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On E3's Missing Cavalcade Of Games

Posted by simoniker on from the crying-fanboy-tears dept.

Thanks to the Gaming-Age forum regulars for discussing "notable games not actually shown at this week's E3 show", despite the insane flood of new titles, with particularly noticeable no-shows including Raven-developed PC FPS Quake IV, Sony's "oft-rumored [PlayStation 2?] sequel to ICO", Nico, as well as Microsoft/Level 5's "massively multiplayer Xbox RPG" title True Fantasy Live Online, in addition to Sony's PSX hardware, with the PS2/DVR combo now heavily rumored to have had its U.S. release canceled. Is there any other hardware/software you've been disappointed not to hear about, besides the obvious?

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  1. Whutt!? by Leffe · · Score: 3, Informative

    There were enough games to make me happy, IMO (IANAL)!

    Including some new Thief game and Half-Life 2, anything else pales in comparision :)

  2. Would have been nice by Jmechy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    to see Doom III PC there. Also, Halo 2 was only being shown to the press and other extra special people today. Guess I'll just have to stand in line for hl2 again...

  3. Many videos to download at http://www.filerush.com by wheany · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In case you hadn't heard, http://www.filerush.com/ has torrents of a lot of interesting E3-videos.

  4. Gamecube add-on by Sayron1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I personally was looking forward to seeing the mysterious GC hardware peripheral that Nintendo was theoretically going to show at E3. Hopefully, whatever it is, it won't do a 64DD and be poorly marketed in Japan and never release stateside.

  5. Re:Mario 128 by Servo5678 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Mario 128's status is revealed here . Here's a partial quote.

    "Shigeru Miyamoto is still working on the game but is not ready to show it just yet. Apparently with his ongoing work with the Nintendo DS and his other projects, the next Mario game has dropped to the back burner for the moment. Kaplan assures that is has not disappeared and we will see it when Miyamoto is ready to show it. As soon as it is revealed you can count on GCA to bring you the information."
  6. Mother 3 by shoptroll · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had heard they were going to be showing Mother 3 this year.

    Well if today is the last day, maybe some news will make it out.

    Otherwise, there's always Spaceworld.

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  7. Team Fortress 2 by Tickenest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now #2 on the current list of most vaporous vaporware titles, behind only the obvious.

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    This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
  8. Fire Emblem... by damiangerous · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like to know when Fire Emblem is going to make it over here. I saw a blurb in a gaming mag a couple months ago that said it was coming, but that's about it. There's not very many turn-based strategy or RPGs on consoles, especially the Cube (the only one I have). Besides Gladius, which rocks, I don't know of much else.

    1. Re:Fire Emblem... by Gr33nNight · · Score: 3, Informative

      Fire emblem was shown, here is a link :

      http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=064dae74-3 88d-44f3-a005-d210477b5571&
      (nintendo.com)