Escape from LA? calm down Snake Plisken, you make it sound as if E3 was a bad thing! well i would be upset too if i had a chance to meet James “The Nerd” and didnt capitolize on it!!

I've followed Deus Ex – Human Revolution vigorously through it's development and it's a shame they didn't release more info to the public on E3, a place meant for big announcements. It's also a shame they (Eidos Montreal) released the new trailer BEFORE E3. Making it near impossible to expect anything else than them releasing something new for the public during E3. But nope, we got nada.

Although those actually able to go to E3 got to see some DXHR gameplay so I'd love to know if you saw any of it. I'd kill to see some of that. =P

/Sam The Swede

I wouldn't mind seeing you tear apart kinect.

Sorry for triple post.

The next Sonic game is among 'huge failures'. Well. I must say. I am floored.

/sarcasm_btw

Escape from LA? Calm Down Snake Plisken. you make it sound as if E3 did more harm than good!

Square has nothing to do with the game them self, the only thing they done so far is animated the trailers, that´s why there name comes up and no other reason.

Yeah, I definitely can understand the ravaged ankles (my feet always took a beating at conventions I have attended), so as other people have already mentioned get some well-deserved rest and post your E3 bonanza when you're good and ready. And in regards to the anger towards Bethesda, I know my friend was disappointed seeing that Bethesda only seems to seen publishing other developers' games and not working on the game he's looking forward to: Elder Scrolls V.

Glad to hear you're back, man!

I can imagine the thing being very tiring, but I'm sure it was fun in a way, no?

I'll be looking forward to the videos.

(Bad stuff about Sonic? I've seen a short screwattack video on Sonic colors, and it looked pretty good. Then agan, it might just be a part of the Sonic cycle….)

Sweet, good news for TOR, its another that their forums are ravaged with upset people because they did not give enough information.

Also, I'm one of the few that does not want you to tear up Kinect, I'd rather you give us your take on Sony's wiim… I mean Move.

I also think it has to do with them owning Eidos, y'know. ;)

After seeing the X-Com trailer I knew it was not going to be good news from you.

I am quite sated and eagerly looking forward for your cries for blood in regard to it.

In fact I hope you give it its own rant video!

Great to hear you're back Spoony.

Civilization 5 is a winner. Yeah!!!!

Xcom is a failure.No!!!!

I can understand XCOM, even though they've shown very little of the game, there could be more enemies besides the oil spill things, I've recently been told it takes place when the organization is just forming so you're still working for XCOM not the FBI as previously thought, but they haven't done much to address or alleviate those fears so I get the anger. Still it's slated for 2011 there could be changes in store that fix the problems. Hell they could even add in the hyphen. In any case, I totally get where people are coming from with this game and the fears sparked up about it. Still I'm willing to wait awhile and learn more, perhaps the various problems people have brought up will be addressed.

I don't get why Bethseda is there though, I saw the Rage demo and that looked like a pretty kick ass game, especially for the fact it's running on consoles with that quality and framerate. Is it because most of the games are being developed by other companies? Obsidian is doing New V egas, Id's doing Rage, if thats the case I guess that can be a little lame. But I don't think Bethseda is taking credit for making those games, unless they are then that's a big problem. Still, the developing companies ARE getting mentioned at the stage demos I've seen. Meh whatever, I'll just wait and see what Spoony's issues are.

I hope you got video of the XCOM demo, I've been looking everywhere for it and I can't find it.

Well, I guess it's good news for Portal 2 that you aren't ranting about it, but then again you aren't really excited for it either so I'll just have to wait and see. Also, there is ANOTHER Sonic game on the horizon??? Hasn't the poor guy been through enough? I mean ever since he left the Dreamcast, Sonic has gone straight into the toilet. So leave the poor guy alone and let him retire.

Anyway, hope you recover soon and hope you didn't catch the Con Crud.

Very much looking forward to your reports. Rest easy!

