Posted on: Sunday, June 12th, 2011
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The Best & Worst Games & Stories of E3 2011
Angry Joe and the Blistered Thumbs team share their Best, Worst, and Most surprising games of E3 2011! We share some stories as to why our first E3 trip was insane. Wait, did the bodyguard to Nintendo’s Reggie just tell Eli to “F*ck Off”? Angry Joe runs into Geoff Keighley. last but not least we almost trade punches over whether or not the WiiU was all its cracked up to be.
Part 1 – The Best & Worst Games of E3, Majestico’s Hilarious Jaws 3DS demo, The two Most Surprising & talked about Games of E3
Part 2 – The Bodyguard to Nintendo’s Reggie tells Eli to “F*ck off”, Retro City Rampage Exclusives, We fight about the WiiU, More on Catherine & Silent Hill: Downpour
Part 3 – Angry Joe’s Personal Best & Worst Games of E3, Angry Joe’s Post-VGA’s Encounter with Geoff Keighley, Fan Thank you’s
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65 thoughts on “The Best & Worst Games & Stories of E3 2011”
loved the videos, wish you guys would talked more about dark souls though. I’m personally really excited for that game, actually put in the effort to preorder it unlike most games lol.
I’m surprised that not one of you talked about the tanks that World of Tanks drove up to E3 because that was pretty sweet and if you have not played World of Tanks do so NOW go to their website download it and play it it is a pretty fun game not going to lie. But yea surprised me that none of you mentioned that.
are you going to make a review of catherine?
These guys have the best lives ever!
I wish I could do this for a living 🙁
Is that Roach from Heavenly Sword on the far left?! I bet that dude gets tons of action with the ladies…
I forgot Sony’s presser had a huge announcement of a once AAA multiplat game going PS3 exclusive in DUST 514.
Don’t really get a good picture what the hell 514 is actually going to be like and at this point doesn’t really peak my interest but I know many including AJ were giddy about seeing more of this game at E3.
So yeah, I guess Sony gets an A for that one.
Hope AJ gets some interviews and info for us on that game cause I know AJ was really hyped about it.
hey i was wondering if their was a post on blistered thumbs or somewhere for the info about the wii u that was revieled in the 2nd video? i believe u guys but if i tell people bout this i want to be able to tell them where i got it. nice videos btw my favorite game of e3……warhammer 40k space marines
wheres joe’s worst game?
how the FUCK could you overlook BF3??? everyone is so hyped and you didnt even mention it? incredible 😀
Mass effect 3 mentioned only once here 🙁
But Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim can’t wait
good to see different opinions there.
With that said… i would help for me that i one talks at a time without having the whoie crew screaming at eachother.
and yes it seems to be good to be a gamer.
Dont let your guard down though some producers think we forgive quickly what has done in the old time.
EA made some rubbish also in the past. finally they seem to get their act together.
And iam really waiting for GW2 to come out. it seems the most dynamic mmo game ever.
best thing seems to be free to play. who doesnt love that eh?
Kinda sad you have to pay more then once for the same game.
anyways iam done for now. enjoyed the footage from your E3 experience.
till next time
Video 3 was a bit choppy for me so did I miss it or did Joe cop out in naming his worst game of E3?
This is why blistered thumbs kick ass! You can watch arseholes on IGN or Gamespot or you can watch REAL gamers with unbiased opinions. I <3 you blistered thumbs XD
Battlefield 3 much?
i hate how every body keeps interupting each other i would be so pissed
Skyrim will KICK ASS!!!
Starhawk reminds me of the Battlezone from the 90s.
I look forward to Prey 2 but why the fuck did they shaft Tommy and give us some generic white guy?
I wud luv to hear more about batman!
I meant Arkham City!
I’m disappointed that no one in the videos talked about Arkham City! They just talked about waiting in line! I wanted to know if Joe had any opinions on it and also no one seemed to be interested in Mordern Warfare 3? So does that mean a BF3 win?
I was hoping if they would talk about BF3 vs MW3 in E3. The FPS booth battle 😀
yea, me too lol I was hoping if they talked more about arkham city and BF3 and MW3.
also what about Aliens Colonial Marines? I thought Joe was gonna get really “Giddy” as a schoolboy 😛
Joe i want to hear your opinions on the Aliens Demo
This will become a HELL OF A YEAR!!!
Thanks guys for your review of E3
and I hope all your fav. games will get
the BAD ASS SEAL!
Can’t wait for your previews Joe!
great coverage mate, i really hope you upload the rest of your interviews soon.
