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Help Us Choose the Best Game of E3 2018
It's time to give the USgamer Community Award to one lucky game. Now's your chance to justify your love.
Hey, everyone. Wasn't E3 2018 swell? We think so, and we hope you had fun, too. That's why we want you to help us choose the USgamer Community Game of the Show.
It's easy. Just reply in the comments with your E3 2018 Game of the Show. We'll tally up the nominations, and the game with the highest number of nominations wins.
What'll it be? Super Smash Bros Ultimate? Resident Evil 2? Forza Horizon 4? Something else entirely? Sound off. Feel free to talk about all the games you liked seeing, but please make a single, clear choice for your Game of the Show.
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I did also love the KH3 trailers, that game looks a lot of fun and it's somehow refreshing to see that style of gameplay in 2018.
I guess Spider-Man. The combat looks just OK but any time I saw someone swinging around New York I desperately wanted to play it.
Also, if they never made another Smash game, I’d be totally fine with it. Same with Kingdom Hearts. Clearly this was not a great E3 for me.
But for right now, my single game of the show has to be Valkyria Chronicles 4. In a sea of shooters, action games, things coming out in 2019, and mobile games, it's nice to have something at least partly resembling a strategy game to cheer for.
It had a great showing in terms of both cinematic quality and the updated enemy AI (heavily scripted for the trailer, but it showed its goals clearly).
Ghost of Tsushima in second place.Edited June 2018 by Just1212
Killer Queen Black was probably the biggest surprise of the show for me. It sounds pretty fun. That or the Resident Evil 2 remake. It's great to see Capcom using the 7 engine with an over the shoulder camera.
Sable looks great too--as does Overcooked 2. But Death Stranding gets my vote. What a bunch of wonderful weirdos.
Like, I don't want to play Earthbound again, but I do want to play a game, that's set in a modern day setting, with earnest writing, that carries those ideas forward.
Because I think "old" games are interesting enough, that old ideas can be explored further - and I think this is what Resident Evil 2 is doing really really well.
My game of the show was Death Stranding. It looks ahead of everything else honestly.
sure all ive seen is all in engine cinematics, but seeing as I have not played any of the games since I didn't attend, i have to rely on the impressions of those who did see gameplay for everything; therefore i think its safe to say cyberpunk since i wanna ride all the public transit in the game. so many futuristic monorails (and that car looks awesome).
I don't care about all the edgy adult mature blah blah, but it will likely be worth it because I CANT WAIT TO EXPLORE THAT CITY.
Based entirely off what I've read. I've only seen gameplay demonstrations by Nintendo treehouse and their lineup looks like fun, but I'm hyped for Cyberpunk based on what I've read and listened to about it.
Ughhhh so much good stuff though. Metal Wolf Chaos XD... Daemon x Machina... FotNS: Lost Paradise localization...
SAKUNA!!!
Also interested in Greed fall and Nioh 2, but didn't see enough of them. Would be interested in Ori2 and few Switch games but don't have the systems.
My one choice for the purpose of this: 2077Edited 2 times. Last edited June 2018 by Fourfoldroot
RE 2.
Because that's the only one that I would call in sick to work to play it right now.
I've played an unhealthy amount of RE2 and what they've shown is exactly what I was hoping for - if you'd asked me beforehand, I was gunning for fixed camera and tank controls but what they've shown has really excited me.
Its striking visuals hit me hard during the NIntendo Direct. I love mech games and the genre has been absent for far too long thanks to From Software becoming the Souls company and BandaiNamco preferring Gundam vs. and the turn-based mecha titles to the action style of older Gundam games. As cool as the visuals are, the gameplay segment on Treehouse Live was even more enticing. The Arsenals glide like Doms! You can throw cars and debris at other Arsenals?!!! You can steal weapons from enemies and use them during the mission?!! I'm all in!Edited 2 times. Last edited June 2018 by nilcam
Runners-up: Ghosts of Tsushima, Spider-Man, Death Stranding, Sekiro, Forza Horizon 4, Anthem. Ghosts of Tsushima vs. Sekiro will once again pose the age-old question of which are cooler: samurais or ninjas?
Cyberpunk sounds interesting, although I'd like to see a gameplay trailer. Tetris VR also, because it's from Mizuguchi.Edited 3 times. Last edited June 2018 by SuperShinobi
If we're talking strict hype though, my game of the show would go to Devil May Cry 5. Not only is the franchise near and dear to my heart, but highly technical, combo based action games just don't see too many entries nowadays. It's nice to see the title that created the term "stylish action" finally make its return.
Anyway... picking a favorite is so hard. I guess I'll go with Ghost of Tsushima because open world game set in ancient Japan sounds great. Maybe Sekiro will play better (who knows, it's a close second) but if I can ride a horse around ancient Japanese towns and mountains and just get lost for a while, wow. Witcher 3 in Japan. Maybe I'm misreading the trailer and it's actually a far more linear game but for now I'm sold.
Things I also liked: Skull & Bones, Just Cause, Metal Wolf Chaos (hurrah), DOA6, Valkyria 4
Things I enjoy but am skeptical of: Tomb Raider, Life is Strange 2.0, Last Of Us, Spider-Man, Kingdom Hearts
Things I'm not sure I'll enjoy but I'm glad they exist: AC Odyssey, Rage 2, Ghosts of Tsushima, Battlefield, Gears 5
Things I feel were overrated: Resident Evil 2, Death Stranding, Anthem, Smash Bros (more of a general "Nintendo's bullpen is still warming up" problem than anything wrong with this particular Smash)
Things that didn't really do it for me but are too incomplete to rate: BG&E2, Cyberpunk2077
And finally, for the games announced but completely not shown...
Take My Money Now Award: Doom II Alternative Title
Oh God Please No "Award": BattletoadsEdited 2 times. Last edited June 2018 by UnskippableCutscene
I loved the first game. I didn't like the second game as much, but I didn't care for the tombs, story, side quests, or open areas. Everything they've said about these parts of the game in Shadow of the Tomb Raider sounds like they are moving in a good direction. It made me even more excited for a game that I was already excited for.
We may not have seen the press-only demo, but reading about it--combined with the E3 trailer--I'm totally sold on the game.
Don't mistake that for me saying there's nothing good, though -- there are a ton of games I want to play. They just all seem to be on an even keel to me, with no one standing apart and above the pack.
Eff it, I'm going with some underdogs: Mega Man 11, because it's been an eight year wait and I'm eager to try the Double Gears, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, because Ori should always be in these conversations.
It's the only one that made me go "WHAAAA?! GAAAAAAW..."
It's the only one that made me go "WHAAAA?! GAAAAAAW..."
No contest!