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Nobody expected State of Decay last year, so anything can happen. But personally I believe itâs too early. They are still growing as a studio (just moved to a new place too I believe) and I imagine building a team in COVID/WFH must be quite the task.
But they could have a CGI trailer ready for sure. Just not expecting it.
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Brit it just makes no sense (to me) for Avowed to go awol this E3 but TOW2 is rumored to make a cgi appearance
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So you would prefer if theyâd wait another year with a CGI trailer for TOW2?
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Look, Iâm still excited for E3, I am every year, (Moreso this year because with GOW and GT7 being cross-gen I donât have to exactly rush out to get a PS5 yet 
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Some of us are just taking the piss out of each other with the so called ânegativityâ
Some of us are just annoyed that we still have to wait another year until we start getting the good shit.
Some of us are just warey because Microsoft has been known to âown goalâ themselves so hard.
That being said, some of the negativity is frustrated criticism that some of us have difficulty expressing in a constructive manner.
No we donât want to be an overly negative sight, but some of us want our voices to be heard that sometimes, these are bad calls.
For example, IF Avowed does indeed have a good looking vertical slice that is indeed ready, per Sponger and NateDrake, yet was pulled and replaced with a CGI trailer for TOWII, I think thatâs a dumb decision that should be called out.
But thatâs me.
Iâm still hopeful for the future and will probably be a lot more quiet once Flight Sim and Psycho2 drop.
Itâs the lack of first party output right now thatâs driving up bonkers.
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Iâve started to look at this from another angle, I think that all this resistance to Xbox is simply because itâs set on the path of winning this gen.
PlayStation will have great games, but it wonât be able to keep up at all, like 2 years from right now, Xbox will have more next-gen only games than PlayStation, all on gamepass.
This resistance is just the fear of change, of having to buy another console trying something newâŚ
Theyâll come around, wether they like it or not.
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Weâd prefer to actually show Avowed if itâs a good looking verticle slice gameplay as Sponger and NateDrake say, then hold off on it and show ANOTHER CGI trailer.
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What Prog said
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Yeah, I would love a vertical slice from Avowed too! But if Obsidian wants to polish it a bit more and show it at Gamescom, X021 or The Game Awards then Iâm all for that.
Those two things arenât linked. A CGI trailer for a game years away and a vertical gameplay slice from two different teams at Obsidian.
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Just going from E3 reveal to an XO or a Gamescom seems like a downgrade to me.
Then Microsoft will have 2 space rpgâs seemingly debuting in the same show. We know the difference but you know the media and casuals wont care.
It is when Microsoft is still fighting off the demons off last year.
More CGI trailers = More âXbox games are far awayâ narrative
I mean people in this thread think most XGS games are 2024/2025/2026!
But thatâs just Hindle 
Thereâs truly no way to know what motivated the decision of wating to reveal Avowed, and Iâm ok with this.
But weâve been told about the focus on gameplay and revealing a game thatâll take 2 years to make, will just add to the waiting list.
They couldâve just waited until E3 2022 to reveal TOW2 like a bang with gameplay and all, would make more sense to me.
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You guys act like its a fact that there is a demo ready to go. Grubb says it wasnât ready and he was the one that was correct.
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Most XGS games will be 2023/2024. Some will be 2021, some will be 2022.
We do not know if itâs a Microsoft or an Obsidian decision to not show Avowed. We canât judge the reasoning behind it. Iâm sure everyone would love to see Avowed. But if there are reasons why they are delaying that, then I canât judge that as I do not have the info.
I find this âjudging a conferenceâ before the conference thing a little silly to be honest. We didnât expect 2018 to as amazing as it was. We expected 2019 and 2020 to be amazing and they were just okay/good.
Letâs wait and see.
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I think really, alot of this stems from Microsoft continued insistence on an âE3 or Bustâ style of presentation.
Waiting for Avowed verticle slice would be alot easier if we knew we didnât have to âWait for E3/Gamescom/X0/TGAâ.
I mean, could you imagine a deep-dive on Avowed, out of fucking nowhere, like Sony did with Horizon II?
That should be the goal. Iâd be okay with Avowed not being at E3, if we randomly see it on an August afternoon live-stream, but weâre not, because Microsoft plans itâs unviewlings on the schedule of the gaming conventions, not on their own schedule.
Microsoft needs to start dictating when to show games, not be depended on big gaming events.
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I think itâs fine not to show Avowed since there could be a lot of reasons for it not being there.
But showing TOW2 now doesnât make sense to me. Feels like another Everwild reveal, showing it just to say âwe have gamesâ then waiting a long ass time for it to come out.
Yep. The concensus was that Avowed wasnât going to be at E3 prior to Spronger and Nate suggesting otherwise, so I donât see why there is much of a debate since Grubb was proven to be more correct than those two.
Some are debating as if the rumours are facts when they are not.
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I agree on this by the way. But I also love E3 week, so a bit torn.
But a stream like they did with Age of Empires should be something they do for every big game. 3-6 months before release.
(So not for Avowed yet 
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Hopefully.