Today I will break up my usual walls of text with videos of my favourite things to come out of E3. I may or may not update the list once I uncover more niche excellence.

Dragon’s Crown looks like it could be excellent fun. I doubt it will be as good as Shadows Over Mystara, but I certainly think it’ll be better than D&D: Daggerdale was. I love scrolling beat-em-ups, I love the character designs, and I’ve heard lots of good things about Muramasa, which was developed by the same team.

I’m pretty sure everyone must have seen Battlefield 3 by now, but I can’t really leave it off the list. I’ve played a few Battlefield games before, and I’ve never really enjoyed any of them, but this is one of the rare occasions where I might buy a game purely because of the graphics. I want to see what my PC is capable of!

I think Star Fox 64 is one of the N64′s most under-rated games, and that’s taking into account that everyone loves it already. I’m not sure whether I’d buy this or not – I’ve played the original quite a lot already – but there’s lots to like about it. One little touch I am excited about is the little video portraits used in multiplayer – reminds me of Mario Kart GP.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a combo of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 and also Peace Walker! It will be released on the 360 and PS3! I don’t understand why it doesn’t include Metal Gear Solid but frankly I don’t mind! With Peace Walker‘s inclusion, that gives me one less reason to buy a PSP.

Speaking of reasons to buy a PS3/former reasons to buy a PSP, I’ve been playing a lot of Monster Hunter Tri on my Wii recently, and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd: HD Version looks like an excellent upgrade! I’m not sure if I’ll really want more Monster Hunter by the time my team and I finish the game, but IF I DO…

The Elder Scrolls is another one of those game series that I’ve never really taken the time to get into. I bought a copy of Morrowind, but I’ve never been able to play it for more than an hour before I get confused and feel lost. But Skyrim‘s icy northern setting and mess of giant monsters to slay (again with the Monster Hunter obsession), I might get on the bus this time and join all the other people tediously discussing it on forums.

I hope XCOM includes all the ‘business’ side of the earlier games – building a base, researching alien tech, developing new equipment, etc. Obviously it’s a bit different if it’s set in the 50′s rather than SPACE YEAR 20XX, but the principle still stands.

Mass Effect 3 looks pretty much exactly the same as Mass Effect 2 and I am fine with that. I know they aren’t the most challenging or original games in the world, but I enjoy them! They’re comfort games! Anyway, forget the Reapers: after getting passed over in ME2, all I want is a satisfying conclusion to my enduring space-romance with Ashley.

I thought Twilight Princess looked kinda boring, and it was. I think Skyward Sword here looks lovely, and hopefully it will be. It feels like a long time since Nintendo made a truly satisfying Zelda game!

Also!

Aside from games, there are some other good videos to watch.

Here’s Geoff Keighley from GameTrailers.com asking Reggie some good questions about the Wii U. I don’t think anyone outside of Nintendo is in a good position to talk about the Wii U’s final specs or details, but everything I have seen suggests it’ll have all the same problems as the Wii, and Nintendo have yet to say anything to suggest otherwise.