E3 2012, What made your list?

[Windedprism]

So after a somewhat unexciting E3 2012 (kind of expected really), what games have caught your attention and made your must buy/keep an eye on lists?

Must buys:

Xcom - xbox most likely
Sleeping Dogs -xbox
Assassin's Creed 3 -xbox
Counter Strike Go -xbox
F1 2012 -xbox
BF3 Premium (for dlc discount of course) - xbox
Skyrim Dawnguard expansion - xbox

Keep an eye on:

Watch Dogs - pc most likely
Project p100 - Wii U
Lego lord of the rings - xbox
Resident evil 6 - xbox
Halo 4 - xbox
Scribblenauts unlimited - Wii U
Hawken - pc
Hitman - Xbox

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The only game I added to my wishlist during E3 was Watch Dogs, if the vehicle handling isn't too arcady that game will be awesome.

Other than that I already had my eye on AC 3, Crysis 3, Halo 4 and Tomb Raider.

Oh, and the new Splinter Cell.

[Dankinia]

Well I was already looking forward to Halo 4 and Tomb Raider.  I added Gears: Judgement and Watch Dogs to my list. 

[GamerMan316]

Gears of War: Judgment of course   

The Last of Us gameplay trailer was awesome so that'll be another must buy, Watch Dogs looks promising, along with PS3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls, Tomb Raider looked quality too.

[BackupLight]

Whilst a lot really caught my eye, I'll just put stuff that I was really sold on post-seeing at E3, even though some I'd have been buying anyway.

Splinter Cell: I love the series, didn't even expect this, can't wait.

Tomb Raider: Another surprise, wouldn't have considered it but for seeing the footage - looks good.

Halo 4: I hadn't seen much of Halo, and whilst I'd have bought this on auto-pilot whatever happened, the bit they showed impressed.

Gears: See above.

I'm still hooked on Battlefield, though I've kept away from it for a while, eager to play some more. So, sadly, and in defeat, I'll pay for the discounted DLC. My only thing now is deciding whether I want it for the Xbox or if I want to try out FPS on the PC. Which is apparently superior. I still like them on my Xbox :\

[Windedprism]

Yeah E3 apart from Halo4 + Judgement was better on the ps3 side, now is the time to buy I think. Halo 4 looks very nice indeed so whatever they show in the coming months will probably win me over or not who knows. I'm kind of on the fence about AAA title these days, Resident Evil 6 for example, 5 left a bad taste because it didn't know if it wanted to be an action game or not and frankly was lacklustre. The Unfinished Swan on Ps3 while not everyone's cup of tea looked really good as well.

[Lastenline]

The Last of Us makes me wish that it was going multiplatform. Watch Dogs is on my radar. Other games I'm waiting for are Lolipop Chainsaw, Deadlight, and Retro City Rampage but I didn't need E3 to tell me about them. I felt E3 was a bit lackluster this year.

[Windedprism]

Yeah I kept waiting for a wow moment but in never really came!

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Kotaku developed their own list of 27 "Best Video Game Ideas" at E3 -

Here's a sampling of some of the ones that caught my eye:

1.Online career mode in Madden turning into some sort of alternate-reality competitions among groups of 32 real people, one in charge of each team, whose exploits throughout the yearâ€"wins, losses, injuries and moreâ€"are then reported on, over Twitter, by fake versions of real, top NFL reporters.

3.The people making Halo 4 say they will be offering up to five new 15-20-minute chapters of new missions that can be played solo or co-op... every week... at least for several months after launch... for free....tied to new releases of an online show... essentially turning Halo 4 into what will probably be the first blockbuster episodic video game.

4.In Injustice, when the Flash is primed to pull off a super move, he'll run around the world to punch Superman.

5.In the next Need for Speed, which might as well be called Burnout Paradise 2, you will find many billboards bearing the logos of top EA development studios like BioWare, DICE an Visceral. You will be reward if you smash through them, which will turn them into billboards for the EA studio making this game: Criterion.

6.Watch Dogs.

8.In Ascend: New Gods, an XBLA game that is one of multiple new games beginning to show the influence of Demon's Souls, players will be able to send enemies they defeat to invade other player's games, and those invading enemies will show up with the other player's gamertags on each of their heads. Also: players can surrender control of their own character and send them off as an invader into friend's games.

18.In Ron Gilbert's new game, The Cave, the characters you choose determine which areas of the cave you get to explore. It also means you'll play out a different part of the storyline depending on your companions. You'd need to play the game three times to see them all.

19.Also in The Cave, death rewinds you five seconds instead of making you replay a portion of the adventure. Ron Gilbert says that traditional death has no place in adventure games. The Cave can therefore be played in one seamless sitting, sans loading time.

21.In South Park: The Stick of Truth, you get to enter your own name. No matter what you pick, Cartman will just call you Douchebag. This is a perfect (and fitting) way for the game to bypass the problem of voice acting a player-selected name.

23.With the Blink skill in Dishonored, you can teleport short distances to anywhere you want. Theoretically, this could allow you to break the game. The creators enjoy this. They want you to break the game. That's part of the fun.
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[Source: Kotaku]

There's some stuff they surely missed on this list - but when you're in a desert any drop of hydration will work...

Personally, Sony's lineup [The Last of Us / Beyond] (minus not showing the Last Guardian ) has me reconsidering the future use of my PS3.