Gadgetory

either e 2017 is over and done with and I gotta say pretty solid here I mean I don't think we any huge Mike Straub moment - this time around back to campus but there were a lot of solid game announcements and new gameplay shown for games you already know about so let's talk about the ones that I think were the best first let's start with a game that I'm a little shaky on and that anthem I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Bioware the past few years leaning a little bit more towards hate I mean I still like a lot of the games they've released but they don't really have the degree of polish that they used to and so a project that sounds this ambitious and it's something so different from what they've done before has me a little bit worried at the same time though I am a massive sucker for anything involving power armor or robots customizing loadouts all that good stuff that is entirely my jam so seeing that proof of concept gameplay with exploring and these power suits looked amazing to me so on the one hand maybe too ambitious to be true on the other hand I am absolutely down to try attack on Titan fall zero da second is a game I had no idea how badly I needed until was debuted at Microsoft's press conference and that is Dragon Ball fighters or Fighter Z I'm not entirely sure if marketing is a little unclear to me but the point is it looks amazing I grew up on Dragon Ball Z so the Estela is already strong there but what's more important is that while we've had lots of Dragon Ball fighters in the past none of them to me felt like they truly captured the speed and intensity of the fights you would see in the show and that's where arc system software is just a perfect fit I mean guilty gear is basically how I imagined Dragon Ball Z fights should be in a video game plus you're adding in a 3v3 aspect I love Marvel vs. Capcom I am completely sold already next up this game we already knew about but we finally got some gameplay for and was easily the highlight of Sony's press conference and that is the spider-man game for ps4 now to be honest I'm not a huge fan of how quick time event heavy this gameplay demo was near the end but that's pretty easily balanced out by everything else we saw the combat looked absolutely amazing I love that they're taking a bit of a stealth element to it but more importantly the web-slinging this is something that no previous spider-man game has ever really gotten right before because to be honest it actually is kind of a hard thing to do right it was always the situation where you're running around in New York just having webs go up into I don't know what two birds playing something high above you this time around we actually saw in the gameplay attaching to building zipping through going super fast in a way that is hopefully intuitive if it plays as smooth as it looks this game is going to be incredible fourth up was the most pleasant surprise I had this e3 and honestly the highlight of EA's press conference for me and that's a way out a new game from the same developer behind brothers now if you've never played brothers before that's your weekend plans now it is a cheap game it takes three to four hours to complete it's on pretty much every major system go play it it's worth every penny what was really interesting about brothers is how it messed with the concept of co-op you were one player controlling two characters and that really impacted the way you viewed the story a way out it's continuing this idea by focusing on true split-screen co-op even if you're playing online the game forcibly must be played in split-screen there is no way to do this as a single-player game the entire idea is placed two separate characters handling situations together and seeing how the story evolves based on what you guys do it's a rather ambitious idea but after what I saw with brothers I completely believe they could pull it off and then we have one of the biggest hits of this year's e3 Super Mario Odyssey this is a game that I already went into being pretty excited for and the trailer and all the gameplay we got has increased that hype exponentially this looks like the first true brand new Mario game we've gotten since Mario Galaxy back on the Wii in 2007 a decade ago all the mechanics they showed off just looked like so much fun like being able to possess different kinds of enemies and also regular humans which is actually a little disturbing when you think about it don't think too hard but you can also possess it to your ex with T which is incredible and if you're watching more gameplay beyond just what was in the trailer they also showed off all their new stuff like lifting mechanics from link between worlds where there's actually a 2d Mario mode when you climb up walls and even the music changes to retro with just have you ever seen a game that looks like pure fun and joy that's what this looks like speaking of Mario there is another game I want to talk about and that's what I think is really a big Cinderella story of this e3 Mario cross Rabbids now in usual Ubisoft fashion this is a game that ended up getting leaked ahead of its official release and it was met with a lot of skepticism and Tessa you ever say a word so many times that you like okay I want to say pessimism for some reason yeah that's not a thing except when you really hate the movie the pest with John Leguizamo it was terrible oh no did that Pelt make it now I'm not a big fan of rabbits I never have been but even I have to admit they have their charm here and there and something about the way that it was mixed with the Mario universe in these trailers just felt natural in a way that I never would have expected and what's even weirder about it is I never would have thought that a crossover like this would have just resulted in XCOM and in the end how badly I want Mario cross Rabbids cross XCOM I mean you would think that it would just be some kind of simple fun party game but it actually looks like a really in-depth tactical game that's also silly and fun at the same time this is not a game I would have ever asked for or even thought it is even possibly existing in any universe but here it is and honestly Ubisoft kind of making me a believer so those are my favorite games of e3 2017 I intentionally left out anything that was purely just trailers or announcements without actual gameplay make sure to let me know your favorites down below in the comments