Hey, I’d like to know your thoughts on Battlefield 3 and why such a highly anticipated game was not even discussed in this round up video.
I’m sure you understand the significance of this game to the community, any interesting information or interviews you can give as we await the beta would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
Good show. Thanks. This is one of the first informal round table type discussions that didn’t make me want to punch my screen.
What about Deadisland?
from what I’ve heard it sucks
we have a site here called gamekings.tv and they love zombie games and they where saying it is the disappointment of E3, gameplay is very bad and its full of bugs
they still have time to debug the game so keep hopefull
Thanks a lot for making things this year so much harder.
What the hell am I supposed to do, when there are so many badass titles coming out this and early next year.
I must admit, never heard of Prey 2 before. Or the series whatsoever, now after all the impression, I’m curious to find more about this.
There’s no doubt my biggest anticipation will be Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, Deus Ex, GW3 and I’ve been hearing about the possible release after all of Diablo 3 this year. Say weren’t there anything around this during the E3? Doesn’t matter, there’s way to much content to carry out in such short notice.
Anyway thanks for giving your thoughts around this years E3. ^_^
You do not need to buy all at once, just buy one first and finsh that game then buy a other one
but your right there are alot of good games coming out, that NOT!! a reason too complain just be happy you got a lot to choiche from. that always better that just a few good games right
Wow, actual real gamers talking about games @ E3. Now that’s almost a rarity today. If it’s not gametrailers having 3 analyst guys who started gaming in 2006 w/ dance games talking, it’s gamespot or 1up having their fanboy troll fest to slant “who won” E3.
It’s feels great to watch a show with real everday normal gamers. Just feels real.
the fat guy isn’t funny
You’re looking at your future son.
no DnF is not quite out yet it comes out on june 10 internationally , and june 14 for the US
Has duke nukem come out yet Sorry but I forgot the date 0.o
Oh and good job though and try not to interrupt people as much -_-.
Did anyone hear anything about Resident Evil Revelations? I’m trying to get demo opinions since Silent Hill has bugs. >.> But interesting, I can’t wait for Skyrim, and I find entertaining that Geoff apologized after realizing how much fans will stick with you. >:D
I’m kinda sad that no one talked about Zelda…it’s one of the reasons I was watched E3, that and the new Sly Cooper. XP
Still, thanks Joe, and everyone else in these videos. 😀 You guys are awesome and I appreciate the post-hype of the WiiU. We need to know about it before we spend $400 or some crap on it.
Nice!
Glad you guys enjoyed yourselves xD.
Nice to see so many differing opinions on the show, although try and get atleast one girl to go with you next year. Oh and the guy on the far left was a bit of a douche.. Course that might be his opinion on FFXIII-2 affecting my judgement.
Thank you all so much for making me almost feel that I was at E3 with you! 🙂
I couldn’t hold out any longer and i finally made an account. (i have no idea why i waited this long to make it) Can’t wait for bioshock, MW3, and AC revelations.
Batman, Gears 3, Prey 2, Skyrim, ME3, BF3, Deus Ex…. wow. I’m running out of money this year! although ME3 is a 2012 game but still!
I’m actually not so excited about Prey 2 and Bioshock as you guys . . . I thought the original Prey was awesome and Prey 2 just looks way too different and it looks really similar to Crysis 2 (which to me was quite a disapointment). Bioshock Infinite looks like a really good game but I don’t think it can be as good as the first 2 bioshock games. The first game was amazing. It is probs the best game of the 2000s in my opinion. The story was great, the gameplay was easy to understand but challenging to play.
Tbh, I think bioshock infinite overdone itself. The setting and environment worries me. I liked the dark and gritty world of Rapture.
but anyways, thank you guys for sharing your opinions and thoughts on this years E3 😀
Angry Joe:
Can you tell us if Cryptic Studios are still making games after STO and it turning out to be a mod of their other game, a whole lot of us are boycotting ANYTHING with the name Cryptic on it.
Why buy from a studio that screwed around hundreds, more probably thousands of paying customers? We would not trust them again – hell, the Life Memberships and unique items ONLY for Life Members, nonetheless have been released to everyone. And the privileges we Life Members paid for, became useless. I don’t play anymore anyway, (except to check it out from time to time), but it’s wrong to bamboozle and scam paying customers. And the SOBs did it with our beloved Star Trek. They have near destroyed the franchise. I very much believe it was intentional – it damn sure well wasn’t any accident.
