Zero Punctuation apparently missed the actual E3

Spore DOES count. Yeah, so what if its appeared in other E3s? Does that mean it's an unoriginal game?

Did I miss the slew of Spore clones being released? Did EA announce Spore 2?

@Jonah Falcon:
Does Spore DS, iPhone, PSP, Abacus and Calculator count as a Spore sequel?

Sure EA mentioned some new games. But common, its not like we learned anything new about spore. We have known all this stuff for almost 3 years.

Reason why they probably didn't say anything about it on ZP is because well its already OVER HYPED.

There's a reason for the hype around Spore, or did you miss the 2M+ creatures already made for it by fans?

Will Wright is considered one of the gaming gods.

I think the point is that E3 used to be where you would hear about a new game that isn't coming out until another year to 3 that you had never heard about before... Now it is just giving more info on titles we already knew about... Spore is not a sequel but it doesn't count because we already know everything there is to know about the game...

Funny thing is these are probably the people who never bought Okami for the PS2 (I only got it today for the Wii but I never owned a PS2) or Zack and Wiki for the Wii.

Missed the gasps of awe at the Mirror's Edge playthrough demo, huh?

To be honest I didn't care for it.

It's Prince of Persia only this time it's a FPA!

Also it's EA. I wouldn't be surprise they ported Mirror's Edge to the DS because that's what they do.

Well, the fact that he quite literally made up flaws for Smash Bros helped spawn the outrage over his Brawl review, and then had the audacity to make fun of the people who tried to correct him (though granted he chose the less eloquent responses to make fun of)

I don't remember any flaws in his review that were made up.

Well, Halo Wars doesn't star Master Chief and it looks like a blockbuster.

Ditto Bungie's secret project which they've already said doesn't involve MC.

"I thought he absolutely nailed it with regards to the lack of originality in character/game design"

You must be joking? Two words: Mirror's Edge. Cel-shaded shooter with a unique look.

Another word: Braid. Just go see it in action.

Another 2 words: Pixeljunk Eden.

And Spore has a look and style of its own, too.

@ Jonah

He never said there are no original games, just that too many games nowadays have the protagonist as a gritty, macho spacemarine-type. See his "French Chef riding a stcikbug" part in the video.

And I said in my initial response that there were more games than the ones Yahtzee highlighted that look good. I'd also Mad World to your list of cool looking original games.

But it seems like these games are becoming the exception more than the rule.

No. Ben made a lazy blanket statement, period.

He acknowledged Mirror's Edge at the end. Watch the whole thing closely and you'll see it.

Maybe Ben hates Cooking Mama?

way to throw s*it on the fan! lol.

No one escapes Mr. Escape!

I have to agree on anime, although w/o crazy japanese cartoonist many weird stories would not be told. sometimes one gotta pick through garbage to find a good thing.

There are tons of manga and anime shows in Japan and only the best of them, which are 10% of the ones showed in Japan, make it to America.

America receives the best Anime shows but only 20% of those shows are watch-able and only 1% is good.

The worst about anime is that they can have a good idea but at the end the creator doesn't know what to do with it resulting in sh*tty endings 99.99% of the time.

FMA is so different from the manga you might as well tell FMA anime is set in a different dimension which is weird because the anime takes place in 2 different dimensions. The creator didn’t know what to do with the Anime and end it in a movie that ends in a cliffhanger and a final scene in the future were FMA is turn into a phenomena in a pseudo-real world were stupid kids buy the FMA trading cards, probably the creator wanted to create a Yu-gi-oh spin off.

Speaking of which Yu-gi-oh was pretty crapola, yu-gi-oh gx was even worse but at the end of GX it seems the mailman finally delivered the plot which was getting into something probably worth watching that we never got to watch because the series were abruptly canceled in order to bring (or summon if you want) an even shittier spin off of the series with motorcycles.

The worst is that GX season 4 was probably the best season the show ever had; It was short, good and straight to the point with fan service and probes that an anime can have a season of less than 25 episodes following a plot from the beginning to the end but is just that creators don’t feel like it. Why waste on creativity when you can use the same arc for 9 f*cking seasons.

If Naruto followed GX example the show would’ve ended already. The show is filler , filler and more filler Gosh I thought Inuyasha 3rd season abused of the filler but that was just preparation for Naruto.

Here I prove my point: Watch season 1, then 5, then watch 12 and you’ll notice Sasuke arc is still going after 7 seasons, WTF? But you know what the best part is:

*SPOILERS FOR NARUTARDS DO NOT READ.

It turns out that Sasuke brother was actually good, yes after the whole vengeance BS arc that last like 9 seasons (if I’m correct) the creator pulls out one of the biggest turds ever.

I pity Naruto fans and no, I don’t watch the show I just read the plot in TV.com to see if after all that filler there was something good at the end. Spoilers: There isn’t and I can’t wait people finds out, they will freak out…Oh yeah and Uncle Jiraya or whatever his name is dies.