Lightning_Ninja

This really should have been in the direct.  It looks like it will the void left in me by F-ZERO.  Kind of hoping you can pull the camera back a bit more.  Feels a little too close to the car and ground for my tastes.  Otherwise, I like what I saw.

Yeah, glad I didn't watch it live.  Cliff's notes version seemed boring, and it didn't seemed like they announced much.  Turns out they didn't.  General thoughts (in no particular order):

STar Fox 0 - Seeing Star Fox was nice.  I'm a little more sold on the game mechanics now.  While it looked fun, it didn't look great visually.  Plenty of other games on wii u put it to shame in the graphics department.  Why no online multiplayer?

Xenoblade X -  I'm at the point where Trailers mean nothing to me on this game.  I'll buy it day one, a trailer doesn't hype me.

SMTxFE.  Would it have killed them to put some dang subtitles in there?  I can't understand moonspeak.

FE Fates.  Trailer looked good.  Nice to get a final name.  Need more info on pricing and packaging.  Only other question I have is, "will you actually kill the named people from the other kingdom as part of the game, or will they just end up joining you anyway?"

Zelda triforce heroes - Now I liked four swords more than most people, so as far as I'm concerned, this falls in the "pleasant surprise" category.  Now amazing, but fine by me.  Actually has online multiplayer, which is saying something.

Metroid Prime: Fed Force - Similar to four swords, I enjoyed Hunters more than most people apparently.  As far the game play is concerned, this also falls in "pleasant surprise".  However, my god those graphics seemed terrible.  Really hope they work on that.  I don't always harp on graphics, but even I did a double take and wondered if it was actually a 3ds game.  Just seemed really poor.  The main kick in the gut for this was that it seemed to take the place of a major new metroid such as for wii u. 

Yarn yoshi/skylanders/animal crossing/everything else - dont care.  These are not big reveals worth taking up e3 time. 

Pacing wasn't great.  Too much talking by devs that should have been saved for treehouse.  Earthbound beginnings and the smash direct should have been lumped in here.  There were no bombs dropped, and Zelda U wasn't present.  This would be okay for any other direct, but for an E3 direct, it ultimately flopped.  At least the other people's E3 shows could get their fans hyped.

Apparently G rank Gold rathian is in episode quest 5, so next month we are at least getting Star Knight set and access to g rank gold ian.  Hoping they give silver los next month too.  So many fire weapons languishing in my box.

Dare I ask what some of you people's hour counts are?  I'm over 500 at HR375.  So much more stuff I want to make.

http://www.capcom-un...ine-up-for-july

G rank Gold Rathian hunting season is now open!  Silver Los as well.  On July 17th, we get access to the USJ collab gear, including the amazing Star Kight Set.  Dem Skills: http://kiranico.com/...,2944,2945,2946

Spent the last 3 weeks playing smash, so I kinda forgot about the monthly MH DLC.  Goal for the day: G Rank Gold Ian armor.  Huzzah!

More in depth analysis from GH:

It does seem like that is the four styles per weapons.  Can be interesting.

I'd also like to point out that we are getting a large monster that's a mammoth.  Series has needed it like how it previously needed a proper snake and spider monster.

Somewhat of an explanation of what was happening by gaijin hunter (since it's all in japanese):

Seems to be a culmination of the entire series (including some of the flashy and style elements of the Frontier sub series).  Saw plenty of returning zones and monsters.  I'm glad to see agnaktor back.

Hope they really pay attention to balancing the different styles and special moves.  The big moves should leave you vulnerable, and the small ones shouldn't allow insta dodging all the time, or it will become like a lot of action games (and the tonfas from frontier) and just be mash buttons til monster looks at you then dodge through everything.  Also hoping you don't have to grind for the different styles and such like you do in frontier.  I don't want to grind to a high HR just to get an opportunity to grind out the other moves.  Just like the weapons themselves, I like MH because all your attacks and combos are there from the get go.  Armor skills may augment those attacks slightly, but the general mechanics never change.

The game is called something of a spinoff/sub series (wording is unclear apparently).  Not really sure what they are qualifying it as, but they made it clear that it is not MH5.  SO is this just a way to test out some new mechanics they might implement in MH5, or is this actually going to be a sub series like frontier?  If a true sub series, will any of these mechanics bleed over to the main?  So long as I don't have to grind out the weapon styles, I'm all for them.

Also hoping they tone down the flash.  If not here, then for MH5.  It's really unnecessary.

For the most part, I'm hyped.

I return from the depths for a moment.

Current status

Hours - 112:55

Main armor sets - Regios S (Blade) Tetsu S (gunner)

Favorite Weapons - Akantor CB and Brachy Bow

HR - 61 (Ukanlos urgent is up)

Caravan Status - Up through 10 star with 90% completed.  Fought Caravan Crimson Fatalis

Plans - Reach G rank and have one full g rank armor set by the end of the weekend.  Hoping to make tigerstripe Zam CB for that Para/KO combo.  Will become new favorite weapon.

That's where I'm at.

Edit: Forgot important info.

Final two localization blogs:

http://www.capcom-un...ping-the-scales

http://www.capcom-un...this-is-the-end

Also, the event quests won't be released on a weekly trickle.  They will be given out in large monthly chunks, starting tomorrow.  At least one of the quests tomorrow will give the materials necessary to make the Zelda gear.  Kind of important.

Alright, I give up.  What does the last column mean?  I can't think of anything that would make sense given what monsters you have it next to.

Another Localization blog up.  My hype is reaching critical mass. 

http://www.capcom-un...-a-helping-hand

Who wants to guess how many hours I've put in the demo?  A hint:  I've put more hours into it than many people put in most games.

Prepare yourselves!
 

Demo is now on the eshop for everyone and the miiverse community is up.  Getting hyped.

OK, the weapon guides are all updated.

Except I haven't written the insect glaive section yet cause I have to write it from scratch.

Dang it, maybe tomorrow.  Just not enough time in the day.

Edit:  All guides are updated and IG section added.  Can't wait for the game now.

Also added a section linking to the blogs from the localization director about how the English names were decided.  Good stuff.

So apparently there is a limited quantity of mh4U  new 3ds xl's available by going into a store to preorder.  Just nabbed mine.  Best of luck to you if you try to get it.

I like how the url for this thread removes the decimal point, making it 25 million.  While the thread loaded I read the url, and had to do a double take.