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If we're doing the whole grade thing: MS: B (Well paced, no pauses to ask for applause for exclusivity deals, but very few console exclusives.) EA: D (Only positive thing I can say was it wasn't a Wii Music-reveal level disaster.) Ubisoft: C+ (Poor flow, too much non-game coverage, hamstrung...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Not E3, the Giant Bomb E3 Talk Show!E3 2014 - Giant Bomb

Well, we don't know how Skyrim Zelda (Zeldarim? What's the nastiest sounding nick name option here?) plays, given that all we've seen is one cutscene, basically. While I wouldn't fight someone arguing that 3D Toad is the same as Super Mario Galaxy (or even Mario 64), that Smash Bros is...

It wasn't a game, it was just a tech demo. I believe it was eventually confirmed that it wasn't even made by Nintendo, they contracted it out. Clearly Nintendo prefers the look of - and/or already has the art tools made for - the Wind Waker HD style.

Much like Nintendo, you too apparently haven't heard of an open world game. Why am I not surprised.

It's the usual problem with Nintendo. If you have a gaming PC, unless you have the most dudebro of tastes, the console you should buy first is a Wii U. If you don't have a gaming PC, you would be insane to buy a Wii U, since the Nintendo made/funded games are all you will get. I just...

So, what was actually announced? You've got the Super Toad 3D World DLC/maybe standalone, Mario Maker which doesn't seem like a major title, and the Miyamoto stuff in 2016 or later. Edit: And they salvaged Devil's Third. Edit2: And the inevitable Kirby and Mario VS DK. Nintendo games are...

If you aren't watching this Nintendo stream, there are toxic levels of cheese right now.

Like most years, Nintendo has a low bar to win (at least among the hardware manufacturers). Like most years, I still doubt Nintendo manages it.

I do like that (outside of the Playstation Now mention), neither MS nor Sony mentioned the last gen systems, not even a price cut. What I don't like is the 2014 Calendar. Other than Little Big Planet 3, was anything announced that wasn't highly suspected for this year?

I honestly don't know if I would give MS or Sony the win. Sony high points were higher, but MS average was better. Given how 80+% of those titles were "console premieres", I'd have to say that, yet again, PC wins.

Yeah, they said Ultra on PS Now, and I don't see it happening either. Would think more like June '16 for Uncharted 4.

Didn't they just remake Ratchet 1 for PS3?

FX has been trying to make a Powers series for years (I think they filmed two pilots even). Given Community dead center, I was hoping Season 6 was going to be announced here.

MS did not pretend anyone cares about Kinect, and effectively didn't mention it. Sony spends 20 mins on Vita. Edit: I thought much of the Vita library didn't work on TV, and they never patched in new control schemes to make them work.

This smells desperate.

I'm not up on my ME (err, MassE, as opposed to MirrE) lore, but doesn't the N7 armor we saw limit this to a post-ME3 period? And I didn't see any synthesis indicators.

Also, which sci-fi movies has this dude appeared as an android in?

I hope you people are hearing this conference and realizing how non-terrible the MS one was in retrospect.

Let's be clear, this conference did not sway me to purchase an Xbone, even if Ori and Cuphead(?) (if that is even exclusive) had some really nice art styles, and I wouldn't mind playing Sunset Overdrive and Crackdown at some point in the future.

I'd give it a B+. Nice amount of humor, all games coverage, no Kinect gyrations, exclusivity agreements just as subtitles on screen, not spoken with pauses for applause, good variation in genres. As far as the actual games though, a lot of multi-platforms, another Halo remake, and almost...

So is this the only Xbox-exclusive new franchise this conference?

Man, MS isn't giving these people much time to get to EA Conference.

Dragon Age Inquisition

Again kids, indie XBLA/PSN exclusivity is the only battlefront that matters this gen.

No, those games or their betas will be out this year.

Nov 11th? Is a remake pack really their last game for the year?

I love the self-humor in this conference. I still think PS4 wins this gen, but I don't think it will be as big a blowout as it looks at the moment.

Insomniac's lack of success in the PS3 era was one of the worst aspects of last gen, hopefully they have some luck this gen.

I guess DA is still supposed to be out this year. I was wondering, given the lack of press.

Nah, they said 2014 games. Maybe Halo Remakes, maybe they bought Ass Creed DLC window, given Phil's shirt.

Now announcing the CoD / MGS crossover, The Phantom Limb.

So are we not launching directly to a game since the only options are Halo and CoD and everyone has seen them a million times?

Err, yeah, the actual Show Floor isn't open until tomorrow.

Again, as we move into more and more annualized sequels, there's less possible announcements to be made - you can hardly talk about the 2015 and 2016 Call of Duties before this year's version is out, even though they're well in production elsewhere (and using up a large chunk of Activision's...

Any other E3 I would say the only answer was the Live Commentary over at Giant Bomb, but I dunno how things will go with Ryan Davis dead :\

No, like almost all non-hardware years, Nintendo will have the best exclusives. I'll be far more interested in the Sony and MS conferences, since those will have the games I will actually be playing, on my PC.

Uhh, yeah, 80+% of disc-based games come out only in March/April/October/November nowadays, outside of timed sports releases. Blame stock reporting. And personal taste and all that, but this has still been a decent year with a lot of solid games - Bravely Default, Donkey Kong Country, South...

Yeah, that's a pretty standard deal. It does only further confirm that the 49ers have one, maybe two seasons left before they fall back to the pack just due to salary cap reasons; they have to curse daily that a division rival fell into the same low cap situation nearly at the same time they did.

1) Virtually everyone thinks Ballmer ridiculously overpaid, and the Jaguars sale is a much closer comparison for the Bills. 2) Looking into coverage of it, many people think it was essentially a speculative purchase - that new TV deals, another possible crushing of the players' union, and...