I am just looking to see what happened recently, apparently changing ownership, ect. Oh, and because I got screwed for well over $800 bucks (paid for my entire family to play), I am now in the habit of dissing Cryptic, too. It goes free, I’ll have to sue for my money back. I just want to stay away from that bunch – I think they would screw any of us again, given the chance. I let em screw me once, shame on them, and if twice, shame on me. Twice ain’t happening.
hagd angry joe,
wigglytuff
Hang on, you willingly spent $800 on lifetime subscriptions for your family not haivng experienced the game yet… and you feel Cryptic conned you out of money?
Let’s not also forget that the Lifetime Subscription bonuses were still included in the price of the subscription. Everyone else had to buy a substantial number of Cryptic Points (now Atari points) to buy them separately. Lifetime subscribers like us didn’t have to do that. Pretty bloody lucky if you ask me.
Also, Cryptic “near destroyed the franchise”? They did so *intentionally*?I have to ask what brand of paint it is that you’re huffing, because you clearly need to switch to something a little less chemical-based.
Firstly, Star Trek is THRIVING now, mainly due to the J. J. Abrams movie (the sequel comes out next year and I know a lot of people, Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike, who eagerly anticipate it). The franchise is in a much better position now than it was ten or fifteen years ago. Hell, it’s in a better position now than it was when TNG first launched in ’87. The Abrams movie helped the show reach a sizable audience the likes of which it hasn’t seen since Wrath of Khan.
Secondly, Cryptic put a lot of time, effort and, importantly, money behind not just developing Star Trek Online, but in buying the rights away from the previous (now defunct) developers. I submit to you that, considering the high cost of developing games these days, there isn’t a developer in business who would even contemplate the idea of putting out an intentionally crappy product.
Yes, the game was pretty wobbly when it first launched. But have you played it recently? HUGE improvements to space travel and ground combat, as well as a substantial re-balancing of PvP and other aspects of the game. It’s taken a year and a half but STO is now exactly what many Trekkies wanted it to be – a strong MMO based on a popular license that’s a lot of fun to play.
If they were trying to destroy Star Trek, they failed. If they were trying to make a bad game, they failed.
If you try to sue for your money back, you’ll fail. You’ll be laughed out of court. Why? Because you bought a lifetime subscription to an MMO, and that’s what you received. You’re complaining that the incentives for upgrading to a pro subscription were made available to others for an additional cost. That’s a fucking bonkers complaint to hold. It’s like receiving a free goodie bag from CostCo after signing up for their gold membership, then complaining that the stuff in the bag you got for free is available for other, non-gold customers to buy. Well tough shit! You got that stuff for free. You can’t fucking complain.
Honestly, sometimes the sheer idiocy and entitlement of morons on the internet makes my ears bleed.
I’m so excited from everything you guys had to say. All of the indie games look great and as you guys pointed out, it finally looks like sequels are being respected.
I just wanted to see if you guys noticed anything about the Techland or RIOT booths, specifically the games Dead Island and League of Legends.
If you guys are unfamiliar with League of Legends you should check it out because it is finally starting to get really big and a lot of PC gamers are really infatuated with the gameplay and community.
Yes! League of Legends is an awesome game! I’m so doing a BT review for that.
as for what’s said on the wii u:
they probably showed ghost recon online so people know that this thing will do online games like we know them from the 360 and ps3.
as for third party titles shown:
the wii u won’t be out for a while but most of these games like batman will, so it would make sense for the developers to get them out the door for current systems and port it over in the time between the game’s release and the wii u’s launch. why waste resources now? and it will probably look the same when the machine has the power.
as for only 1 wii u controller per system:
they said that it would be possible to change that later down the road until. you will probably be able to use a wii classic controller if you need another twin stick controller for a 2player local game.
as for showing the console too early:
they need to build the buzz and show the fans that something new is coming. nintendo didn’t have many wii games on offer, did they? and when you think back, the first thing you saw about the wii was only how people used it’s controller. no gameplay at all.
Just one remark: Do you realize Bethesda isn’t developing the game, that they are publishing it? (Human head studios is)
It seemed like all the praise was given to the guys who are putting the money on the table, not the ones who are actually creating it :]
Bethesda grabbed up the studio and pumped the money into it. It is Bethesda who is making the sequel possible, and it is Bethesda’s who possessed the foresight to look past the flaws in Prey 1 to see the potential behind it.
Humanhead looks like they’re cleaning up the game quite a bit, so praise should go to them, too. But Prey 2 wouldn’t be possible without Bethesda.
check their website it says that they are only doing prey 2
kinda like what people did for la noire
Come on Joe?
