[Beretta55]

The person behind Brutal Legend actually made games like Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, so I would hardly call it a rock band influenced game. More like the kind of game Tim Schafer has wanted to make for a while. But that's just my take.

I caught a little of E3, but not much. I'm just not up for absorbing all that information all at once anymore. My biggest "hell yes" moment of the show was the announcement and trailer of Left 4 Dead 2, the original possibly being my favorite game last year. Other games like Crackdown 2, the Milo simulation (uncanny vally material for sure, but still awesome), Red Dead Redemption, Assassian's Creed 2 , Mass Effect 2 are all games I'm looking foreward to. I need to go back to it now that the information is more "compiled" and see what I miss.

I'm not sure how I feel about the new Castlevania. It's being made by Kojima so it has the high chance to be awesome, but I don't think his "style" really fits with Castlevania. As much as I love Kojima's style, the dude is a bit overblown and cinematic for a game series that is more about the top-notch gameplay, not how pretty the cutscenes look. I'm hoping it's not just Metal Gearvania and more.......well Castlevania. That's one of my favorite series, so it's one I want little in the ways of "dicking around" in for lack of a better word. He has his work cut out for him in general, Castlevania has very rarely faired well outside 2-D sidescrolling but he'll give it a shot. He's finally making something new for him, not another Metal Gear title which he has been wanting to pull away from for a while so I'm sure he's excited to put his brand of game making into something else. But even then I would of liked him to make something completely original, a new IP. If anybody has the chops for it, it's Hideo.

Overall Red Dead Redemption and Left 4 Dead 2 are my big "do wants". Western games don't get the dues that they should, and the co-op of Left 4 Dead is some of the most fun I've had in a game in a long, long time. The only other thing on the mark is Prototype, which looks insanely awesome. There's more I want as well but I can barely name them all when I think about it.

I also think you should take a deeper look into Alan Wake Meryl, which is a game I thought long dead. I saw the trailer for it and it looks pretty damn awesome. It seems to be taking a more mature route to story telling and looks really impressive.