Community Jalexbrown's E3 2012 Wishlist

By jalexbrown — May 19, 2012
Tags: blog e3 e3-2012

What I'd like to see at E3 in 2012.

E3 is around the corner, Jimmy. Did you know that? Of course you did. You're not some idiotic nuab; you're on the #1 gaming site on the Web, so I know you're smarter than that. So with that in mind, why don't I tell you just a few games I want to see at E3 this year.

1. Persona 5

It's a Jimmy-ass logo, but then again there's nothing official to use instead. What the $*#@ Atlus? Anyway...if you read my Game of the Year article for 2011 (don't be a Jimmy...go peep it if you didn't), you know I said Persona 4 was the best game I played last year. It's like playing one of the craziest animes you'll ever watch. I also really liked the Persona 2: Innocent Sin PSP release. If this doesn't happen, I might...well, I'm sane enough that I'll probably do nothing at all, but who knows?

2. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment PSP

This was just released in Japan a couple days ago, so it might be a cop-out, but I really want to hear that this is getting a US localization. I will be very unhappy if Atlus forces me to sit here with only half of the Persona 2 collection on PSP. And if neither one nor two is present at E3 2012...I won't be very happy with Atlus.

3. Titan

Another unofficial logo; hopefully whoever owns this logo doesn't sue me. Anyway, I'm a bit of an MMO junkie (more on that a little later in the list), and while I consider World of Warcraft to be kind of lukewarm, I really want to know if Blizzard is producing a true next-generation MMO or just a rehashed version of World of Warcraft that's been rebranded.

4. Final Fantasy Versus XIII

After the poor reception towards both Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2, I'm growing more and more curious rather or not Square-Enix is downright abandoning this project. Or are they actually taking their time and making this the best game possible? Or maybe they've just spent all this time trolling us. In any case, hopefully they'll at least tell us this year.

5. Jade Empire 2

With Mass Effect (hopefully) done and Dragon Age safely trapped in the land of lulz, maybe Bioware will finally remember that they still have at least one more franchise ripe with options for screwing up. Except maybe they won't screw up, and maybe they'll actually make a good sequel for Jade Empire.

6. The Dark Tower Game

Even long-time Gouki readers probably don't know that I'm a huge fan of Stephen King's. I've been entranced in everything the man conjures up for as long as I can remember. I only bought Alan Wake when I heard it described as "like a Stephen king video game". The Dark Tower is the magnum opus of Stephen King's career. The series as a whole stands right up there with Lord of the Rings as one of the most epic epics every to be written. With a movie adaptation slated to be released sometime in 2013, it seems like it could be altogether possible that we'll see a video game adaptation as well.

7. Anything Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This sort of goes along with The Dark Tower. I love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I have for as long as I can remember. There's a new cartoon slated to launch this year and a new movie slated to be released next year. They're going to build a hype train for this series as big as possible, and what could be bigger than an awesome video game announcement at E3? Two more wishes relating to this one, if you don't mind: Please don't make another fighting game, and please oh please don't use this ugly-ass logo.

8. Batman: Arkham City Follow-up

I'm not sure how they plan on following up on Arkham City, but I've got a pretty strong hunch that for better or worse they will. Hopefully they don't just continue upping the scale, because Arkham City was plenty big enough for me. In fact I'd be fine without the sandbox elements of Arkham City. I just want to feel like a complete badass playing Batman some more.

9. Diablo 3 Expansion

I know Diablo 3 was just released less than a full week ago (four days ago for those of you keeping count), but I'm already itching to know what Blizzard plans on doing next. How about adding necromancers and/or druids? How about a talent tree system? And don't forget that you still owe us some PVP (although I hope they won't be making that a feature of the expansion pack). Lord knows I don't want to encourage Blizzard to start milking Diablo 3 like they did with World of Warcraft, but there's definitely some room for Blizzard to create an expansion pack that isn't just milking the cash cow.

10. Ultima Online 2

While this can be filed pretty solely in the "no way, no how" folder of my mind, this is a wishlist so I might as well include a wish. Ultima Online is an amazing MMO, and I think it might be one of the reasons why I love the genre so much. This was an era when MMOs were more than raid-grinding. Ultima Online was a true social experience. You could never fight a single monster and still get ample enjoyment out of fishing, gathering, crafting, housing, and other non-combat activities. You were a free-form character that could be anything you wanted; you weren't restricted to class choices, and no decision you made was ever permanent. If you didn't like your swordsmanship-mage, you could dump your skills and turn your existing character into a archer-tamer one skill at a time. If every aspect of this could be translated into a 3D MMO without becoming a mindless raid-grind, I'd never need to buy or play another MMO.

There you have it...my ten wishes for E3 2012. If I have time I might make another list before E3 arrives, but if I don't then I feel this list stands on its own as my biggest and best wishlist. Don't be a Jimmy...leave your comments below.

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