PixlBit

I want to give Hollow Knight a shot eventually, just working on my backlog for now. God of War didn't do much for me. Loved the story and new take on Kratos, but combat was not fun at all to me. Camera was too close and upgrades/loot felt like they made too little an impact on harder settings while the game was just dull on easy. Didn't have fun with it.

This Genesis collection looked pretty boring to me. Already have all these games in some form and that it isn't even as complete as last gen's (no Sonic 3 and Knuckles or Ecco) makes it even less appealing. I need a Genesis collection with third party games. I'll be all over one that has Castlevania Bloodlines, Mega Man The Wily Wars, Contra Hard Corps, Aladdin, Rocket Knight Adventures, Truxton, or MUSHA.

My favorite game this year so far is probably Celeste. Really fun platformer with a surprisingly interesting story. Not sure how you'd like it though, it's Super Meat Boy levels of challenging.

Kirby was fun, but nothing really that special. Detective Pikachu looks fun, I have it but still need to play it. My GOTY list will probably look a lot better in September when Spider-Man, Tomb Raider, and Spyro hit. Until then the only thing I want to pick up is the Mega Man X Collection.

I actually think Elizabeth could have been responsible for the glitch. Obviously she wouldn't have wanted it to react the way it did, but she seemed very anti-war and I could see her putting it in to steer humanity away from militarized robots. Maybe I'm just thinking that because I love the idea that the end came from a lack of foresight rather than malice.

As for Faro, I just think it's too convenient there wasn't a body found and feel he'll either be in stasis or have his mind uploaded onto a computer for a sequel. And if that's the direction they go in, they have to have some kind of twist when you meet him, like Apollo contained information about the glitch he didn't want passed down. It's all speculation, just feel that's where Guerilla's going.

I think there's definitely room for Horizon to improve on for a sequel, possibly even taking a few inspirational cues from BotW. And the world itself is fascinating, Faro had all the pieces in place to ensure humanity really was fucked with no way to fight back. I think there's a lot of potential in things like where the glitch originated from, what happened to Faro, what information was in Apollo that scared Faro, and why Sylens is after Apollo (you know that's why he teamed up with Hades).

Horizon was fine IMO, but I got bored with the gameplay about halfway through. Was the progression and difficulty curve like you said, and the times I was challenged it felt more annoying than fun. Combat just felt like it didn't mesh in a massive open world game. Fortunately the story picked up at that point and I was a huge fan of the backstory. Not Mass Effect obsessed, but I liked the reason why everything is the way it is.

Resident Evil 2 was my favorite game of E3, for your reasons as well as that I think it being a remake means they'll trim some fat or keep themselves from adding weird additions to it, like 4-6's QTE's or cramming in RPG elements. Another E3 game I'm looking forward to is Control. Quantic Break as a Metroidvania without the TV show? Yes please!

Final Fight is prpprobamy least favorite of the good beat em ups. Prefer Streets of Rage and Konami's games. The Street Fighter one would probably interest me most

Those cabinets look awesome. Hope they do well. Just don't see one with games I'd be willing to shell out for. Makes me sad that the one I would pay $400 for would be a Konami beat em up one, which seems like it would be impossible to deal with all the licensing fees and Konami.

I don't remember that one but when someone asked him what if you couldn't connect to the internet, such as our armed forces, he answered they should just buy a 360.