{"id":2863,"date":"2013-06-13T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2013-06-13T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T12:36:22","slug":"e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"E3!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

E3 2013 is now well under way in Los Angeles, and it’s definitely one of the more memorable\u00a0shows in recent memory.\u00a0 Not necessarily for ALL the right reasons, but memorable nonetheless.<\/p>\n

On one hand, you have Microsoft’s genuine\u00a0attempt to win us over.<\/p>\n

That Rome<\/em> game looked interesting, although the over-abundance of “quicktime” diminished my interest enough to not even want to look up the game’s entire title.\u00a0 A new Halo<\/em> game can be fun,\u00a0so long as the material is refreshing enough to not feel like a rehash of prior games.\u00a0 Forza 5<\/em>‘s “driveatar” concept is pretty neat, I suppose, but the graphics didn’t seem all that much more impressive than Gran Turismo 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t much a fan of their “it comes with Kinect, which you will like” approach.\u00a0 The Kinect\u00a0and PS Move are\u00a0gimmicky responses to the Wii Remote, and the novelty of\u00a0those devices wore off pretty fast.\u00a0 By the time Skyward Sword<\/em> came around and showed us all what was possible with good motion controls, even I was sick of it.<\/p>\n

I guess I’m one of those who believes that playing video games\u00a0is meant to be a lazy activity, and that’s that!<\/p>\n

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I’m also not a fan of looking like an idiot.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In any case, that, coupled with a convoluted\u00a0used game policy and a $500 price tag, has me thinking “no thanks”.\u00a0 Not until the price goes down a time or three.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, you have Sony’s brilliant strategy of going in the opposite direction.\u00a0 “Microsoft’s doing what<\/em>???\u00a0 Well, we certainly don’t want to do that<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

For the last few years, I’ve bounced back and forth between the PS3 and Xbox 360.\u00a0 I own both consoles, so it’s easy not to declare any loyalty to one\u00a0or the other, and just lay back and enjoy the stream of games on both sides.\u00a0 They each have unique charms that bring me back, and I play them both just about the same amount.<\/p>\n

With the PS4, however,\u00a0I think Sony has me sold already.\u00a0 I probably won’t buy at launch, just because I’ve found recent console purchases a bit jarring to the bank account…\u00a0 but if I’m going to go next-gen, it might as well be with the cheaper, more user-friendly console.<\/p>\n

As for Nintendo’s E3, I’ll make another post tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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\"SPOILER<\/a>

SPOILER ALERT – I’m excited.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E3 2013 is now well under way in Los Angeles, and it’s definitely one of the more memorable\u00a0shows in recent memory.\u00a0 Not necessarily for ALL the right reasons, but memorable nonetheless. On one hand, you have Microsoft’s genuine\u00a0attempt… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}