love how SMG has influenced all these 3D platformers to have side scrolling sections now too. The reason I like the look of Epic mickey is because Castle of Illusion is probably my favourite Genesis game and I loved the SNES Mickey mouse games too. He's an iconic character often abused by Disney but it looks like Spectors fandom is bringing us something really special. I also love platforming games, 2D or 3D but have seen the genre pretty much die out except for sporadic efforts, since FPS took over.

I want to be swamped in awesome platformers, to sleep in a giant cardboard box, covered in platforming game discs.

gamingeek said:

aspro said:

Least Excited: Microsoft throwing away its money and reputation with Kinect.

How can that be least excited? Did you not watch the Ubisoft Vitality Sensor with that breathing game? Seriously, if anyone says there is a less exciting game of the show they are waaaaay off.

A BREATHING GAME

Oh come on, don't know breathing. It can be pretty hard.