Nooo, another bad sonic game?

No one could have seen that one coming!

Any luck with mafia 2 and driver?

Hope you can get yourself re-energized Spoony ma boy. We need to hear from you! If you have stuff to say about the Old Republic, I'll gladly hear it. I've been iffy on it, but it's looking better and better near release.

Ya, XCOM looks awful. I'm interested to hear what you have to say about all the games you saw. Looking forward to it.

Take your time though, no need to kill yourself with to much work =P

Please tell me New Vegas isn't just something someone could make with the G.E.C.K… Deus Ex 3 better be the final gap between a real RPG and FPS experience (BORDERLANDS DOES. NOT. COUNT.). Shogun 2 is something I have been hoping for since my nitpicky side got the best of me, But I did enjoy Napoleon and Medieval 2!

As for XCOM… Bioshock with aliens and Sludge, tooooottaaallly ooorriiignnall riiiggghtt 2k?

yeah sorry about downtown La the Lakers were in game 7 of the finals there and after the shit that happened last year when they were not even in the state when they won we did not want to take more chances. then there was that film festival so normally you would only have had twice as much traffic in each direction with no cops insight telling you to go 3 miles away from where you want to be as a detour.

Bethesda? >>; I hope that's not an ill omen for New Vegas.

I dunno about the 3DS, it seems to me people don't hold handhelds perfectly still at a precise angle and distance from their head. When I mentioned this on Kotaku people said “well, you can turn the 3D OFF”, which made me wonder why have it has your primary gimmick and namesake at all then. I'm just getting Virtual Boy vibes over here.

Thanks spoony!!
Glad your still alive…. Can't wait to hear why you don't like sonic bethesda and xcom :D

Judging from the “goggle-less” types of 3D screens I have experienced, you don't have stay awfully still while viewing as long as you can “focus” on the 3D. Some people can do it better the others though. I suspect Spoony would have his migraine problem if he play this on a car or something.

Let's just forget Virtual Boy for a second there. XD

I was watching the Sony presentation on LordKat's Ustream and all i could think off if if you and Joe were in the audeince just trying your hardest to hold your tounge and not just bitch slap some of these stupid corporate dbags who kept coming on stage. A lot of people were hoping Insano would just run up on stage and do something.

As for LA i think the big issues was that you were leaveing LA right as the city was firing up for NBA Game 7. That probably didn't help matters. But i'm glad to see you made it back in one piece and look forward to upcoming videos.

Damn curious about Civ5's hexagon tiles.

At this point, I think the Sonic team is running an experiment to see how stupid a game can be while still making money.

P.S. Get well soon, Spoony.

I'm really interested to see all your thouhts and footage of E3 but i can't understand how you could possibly be upset with the sonic Game. It's plain and simply Sonic 4! and it looks really good so far minus the episodic way their distributing it of course. Now i'm worried they ruined another Sonic game….Oh and Now that you have Deus Ex on your Big Winners I'm even more excited than ever about that game.

I want to hear how bad you suck at MvC3 lol

but seriously, Nintendo sure won the show in terms of the 'big 3'

I can't wait for Dragon Quest IX either, and I've completely given up on Final Fantasy as a whole

here's hoping they at least do us the favor of remaking V and VI on the 3DS soon

Welcome back Spoony! I hope you had fun in the middle of all the chaos.

They Fucked up XCOM? Ohh, that won't end well…

sonic 4 looks ok and I am interested for 3ds as longs as there is games that are not cuetsy and caters to the mature crowd as much and the younger crowd,,hell evein if they give half the attention to mature gamers and the fun loving bedtime dream wolrd video games and kirby ball of yard id be happy lol, if not 3d or not ill pass on 3ds

Welcome back to the front Spoony, you've actually inspired me to go in and try to do my own show now since I've seen some of the things from E3 cause I was staying fully in the loop with it, and its a shame that they're still trying to get something out of Sonic, I mean it was a good series for its time but I think its time to put the Hedgehog down.

looking forward to hearing the rants, especially the sonic one for some reason. maybe cause i know some who loves sonic and would like them to be reduced to tears. ah we have fun.