No mention of Mass Effect 3? not even ahead of Dance central ?
imo ME3 looks better than Bioshock Infinite
Yeah but those are his anticipated games until the games themselves release, but i agree with joe on the games hes chosen except prey 2 – just seems way too fancy in the dark.
So the problem between Geoff and Joe was all just miscommunication and stress!? Well that was a inticlimatic solution. I expected them to get in a few punches…but it worked out alright in the end. Some gamers love to fight…kinda physically at first, but then more in a mental sense after they remember they don’t regenerate health in real life. Joe may be Angry, but you’ve never seen him knock anybody out, and I mean REALLY knock anybody out…yet. >.>
Great job to the rest of the team for your hard work and honest opinions. You guys look beat, go take a break. =D
i just got done writting a big comment on reasons why i dont like Geoff Keighley and now you say he actualy apologized for the way he treated you at the VGA’s HAHAHAHA! irony! im not saying my reasons aren’t valid because i still think he acts like a prick. “/
i will say that i respect him more as a person because he actualy came to you and said sorry apose to you finding him off guard and telling him what you think. so like i said i have a lot more respect for him, having heard that he said that to you. but i also still think he is rude and impatient. it must just be the hardcore journalist in him to always speak his mind regaurdless of who it might offend or upset. i suppose you could say he cuts everyone off because he is so busy, but still…
ANYWAY…
i also wanted to mention a few things that disapointed me about E3 mainly the lack of any information on Metal Gear Rising!!! i could not find any news about that game! and that was the game i was most interested in hearing about! but there was no coverage on it at all!
the other game that actualy did have coverage was Silent Hill Downpour, i saw some footage of it on gametrailers and whatnot but when you guys were talking about it i started getting worried cause ive alread paid this game off and am just waiting for the release! hopefully they fix the bugs you guys mentioned befor october! im a huge silent hill fan so this is something ive been looking forword to for a while. im sure im just crying over spilt milk, because i dont think Konami would leave something like that unchecked.
joe did not play bioshock…..WTF…..anyway
nice that geoff keighley offerd his excuse but don’t let him fool you,Perhaps hes honest I do not know him
none of you guys had BF3 something i dont know about that game or you just dont like FPS
seems that you guys had fun,
my top 5 is:
1.The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
2:Battlefield 3
3:Bioshock: Infinite
4:Assassin’s Creed Revelations
5:Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
I see you on the next Angry Joe Show
That was pretty good, but guys, calm down a little! At second part, the yelling really started to get to me, it was just too much. I understand that you’re excited, but the noise. God, the noise.
I’m pretty sure every gamer with their friends watching the live E3 videos, were doing the exact same thing, being excited about a large amount of GOOD games coming out all at (roughly) the same time. As well as their favorite sequels that are only getting better. It truly is a great time to be a gamer.
I know i have allready said this and it still has got nothing to do with the videos but i really want people to see this. Believe me, Its worth it!
You know geoff keighley who runs the vga`s. U know that guy who Joe got really mad at.
At first I thought he was the biggest asshole i had seen in a long time but then I saw this video on youtube were he talks to some IGNORANT FEMENENIST BITCHES (on fox news) about the sexual scenes in mass effect and I realized that he might not be such a bad guy.
I still think that interview was a complete disgrace on his part and i can certainly understand Joe`s anger towards him but this video really shows that there are worse people out there and he is probebly just a normal gamer with to much responsibility.
[Press my name to se the video (on youtube)]
Ps. please dislike the video to show your feelings about Fox News at that moment.
That video is pretty old, but it actually has some relevance since Joe and Geoff made up at E3.
I know its old but i only recently noticed that it was the same guy as in Joe`s video.
I just hope that Geoff (now that i have realized that he might be a descent guy) will do what he can to inprove the VGA`s.
Im really glad he and Joe worked it out so that we might see an interview later on and i really think that the VGA`s can become something that everyone accepts and enjoys. (much like E3 is today)
In conclusion i hope next Years Video Game Awards becomes something to really remember.
I allso realize that geoff might be reading this so in that case: Hi Geoff, I take back some of the bad things I said about you in hope that you realise the problems that people have had with the earlyer vga`s and i hope you and Joe can make arrangements for a future interview.
Jay out!
geoff keighley is a asshole the way he did is unforgivable imo no matter how he is talking to or how when,a man in that position should not behave that way… period
and fox news….come on…what person with a brain likes that crap
I certainly like laughing at it. Its a nice relaxation to see som uneducated idiots with far to hight thoughts of themselves making stupid comments on national television.
That and Sarah Palin is my biggest source of entertainment In these troubled times (thats just a saying).
These are Great times!
Yeah