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Some people said it was boring. Honestly, it did a lot for me. Loved the choice of games, even if most of them were sequels, and the interface is quite good looking. That, and I want to see how they do 1 vs. 100 Live.

+: Nice interface, nice Avatars (obvious joke here), focuses on games, superb presentation.
-: Bad THX-ish sound when they unveiled the new Xbox interface.

Nintendo: D

I’ve already made my post on it, and I feel that it does my main comment very well. But I guess I should list them again. Granted, they had some good announcements outside of the conference, such as a US release of Rhythm Tengoku.

+: Voicechat peripheral, Wii Sports sequel looks kind of fun.
-: Focuses far, far too much on the casual crowd, nothing about WiiWare/Virtual Console, NO HARD DRIVE, lame “smile” thing they stole from, of all people, McDonald’s, no trailer for GTA DS (something tells me there’s a good reason), mainly just dragged on with us thinking they’re just holding off on a big announcement that just didn’t happen, and finally, the Mario theme being murdered on stage.

Sony: B

+: Focuses on games and games only, nice showing of financial data with LittleBigPlanet, nice presentation, didn’t remind me of Sony 2006.
-: Nothing really special to me other than LittleBigPlanet.

Capcom: F

E3. A gaming convention. Something about games. Capcom. Famous gaming studio. Makers of Megaman 9, Street Fighter IV, and other things. When you mash these together…we managed to get a half-hour long talk about a Lost Planet movie.

Yeah.

+: It’s short.
-: It started late, they talked about video game movies like they were anything above mediocre at best (especially the Street Fighter movie), and they didn’t even talk about video games.

Konami: F

“Hey, how you guys feeling tonight?”

Chirp chirp.

“Aw, you a bunch of LAMERS.”

Seriously, the press conference should have just stopped when they were finished with Silent Hill Homecoming. Honestly, it’s painful enough to see Castlevania as a fight…er, 3D Action game.

+: At least they talked about games. Three of them, but that’s three more than Capcom. Silent Hill Homecoming doesn’t look that bad, but I never played a Silent Hill game.
-: At least talks about a video game movie are not as terrible as going through not one, but two bad renditions of The Ramones’ “Blitzkreig Bop”.

After E3: To be honest, E3 wasn’t that good, but it wasn’t completely painful. I have heard EA had the best one, and seeing how they have shown off both Spore and Mirror’s Edge, I can see why.

Not an awful preformance of the Mario theme.

Not a ton of sales numbers.

Not a most likely bad DS port of GTA. (It would be nice to see at least a trailer for it, though.)

Not an awful preformance of the Mario theme.

All I ask is for is a hard drive. That could have been just the one thing, they could have said it really fast at the end, “harddrivecomingsoon”, and this conference would be anything more than a waste of time.

Unlike the Microsoft confrence, which made me proud to have a 360, Nintendo has done just the opposite.

At least Sony, in 2006, gave us things to laugh at.

Schizoid - Schizoid personality disorder is the interest of staying solitary, which this game relies you not to have. Two ships have to run into enemies of the same color. Primarily a co-op game, but it can also become a masochistically hard single player game where you control both ships. There is online play and a single player mode where one ship is controlled by the computer, but I bet it won’t be the same.
Golf: Tee It Up! - Hooray, golf. It’s golf. Golf. Seriously, golf. It’s more of a cutesy type than EA’s golf games, but, it’s golf. Nothing inherently wrong with this one from what I can see, but nothing that’s really interesting compared to games like Hot Shots or Mario Golf.

Soul Calibur - To get you ready for Star Wars: The Fighting Game, well, it’s Soul Calibur. I don’t need a demo to know how good this game is (well, okay, I only played the sequels on PS2). The demo gives you one selectable character (Xianghua) and three battles against a really easy computer. (Would I pay 10 bucks for it? Well, I don’t have the original, so maybe.)

Ticket To Ride - Well, it’s based on the board game, and it happens to be a board game. Yeah. Demo contains a tutorial and the US board, which you could play the whole game against an easy AI. I was surprised that it didn’t stop halfway.

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm - I really can’t see how you can make a good game based on the Happy Tree Friends, teddy bears that accidently kill themselves and each other to the joy of Hot Topic shoppers. This seems to be like a bad version of Lemmings, get your teddy bears to the other side with your power over the elements without them dying. Basically, the equivalent of a Gallagher game where you have to stop him from smashing a watermelon. But wait, there’s a cartoon to unlock piece by piece, because everyone is anxious to know what happens at the end of a Happy Tree Friends cartoon. I’d rather just watch the cartoons on the web, but I already watched the best one back when they were free Flash entertainment. Comes with a tutorial and a full level.

Sealife Safari - You take pictures of cartoon fish armed with a camera, and an infinite supply of Pester Balls, er, Gizmos. If you like Pokemon Snap, or want a game about that particular subject matter, this is right up your alley. I still would rather have Jambo Safari.

Courtesy Bemanistyle, again, here’s the license list. There are far more master tracks than there are covers. We’ll start with the American Appeal (TM). There isn’t as much of it as V4. It’s probably why Europe is getting V4 instead of this.

A Blast Beat (by Dune)
Almost Easy (by Avenged Sevenfold)
Hocus Pocus (made famous by Focus)
The Sound of Truth (by As I Lay Dying)

And now the J-Rock. I must note that Zetsubou Billy is a “Long Version”, meaning you can play the whole song instead of a trunicated one.

Afterdark/アフターダーク (made famous by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION)
Crawl (by VELTPUNCH)
Discommunication (by 99 Parabellum Bullet)
Don’t Stop Believing (made famous by ZIGGY, not the one by Journey)
Genesis of Aquarion/創聖のアクエリオン (made famous by Akino)
Going My Way!/ゴーイング マイ ウェイ! (by Tatsumi Megumi/達見恵 featured by Sano Hiroaki/佐野宏晃)
Shangri-la/アフターダーク (made famous by Chatmonchy/シャングリラ)
starline stereo (by winnie)
White Sketchbook (by Reiji Sakurai/桜井零士)
the WORLD (by Nightmare/ナイトメア)
Zetsubou Billy (by Maximum The Hormone/マキシマムザホルモン)

Finally, the half-KO half-license:

鏡花水月楼（GFDM EDITION） (by TЁЯRA x 宇宙戦隊NOIZ)

For the Konami Originals, here’s the original article.

EDIT: Looks like we’ve been Vertigo’d again, it sure as hell isn’t Journey.