Also please tell me you played the Harmonix dance game and filmed it.

That would be fantastic.

I knew the XCom remake would be bollocks. They're just NOT approaching it right… Ever since they announced that it was an FPS I knew they were just trying to cash in on the Franchise name, and not trying to honour the original game which was one of the best ever made.

And the worst part is, that it's success or failure will mean an end to any hope of a proper XCom remake – success will mean that they'll feel that gamers wanted XCom to be an FPS all along, and it's failure will lead the beancounter-monkeys to the conclusion that the XCom brand is no longer profitable and they'll pull the plug.

AUGH! TEH PISSOFF!

Anyhow, looking forward to seeing Old Republic, Deus Ex, and especially Civ V!

Yes there was an X-Com FPS that had already been canned but it had continued on in futuristic timeline like the first three X-com games and Interceptor. Interceptor was a re-inventing of the series because of the fact that they replaced the turn-based combat with a space flight simulator. I wound up enjoying it because I was in desperate need of a good flight sim at the time, but even then there were horrible holes in the physics and AI. This re-creation has taken a step back in time to the 50s it looks, and I hold no high hopes. The game itself looks great to me, but it's not X-Com.

Xcom will be either hit or miss. They are trying hard atleast, to pull it off as a shooter but I still think they are just trying to say “Turn based games are for gays, Shooters are the only good genre now!”

Thankfully, not many people remember XCOM:Enforcer, the worse game of the series. Its like the Shaq Fu of shooters. Yes, worse then Drake. Whether or not the Xcom will end up like enforcer is yet to be seen I guess.

Oooh, they scewed up Xcom? I've never played the series, but I know of it's legendary status and the pain of whatching a beloved franchise be screwed up potentially beyond repair. But I'm curious, what did Bethesda show that pissed you off? I mean, the only game of their's I'm aware of is Fallout: New Vegas and that one looks pretty good.

Also, is it really a surpirse that new Sonic game is going to suck? I mean really?

Yes. This one actually looks good. REALLY good. And the hands on report from my friend confirms this. Sonic Colors is basically All Day Stage Sonic Unleashed (that's a good thing). Couple that with Sonic 4 and Sonic Colors on DS (Sonic Rush 3 basically) and we're getting THREE actually GOOD (or so it seems) Sonic games this year so I am surprised Spoony disliked one…maybe it was Sonic Freedom Riders? This will be interesting.

lolSonic

Sonic Colors has actually been getting some good feedback. Although, I still refuse to get excited about it though until I see reviews given that other Sonic games have gotten solid previews only to end up being shitfests.

I was practically in tears from the lack of Rare announcement. They had so many games they should have announced, but the only thing they showed was Kinect Wii sports… Actually, that kind of reminds me of the Nintendo keynote the last couple years. Not this year though, the 3DS looks like it'll kick a fair bit of ass.

Honestly, these day's I don't trust the published press. Way too much finger dipping going on.

how is the new Legend of Zelda game?

Well, I stand corrected then. Still, it will be interesting to see what Spoony says about the games and why he might select them out for scorn.

I'd like to know exactly what it is about Sonic that is a failure. From what I've seen, Sonic 4 and the 2 editions of Sonic Colors have all been getting positive feedback, and the Sonic Riders demo was not open to the public, so no one knows how that'll really play.

So if this is just another one of those “lolSonicfailsagainbecauseof3D” or “lolSonicissuchastupidfranchise” rants, then you officially lose me as a viewer, Spoony. Seriously, Sonic is such a low hanging fruit for derision these days, that it's tiresome.

I agree with Deus Ex being one of the best (IMO THE BEST) games of E3. The trailer looked fantastic and the first two were amazing games.