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E3 2010: Summer of Arcade Tour

Tour with Brad through the Summer of Arcade.

The eternal battle between Giant Bomb and the Electronic Three rages on.

Jun. 17 2010

Posted by: Joey

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E3 2010

Summer of Arcade 2010

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Edited By Daroki

Limbo and Linger in Shadows look a bit similar as far as the art style, which speaks well for it being a XBox Live Arcade game.

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Looks good, but what I'm really looking forward to is Monkey Island 2 on the 7th!

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I'm all over Castlevania and Limbo.  

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Nice popped collar.

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@zombie2011: Same here! I was pissed they didn't show anything for it. Thanks to Brad for giving me the information I so desperately need.
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I hope that that Castlevania game gets released on PSN a few months down the road.  I've been obsessively playing all of those games since circle of the moon on the GBA and when I finally got to play Symphony of the Night last year it became one of my favourite Castlevania games easily.

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@Robin_Gr said:
" I wish the new Castlevania wasn't so multiplayer focused. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "Castlevania". And that big "Failed" looks completely out of place, it looks like its going to be more challenge focused with no real story. Seems like the DS games had more in common with SoTN, structure wise. "
I bet the "FAILED" is just because it's a timed E3 demo.
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nice

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Hydro Thunder is the only definite buy for me so far.  Castlevania probably as well, but I need to learn more about it first.
 
The other three all look promising, though, so it could be the best Summer of Arcade yet.

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Man, I wish I had a 360 for the Castlevania game.

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That castlevania looked pants. Must buy.
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I'm buying the hell out of Castlevania.

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Pretty much everything on there has me stoked to some degree, awesome!

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Captain Smiley, Monkey Island 2, Hyrdophobia and Puzzle Quest 2 are all coming out around the same time too.  Odd that none of them made it onto the Summer of Arcade, as I'm looking forward to those titles a lot more.
 
Still a great line up though.

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More interested in Limbo than I thought I'd be.  Just going to the Summer of Arcade page and seeing the title, I thought it'd be about Limbo as in trying to get under the horizontal pole, and how much of a game can you make out of that?  But it all looks interesting.  I'll at least try out the demoes and attempt to remain employed to purchase one or two.

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Brad is like "Whut?"

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@WinterSnowblind said:
"Captain Smiley, Monkey Island 2, Hyrdophobia and Puzzle Quest 2 are all coming out around the same time too.  Odd that none of them made it onto the Summer of Arcade, as I'm looking forward to those titles a lot more.  "
 
Ya I agree. The line up for summer of arcade this year is not as good to me as lkast years was. Still, a couple games on there I'll probably get. 
  
Lot of interesting looking games comin out of E3 this year.
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what? i figured for sure comic jumper would be in there weird
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@paulunga said:
" It seems like Brad missed out on some really high-quality Castlevania games. Seriously, you should at least check out the two "Sorrow" games and Order of Ecclesia, those are at least as good as Symphony of the Night IMO. "
Finished Dawn of Sorrow, great game. Haven't cared as much for the more recent ones.
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damn im going to miss all of this. damn college.

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I'm really hoping Monday Night Combat is my Team Fortress 2 for the console.

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Why's Hydrophobia not in that line up?  That's my most hyped arcade game of 2010! 
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Family-friendly assassins are my favorite.
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@nick_verissimo said:
" I hope that that Castlevania game gets released on PSN a few months down the road.  I've been obsessively playing all of those games since circle of the moon on the GBA and when I finally got to play Symphony of the Night last year it became one of my favourite Castlevania games easily. "
MS has been pretty smart about when to release the big gun of each Summer of Arcade.  BC: Rearmed was the big one two years ago, Shadow Complex was last years, both came out in August.  I think we can bet that August is when Castlevania will show up in 2010.
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@Scyllz said:

" I'm really hoping Monday Night Combat is my Team Fortress 2 for the console. "

Totally agree.
 
Also, Summer of Arcade is looking awesome.  There are at least 4 games shown that are definite buys for me.
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"Water physics are always cool" -  should be on a t-shirt.

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LoL 
Interviewee:

All the characters are clones, so when they die they just repawn [a new clone] so it's ok


Something tells me that opens up a whole bunch more ethical issues about cloning than even "The Island" did...
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I hope that Castlevania will be 800 points, but it will probably be 1200...

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Castlevania for the motherfucking win!

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Ah, the nerd ponytail, an E3 constant. 

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Looking forward to Limbo - hopefully it will get a lot more interest than normal "indie" games on XBLA. Castlevania was a neat surprise as well.
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Hope it doesn't cost more than 775 ms points.

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Interested in Limbo, Castlevania and Monday Night Combat.

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I'll probably pick up most of these games. They all look pretty stellar in their own right. Limbo looks really cool

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Great lineup, looking forward to all of these.

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I want Castlevania now dammit.

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Castlevania is the only thing that screamed must have, and boy I must have it. 

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Actually surprised at the depth of Monday Night Combat, will definitely give it a go.

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@jakob187 said:

" Now that I've seen and heard about Monday Night Combat, I'm pretty interested in that as well.  I'm also more interested in Lara Croft now! Looks like another solid lineup.  It's going to be tough to top Shadow Complex, Splosion Man, Trials HD, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.  We'll just forget TMNT: Re-Shelled, folks.  This lineup, however, looks like it could trump it pretty well. "

They got some really heavy hitters in this line-up.  Monday Night combat looks to be pretty good, a new Castlevania with co-op, and the Tomb Raider reinvention (go find some gameplay trailers, it looks surprisingly good.)  That was a pretty amazing year, but this year just might top it.
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Looks pretty solid. Hopefully the Castlevania is good, but I doubt that they'll mess it up.

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Oh man, all those looked pretty interesting. The one that really slapped me to attention was Hydro Thunder, I keep forgetting that that's coming out. I played that game to death in arcades.

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Brad is great at inteviews. He should newer play games, he should just inteview them.

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Looks like another strong showing this year
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Hydro Thunder Hydro Thunder Hydro Thunder!

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Tomb Raider meets Diablo? Colour me intrigued.

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Hydro Thunder, Monday Night Combat and Castlevania will all be day one purchases for me. But Limbo and the new Tomb Raider look snazzy as well. Who am I kidding? I'll buy all of them.
 
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@pickassoreborn said:
" Tomb Raider meets Diablo? Colour me intrigued. "
For sure.
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@Brad said:

" @paulunga said:

" It seems like Brad missed out on some really high-quality Castlevania games. Seriously, you should at least check out the two "Sorrow" games and Order of Ecclesia, those are at least as good as Symphony of the Night IMO. "
Finished Dawn of Sorrow, great game. Haven't cared as much for the more recent ones. "
Ah, alright. You made it sound as if this is IGA's or Castlevania's "return" to the 2D Metroidvania style, when in truth there have been many such games in the past few years. I guess you're 
referring to the six player co-op with  "I can't believe it took 'em this long to do it"  then?
 
I totally agree though, this one's way more exciting for me than Lords of Shadow (what with the less-than-stellar track record of  3D Castlevanias).
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Otto Pilot! ( I think or it is Mortimer Wild)

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New Castlevainia is my most anticipated game of E3.  Psyched!!