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Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 \u2013 a dead cert for E3? (pic: Nintendo)Readers reveal the games and announcements they\u2019re most looking forward to from E3 2021, including Starfield and Elden Ring.
\nBy this time next week E3 2021 will have begun and while it\u2019s online only it should still be the biggest preview event of the year. The pandemic has made it difficult to predict what might be revealed by the various publishers but we wanted to know what you were looking forward to the most.
\nAs you\u2019d imagine, the Switch Pro, Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, and Elden Ring were the most popular choices but there was also lots of interest in seeing Microsoft cut lose, no matter what they might actually show.
\nDwindling hopeThe thing I\u2019m most hoping for from E3 is the announcement of the Switch Pro and its games. At the beginning of this week I thought that was basically guaranteed but as of Friday morning there\u2019s no sign of the rumoured early reveal and I\u2019m suddenly less certain. I don\u2019t doubt the console is real, but Nintendo are so weird I can completely see them cancelling the reveal purely because of the leaks.
\nI could even see them delaying it till next year, although primarily because they won\u2019t have enough. I really don\u2019t think Nintendo like to be second guessed and I wonder if all these leakers would think themselves so clever if it turned out they were partly responsible for the no show.
\nOf course I don\u2019t know, nobody knows, but that is part of the magic of Nintendo. At the very least I hope to see Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, Bayonetta 3, and the rumoured Donkey Kong game. I wouldn\u2019t say I expected to see any of them though. I certainly wouldn\u2019t put money on any of them. I suspect the closest to a certain is a new Smash Bros. fighter, possibly both of the last two, that turns out to be a surprising third party (yes, I\u2019m still holding out for Master Chief).Gilgamesh
\nTop gearThe thing I\u2019m most hoping for from E3 is just that Microsoft get themselves into gear. I don\u2019t really care what they show, although I\u2019m hoping for Fable, just as long as it looks good and takes some kind of advantage of the Xbox Series X. It\u2019s been out for six months and not only has there not been a single first party game but we haven\u2019t even had so much as tech demo to show good its graphics are. I find that incomprehensible, especially given how terrible Halo Infinite looked the first time they tried to show it (who gave the thumbs up to that livestream?!).
\nYou might now be wondering why I bought the console in the first place. Well, other than I didn\u2019t think it would be this long without a game, I just find Game Pass to be much better value as a way of buying games. Especially given how much PlayStation 5 games cost.
\nIn the end I expect this to be a small blip in the console\u2019s overall life. You could even argue that it\u2019s better to have no games than the poor quality ones you usually get at the start of a console generation. Still, it\u2019s a bit nerve wracking to be waiting, hoping that Microsoft know what they\u2019re doing and can finally put on a good show.Benshie
\nRabid for moreI\u2019m really hoping for a new Mario + Rabbids game. The first game was my first experience of a XCOM style game and ever since I\u2019ve been hooked on the genre (although the supposed king of the genre XCOM 2 I didn\u2019t like, as I found it too difficult even on easy) and it was my favourite until Gears Tactics.
\nI\u2019d love a sequel or a similar Nintendo themed spin-off, a friend of mine joked Zelda vs. Rabbids which is now something I really wish could happen one day. I\u2019ll be keeping my eyes peeled at Ubisoft\u2019s conference, that\u2019s for sure.Angry_Kurt (Twitter)Now playing: Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (Xbox Series X) and Pok\u00e9mon Sun (3DS)
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\nInsufficient dataI really like the sound of both that XCOM x Marvel game leak, actually, and the open world Cthulhu game, even if they might not actually be at E3. But previous to that what I was most looking forward to was Starfield. Still is really, even though we don\u2019t really know what it is.
\nI\u2019m not sure this level of secrecy is a good idea though because by this point everyone has their own idea of what it is and if it doesn\u2019t at least broadly match that then a lot of people are going to be upset. Kind of like the Star Wars sequels.
