I forgot how much blood and violence they show at e3 presentations. It is a little weird to hear the cheering afterwards too.
I remember when The Last of Us was shown for the first time at e3 and it was revealed that you were fighting survivors too. Joel clears through a room shooting and stabbing guys and then after someone gains the upper hand and Ellie saves him, he shoots him point blank with a shot gun while the man pleads for his life. Everyone cheers. Why are they cheering?
I do feel a little hypocritical as I grew up playing Mortal Kombat (the genesis version) which included the blood code (abacabb). I was decapitating, ripping hearts out, punching off heads, pulling out spinal chords, burning people, and upper cutting them into spike pits a long time ago. Lately I have felt that the violence has gone past that point of cool, to more disturbing.
I haven't figured out exactly why I feel this way. It is just a video game. No one is making me play it or buy it, but something about it still bothers me that these types of games are made. Movies are the same way but they don't get to me the same way. Games however, being my favorite hobby I feel a duty to keep them better and be reflected in a better light. Maybe I'm just getting old.
E3 2014 was pretty amazing besides that. I really enjoyed all of the conferences so far and lots of cool games were shown and announced/unveiled. Mirrors Edge, Zelda, Xenoblade, Halo Master Chief edition. All great things coming in the next year or two.