\nI\u2019m assuming it\u2019s like a cross between a non-boring Elite and Fallout (or I suppose The Outer Worlds), which sounds great, but if it\u2019s something less interesting than that\u2026 all I can say is it better have a good trailer.Pinky
\nDrifting apartMy biggest hope for E3 is that Sony is there, but I have no idea if that will happen. They\u2019ve been making announcements this week so I\u2019m guessing they\u2019re going to continue with that next week and into E3 as well? A blog here, a new video there. Not the most exciting way to do things but it\u2019s something.
\nI\u2019m not really sure why they\u2019re doing it this way. They say they have dozens of games underway and they\u2019ve never been shy about showing them early before so I can only assume they just want to be awkward and seen as apart from and above the rest of the games industry. Which does seem a very Sony attitude. But then why have the half-hearted announcements at the same time anyway?
\nThe worst thing is everything they\u2019re saying at the moment seems good to me. The continued commitment to single-player, the emphasis on new IP, and the fact that everything so far has been really good. I am disappointed with the continued support for cross-gen but I don\u2019t think anyone can pretend Horizon Forbidden West didn\u2019t look amazing.
\nI hope E3 is back to normal next year as I miss the spectacle of it and the fact that it pulls the whole industry together. This year it\u2019s much too easy for them to all split up and do their own thing, which, if nothing, leads to some very confusing schedules.Danshin
\nHardware announcementIt will never happen, but I would love Nvidia to release a statement telling people that they can buy directly from the Nvidia store at RRP and you can get a new graphics card this year.
\nProbably save that for CES, eh?bobwallett
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Excessive rewardAs GC has pointed out, hope and expectation are very different things, so I do try and keep them separate but it can be hard to keep your expectations under check at times, especially when you feel like some big news is well overdue.
\nMy main E3 hope is we get previews or trailers, and release windows, for both Elden Ring and the sequel to Zelda: Breath Of The Wild (as well as a proper title for the latter).
\nWith the scarcity of news on Elden Ring it\u2019s been put on such a pedestal by FromSoft fans that it\u2019s amusing seeing the hype spread across the rest of the industry, where people who have no interest in Soulsborne games seem at least vaguely aware of this mythical game that nobody knows anything about.
\nAs far as I can tell, though, this effect has been unintended by the developer and publisher, and I can imagine so many other businesses frustrated at the simple concept of a competitor winning the marketing game by simply being admired for previous work. I\u2019ve heard the rumblings about it not being at E3, though, so I\u2019m steeling myself for that blow.
\nI think where my hopes and expectations overlap is with Zelda. I just can\u2019t see Nintendo getting away with not showing or saying anything about Breath Of The Wild 2. A two-minute trailer and a first half of 2022 release window would be fine by me.
\nSo much of the Nintendo conversation is being dominated by the Switch Pro but, other big unknown news notwithstanding, I just can\u2019t see the finished article justifying all the excitement. If it really is intended to replace the original Switch it sounds even less essential than a PlayStation 4 Pro for those who already have a Switch. I do expect some games \u2013 maybe last gen third party ports \u2013 will only run on the Pro model but certainly nothing that would enrage 80+ million Switch owners, especially all those who bought one recently in good faith.
\nI have a PlayStation 5 and a Switch and while I\u2019m relatively happy with the short-term pipeline for the PlayStation 5, I think all the most exciting stuff confirmed for Switch is still too far away, until I\u2019m told otherwise. Nintendo might not be feeling the pressure to let on about what\u2019s going on with so many of their first parties but it can get to a point where it just looks like they\u2019re coasting along without a new killer app for years at a time and are being excessively rewarded for it.
\nProblem is, aside from the Zelda sequel, I kind of now expect their next biggest news to consist of exactly the sort of stuff the Switch is oversaturated with. Namely less ambitious (but no less expensive) 2D games the likes of which have been treading water and padding their schedules since the DS\/Wii era. If 2021 looks like another 2D Donkey Kong, another 2D Metroid, more Pok\u00e9mon remakes, lazy full price ports. and a pile of dry Japanese role-playing games, the one thing that would conveniently make up for all that is an imminent sequel to one of the best games ever.Panda
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